yoko ono – IT IN Place http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:02:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.15 Asylum http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2014/01/27/asylum/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:19:51 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4866 DSCN5790

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LSG, CaanKnee, IT In, Yoko, and John collab

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Been on some sort of reunion vibe these last few months… some sort of black sheep returneth trip or what have you. So in keeping with that mode, I went for a little dumpling picknick with one of my favorite Alums of old Camp Bruno and we blathered for a long time and drank beer from paper bags in the park while the chinese kids played handball and layed out a pang thud thud pang soundtrack in the summer night.

Earlier, I had a near religious experience (not only was someone sky writing x and y all over brooklyn, but…) when I crossed Manhattan bridge by foot, the light came behind the brooklyn in such a way that it cast a magnificent reverse gothic arch shadow across the flaming sunset water… the key hole arches both cut out in fire on the water. It was only there for about sixty seconds, but good shit it was glorious and luckily I was on a nikon safari. New York is just a magnificent place sometimes and its filled with people that you know and love, but didn’t know were living so close to you. One big urban reunion project.
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Sing In Soprano Sotte Vocce http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/06/14/sing_in_soprano_sotte_vocce/ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:51:16 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/06/sing_in_soprano_sotte_vocce.html voubray.jpg
well this is the glass hammer Vouvray. If yo can find it … buy it drink it.. etc.

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Pittsburgh Going Ashore – Pittsburgh Coming Aboard http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/05/22/pittsburgh_coming_ashore_-_pittsburgh_coming_aboard/ Tue, 22 May 2007 14:15:53 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/05/pittsburgh_coming_ashore_-_pittsburgh_coming_aboard.html stellapit.jpgrelativityonion.jpg
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ABC is as easy as 1 2 3 as easy as Do Ray Me, you see?

Once I saw the changing of command on the USS Pittsburgh at Grotton, CT with my brother from a Bolex mother. When The Captain leaves the ship they blow a dog whistle and say: “Pittsburgh going Ashore.” It is as if the soul of the boat has left the boat. When The new Captain walks the gangplank, the dog whistle is blown in opposite progression and the Ensign speaks these magic jazz hand words: “Pittsburgh Coming Aboard!” and it is as if the boat is born again.

Me and Pat call melady Young Pas (or green onion in Korean, or Sly to the Midwesterners or Sylvie to you… etc.): Pittsburgh. She is the Captain my Captain. She is the queen of that little steel Swiss, but rusting Town in the middle of the Eastern Sea Board. I was throwing out all my old clothes yesterday and getting rid of all the wire and plastic hangers… nothing but wood is good quoath Pittsburgh and I concurred while wearing the buddhist Stettson and the silk guns and the Star Wars blasters still in the a tiny casket to be burried by the IRA somwhere beside the river Liffey. I tripped and fell upon a Bazooka shell full of old memories of Pittsburgh’s youth and there were steller shots of her as Stella amongst the stars and my street car named desire and some calling cards from old beaux and a shot of her leaning away from a dire wolf… him stealling kisses and trying to eat her heart out and I realize it is good to walk with pax but always have silk guns in a silk casket somewhere… the silent big stick as the Church on the Hill said, or was it The Mac daddy Author, or Ike? Yes Ike who I like if only because he said, “Beware the military industrial complex”… The king can speak the truth, but the wolves are still there… stealing kisses, and hearts, and gold, and souls.

I became quite green with jealousy looking at the explosive contents of the shell… and then I found a receipt for the first futon we ever shared and a letter I wrote to fair Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh when I was in the Tower of Pain and hats and song. It was not the most regal of things… a manic all night scrawl on yellow legal paper… but you know what? It was really a very romantic letter. It brought a single tear to my eye that dropped into the vast Atlantic… How can a shell hold such wealth I thought? For in that moment I realized that this was a contract signed thirteen years ago… So Why has it taken me so long to honor it and honor fair Pittsburgh?

… Because you see, I have been hiding in plain sight, playing the fool on the hill. Now it is time to wear the purple robes and take the crown that is mine. Today Pittsburgh. Tomorrow the world. It is my job to be her knight in shining armor coming to her emotional rescue on a fine Arab charger. It is my job to keep the dire wolves at bay. Hail Pittsburgh hail the Queen.
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I was at Freddy’s the night Sly Fox left for Las Vegas and I gave two guys my moleskin and said, “Make me a drawing, buy me a beer…sort of as a joke…and I went outside to smoke… when I got back they had drawn this and bought me a magic hat #9… it is names of the superbowl champion (two years in a row) Steelers from the seventies when I used to wear the black and gold slicker to protect me from the hard rain…. Coin see dances coincidences…. They were Pittsburgher… friends from many moons ago… reunited in the city on a drunkes Spree… fiddle di di.

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Drunken Boat http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2007/05/20/drunken_boat/ Sun, 20 May 2007 13:10:45 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2007/05/drunken_boat.html
freeworld.jpgOh the honey and the wine and women and song did pour fourth from the mouth of a yellow whale, where I crashed upon the shore of some magnificent island populated by circe and her two sisters yin and yang. It was like the crystal noise from Zimmerman’s lyre and moaning of monica. There were the hebrews and the Romans and Celtic tribe as well, but I walked with silk guns and white arab charger to unite the world on one great drunken boat

or: I went eating and wine tasting at Tribecca festival. If you want to be treated well in life, I suggest you roll with beautiful Korean women, you’d be surprised what people will give you for free, just because of those lovely smiling eyes. Then off to the temple on the mount for Noahs Barmitzvah… havanagela and MORE wine and food and dancing of the horah and on and on. You cant make this sort of stuff up. It is just wild eyed JOY…. Be Attitude and Beat Less.
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This is Harry Twep… an Id character that I drew on a retreat when I was maybe thirteen years old, or so… ironic…. My mom scanned it for a my fortieth birthday card. She’s some kind of witch or something… I mean that in a good way.

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Indica 8 #9 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2006/10/02/indica_8_9/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:43:01 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=733 Indica.jpg

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Skyhole http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2006/09/30/skyhole/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:17:45 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=730 skyhole.gif

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The orginal version of this was a postcard… a paper object with a black spot, that in theory one could punch a hole in and look at the sky. the document I have is a printed reproduction of the card, but is still a paper object one could punch a hole in and look at the sky. My digital interpretation is at once more literal and less literal and I suppose it looses some of the poetry of the thing, but as I’d done the time lapse sky last week…. who could resist?

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Sushi http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2006/09/29/sushi/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:55:15 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=728 sushi.jpg
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I drew the image from memory, becase the image is on the back of the page I drew it on.

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Ononooyesyesono http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2006/09/28/ononooyesyesono/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:47:30 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=727 yomusic.jpg
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The film orginally appeared in June in The Dead. The Yokono logo is of course by Macuinas.

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