DAYS
The Lesson by Ionesco
"Theatre of the absurd" is so final. Improbable is more like it. In Ionesco's "The Lesson," The Professor is a devoted teacher, in love with sharing his knowledge to the young students who come to his home.
Spectator
“Julian Schnabel, A Private Portrait” opened in NYC last week. It's a documentary film directed by Pappi Corsicato. Pappi interviewed me for the film a couple years ago. I hoped to describe my experiences or an understanding in a succinct way. That didn’t happen. My feelings about Julian and about myself were raw and my words were clumsy. I didn't feel that I'd described, except in that clumsiness, how embroiled I felt. I asked for a second session. Pappi came back, and I did pretty much the same thing. I wanted to say something that encapsulated and resolved our relationship. But I couldn't find words for the love and disappointment.
Tues. 2/2 show @ House of Yes: David Bowie in Film retrospective
Friends, House of Yes in Bushwick is screening Basquiat, directed by Julian Schnabel, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, as part of a David Bowie film series. I'm going to do a monologue about events involving Jean Michel and will play some songs including "She is Dancing" from the soundtrack of the film.
Assumptions
Every few weeks I meet with a group of people to discuss our experiences and feelings about race and racism. This is something I took away from our last discussion.
This is an attempt to get down something we discussed during this past Sunday's discussion. I've put it in the first person but only so that I could be speaking for myself and not others. I'd be interested in comments, suggestions, edits, etc:
Thanksgiving NYC
Nysheva - Starr met me at about 10:30 am. Herald Square. Police barriers everywhere controlling the crowds for the parade.
We stood at 33rd and 7th with signs: Racism - Fear of the Other, Ramarley / Sean / Amadou / Trayvon / Michael / Akai: Our Brothers, and Stand with Us. And two by two people joined us. Soon there were a dozen and then more standing in a row and often people stood behind us.
Captain Beefheart's Ten Commandments for Guitarists
I knew a wonderful musician named Don Van Vliet. He called himself Captain Beefheart. He said he had a beef in his heart. He used to call me late at night and talk for hours. I mostly listened. He'd talk about hats and consequences, playing with words. I'd lie in bed with the phone at my head listening to Don follow himself like a 5 year old.
A description of the use of compression as an effect
Irman Peck came by the other day to listen to some recordings that I'm working on. I'd pulled out a bunch of effects pedals. Irman saw an MXR dyna comp and suggested I use it. The next day he sent the following message, by text: