elanormcinerney

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

thisrecording:

Sometimes I would take a dress and lay it out and take some socks and lay them out and take some shoes and lay them out below the socks and take some ribbons and lay them out on the floor about a foot above the dress. Then I would take some construction paper and draw a nothing face on it with marker — a very easy, very nothing face, two arches for eyes and a mouth, nothing else, maybe eyebrows though, and nothing else, it’s so easy to make a face like that look like nobody at all — and I wouldn’t even cut the construction paper into a head-shape, but would lay it whole on the floor above the dress, and put the ribbons on top of the paper so it looked like nobody wearing all my clothes.

Whenever I re-read this great thing and get to the end where it’s “an excerpt from a forthcoming longer work” I’m always like BUT WHEN! and HOW WILL I FIND OUT ABOUT IT WHEN! I like it so much!(I tried making my coffee as suggested, soaking the grounds, but I didn’t really get the difference. I will try it again)

Sometimes I would take a dress and lay it out and take some socks and lay them out and take some shoes and lay them out below the socks and take some ribbons and lay them out on the floor about a foot above the dress. Then I would take some construction paper and draw a nothing face on it with marker — a very easy, very nothing face, two arches for eyes and a mouth, nothing else, maybe eyebrows though, and nothing else, it’s so easy to make a face like that look like nobody at all — and I wouldn’t even cut the construction paper into a head-shape, but would lay it whole on the floor above the dress, and put the ribbons on top of the paper so it looked like nobody wearing all my clothes.

Whenever I re-read this great thing and get to the end where it’s “an excerpt from a forthcoming longer work” I’m always like BUT WHEN! and HOW WILL I FIND OUT ABOUT IT WHEN!

I like it so much!

(I tried making my coffee as suggested, soaking the grounds, but I didn’t really get the difference. I will try it again)

Friday, April 27, 2012

Still Life #30 (1963) by Tom Wesselmann [photo 16 July 2010 at MoMA]

TV by Spencer T. Campbell [10 March 2012 at This Recording]

In Which John Huston Rewrites Flannery O'Connor

Spencer T. Campbell on Wise Blood at This Recording

“the prevailing impression is that Taulkinham is a place where everyone flares into being and diminishes without leaving a mark”

“a peculiar double-vision, seeing depth in every shallow thing”

“as though his very presence made her skin giggle”

Sunday, March 11, 2012

thisrecording:

the idea of starting all over again is sometimes tempting, but is never an option

“it’s nice to have a sense of this meaning something different and being so” In Which We Watch From Afar The Alive Thing, Spencer T. Campbell at This Recording

“If you put the milk and sugar in first, it will save you stirring, but stirring can be nice, so there is a degree of improvisation involved in whether you put the milk and sugar in first or after, but you put your milk and sugar in and then you pour the coffee in and then you enjoy it, or you pour the coffee in and then you put the milk and sugar in and then enjoy it.” In Which We Watch From Afar The Alive Thing, Spencer T. Campbell at This Recording