the whole text thing and my life in sound

I escape words every Wednesday.
I've been saying things with sound
that I can't say with words for a long time.
Collectively and individually
I've spent the last 15 or so years
exploring sound,
rhythm, melody,
harmony,
dissonance...
exploring the
power of sound
to say things
there aren't words for...
pushing at the limits of what passes for music
listening to the sounds
not the song
telling each other
telling you
things they'd lock
us away for
if they only understood

look,
i'm not saying we're mystics,
although at times it feels that way,
all i'm saying is I understand
about things beyond words
words in yr mouth
words on the page

but sound is
not image
and they work
wordlessly
in very different ways

to crack the visual code
to build shortcuts in my head
i'll have to do more visual work
and just keep at it
till i'm better
and it works...

R.I.P. Alice Coltrane

via boing boing:



Alice Coltrane, RIP: 1937-2007
The great jazz instrumentalist and widow of John Coltrane died on Friday.













Her Impulse sides are essential.

argh!

I'm a word person,
and as such
I fall prey
to the western
predeliction -
the sacrosanct text

been reading artaud
watching kaufman
and trying desperately
to think in pictures
and arriving only
at process

compositions for actors
where neither the text
nor the pictures are primary
the process is

if the process is good
the pictures
and the text
will work
otherwise
interesting experiment?

best I can do

grrr...

so much to learn
to really pull this
stuff off

i'd bury myself in
work if only I could
continue to eat

reading some
of the Greeks now
thinking of chorus
and poetry
and blood

(later I'll
talk to all
of you about
the power
of liquid
onstage...
let's not
be afraid
to be messy...
I'll scrub the stage
on my knees
every night
if we have to
if we have to
to make things
to make things
work...

some things
should be wet.)


nothing but love
and respect
and the desire
to push through
them both
and do the work
anyway...

and now to bed.

Kid Ornery

365 Days/365 Plays; Jan. 15-21

Subject

365 Days/365 Plays; Jan. 15-21

Body:

I hope to make it every night... you should try to too... I'll be in the show on the 17th. But really from what I've seen I wouldn't miss a one. Date: Jan 10, 2007 3:23 PM Subject 365 Days/365 Plays; Jan. 15-21 Body: Monday - Sunday, January 15 - 21, 8pm, at the Axiom, FREE ADMISSION 365 DAYS/365 PLAYS The most audacious project yet from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog; Fucking A), 365 Days/365 Plays is a simultaneous, national performance collaboration, encompassing over 700 groups and individual artists from New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Atlanta. Background: In November 2002, Parks began writing a play a day for 365 consecutive days. Last year, she and producer Bonnie Metzger invited artists to present a play a day, in exactly the order Parks wrote them. It began November 13, 2006 and will continue through November 12, 2007. Artists sign up to present a week of performances, at which time they receive the plays for that week. The rule: The performances must be presented free of charge to the public. Infernal Bridegroom will participate January 15 - 21, 2007. IBP associate artistic director Troy Schulze is directing the entire week of performances. IBP is the first Houston group to participate. Other local groups, including HSPVA, Mildred's Umbrella, Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theater, Nova Arts Project, DiverseWorks and Galveston's Strand Theater have signed on for other weeks throughout the year. Whole Foods Market is a presenting partner in IBP's week of shows and will be providing free food and drinks from its "365" product line for our audiences. Beer and wine will be for sale at the Axiom bar. Come one night; come every night! Each performance is different, and who knows what will happen! ADMISSION IS FREE For more information: 365 DAYS/365 PLAYS, presented by IBP www.infernalbridegroom.com

Here's more Andy...

Old McDonald

saw this for the first time yesterday...
it makes me terribly happy!

go see Hamlet!

I'm a Hamlet fan...
so normally I wouldn't recommend you go see a production of it...
get yr friends together to read Shakespeare aloud and you'll be better
off than if you go to most productions of his work these days...

but I saw Nova Arts Production
of the thing tonight,
and while I don't agree with
every choice that was made
it was a damned strong show...
fine performances
(Hamlet kicked ass...
fr real...)

staging
combat
video
all great

I think the changes made to the players
diminshes the audiences empathy for
Hamlet and makes him more like
his uncle and father than I'd like him to be

Whenever you cut Hamlet you lose something,
Nova mostly chooses to lose the funny...
which is fine, except it doesn't leave
Polonius too much to do...

I thought the opening was a strong choice
that worked...
and the ghost was great -
provided for some really powerful moments.

overall,
a helluva show,
and I commend 'em for doin' it...
I don't think I could ever cut Hamlet -
the choices would all be too hard for me...

and I recommend ya go see it...
ya can see it for 5 bucks on saturday night if
ya poke around their site and print the coupon...

and after ya see it maybe we can all get together and read it?
whattaya say?

Tonight!

Happy New Year!

Tonight

De Schmog was great...
the bass and drums were loud,
mari pool sounded awesome...
they were funky, and funny,
and fun...

"better luck
better luck next time
john hinckley..."

just maybe...

it is not about atheism, or reptilians...
maybe it is about the monks.

everything is sound...

this about sums it up...

Icke on Wogan

Just finished watching "David Icke - Was He Right?" and had to track this one down...
Wogan tries to get him to the reptiles knowing he won't give him any time to really explain,
just enough to sound ridiculous...
which puts his apology at the beginning in a different light...

where's my rocket car? predictions 2007

via the LATIMES:

"Pop Atheism" might include popular atheist TV and movie characters, professional athletes, political figures, etc. Look for the first billion-dollar IPO for the Web service that gets atheists together for "rituals," dating and political and business networking.


talk about wishful thinking...
Do Penn & Teller count as popular tv characters?

anyway, that bit was from the editor of edge.org
which I am browsing right now...
great atheist resource!

ah hah!

here's to being manipulated by the media machine:

Hello world! Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere!

I am so excited to have my very own page, even if the circumstances are a bit troubling. As you know, Veronica and I have started these blogs because we’re fighting a MAKEOVER planned for us by the Archie Comics Corporate Office. We don’t really know HOW we’re going to fight this change, all I DO KNOW is that we’ll need your help! We’ll keep you posted as we get a bit more organized…

I know just what you mean...

Via Howling Curmudgeons:

In the old Dungeons and Dragons someone once wrote an aritcle about paladins. In it the article contemplated various situations in which a paladin would be forced to kill innocents or the like in a game scenario and ended up saying that a good dungeon master would avoid putting the paladins into such situations to begin with.

Saying that Sue Dibny's getting raped was a bad idea seems to be a criticism on that level. The wife of a leaguer getting raped is simply a situation which should never come up, and since the writers get to make this stuff up, they control whether it does, so they should have known it wasn't a good idea regardless of the skill with which it could be handled and never addressed the scenario in the first place. I can get behind that idea, though it seems to implicate a set of assumptions I would worry about artically. After all, there is a good reason not to publish a comic book wherein a baby is put in a microwave, Kyle Baker as writer or not.

RIP - James Brown

via BoingBoing:

The Godfather of Soul died today. He was 73.

Merry Christmas from The Flash!

Merry Christmas from Emo Boy!