23.5.03
Thus he himself is entangled. Then the widow of Eli's brother comes up to New York from Virginia ostensibly just to visit, but, in quite genuine affection, she hopes that Eli will come back with her. She is played by Kim Basinger, tenderly convincing in this woman's pity for the life that Eli lives and in her longing for him.
glowing review by Stanley Kauffmann of new Al Pacino movie, People I Know.
tnr May 09
22.5.03
...We had to buy smaller forks,
smaller chairs, stop talking.
You took the saltshakers
off. I decided I'd only make
soft foods so we wouldn't have
to use knives anymore.
It kept on shrinking for days,
the butter taking over the dinner
plates, the green beans looking
longer and mean,
until it was just a thin slip
passed between us, a note...
Ada Limon
The Lessing Table
Poetry Daily May 23 2003
21.5.03
great anecdote about Gene Krupa getting up with a fool in 1941 around the color of Roy Eldridge's skin. also a bunch of .ram's of Krupa's band. including Anita O'Day.
Legendary director Martin Scorsese's next project is a biography of Bob Dylan tentatively titled "Bob Dylan Anthology Project." The movie is currently slated for release in 2005.
MTV
informant38 unplugged:
LAMASHTU DAUGHTER OF ANU, HER FIRST NAME IS THAT, THE SECOND IS: SISTER OF THE GODS OF THE STREETS, THE THIRD IS: DAGGER WHICH SMASHES THE HEAD, ETC. UNTIL, THE SEVENTH IS: BE EXORCISED BY THE GREAT GODS
WHAT AM I TO DO (FOR MY CHILD WITH 6 TOES)Having a supernumerary toe was seen to be a blessing on one foot, but a curse on the other. The earliest representation of humans, the plaster figures from Jordan have 6 toes, as had all the brothers of Goliath.
20.5.03
And then when I worked for Robert Graves, one of the marvelous things about that experience was the way Robert worked all the time. Something would interrupt, or someone would come to the door, and Robert would deal with it and then go right back to work. Robert did everything in longhand. I was impressed by the way he worked. He was a wonderful model. One of the great things for Robert was that there was no telephone. Eventually he had a wind-up phone in one of the corners of the house. But for quite some time, if you wanted to get in touch with Robert, you called in town and a message was sent. The telephone is a tremendous distraction. For years I didn't have one, and I don't think I've ever really gotten used to it.
I've found that the best thing for me is to insist that some part of the day--and for me, it's the morning until about two in the afternoon--be dedicated to writing. I go into my room and shut the door, and that's that. You have to make exceptions, of course, but you just stick to it, and then it becomes a habit, and I think it's a valuable one. Flaubert said that inspiration consists of sitting down at the same table at the same time every day, and I think that's the way one should look at it. If you're waiting for lightning to strike a stump, you're going to sit there for the rest of the your life.
WS Merwin interview at The Pedestallink path from the unwavering :::wood s lot:::
19.5.03
shadow hand diagrams
link path from plep
these girls seem not only young, but unhappy
18.5.03
Laura Aguilar
Center #84
at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
...He has no love
Of this life, only faith: that when they come
For him one day, someone will save his name,
Telling of a boy who knew the terrors
Of life so well he saw no other thing...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf{unfortunate typo in last line, and a primary difference here from the printed page for all of us who would attempt the ink counterfeit from 'r' to 't', out of love, for poetry, yes, and authorial intent, and language, and an order that transcends the rule of law}
Kim Bridgford
at Verse Daily
16.5.03
Cheyenne woman named Woxie Haury
in ceremonial dress, and, in wedding portrait with husband
Univ. Wash. American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection
link path from plep
Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas tycoon who is rapidly going blind, spent over $45 million in under 24 hours at the main Impressionist and Modern art auctions here, snaffling the top lots in both Christie’s and Sotheby’s sales on 6 and 7 May.
He started his spree at Sotheby’s with Renoir’s sun-dappled, rose-garlanded “Dans les roses,” 1882, a portrait of a pretty Parisienne in her garden, which her husband had rejected as being “too daring”.
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Mr Wynn paid $17. 3 million (£10.78 million) for the {other} work {[a self portrait by Cézanne}, and at the end of the sale announced that both works had been bought for his art collection in Las Vegas. They will be displayed at his new casino, Le Rêve. It is rumoured that this is named after Picasso’s painting of the same name, which he is thought to have bought privately from the German collector Wolfgang Flottl. The price, say the same sources, was around $60 million.
Georgina Adam The Art Newspaper
Dublog catches the fleeting moment{and the permalink won't, it's the Venice/Picasso mother's day thing}
and in return this space would like to send him this image
15.5.03
14.5.03
Alexei Jawlensky 
Mystical Head: Galka
at Norton Simon Museum
Portrait of Katharina Bozzaris, daughter of Marco Bozzaris
Joseph Stieler
at Brian Yoder's goodart.org
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