2005.06.16 16:47
abracadabra, faia
Abra, good news. That was my broker on the other line, and now is the prefect time for me to liquidate some of my funds, hence I can give you the go-a-head to start the schematic designs for my new LA gallery.
What site?
Oh, yeah. It's the one that you though would be best. And guess what? I've come up with the perfect name for the gallery--Rita Novel This Sontag. Gosh, I'm so excited. Magic architecture is going to be so big. We'll do lunch soon. Ciao 4 now.
2005.06.16 17:45
abracadabra, faia
Ja, ja. Zat iz da vun!
I can already see it: Rita Novel This Sontag on Lincoln Boulevard.
2005.06.16 17:56
didja feel that???
That was just me jumping up and down with joy because I'm finally going to have an art gallery in Los Angeles and abracadabra, faia is going to be the architect.
2005.06.16 18:19
didja feel that???
I started jumping when I first learned of the news from my broker, and after I was on the phone with abra, I called my cousin Siesta in Yucapai. She's one of the artists I represent.
2005.06.16 18:40
didja feel that???
un-science fiction
2005.06.16 19:02
didja feel that???
Yep. You know, she still thinks she invented that look. Just thank God you never see her when she's popping in to see her gynecologist. Apparently she's still waiting for the doctor to give her the thumbs up.
2005.06.23 12:44
Who's afraid of Ezeri Mester?
Hey Swampy!
Wow, exactly three months after the death of a pope there's LIVE 8.
Throngs aimed at the Vatican will then be mirrored by the throngs aimed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in eight days.
Leaving Obscurity Behind really is a novel virtually writing itself. That's why I have time to put together some real books. I mean, starting a novel that bilocates between Philadelphia and Rome, specifically connected via the Vatican and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and then having the Pope die and then LIVE 8 both happening in the "same" place is just about all an author can ask for. And the novel's not even half done yet. Who knows what's gonna happen next, but I'm sure the content will be original!
Pope John Paul II is the latest member of the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club. He's actually kind of upset that he didn't see the Life of Constantine tapestries when he was alive in Philadelphia, so that's what he'll be doing 2 July 2005. And then he'll be going back to visit his favorite Polish parish church in Port Richmond.
You know, the book I should have borrowed from the library yesterday instead of Shanghai Reflections is entitled The Islamic Design Module in Latin America: Proportionality and the Techniques of neo-Mudéjar Architecture.
The guy from Honeywell that tried to give me a "free" home security system earlier this week said my neighborhood is the highest crime area of all Pennsylvania. So I simply told him, "I've lived here all my life. Do you think I'm to blame?"
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2005.06.23 12:57
Re: reading lists
...the distinction "between reading a play and experiencing a play in a theater" sounds interesting. I suppose acting in a play is another way to sense the play as well.
I used to read plays as a teenager. My brother Otto used to write the most obscene plays in the first years of his schizophrenia. I like the format, especially the stage directions. I think the last play I borrowed to read (like maybe five years ago) is The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams. I mostly know this work via the movie Boom starring Burton and Taylor.
Odd, I'm not at all a fan of experiencing plays in theaters. I think it's mostly the crowded audiences that I don't like.
I might just try to find that Miller introduction to read myself.
I wonder if anyone ever wrote about writing a play while simultaneously acting out the play in front of a "virtual" audience?
2005.06.24 11:00
Re: reading lists (was: question)
I haven't seen the Mississippi in almost 30 years, but I do remember it's amazing presence (at least between Missouri and Illinois) and it's ability to inspire awe. One of my favorite memories recalls watching 4th of July fireworks over the Mississippi at Hannibal, Missouri in 1978.
I've mentioned this here before (like maybe 5 years ago or so), but I seriously believe the main street intersection--Rising Sun Avenue and Tabor Road--closest to where I live (in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia) was long ago a solstice celebration site of the Lenni Lenape. This intersection, which today comprises a Cambodian run gas station, Ed's Pizza run by Puerto Ricans, Cedar Grove Church (which I think is still a Baptist congregation), and D's Crab Claw, run by a young, white entrepreneur, is were the original town of Olney began like 120 years ago. It is also a high vantage point overlooking the quondam Rock Run (stream tunneled underground, today's Ashdale Street) valley, and the culmination point of a Lenni Lenape trail, today's Rising Sun Avenue. The name Rising Sun goes back to the Lenni Lenape as well--from the folklore you get the impression that the "natives" didn't really want the "whiteman" (in this case early German settlers) to go up "rising sun" because that's were the Great Spirit was. Interestingly, Rising Sun Avenue forks off of Germantown Avenue, which was also originally an "Indian" trail. Anyway, the intersection of Rising Sun and Tabor is the point of a plateau where when you follow the edge of the plateau east you wind up looking at where the sun rises on the solstice, and when you look south, you're looking almost directly straight down Rising Sun Avenue, and when you follow the edge of the plateau west you wind up looking at where the sun sets on the solstice.
In early 2002, I found out that there indeed was an "Indian camp" at the mouth of Rock Run where it joins Tacony Creek, which is literally "just down the hill" from Rising Sun and Tabor.
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2005.06.26 14:19
Re: Buzz Words - Unbekannt
Yeah really, who cares about curators, galleries, slides, CDs, paintings and all your other unfulfilled desires?
Q: what comes after museum(peace.com)?
A: pre-shrine(.biz)
2005.06.27 13:54
Re: Buzz Words - Unbekannt
You mean this kind of rejection?
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