Friday, July 24, 2015

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Day in this life

Art Thursday is at home today, because I'm recovering from a back injury. Se la vie.

We started the day out with a pottery class, on iPad, via the "Create This! Pottery app.

The girls threw down some masterpieces, intricately balancing line and color. I was proud.

Actually I was a little awed to tell the truth. Ah, youth! But then we got delayed

until later, as we were eating lunch and I vee-jayed a lunch set for them,

first Bjork (which got a little weird when Bjork's bots began to make out,)

then Luluc"s, "Small Window",  a masterpiece, then what, what what?

White Stripes, "I Fell In Love With A Girl," the Gondry lego video.

Sofia said, "that made me want to play with legos!" and ran to go

get her set out of her room. Lucia said me too, and, voila, the next piece

of Art Thursday put itself together. Every day's like a puzzle around here. Peace!



Monday, June 1, 2015

A Thorough Anti-argument

 A Thorough Anti-argument


I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on this coat,
for it may do good service to you whom it fits

Better if you had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf,
that you might have seen with clearer eyes what field you were called to labour in

Contracting yourself into a nutshell of civility

Making yourself sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day

Not being immortal nor divine, but a slave and prisoner of your own opinion of yourself

What you think, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, your fate

Not to betray too green an interest in your fate!
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity  

To stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future,
which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line

This is the only way you say, but there are as many ways
as can be drawn from the radii from one center

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look
through each other's eyes for an instant?


Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Notes Paolo


But why the sizzle through the cheek
Working on an urban work around
Orpheus orifice
Queen of tardis
Queens crystal orbit 
Trollope
Devil
Manny
7
Labyrinth
Bone essence. Alice 
Biology of words
Windswept arrival are you?

Everywhere a center nowhere a circumference

American magic book

I'm an old guy
Old magic

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

List of recommendations

1. The Virtual Reality exhibit at Museum Of the Modern Image. 

2. Bernadette Mayer's collected early books. Poetry all the way through.

3. Alice Notley's In The Pines. Took my head clean off and left me in a cold sweat.

4. Paolo Javier's Court The Dragon. Magic capsule in lyric fire.

5. Caspar Babypants "I Found You!" Great kid's  album by dude from The Future Presidents of America. 

6. Alabama Shakes new album

7. Kurt Cobain doc on HBO.


Monday, May 4, 2015

queens sonnet

Queens Sonnet

In nearly every language there are eels and hovercraft, so in Korean, 
"Nae hoebuhkeurapeuteuneun changuhro kadeuk cha isseyo"
means the same as "Nire aerolabanguilua aingirez beteta dago"
does in Basque, though there are more subtle differences within
than can be known, and the musical differences alone
are bigger than the difference between, say, Beethoven 
and the Beastie Boys. The latter got it right in "The Five Boroughs,"
though most fly of all the boroughs is Queens, the most diverse
of boroughs, all those flocks of language, the most musically diverse
too, of course. There are more songs here than you could learn in a lifetime,
but it'd still be great to learn a phrase or two from every place.
I'd start by taking the hovercraft to the nearest Korean restaurant.
And as for all those eels filling up the hovercraft? Think about it though,
that line still carries the same floaty slimy feeling wherever you go.