tomorrow: the real cultural litmus test

[manny at telerama.com]

see i told you it would be a good show.
i'm glad they brought up the issue at the show.
i am looking forward to getting the recording of this group if it's
on vinyl (maybe it will come out on Table of the Elements??).

i didn't go, found myself running behind and still in Bloomfield at 7 pm
with no direct connecting bus to Regent Square from there. i suddenly
realize i wasn't going to make it by 7:30 and by then it could be sold
out. No Paul's employees were going, so no direct ride. plus
kind of low on cash (mainly from the past two months of losses - put
up the GB show against the other 30 that did poorly, it's only a blip)
so I rationalized my way out of going. i probably one of the more
crucial shows of the year, my fault.

see the new issue of the Wire with Christian Marclay's Invisible
Jukebox, he gets them all correct.

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Joel Young wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2003, at 9:40 PM, DennisCraigLee at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm inclined to agree. Brakhage's opinion can be duly noted, then 
> > dismissed.
> > He's not likely to punch anyone out now, is he? For art purists, I 
> > suggest
> > they use earplugs during the performance. Sadly, that will only make 
> > the blood
> > thump in their ears, creating an unwelcomed - gasp! - rhythm... and 
> > baspheming
> > their god Brakhage with unsolicited sound once again. What to do? 
> > Perhaps
> > ripping their hearts out of their bodies so that the last sight into 
> > their dying
> > eyes is their beloved Brakhage's images.
> 
> Hehehe. It was a good performance, in any case. Ranaldo got up on the 
> mic right before they played and addressed the topic, saying that the 
> film community had been questioning their placing music to Brakhage's 
> films. They sort of sidestepped the issue by saying that it was not a 
> soundtrack -- it was a group called Text of Light, playing alongside 
> Brakhage's film Text of Light.
> 
> Whatever the case, I think the screening and the musical performance 
> complemented each other beautifully -- if for no other reason than they 
> helped keep me awake, which can be tough to do with an hour and a half 
> of abstract ambience.
> 
> ObGoth: droning ambience and indeterminate shapes of light make me 
> think about death and life and stuff.
> 
> 
> Joel Young
> <joel at inreverie.org>
> <http://www.inreverie.org>
> 
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