Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Bird Flu!
M.I.A.'s new song & video... seriously... wow.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDSnLcu2HTI&eurl="WE DISCOVERED AN AMAZING BOY WHO CAN OUT DANCE ANYTHING I VE ever SEEN. HE INVENTED ME THE BIRD FLU DANCE."
Three plane t...
Three plane trips... one at the end of this month, one in March and one in late April - Mom, career and school. It almost makes sense to me - family, money and completion. Looking at the earth and the water, the turquoise, russet and emerald...makes me sick of travelling.L.A. is not the city for me... leaving me to decide what is? I truly believe a city helps define who we are, but too bad for me, I am more mysterious than an Aztec temple!Bedtime and then back to square1. I really thought I was 'doing okay' this week but everything I wanted to get done, every book I wanted to read, every box I wanted to unpack is sitting right where I left off.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
It depresses me to see you struggle!
Since everyone seems to have love on their lips or tissues filled with tears, I am going to tell you all about Marina Abramovic and her husband Ulay.In 1975 Abramovic met Ulay, an artist who shared her date of birth as well as her artistic concerns. Over the next two decades they lived and collaborated together, performing and traveling extensively. In one, Breathing In/Breathing Out (1977), with their mouths clamped tightly together and microphones taped to their throats, Abramovic and Ulay breathed in turn the air from each other's lungs, until - almost to the point of suffocation - they were exchanging only carbon dioxide.In another, Rest Energy (1980), they held a taut bow with an arrow loaded and pointing at Abramovic's heart, with only the weight of their bodies maintaining the tension. Microphones recorded their rapidly accelerating heartbeats. In Rhythm 0, perhaps Abramovic's most infamous performance, she asked her audience to use various items —72 items she provided: pen, scissors, chains, axe, loaded pistol, and others.— on her however they wished and would not be held accountable; according to one report: 'By the third hour, her clothes had been cut from her body with razor blades, her skin slashed; a loaded gun held to her head finally caused a fight between her tormentors, bringing the proceeding to an unnerving halt.The Great Wall Walk (1988), which entailed each walking 2,000 km along the Great Wall of China, had Abramovic and Ulay starting at opposite ends and meeting in the middle. What did they do once they met in the middle? They happily ended their relationship.
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