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Spotlight on … Christopher Knowles Typings (1979) *

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‘In The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat<https://denniscooperblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=138385&action=edit#edit_timestamp/i> (1985) neurologist Oliver Sacks describes a case in which he studied the reaction of patients with aphasia and agnosia to a televised address by the late ‘Great Communicator’ Ronald Reagan. Unable, owing to their brain disorders to process the president’s words, but acutely attuned to the phony intonation and affected cadence of his voice, the aphasiacs collapsed with mirth. Conversely, an agnosiac patient, keyed-in to the speech but not its delivery, commented blankly that Reagan ‘didn’t speak good prose’. …

‘Christopher Knowles’ peculiar plastic management of words is the consequence of neurological damage he sustained before birth, which led to a form of autism. A self-taped recording of his speech-poems brought him, as a teenager in 1973, to the attention of the theatre and opera director Robert Wilson, and he has acted in and contributed dialogue to many performances since then. …

‘(In Knowles’ works) standard white stationery and long sheets of rice paper become settings for typed pictograms of alarm clocks, a window, a space needle and chequerboard patterns, all made up of accumulations of the letter ‘C’, Knowles’ first initial. His ‘typings’ show a preoccupation with repetition, permutation and seriality – qualities so dear to classic Minimalist art. Yet Knowles’ favoured formats in these typed works are music charts, where titles and careers are restacked and resculpted in permutations according to popular or personal whim. …

‘Knowles’ ‘typings’ build up words and phrases into intricate multi-coloured patterns using an electric typewriter. He is best known for his ‘typings’ of the 1970s and 80s, text-based pieces that were developed as a private pastime. The exceptional ability in mathematical organisation revealed in these works is a characteristic by-product of the autism which Knowles was diagnosed as a child. The works were created on an electric typewriter, using red, black and green inks.’ — Max Andrews, Frieze

 

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Visual Works

 

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Further

Christopher Knowles @ Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Christopher Knowles works @ MoMA
Christopher Knowles @ Berlin Biennale
Audio: Robert Wilson + Christopher Knowles read from ‘A Letter to Queen Victoria: The Sundance Kid is Beautiful’
Chris Goode’s ‘YEAH BOOM!: A Christopher Knowles Reader’
The Robert Wilson Website
Jeffrey Kastner on Christopher Knowles @ Artforum
Christopher Knowles @ Joe Brainard’s Pajamas
Calvin Tompkins ‘Tempted’ @ The New Yorker
Buy Christopher Knowles’ book ‘Drawings’
Download Christopher Knowles’ ‘Typings’

 

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Motion


from Christopher Knowles/Robert Wilson ‘A Letter f0r Queen Victoria’


Robert Wilson reads 5 poems by Christopher Knowles


Christopher Knowles – The Sundance Kid Is Beautiful – Rehearsal Footage


Christopher Knowles – February 16th, 2013 – Gavin Brown’s enterprise

 

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References

‘Christopher Knowles, at the age of nineteen, without exactly meaning to, has become a major figure of the New York avant-garde. Christopher has the ability to conceive of his works in minute detail before executing them. There is nothing accidental in the typed designs and word lists; they fill their preordained places as accurately as though they had spilled out of a computer. This pure conceptualism, which others have merely approximated using mechanical aids, is one reason that so many young artists have been drawn to Christopher’s work.’ — John Ashbery

‘In early 1973 a man named George Klauber, who had been one of my professors at Pratt Institute, gave me an audio tape he thought might interest me. At the time I was beginning work on a theatre piece called The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin. . . . I was fascinated. The tape was entitled Emily Likes the TV. On it a young man’s voice spoke continuously creating repetitions and variations on phrases about Emily watching the TV. I began to realize that the words flowed to a patterned rhythm whose logic was self-supporting. It was a piece coded much like music. Like a cantata or fugue it worked with conjugations of thoughts repeated in variations; these governed by classical constructions and a pervasive sense of humor. The effect was at once inspiring and charming. I was impressed and called George to ask who had made the tape. . . . It was arranged that Chris could come and live with me. We became collaborators and friends. He co-authored a show called A Letter for Queen Victoria and performed it throughout Europe and New York. In subsequent years we continued to work together. Chris would co-author pieces and his texts would appear in works such as the opera Einstein on the Beach … I am forever fascinated by the decisions Chris is able to make while maintaining control over a continuous and elegant line. He has a unique ability to create a language that’s immediately discernable. Yet once he has invented his verbal or visual language, he destroys the code to begin anew. His art holds the excitement of molecular reaction. His product is constantly genuine and always a reflection of his own imagination, humor and good will.’ — Robert Wilson

 

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Christopher Knowles, ‘The Typing Poems’

Recorded at Gavin Brown’s enterprise on March 22, 2015 on the occasion of Christopher Knowles’ performance for his exhibition 12 Large Typings.

Side A: Nadia Witte, HOUSE, 2011
Side B: ©Brinkhoff/Moegenburg, Rehearsal for Robert Wilson’s Parzival, 1987

Edition of 250

 

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YEAH BOOM!: A Christopher Knowles Reader
Camden People’s Theatre, London, January 2006
by Harry Gilonis

 

“I went to the window and wanted to draw the earth” – a note on Christopher Knowles

I feel the earth move
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around

(Carole King)

1979: a stylus descends on a gramophone record. “I feel the earth move under my feet. Ifeel tumbling down tumbling down”. As time passes it is more and more evidently not Carole King: “I feel it Some ostriches are a like into a satchel. Some like them. I went to the window and wanted to draw the earth”. It is in fact Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, incorporating texts such as this by Christopher Knowles, active as a poet, librettist and artist since the 1970s. Decidedly sidelined at that time, it was sometimes said that he was ‘brain-damaged’; more recently the term ‘autistic’ has been employed. In this light it is I think more productive to think of his work not as some language analogue of the (fascinating) paintings done by gorillas and chimpanzees, but as the product of a different way of being human, of making sense of the world, from that of the statistical majority of this audience – the “Neurologically Typical”. ‘Our’ way of processing data and making sense is just one of a range of options; just as autism has a ’spectrum’, is a range of conditions rather than one single state.

Knowles is, if autistic, certainly high-functioning, and his texts seem to me (I’m no expert) to work in two ways. There are attempts to make sense of a heavily impinging world – the “earth” outside the “window” – by finding in its barrage of stimuli patterns, which reassure by proposing regularity and predictability; as in the short piece that runs “WE SING A SONG // WE SANG A SONG // WE SUNG A SONG // BREAKFAST”. Hence John Ashbery could write of Knowles becoming a major avant-garde figure “without exactly meaning to”.

Contrariwise there are attempts to make satisfying patterns oneself, as in the ‘Sundance Kid’ material, which works with incrementally tiny fragments of the actual. Chris Goode’s performances of this have entirely satisfied me that these lingusistic amino acids can recombine; life made outside a language-lab. Another high-functioning autist, Temple Grandin, writes that “lots of little details, pieced together, make a concept”. Certainly there’s a poetry in Knowles’s recombining RNA from Labelle, David Cassidy, or Barry White, which it is hard to credit their lyricists with intending. “I feel the earth move.” I’m not sure there’s any point in trying to discriminate between attempts to reassure oneself or activities with a higher quotient of the evidently ‘aesthetic’. It has been argued by fundamentalist Freudian art-critics that we delude ourselves; we deal here, too, with points on a scale, not radically differing states of affairs. If this line of Knowles’s, “Voulez cuves deliu moussa cutswa cera”, looks at first sight like Schwitters or Isidore Isou, it isn’t any less fascinating viewed as an attempt by a non-Francophone to take Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir from the radio. Much of Knowles’ work is directly comparable; not English as a foreign language, but his world, despite being English-speaking, being evidently foreign. Whereas – to cite another gramophone record – Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room is intended by its composer to “s-s-s-sssmooth out” the irregularities of his speech, Knowles, more radically, presents the enormities of ours back to us. Whether or not one finds ‘art’ therein is almost beside the point; Christopher Knowles is a visiting anthropologist, whose reports we are lucky enough to be able to see and hear.

 

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Book

Christopher Knowles Typings
Vehicle Editions

‘Brilliantly mad innovations on the typewriter. Paraphrases of pop songs with rhythmic repetitions, onomatopoeia, and shifting meanings, plus a play in 7 short acts, type-patterned pages, notes to friends and more. Language is shattered and restructured into something more direct. Exceptionally handsome book design. Knowles’ ‘typings’ build up words and phrases into intricate multi-coloured patterns using an electric typewriter. Christopher Knowles was born 1959 in New York, where he still lives.’ — Printed Matter


 

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Excerpts

I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE

I feel the earth move… I feel the tumbling down tumbling down… There was a judge who
like puts in a court. And the judge have like in what able jail what it could be a spanking. Or a
whack. Or a smack. Or a swat. Or a hit.
This could be where of judges and courts and jails. And who was it.
This will be doing the facts of David Cassidy of were in this case of feelings.
That could make you happy. That could make you sad. That could
make you mad. Or
that could make you jealous. So do you know a jail is. A court and a judge could
do this could be like in those green Christmas Trees. So Santa Claus has about
red. And now the Einstin Trail is like in Einstine on the Beach. So this will.
So if you know that fafffffffff facts. So this what happen what I saw in. Lucy or
a kite. You raced all the way up.This is a race. So this one will have eight in
types into a pink rink. So this way could be very magic. So this will be like to
Scene women comes out to grab her. So this what She grabbed her. S if you lie on
the grass. So this could be where if the earth move or not. So here we go.
I feel the earth move under my feet. I feel tumbling down tumbling down. I feel if
Some ostriches are a like into a satchel. Some like them. I went to the window
and wanted to draw the earth. So David Cassidy tells you when to go into this on
onto a meat. So where would a red dress. So this will get some gas. So this could
This would be some all of my friends. Cindy Jay Steve Julia Robyn Rick Kit and
Liz. So this would get any energy. So if you know what some like into were. So…
So about one song.
I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE
CAROLE KING
So that was one song this what it could in the Einstein On The Beach with a trial
to jail. But a court were it could happen. So when David Casidy tells you all
of you to go on get going get going. So this one in like on WABC New York…
JAY REYNOLDS from midnight to 6 00.
HARRY HARRISON
So heres what in like of WABC…….
JAY REYNOLDS from midnight to 6 AM
HARRY HARRISON from 6 AM to L
I feel the earth move from WABC…
JAY REYNOLDS from midnight to 6 AM.
HARRY HARRISON from 6 AM to 10 AM.
RON LUNDY from 10 AM to 2 PM.
DAN INGRAM from 2 PM to
So this can misteaks try it aga9…
JAY REYNOLDS from midnight to 6 AM.
HARRY HARRISON from 6 AM
This could be true on WABC.
JAY REYNOLDS froj
This can be wrong.
This would WABC.
JAY REYNOLDS from midnight to 6 AM.
HARRY HARRISON from 6 AM to 10 AM.
RON LUNDY from 10 AM to 2 PM.
DAN INGRAM from 2 PM to 6 PM.
GEORCE MICHAEL from 6 PM to 10 PM.
CHUCK LEONARD from 10 PM to midnight.
JOHNNY DONOVAN from 10 PM to 3 AM.
STEVE-O-BRION from 2 PM to 6 PM.
JOHNNY DONOVAN from 6 PM to 10 PM.
CHUCK LEONARD from 3 AM to 5 AM.
JOHNNY DONOVAN from 6 PM to 10 PM.
STEVE-O-BRION from 4 30 AM to 6 AM
STEVE-O-BRION from 4 30 AM to 6 AM
JOHNNY DONOVAN from 4 30 AM to 6 AM

 

HOW COULD I SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO YOU

If you know this thing in true. It would be very strange. If you know. If it to know.
On the suit for your kingdom for real ghost throat, if you know, if it is it.
If you say Hi.
If I know that in since we off to the heat to hot too hot to keep us warm.
How could I send my message and your message to you in this how is done for this.
How could I send my of this.
How could I send your messag.

 

THE MORNING HAS BEEN BROKEN

The morning has been broken life for on for real.
If it was deeper life for fun. It was to heavy in like that to be so good on the hills.
If it was a scale in like standing up, it was clever off to the ground in this calls for help.
If I am late for excuses to be. It could be a reason.
On to the dry skin.
The morning has been broken life for on for real.
If it was deeper life for fun. It was to heavy in like that be so good on the hills/
If it was a scale in like standing up, it was clever off to the ground in this calls for help.
If I am late for excuses to be. It could be a reason.
On to the dry skin.
The morning has been broken life for on for real.

 

RADIOS FOR FUN

In the town in which radios in this to know. Be sure to do this.
In the red van of all of those stuff,
masks of those could it self. In viting the whole friends.
On to the table.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
In the town in which radios in this to know. Be sure to do this.
In the red van of all of those stuff,
masks of those could it self. In viting the whole friends.
On to the table.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.
Radios for fun to roast in those plates.,, radios for fun to listen with bo th radios,,…

 

MR BOJAGLES

So uh this is abut the uh things on the table
so this one will be counting up
If you see any of those baggy pants, chuck the hills
And if somehody asked him, it was trees

the uh scarf of where in black and white
that this one will be sittin’
this about the uh things on the table
this will be counting up

so uh uh this is about the uh things on the table
the uh scarf of where in black and white
that this one is sittin’
this is about the uh things that were
If you see any of those, then this could be one of them
so stop here so stop this so look here
so this is written
Hey Mr Bojangles
Hey Mr Bojangles
Hey Mr Bojangles
so this could be the one that was
so if you see this one, then…

Gun gun gun gun
Hey Mr Bojangles
Hey Mr Bojangles
Hey Mr Bojangles
Christopher Knowles bank robbery
so if you know
bank robbery bank robbery bank robbery is punishable by
20 years in federal prison so this is written
so if you know this is one so so look here
so Christopher Knowles and
the Beatles
so so

 

YOU KNOW THAT

You know that.
It was a cow who has milk to drink into the crane.
It was a frame picture, in since when you see like that.
The thing is the choice of those things happens then.
In televisions ver into that.
You know that.
It was a cow who has milk to drink into the crane.
It was a frame picture, in since when you see like that.
The thing is the choice of those things happens then.
In televisions ver into that.

 

PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM

I used to be a boat rower in times in dreams at least to be freaky. Be on your on.
So turn off your taperecorder off and go to sleep. So that why we call so.
Like bad mad sad but you shold be glad to be proud of you.
So this won’t wreck and destroy your things to be.
So if your actress no behave to be so.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom. But when you’re with my Daddy never is.
I used to be a boat rower in times in dreams at least to be freaky. Be on your on.
So turn off your taperecorder off and go to sleep. So that why we call so.
Like bad mad sad but you shold be glad to be proud of you.
So this won’t wreck and destroy your things to be.
So if your actress no behave to be so.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom. But when you’re with my Daddy never is.
I used to be a boat rower in times in dreams at least to be freaky. Be on your on.
So turn off your taperecorder off and go to sleep. So that why we call so.
Like bad mad sad but you shold be glad to be proud of you.
So this won’t wreck and destroy your things to be.
So if your actress no behave to be so.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom. But when you’re with my Daddy never is.
I used to be a boat rower in times in dreams at least to be freaky. Be on your on.
So turn off your taperecorder off and go to sleep. So that why we call so.
Like bad mad sad but you shold be glad to be proud of you.
So this won’t wreck and destroy your things to be.
So if your actress no behave to be so.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom. But when you’re with my Daddy never is.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom. But when you’re with my Daddy never is.
To be announcing the Philadelphia Freedom.
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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Cool. Yury felt under the weather yesterday so I cut him some slack, but hopefully wellness + hair removal today. There’s something about fake caves, I don’t know what it is. Maybe the absurdity or something? There’s this fake cave at Disneyland, ‘Injun Joe’s Cave’ (probably differently named nowadays) that I did a kind of paean to in my first novel ‘Closer’. I entered its pristine faux-cragginess before I ever entered or even saw a real smelly, unlit cave, so I think I got spoiled. Yay, a happy ending to love’s scary little story. Whew. Love accompanying me back to yesterday morning when my leg felt so much better that I took a long walk and then making me not fall flat on my face, embarrassingly in front of the Chanel store, after which my leg was immediately de-improved, G. ** Ferdinand, Hi. I don’t know any of those films, I don’t think, but I’ll rectify that. New video, yum! Everyone, I shared an awesome video by Ferdinand here recently, and now … well, I’ll let him tell you: ‘I am peddling the second music video appropriated from Jon Blackstone’s super 8 70’s home videos he shot as a kid. I hope he does not mind. This one I compiled has the gold. The video accompanies my demo song “Two kids” Pretty ruff recording .. all I can manage atm recording audio with just my phone. Let’s call it a ruff sketch.’ At first glance, it looks incredible! Thanks, man. ** scunnard, Hi, Jared. Yes, you did indeed! Other than one fucked up leg, I’m good, with nose to the film’s post-production grindstone mostly. And you? ** Jack Skelley, Ha ha. Uh, Jackpan! Excited for your and Sabrina’s wonderwall. Warning: bitchfest. Fuckhead went behind our backs yesterday and told the editor we were working with to re-edit the trailer without our knowledge or input, but she told us, and now we’re livid, and fuck knows about the trailer. Signed, DC. (The Love song) ** _Black_Acrylic, Dude, The new Play Therapy was the ultimate ace in the hole of my audio faculties. It is even better in mach 2! Thank you, thank you! You’ve single-handedly saved my … oh, I’ll just go ahead and say it, my soul, I really think so. Intrigued about the flash novel class, of course. You know, people talk a lot of poop about Hemingway, but the dude knew how to construct a tasty sentence. Did he help? ** Misanthrope, It’s true, a busy signal is like a very distant memory. Huh. I guess the current equivalent is hearing your call go immediately to voicemail. I don’t like to hear that about the opioids. You know how I feel about that shit. Gulp. ** Tosh Berman, Hi. I have a memory of coming across ‘TtNS’ that way too, but I think in my case it’s a false memory. He was/is great. Tricky dude, but so great. ** ellie, Hi, ellie! The film is proceeding towards its final point, and we’re hoping our dreadful producer is miraculously raising the money to pay for that so it will continue to proceed. Um, I guess if I had to choose I’d say I do prefer his early performance works, but I really do like his sculptures and installations a lot too. What about you? I’m a giant fan. An all rocks park. Interesting. Makes me think of those Japanese gardens that are all meticulously swept sand and strategically placed rocks. But it’s probably very different? I do think a bit of terror is helpful to hitting artistic pay dirt (as opposed to just hitting artistic dirt, I guess). Courage and determination, my friend. That image does look like a cave shot, but … I guess it could be a river? It also looks like out could be a very high in the sky aerial shot too, which is trippy/nice. I hope the ‘a lot happening’ is the good kind. Do you feel settled into where you moved? ** Steve Erickson, Burden was older than me, so he was in the LA art scene doing his performances and videos when I was still going to museums on high school art class field trips. But I was a visiting faculty member for a few years beside him when he was a professor at UCLA in the early 90s. So I knew him a little. Everyone, a couple of Mr. Erickson inputs for you today. Steve: ‘My two latest reviews for Slant Magazine came out today, on noise-rap group Angry Blackmen’s LEGEND OF ABM and on Future Islands’ PEOPLE WHO AREN’T THERE ANYMORE.’ ** Justin, Hey! First, thank you about the PGL scene, and, second, yeah, you know, I do think some Burden influence was going on there, now that you mention it. Zac and I both huge Burden fans. Wow, thanks! How are you? What’s up? ** Uday, Well, yes, your week does sound rather similar to ours. But it could be worse, right? But you’re so right about meetings’ necessary illegality re: the under 20s. Don’t you just hate adults sometimes? Speaking as technically one myself, I sure do. Buncha control freak sheep. The fear of the fake, including AI, is so stupid. I find that fear kind of embarrassing, to be honest. My hair improvement got delayed to, hopefully, today. I have to meet someone I want to impress later, and it’s a little difficult with my current mop. New perm going around? Not that mega-trendy (at least here) young male thing of hair worn long in the front/bangs with an artificial outward reaching curl? ** Даrву📺, I had a TV that looked almost exactly like that when I was a kid. Burden rules. Oh, oh, oh, thank you, D! I am very aware that you are not immature, much less super-ly so. Being serious can be a flaw, actually. Nice rat. Very nice. I want to make it a logo. But I need to make something that it would be a logo for. Hm. Have as much good as possible until I see you again. ** Right. I’ve restored an old spotlight post that casts its illumination upon Christopher Knowles’ singular and very exciting (to me anyway) writing and related visuals. I hope you find sparks there. I’ll see you tomorrow

8 Comments

  1. Ferdinand

    Thanks for sharing Dennis. Hope your pesky pinched nerve will be a thing of the past soon. I remember when my x partner was also dragging around one in his knee for months on end and never sorting it with a docter. Eventually a planned trip to Berlin rolled around and as we went around the victory column by the tiergarden in a rickshaw my X didnt see anything of it becauce of sedation of the painmeds. That nerve never did sort itself out, in end it only recovered during the aftermath of a non related medical episode. Take it easy.

  2. Nick Hudson

    Hey Dennis! How are you doing? I *love* Christopher Knowles stuff – so nice to see this. I knew Robert Wilson’s (then) dramaturge for a few years – he told me lots of love stories about Bob and Christopher (I ended up becoming kinda friends with Bob too – he sent me a lovely email about my album in lockdown when I was in mental tatters). Speaking of fake caves – there’s a theme park on the mountain outside of Tbilisi where I can only assume the theme is “David Cronenberg On Ketamine” – will take photos when next up there. Fibreglass caves the colour of excrement: wow.

    Ok – do you know this band? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGTIoDk2Go&ab_channel=G%C3%A4y

    An… the first single from my new album is finally out – I hope you’ll dig it – https://youtu.be/lmBDAwBk10s?si=c7RcNmgnS7jhkeZm

    Have an awesome day, Nick xoo

  3. Dominik

    Hi!!

    Christopher Knowles’ work is so, so fascinating to me. It’s really lovely to see him here. Thank you!

    I hope Yuri’s feeling better today! Not only because of your hair but because of that, too.

    I don’t think I’ve ever been in a fake cave. I was in a few real ones, all small and deemed safe enough for children to visit them. I need to read “Closer” again because I can’t remember the Injun Joe’s Cave part! Hell, it really bothers me now, haha.

    Oh, no! What’s going on with your leg? (Apart from the fall. I’m really sorry life was such a dick to you. The slip was at least stylish, though, right in front of the Chanel store…!) Love making the entire fourth season of “True Detective” available tonight, Od.

  4. _Black_Acrylic

    Christopher Knowles is a new name to me and I’m instantly drawn to his wildly uneasy work.

    Thank you so much about Play Therapy 2.0! I definitely feel that this new series has legs, and I’m already looking forward to future episodes. In fact I’ve been spending more time working on that than on my writing homework, oops.

  5. Misanthrope

    Dennis, Yeah, I was surprised to hear it. I was expecting some menu where I’d select something and then be told all agents are busy and then put on a musical hold for hours. I finally got through and got that appointment for Thursday at 1:45 p.m.

    I think caves are the one type of tunnel I’d not be happy to be in. So many seem so cramped and precarious. I’ll just take a secret tunnel under my house to a fortified bunker, thank you.

    David was talking about trying to get off the drugs yesterday. He said he’s just got anxiety so bad, he has to do them, and then of course his anxiety increases. We said go to a doctor. He has gone to a doctor and the doctor recommended therapy, but he says he won’t do therapy. He doesn’t want to talk to someone. He just wants to be prescribed an anti-anxiety med. He thinks his drug problem will just go away. So, that’s part of the problem: he knows better than everyone else. Hell, maybe he does, but I doubt it. I told him he’ll either get an SSRI or a benzo and that he really doesn’t want a benzo because then he’ll just have another drug problem. He won’t listen to me, though. Oh, and still hasn’t gotten his ankle checked.

  6. Charalampos

    Fantastic artwork and writings. Thank you for sharing. I remember a little the previous time you did the post and it is very nice to revive as good reminder to delve more and really see. My favourite painting is the one with the red radiator. The way he uses music in his writings speaks to my soul and I relate

  7. Uday

    I don’t like adults but once they hit 70 they’re kinda ok again. It’s called the gen-z cut I think, the perm that is. I just let my hair grow out. Feels proper punk but makes me look somehow more refined than shaggy. Also enjoyed today’s post. I feel like I’m always learning things from you that I can’t get anywhere else! You’re the rapacious reader’s wet dream. Do you have a favourite bird?

  8. Annabel Lee

    Thanks so much for the overview of Christopher Knowles work, Dennis. I’ve forwarded this to him and his wife and they are ever so pleased. Vehicle Editions published Typings many years ago and there are still just a few copies available both from the Vehicle Editions website and also from Printed Matter in New York. Flattery will get you everywhere (exceptionally brilliant book design! appreciate that!). Latest “big” Vehicle Edition is by Tony Towle with a CD of him reading and poems, an interview, photos. Also did a few chapbooks recently — a Janet Hamill chapbook of pantoums; a poem series I wrote that Bernadette Mayer suggested I produce as a chapbok; and a Bernadette Mayer/Philip Good collaboration chapbook.

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