Here you are.
- New Jim Woodring
“Jesus and the Bear” is a fantastic new painting by Seattle’s Jim Woodring (see the full thing, over at his blog). A scene as moving as it is gruesome.
- Monopoly
Here is the final creative coming together of a song I wrote last summer for Baby Beasts, called “monopoly”. Let’s put it to rest. Let’s put it to the test. Also featured in the film are Juliet Frou, Andres Restrepo, Ravi Raj, and Baby Beasts Shenandoah Davis and John Benjamin.
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“Monopoly”
I’m not above taking you down a dark alley
and treating you to a good time
It’ll be on me.
It’s on me
It’s beyond me
It’s on me
It’s beyond me
You deserve a purple heart and not a bruised one
and no botched deals, no missile crises at all.
It’s on me, it’s beyond me
This old neoteny, no mustachio handlebar.
It’s on me, it’s beyond me
how living on monopoly’s so hard.
Just in time to watch,
Just in time to see,
Put me to bed, turn poison into medicine
Be head of state, put poison into medicine.
And living on monopoly’s so hard.
Living on monopoly was ha ha ha ha hard.
- Neck, and Neck
Here are 2 reasons why Last.fm is among Time’s top 50 sites for 2007.
1) I can now prove to Andres (operating under pseudonym Anderz) that he (through the mix-cd’s he makes) is the source of nearly all of the music I listen to:
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2) My friend Dawn found me on the site on accident because I was (at one point) the top listener of Karen Dalton. Go figure.
Today, in honor of the end of the quarter, I bring you musical love in the form of Animal Collective, because I apparently like them a lot. (see also). The song begs your patience, and pays off with a happy ending.
- Thanksgiving Breakfast and the Light in the Triangle Apartment
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I snapped this photo after John’s girlfriend Juliet cooked some excellent pancakes for us, before the steam settled… I’m happy to be moving out tomorrow, but I’ll miss the light in this apartment. It comes in from all sides. Some hits from over the last year:
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Shenandoah, ashing through the fan:
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John, trumpeting sun:
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Juliet, dancing pancake maker:
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Today’s postsong is by Gorillaz, and comes c/o Ms. Virginia in Brooklyn.
- onset of chaos / edge of chaos
School has begun.
Projects are unfolding, vertically integrating, and squeezing novelty out of magic. My notes from the residency are cryptic:
• Idea for a business: Too much change in too short a time
• Idea for a business: Magnificat
• Idea for a business: Recycled conduit metaphors.
• Idea for a business: Value = limits on boundlessness. That is, choices become easy or disappear.
• Idea for a business: 1) Agitate the images. 2) Shaken awake from the restless sleep of images. 3) Decisive variation, novelty, values.
• Essay idea: “Why art and business must consume each other.”• Trust the shape changer (written on a large work in pastels)
• Bona fide (”in good faith”) activist-in-residence Bill Grace: “You can either look good, or learn publicly.” “Form a relationship with someone suffering because of the way things are.”I will need clients and contracts soon.
