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?

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