For a variety of reasons, I’ve been reading out loud a lot recently. Specifically I’ve been reading poetry out loud, in some part because of the brevity of the medium.

In the midst of this reading…out loud, I found this publication. It’s fantastic.

Also, for a couple of months now, I’ve been trying to find the poem that this excerpt is from:

“that each of us lives in other’s minds, as they live in ours
sometimes flaring in images, sometimes feeling each other’s flesh. Each night
before I got o bed I pass myself on the stairs.”

It’s attributed to S. Berg, but I can’t figure out who that is, or what poem it is. Do you know?

This piece by Richard The is fairly fascinating to watch. If I weren’t so sleepy, I would probably write more (via We Make Money Not Art)

- Women in New York are snakes

- Women in California and Phoenix, Arizona are blonde and nice

- This is the quickest route to the airport

- Miami is the best part of Florida

- When people go to the beach in the summer, they drive their cars to get there. They are assholes

- No, really. This is the quickest route to the airport.

- You don’t believe me that New York women are snakes? How outrageous.

So apparently I still really love the 1996 Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. I’ve been listening to it obsessively at work for the past week. Its the perfect marriage of rock, alternative, trip-rap and swoony swoon music. The line up being;

Garbage #1 Crush
Everclear Local God
Gavin Friday Angel
One Inch Punch Pretty Piece of Flesh
Des’ree Kissing You (Love Theme from Romeo + Juliet)
Butthole Surfers Whatever (I Had a Dream)
The Cardigans Lovefool
Kym Mazelle Young Hearts Run Free
Quindon Tarver Everybody’s Free (to Feel Good)
Mundy To You I Bestow
Radiohead Talk Show Host
Stina Nordenstam Little Star
The Wannadies You and Me Song

Track 7, the love me, love me, song is the serious jam. Thats when the album gets really hopping, tracks 7-12. When my cousin first gave me the album for Heyzeus’ birthday, when I was 13 and brother was 10, we listened to it on repeat. Brother loved the disco track, Young Hearts Run Free, harder then any gay man or middle aged momma and daddyo could. What a little angel he was, “just one more time sister.” From that moment on I wished him gay and treated him as such, dancing around our father’s living room, choreographing our discoteque moves. We weren’t troubled tweens, just gay and dancey, thanks to this album. Which is way better than the movie. Well, we don’t always get what we want, brother is not the gay one, but atleast we’ll always have this.

and this song got me through puberty

“Well, speak of the devil!”

I’ve been obsessively listening to this recording of William Carlos Williams’ poem ‘This is Just to Say’. It’s so simply beautiful, and honestly, i’ve probably listened to it 27 times today.

You know, I don’t think I’d ever seen a Clint Eastwood western until this weekend. But, I have to tell you, after seeing The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (which IMDB has attributed the keyword “legless person”), i might go on a binge. i would most definitely like to see this movie at the theatre, because my television (which is on the verge of breaking and keeps randomly muting and flashing the station number when I sit near it), really doesn’t do anyone’s cinematography justice. Really.

Because I absolutely hated Once Upon a Time in America, I kind of assumed i wouldn’t be a fan of Sergio Leone’s Westerns. That was stupid!! Obviously, I need to see these other films first, but I have a feeling that I’ll love them.

Also, Clint Eastwood was kind of super fine.

Tomoko Sawada took 400 self portraits in different outfits, hair and makeup. Interesting. (via i heart photograph)

Annie

i love chicken.
and burning cds.
and babies.

Jesse

annie i can’t believe you said babies.
ME TOO. ha. only for ONE second.
i love sweat on my brow
orbit
mountain dew
cold beer
big macs
ice water
hester not trying to run away
gay boys in chelsea

Annie

free food at my job
books books books
ellen agreeing with jesse when i told her that you called me psychotic about books
mmh cold beer
sweet potatoes
broccoli
all this sun that’s happening
short pants
free tickets to movies
basically, free things.

Frances

french fries
cold beer
broccoli from SNICE
the girls at SNICE
my friends
warm sunny days I’m off
jokes
clean socks
annies photos
scotch
when Miller gets ladies that come up to her
big dogs

Jesse

dry socks
carmex
fish kisses
duck tape on my phone
my glasses
NEW: whiskey
annie drunkily kissing on the forehead
chocolate fountains
more cold beer
cold beer with ice
blue moon with oranges and ice
honest windows

Frances

showtime on demand
the beer garden
kickball
redbull
spliffs
really funny jokes
squadron parties

I also love Lisa Loeb

Jesse

netflix
magazines on the bathroom floor
sassifying words, books, lit, zines…i still wish i was making one
balls
shaved legs…dirty

Annie

The L Word
Finding Great Things in Other People’s Trash
Parks
Public Transportation
Tacos from the Taco Truck
Frances’ “I love you, Buddy”’s
Friends who let you kiss them…in a friendly way.
unshaved armpits
open windows in the shower
walking and eating ice cream cones
loud music

Jesse

yes! the i love you buddies.
driving in a car windows down
dogs
hester the molester
SS Park
neighbor bars
the smell of gas
people falling down
pickle juice
t shirts
salt
sunnyside
backyards with lilacs
toe jam

Frances

jumping in pools
Wrestling miller in the street
When Annie is drunk and LOUD!
eating all day
drinking all day
wearing costumes
Chueca
BBQs
Playlists
SCREAMING

The next few weeks look amazing, in terms of super rad events that are fairly cheap and well worth your time.

Here are a few of these things:

1. Aperture’s Homage to Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Friday, May 11, 2007
Film Screening: 2:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion & Performance: 6:30 p.m.

Free
Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Learn More

2. Situational Drive: Public Art Conference

It’s happening all weekend, and looks pretty darn interesting.

3. Samuel Fuller Retrospective

This last one is about a month long, so you have no excuse missing some part of it. Mr. Fuller is famous for saying this: “Film is like a battleground. Love. Hate. Action. Violence. Death. In one word… emotion.”

I’m a fan of his films and if you haven’t seen any of them, you owe it to yourself to see at least one. In order to draw you in, I leave you the opening sequence to 1964’s The Naked Kiss