The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
[ thx Ali ]
January 2011
Anthony Braxton Rings Once #dream
I was unpacking boxes in a new apartment in a high-rise in Manhattan. The buzzer rang from the lobby. Claire The Dog started barking really loud at the buzzer, but ran somewhere where I couldn't see her and then I couldn't hear her any more. I forgot about the buzzer and went to find my silenced dog.
No one was waiting for me, so I asked the doorman who had rang for my apartment. He said it was Anthony Braxton.
I found a shaftway-slash-fire-exit that led from a closet in my apartment straight down, except I could always find another part to jump down onto. I kept jumping and falling story after story, sometimes falling 5 stories at a time. I made my way the thirty flights down.
The bottom of the shaftway let out into a meadow with dozens of puppies and little dogs in it. Claire came running up to me, and we walked through the meadow, back around to the front door of our new building.
No one was waiting for me, so I asked the doorman who had rang for my apartment. He said it was Anthony Braxton.
Posterchild Up On Payphones in nYc
[ via Public Ad Campaign ]
Documenting the unique scent of MOMA's book collection
Artist Rachael Morrison is documenting the "unique scent" of each book in MOMA's book collection. All 300,000 of them.
I've been taking (physical, non-smell-based) inventory at Stout Books in Berkeley these last couple months and some of the books' smells have definitely stood out.
I'm enjoying imagining someone trying to find or order a book by smell.
Jelly Wobbler & Pancake Robots
(Thx to the Shopsins for the constant inspiration.)
Kraak & Smaak's Dynamite Video
How videos should go. (Original at Kraak & Smaak.)[ thx jm3 ]
Jack Ely Sings “Louie Louie" With His Horse
Jack Ely, the Kingsmen’s vocalist on 1963’s “Louie Louie,” recreates the track 40 years later in a stable in the presence of a horse. I especially like how he replicates his (classic) mistake on the record, namely coming in too early on the last verse and then starting again.
That's the voice. Right there.
The first piece of performance art that Amazon has ever shipped. #dream
The last dream just before I woke up this morning:
A man at a desk asks the man who gave me bass lessons growing up, Jeff, how he's doing. Jeff responds by pulling out a large plastic bag, inflating it with his breath, putting it over the questioner's head and making him breathe in all the air. After we all see the man in the bag will live, Jeff explains that this morning he was subjected to the first piece of performance art that Amazon has ever shipped. When he opened an Amazon box, along with his books, he found a card inside saying that he was an unwitting participant in this piece, and had just breathed in air that was taken from an art installation, the details of which I couldn't make out.
