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September 29, 2005

 

monica lewinsky is a pawn of forces greater than her

There's still plenty of these to be pored over, disseminated, pondered and solved. Sorry for the lapse of mendelivium-based obsession. I'll get back on track....
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moonlight

It's now been over a year since I first started piano lessons, a dream I'd long held in my head and only acted on out of...well, I dunno. It occurs to me I'm slightly confused as to what drove me to fulfill that half-baked notion of being a piano player, however crude. Most of my life, I never played an instrument at all. When my dad died, I got a huge box...
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September 24, 2005

 

the life (and death) aquatic

In school, I think they called it psychic dissonance. Two things that completely contradict each other and the mind's struggle to reconcile them both without falling prey to simple solutions (candy, booze, church) or meltdown. One of my hobbies is fishing, whose sole goal is to drag a fish from its natural environment (water, other fish, things fish eat) to an unnatural one (the dinner plate) and killing it. At the same...
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September 19, 2005

 

opening

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } opening, originally uploaded by sucitta. Over there in the deep left-hand side of the picture, that's my awt. EDIT: .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } City:Visible - Chris Sebela...
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September 16, 2005

 

city visible: tonight

Buzz Gallery presents: City:Visible Photo essays on urban space Interpreting the work of Italo Calvino Sept 9th to Oct. 3rd Artists Reception Friday, September 16th, 2005, 7-10pm Mama Buzz Café and Buzz Gallery 2316 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland This event is free With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities,...
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September 15, 2005

 

jay's journal

"The Los Angeles National Public Radio station, KCRW, broadcasts Ricky Jay's weekly essays on a variety of subjects which reflect his interests and passions. You may hear him deliver these selections every Monday 6:44 p.m. on KCRW 89.9FM, or with the audio application Real Player by clicking the corresponding headings. You may view appropriate illustrations from his collection necessarily unavailable to his radio listeners." I used to think This American Life...
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"Litigation is like picking up a glass of water with a prosthetic hand"

"Apparently," Waits said, "the highest compliment our culture grants nowadays is to be in an ad--ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor. Currently accepting in my absence is my German doppelganger. While the court can't make me active in radio, I'm asking it to make me radioactive to the advertisers."...
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kurt vonnegut's list

LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Nobody better trespass against me. I'll tell you that. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the merciful. You mean we can't use torture? Blessed are the peacemakers. Jane Fonda? Love your enemies - Arabs? Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. The hell I...
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September 13, 2005

 

it's a good dog life if you don't weaken

Everyone take a short moment and let's all be silent for the passing of Ebony, the oldest dog I've ever had the privilege to know. 17 years old, to be exact, that dog was Methuselah and unless someone told you, you'd be hard pressed to figure out that bouncing stride and charming face of Ebony belonged to someone so old. I can't remember the first time I met Ebony, but I...
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September 12, 2005

 

brian wilson's lurching armdance

Just two weeks ago came the culmination of an obsession that's been around for the last 3 years, an obsession that's lead to way too much thought, lots of postage, a small pile of wasted burned CDs, lots of hard drive space and an excess of brainpower devoted to deciphering language, intent and the sheer beauty of a profoundly disturbed human mind. That's right, I finally saw Brian Wilson perform the entirety...
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preemptive strike

Maybe it's a tad early, but confirmation came in on Friday that my friend Harold and I will have a gallery show at the Taxidermy Gallery (down in the Bottoms in the old post office) the second week of November. Since this is likely to occupy a good deal of my time between now and then, I'm sure I'll be rambling about it incessantly, but I'm in need of something to blog,...
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September 09, 2005

 

no one speaks english and everything's broken

Alive! I live! Last night I finally pushed the last little tetris block into place, everything glowed, flashed and disappeared and like that, I am a functional computer owner again. Now I must perseverate over data, oh, precious data, and put everything in its place, assuming there is a place for everything. Turns out everything I needed to fix my dilemma was sitting in a desk drawer, the one drawer I apparently...
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September 08, 2005

 

"i wish i could be everywhere that awt is being made"

Here's the tenative line-up for my part of the City Visible show, wrought all tiny. Bicycle (with shadow) and yellow legal pad (beneath pen and cell phone) are separate installation pieces which can be seen by appointment in the dining room gallery. If you're in Oakland and you've got money for art, go buy some. If not, I'll be shamelessly peddling some here after the fact. Everybody wins....
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September 05, 2005

 

smash your head against the wall

My computer is now an amnesiac. Due to an inability to boot up, I've had to put all its memory in a little box and then wipe it clean. Of course, I can't install an OS, so now I'm running it off the aforementioned little box and hoping against hope I can get my brainbox back up and running sometime sooner than later. Until then, I'm back to being out of touch,...
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September 01, 2005

 

where i'm calling from

When I finally got home for the last time last night, I grabbed my stuff out of the car and coughed up a huge lump of stuff from my throat and spit it against the brick wall which comprises the outer structure of the Rent-A-Center which sits adjacent to our parking lot (now that's an opening line!). I spit on the wall not because I'm crass or foul (I'm those things for...
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