listening to this week...a new feature!

Aesop Rock Coma
AC/DC For Those About To Rock

A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement
AC/DC Back In Black
A Tribe Called Quest Bonita Applebum/ I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
ABC How To Be A Zillionaire
Aerosmith Greatest Hits
AC/DC Fly On The Wall
Aesop Rock Float
AC/DC High Voltage
Aceyalone Faces
A Tribe Called Quest Scenerio/ Oh My God/ Jazz
ABC The Lexicon Of Love

Omegle conversation log
2010-02-09

1. You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Stranger: Hi
You: i'm not a teen
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


2. You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Stranger: Hey
You: looking for hell
You: 2km?
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

3. You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

Stranger: hallo?
You: yassou!
Stranger: pimwii
You: totes!
Stranger: (what does yassou mean?)
You: gnar-gnar...sort of.
Stranger: iiiiinteresting
You: i know, totally...
Stranger: totes
Stranger: okay okay question
Stranger: what is
Stranger: your favorite
You: uh huh...
Stranger: childhood tv show
Stranger: *was
You: SKATEBOARDING!!!
You have disconnected.

favorite movie of all time at age 14. score scarred me for a long time after.

7 poems from my translation of Demosthenes Agrafiotis's Chinese Notebook as scored by composer Michail Palaiologou (click on image to enlarge)...follow the Readings Response And Reactions To Poetries link for a video of Demosthenes performing the piece with Michail as well as compositional notes...

B. Downing's "Johnny, Oh Johnny"
Part of a quintet of tributes to the great Kishore Kumar on the site, this short combines footage from the 1975 classic "Framed", starring the portly and charismatic Joe Don Baker, with scenes from the 2007 flop "Knowing", featuring a floundering, rescuing Nicolas Cage. Also with short bits from George Pal's early sci-fi classic, 1955's "Conquest of Space". The soundtrack is Kumar's classic opening title song from 1971's "Raja Jani". Editing, remixing and subtitles by Brandon Downing. Premiered on January 16, 2010, at SpaceSpace in Ridgewood, New York, at Poetry Time's showcase of John Sakkis, Niina Pollari, and John Coletti.

Kevin Opstedal with a micro-review of my RAVE ON! and Derek Fenner's Wild Schemes over at Ukulele Feedback, both just out from Lew Gallery!

i wanted this video in black and white letterbox but it was too hard...forgive, i'm really sick, ear infection and sinus infection and state of the union...sabrina calle was dancing with her uncle tonight somewhere not in florida...play both vids at the same time, it's better.

finished Wyndham Lewis's BLAST yesterday. still have no idea what Vorticism is. some of the things i do know about Vorticism don't really point me towards anything useful. i know that Vorticism eschews the romanticism of the past (Impressionism) as much as what Lewis saw as the romanticism of the future (Futurism) ("[Futurism] an accelerated form of Impressionism"-p. 158). you'd think this would point to "the present" as being primary to the Vorticists; e.g., "the new vortex plunges to the heart of the Present" and "with our Vortex the Present is the only active thing." ah yes now i'm starting to get it...but then almost immediately from the same page (p. 147) "there is no Present—there is Past and Future, and there is Art" and "this impure Present our Vortex despises and ignores"...okay...so what the EF? the Future is romantic and fetishized, the Past is romantic and fallacious and the Present is impure and negated. but the present is also "Art" and thus viola, Vorticism! and what the hell am i supposed to make of that? i guess i'm just not at all clear on how Lewis is defining the Present/Art. and BLAST is 160 pages. i feel like i should be a little closer to understanding what the hell Vorticism is all about after 160 pages. any comments would be appreciated. thanks.