If i was from the big town I would be calm and debonair

the big town doesn't throw its riff raff out

down from des moines...

best record ever imo!!!!

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2738/83724594.jpg

played this record on the radio a week and a half ago btw.

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/m3uhandler.ashx?ContentID=1208&PlayListID=14628

maybe an hour or so in iirc.

three men have loved her, one a decade on the average.

he took himself seeeriously

motel rooms had lost their punch for him

my mind turns and faces my breath iirc.

this is not a record, this is a story.

also, its not an easy situation

he handles himself in the morning. it's just like for any other man.

get a grip on yourself he said

ikr, have you seen the 2 DVD set of Perfect Lives? it's insane in all the best ways. it's kinda expensive but worth it imo.

i have torrented it and been drunk and insane with it

the bar is still the best bit of the dvd imo

we can have kids, and they will speak a seamless merger of poetry and sound.

hold on i barely know u!

lolol

she is at the center of a ball of hot stuff that we haven't put our minds to yet

he sat and thought about obedience.

"get a grip on yourself" he said
"working against time" is another thing he said.

she thinks about the two things that i know if
one of them is elevation, and that comes clothed in light so to speak.
she loathes the dark.
she sleeps in light.
she likes highness.
4,128 feet here,
4,218 feet there.

the problem is to run that gauntlet again.

remove 'problem'
remove 'gauntlet'
remove 'run'
remove 'is to'
remove 'the'
remove 'that'

leave 'this'
make 'this' whatever.

i wish i could listen to this right now!!!!

santa did not honor request for the perfect lives dvd, but it's kind of $$$ so that is ok

no one in the world would have mistaken him for a real person.
obedience, etc.

donna rouge, where are you? are you a new yorker?

cuz like, i have that DVD and no one ever wants to watch it all in a sitting with me. (6 hrs or so.)

i am, tho i'm in nj for the holidays. (on ilx i am primarily a resident of gay thread but i post here and there everywhere)

i've seen clips on youtube but realllly want to see the whole thing sometime

we'll make a plan!! i think my friend R0bert might be interested.

yeah! i would be way down for that. i'm free most of jan (before lolsemester starts)

<3

there was something like the feeling of the idea of silk scarves in the air

there was a kind of madness to it

the phone rang immediately:

one
two
three
four
five
six
seven

we don't serve fine wines in half pints buddy

watchin the perfect lives atm

if anyone wants to private msg me in the next couple days, i'll send u a dvd with the avis on it by post

imagine the self

look directly at the lens please

smile

there you go

this is a closeup

and our big muscles gone to seed

you could be standing in the choice of BAKED BEANS
or in the choice of CLEANERS
or in the choice of PET ACCESSORIES
or in the choice of PICKLES
or in the choice of SUNDRY DRUGS
or in the choice of WINES
or in the choice of BREADS
or in the choice of PLANTS, FRUITS, AUTO PARTS, MEAT, WHATEVER!

i should watch this tonight but i always end up watching the bar, i think i might know it off

hey ian & donna, you guyz both know me. :)

the design looks chinese

a flashpowder tattoo

in the beginning... there were rocks

and on those rocks with harder rocks we learnt to make a million bruises

spell out things like "we were here" and "watch your water"

the idea of bruises adding up to something

for rocks to skim

a tendency towards... motion pictures

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/rodney.jpg

Ian I'm telling you, 'Private Lives' video is gold but the 'Atalanta Strategy' video is one of the reasons I don't throw out my VHS player

but WHERE am i to GET IT?

does lovely sell it for some ridiculous amount of money?

side 2 now playing on eastvillageradio.com btw ;)

sides 4 & 6 of atalanta on one side & 'private parts (the record)' on the other = most played ashley cassette

yes lovely sells it for top dollar. or drop me a line next time you're in SF.

I think my christmas present to myself is going to be that new 700 page book of lectures / scores. It's really not ok how much they're asking for it, but it's only money

Just saw that book... yikes it's expensive, but it's only gonna be more expensive once it's totally unavailable and gone, i guess? maybe if i cut pack my lunch for a week i can justify it.

the numbers on the telephone, the parts of the book, the notes of the scale:
they are the same, are they not?
they come from the sameness of the idea of the outside-ness,
not the alongside the outside-ness,
the different-ness.

otm

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/77d5ab6b832f4d7331b1015549a8f0d7.gif

i love you i love you i love you

why ilx is still cool

should i play this entire record on my radio show tonight y/n

That would be bold and you should do bold things.

he had determined once to play some other stuff on his radio show
later he realized he made a mistake

<3333 that gif

very dramatic

two g's in eggs

the backayrd is gonna be playing on eastvillageradio.com for the next 15-18 minutes or so...

backyard, too.

was just posting that :)

just about to i mean

/whois zvookster?

"just a rap dude" is my standard reply at this stage. but i know the park only from your show above and have been listening tonight.

are ur teeth rad now btw?

they're better, but they're not great tbh.

this set of circumstances, they are indescribable with our geometry.

the margin is always wide enough

wish i lived where i could hear ur show

guys l8r i will tell you if sarah mencken is good running music

hey plaxico it's all archived online, every week!

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/shows/nowplaying.aspx?contentid=1208&showid=39288&NowPlaying=0

she thinks about the two things that i know if
one of them is elevation, and that comes clothed in light so to speak.
she loathes the dark.
she sleeps in light.
she likes highness.
4,128 feet here,
4,218 feet there.

― ian, Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:13 AM (4 months ago)

nice choice w/ the meanderthals just before, bongos.

jesus why do i always listen to just the park, getting kind of emotional

guys l8r i will tell you if sarah mencken is good running music

― plax (ico), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:49 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

well?

the answer is yes, then no, then yes (there is a period where it is too real)

fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents is more attractive than fourteen dollars.
it's just that way

i can't even

uncertainties are wrong.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6364566107&ref=search

like

v v v much

the idea of the changing center.

glad I finally know what record this thread is about

one of the best records

too late he realised

she is not afraid of happiness
she is entirely without shame

love is exchanged there
mothers weep there
it is night there

http://www.robertashley.org/photos/perfect09.jpg

played 8 minutes of this at end of my science&tech radio show today

<3

the best music.

the best thread!

still need to actually watch this :/

that number is the answer, in the way that numbers answer

sometimes we never see the guns
sometimes yes, sometimes no.

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/07/music_is_a_history_of_our_stru.html

Thanks for the link JL.

things are much less formal than they used to be

this is the hour of the mystery of the barn swallows

come down out of the tree and fight like a man

love when the electric keys re-enter, halfway through "the backyard"

^^^ this moment always gives me chills

three men have loved her; one a decade on the average.

^^one of the best

Finally, I have come to think of frogs as emblematic of that relationship -- that I barely understand -- between the mysteries of the transfer of life from one generation to the next and our irrevocable, necessary commitment to the use of nuclear energy. This association of images is ambiguous for me; I do not know how it started, nor whether I should trust it. I suspect that, like other preconceptions about biological "facts," it defies explanation and can be stated only as an admitted bias for whatever facts there are to be discovered.

RIGHT ON

why have i never heard this? what is wrong with me?

milton might answer, "Because you're INSANE!"

sometimes i hear this and i'm so happy to hear it and other times it makes me so so sad

it's like life

she makes a double life
she makes a perfect system every day
she makes it work
she stands there in the doorway of her mothers house
looking at the grass and sky and at where they meet
never once thinking thoughts like
it's so like a line
or, the difference is so powerful
or, which way shall I take to leave
My mind turns to my breath, one.
My mind watches my breath, two.
My mind turns and watches my breath, three.
My mind turns and faces my breath, four.
My mind faces my breath, five.
My mind studies my breath, six
My mind sees every aspect of the beauty of my breath, seven.
My mind watches my breath soothing itself, eight.
My mind sees every part of my breath, nine.
My breath is not indifferent to itself, ten.

She never thinks of possibility
or of how probable it is that they have come together
those thoughts never enter her mind
nor do thoughts of sports
she has no desire to improve her muscles
for her, piano playing is the only mystery
it's so beautiful, and how they do it no one knows.

The church forbids its angels entry there
the gypsies camp there
blood is exchanged there
mothers weep there

she is earth
we are the sun
people are gathered in the backyard
this is the celebration of the changing of the light
they do it as often as they can in summer

they are the planets in the scheme of things

giordano bruno, whoever he is

;)

the new art-house cinema space in town is showing this (and the john cage segment too) tmrw night :)
http://www.ubu.com/film/greenaway_ashley.html

go see it!!!

it's on youtube but i'd jump at the chance to see it in a theater.

i am torn btwn seeing it and seeing throne of blood, as both are good to see in theatre!
i am glad that i have rediscovered how much i love movies

HMMMMMMMMMMM. i bet throne of blood will be more visually impressive, tbh.

yes, exactly. and also i really love it.

The church forbids its angels entry there
the gypsies camp there
blood is exchanged there
mothers weep there
it is night there

have been listening to this a lot recently

its been on my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQBpire6jhw

He pours himself a small drink in a fluted plastic glass a fact sans ice.

Imagine the Self shaving for the first time.

Tell me have you heard this yet: "This sounds like Garrison Keillor, only worse," or, "His voice is so relaxing. I could do yoga to it." Think the second one is true, if you were inclined.

i find it relaxing in that i float on the waves of its words+music but i wldn't be able to do yoga to it, too distracting in its art

a lot of ppl find it relaxing, think ian said it was the most relaxing record, tho he put it better. there's a thing on the label website quoting a dude who wld give it to ppl at bad times in their life

maybe that's too much

i feel better about life when i listen to it

it's very soothing, calming. makes you think about perspectives and people and the world around you. imo.

it's "contemplative"

recommended: listening while in a hotel room by yrself

talking to a girl on okcupid who is working on casting & fundraising for a new production of Perfect Lives.

!!!

finally listened to In Sara Mencken Beethoven - amazing

sooo good. fuck we should listen to that right now, we have a copy at the store.

hate you so much

come to new york & see it when it's time.

more about your selection of girls on okc in brooklyn or wherever than the show. I get antsy at shows, expecially 6 hour shows. anyway, on this far-flung theoretical trip to ny, are you giving me lodging or what?

sure, i got a couch.

Robert Ashley's Foreign Experiences is being performed at Mills on April 2nd

ARGH I have a gig that night

that's a great one to present at Mills because it's all refracted anecdotes about living in Oakland while teaching at Mills in the late 70's

i have a gig that night too - but i'm playing late enough i can do both.

we make one great weird curve

the drawings of a geocentric solar system when we meet them in the books make us avert our eyes

god, this is sentimental

i am not sitting on a bench next to myself, whatever that means

<3 <3 <3

aw aw aw

looking back, i didn't get the up and down part.

a notion they referred to as space

robyn are you just listening to this over & over?

down from des moines

yes
(i'm writing, and what i usually do when writing is put songs/albums/playlists on repeat, and so the music comes in and out of consciousness but at the same time creates this steady non-disruptive rhythm/tone)

<3

<3

and all rooms were not the same, some better than others

Title:
A Performance by Robert Ashley
When:
Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Where:
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street
Description:
Distinguished composer/librettist/singer David Ashley will perform scenes from two of his operas, "Concrete" and "Atalanta (Acts of God)." Robert Ashley has an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera; his recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting, known for their original style and their distinctly American subject matter and use of language. His music has been described as "nothing less than the first American opera."
Cost:
Free

^ @ brown university providence rhode island usa earth

and here's a 14 hour PBS series ashley did on modern decomposers in the 70s

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ashley.php

^^ every second of that worth watching, that 14 hour work is one of my favorite films / videos of the 70's

http://www.sfcv.org/event/mills-college-dept-of-music/robert-ashley-%E2%80%9Canswers

“Selected Lectures Written to be Sung”, Wednesday, March 29 10:30 AM
“Answers”, Thursday, March 31 7:00 PM.

are you gonna play hooky from work to go to the Weds. thing?

I'm guest lecturing Zeena's class on tuesday, so two days of hooky (& three consecutive days of Mills) is probably pushing it. Maybe, though.

that simple notion
a coincidence among coincidences
is all one needs to know

enough light on clear days for ordinary occupations

In the beginning, there were rocks
and on those rocks with harder rocks
we learned to make a million bruises
to spell out things like "we were here" and "watch your water"

he sat and thought about obedience
he had resolved that, of the two kinds,
the kind that takes every message of order, rule, law as error
that everybody who passes along these messages
that loathes the buildings
that contradicts the inner voice
that resists, in short, was his
and the other kind...
how could it be?

Introducing Susie. Susie works at the bank. That’s her job. Mostly she helps people count their money. SHE LIKES IT

my facebook "text box" when that was still a thing had that line it, but with my actual name

it takes one to peddle and one to steer

http://thatmorningthing.blogspot.com/

if i was from the big town i would be calm and debonair

- marion finucane

he worked with the forwardness and the backwardness

was talking to a musician at a show tonight and she told me she is going to perform with robert ashley here in mtl in early june and i am like aaaaaah

"try to keep in touch with forms of disorder that have been successful in other places so that you can adopt them to local conditions. you can't think of everything."

Introducing Susie. Susie works at the bank. That’s her job. Mostly she helps people count their money. SHE LIKES IT

and here's a 14 hour PBS series ashley did on modern decomposers in the 70s
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ashley.php
― sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:54

just dl'ed these, thx. the glass performances are crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuBczVTCBw

having seen them play 'The Backyard' for about 9 years now, including once sitting right next to Ashley, it's been amazing to see Martin begin by interpreting very much in his own voice (with his own occasionally more snarky tone bringing an edge to the more ironic lines) and very gradually move closer and closer and closer to purely inhabiting Ashley's original persona.

someone on fb posted a factoid about Giordano Bruno ... or whoever that is