R.I.P.

The only mention of it I've been able to find is at Ron Silliman's blog, but the not unexpected death of poet Harold Norse seems to have occurred sometime in the last few days. In 1996 he had a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery, but continued to work on a history of homophobia: Homo.

His writing had a profound influence on me and my self-esteem at a time when it was sorely needed, especially Memoirs of a Bastard Angel and Love Poems. He taught me defiance. There is an excellent bio piece by Jim Nawrocki from the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, and another with a bibliography at the Beat Museum.

Simple-minded

One party created the current disaster. The other has embraced the broadest parameters of the policies that (enabled) the disasters that voters want fixed — wealth transfers to the ultra rich while the vast majority gets just about nothing plus mindless, counter productive fantasies of empire through war.

link: Dissident Voice : The Binary Fallacy and the End of Two Parties

Artist's Eye

If you're interested in how an artist works and aren't offended by mildly homoerotic art, I suggest you check out DickiesDrawings. He posts concept sketches, journal pages, animation roughs, etc. which I find fascinating. And he's very talented.

The Metamorphoses of Don José

An intriguing discussion of a reiterated gentleman. Click pic
Thanks to John Coulthart at { feuilleton }

Sonic ecstasy

Click to see/hear Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac and Anneliese Rothenberger, from the wonderful film by P. Czinner (1960), Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Thanks also to Alidoro, and Gottfried Helnwein

In Progress

138 x 180 mm. on w/c paper
Panel 1 of 6 panorama

Lyonel Feininger