Friends with Money

Don't bother to see it. waste of two hours. Can I get them back? Sex scenes but no sex. And bad acting on the part of Scott Caan not wanting to look at Jennifer Aniston during sex. R rated for pot smoking and swearing. At least it wasn't a PG-13. There are too many PG-13 movies. No one has the balls to make a real R rated movie. Everyone wants to appeal to the Wal-Mart red state crowd. Too many pg13s is another sign of how dull and spiceless we are becoming as a whole. Stay in the middle, don't stick out. Be bland, be fat white and bland. Don't really have a good time. Just try to not have a bad time.

Why are so many movies made like this? ---Oh we are all messed up and we are not really friends but everything will work out. Life is good in the end. What i want to see is a movie that is cheesy and bland for the first 75% and then everyone dies in the end. Kinda like if they took that terrible movie Steve Martin was in when he had 12 kids and have an ending where the house burns down and everyone dies. OR he loses his job and kills himself and the whole family. That would be interesting, kinda like an alternative ending in the special features on the DVD.

Trash/Art

Well, well, well...

Can't say it was a resounding success. Don't think any one noticed anything. Only had 9 people. Hoped to get 50, about 15 email responses and then 9 people. Part of the problem was meeting people in the YB garden b4 hand to get them the shirts. But people came and would do it again. Gonna wait for the next exhibit at SF MOMA. and have 20 people!

Though got to see work by Matthew Barney. Something about that guy rubs me the wrong way. Not sure what he is working on. But that video by Sam somebody, a woman from England, with the video that is of people holding still. You can see them blink and the cigarette burn. That is GOOD. I know what she is working on. Barney...he just makes shit, or has people make it for him. Where is all that plastic stuff going to be in 2 years? in 10 years? sitting in a warehouse somewhere. and what is the idea behind it all?

Hell, i'm probably just jealous...

ART/TRASH

Well, the day is finally here, and not many people have responded. I figured that a month time would be enough time for people to clear there schedules and do it. Either not enough time or people are not into the idea. Who wouldn't want to walk around the museum on a free day?

Kelly said that not many people want to be a spectacle or part of a spectacle. But that is why I sent the invite to people who i thought liked being looked at DANCERS, but not many of them responded either. I mean all it is, is walk around with a shirt on, not hard.

People walk around allday with stuff on their shirts, advertising this and that. Frikken hipsters and their vintage shirts advertising athletics programmes from the midwest in the 70s, advertising someone else's past. Guess that is what you do when you have no past worth mentioning, went to art school in the big City and spend most of their time looking for the next band/bar/cheap beer/piercing.

So got about 15 people, a FEW shy of the 50 I had hoped for. but I think 15 will still be enough for it. Who knows. now I just gotta figure out how to document it. Maybe just some photos on the sly. I mean video won't be much better.

Need some Bond glasses with video cameras in them or something like that. How about an eye patch that is really a camera?

pina bausch and Yerba Buena

Dropped off a proposal for a show at Yerba Buena. I do not have a rejection letter yet from Yerba Buena, so that will be a nice addition for my file! But it is a great piece. Not very dancy, but who dances anymore? Ha ha ha ha. pushing, sweat and shattering glass, what more do you need?

Also just went to pina bausch's web site.
http://www.pina-bausch.de/auditions.htm

I liked what was written about workshops etc. No ambiguity there. Nice and clean. Kinda like a rock, no questions how to deal with it. Wish I had more of that in me.

Have you seen "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? Watched part of it and was surprised about Mickey Rooney's character.

Toast

aarrggh beware the deadly blogosphere. Bow down before its might!

Everynow and then you see a list of the most visited blogs, which then get more hits, kind of a perpetual feedback. There should also be lists of the least visited blogs. Maybe then someone who is faithfully cranking away at their blog, posting posting posting will then get some recognition. Also could have a list of the blogs that are visited the average amount of times.

Maybe these alternative lists would churn the waters as it were...

toast is done...time for cold toast.

gym

When in Munich on Sunday, we went to a climbing gym there, run by the German Alpine Club. great gym really tall and mostly lead climbing. But the coolest part was that there was no waiver to sign, no test. Just go in and climb. I guess if you hurt yourself, it's your own damn fault. plus the landing there is just a concrete floor, no pebbles, no foam, just concrete. There were routes outside also. Wish there were a gym like that back home.

Why are so there many waivers in the "land of the free"?

Is that just a symptom of a slow erosion of our rights in general?-right to a fair wage, right to healthcare, right to a freely elected government

or are one man's rights another man's privileges?

Yesterday went to Neuschwanstein in Bavaria. Which I think the Disneyland castle was modeled after. We walked up to the castle and found out there was a 2 hour wait to get in for the tour. People had large tickets with the time of their tour on it. Once their tour time was on, they got in line after walking through the turnstiles. Totally Disneyfied.

Disney got the idea from King Ludwig's castle, which now has to manage crowds in the same way.

Is it a bad piece or just not your aesthetic?

Just saw a dance show in SF. Good thing it was short as it was not very interesting. This is not to say that the dancers weren't any good. The dancers were well rehearsed and knew what they were doing, hit their cues, legs were high etc.

But nothing original in any of the pieces, no questions or investigations. Eventhough I did not like the show I am still glad I went. It is good to see what other work is being created in one's artistic community. Too often I have heard dancers in the Bay Area say that they are tired of going to shows because they do not see anything they like.

The point isn't to just see stuff you like. If that were the case, stay home and wait for your next NetFlix selection to show up. The point is to see as much as possible to challenge and define your own aesthetic. You might even get a small nugget from a piece that inspires you in a new direction. The point is too see as much as possible so then you can complain that no one is doing anything good. ha ha ha

Final Friends

Just watched the last friends episode.

What a dumb ending. quite uninteresting. no catch, no surprise, no change.
could have had deformed baby, plane crash, avian flu...

SFADI

Why is so much dance impro just bad theater?

B-Day, August 6th

Kinda like D-Day except for it involves a big H, so maybe it should be H-Day, as in Hydrogen Bomb over Hiroshima.

I remember a few birthdays ago I was taking some summer school classes at Cal and heard a protest march about the Bomb being dropped on August 6th. I've got enough problems with birthdays, and then people protesting. Oh woe is me....

Wonder if anyone was born on August 6th 1945, if anyone was giving birth when the bomb hit....

Random Random Random

Yesterday Kelly and I were walking around Lake Merritt. I looked down in the water and saw a two things I would never imagine sitting near each other on the shells near the edge of the lake.

One was an egg, a regular chicken egg (though maybe it was a duck egg or an egg of some other fowl denizen of the Lake. The second object was a mini disco ball about the size of a tennis ball.

an egg and a disco ball...go figure

how did they get there? were they placed there together? What are the chances? Could you ever thought of that combo?

Random Random Random

Honestly

Just was driving back from the airport this morning, or was it afternoon. Anyways, heard an author on the radio, A.M. Holmes I think the name was. She was being interviewed on that show on NPR hosted by Linda Hunt. The author kept beginning sentences with "Honestly..." or "I have to honestly say..."

If she needs to use the word honestly so many times, is she telling thre truth when she does not use it? It's kinda like grocery stores that have healthfood sections. What is the rest of the food then?

digital replacement

Recently I have been seeing more and more people listening to music playing on their cellphones. The sound quality is horrible, but there they are walking along listening to it anyways.

It must be music they have heard before and the badly reproduced digital version of it triggers a memory of the song they know. So in some sense the song they are hearing is in their head not the one coming out of the tiny cellphone speaker.

References is all we have nowadays. Digital music leaving out all the nuances of analog. Protein powder, Cliff Bars and vitamins replacing the complete nutrition humans used to eat. All the anitoxidants etc. continually being "discovered" which were there all along in a balanced diet.

Kinda like pornography. A stimulation that triggers a larger inate response within the human animal. Not the real thing but a reference to it. How much more removed from real experiences and expression are we going to get? To what extent does this reach in our collective psyche? To other people dying (IRAQ). It has definitely infiltrated the food chain. People, myself included, have no appreciation for where MEAT comes from.

It is all so sanitized.

CI class

Hmm....revelation today-you can do what you want but how people respond determines the outcome. If I try to slide but my partner goes with the impulse it is not a slide but a static point moving through space.

You can't always get what you want...Like a CA$H grant, or a residency...

If not me, who? If not, now when?

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Zoos- the few for the many

Went to the Oakland Zoo today. kinda like going to the mall, instead of people watching it's animal watching, which is basically animal watching (unless you don't believe in evolution). But a friend was telling me about a movement that is trying to prevent zoos from restocking their aging animals. Belief is that it is bad for any animal to not be in its natural environment. ( wonder if any of those folk have pets?) But I am sure it sucks to be in the zoo as opposed to the real world. So what is the function of a zoo? Prevention of species depletion, showcasing animals to create empathy in a mostly urban human population, spectacle? so are these people, who are against zoos, doing much to prevent loss of habitat, to prevent species from dying out, to create sympathy for wild animals, in a manner to replace the function of zoos.

Or are zoos just such a horrible place? If they are horrible, but the end result is good-sympathy, awareness etc- is it okay to then sacrifice the few for the many?
Or is that rather Machiavellian(sp?)?

Yahoo! is a bunch of wankers

Well...Yahoo! still hasn't fixed the blog yet. Still an ardous (sp?) route to get to be able to post something. Is it that hard to fix it? Come on people now smile on your brother. Hmm... the r key is better but my typing still sucks. Hot enough for you today? and why will jobs be lost in the US if we curb greenhouse gases? I mean if we make everyone get smaller cars that would mean that we would have to build more cars. And if we revamp the infrastructure ( freeways, highrises vs. single family home) that is a lot of jobs there in rebuilding. Dammit why can't I rule the world? Or at least why can't everyone listen to me?
What this country needs is a few good wars to blow up all the housing so we can build it better. Or maybe not wars but earthquakes/hurricanes etc and clean up the bad housing mess.

So who's with me for a rain dance?

Times Square

God, is it ugly! Talk about the grand temple to American Capitalism. Lights buy shoes watches tours Broadway movies buy. Why didn't Al Qaida hit that instead of the Twin Towers? I think that would have had a stronger affect on tourism etc. I wonder now that I have typed that, Big Brother is going to come after me. Well, at least then someone will have looked at my site.

But to me it seems to actually stop terrorist attacks is pretty hard. Why not prevent the events/situations that lead to the attacks. How about large amounts of water soluble THC in water supplies in tense parts of the world. Then business would increase...more demand for McDonalds and black lights. I mean isn't that what Bush and Co really wants? People fat and happy, too stupid to do anything but consume?

That would be a great movie. Some kids in college make a water soluble form of THC. One of the kids brothers is in the Israeli Army, another kid has family in Palestine. They take the formula/process to Israel, dump some of the product in the water supply. For a week everyone is too stoned to shoot each other. All they want to do is eat, dance, listen to music, have sex...

Consumption and destruction...both the easy thing to do. That is why our country seems to do only those two. Easier to bomb a house than build it. easier to eat a burger, than raise the cow kill it, clean, make the bun etc...

Urinals

Flew to NYC on saturday and used the bathrooms at a couple airports, DC and NYC. Noticed something for the first time though they have always been there. Why the little dividers between urinals?

Is it for splashing? Not sure about that. How many people have that severe of aiming problems? If they are that bad, they probably have problems standing.

Is it for wandering eyes? So you don't look at the Johnson of the guy next to you? Hmm...are you that curious? But then again other people's genitals can be like traffic accidents- you don't wanna look but you just do.

Lake Merritt Wildlife

Lake Merritt is kinda scary. Walking home from BART today by the lake, and saw something moving in it. At first I thought it was a cigarette but being moved by the wind, but then it repeated changed directions. Maybe it is a tadpole- I thought. But it was to colorful to be a tadpole, at least like any one I have ever seen.

The larger hind section was pinkish and rotated around its long axis. The front shorter end was whitish and round. It swirled aimlessly, up and down until it hit the wall and stuck in the algae, feasting it looked like.

I wonder what weirdness lurks at the bottom of our local cesspool, mutated by years of exposure to oil, antifreeze, Cheetos and Gatorade bottles. Is it steril due to birthcontrol hormones washing down drains or overgrown?

Oh, I think the people upstairs are having sex again!