Gearing Up

Space and time confusions. If they are indeed the same thing, two faces of, then the far away place is the past (the future having not yet left its trace) and the emotional impact of the past is always a calm (even bad experiences fade when compared to a current experience) so the past is safe, is welcoming, is desired.

Owls at Noon

There's no-one better than Chris Marker for delving into the maze of what constitutes authenticity and what reveals or obscures intention. This is a found photo, so the intention is all in the selection and the surroundings. Here, we have no surroundings.
I was looking for a picture of happiness (as in the Icelandic girls from 'Sans Soleil') but came upon this, instead.
I don't know whether this face is happy, or anxious. So: it exists on its own terms, cut off from everything, contextless and adrift. Does that diminish its power in any way?
It's about time we started asking these questions again.
Happy Memorial Day.

Downtime

It's a mistake to reveal your innermost secrets when enemies might be spying, however, those of us of the Moral Cargo Cult know that you MUST reveal these secrets, knowing them to be only the tip of the iceberg and therefore unusable and essentially unknowable. Well, this is my happy place, with the personification of my haggard self and its object of desire. Enough revealed? OK... so which is which? or, which meta universe are we operating inside? or is there even a second sidestep into the representation(s) of the artefact?
See what I mean?
Anyway, all kudos to Rotwang and a good old fashioned Carry On 'phwoor' for Brigitte Schittenhelm, for it is indeed she.
I mean, are you really going to lock horns with me on this battlefield?

Metal fatigue

This is a drawing of 'anger' by a deluded hippy. It fits. So, we are told this is a negative emotion, but only if it becomes ingrown, or veers off and hits an innocent target. yes, US jets are buzzing foreign powers in a habitual attempt to create an 'incident' and excuse for provocation. Well, as in the macro, so in the micro. It's very frustrating being lied to continually and given repeated put-offs, so, beware the great hippy spiral. Coming soon to a supermarket near you.
AAAar.

Culture and the ilk

What an odd weekend. The internet has substantiated memory. At least, I went out to see internet connected persons, spent two days in Phoenicia, NY and not only experienced several strange coincidences (why would Claude, the owner of the bar where a gig with a former neighbour of mine was happening, have to have gone to school on the street where my son was born in Paris?
Then I find - maybe - a version of a former housemate's album, lost in time, on a blog. Not striictly a coincidence, but rare.
Thinking about 1980-82 for me is like an old hippie daydreaming of 1967. dangerous.
so here's the d-i-y handmade cover of the egg store ilk from 1981. made upstairs from meself in Stoke Newington in a time of great solidarity and happiness... which seems, appropriately enough, to have come back into the psyche right now with enough force to be of great use in current struggles. Click on the title and scroll down for personal anecdote.
I guess that is what is meant by culture.

Not

Imagine our surprise, on opening our eyes.
Now, you all (y'all) may have the mistaken impression that I am a nice type of guy, in which, generally, you are not mistaken. But...
there are limits, and as General de gaulle once said, 'No gentleman is ever vulgar unintentionally'.
I won't sully this post with such words, they are much better uttered in the heat of the moment off a fluid tongue.
Are they (all) having a larf?! A good few people need slapping upside the head.
This show is NOT going on ebay and nor is it becoming a quiet and quaint little cosmetic diversion. There's a point to Indie and teeth, too.
Time to start biting (hands that feed), I guess.

War of Houses

We Drink Your Milkshakes!!!!!
No, seriously... it seems the gypsies must be on the move, but this time they are onward and upward per ardua etcetera
Enjoy the Ivied jpeg. It's huge if you click on it!