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[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:51 pm] |
WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL
1. so this new york art guy, dash snow, is dead. he od'd. street carnage (vicemag thing) posted four obits for him. some of his photography is not worksafe.
discuss. particularly in light of last week's whole art, artistic temperament, vices questions. bonus points if you're laurel and talk about new york, because jesus christ, new york.
2. what is the last song that has engendered a physical reaction in you? what was the reaction? why'd it do that?
3. what kinds of spaces make you feel uncomfortable? how
do you deal with that?
4. what is the most perfect summertime alcoholic refreshment? feel free to expound at nauseating length.
unrelated: 
this is the first image result for the search "the ceaseless mystery of being"
which is from this blog about "talismans", which is oddly compelling despite being dull as fuck.
ONSWARS
1. well he sure was a well-connected guy who decided to live a super-nihilistic dorkus-ass lifestyle and make art that could be kind of construed as shocking if it was not wandering in big old aesthetic ruts!!! i mean it is always a bummer when a guy OD's - especially when it looks like it is the woo hoo, i got clean, oh wait i'm gonna just take a hit, oh god, my precious baby veins ain't used to it, DED. i am not saying it is not a bummer. but i feel like if this guy had not been from a well connected family, he could not have gotten away with so much, and maybe i would not care.
of course now i wonder if i would have copped a hate-on for william s burroughs if we were contemporaries. oh la la, famous nancy writer faggot shoots his wife! what a jerk. the thing that bugs me about WILD REBELS like old dash or burroughs or even the cassady bunch isn't that they're doing socially unacceptable things, it's that they conflate being a dude on the edge with being able to disrespect others, to dismiss any shit they start as collateral damage, incidental to the amazing adventures of dude starring in own movie man!!! man, it's tricky. i got feelings.
(as a dude on meta filter said though: "He had a great beard though, a good strong beard.")
2. the mountain goats song warm lonely planet has been raising shivers up my spine and making my heart ache because it is simple and beautiful, all making me think about sleeping outside in the summer and that ultramarine night blue that gets into the whorls of my grey matter and makes the existential despair tolerable, even pleasant. when i sing along to it i drop the "i need" but MAN what a song. hey there.
3. the space i was thinking about when i asked was the motherfucking noburbs out here, all the same mini-malls and confusing parking lots replicated into infinity. i do not like how they all look the same and i do not like how the profusion of one-ways and parking lot barriers limits space for some pretty arbitrary reasons. i deal with this by thinking, i work here, this too shall pass, and then acting an ass and playing really loud, stupid music.
4. they are as varied as the waves on the sea but we'll go through a few perennial favorites here:
- frosty cold Simpler Times or other sports beer, while riding
- bourbon and lemonade (two fingers of bourbon in about 12oz of lemonade. mmm.)
- hendricks' gin, neat, in chilled glass
- campari and soda (for when you are an old man who does not like to have fun)
- tall boys of cheap beer because who cares / it's breakfast
AND YOU? |
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| well, i'm sure we all know what's coming up |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:05 am] |
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DONT GET ROWDY
1 under what circumstances do you find yourself writing poetry?
2 are you a person much given over to existential despair/Moods? should you be a man of Moods, what do you to do alleviate them?
3 do you associate the artistic temperament or a desire for success with Moodiness? other maxims? (nice guys finish last, etc)
4 do you have any vices that you feel define you?
5 and finally, to round off this series of introspective questions of sadness: what is one thing today that has made you excited or happy or the whatnot?
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1. WHEN I GOT TOO MANY FEELINGS FOR SIMPLE PROSE. this has in the past included being lovesick, stricken with grief, and a deep affection for the sorrows of Aeneas amplified by amphetamines and psilocybin.
2 what the fuck do you think, jesus, i'm actually just a large box with YELLING on one side and DESPAIR on the other and a humorous cardboard arrow nailed between the two and sometimes a small man pushes the arrow toward one or the other, and sometimes the arrow tips over and it just hangs there between the two and :(. i alleviate these moods by knowing that moods are part of the transient nature of existence, accepting them without prejudice, and traveling onward from there. also listening to furious speed metal, drawing shit, riding bikes, and consuming Substances including but not limited to whiskey. sometimes i just give up and go to sleep.
3. i try hard not to but i do, oh hell holy hell yes do i ever. i think that being Artistic and Successful in certain realms means you're kind of crazy and a jerk and sometimes a small voice wonders if i am not wedded to this concept because it excuses that i am a dude given over to moods and not well suited to life on this sphere.
4 a cursory examination of my artistic output should indicate an answer. i will not dignify this answer nor will i elaborate it.
i will point out that i am overmuch fond of pipe smoking, which many squares view as a shameful and affected vice. i think it is the most delicious way to get your carcinogens and that's a fact.
5 there was this boat today. when back from the store i will show you a photo of this boat. amazing.
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| a day early, even, and some linkage |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|02:20 pm] |
linkytime from substitute. no lifeguard on duty. photographs of abandoned motels. those of you around me will be like oh j, you've been reading critical theory and hating society and now this? yes, now this, shut up, pictures of unplaces/nonplaces are amazing. thinking about how we construct places and how so many places are unplaces or nonplaces takes up an awful lot of my time because i do the construction thing in a horrible noburb. i have a lot of time to contemplate soulless office parks and shitty 60s-70s tract houses, i am surrounded by them and i can feel my soul dying. yet they are bracing in a certain way, there is some dark power i can somehow harness from them
...all right so hello, questiontime, a day early because i got tomorrow off and i have better things to do than internet when i needn't.
1) talk to me about sunglasses. do you wear them at night? what is your favored sunglass concept and why? aesthetics or propriety? polarized? no?
b) are you a daytime person or a nighttime person? do you ascribe to any beliefs regarding the those of the day and of the night? what activities do you believe are absolutely only to be done sunup sundown that kind of thing? what's up with thsi shit?
three) so i'm sure anyone who has been to any kind of county fair or headshop is aware of the shirts and stickers that presuppose an antagonistic relationship between the wearer and the reader*. can anyone explain this phenomenon? i was just looking at big dogs shirts because of internet and have been sitting here triyng to figure it out.
*thanks david foster wallace
answertime below:
1. sunglasses. i wear them at night sometimes when i'm feeling extremely groovy. right now i am all over mirrored aviators for their cop/lemmy affectation and the subsequent naughtiness they engender, but my favorite sunglasses in the whole world were these crazy smoked-glass round things from the turn of the century. they broke of course but for a brief while i had some sweet glasses that made me look like some kind of german film terrorist who was going to fuck you with robot parts until you converted to situationism. which is exactly what i am. the effect with the almighty bridge coat was splendid but oh so affected
anyway
b) i am a night man and a sunrise/sunset man, i believe the hours of 4 to 11 or 12 or so are basically for sleeping through and no good is accomplished of them unless you have the pressing need to do sunlight-related things. each day i thank the dark god that industrialization happened so i can afford to indulge my night worship. get excited when sun goes down. nighttime happenings are go. i like to go on night drives more than day drives, but believe the best sex occurs in the early to late afternoon. night is for work. best drawing and very best writing between 9pm and 2am. i need to structure my life more effectively around this.
three) i have no idea. none. maybe the antagonism isn't as obvious? i remember thinking this shit was witty wehn i was like 12 to 14 but you know, adulthood
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:01 pm] |
1. swedish parents raise their kid without a gender
so what do you think about this swedish parenting technique?
2. in typical form i ask a question about albums and the seasons: summer means ROOOOADD TRIIIIIIP - you gotta yell it - so i ask you a sort of creative question here. imagine you are going on a road trip. or you are going on a real road trip! tell me where you want to be going and what music you will be bringing and why.
3. this is kind of a rhetorical question but why arent mroe biology books as groovy as this one i mean REALLY
4. why do we think stuff like billboards and radio ads and stuff are okay?
5. "ontological terrorist". what image pairs with this phrase?
1. obviously i think this is a reasonable thing to do. people get weird about gender. kid is going to pick up gender cues based on exposure to its environ and hopefully its parents will point out that much of what we take for granted as gender is dumb and arbitrary and hopefully itll be a well-adjusted whatever with different problems, you know. lots of people are freaked out about this article and i am annoyed at them.
2. IMAGINARY ROAD TRIP TIME im going on a surprise road trip to FOUR CORNERS i am bringing MY WHOLE GODDAMN IPOD because i cant decide on music but iwll likely be listening to flower travelin' band's SATORI and I'M DEAD and the new joe-akira album i picked up which is like, crazy face melting psychedelic nonsense, also some kid606 and aphex twin for brain shutting off driving fast steez and also slayer (for driving throug hthe burbs) and the beatles (for sparking long-winded road trip conversations) i cant believe its been so long since ive gone on a road trip, this needs to be rectified posthaste this 3 hour portland shit doesnt take.
3. because earth-negative has had an effect on our conceptions of didactic art, apparently. oh well, you can always go look at phoebe gloeckner's stuff! she is a medical artist!
4. because we think it is normal and we are trained to think normal is the same as natural is the same as correct. i hate them so much.
5. cribbing heavily from durer's st. michael, some obviously high dork ramming a large dip pen into a business suit man with a television head bleeding out letters and words and images in pools on the ground. i am asking you what you think because i think this image is really, really stupid.
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| seattle heads turn this way plz |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|08:05 am] |
come rap with my old housemates tonight
i cannot promise shit will be hyperreal but i can promise that these rappers pursue the delicate art of science |
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| oh fuck oh fuck the questiosn theyre coming |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|01:42 pm] |
welcome to the first ever public installment of "question time", a time for questions to be asked and persons to discuss amongst themselves concepts
1. this question assumes that you dream: what are the character of your dreams in general? are they obviously stuff you have sifted through from real life or are they weird alternate realities? do you look forward to your dreams, consider them improving exercises, or pray to whatever god you care to that the fifth of jack you just horked down will make the images go away another fucking night?
2. a question unfettered by geography - how are you liking the summer where you are? what is the perfect summer weather conceit? do you change markedly as the seasons progress?
3. i know this is a classic one but what the fuck is up with the fetishization of material goods in lousy rap (creative answers as well as thoughtful ones encouraged)
4. what are your plans? i mean, in general.
oh
shit
ANSWER TIME!!!!!!!!!!
1. i have weird, vivid dreams that crib from real life and my general feelings to create a usually shamefully easily interpreted didactic concept about my life at large. i believe dreams are important and i feel i am not fully alive unless i remember mine 3+ times a week. sometimes i have dreams about the future, always boring things, and then they happen, and i am quietly disturbed. i am not sure if these are signs that i live unstuck in time or that i have a lot of temporal lobe seizures.
2. summer is pretty pleasant out here, all 70-80 degrees with high intermittent cloud cover and days as long as days get and short vicious nights with sky so blue it pains the eye. if i had my druthers i would never, ever sleep in the summer. this stuff is too good. the perfect weather conceit is about ten degrees warmer than this and a little humid with a tendency toward storms. i want warm rainstorms to do crazy naked summer magic in.
i was about to say that i get florid, horny, and ridiculous in the summer but i think that is jus thow it goes in general
3. beyond saying "a couple-two-three things" i cannot answer this in brief
4. move, sleep, bust furious ass on comek books, go on a lot of country drives, make bird masks, destroy society
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[Apr. 7th, 2009|08:39 am] |
seattle heads, if you like odd rap this is good odd rap
also i am manning the merch table which will include a selection of cartoon amusement pamphlets what i drawn
come drink cheap drinks and be a guy |
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| STRAW GODS RESCHEDULED |
[Dec. 23rd, 2008|09:02 am] |
A VERY STRAW GODS CHRISTMAS
TOOOOO NIGHT
AT THE MOTHERFUCKING ANNE BONNY 1355 E OLIVE WY
4 to 7 PM, FREE AS A BEE |
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[Dec. 20th, 2008|01:18 pm] |
STRAW GODS XMAS
THE ANNE BONNY thats 1355 E OLIVE WY
FREE!
6 TO 9 PM TONIGHT
THE WEIRDEST, SADDEST XMAS PLAY EVER |
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| STUPID PROMOTION LIVE JOURNAL POST |
[Dec. 9th, 2008|01:47 pm] |
performance art at the good shepherd center, 4649 sunnyside ave n, seattle, fifteen bucks at the door, doors at 7:30 PM.
no witty flyers sorry, just an hour and a half of weird dancing and clowns and cowboys and strangely edited 1970s torch music.
strawgods performance at the anne bonny on the 20th but there should be a flyer for that shortly and THAT ONES gonna be free (as a bee) |
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| PROMOTIN' |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|12:17 pm] |
AND THE PROMOTION OF A GIRL I GRUDGINGLY TOLERATE, FOR THIS IS HER ART.
come OPEN UP YOUR SKULL with some performance art. there is a guerilla performance going on under the west seattle bridge (intersection spokane and airport wy) tomorrow night at 8pm
theres gonna be tables and a big gay blanket and the effect of a harmonium with wineglasses and eerie singing, 300+ broken eggs and evening wear, you know this is a concept you want to get into.
this is a little preamp for the art to come in december which is about feelings and looks to be utterly unhinged.
the lady speeks below:
"Hi,
The first Twilight performance for Dinner For One is Wednesday night. It will be cold dress warmly. We are starting at 8pm and expect to perform for an hour or so. The performance takes place at the intersection of Spokane and Airport Way under the West Seattle bridge/ I-5.
The twilight performances are a series of small images that precede the main Dinner For One performances in December.
See you there,
Kellie Patricia Lynch" |
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[Jun. 13th, 2008|01:57 am] |
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PATER MAGNVS a work in progress, grammar and some phrasing to be cleaned up. Obviously I am taking enormous liberties with the damn slang in the interests of preserving Feeling.
virginibus omnibus hic cum elegantia lepida
sinere me insinuare lyricus in sua sinu
qui domat carminam et vincit feminam
sessurum podium invenies, bibiturus Moët
mulieres circumcirca, et lictores pone me
"Quomodo vivens, Biggie Smalls?"
"In aedes et Benzes,
Dono benes amicis
et senso admirandus." |
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| i love you, internet! |
[Dec. 21st, 2007|01:54 am] |
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just woke up this might be incoherent in full awakeness, but i am trying to find (again) an art guy's site, he did these fucked up charcoals of skull faces and people getting strung up and hung open in a really quiet and gentle way, and had this amazing charcoal of a man with a deer skull holdin up a lady on a checkered floor. cannot remember his name, and he had stupid names for his pieces so i can't google them. please help. thanks. |
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| hosting companies |
[Dec. 14th, 2007|02:55 pm] |
sing to me of your hosting companies, people with websites.
who do you like (for hosting internet sites) |
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