Archive for July, 2009
<—-! No notes taken before p48: may want to re-read —-> * Elin Diamond, “Unmaking Mimesis” 1997 (first 2 major feminist performance theorists: Sue-Ellen Case & Jill Dolan) p 54: “Now [Freud] suggested that melancholia was in fact essential to identity formation, since the ego itself seemed to be built upon a series of rejected “object-choices,” such rejection [ READ MORE ]
Thinking about drawing porn. And always interested in search results. This pic was the #1 on a Google image search for “porn”. Settings were Safe Search: Moderate, File type: Any, File Size: Any. Interestingly, there was NO nudity on the first page of hits. However, there was a picture of John Ashcroft, lots of big [ READ MORE ]
Sitting and listening to Modern Times. It’s so nice to be working again. Beau is working on an amazing painting. Can’t wait to see it. So what is it about his playing that makes it so magical? It’s not that complicated. It’s not that loud, or intense, or fast. It’s like earth somehow. Like a garden. [ READ MORE ]
Here we are in Chicago. It’s raining again. It has been such a wet summer. I know, I know. Why bullets? [ READ MORE ]