The boundaries of reality are the area of play…

THE FRAME

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

You have to put a “box” around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

If John Cage, for instance, says, “I’m putting a contact microphone on my throat, and I’m going to drink carrot juice, and that’s my composition,” then his gurgling qualifies as his composition because he put a frame around it and said so. “Take it or leave it, I now will this to be music.” After that it’s a matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it’s a guy swallowing carrot juice.

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- Frank Zappa

LET’S ALL BE COMPOSERS

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Want to be a composer? You don’t even have to be able to write it down. The stuff that gets written down is only a recipe, remember? - like the stuff in Ronnie Willimas’s MACHA book. If you can think design, you can execute design - it’s only a bunch of air molecules, who’s gonna check up on you?

Just Follow These Simple Instructions:

1) Declare your intention to create a “composition.”

2) Start a piece at some time.

3) Cause something to happen over a period of time (it doesn’t matter what happens in your “time hole” - we have critics to tell us whether it’s any good or not, so we won’t worry about that part).

4. End the piece at some time (or keep it going, telling the audience it is a “work in progress”).

5) Get a part-time job so you can continue to do stuff like this.

-Frank Zappa

I HATE it when people show up at my apartment uninvited. If I have invited Joe Blob, it does not mean that I have invited his secret girlfriend, roommate, or dog.

Whatever has happened to etiquettes? People should at least have the decency to pick up the phone and call me ahead of time to ask if it’s ok, so that I’d have the opportunity to tell them “no it’s not OK”! Unless of course if it is.

Even if it is, it’s still much more pleasant to get an advanced notice. That’s the way I conceive social interactions, and I was brought up in boarding schools - the most un-private of all places. So I don’t care for your excuses. Next time, I will only let in whoever is invited, period.

And that statement is categorical.

Currently reading : Orlan: The Narrative By Lorand Hegyi Release date: 01 January, 2008

Currently watching : Destricted [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]

I got this because of Larry Clark’s new work “Impaled,” but the highlight of this set is really Marina Abramovic’s Balkan Erotic Epic - funny, wry, erotic, impeccable cinematography.

Unfortunately, for a group of films that is supposed to reflect on the intersect between art and pornography (what a brilliant idea!), I think it largely misses its mark, although again, Clark was the only one that managed to at least stay on topic in my opinion (I had hoped that he would push the envelope further). I guess I should have never expected to bridge the dichotomy brought on by the millennial separation between body and soul with an artsy-fartsy film project such as this.

My Milk and His Wine