let us all rest in peace and pass over happily to the other side

sad.

I found out yesterday that my mentor at Evergreen, Ernestine, passed away over the weekend. She was really the most marvelous ever. I am writing and more will come.

And perhaps even more shocking my friend Su in LA died last December and I only just learned of it. I feel so far away out in new york. I have so many sweet memories of her - I only just learned of this a few hours ago.
this is too sad.

blue crystals

drawing & pasting

pnw

kindof missing the nw, listening to an old growing album, some photos from last summer

Lionel Ziprin/ me not exactly doing my homework/ should we all post our biographies on youtube?

Below is a film excerpt of Lionel Ziprin, a Jewish mystic/ poet/ hipster who died about a month ago. For school, we are fact-checking obituaries, and I chose this guy. He actually was a buddy of Harry Smith (Folkways ethnomusicologist, among other things), Ira Cohen (Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda) and Thelonious Monk. I was amazed to find footage of him on youtube explaining some of his life when that was exactly what I was looking for. (There is also a great audio documentary of him done by Jon Kalish.) I don't know if vlogging serves this purpose but it was really wonderful to locate footage of someone telling their own biography.

this morning

any drop to drink

black dice record release party

what a nighhht. the show was good - last time I saw black dice there were maybe three dudes thrash dancing, and I was like, really? I guess it was just a bad sound system. Last night was nuts and wonderful, and throb dancing. I stepped out to a thing down the street and missed skint - I asked people about it and they were like "I dunno/ weird girls/ performance art/ not my thang." sad I missed it as that is maybe my thing. ran into olympians on the street and inside. this world is tiny.

here is some brain mapping

The moon is full and it is keeping me awake! Some friends in portlnd started a band called slow stab that is good in a l. lunch/ nick cave mid-eighties kinda way. and nuclear animals is very jamfull as well, I don't know what their releasing is like. I am psyched for the new Deradoorian (angel d. from dirty p.) album to drop. Here she is:
There is a release party next month. and a release party for black dice this wknd that skint (busy g. from telepathe and four other ladies) is playing to that I look forward to checking out.

Speaking of nick cave, have you seen the work of the other nick cave?? (so many mustaches in this image search:
He makes these amazing soundsuits - which surprised me at first that they do have aural purpose. (I know, the name says it already) I had just seen one (motionless) first at seattle art museum a while back. he just had a show in chelsea.

I have been listening to glen gould's goldberg variations a lot. I had an LP of it, but listening to it around the city is too good.

bye

boroughwide

bed sty

dt bkln

colonial williamsburg

bodega in loisaida

green porno two

Yesterday night was the marvelous premier of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno 2 at IFC Center.

These are all stills from the first one wherein she recites her poem "Why Vagina" in a room full of giant paper models of various animal penises.

You can watch all five at Sundance, here.

Isabella Rossellini has such twinkling eyes! What a lady! These were just the best thing ever. She was very kind and answered a lot of questions. She then introduced a film of her father's: The Flowers of Saint Francis. (It was "movie night with Isabella Rossellini.") I enjoyed that as well; it was so beautiful and simple yet well constructed and complex. The story of monks living in the forest, and some hi-jinx, as Fellini co-wrote.