Here you are.
- Watering Hole
It’s been a while since I posted anything here.
This, then, is one of those “it’s been a while since I posted anything here” posts. I’ve been meditating, working, making some music and listening to mix cds, and playing host to friends and friends of friends. For the purposes of this blog, I’ll have new graphic work to display here (to eulogize my springtime daylight hours with) soon. Also, I finished a writing exercise. Here it is: wateringhole. I’d love to get feedback from where the poetry-reading public and the blog-reading public intersect, if such an overlap exists.
By the way, here’s a recording of Keith Fullerton Whitman’s October 2005 performance at the Galeria Zé Dos Bois in Lisbon, entitled Lisbon. I mostly listened to nothing but this while writing most of what’s alluded to above.
- This morning choose work/ over sleep
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- Effing
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- La Lune de Miel on Chine
I’ve been posting sparsely while home in Boulder for the holidays. Once the reorganizing, prioritizing, and atoning is done, Carrotrope.com will be a better reflection of my interests. If you care about the music in language, fashion and design, you should read this blog.
To keep things tidy and whole for myself, I’ve imported some of my poetry from an old, unseen site. I’d love to get some diplomatic but honest feedback (ok, I yearn for it). Go to Poems for poems written by me. Poetry includes my poems, musings on poetry and language, and poems I love of others. Expect songs by me and myfriends, as I pull myself together.
Otherwise, I’ll continue to post on fabric, fashion, and design as Molly, her brother and I (a.k.a. Adapt Apparel) ramp up sales. Designs that go on shirts and skirts and posters will all make appearances here.
I’ll continue to post on economics, business, branding, and “responsible capitalism” as I continue to work for Interra and attend BGI.
I’ll continue to share songs that I find meaningful (like today’s, a catchy-as-hell recent creation by my friend Sam Cooper, called “La Lune de Miel on Chine”).
- “crooning the tunes, naming the names”
… Here it
Seems to grow lighter with each passing century.
No matter how you twist it, life stays frozen in the headlights.
Funny, none of us heard the roar.
from John Ashbery’s “Wakefulness”.Before this becomes last year’s news: Ashbery is the poet laureate of MTV. Go watch snippets of Ashbery’s “snapped-off perceptions,” graphically made-up for the kids. Is this just a sad waste of effort, somehow? Or can poets be pop icons, once again?
See also:
•“Invisible Listeners” in the New York Times.
[Ashbery] imagines no perfect unions, in life or art. Instead he stresses the otherness of others and ourselves. But the acknowledgment of otherness is itself a form of intimacy. In Ashbery we learn how to be alone together.
• “Understanding Metaphor“, an essay on Ashbery I wrote back in 2004.
- Poetry on Carrotrope
I’m combining this blog with another, more poetic blog of mine. From now on, poetry will interspersed among regular and irregular posts.
I’m adding to the “about” section:
threads, dyes, notes, poems and tones; the sound of fabric and music of texture; the fabric of a song you used to wear;A site for the daily noises on your skin and the shredded scrap-cloth music I overhear as underwear;
For tints overheard in hues, white noise, and worn alarms;
For sonorous and porous text, rawly textured into suitability, fashioning you out of your ears.
Because she kept saying to me, “Clothes the loop.”
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Band names as art? The newest Magnetic Poetry set? “Exploration of the visual identity of language vs. the conceptual nature of language”? Or, possibly, something even better than all that… Whether he means to or not, Jay Jurisich is making something I like.
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Jurisich asks,
Can words and phrases issue spontaneously in a manner analogous to the Abstract Expressionist “action painting”? Can language be “used” in a way that is not primarily communication, poetry, or logical, yet inhabit a physical existence apart from a conceptual one?
The answer is something like the New York School + the Painted Word. But really, I just get a genuine, stylistic kick out of it. I wanna put it on a screen-printed hoody, album cover, or write it on a bathroom wall.
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You can even search his works for specific words. I searched for “Beast” and came up with this:
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“Can language be ‘used’ in a way that is not primarily communication, poetry, or logical, yet inhabit a physical existence apart from a conceptual one?” Maybe/maybe not, but I hope Jurisich keeps trying, because this is poetry to me.[singlepic=1,300,0,,]
Links:
• Blog post title taken from L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
- The Residency
“there is no profit under the sun… For who will eat and who will hasten [to swallow it] except me?” —Ecclesiastes
thoughts rot in the head
stories defragment
always, i am 1000 strong
vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas
- 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.
