(top: Como agua para chocolate, bottom: I was thinking about attending a conference in vancouver, bc this fall, so I checked to see if there is any controversy (should I support the economy) surrounding the upcoming oly games. there are.)

Some one drunk-drove into a tree in the green patch by my house - we do not have enough trees in new york for this kind of behavior!

I just invented a recipe for kale dolma/sushi - filled w/ barley:

science news, internet news, etc

learned today about this phenomenon called karman vortices via some mapping research.


I just put two and two together that blogging is about the internet.

I wish I could map out my Internet tendencies, does anyone know how to do this? What I want is some sort of visualization/map of frequented sites or topics of research and potential linking/ paths. It has got to exist or will soon enough. I think it might be a little embarrassing but that just makes it more intriguiing.

I think I reference this interview more than I realize

robert longo/ no wave/ the homogeneous present

Went to the Met today to check out an exhibit of Japanese mandalas that may or may not be navigational maps to the heavens. I was a little surprised to see a set by Robert Longo from "Men in Cities" right in the main entry hall as I was leaving.

from the placard: "..inspired by the increasingly realistic violence in cinema and the kind of thrashlike dancing in downtown clubs such as CBGBs, Tier 7, and the Mudd Club."

It is forever associated with No Wave too as Longo did the cover for Branca's The Ascension. Poking around the Internet for more info on the set, I see that another work from the series featured prominently in the film adaptation of Less Than Zero. That sort of brings it full circle in my mind, but more so in a way that is alienating to the present. Let me expound: I am reading this book now called Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi that I requested from the library on account of an interesting write-up in the NYTimes. Main character is currently at the Venice Biennale, wandering around, getting really stoked about doing coke on an art yacht, like this is the pinnacle of human existence. yawn. And I thought, if this were some extreme zeitgeistian shit like Less Than Zero ther'd be some folks dying and that'd be interesting. I surprised myself with that inner comment. But really, reading about people using drugs isn't at all interesting without some sort of moral repercussions, as haughty as that sounds.

And where is Barbara Ess? Teaching at Bard now maybe? No Wave completely shaped my youth and now I am feeling age advancing and it appears that no wave has frozen itself in my cultural bones so as to be a representation of the "best" art, not that I was even there, or born. There was a sweet demographic of peers for a moment that was (re)creating similar sounds. Really I think the appeal/ continued affect of Longo is that it is/was a visual association with an avant-garde sound. It is hardly interesting to bemoan a lost no wave, and too its form has been shaped by the future present out of longing for a unification of the memory. In twenty years will the noise shows I go to be some greater movement to be analyzed by young art scholars? Do we need to get bigger for that to occur? What is the (satisfactory) visual representation of these times? {I am pretty into some of the art that Black Dice has been supplying with their albums, yet I feel it doesn't address the whole.} Being in New York means the noisemusic supposedly has/is a stronger point-of-reference, and kids blow up fast. I guess I should work on organizing my rants/ belief structure...

I am in a swamp that is also called New York City, America. Life is so beautiful I can hardly stand it - it is funny to go off like this, only allowable really in lulls.

Mayor Daley & U.S. Girls @ Monster Island

Mayor Daley is a metal band and it was so good. I am really into Dewayne Slightweight's solo art albums, and this was nothing like it but wonderful altogether in a metal trance drone gallop with melvins breakdowns. yeah. My friend h. chew told me about them a while back and I was finally able to check them out tonight. A band called Queenie opened the set, still cutting their teeth but getting on. After M D was this rad noise lady called U.S. Girls that was this dubby crunch, she sang live but it sounded like crazy backwards tape loops. amazing! check her out if she comes thru your town or village. Next was Ducktails but I missed them because my friend and I were outside chasing stray kittens and then we met Killah Priest. Holy shit! He is the smartest dude I have met in forever. We talked for a while about religion and feminism and all sorts of other stuff. We went back inside and caught the dude from Psychedelic Horseshit that got added to the bill I guess which is great as I have been wanting to see him/ them. I have read that his/their shows go differently every time so hard to describe wholly? Wacky for certain. jandek is the only correlation that came to mind but really he's nothing like that. Will catch again in another incarnation. Left before G Lucas Crane went on as I have a busy day of work and map-studying tomorrow. On that note, goodnight.

in review

So I guess I had a little blogging break. Here is a re-cap of the last week or so:


Started a map collections class and I love it. Started writing for real again. Will return again soon with interesting cultural data to report.

I also have a mash-up of these two songs going on in my head at all times

love this song