un regard oblique

21.9.02

14.9.02

ID this
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and this
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13.9.02

ivan bilibin at fantasygallery

11.9.02

John Lee's burning hell (ain't no)

one of Raphael's madonnas and a perfect torso

nice color photography with dorky and easily-erased watermarks

3 mysterious Japanese horsemen

Pachydermish total improv
from these guys, who also have Kurt Vonnegut and Maureen Tucker, and the world's most wanted song, and the Tangerine Awkestra, five-year-old Art Ensemble of Chicago-ists

10.9.02

wherever you are whatever you think of me now, whatever you remember, or don't remember, whoever it was you were then, whoever you are now, happy birthday.
everything I am is trying to compensate for what feels like complete failure, and the one I failed the most was you.
I don't testify, won't. but it's there. I could make pretty good art out of how deep it goes, but it's never going to be something I give to anyone but you, and when would that be? where? so there's this, a few words at the end of the day, a long journey behind me, a little one still ahead. I don't feel justified in loving anything, but I have that, I can find it even when I can't feel it, it's there, it's still there. I dream you getting all of it in another form, over and above the gutter all this flows down, I dream you hearing it somehow, right now, and on into the coming months, happy birthday, I hope so much it is.

http://www.mp3-blues.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=MP3s&file=index&q=m&m=%2FThe_Blues%2FJ-R%2FLiving+The+Blues+-+Blues+Roots+1930-1944%2FLiving+The+Blues+-+Blues+Roots+1930+-+1944+-+10+-+Bukka+White+-+Shake+%27Em+On+Down.mp3

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!!!!!
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http://www.mp3-blues.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=MP3s&file=index&q=m&m=%2FBlues_Temp%2FAlbert_King-Live_On_Memory_Lane-1995+%28JR%29%2F04-albert_king-dont_throw_your_love_on_me_so.mp3
albertkinghadyoutolditlikeitwas

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genthe ainu

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6.9.02

Pima man

5.9.02

Genthe's Ainu
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2.9.02

from reading a wonderful poem by Robert Wrigley and following its link to webdelsol's five points, and then on to Prairie Schooner and its links list and somewhere in there linking to Crowd with its perfect covers and inside them, the Lucian Freudian mastery of Natalie Frank's art. also somehow or other going to beehive, an intellectual trove if I ever saw one, in between the beginning and end of all that jumping around the ineradicable stain of Shelley Jackson's brainiac smartypants poetry, some of it delivered in MP3. I found a lot of things to treasure and reread, to remember and hold. But of all I found, this piece, the second one on the page, by Miriam Sagan, is the one I most want to hear again, and keep.