Re: Lost (g)Loves update

2006-04-03 Thread Talan Memmott
#28 was an amazing find. peace, T On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:22:04 -0500 Maria Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i really like #13 and #18. stripes! At 1:30 PM -0700 4/3/06, Talan Memmott wrote: now includes gloves collected in: karlskrona, sweden bergen, norway copenhagen, denmark

Lost (g)Loves update

2006-04-03 Thread Talan Memmott
now includes gloves collected in: karlskrona, sweden bergen, norway copenhagen, denmark http://memmott.org/talan/g_love/

Re: ... (fwd)

2006-04-03 Thread Talan Memmott
On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. not entirely true... I will have to wait a month minus a day for that to occur...

jeremiads

2006-04-02 Thread Talan Memmott
1. The impossible wills itself again always in winsome contradiction to the simple formula when patience is the answer truant appearances blocked by the monody of white noise or lawless philosophy divergent inertia a careless interruption we

Re: proportion

2006-03-29 Thread Talan Memmott
i'm going to fix everything today it'll just be broken tomorrow

Re: Lost (*)Loves

2006-03-12 Thread Talan Memmott
don't attend to, haze over, don't see. -Peter Ciccariello -Original Message----- From: Talan Memmott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:18:15 -0800 Subject: Lost (*)Loves 'Tis better to have (g)loved and lost than ne

Re: St. Pittsburg

2006-03-12 Thread Talan Memmott
((btw; loved the piece Talan)) very much in the middle of the process... hardly edited, and there is much more that I left out.

St. Pittsburg

2006-03-11 Thread Talan Memmott
I sip a too large latte and listen. I don't understand a word... The traffic, vehicular and pedestrian passes by the two arched windows bordered in Avocado. White walls between break their stride, the drive into frames, slipping horizontal cinematic... A Number-One bus passes by, a Mini parks, hea

Re: the parable of the foolish heart

2006-03-11 Thread Talan Memmott
brilliant stuff latelt Morrigan! On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:13:54 - morrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'do you love me?' i asked. 'i don't know,' he said. it was then i realised that love is only for the very brave or the very stupid and he was neither.

Re: Some givens

2006-03-11 Thread Talan Memmott
i'd lose the given from the last line. maybe even the "cannot" could "can" given, that time (as we know it) is a human construct - Original Message - From: matt lee To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:19 PM Subject: Some givens Given, that writi

Re: Lost (*)Loves

2006-03-09 Thread Talan Memmott
t from some years ago... At 8:18 AM -0800 3/9/06, Talan Memmott wrote: 'Tis better to have (g)loved and lost than never to have (g)loved at all. -Tennyson The hottest (g)love has the coldest end. -Socrates http://memmott.org/talan/g_love/00.html

Lost (*)Loves

2006-03-09 Thread Talan Memmott
'Tis better to have (g)loved and lost than never to have (g)loved at all. -Tennyson The hottest (g)love has the coldest end. -Socrates http://memmott.org/talan/g_love/00.html

Re: ars, artis

2006-03-02 Thread Talan Memmott
how would you de/scribe your art? with an eraser, the delete button, backspace...

Re: boiled peanuts

2006-02-22 Thread Talan Memmott
Boiled Peanuts the southern US, 19th century US version of what is now called edamame... "I ate it mommy."

a project

2006-02-21 Thread Talan Memmott
Something I had my swedish student develop... RE:COLLATED HAIKUS http://memmott.org/ia_web/rehaiku/ A collection of recombinant haikus. (sometimes good, sometimes not) The poems are made from texts appropriated from the web, which was part of another assignment. Though there are six titles, t

Re: Nam June Paik 1932-2006

2006-01-30 Thread Talan Memmott
huge influence when I was doing video installations... On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:22:00 -0600 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Rod Stasick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 30, 2006 11:55:30 AM CST To: SilenceList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [silence] Nam Ju

Re: [_arc.hive_] NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-18 Thread Talan Memmott
If I had composed these pieces and they were played by musicians rather than the computer triggering samples I think the qualities you mention would be there... Throughout most of my life I've played music and have been surround by players... The [N]+Semble stuff is a sort of therapy for dealing

Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-18 Thread Talan Memmott
ah. On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:42:48 -0600 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: medeski martin wood On Dec 18, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Talan Memmott wrote: mmw suck I know what "suck" means... what does "mmw" mean?

Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-18 Thread Talan Memmott
mmw suck I know what "suck" means... what does "mmw" mean?

Re: [_arc.hive_] NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-18 Thread Talan Memmott
iends loosen out into that boundary no-man's no-woman's either between open/close statements - lost in the bridge of infinitude - infinite speedup sends it Coleman or sum such - those fast riffs all orderly - I'm always wondering about beauty - that split in yr work - between the scratc

Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-18 Thread Talan Memmott
but people call CDs records? THENoff, I'm trying to picture yr setup, it sounds to my ear like yr triggering sequences of rhythm section & playing a live keyboard over the top of it. What's the software set up, I seem to remember that yr a Mac guy? ~mIEKAL On Dec 17, 2005, at 2:31

Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-17 Thread Talan Memmott
t: Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album well, lounge lizards or medesky martin wood it aint but i kinda like the spacey organ sounding ones you ever think of doing something a little more korla pandit it needs a little more Korla Pandit i think, or maybe KP by way of Conlon Nancarrow then rub in s

Re: NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-17 Thread Talan Memmott
well, lounge lizards or medesky martin wood it aint good but i kinda like the spacey organ sounding ones good you ever think of doing something a little more korla pandit no you like KP? sometimes CN? most times C? hardly ever

NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

2005-12-17 Thread Talan Memmott
Blue Node // [N]+Semble Seven, count 'em seven new tracks from [N]+Semble. A little jazzier than the previous album, PulpCycle. http://memmott.org/nsemble/ comments?

Re: how does this work...?

2005-12-16 Thread Talan Memmott
the green dots are afterimages... optical residue, the green is the complimentary color of the pink. when the pink dot disappears in the rotation, you see the after image... On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:17 -0600 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: can anyone explain how this works? http://www

Re: [stuff-it] FW: Ukraine's University of Hate (fwd)

2005-12-11 Thread Talan Memmott
sick. On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:03:48 -0500 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:04:56 -0500 From: "Gurstein, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [stuff-it] FW: Ukraine's Uni

Re: check this out!

2005-11-22 Thread Talan Memmott
Interesting and amusing... I really like the music hallishness of them, and the sort of puppet (punch) voice, and the inflated accent. On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:42:13 -0500 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://ctgr2.free.fr/netSongs/flame-songs.htm - this is amazing! He's on the s

Re: upcoming performance / panel

2005-11-07 Thread Talan Memmott
forming (along w/ Talan Memmott, Maria Damon and Sandy Baldwin responding) w/ video/sound at The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Chicago IL, November 10-13, 2005 - at the Intercontinental Hotel - http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/links/slsa2005conference

Re: audio nostalgia

2005-11-07 Thread Talan Memmott
whoa... having flashbacks... show me the 8tracks. On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:22:55 -0600 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://hanazuc02.ld.infoseek.co.jp/cassettes/cassettes.htm

Re: pb

2005-10-21 Thread Talan Memmott
4:14 -0400 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you kidding? What was the context? Meanwhile it took me to a great hate list; I hope to do something or other w/ it -Alan On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Talan Memmott wrote: They were on Dateline last night... there being used. On Fri, 21 Oct 20

Re: pb

2005-10-21 Thread Talan Memmott
They were on Dateline last night... there being used. On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:55:22 -0400 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is by far the most bizarre thing I've seen online. I wasn't sure at first what was going on until I saw the Aryanware... - Alan On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, mwp wro

Re: writsæx: jetty

2005-10-20 Thread Talan Memmott
This etymology is interesting to me. Not so much for how you are using it but for what it reveals, personally to me... My last name, Memmott is considered a Welsh name... But, the history of the family has some roots in Scotland and in Sheffield as well... As knife makers... not writing knifes, o

prix fixe

2005-10-07 Thread Talan Memmott
Champage-Jicama-Wasabi Shrimp Cocktail Buffalo Tartar with Squash Coulee Sole-Pancetta Delice with Lemon-Almond-Chardonnay Cream Sauce Spicy Court Bouillon with Scallions, Enoki Mushroom and Flying Fish Roe Roasted Beet and Lemon Sorbets with Fresh Basil and Balsamic Vinegar Chicken Gallantin

Re: Wryting at e-Poetry

2005-10-04 Thread Talan Memmott
I wasn't there and I'm not on this list. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:58:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just back from fragments of the London e-Poetry conference & thought I’d mention some stuff relating to people on this list. I missed a session which included a paper on Alan Sondheim. I

Re: Church of Coltrane

2005-09-25 Thread Talan Memmott
The church of coltrane is NOT a hoax. I had been there a number of times. On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:44:38 -0500 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brad: The link at the bottom isn't working for me. I'm interested to see why someone thinks it's a hoax. I found a lot of material legitimizin

Bush

2005-09-22 Thread Talan Memmott
I know this is the national enquirer, but... BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63426

Re: codon 13 / animated gif

2005-09-19 Thread Talan Memmott
cool! On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:33:27 -0700 lanny quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: codon 13 / animated gif http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codon13.gif

Traffic (a play)

2005-09-18 Thread Talan Memmott
To be performed by four pedestrians. Lines spoken when they collide. written in 'hack.latin' with english directions and asides. M: (enter) JOKE : Melancholy bullies Folly. . . to whisper in advance lud~ego_ebullio lud~ego_exorio lud~ego_extundo imbibo.vobis aperio.vobis effingo.vobis confingo_

40 days

2005-09-16 Thread Talan Memmott
thank god for bourbon It's Paris so there are motorbikes, green capitals one is not supposed to be enough it's you and me smelly half moon new moon the Bedouin will arrive speaking in tongues. Thunder belly bombs out came rats and steam what is the prognosis? Runni

ventrilocal whitewash

2005-09-06 Thread Talan Memmott
Rove said, "say there will be plenty of time to assess: "...what went right, and what went wrong." George W. Bush "...what worked, what didn't work." Scott McClellan (White House Press Secretary) "...what was right and what was wrong." Michael Chertoff (Director of Homeland Security) "...what wo

Re: Euro English

2005-08-30 Thread Talan Memmott
we have become a listening society rather than a hearing society a viewing society rather than a seeing society or a reading society echoes of derrida ~ from language to writing ...

Re: FOUND PHOTOS 2005

2005-08-05 Thread Talan Memmott
cool! #2 has a sort of lascaux palette On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:31:22 -0700 mwp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FOUND PHOTOS 2005 Selected from an abandoned photo album found in 2005 along the train tracks in Albany, CA. The photos in the album were heavily soiled, scratched, faded, waterlogged,

Re: found in las casas

2005-08-01 Thread Talan Memmott
i'm selecting words and phrases at random and verbatim from the works of dead white men as homage, epitaph, and a kind of logomancy. how very phallocentric ;) just kidding.

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
series yes, or a constant subject matter, but that doesn't imply fetish. - alan On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Talan Memmott wrote: They are safe now, yes, you are right... they get the saccharin "ahhh." (which is sometimes also a yawn) but how did they become safe? or, how were they c

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think it's an illusion at all; I think they're safe. But they're figures so they're illusion in any case, no? What do you mean held? The armature? Relate this to dance and its sexualized crotch-lift. But that's acce

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
however, the word phalloid, even strictly regarding form, suggests phalloexcentricity. the common term - hypo-laravaloid - is more than sufficiently descriptive and dare i say it, not to mention suitably genderless. ah, just kidding around. all in the eye of the beholder, eh? [] --- Talan Memmott

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
lus re-construction than a deconstruction. Naturally it's valid, but so is my theory that Eve, of the garden of Eden, was a gay person. Sometimes a cigar IS a cigar, not a pipe. [] --- Talan Memmott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: howz 'bout 'phalloid'... they are upright, stiff, reaching

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
e a plaster cast of the member, but a bronze cast of the fetish. solid shadows. On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:11:49 -0700 "[]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That little back stage bronzed and tutu'd rat phallic? Jeez, where's a cigar when you need it? [] --- Talan Memmott <

Re: Save CBGB

2005-07-31 Thread Talan Memmott
signed the petition On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:09:59 -0400 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For those who care and maybe were there or at least heard about it - http://savecbgb.org/ - thanks, Alan

Re: Degas' Dancer, deconstruction, the west

2005-07-29 Thread Talan Memmott
Funny how your critique of the Degas dancer sculptures is similar what they were panned for originally -- as being ugly, and their content mundane. Plus, phallic... That is not to say you are being conservative in your critique since they are so entrenched in mass-aesthetics, as you say safe icons

the next

2005-07-12 Thread Talan Memmott
pharmaco-post.* the poison is the remedy. we are beyond. what? any.thing.place.being it can be cured, FIXED [to the ground, like a maypole -- round and round till the knot is tethered]

Re: quicktime & text

2005-07-07 Thread Talan Memmott
Don't you need Quicktime Pro to do these things? ~mIEKAL yup

Re: fast forward from 1720 to the KRONOS PROJECTOR 2005 (fwd)

2005-07-06 Thread Talan Memmott
kinda next generation Vasulka-like On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:10:19 -0400 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:48:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerald Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Projectory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: fast forward from

Re: When To Selbmuts

2005-05-10 Thread Talan Memmott
invent-L Gregory Ulmer's list On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:31:25 -0500 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what's invent-L? On May 10, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote: how strange.. i just wrote the diad "moth mouth" day before yesterday in something... and there's a kind of interesting dis

Re: paris

2005-04-18 Thread Talan Memmott
I agree, but, yes, anytime is a good time I like late March. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:32:33 -0400 Ryan Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The locals tend to leave and a lot of things are closed in those months, it can also get muggy, and there are plenty of tourists. But Paris is a good time any

N+Semble / Pulpcycle

2005-04-16 Thread Talan Memmott
13 tracks http://memmott.org/nsemble/

Re: MIT students' "computer-generated gibberish" accepted atscience conf. (fwd)

2005-04-15 Thread Talan Memmott
I agree I am not sure where they get there list from, but I've been solicited. but, it seemed pretty scammy right away. On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:56:29 -0400 Charles Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm pretty sure that conference they submitted to, the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cy

Re: Nicanor Parra is a Sexy Devil with 3 backbones.

2005-04-04 Thread Talan Memmott
I have a signed Poems and Anti-Poems. Really...? If anyone would I would suspect that you would, Alan Rock on!

Re: swollen

2005-04-03 Thread Talan Memmott
funny ... I use this "pixel pixie" in the tedious affairs/of jack text... On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 03:17:03 -0400 Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: swollen title swollen you are my obsession my pixel pixie you filter intercession my hot touch keys home http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/so

Re: marienbad

2005-03-31 Thread Talan Memmott
The way this stutters frames to frame, along with the magnetic attraction and repulsion between what appear to be (for me) the central male and female figures, lovers perhaps -- we'll call them that, that the lovers remain, almost ghosts in the transition between the dithered daylight color and the