m y l o v e l i e s t

age and annihilation of the physical body …

the struggle for perfection in the absence of completeness

daniel firman 

Chloe, thank you for showing me this photo blog. 

Snoring, language disturbance caused by accidental sleeping, in which a person speaks in compressed syllables and bulleted syntax, often stacking several words over one another in a distemporal deliverance of a sentence. The snoring person can be stuffed with cool air to slow the delivery of its language, but perspiration froths at key points on the hips and back when artificial air is introduced, and thus the sleep becomes sketchy and riddled with noise. It is often best to cull the sleeper forth from static communication by responding to its snores with apneic barks - sounds produced without air. The effect of the barks is to isolate each aspect of the snore sound by slowing down the delivery - riding the sleeper until the snore breaks into separate words. Decoders should sit on the bed and jostle the sleeper’s stomach. This further dispatches the clusters that often form when the sleeper speaks all at once (snores). The decoder is then better able to decipher the word blocks. When analyzed, the messages are often simple. Pull me out, they say, the water has risen to the base of my neck. 

- Ben Marcus “The Age of Wire and String”   

 Cinematic: 

1.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2. Juno
3. Twin Peaks
4. Une Femme est Une Femme

Bibliography:

1.  Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. By Colin MacCabe
2. Empty Words. By John Cage
3. Themes and Variations. By John Cage
4. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. By Anne Friedberg
5. Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 - 1982. By Douglas Fogle

new photo work here

If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend. Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.                                                     - James Joyce, Ulysses

Here are things to talk about other than signs of your existence in scraps of pen and ink:

1. Helnwein.
2. New Claude Chabrol: The Girl Cut in Two. Completely enjoyable.
3. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Halton.
4. Mastering my game.
5. Goodbye.

There are several things that I am absolutely in love with today, including but not limited to: Erwin Wurm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Woah, Sonic Youth. And woah, this band. I am extremely interested in the possibilities of travel via jet plane.

If you were not in attendance for Charlie Deets‘ record release show last night at subterranean… you may want to rethink the way you spend your social time.    

But look, you can watch videos here and oh here and you can buy his record here.

To be worth something or nothing. To create or not to create. In the first case everything is justified. Everything, without exception. In the second case, everything is completely absurd. The only choice then to be made is of the most aesthetically satisfying form of suicide: marriage, and a forty-hour week, or a revolver.    - Albert Camus

m. barney