Short and concise this week, surrounded by the radiant smell of Mysore Sugandhi Chandan Dhoop, damn that's some sweet shit! India produces some very good fragrance for contemplation. Inner city citizens await public transportation. People who wait are eventually whisked away from nightown, escaping further exposure to brutal buzzing neon signs that flicker Liquor. The cool dark night is stark, deep, hard, and honest. I can hear the noise of the factory rusting citron industry. Fading is the heaviness that has been in the air, broadcasting from the CHUM radio network, NPR and NBC radiolands. Missing fighting angels, in military groupings, I either hear or I don't and those I don't, all the best. This is the war about stockpiles, shifts, and discoveries, yet to see destruction, waiting on dismantling. Attitudes adjust accordingly, at the Henry Rollins concert, tattoo Daddy Hank snorting about Patriotism; 'yeah you have alot of that now, Well, where were you when the homosexual was getting his ass kicked...if you want to be a patriot, you have to be a patriot 7 days a week...There's a crisis in America every mother fucking day!' Nervous sort of intensity mixes like Lake Erie water and Machine Oil. Through the anger stage, through any or all angst, buddy me up to 'Living My Life on the Edge of a Knife'. Brain food or soggy hoagie, you decide.
'The black concrete walls and steel constructions of modern industry, midsummer streets with the acid green of close cut lawns, the dusty Fords and gilded movies, all the sweltering golden life of the American small town, and behind all, the sad desolation of our suburban landscape. he derives daily stimulus from these, that others flee from our pass with indifference.
Edward Hopper writing about Ohio painter Charles Burchfield and perhaps writing about himself?
'Increasingly, I have felt that I don't see a painting until I turn away from it and don't read a poem until I close the book. What I know or retain of either, depends on what I am able to invent in their place. Oh I refer to them, but mostly I draw on my own blindness,and ignorance, insight and knowledge'...Mark Strand
Looking is transient, looking is passing and turning away is moving or acting as an active veiwer.
11:07 PM :
Friday, September 28, 2001
You are now approaching a Pee Diddy/Media Blitz Free Zone...
Observations on Television sitcoms past and present: Mothers routinely cook full breakfasts, bacon eggs, waffles for their family even though the husband and children never seem to have time to eat them. Why is it always possible in TVland to park directly outside the building you are visiting even in NYC!
The Paradise Garage was located at 84 King Street (between Hudson and Varick Streets). Co-owned by Mel Cheron and Michael Brody THE club had an eleven year run from the 1976 opening night to the 1987 closing party. The Godfather himself, Larry Levan was behind the turntables. (Though there were many guest DJs) Larry was the club's only resident DJ supreme. Mel Cheron unleashes his self published novel 'Keep On Dancin' My Life and the Paradise Garage via his long running and historic label 'West End Records'. His book is a return to the glory days of gay disco, drama, drugs and more.'West End Records' from "Sessomatto" by Sessa Matto which, according to Grandmaster Flash, was the first instrumental break to be scratched by DJs as break-beats through favorite 'garage' hits like the lush 'Do It To The Music' by Raw Silk and my personal 16 minute favorite 'Work That Body' Taana Gardner. Breaking it down and bringing it back old school, gay history 101. Check NuYoRican's survey of 'Paradise Garage' classics 76-87.
Somebody please tell Uncle Jesse the virgins are for the martyrs only.
Honey, put the TIAN in the oven!
10:58 AM :
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Bravo! Daily Dean always kicks ass! I'm moist toweletting (new verb) my screen for ultimate viewing pleasure!
I have a hard time meeting other refluxophiles in my area. Back to abnormal? I felt naughty/guilty 'TV cruising' chelsea boys and hot beefy NY Firemen? I'm not alone!
Please excuse downtime if it happens perhaps around 3:00 a.m. EST.
8:24 PM :
Down a cool Nate Hentoff Commentary Cocktail and follow with a Sharon Lerner chaser, both examine why haste lay waste to liberty.
MTV apparently draws (the line) at new boy bands�it's almost impossible to break a cutie combo on the channel these days, especially with its new somber tone�so testoster-pop Svengali Lou Pearlman went elsewhere to start up his latest bunch of boppers. His new male group, Natural, is being marketed strictly through Claire's Accessories stores, a plan Pearlman claims has made the band bigger than hair barrettes. Michael being La Dolce all over the place.
Son, you've done good, I'm proud of you!
Sound Dust for a lunch box full of orchestral experimentations and symphonic blowback. Later at the disco I'll be having a full order of a Barry White/Silver Convention Inspired Funk Odyssey. I might need to bring it down a bit, Re-hab operates a 'cure all' of Back To Mine. In case of emergency break glass.
If you are in the Akron Ohio area, John Water's provides a good evening of bad taste. Check it out for yourself at http://www.outinakron.org and beware of pop-ups and hostile applets!
2:25 PM :
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Silent slate born atmposphere, coolness collects the city that exhales blue. Your keen observation of the dashboard instrument panel reveals an obsession for the gas pedal roulette wheel. Beatitude of revolving door commuter symphony and taxi cab crescendo sings 'Col suo soverchio; e solo a quello arriva La Man che ubbidisce all'intelleto.' Mediterranean Ph�eton awakens from the cold slumbering 'L�ger'-polymath as American heroic object, painter, laborer, builder, author, cowboy. Charlie Parker plays you on vinyl and vision as sensual contemplation.
I haven't missed a single episode of Eastenders in over 3 years, I now know that the goings on of Wolford and the Queen Vic provide a rich educational experience. Go! Peggy Mitchell Butcher!
Viewing Pleasures J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche/Don't Let Me Die On A Sunday 1998 French film about a 19-year-old girl who dies of an ecstasy overdose (perhaps she should have contacted dance-safe) at a rave. A morgue attendant makes love to her body thus resurrecting the techno lovin' drug child and unleashing a wild S/M relationship followed by a subsequent kidnapping of an Aids patient. Controversial, exotic silly ponderous and dark commentary on the 1990s.
Mantis in Lace-Let her show you the heat of desire -- the face of sin! "Groovy pad you got here, a little kinky, but it's out of sight." - Tiger Baby! Superbad 1968 sexploitation film about a psychotic go-go girl who hacks up her lover's with a meat cleaver while freaked out on LSD. Highly recommended for pyschotronic cinema deviants. Cinematography by Laszlo Kovacs of 'Easy Rider'/'Ghostbusters' fame. 'Mantis also known as just plain ol 'Lila' was originally released in two versions, one for horror fans and one for the soft core porn crowd. The DVD is the longer sexier version but contains outakes of the screamarific psychedelic murder scenes. Bundled with a high school standard drug scare film; 'LSD Trip or Trap' and the short 'Alice Goes to Acidland' File under A plus Acid Sleaze.
An interesting fact page on the country of Afghanistan. WTC scam watch.
4:05 PM :
Monday, September 24, 2001
The Spectator's Mark Steyn's Very Well, Then Alone. �When I take action,� said the President, �I�m not gonna fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It�s going to be decisive. On the other hand, if it�s just the US plus a few British Harriers, it will be able to do what it deems militarily necessary. It is the serious threat of force that impresses your enemies, not reaching out to them. Seumas Milne's rhetoric tantrum notes the end of Clinton Schmooziness. More Cowboyaphobia.
Cyberspace, the noun/catchword is derived from the English word Cybernetics or the communication and control of living things or machines, I would like to expand the deifinition to include the excessive fear of computers and mechanization coined in 1948 by American Mathematician Norbert Wiener. Wiener probably derived it from Andr� Marie Amp�re's 'Cybern�tique' or the art of governing. 'Cyberspace' coined by William Gibson, American science-fiction writer in his 1982 short story 'Burning Chrome' and later in his 1984 novel 'Neuromancer'. Cyberspace therefore is the notional ethereal environment in which electronic communication occurs; virtual reality. Are Terrorists winning the 'cyberspace' battle? Just for the record Afghanistan has the fourth largest illiteracy rate in the world, as defined by the United Nations, 85% of females cannot with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on her daily life.
9:59 AM :
Sunday, September 23, 2001
From Ada, Ohio, despite his promise, Sbarro manager Bruce Hart failed to keep his talk regarding proper straw-receptacle-refill protocol short or sweet. "He could've just said, 'Don't overstuff the straw dispenser, because it's hard to get them out when you do that,'" cashier Evan Rees said. "Instead, he spent 15 minutes going off about how much straws cost, and how customers don't like it when they have to claw at the dispenser, and how it can be unhygienic if the wrappers get torn." Rees said that Hart occasionally keeps it short or sweet, but never both at the same time. I suppose this would follow bad human factor design.
Be sure to submit your site/story to webArchivist.org, they are working with The Internet Archive in collaboration with the Library of Congress to identify and archive pages and sites related to September 11.2001. They are especially interested in finding sites by individuals -- that record their feelings, experiences or opinions to secure a solid historical record of this time.
Langston Hughes wrote 'What a sight these towers of Manhattan are, glittering with millions of golden specs, soaring endlessly, as if they were going to touch the sky!' The Great Buildings Collection documents over 1,000 buildings, hundreds of leading architects with 3D models, photographic images, drawings, commentaries, bibliographies and more. These two structures are of particular importance. More on the arresting monoliths.
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