yawn.

fathers and sons.

2010-04-30T09:30:00.000-07:00

Some things, they say,
one should not write about. I tried
to help my father comprehend
the toilet, how one needs
to undo one’s belt, to slide
one’s trousers down and sit,
but he stubbornly stood
and would not bend his knees.
I tried again
to bend him toward the seat,

and then I laughed
at the absurdity. Fathers and sons.
How he had wiped my bottom
half a century ago, and how
I would repay the favor
if he would only sit.

Don’t you--
he gripped me, trembling, searching for my eyes.
Don’t you--but the word
was lost to him.

Somewhere a man of dignity would not be laughed at.
He could not see
it was the crazy dance
that made me laugh,
trying to make him sit
when he wanted to stand.

-Fathers and Sons, by David Mason

have you come to see me swinging?

2010-04-28T12:36:00.000-07:00

	John Jacob Niles - The Maid Freed From The Gallows .mp3

	Found at bee mp3 search engine

"The Maid Freed from the Gallows" performed by John Jacob Niles.

thud.

2010-04-02T10:31:00.001-07:00

Custom Pinatas by Thud. More available here.

not quite hollywood.

2010-03-29T14:21:00.000-07:00

Ozzploitation.

bird dogs.

2010-03-26T16:13:00.001-07:00

Emily Valentine .

BSA paul bunyan patches.

2010-03-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

international women's day, a day late.

2010-03-09T10:54:00.000-08:00

Good - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman director to win an academy award in the category

Bad - First woman to win best director was forced to endure an orchestral version of "I am woman, hear me roar" after her win, despite the fact that she made a fucking war-suspense movie. Thanks, condescending piece of shit academy.

i will quit smoking.

2010-03-03T10:41:00.000-08:00

Believable by Baptiste Debombourg, 2008.

why do you live this way?

2010-02-26T14:47:00.001-08:00

My friend Ilana and her boyfriend will be selling their book sculptures this weekend:

Silver Lake Art Craft & Vintage
Sunday 02/27 10-4 at Micheltorina St. Elementary.

reallife.com

2010-02-19T10:06:00.001-08:00

these internet jokes are getting out of hand...

art gap.

2010-02-18T11:16:00.000-08:00

Analogous To The Fall of That One Empire (Gap Shirt), 2004-05
Gap Shirt with all threads pulled except pinstripe.

More Eric Yahnker.

happy birthday genevieve!

2010-02-13T19:31:00.000-08:00

and valentine's day.

alexander mcqueen (1970-2010).

2010-02-11T10:03:00.000-08:00

botticelli reps the west side.

2010-02-05T11:24:00.000-08:00

It's actually a complicated sign for MCDXLV, the year the painting was completed. In Botticelli's day, gangs were oriented by year, not by turf.

unsee.

2010-01-27T15:15:00.000-08:00

Fuck her gently, Apple geeks.

soft sculpture.

2010-01-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

Faith Wilding, Crocheted Environment (1972)

Sheila Pepe, Mr. Slit (2007)

Rodarte, Fall 2008 Collection (with details)

MOJA.

2010-01-12T09:24:00.000-08:00

Jeffrey Deitch is the new director of MoCA. Probably good news for the program, but isn't it kind of a conflict of interest when a museum is run by someone who would like to get the artists he represents into a museum? Or when a museum hires one of the dealers they buy from?

Well, at least now we'll finally get that Fischerspooner retrospective we've all been dreaming of.

Update: Via The Observer, Deitch Projects will close by June 1st. Guess I should have figured that.

eric rohmer (1920-2010).

2010-01-11T10:43:00.000-08:00

james castle.

2010-01-08T10:06:00.000-08:00

UNTITLED
Soot and Saliva on Paper

UNTITLED
Soot and Saliva on Paper

room with a view.

2009-09-05T11:04:00.001-07:00

Our house was featured on Apartment Therapy. They made it look beautiful. Take a look.

lucy.

2009-08-28T12:55:00.000-07:00

waterfalls.

2009-08-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

Damn this video is amazing. Up yours, TLC.

1958-???

2009-06-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

d+d joke center.

2009-06-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

Doug and Denver's comedy night at Big Fish manages to be a hundred times more compelling on This American Life than it has ever been in person. I appreciate how the video acknowledges that they always seem embarrassed by the existence of the show, and yet continue to do it. Frankly though, I think that Billy Dilly (the inebriate seen in the last few moments of the clip) would have made just as interesting a segment.

recollection - the marks.

2009-06-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

When I was a man-cub of 17, I worked at the Blockbuster video in the Loehmann's mini-mall at roughly the corner of Tampa and Victory in Reseda. Of the bizarre encounters I experienced there (which could easily justify their own blog) none were more memorable than my daily interactions with Mark. Mark were identical twins, both named Mark, who were on a mission to write an everyman guide to 15,000 motion pictures, ironic since they weren't like anymen I had ever known. I never did establish why that 15,000 number was relevant, maybe that was how many movies blockbuster had available for rent at any given time. All I know is that they would occasionally spange at the Mobil station that sat catty-corner from my workplace, and would then bring their winnings to the video store and would rent at least one movie a day. It took me a while to figure out that there were two of them, since they didn't usually come in together. There was also a mystical third Mark (we never met), who was adopted and black, and whose affiliations were known only through his use of the same rental account (their mothers).

I left that job, and then left the valley, and as time wore on, the memory of the Marks drifted from my mind. But I was recently reintroduced to them via my friend and former co-worker Joe, who discovered Marks's youtube channel and forwarded it to me. It isn't totally clear to me if these videos consist of one or both Marks, but what is apparent is that Mark(s) is(/are) obsessed with Miley Cyrus, and all of the videos are shot at Burger King. Enjoy.