11-06-2023, 04:22 AM
I was tricked by my unchanged clock into getting up at 3:30 a.m. 4:30 would have been bad enough.
Anyway, I had time and quiet enough to listen to the John Ashbery recordings. I'll need to revisit "Self-portrait...." in print. It's much too long and involved to absorb via audio, at least for me; my mind wanders when I listen to anything but someone talking to me in person. But I can read along like I used to do as the teacher read to us from The Wheel on the School.
My favorite part of the first video was when Ashbery lit the cigarette at the end of the video and the video went all dark due to the brightness of the flaring match. Also, the cigarette box looked like a Dunhills, what I used to smoke long ago with great affectation. English cigarettes. Probably my imagination, my wanting to be like him. And wanting to smoke again. I'm obsessed with smoking since I quit.
Henri Cole will have to wait as I am too besotted by Ashbery and Che to pick up another book right now. I'll probably watch the Soderbergh movie again when I finish this biography.
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I can't run. That means I have to take on everything that comes my way.
There's a great scene in the movie Lion of the Desert (1980) where the Libyan guerrillas fighting the Italians bind one of their legs just before battle so they can't run away. And the Gauls used to tie each other together so that even if one died, the others had to keep fighting. You're in good company.
Anyway, I had time and quiet enough to listen to the John Ashbery recordings. I'll need to revisit "Self-portrait...." in print. It's much too long and involved to absorb via audio, at least for me; my mind wanders when I listen to anything but someone talking to me in person. But I can read along like I used to do as the teacher read to us from The Wheel on the School.
My favorite part of the first video was when Ashbery lit the cigarette at the end of the video and the video went all dark due to the brightness of the flaring match. Also, the cigarette box looked like a Dunhills, what I used to smoke long ago with great affectation. English cigarettes. Probably my imagination, my wanting to be like him. And wanting to smoke again. I'm obsessed with smoking since I quit.
Henri Cole will have to wait as I am too besotted by Ashbery and Che to pick up another book right now. I'll probably watch the Soderbergh movie again when I finish this biography.
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I can't run. That means I have to take on everything that comes my way.
There's a great scene in the movie Lion of the Desert (1980) where the Libyan guerrillas fighting the Italians bind one of their legs just before battle so they can't run away. And the Gauls used to tie each other together so that even if one died, the others had to keep fighting. You're in good company.