Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards & Buster Keaton duet

grOnk magazine: third series, issues 3, 4, 7, 8 1969 (part 5) « loriemerson.net

A Letter From Hammertown

...to the person who dumped four
green bags of garbage
behind the pad of Edwardian aggregate

resting on a knob of slate
out of which which flapped
insect wing fern fossils

a prescription for child's ear medicine
full cost covered (thank you BC Med)
revealed your address:

(withheld)

but let's not go there anyway
don't use the pickup
but perform the perimeter slow

as an August afternoon sniffwalk
then follow that very crooked track
whither will it wandered surrounded

then build a fence at eye level
over which we can tip
whatever sad shit the blackberry

can beneath a half-decade
of thickening barbs chew
with green teeth or pick

cleaner with gleaner planks,
whatever the water table
can't (or won't) hold down--

fastened then driven then hid
with certain care a split lid
randomized by ravens & raccoons

flattened by rain braille rime tuned
melancholic generic cola root beer
box saw you sit & sip with your sore ear.

Biblios : GUY LARAMEE

Anthony Stewart Culley Dec 31st 1925-Dec 19th 1992

Daily Kos: The Lies of Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens sacrificed his principles on the altar of the Second Gulf War. His legacy consists of the suffering caused by that act of aggression. Hitchens has played many roles, but he is essentially a more articulate version of George W. Bush—a spoiled child of privilege who played toy soldiers with human beings.

Live Streaming Background Music from the Seeburg 1000 Background Music System

"The music you are listening to comes from the incomparable Seeburg 1000 Background Music System that was in popular use in the 1950's, 1960's and into the 1970's"

happy birthday Emily Dickinson!!

early Polaroid work by Greg Girard

Robinson in Space (1997) by BFIfilms

short film by Ken Russell

Pool Films resulted from the creative collaboration of writers Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) and Imagist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Funded by Bryhers inheritance from a vast family fortune, their projects were fueled by the principals interest in film and artistic experimentation. The three were invested in developing a context in which the young medium of film might be viewed as a fine art as well as interact with other verbal and visual art forms. The Pool Films productions, which were directed by Macpherson and often featured H. D. and Bryher as actors, experimented with narrative forms and explored the use of dramatic lighting and effects such as montage to represent emotional and psychological states.

Monkeys Moon, a film featuring two of his and Bryhers pet monkeys, was thought to be lost until the Beinecke Library acquired a copy in 2008. Some eighty years later, this film has been fully restored and digitized. Learn more at the Beinecke Library: http://bit.ly/xjlqn

Lee Ann Brown's video of OWS Library recovery (with Betsy Fagin)

AGP167: Carl Ruggles - Complete Works : Carl Ruggles : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Fresh Kill

Gordon Matta-Clark

fraternal prank machines

Reasons Why I Bark

This yard is about
more than you
or me now commitment's
more than a handshake
ink on a rag
rag on a stick
sweat on a stump
vinegar vat whiff
catflap Delius screeched
popcorn ears sewn over
walked out on your
subwoofered telenovelas
about fake animals
rattling under real distress
Littlest Hobo Shark Week
Lancelot Link Wigs Out
I don't fucking dig it
any more than
any other daytime Darwin,
Sunday supplemental
sitcom doorbells
horses shuffling in jazz pants
peas, leashes, slushes, fleas
anything I can't tax, leave or
by loving through your
brutal small mind
make go away.

You owe me you must have meant.

To walk from pole to pole
then tree to tree
was the squirrel's one good idea,
our quadripedal commons
becoming the flanked nuts
of an overhead contempt
his ruined Chernobyl tail
only partly concealed.

But fall means new storage
for everybody
caramelized skies
bleed pumpkin tiretracks
weeping lamps lit
with trailer drying bulbs
thorns facing units
through chainlink
raven-pecked pears
in a white bag
a slow weapon
for the horse people
to shoplift….

(tbc)

History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow from SansGil—Gil Cocker on Vimeo.

Alli Warren on Ann Hamilton

Hamilton multiplies erasures throughout indigo blue. Her blue mountain of disappropriated labor, no bodies in sight, is juxtaposed against the body of the worker at the wooden table, erasing the text line by line. This very much alive and working body casts its shadow on the heap of dead labor piled behind it, signifying everything the uniforms are not...

The Decline of Play

"[A]s a society, we have come to the conclusion that to protect children from danger and to educate them, we must deprive them of the very activity that makes them happiest and place them for ever more hours in settings where they are more or less continually directed and evaluated by adults, settings almost designed to produce anxiety and depression."

Flickr: Nightmares Fear Factory's Photostream

Isola di Rifiuti: Williams / Ashbery

Forget writing, it’s a trivial matter. But day in day out, when the inarticulate patient struggles to lay himself bare for you, or with nothing more than a boil on his back is so caught off balance that he reveals some secret twist of a whole community’s pathetic way of thought, a man is suddenly seized again with a desire to speak of the underground stream which for a moment has come up just under the surface. It is just a glimpse, an intimation of all that which the daily print misses or deliberately hides, but the excitement is intense and the rush to write is on again. It is then we see, by this constant feeling for a meaning, from the unselected nature of the material, just as it comes in over the phone or at the office door, that there is no better way to get an intimation of what is going on in the world.

WCW

I will be giving a talk on my favourite artist, the engraver Thomas Bewick, at the CAG on Saturday afternoon at 3.

The Outfit dir. John Flynn (1975)

some dogs from the Pasadena Digital History Collaboration: Home

How To Peel Garlic in Less Than Ten Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.

Gram Parsons at Joshua Tree National Park

GreenCine Daily: RETRO ACTIVE: The Killer Elite (1975)