Self Portrait
anyone who says the square peg
does not fit in the circular hole
has never seen a crazy bitch with a hammer
From Tricia Warden‘s Attack God Inside
Published by Henry Rollins’ 12.13.61, the book is out of print. Too bad–some dark, amazing, harsh, poetry there.
But her(older) book Brainlift is still there. At a damn good price, by the way.
Helen Frankenthaler at Gallery Brown.
A gallery of Frankenthaler’s prints (etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs).
Marvelous work.
Left:
Madame de Pompadour
1985-1990
Lithograph
42.5×29.5 inches
Beatrice Wood, called the Mama of Dada, was a renowned ceramicist, lover of Marcel Duchamp, and a prime suspect in the Dada art movement of the early 1910’s. She died in 1998 at 105 years of age. Her ceramics were eccentric (like herself), with strange shapes, and iridescent glazes. She was quite a ticket, and beautiful, even as an older woman.
After Dada she became a follower of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and, in a circuitous way, this brought about her apprenticeship in ceramics.
This is a 5 minute clip from a 55 minute documentary from the Documentary Channel. I’ve seen the whole thing some time ago, and it’s a great documentary–well worth the $.99 that it costs to buy the whole thing from Google Video.
(As an aside, it’s a pain in the but to get it on a Linux machine–but not that big a one–you have to manually download the .gvp file (click the “Manually Download the Video” link) and open up that file with a text editor–gedit worked fine in Gnome–look for the line that starts “url:http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?…” copy that minus the url: part, paste it in your browser, and it’ll download as an .avi file, which you can play in any media player on Linux. It’s much easier for Windows, and even Macs.) (Or, as I just found out because Firefox crashed while downloading it–close out your browser, and go back to the video, and click on the download for Windows/Mac link, and download it that way–as long as you’re still logged in to your Google account.)
Exercise May Boost ‘Good’ Cholesterol
We all know the aerobic exercise is good for the heart, and losing weight, and reducing cholesterol levels, but a new study (see the link above for more details) has concluded that it’s how long yiou exercise, and not the intensity, that boosts the HDL (good) cholesterol. Exercising for 2 hours a week in sessions longer than 1/2 hour, get you the HDL benefits.
No word on whether it’s just aerobics, or if medium intensity strength training sessions of over 1/2 hour will help also.
More here and here:
Only exercise duration, and not frequency or intensity, was associated with a change in HDL-C levels in the analysis. When the participants exercised for 23 to 74 minutes per session, each 10-minute increase in exercise duration corresponded to a 1.4-milligram per deciliter increase in HDL-C level. “This suggests that in improving blood HDL-C values, increasing time per session is better than performing multiple brief exercise sessions when total time for exercise is limited, as is the case for many people,” the authors write.
Music CD, I’m just not that into you
In the four years from 2001 to 2005, overall time spent on these pursuits rose to 3,482 hours per person from 3,356 hours, about a 4% increase. But that didn’t benefit all forms of entertainment equally. Here’s a table I’ve created from the MPAA report showing the change in hours per person spent by activity:
Cable and satellite TV +125
Consumer Internet +52
Home video +29
Broadcast and satellite radio +26
Wireless content +15
Video games +12Consumer books 0
Movies (at the theater) -1
Consumer magazines -3
Daily newspapers -14
Recorded music -50
Broadcast TV -65
There’s more, but the idea is that, since we only have so much money, and/or time, we spend both on what gives us more pleasure per unit.
I’m glad to see that book reading hasn’t declined (although it would be nice if it had increased), which puts a lie to the idea that we are less literate the more we’re online.
Looking for an online rhyming dictionary for poetry, lyrics, limericks, or what have you?
I tested out two today Rhymezone and rhymer.com
Rhymer.com won hands down, finding suggestions for every word I threw at it. I think it works better because it uses end rhymes, instead of trying to rhyme whole words. (It found rhymes for orange, and governed, where rhymezone didn’t, although rhymezone directs you to a dictionary site trying to match the last 3 letters of the word you inputted, if it can’t find a rhyme for you.)
Rhymer.com is a free service of WriteExpress which sell letter writing templates will templates, dictionary software, writers software, and more.
Two marks.
Like Chinese eyes.
Graphite,
Drawing the line,
Where,
The saw,
Ends it all.
Keith Perkins–2004
So today on Wired I found out that there’s a biopic being made of Iggy Pop, and the early days of The Stooges.
How cool is that! Elijah Wood is playing Iggy, and, Kirsten Dunst plays Debbie Harry.
It has Iggy’s blessing, but he’s not participating in it.
Short Wikipedia article here
Here’s hoping it doesn’t suck.
My favorite quote from here:
Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
Viva La Carlin!
New York Time article on Louise Nevelson’s show at the Jewish Museum.
Nevelson earned her place in art history, somewhere between the totemic structures of David Smith and the emotionalism of Eva Hesse, with mysterious abstract assemblages made from street-salvaged remnants of wood: baseball bats, milk crates, driftwood, picture frames, toolboxes, toilet seats, newel posts and gingerbread carvings. Her grand — even grandiose — oeuvre recycles themes of royalty, mortality, marriage, displacement and the tension between interior and exterior space.
Nevelson is one of my favorite artists, and there is a great collection of her work at The Farnsworth Museum, in Rockland, Me. (the second largest collection of her work in a public institution in the US, by the way), (and, which I blogged about here) if you’re ever up this way.
