crits

A girl in my installation class had a crit today, and her piece included a lot of things I'm interested in. It was this simulated spooky scene she had built in a closet space, with lights, sound, props etc. But as I walked through it and took it in it dawned on me that i really hated it. I was confused for a minute because it incorporated a lot of dark elements i really love, yet i just hated it so much. It occurred to me that what was wrong with her installation was that there was no purpose. It was a spook factor. She had set up suspense and left me hanging with no real reason. And all the construction was exposed, behind the silhouette of her mirror frame and dingy closet lay a subwoofer and a light-bulb and wires. I felt so disappoint, and tricked. She said it was an unmasking, but really it wasn't. She was not unmasking anything other than the obvious, the complete fucking given.
I love the dingy, dirty, menacing, dark, and melancholy, but i hate static gestures. I like to use these things and make things which are real and meaningful to me, not props and dumb symbolism. For me her work was the equivalent of a costume; fake, it pertained to nothing.
It wish people would stop being too cool to make meaning full art. I don't want to look a vacant decor. It just seems insane to me; all these things she was using seem so inherently encoded with meaning, but she fucked it up and made a dumb flower bouquet.

black arts

if i had to make music the same way i'm expected to make art in an institution i would go on stage, take my bass off, present the records i've been listening to around the time of writing the song, tune my bass, explain what strings are on it, how it will relate to my body, explain the notes i'm about to play, perhaps provide some sheet music and copies of the lyrics i'm about to use, talk about the tempo and how it relates to the lyrics, play my song, and explain everything again, and play it again, have someone interrupt me and make me defend the last lyric, or worse: explain why/what/how i wrote it.

wouldn't it make sense to just put up an alter with a sad clown and a 12 foot tear made of long black wet wigs and some fuzzed out guitar sounds coming from hidden speakers and let you know i made it because these are a couple of things i'm obsessed with, and there's no beginning, or conclusive end, and i ate a sandwich before i put it together, washed my hair and listened to Delfonics?

RANNNN

I hate aids wolf, the girl's vocals are annoying, the music is boring. I hate them like I hate Alicia Keys, same boring music which hides beyond a false fluffy image; with alicia keys that would be smart (she's not smart, she's just doesn't dress like a slut), and aids wolf would be weirdo/art (more like dumb costumes that look like what dad thinks is weird or art).
seripop is ok... i guess, but it would be better if it was less cartoon crap in rainbows and perhaps some harsher images.
Shannon and the Clams are coming to Vancouver. On tour in san fran when the show got shut down by the cops, i remember being really out of breath but spending 20 minutes begging each member of shannon and the clams to come to vancouver. i rarely watch a band wishing it wouldn't end. they're not really doing anything new, in fact their sound is more or less a rip off, but IT IS SUCH A GOOD RIP OFF. Everyone is ripping off a lot, just imagine if they could do it well!
recommendation::: DEATHSPELL OMEGA on public transport, specifically the song "first prayer"
i'm gonna cancel this blog and make one that is only about mixtapes
ps i have an ear infection, when i sleep on it i go a bit deaf

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