I need a manager.
I need to meet with someone who will help give focus to this blog, which is becoming, like everything in my life, ultracomplicated in my mind, froze up, and therefore empty in the world. I have exactly seven thoughts in my head at all time, but they are on very competitive rotation which doesn't give them time to flower.
I NEED SOMETHING TO SLOW ME DOWN.
Perhaps it can be my loyal fans, the nonimaginary ones (the imaginary ones work much more in the sped-up, confabulation sector...). What should the focus be?
I have some simple ideas (we can start stupid because I can add the decorations and tangents in a jiff).
1. Talk about real life: i.e. schools etc.
2. Book list (promised a bit ago.)
3. Talk about art projects that I am planning.
4. Talk about what I am thinking i.e. the words that won't stop, the art theories, etc. (This one going to require the most management.)
See? case in point, by the 4th thought a great deal of random noise is entering. Very hard to keep on track here (and I've been quitting coffee.) Nothing new.
Awaiting your incisive directives,
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11 comments:
Don't quit coffee. Help me quit smoking. (Everyone knows quit means 3 a day I hope)
Write about the things that happen that you see with your eyes and hear with your ears and what it makes you think.
Keep posting video.
Keep being funny.
XO
A
Most of the things I see with my eyes and hear with my ears are words. That's not like writing about a tree - it's going to result in something discombobulated and imprecise. We could all use a little less media.
Oh good point. Sorry yo. You asked. I just made something up. But what's the fucking standard here? Isn't that the beauty of the thing -- new enough in the world not to be regimented to meaninglessness like the novel--- like "postmodern" --- you see what I'm saying? What would the problem be with discombobulated and imprecise? I really like what you've posted in your notebook challenge stuff. I'd actually like more of that... you're more creative than most people and definitely more than me so I really like reading your stuff-- it opens my mind better than marijuana.
-Alexis
I paid Alexis to say that, everyone. I'm not sure how new anything I'm doing is though.
I see now that you were simply answering my question. Your answer was "4." You didn't use a #2 graphite pencil.
Actually, precision has been one of my ideals for a while, probably due to having Kirsten edit "Parsing the Panoptic Fugue..." Her thesis project at Bard was a collection of poems - hard to characterize in a word or two, but they weren't imprecise, although I wouldn't rule out discombobulated. Now she's a website editor for a big education and testing company and I would have to rule out discombobulated for that one. Anyway, it's important to work closely with people who have a different aesthetic sense than you.
For example, you, Alexis, have a very different idea of how to put something together than I do. It's not just from the fact that you are writing, it's that we have a very different way of seeing the world. So when I think of your work I see all these strengths that are absent in my work, ones that I need to address. I started off writing this thinking I wanted to list them off, but I think it might be better off-line. I'm an old man! I can adjust to the no-privacy rules of a younger generation to an extent, but not so far as to assume that all of my friends are OK with me sharing their private muckitty-muck with the world. Not that the ENTIRE world reads this blog...
oh no! don't blame me!
have my neuroses somehow begun to infect the universe, starting with F? this is a nightmare!
i think you should keep on being discombobulated, because you are, and occasionally feature precise and lucid EFF writing, because it is out there.
maybe you're seeking order in your blog because there's a certain disorder in your life :D
I'm a pompous idiot!
too much therapy.
p.s. the black background is still killing me!
p.s. the black background is still killing me!
It's not black.
It's bright white. Maybe you should reconfigure your monitor.
THAT'S NOT FUNNY
Your editing skills are not part of your "neuroses" as you put it - they are part of your "moves." I think part of the aesthetic that I absorbed is some kind of minimalism - minimalism of concept - a reduction of ego-presence - a limiting of variables for increased precision. Pretty scientific and unshakeable. Not that this is who you were - it was just the part of your personality that struck me because I had to work hard to understand them so I could understand you, and when I learned them I was amazed because nobody can ever imagine what it's like to think like someone else until they actually think like them. These things are nothing like who I was - uncontrolled, emotionally unstable, trashy, self-centered, prolific to the point of pointlessness. So moving from my home base to a new set of ideas in which to operate - I don't own those ideas, but they helped me understand myself. This just focusing on a pretty shallow use-value centric way of thinking, but there are deeper levels available. But you don't "talk to computer."
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