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Jeremy Shaw DMT, 2003
‘Jeremy Shaw’s new video installation, DMT, is an intense octagonal space that highlights the disjunctions of social communication. While watching the subjects high on the hallucinogenic drug, DMT, and reading their attempts to describe the out-of-body experience, we become both seduced and repelled by these hyper-real portraits.’
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Nan Goldin Drugs on the Rug. New York City, USA, 2016
Digital print on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte paper
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Matthew Brandt Astronomers on Boat, 2013
cocaine dust on photographer’s velvet
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Etienne O’Leary Homeo, 1967
‘Despite an entire filmography of only three experimental short films, Étienne O’Leary’s work is a vibrant, majestic reflection of late 60s drug culture and avant-garde film techniques, including some pioneering editing tricks that still seem fresh and invigorating today. A 60s French dandy by way of Montreal, O’Leary became intoxicated by the sights and sounds of bohemia and formed an alliance with the Zanzibar Group (his films are populated by French underground luminaries like Pierre Clementi, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, and Michel Auder). A student of the New York underground and surrealism, O’Leary uses a variety of notebook-style shooting, image layering, and fast cutting to capture the era’s heady decadence and political possibilities. Adding to the trippy visuals, O’Leary composed his own singular soundtracks with a myriad of found instruments and tape recorders, a new music genre in and of themselves.’
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Duane Hanson Drug Addict, 1974
‘Hanson’s super lifelike sculpture portrays a male person sitting down and leaning against a wall. His right hand is holding a syringe and just above the left elbow his left arm is tied with a belt. His eyes are shut as he leans against the wall suggesting that he just injected himself with drugs.’
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Carsten Höller Upside Down Mushroom Room, 2000
room with giant, rotating, upside down, imitation fly agaric mushrooms lit from underneath
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Pae White Bugz + Drugs, Command-B, 2017
Cotton, polyester, bugs, drugs, lurex
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Judith Schaechter The Florist, 2015
Stained glass
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Tim Shaw Ketamine, 2011
‘Ketamine recounts a festival scene in which two individuals dressed as elves dance wildly whilst on the powerful mind altering chemical.’
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Bentley Meeker Bongolier, 2015
‘A chandelier made out hand-blown glass marijuana pipes entitled the “Bongolier.”‘
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Nikita Shalennyi Where is your brother?, 2013
photograph
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Joey Robinson Me me me me me, 2016
camera, ketamine, aftereffects
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Fred Tomaselli 15 mg. of Meth Times 2000 Plus, 1998
aquatint photo etching
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Su Hui-Yu Stilnox Stroller, 2011
‘In 2011, Su Hui-Yu, a Taiwanese artist based in Taipei, held an exhibition called Stilnox Stroller. The performance consisted on a party-like setting with music and people acting as if they were really at a party. During the performance, the artist would give the audience some pills (allegedly Stilnox) and talk about the principles of the drug. Then he would encourage them to talk about the side-effects of the pill. All this with the finality of showing the full experience of consuming this drug without a medical purpose. The name of the exhibition, which is a reference to sleepwalking, shows what it’s like to be “awake” and under the effects of a drug that is supposed to numb your brain and force you into sleep mode. This sleep deprivation causes feelings of numbness, which may lead to hallucinations. So, at the end of the day, the exhibition’s aim was to make people experience what it feels like to be in a group of sleepwalkers attending an art opening. So, here’s the video projected at the performance. While it is hard to untangle its meaning, in my opinion it portrays hallucinations and the use of prescribed drugs.’
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Richard Prince Katz + Dogg, 2019
‘Artist Richard Prince has launched a new cannabis line called Katz + Dogg, produced in collaboration with 710 Labs. Prince is the first artist to have his own line of marijuana. The line includes flowers, pre-rolled joints, and vape pens, and will be available at high-end dispensaries around the US. 710 Labs’ Shire, Ice Cream Cake, and OG strains are available. Prince’s famous Hippie Drawings and High Times paintings feature on the packaging.’
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Tom Sachs Bong Hit Station, 2013
‘Tom Sachs’s 2013 video Bong Hit Station provides potential newbies a detailed (and unnecessarily complex) guide to getting stoned.’
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Beejoir A Pill a Day, 2011
Plaster, paint
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Zefrey Throwell Various, 2013
‘Throwell’s father was a lifelong drug addict who died of a meth overdose seven years ago. As part of the original incarnation of his project, Throwell used his father’s ashes and meth, the drug that killed him, to make eight portraits of his dad that spanned the entirety of his life. Sadly, the original portraits were destroyed during last fall’s Hurricane Sandy, along with almost all the art Throwell made in the previous two years. For his current show, Throwell’s mother offered her son her share of his father’s ashes which he combined with a new supply of meth.’
“Douglas Throwell #9, 7 Years Old”
“Douglas Throwell #10, 20 Years Old”
“Douglas Throwell #12, 32 Years Old”
“Douglas Throwell #13, 44 Years Old”
“Douglas Throwell #16, 59 Years Old”
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Steven Shearer David’s Hollow Body, 2020
Ink and acrylic on poly canvas
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InsaneTop10 Tripping Balls, 2019
‘Leeds Fest, defqon 1, mysteryland, Rate My Gurn, Creamfields, Parklife, Gurn, MDMA, leeds fest spotted, Gurn Face, Ugly Gurn, psychedsubstance, drugslab, cocaine, amphetamine, dmt, ayahuasca, tripping balls, rolling mdma, rave, techno, creamfields 2017, creamfields 2018, creamfields 2019, defqon 1 2018, defqon 1 2019’
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Simon Blackmore LSD Drive, 2006
‘Blackmore’s custom-built LSD Drive is able to interpret lost data on apparently useless CDs, and process it using a program written in the Open Source software, SuperCollider. Light Sensitive Disk Drive is a fully functioning prototype hardware/software product that explores ideas of technological progress, technological waste and its environmental impact. CDs in various states of degradation can be played on the drive to produce different sounds from the lost areas of data.’
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Julie Favreau Anomalies, 2012
‘For her 2012 installation, Anomalies, Julie Favreau took as inspiration a Soviet-era novella about science gone awry, but then utterly transformed it into a series of hallucinogenic scenarios with enigmatic objects, to “suggest parables about the judicious use of knowledge and technology, and about personal discipline and mindfulness”.’
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Arturo Ramirez Space Cocaine Nudes #R56, 2019
Painting – Oil On Velvet
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Chris Burden Coals to Newcastle, 1978
‘Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico are actually the same city separated by a tall steel and barbed wire fence demarcating the international border between the U.S.A. and Mexico. On the morning of December 17, standing on the American side of the border, I flew a small rubber band powered model airplane over the fence into Mexicali, Mexico. From each wing of the plane, like a miniature bomb, hung a cigarette of the finest seedless marijuana, ‘sinsemilla’ grown in California.The plane bore the following inscriptions: Hecho en U.S.A. (‘Made in U.S.A.’), Fumenlos Muchachos (‘Smoke it, kids’) and Topanga Typica (‘typical Topanga’).’
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Haroon Mirza ããã, 2016
‘Developed during a two-month residency in São Paulo, captured images and sounds from the city combine as four videos and eight channels of electric signal visualised through strips of LED light and heard via an array of speakers all in synchronization. The videos reflect on a heady mix of entheogens (plants that have psychedelic properties like the ones used in Ayahuasca) and developments in physics and cosmology, while the overall experience of the work collectively creates a mesmerizing visual and aural effect.’
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Sergio Garcia Various, 2014 – 2017
‘Garcia has created a large body of work examining the way weed is perceived in pop culture. At international street art festival POW! WOW! Hawaii, Garcia created a series of wall-mounted ashtrays replete with burning joints adhered to their insides. His latest is a model of Action Bronson’s tattooed forearms dabbing. Bronson’s arms join Garcia’s repertoire of celebrity replicas that also includes Future counting cash and pouring lean out of a Sprite bottle. Garcia is a self-taught artist who came into the contemporary art world from the street art scene and painting motorcycles. He mostly smokes socially, but admits, “it helps a lot with my creative process.” He went from smoking every day in high school to indulging in an edible at the occasional concert in a curve that seems to correlate with his success in the contemporary art scene. That growth is reflected in his plans for 4/20 this year. “I’m not sure yet,” he tells Creators. “I was planning on going to LA. But I may have to just stay in the studio.”‘
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Ann Veronica Janssens Donut, 2003
‘The viewer is assaulted with a succession of vividly colored, concentric circles that flash up on a large screen and trigger weirdly long-lived retinal afterimages.’
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Karpo Godina The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk, 1970
‘The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk features the Slovenian poets who constituted a collective called Pupilia Ferkeverk. The movie opens with a shot of a woman on a swing, shot at different times of day and night, and in different weather. When we think, after a minute or two, that we are going to see nothing else, other characters suddenly interject themselves, standing naked or nearly naked in the water, miming different stages of life and politics, using symbolism so abstract as to be meaningless were it not for the captions that are in Slovene and are not translated into English. The characters all conclude that the universal solution is to take LSD.’
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Chantal Joffe My 11 year old son high on heroin at his birthday party, 2017
Painting
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Ghislaine Leung Shrooms, 2016
‘Every visible unused socket within an exhibition to be filled with a mushroom nightlight and plug adapter.’
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik Random Darknet Shopper, 2015
‘The “automated online shopping bot” was set up in October last year by Swiss art group, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, as an art installation to explore the “dark web”—the hidden, un-indexed part of the Internet. Each week, the robot was given $100 worth of Bitcoin— the major hard-to-trace cryptocurrency—and programmed to randomly purchase one item from Agora, an online marketplace on the dark web where shoppers can buy drugs and other illegal items. The items were automatically delivered to a Swiss art gallery called Kunst Halle St Gallen to form an exhibition.
‘The robot was christened “Random Darknet Shopper” and its purchases included a Hungarian passport, Ecstasy pills, fake Diesel jeans, a Sprite can with a hole cut out in order to stash cash, Nike trainers, a baseball cap with a hidden camera, cigarettes and the “Lord of the Rings” e-book collection.
‘Perhaps unsurprisingly, the robot and his artistic creators had a run in with the law. In January 2015, the Swiss police confiscated the robot and its illegal purchases. However, three months later, the Random Darknet Shopper was returned to the artists, along with all its purchases except the Ecstasy (also known as MDMA) tablets, which were destroyed by the Swiss authorities.’
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Elke Andreas Boon Train, 2000
‘Point of view of a train passenger. Looking through the window of the train you can see the landscape. A teenaged boy dressed as a girl jumps away from the rails, runs towards the train and rants and raves with large gestures. You can’t hear him. As the train moves on the scolding boy-girl disappears out of sight.’
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Hugo Badger Nose Roomba, 2009
sculpture, motor, white powder
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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Bright White Underground, 2010
‘For “Bright White Underground,” Freeman and Lowe imagined the Buck House, Rudolf Schindler’s architectural landmark which is situated a few blocks from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as a sort of LSD safe house of the variety that the C.I.A. maintained when covertly testing the hallucinogenic substance in the 1950s. In Freeman and Lowe’s constructed narrative, Marasa, a drug modeled after LSD, was being developed by a certain Dr. Arthur Cook through the Vortice Institute, his psychoanalytic practice. Marasa, Haitian for the sacred twins of voodoo, alludes to the doubling effect of their novel hallucinogen: being high on the drug resulted in seeing your alter ego. Bright White Underground builds upon the artists’ dimensional narrative universe, which involves a wide variety of social and historical environments such as secret uptown societies, clandestine meth labs, and abandoned hippie communes, among others. The themes central to their work are specifically alchemy in a modern context and community, ritual and psychosis.’
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p.s. Hey. ** David, We had a 10 minute storm the other night, but otherwise it’s still as Evian outside (but without the water). Glad you liked the Cornell. Hope your weekend is fortuitous. ** Maria, Isabella, Camila, Malaria, Gabriela, My pleasure! ** Verity Pawloski, Hi. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Understood about the Play Therapy skip, of course. Thank you for the track, which I will listen to with fondness. I love that ‘Naked City’ record. ** David Ehrenstein, I will celebrate your b’day a little late by seeing what ‘Oh Diogenes!’ is all about. Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein points us at the film ‘East of Borneo’ which was an inspiration for Joseph Cornell’s great film ‘Rose Hobart’ as seen here yesterday. Check it. ** Misanthrope, Always happy to be a fount. Autocorrect just changed ‘fount’ to ‘font’, which I’m happy to be too. Being a lifelong atheist, Hell and God and all those types of things are just fuzzy metaphors to me. Right, Presidents’ Day. I wonder if there’s anyone in the USA who actually thinks about them on that day? I guess no. My weekend has potential. Yours? ** Dominik, Hi, pal!!! Mm, I just read handful of books that’ll show up in a ‘book I loved’ post very soon. I’m just about to start reading John Waters’ novel. And the new issue of a lit. magazine called ‘Logue’ that someone sent to me. I’ve never read Augusten Burroughs, I don’t know why. I know of the book, and, yeah, the title does portend darkness, so … huh. I’ll try to check it out. Right, I forgot your mom is a ceramicist, and a very good one if I remember your share of her work correctly. Ha ha, please thank your love for his serenade, and especially thank him that it sounded like Eiffel 65’s ‘Blue’ and not Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ since just hearing even a few seconds of her miserable songs and singing makes me want to tear my ears off. My love being chased through the streets by thousands of hysterical, fanatical, pitchfork wielding Joni Mitchell fans who read my blog today and blame my love for my Joni Mitchell besmirching until your love suddenly opens a street-level door and says ‘psst’ and then waves me inside to safety, G. ** Bill, Yes, thank you, Matthew Suss, wherever you may be. I might be remembering wrong, but I think Matthew Suss is the brother of Matmos’s Drew Daniel. Weekend away from the assigned work swamp, I hope, sir? ** JM, Hi, J! Mm, I definitely see the blog as a complicated and layered construction, but I don’t think about it in terms of my work or myself other than me being the obvious resource. Heck, I don’t even think about my fiction that way. I’m a pretty unselfconscious person, I guess. The blog is more a curatorial art project or something to me. My world? Waiting to be able to make the new film, starting to work on developing/ finishing the Haunt/videogame project, working on some fiction, trying to enjoy good old life. I know you’re headlong into some impending theater thing unless I misread your recent FB post. Oh, great, I’m so happy you like ‘Eat When You Feel Sad’! I love that book. I really wanted to publish it in my Little House on the Bowery series, but Melville House wanted it, and I couldn’t compete with that. Sorry you’re feeling in the doldrums, man. At least you have a couple of big publications on the immediate horizon. But, yeah, the stuck inbetween times are the ultimate worst. Great to see you! ** Steve Erickson, God fucking knows what Anger would have done with ‘Closer’, which was the excitement, although, yeah, I think there’s almost nothing in his post-‘Lucifer Rising’ work that isn’t truly awful. He seemed to just completely lose it after that. ** l@rst, Hey, L! Yep, yep, I’m there. Although I don’t know that bio. Although I’ll endeavour to change that. Did you have a heck of a weekend? ** Brian, Hey, Brian. Oh, that wasn’t the moment in ‘Salo’ I was thinking of. Interesting. I think I was thinking of that moment just before they gouge one boy’s eye out. I think I was misremembering his grimace as a grin. Fine line there sometimes. I haven’t seen ‘The Blues Brothers’ since it came out, but I was extremely not charmed by it. I’m more of a ‘Young Frankenstein’ kind of guy. Surely your neighbor isn’t nosey enough to have opened a package addressed to someone else or else is secretly into S&M if they did. I hope you’re in the clear. I’m finally going to see ‘Moonfall’ in a couple of hours, whoo hoo (maybe)! Steer clear of falling moons this weekend, man. ** Right. I made you one of my thematic things for the weekend, and there you go. See you on Monday.
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Hey Dennis. Hope all is well with you. I really like the bowl of pills. You did a post a year or so ago, which may have been restored, Pills. It was one of my favs,
My editor and I have finished editing my book and I’m hoping to have galleys soon. When it is ready I would like to send you a copy as a thank you for yr support and encouragement.
Caio, Ian
Hi!!
Ah, you already have your copy of “Liarmouth”! It’s right on my list as well. I’ll be excited to share thoughts! ‘til then, I can say that “Running with Scissors” is worth a read. It’s not at all making fun of the author’s experiences, it’s just not a “sob story” – I expected more sobbing, on his part or mine. I appreciate the way it was written.
Ah, thank you! I’m biased, of course, but I do think my mom’s really good at what she’s doing.
Hahaha, oh no, I saw that fanatical mob so vividly. My love’s happy to be of service! Love whose entire life could be summed up by the sentences “A teenaged boy dressed as a girl jumps away from the rails, runs towards the train and rants and raves with large gestures. You can’t hear him.”, Od.
“The Boys From Syracuse” is a musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” It was first produced in 1938, then revived off-brodway to great success in 1963. It’s big hot song was “This Can’t Be Love”
“Oh Diogenes” was a featured number that was used both within the show and for its finale. It’s lyrics speak to me. But then Larry Hartalways has. Short, alcoholic and bipolar he briefly had an affair with one of my favorite film directors, Charles Walters. But alashe wasn’t cut out for relationships of any duration.
The 60’s was my drug-taking era. Not terribly adventurous I must say. Quite liked Opium. Pot puts he to sleep. Had too much to do to sleep. I do, however, repect certqin heroin addicts — primarily Tim Hardin and Nico.
I was prescribed anti psychotics years and years ago, I was on them for about 8 months, after I stopped taking them, I still had to pretend I was on them for about a year… a couple of times in a tempter I took a who bunch of them… roughly 17….. the effects of taking 17 Olanzapine tablets was demented… I was in bed and thought I’ll get up and go to the toilet, as real as if I had…. then I came back and got into bed… then I opened my eyes and I realised I hadn’t even left the bed… this happened a few times… when I say real i mean REAL… you need to take about 100 to die… I didn’t know that at the time….
Of course I’ve taken LSD… speed etc….
my worst ever acid trip… doesn’t come anywhere close to when I fell ill, back in 2004…. and hallucinated every day for 4-5 months…
the storm ended in London… in the Uk… it was actually throwing folk to the ground… I suppose you’ve seen all that coming from the US???
oh… I’ve sent for ‘Like cattle towards the glow’ on DVD… from ebay… looking forward to getting it….
xx
Dennis, This is actually a really great post. You know, the main reason I don’t do drugs, other than having so many lives destroyed with them, is that I really just can’t handle them and I go fucking batshit crazy on them (this includes alcohol) and I hate getting out of my head and losing control like that. My losing control is just…not good for anyone. Also, like with that first DMT one, I hate the thought of looking like any of those, hahaha.
Well, what’s funny about religion, including mine, Christianity, is that all these stories and spiritual texts were originally all storied and myths and parables and were told/taught as such. The literal interpretation(s) of the Bible and other texts is a quite recent thing (that I think has ruined religion). So yeah, your atheist mind, imo, is approaching the ideas in the correct way, as opposed to someone who is a true believer and takes all that stuff literally.
You know, I think this weekend, knock on wood (I always jinx myself, damn it, hahaha), is looking like it’s very promising. Lots of things I want to do. That I have to do. Once I get my errands and shit out of the way this morning, it should be pretty smooth sailing. The only caveat is…you guessed it…David. Who knows what he’ll bring? I told him yesterday, “Do not fuck up my 3-day weekend…again!”
I doubt anyone thinks about any president on President’s Day. At all. The good thing is that most of my co-workers took Friday off or most of Friday and I had a really slow day going into this weekend. That was a relief.
The nose Roomba is hilarious! Love the mushroom nightlights.
Got my copy of Joel Lane’s Blue Mask. There’s your blurb in the back!
The weekend should be rather less swampy. We’ll see what trouble I get into.
Bill
Dennis my very dear friend,
I am once taking shrooms,
It was a very hot balmy day,
and I spotted a man in a wheel chair at the Botanical garden centre,
He looked very nice, although with slight features of a rabbit,
Then, I walked and walked and everywhere I went he was a there,
Oh god,
I am telling you this now,
I walked for as much as 2 miles and he was everywhere I went,
it was a horrendous,
Then Coops eventually after an hour and another hour,
I worked it a out,
I had been circling him,
Maria, Isabella, Camila, Malaria, Gabriela never did mushrooms again after this,
I go
I felt like I came down with the flu today, took a home COVID test, and it came out positive. I feel pretty crappy right now, but not the point where I think I need medical aid, and I just made arrangements to get groceries delivered. I’m having a hard time thinking straight, so I’ll just try to relax, to the extent that it’s possible, for the period when I’m sick and need to quarantine.
Huh never seen that Chantal Joffe painting before and it’s a good one!
Here in the UK we’re getting wracked by Storm Eunice (strange name) so I’ve just staying indoors watching the weekend’s football. Later today Leeds United will play our arch rivals Man U. Right now I worry about for us not salvaging our season, but here’s hoping that Bielsa can prove me wrong.
Update: we lost the game 4-2 but played well, I still have hope.
I ONCE TOOK A BIGHT OF A DISCO BISCUIT AND BECAME A FLEA IN A FLEA CIRCUS, SOON I WAS REVERED BY ALL THE OTHER FLEAS FOR THE TRICKS I PERFOMED, I RAN THE BIG WHEEL, RODE THE PENNY FARTHING AND CLIMBED THE HIGH WIRE.
WHEN THE DRUG WORE OFF, I CAME AROUND AT THE BACK OF A BUS GARAGE.
I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO GET BACK TO THAT PARTY BUT THEY WON’T LET ME BACK IN.
PEACE X
Love is The Drug
Hey Dennis,
I love the video portraits, the DMT ones that are first up and the Tripping Balls anthologies. It’s the way, I dunno, especially with the DMT work they have the text and the face that are both trying but completely failing to convey the ‘profundity’ (whatever that is) and looking pathetic. I don’t like that pathetic has become synonymous with laughable, even though I think a lot of people who haven’t had drug experiences would laugh at it. Nose Roomba is pretty fucking great too. So is Stilnox Stroller. Damn, I keep scrolling back up to check the titles of works and seeing all the others that were worthy of note.
I see the weekend has ticked over into Friday – did you get up to anything sweet? Here I have the house to myself, my landlady having gone off to her second home in the mountains somewhere, and whilst she’s away I have claimed the front room as a temporary studio to work on my music. I’ve been drawing up a new setup that would allow me to route live voice and guitar through the program I use to do my noise stuff, so I can mould and morph the balance of each element in real time. At the moment it’s quite cumbersome because I have to click through multiple windows on my laptop in order to control everything, but I think with a small mixing panel it should become really streamlined and responsive and playable. I think it’s gonna take my work to a new place and even though it might take some time to put together the release I have in my mind, I’m really excited for it and it’s a lovely feeling.
Gonna wish you a Monday that’s like the sound I’m hearing right now, which happens to be one of my favourites, and that’s the sound of medium-strong winds and spattering rain outside shuttered windows, xT
You really do not need drugs ‘Just day No!’ ….and Dennis you might want to think about giving up smoking as well! Just a thought!
Positively brilliant post as usual ten out of ten!
pleasant listening! rock your socks off to this by The Duran Duran ‘White lines’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4f62bYAcw
Hey, Dennis,
Adore that Shearer photograph—with a beautiful title to boot. And the Shalennyi and Throwell are wonderful too; the latter is particularly indelible. Oh yeah, I know the bit in “Salò” you’re talking about. What happens is that the magistrate bends over and whispers something to the boy—which we don’t hear, of course—and whatever he says makes the boy smile, and then there’s the eye-gouging, etc. It’s possible that that’s a goof on the boy’s part, but given the emphasis Pasolini lends the interaction, I assume it’s intentional. Either way it’s one of the freakiest moments in the film to me. I’ll take “Young Frankenstein” over “The Blues Brothers” any day. Man, I really need to rewatch that (the former). My neighbor held my package hostage for all of Saturday before suddenly and abruptly leaving it on our doorstep this afternoon. Weird. It was unopened, at least. Your seeing “Moonfall” is my most anticipated event of the weekend. What did you think?? Me and my friends are eagerly awaiting the full report. Love it or hate it, may it have proved a particularly shiny gem in a hopefully studded weekend.
Dennis, long time no speak, what’s new? I’ve been very busy lately, finally have time to come back here because I’m quarantined with quite mild COVID. @Steve Erickson get well soon!
As someone who writes instruction manuals for a living I got a kick out of the bong station instruction video. It was fun to see the artistic potential of robot vacuums realized as a Nose.
I’m excited to be moving to what’s commonly held to be the coolest neighborhood in Tel Aviv. It’s bohemian, grungy yet livable. In a grueling rental market I managed to find a small one-bedroom adjacent to what’s basically my private furnished roof. I move there in two weeks. It also worked out well that I’m buying lots of furniture from the guy I’m replacing and selling lots to the guy who’s replacing me, so the move will be relatively easy.
Here’s a walking tour of the neighborhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSXmGMgTyc&ab_channel=DiscoveringIsrael
Hey Dennis, my first time writing here, just watched O’Leary’s Homeo, I love Jonas Mekas and it reminded me of his later 90s stuff. It’s crazy how time and memory and things change the more you go on associating them to other times, experiences, outside influences, etc. Like personal history is no longer personal at a certain point. It’s kind of hard to describe the emotion that makes you feel when it’s happening though. Homeo made me think of what it’s like to visualize those memories and experiences compounding on eachother. I’d love any similar film recommendations you might have to offer, the more obscure the better. Have a good night.
-Brandon