Spring Cleaning
THE MORNING BRIEF, Vol. IV, #14 (April 2, 2001) -- Springing forward without falling back.
CONTENTS
FEELING
SPRING
the morning after the night before
HOUSE CLEANING
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DOING THINGS WELL
OUR LONG, NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS JUST BEGINNING
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STATUES WITHOUT ARMS
FLICKAGE: "MEMENTO"
GARY SINISE'S EYES
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BRITNEY SPEARS
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SIX DISK CHANGER
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UPCOMING
CONCERTS
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CONTRIBUTIONS
FEELING SPRING >>> We're here to procreate, and seldom above making a show of it.
the morning after the night before >>> Still in bed.
"What just happened? Two days ago everything was, well, as fine as it could be. Now everything is FUCKED UP!!!"
Rolling over.
"I need some juice."
CLEANING HOUSE >>> Does anything feel better than getting rid of all of that useless stuff? Man, do I love throwing things out. Back to basics, clutter-free. More room for what really matters. Removing the junk.
ON DOING THINGS WELL >>> One of the best parts about doing something you really care about is that when you really, truly, do (care), you can get focused on making what you're doing great and let go of the all that external stuff - praise, profit, glory.
Then, when you're done and feeling proud you can take a moment to look outside of what you're doing to think, "You know what else? Other people are going to like this...some are going to love it...and they were the ones who I was doing it for. Them, and me."
OUR BAD DREAM >>> I've been hearing for years that the Democrats are the spenders. They're for big government, and Republicans are for smaller. And so how are the Republicans going to pay for their massive tax cut, which will benefit mainly the rich? They're going to cut spending, right? Because they're the responsible, low-spending, small government party, right?
Then how come the budget that President Bush is bringing to Congress includes a 4% increase in spending? Here's a thought...because he's full of shit, that's why. The President is full of shit.
This tax cut and budget are Bush's big lies, and he's going to get busted for them, for sure. Watch the whammy it's going to put on our economy as he re-inflates the National Debt. Running up a credit card that the next generation will have to pay. It's so amazingly sad. People are buying his military spending malarkey, standing by as he pumps up pet Republican industries like the oil companies, nuclear power and organized religion. Even his education spending is a Trojan Horse for pumping money into private schools via vouchers. Yucky, yucky, yuckorama.
This guy sucks. We traded a President who fucked over his private life for one who's going to fuck up our entire nation. Our environment. Maybe the world. Because his policies are so odious, Russia is becoming the leader of the United Nations. Maybe it's for the best. Our President is an idiot, a liar, a puppet and a pawn.
STATUES WITHOUT ARMS >>> So poignant. It is an artistic fact that the most inspiring sculptures do not have arms.
I mean, why have arms if you can't move them? Powerful, powerful stuff.
FLICKAGE: "MEMENTO" >>> I wasn't quite sure about this film as I was watching it, largely because the person who watched it with me was busy loathing every minute. Upon reflection, I liked this film for its inventiveness, complexity, and the feeling you get when you watch it, trying to figure out what's going to happen next. Which, in "Memento," is really what happened first.
The film stars Guy Pearce ("Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," "L.A. Confidential") as a former insurance investigator with a rare mental condition that's zapped his short-term memory. To compensate, he resorts to a combination of snapshots, handwritten notes, and tattoos that remind him who he is, where he lives, who certain people are, etc.
If you think this sounds like a gimmick, you're right. The film is told from the present to the past, with each scene ending just moments after the point where the previous scene had begun. Confusing, yes? The film's a brain-teaser for sure. And you need to concentrate to pick up the clues that will help you understand what really happened. Even then you may not quite get it.
Such is the genius of this film. Profoundly disorienting and defying simple explanation, it left me feeling unsure of what I'd just experienced, the causes, the culprits. Ever try to figure out exactly what was going on in a certain situation but you can't quite get to it because the memories are cloudy? This movie re-creates that feeling in a very clever way. I'm going to go see it again to try to sort it all out.
GARY SINISE'S EYES >>> Have you seen those things? Big, old, red bags underneath them. They hurt me just to look at 'em. Ouch.
KIDDIE PORN >>> Who has the nads to love pop's naughty, little schoolgirl as much as Bob Dole's dog? She is the musical equivalent of a Pepsi.
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SIX DISK CHANGER >>> Time for another infusion:
1. Pete Yorn,
"musicforthemorningafter"
2. Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"
3. Wagonchrist - "Musipal"
4. Elton Plotz, "More, More, Less"
5. Ministry, "Psalm 69 - The Way to Succeed and Way to Suck Eggs"
6. Mogwai - "Come on Die Young"
7. Bjork, "Greatest Hits" (homemade)
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More daytime, less clutter. Must be spring.
Oh, and Go Duke!!!
Much flex,
D.
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In touch with your whirl.
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Notable shows in and around Southern
California.
Highly
recommended shows this color.
Red
alert; must see!
4.03.01 - Akiko
Yano @ Knitting Factory Hollywood
4.04.01 - Waterboys @ House
of Blues
4.05.01 - Waterboys @ House of Blues
4.06.01 - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones @ Wiltern Theatre
4.06.01 - Guided by Voices @ House of Blues
4.07.01 - Alex DeGrassi @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
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4.12.01 - Lloyd Cole @ The Mint
4.14.01 - Pete Tong @ Club Giant
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4.16.01 - Joe Jackson @ John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
4.16.01 - Shane McGowan and the Popes @ House of Blues
4.19.01 - Low @ El Rey Theatre
4.20.01 - Richard Buckner @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
4.20.01 - Poi
Dog Pondering @ House of Blues
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4.23.01 - U2 @ Arrowhead Pond
4.23.01 - Medeski, Martin & Wood w/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe @
House of Blues
4.24.01 - Medeski, Martin & Wood w/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe @
House of Blues
4.24.01 - Arab Strap @ Knitting Factory Hollywood
4.25.01 - Queens of the Stone Age @ El Rey Theatre
4.27.01 - Kate & Anna McGarigle @ Knitting Factory Hollywood
4.27.01 - Ira Glass @ UCLA Royce Hall
4.28.01 -
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Jane's Addiction, St.
Germain, Kruder & Dorfmeister) @ Empire Polo Field (Indio,
CA)
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5.05.01 - Natalie MacMaster @ UCLA Royce Hall
5.10.01 - Papa Roach @ Hollywood Palladium
5.12.01 - Stanley Jordan @ The Key Club
5.18.01 -
David Gray @ Universal Amphitheatre
5.20.01 -
Mark Knopfler @ The Greek Theatre
5.21.01 - Badly Drawn Boy @
El Rey Theatre
5.22.01 - Dave Matthews Band w/Macy Gray @ Dodger Stadium
10.16.01 - James Taylor @ Hollywood Bowl
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HAVE YOU ever reconsidered? HAVE YOU done something on the spur of a moment? HAVE YOU eaten anything extra yummy? HAVE YOU found a haven? HAVE YOU considered moving to a new climate? HAVE YOU got an axe to grind? HAVE YOU taken a deep breath lately?
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-- forwarded by Lauri Maerov.
RE: DIGITAL PAINTINGS BY MICHAEL WRIGHT >>> April 20 thru June 8, 2001
Reception: Saturday April 23, 6:00 to 9:00pm
http://home.earthlink.net/~mrwstudios/index.html
Digital Hollywood Institute of Media Arts (Dhima) is proud to present paintings by pioneer digital artist Michael Wright. Wright is a painter who began to explore Digital Media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first Digital Prints in 1989 and continues to work in both traditional and electronic mediums. He has exhibited digital and traditional works on a national level. Elizabeth
A.T. Smith, curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, called Wrights work, "Powerful, Evocative, an equally charged carrier of meaning about memory, time and transformation." Howard Fox, curator of modern art for the Museum has called Wright's digital work, "Down and dirty, with underlying tension2. Wright was one of the featured artists at 3ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace in San Jose March 2001.
His work appears currently in "The Computer in the Visual Arts" by Anne Morgan Spalter of Brown University, published by Addison Wesley. His digital works are also published in Linda Jacobs' book Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology, Wired, Micro Publishing News and Computer Graphics & Applications. He and his work have been featured on Agent X, Television Tokyo. Wright's digital works are represented by the Spectra Gallery of Digital Art in New York City.
-- forwarded by Michael Wright Studios.