Breakfast Sandwich

Breakfast Sandwich

Working out in a void

I just read on the ARTSJOURNAL weblog that Maryanne Amacher had passed away on October 22nd.

Either I have been too busy with my own work or slacking off at reading too many art news websites but I was blown away to find this out.

I am almost disappointed in myself for not finding out sooner.

Maryanne Amacher has been one of the greatest influences in my work, my thoughts on sound and on life. While reading the post I was nearly in tears.

I don’t really know what else to say aside from I wish I the opportunity to experience her work.

1938-2009

Event

524 – Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – Our World
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India wins the final of the Cricket World Cup against the mighty West Indies at the MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Birth

1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1939 – Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1939 – Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1952 – Tim Finn, Kiwi singer/songwriter
1954 – David Paich, composer (Toto)
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – George Michael, British musician
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
1968 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 – Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1978 – Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American beauty queen
1979 – Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 – Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 – Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1987 – Joseph John Sledgianowski III, American Artist
1987 – Lil’ Wil, American rapper

Deaths

635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
2001 – Joseph John Sledgianowski Senior (b. 1916)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer (b. 1933)

In 1975 Ant Farm sent a 1959 Cadillac through a wall of flaming TV sets in «Media Burn», a deconstruction/demolition of the media spectacle par excellence.

…if you’re home on the internet now, you’re probably not (those of you in boston) attending this colloquium on performativity at the museum, which looks like it’s going to be killer.

one of the speakers is the last remaining member of canadian power group General Idea, a very early (high school) influence of yours truly.

And if you don’t know who general ideas is, GO LOOK NOW PLZ

Walking home tonight I realized something important. One must have solidarity with one’s solitarity in order to effectively manage, well, everything. I know I made that word up, but that’s also important (making up words) for creating a new culture that we can all agree upon in order to annihilate in 50 years time. I suppose that doesn’t really make sense.

Here is one take on aloneness. With a good graph, in addition.

The Solitary Artist. Noble in their cause. Alone in their suffering. Starving in their kitchen.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Joseph Beuys

  Marina Abramovic

   Martha Rosler

Why do we suffer alone? Because it is worse to suffer together.

Let us flourish in both solitarity and solidarity.

Together, we can make great things alone.

(Un)like Burningman.

eerily similar to:

I still can’t make up my mind if burning man or dubai are mind blowing or not. Perhaps it’s because my mind is blown?

ps. click the photos for better ones.

Let us also consider entering the void as opposed to filling the void.

Entering is allowing the void to embrace you, filling is attempting to negate the void. Can we enter the void together and not attempt to fill it? How many of us will fit in the void before it is full? Is the void within or without?

Q: How many artists can you put in the void before it is full?

A: 21 minutes.

Experience the layers of aloneness. Startlingly similar to the layers of the burning man and palm.

TRAGEDY!

“The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists. Tragedy is so far from being a proof of the pessimism (in Schopenhauer’s sense) of the Greeks that it may, on the contrary, be considered a decisive rebuttal and counterexample. Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and most painful episodes, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustible vitality even as it witnesses the destruction of its greatest heroes — that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge — which is how Aristotle understood tragedy — but in order to celebrate oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity — that tragic joy included even joy in destruction”
-Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy

First couple of images from “tragedy” google image search:

+ a few pictures of the twin towers on 9/11

Other thoughts:

Tragedy is an Old Family Friend
Terrence Payne

Guillermo Vargas Habacuc

whatchu guys think?

This morning Taylor and I were discussing the role of Gwen Stefani in 90s music consumerism.

Gwen Stefani was probably one of my biggest influences in my childhood, although in hindsight her fate has become slightly tragic:

no wonder nobody buys printed magazines any more– we don’t have amazing shit like this around these days!

This site has tons of stuff on Manson, Ed Wood, crazy pin-ups… everything I hold near and dear.

Astro Chart:
Sun in Virgo
Moon in Gemini
Mercury in Libra
Venus in Cancer
Mars in Pisces
Jupiter in Virgo
Saturn in Scorpio
Uranus in Leo
Neptune in Libra
Pluto in Leo

and:

it’s co-option. Although it’s nice to see babes who are into it.