“Is that what broke you and Mr. Brilliant up? ”
”Not really. I mean, I will say, you can sort of judge a manâ€s mate potential by how well he baby-sits someone whoâ€s tripping balls, but no… We went out for a couple of months after that. It was when I went to Thanksgiving at his house and because he was home, he didnâ€t smoke weed for about two days and I suddenly realized that he was the most boring guy on earth… You know? Maybe it was just that he was stoned and I wasnâ€t that made him seem so brilliant. I realized that if I was stoned, heâ€d probably be saying the dullest stoned shit ever…”
“Yeah Iâ€ve smoked with people like that… you get a running commentary on the absurdly obvious… The sun is yellow….Oh and dude a lemon is yellow…and thatâ€s why they call it a lemon yellow sun…”
“Exactly,” she said. “But with Nicaragua and capitalism and the dialectics of syntax mixed in and so when we got back to campus I started smoking pot with him for a couple of weeks as an experiment and I swear to god everything out of his mouth was so painfully obvious that his face turned into an ugly troll mask and even when I stopped smoking again, he was wearing this ugly mask of the dullest man on earth… so it was over between us.”
He smiled, “How did you tell him… how did you get away from the troll?”
“Oh, that’s the best part. I quoted the end of Easy Rider: We blew it, man.”
“You’re kidding me? How’d he take it?”
“He said it was the saddest line in late twentieth century culture and left the room… He was very dramatic about it: You know that is the single saddest line in late twentieth certury cultural discourse. Fare well And that was all he said. He said Fare well, or maybe Fair the Well and turned around and left the room.”
“He was doing Dylan,” he sneered.
“Maybe… Fare the well, he said and we didn’t talk untill some time in the next term when he was ecstatically fucked up in some frat basement of all places and he told me that I was the most brilliant and beautiful of all the girls he’d ever dated… and I have to say he’d fucked about half of the English and Semitotics majors so I took it as a compliment… He wen’t on and on about Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper and blah blah blah… I mean the man was dull.”
“He was trying to seduce you again… drunken nostalgia fuck. He probably thought it was your favorite movie.”
“Maybe but, you know… Troll mask.”
He made a troll face at her.
“Why do all the men I fuck belong under a bridge?” She stage whispered and suddenly they both smelled a pungent odor of marijuana that filled the room like an echo of their conversation.
“It is sort of legal here, you know?,” he said.
“Really?” she said and they both drank more beer.

This calligraphy (“heart” which I only now realize matches the big orange heart – Flukes!) fromgundunasu u zeneize Sort of reminds me of the Boink 2K Three Eyed Smiley Face collaboration with CMIII

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I Passed a ball field on a run and a sort of poem came into my head. retraced my steps the next day with a diagram and video camera to try and remember (write) the words:

YOUTH

Diagrams of Chalk
and Shadows
on Green
Grass
in
Late
Light
Waiting
for the Autumn
Yellow
Bus

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Got caught in a summer downpour and somehow the video camera went on the fritz and got stuck on record and all you could see was chaos and all you could hear was horns and sirens and rain and it so it suggested concrete music. In the words of the Immortals: “Hey! Move out of the way douchbag!”

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I’m working on an animation in pages of Ulysees… so I don’t have a lot of fresh drawings I want to share right now (I may build a gif experiment tomorrow)… In the interim I wanted to test You Tube and show you a rebuild of the earlier Felled video

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This experiment is meant to be projected at full resolution, but I include it here as it’s been obsessing me for a few days.

I’m curious what compression will do to it…. (My Space player couldn’t handle the color Vimeo almost full and to few megs… so here we go with Youtube).

It’s shots of water on the East River going out at low tide towards New York Harbor. The music is a smashee of two Early Glass pieces: Big Ego and Einstein On The Beach. E.O.T.B. is played at normal speed and very slowed down.

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This You tube version works slightly better for the edges of wire and I’ve changed a few little details.

This is a combo of my bloomsday with Tuvan throat singers who worked with Laurie Anderson at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert. Those of you who know Feynman will get it, and hopefully those who don’t will “search” Feynman and Laurie Anderson and Tuva, etc. In the late night I wrote on a pice of carboard “My Father Walks Into The Room” and then I painted over those words on father’s day.

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For Morton Feldman

alternate version and player

In the pouring rain tonight someone was shooting fireworks over the Harbor, past the KENTILE sign and the Smith And 9th street Elevated. I turned on ninth street just in time to catch the finale and feel the thud thud mutter in the clouds as they went all crazy back lit colors. I stood there and watched people walk buy and in and out of shops and thru doors and barely look up. I thought to myself: “What has gone wrong in this world that people won’t even stop to look at fireworks exploding in the clouds?”

Speaking of clouds, this piece looks a lot better without the compression, but low rez has it’s virtues too… something to be said for clouds made of squares.

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