MUSIC......JAZZ......with a Nod to Frank Zappa.........with the interjection of 'buy this' commentary.... Recalling "UNCLE MEAT", here...resurrected as "UNCLE MEAN'.....
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/thursdaygroup-unclemean/
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CINEMATIC NIGHT TIMETRAVELS
Last night, I dreamt that it was 1920's Paris, and a group of my friends.....they and I, in our twenties.......were hanging out around tables at Le Boeuf sur le Toit........a Ken Russell-ish scenario took form when Maurice Ravel brushed the goat's tail of Nijinsky, as The Faun, and Igor Stravinsky danced around an onstage firepit with Mistinguett and Josephine Baker, while cruising the other 'Apaches', sipping absinthe behind the curtains of a Production of a Cocteau/Picabia collaboration.......Suddenly, Dali entered with his surrealists retinue and, then, the entire Dream transformed into Rancho Notorious..... Marlene Dietrich, having shed her gorilla costume, went 'drag' in a gaybar contestation with Josephine, after snatching Baker's bananas and handing them over to an embarassed , blushing Les Six...now huddled beneath the long table, furtively accessing the Scenario for sleazy tabloid photographers.......Whenupon, I awakened, brow...asweat..........
Watching an episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, this morning....and a few minutes of Darren Aronofsky's film, The Fountain...and, minutes later, finding a copy of Casteneda's book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, under a beach towel that I'd had since I was 10......My mind, with only a cup of Java...no toad's venom or synthesized DMT......veered into a Mindset that many, my age....in the late 1960's.....shared......the Mass Delusional Mindset that preoccupied the 'Conscious' thoughts of what we then believed to be an America, transformed by Psychedelia.....Then, minutes ago, sitting on the back stoop, listening to the seemingly countless birds, enthusiastically advertising their genetic worthiness to potential egg-layers, I noticed a half-smoked joint in my driveway and took a couple of totes.....What was in that stuff!......seconds later, I was peeling the view to see what was 'beneath' ........and now, I'm sitting, w...
Words and Music from Arthur Russell, lest he be forgotten in the shifting sands of Fashion and Intellectual Glamour..... - The Teetering Terrace Of Unintelligibility from the Enormity of a Private World Expressed by the Two-Wayness Bidirectionality of Poetry......
"I’m watching out of my ear When the fog goes up...." Arthur Russell "I’m like a rabbit’s ear Hearing but not understanding…" Arthur Russell 1986
Would you pick up some "Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Palm Oil, Corn Starch, Water. Contains 2% or less of: Salt, Monoglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid. Freshness Preserved by Potassium Sorbate" for me at The Concession Stand, Please?
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, (American, b. 1949), Photograph of Keith Haring, New York, 1986, platinum print, 18 7/8 x 23 in., frame: 28 x 32 in. Sold, this Month, at an 11am auction, for $22,500! Whoa! Yet another stylistically-trending episode of The NAME GAME.......i.e. the application of verbal/written personal nomenclatures glamorizes the more ancient, and now diminishing, senses of smell and proximal collusions.. to distinguish/contradict both similarity and differentiation.....this 'evolution' culminating in Societal Conga Line Conformity, led by the most disguised by the tools of this Glamour .......who, in doing, become the Politicians of Experiential Phenomena.....with Followers that conform to the Icons they erect, in worshipful obeisance....In the Case of Art, this is performed in Museums and Art Galleries as a legitimization of Human Folly.....the Nakedness of human animals having been painted over, then perpetually reproduced for Homo Erecti Consumption.....