Was Here

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Toll

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The Last Time You Saw Me Alive

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I Don't Think I'm Naive

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Sorry

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Between Us

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as soon as my fever subsides, i'll parcel this sheet of paper off to Switzerland. i've never been there, but that neutral nation's shameless, consistent use of the + seduces me totally. plus i hear you can buy cannabis in stores there, for 'decorative purposes'.

Between Us is for Mizu, the illustrious author of Ewig + Drei Tage. i told her i wanted to make her a drawing, and i said she could pick the colors and/or theme if she so desired, but she asked for a complete surprise. so, here it is. i drew it from a photograph i took of 2 boys i had sex with [on separate occasions].

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there will always be millions of people who wonder

you can be the one who knows

i promise.

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so, like i said awhile back, when i was in 5th grade in an L.A. suburb, my classmates and i were instructed to render a copy of Kandinsky's 1911 painting Lyrical, as part of what i guess you would call 'art appreciation'. we were told to make our copies as close as possible; the best would win a prize. me and this dude named Craig tied for the prize, whatever it was.

years later my parents ended up framing my drawing, and i had to wait awhile to mention to them that it was a copy of a famous painting. i didn't want them to feel dumb or anything.

the framed drawing is still on a wall in the house where i spent my teenage years. i snapped it when i was in L.A. for Christmas. the drawing is ok for having been done by a 5th grader. i remember the verdict in class was that i matched Kandinsky's lines most closely and Craig matched the colors most closely. to this day i know jackshit about color. i don't remember Craig's lines.

so here they are

Lyrical, 1911
by Wassily Kandinsky

my 5th grade copy

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i went to see Patti Smith at the Bowery Ballroom on her birthday in 2002. unexpectedly she covered Pale Blue Eyes by The Velvet Underground. i ended up passing out during it actually, right before my favorite line, from all the tobacco smoke around me, but anyway. right before playing Pale Blue Eyes, Patti Smith said, 'this is a request... but not from anybody in particular.' brilliant hotshit stage banter, i thought. i didn't feel like it meant anything though; there was just this pleasure of hearing those sexy words.

now this
this actually is a request from nobody in particular. if you know me, you know i read my site visitor logs every day. i get loads of hits from people searching for things like 'A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat by Keith Haring' because awhile back, i mentioned seeing that painting in a San Francisco Haring retrospective, when i was younger.

so i do have that image on hand, from the official Keith Haring biography by John Gruen. [the book is incredible- intimate and filled with Haring's art, and it's supercheap on sites like Amazon.]

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now, for your pleasure

A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Keith Haring, 1988

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recently done
1- googled 'noise travels faster' and 'editions on purpose' and found nothing of note that i hadn't already written myself
2- registered noisetravelsfaster.info, noisetravelsfaster.com, and editionsonpurpose.com
3- built pantry-type [but unenclosed] shelves for the kitchen and finally straightened out where to put groceries
4- watched Brooklyn get blanketed in snow
5- acquired 3 hoodies made of flex fleece, the softest and most comfortable material i've ever felt in my life

to do
1- go to San Francisco, 6 Feb - 9 Feb [and come back]
2- get a cheap easel
3- move the e-drumkit and set up the easel in its place
4- start drawing t-shirt-size designs on paper
5- get swatches of t-shirt cotton jersey
6- start drawing t-shirt-size designs on cotton jersey

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