Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got
Maybe I'm headed over the hill
Maybe I've set myself up for the kill
Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you is starting to break?
Sometimes it feels like it will
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be out there too long
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Out of the darkness, into the light
Leaving the scene of the crime
Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time
Sometimes I lie awake, night after night
Coming apart at the seams
Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do I go to extremes?
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
No I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low
There ain't no in-betweens
You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be out there too long
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
I don't know why...I don't know why...
I don't know why...I don't know why...
Out in the dark...into the light...
Tuesday, January 1
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Thursday, December 27
Krishna and Radha Lie in a Bower
"Krishna and Radha Lie in a Bower"Rajasthan: Kishangarh, ca. 1750
Attributed to Nihal Chand
Friday, December 21
Thursday, December 20
Tuesday, December 18
Seek to lead rather than control
I used to want to "save" the world.
To change it.
To make it better.
To lessen the evils.
To lessen the world hurt or the world pain.
To make things easier.
To make people consider others more.
And today I realized how controlling that all is.
It is impossible to control the world.
And that the best I can do is:
Lead.
By example.
I hope that what I put into the world
as far as positive energy
and thoughtfulness
and consideration
and benefit of doubt
and attempts to bring forth beauty from wherever it is beauty comes
somehow infuses those around me
such that their work will infuse others
and so on.
That is the best I can do.
(inspired by Mia's self-portrait post)
Monday, December 17
Saturday, December 15
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Friday, December 14
Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball, 1914
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. it is terribly simple. In French it means "hobby horse." In German it means "good-by," "Get off my back," "Be seeing you sometime." In Romanian: "Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right." And so forth.
An international word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications.
Monday, December 10
The I love you Questionnaire Show
I have an idea for a simple performance art spoken word piece.
As far as the stage goes, I need a stage back lit with blue light so that you see people’s silhouettes. Two mics on stage with loud enough volume that face each other. (Or maybe they face the audience.)
There may or may not be a sound track behind them. But might be cooler to have a sound track.
The performers could either be real actors or hopefully people from the audience or a mix of both. We need 10 of them. Two people at the mics at one time. So in 5 separate pairs.
The pair read to each other from a page they’ve just been given. The exchange is in the form of “question-answer”. One page is marked questioner, one page is marked answerer. Questioner starts first—asking question 1, then waiting for the answerer to respond.
People read basically what’s on the page. But they can feel free to read it however they like.
The questions and answers are made out of questionnaires we’ve distributed possibly through Mia’s mail art projects or other ways. And hopefully we get some really good/honest/touching/funny responses.
So it would be interesting to see how people:
-Say the words
-React to the words
-Maybe internalize it
The questions are things like:
What do you love?
Why do you love it?
When did you start loving it? Why then?
Did you ever stop loving it? Why?
How do you tell it I love you?
(I hate using ‘it’ here but who knows what they’ll say, so it’ll be reworded appropriately)
It would be cool if we could do a couple of short things like this for a little show next year.
Marky
P.S. I always have questions about how people feel about sharing this kind of stuff, especially if it’s gonna be used in a show or on the web. Anyone got any experience with the privacy/anonymity aspect of outside participation?
Self-Portrait with Chin Acne
Me "Self-Portrait with Chin Acne (and Tibetan art postcard)"
9x6in | 2007
Sunday, December 9
"I love you too"
Inspired by this sculpture and simply by the words themselves, I wrote some music and had Mia record herself saying "I love you" in different ways. There are some really great matter-of-fact i love yous, which I think is so great about loving things, someone else and yourself--when it is matter-of-fact.
"'I love you day' Air Races"
I would like to find a clip where someone says "I love you" to someone else. Right at the point where they realize it for the first time, like a subdued epiphany and the words just come out.
