Thursday, January 1, 2009

"the wall"

this british guy did an interesting project, i've been watching all the footage even though none of it is particularly moving or purposeful (which is kind of nice):
"The Wall was composed by 54 people over a period of 12 months. In 2006 I stopped throwing stuff away. The kitchen got full of plastic milk cartons. And the green tops. Eventually the council put a plastic recycle bin outside my flat so the cartons went into that. From 1st January - 31st December 2007 every visitor to the flat put a green bottle top up on the wall - postman, alsatian dog or whomsoever - they got their bit of blue tac and a bottle top and hummed and hahed and made a decision. February 2008 I drew the stave on, over and within the dots, and since then various folk have been interpreting this."

there are clarinetists, synths, banjo, tambourine, i can't tell how seriously any of them are taking it.

thinking about being a human being makes me feel really weird and uncomfortable

my dad told me a story about how he met wavy gravy from the hog farm commune at a yale party in 1970 and wavy gravy asked him to make a balloon in the shape of a pig, so my dad did, then the hog farm people ritual-sacrificed the balloon pig. jefferson starship was there too and then wavy gravy kidnapped my dad's friend julio to tibet and they made a movie called red ball or red orb or something. the movie is about hog farm hippies doing drugs and looking for a maharaja in tibet and nepal. i couldn't find it on imdb

No comments:

Post a Comment