Rambling blog post about museums and shit

Well, I have a ticket. Time to spend the next 9-10 months brainstorming ways to get my ass to Glasgow! Hope to make it work!

But imagine if your garden variety anti-ai person caught wind of it - I feel that authentic opposition to generative AI as a force requires a bit more intellectual engagement than a lot of people are willing to do, because “it’s automated” or “it’s assemblage” describes great art too!

Same with “it’s the result of an automated system.” I think it’s interesting that Jackson Mac Low’s complete Stein poems, which are computerized re-navigations of Stein’s original language, saw publication last year in this moment. I didn’t see any discourse about it, but… I’m going cont’d sorry lol

I keep getting into arguments with people who confuse me for being a generative ai booster because I say don’t think “being made from appropriated materials” is a valuable reason to dismiss a work of art. Lots of great work is made that way and has been for generations!

Well, if you end up anywhere in North America (I’m sure Vancouver and Mexico City would love to see y’all) I know this USAmerican will travel to see it. Hell, I’m even frantically brainstorming UK travel plans!

Jeanne Dielman? The New York City financier?

These are songs about the Corn Belt and some of the people in it... or on it. Come see Robert Ashley's classic television opera Perfect Lives on 1/16/2026 at @whammyanalog.bsky.social, presented by T.A.P.E. Analog. Doors at 7:30, screening at 8:00. Long live the avant-garde!

I spent 50$ on this beta band ticket and all I got were no friends who would join me when the tickets went down to 6$

I look like a cryptid in this photo

Highest 2hollis

I’m the guy they hired to write all the archival Arthur Russell material. They actually ran out of Arthur Russell songs in 2011 and ever since it’s been me. I’m sorry you had to find out this way.

los angeles residents near and far: come watch Terror Toons at @whammyanalog.bsky.social on 9/14, when I'll be moderating a Q&A with the great Joe Castro after the movie - a movie which truly benefits from sharing the proverbial couch with 30-40 strangers. see you there!

I would much prefer they know me as the person who wrote them to learn more about the Sharits Frozen Film Frame they have on display if they know me at all - y’know, as a tourist deeply interested in & passionate about what they do rather than a part of their promo arm for screenings I can’t go to!

People keep enthusiastically telling me that NYC theaters are quoting my Letterboxd reviews in their Instagram promo material like I’m supposed to care or be happy about it. I’m not a clout chaser and I’m not from NYC, I don’t care that Anthology Film Archives knows who I am as a poster.

Pere Ubu -- Slow Walking Daddy YouTube video by WBZO_RJsRadio

youtu.be/ItNQO1PuBGc me when i see lee kang sheng

Yo Del a buddy of mine (not Clint Howard, I don’t know him) just caught Deltron in Vancouver and said yall killed it. Love to hear it! Break a leg on the rest of the tour!

Bought a copy of Whistlejacket, the late period John Hawkes novel inspired by The Draughtsman’s Contract, which will probably not be as good as it sounds because how could it be

Louis the dog is at the beach

@ everyone Louis is at the beach

Come watch me play quiet music for walking by and shopping for books to at Sideshow, the best bookstore in the world, tonight!

It’s cool that ITAOTS is good enough that they let Jeff get away with all the Anne Frank weirdness. If he’d written a third Two Headed Boy he’d have probably been able to commit a murder or two.

Map overlaid with a post by "friendly Armadillo" reporting ICE activity at 3955 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA. Headline: "Woman Forcibly Pulled into White Dodge Magnum at ARCO."

Map of LA overlaid with a post reading "Están Atras de la HOME DEPOT SOBRE LA VALLEY VIEW Y LINCONL.!! Trucha no se an bajado siguen adentro esperando... Location 5890 Lincoln Ave, Cypress, CA 90630, EE. UU. Activity / ¿Qué están haciendo? Dentro de dos van Uniform/Clothing: ¿Qué llevaban puesto? Si en mascarados How many? / ¿Cuantos oficiales? 406 Time/Hora 8.10 Date/Fecha 6/30/2025 IMODERATOR ONLY] Status / Estado UNCONFIRMED | NO CONFIRMADO IMODERATOR ONLY] Enforcement Activity / Nivel de Actividad Enforcement vehicle. No"

Map of LA overlaid with post reading "8511 Duchess Dr, Whittier, CA 90606 La Cañada Flintridge 210 ndale 134 HIGHLAND PAR 110) Angeles BOYLE HEIGHTS 5 Location 8511 Duchess Dr, Whittier, CA 90606 Activity / ¿Qué están haciendo? varias camionetas estacionadas cerca de la libreria, sobre la slauson mucho cuidado ice Uniform/Clothing: ¿Qué llevaban puesto? verde How many? / ¿Cuantos oficiales? 10 Time/Hora 7:34am Date/Fecha"

This map will show you ICE sightings and abductions from *today*. A lot of activity in Cypress Park/Eagle Rock, including a mass abduction at Home Depot. padlet.com/PeopleoverPa...

I’m losing my edge. I’m losing my edge. The boys are coming back to the town.

I need a 16mm projector specifically so I can find out if the one reel I have from John Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific is the one where Lee Marvin pisses on Toshiro Mifune

In honor of Brian Wilson someone should write a really good song called Steven Page about being arrested for cocaine possession at an airport as a metaphor for the singer’s emotional landscape.

I've Got It! I'll Call It..., by Evan Pincus 8 track album

new music it's free enjoy

evanpincus.bandcamp.com/album/ive-go...

what the hell why not i'm gonna put the song that sounds like steve roden right before the fake guided by voices song on the record

Real

Went to an “Arthur Russell Day” event a friend was playing at. Saw my friend & then immediately left when the next act was noisy performance art where a dude kept hitting a floor tom with ears of corn (I guess cus AR was midwestern & wrote about corn?). Felt like the shitty Graham Lambkin show I saw

Western/Whatever Kiss Hello · Single · 2025 · 2 songs

In better news the first single from Kiss Hello’s upcoming album SUMMERDATA is trickling onto streaming services as we speak. Listen now on Spotify (or wait a few hours until it hits Apple Music)!

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