Author: wasswasswass

Lake Merritt is kinda scary. Walking home from BART today by the lake, and saw something moving in it. At first I thought it was a cigarette but being moved by the wind, but then it repeated changed directions. Maybe it is a tadpole- I thought. But it was to colorful to be a tadpole, at least like any one I have ever seen.

The larger hind section was pinkish and rotated around its long axis. The front shorter end was whitish and round. It swirled aimlessly, up and down until it hit the wall and stuck in the algae, feasting it looked like.

I wonder what weirdness lurks at the bottom of our local cesspool, mutated by years of exposure to oil, antifreeze, Cheetos and Gatorade bottles. Is it steril due to birthcontrol hormones washing down drains or overgrown?

Oh, I think the people upstairs are having sex again!

OK, OK, who is the moron that writes these scripts?

I mean you get the Leech kid stick him near Jean Grey and whammo problem solved. She’s not so incontrollable/psycho. She is then just another pretty face.

Kinda like in the second one (in that there was an easy solution but it is not taken to drive the story forward), when all the water is rushing down from the burst dam and Ice Boy just sits there. Hello Moron freeze the water. And maybe he was young and not that strong but he could have frozen some of it around Jean and then get her out.

I know, I know, you’re saying that Jean had to die for the next one could be made. But couldn’t they, the writers, have made her die in a more inevitable fashion. Such silly problems (if that is the right word) are irritating as a viewer

Also if she calls herself Pheonix, why cry when you kill her?

The Pheonix will rise again…God, I love franchises…

Just had my niece for several days. ‘Twas nice. After comparing mother to child, I asked myself – when do people become close-minded?

I was reading the Arts&Leisure section of the NY Sunday Time. ( I do not like that arts are paired with leisure. There is nothing leisurely about them. What about sports? How come Sports get its own section and talk about leisure. Fat men sitting in Lazyboys, reliving their highschool glory watching drug addled millionaires play glorified tiddlywinks ) In that section I saw on page 22 an article about a TV show on Gallery HD, called “ArtStar.” “8 artists jammed together into a SoHo loft for a month.”

a couple years ago I submitted this idea to the Sundance Channel for a TV show, though slightly different. I wanted to have a range of discipline is the same building— painter, musician, welder, dancer, playwright, video artist, all in a large building each with adequate workspace and making work; discussing process/product/issues/questions. I think this could happen in a small midwestern town, where propery is cheap. It would definitely be a boon to that town. Instantly on the map.

The focus of the show would not be dating ( ala Real World) but on the work. So whom do I talk to to make this show happen?

Anyone…

What is with people in Oakland and their(our) casual relationship with traffic signals? Oakland would not be in so much debt if the police actually gave people tickets for running red lights. Most days on the way to the bridge entrance off Grand I see at least 3 cars run red lights (4 if you count me!). It is so common that most people wait a little after the light goes green to let any stragglers through. I was kinda shocked when I first moved up here from San Diego. Is the city too broke to hire more traffic cops? Though there are plenty of people handing out parking tickets. Much easier to give a ticket to a parked car than a moving one.

Just walked around Lake Merritt, the stinky cesspool of Oakland. It merits a cleaning. Is that why a new fountain was put in to aerate the water? Some days if you are downwind…mighty bad smell. If that is the case, then a few more could be put in.

Trying for cardio. baby geese. Saw a bird dive into the lake and catch a fish, saw another one eating one. Maybe it was a heron, tall white skinny bird…pausing mid swallow, looked like it was choking. So much @#@# goose poop. I wish they would go back to Canada. We need to bring in some predators. I wonder if they are edible. Well I guess anything is edible, just ask the Donner party.

Saw the movie today. Was aiming for the Code but was all sold out. The first time I saw a preview for this movie thought it was a comedy. Who makes the previews anyways? Not a comedy, only laughed when he puked on the drunk’s floor.

Art teachers…dance teachers…are they teaching cuz they didn’t reach fame? The question…I think the saying should be changed- Those who can do. Those who can’t, categorize.- Is it modern is it PoMo. is it neo post classical…
The movie definitely believes that it is not what you do, but who you are when you do it.

Filmed at Fashion Valley for more Cubic videos. got several clips done and was filming a palm tree when the security cop showed up. He had one of those flat brimmed Bullwinkle hats on. I was informed that I could take a picture of a family member in front of the plant but not film. “that is the managements policy.” He had no answer as to why. Poor guy, enforcing things he probably doesn’t care about. Just made me think about the mall. Originally designed to increase community/democracy etc. but I would say it has the reverse effect. Makes people buy shit they don’t need, giving themselves a false sense of freedom, getting them more in debt so they have to work in jobs they don’t care about(MALL RENT-A-COP) and don’t make much money but are too busy working to pay off debts to actually do something about their crappy situation.

sleep, but first the New Yorker

So after Manhattan, I flew to San Diego and am staying in La Jolla near the beach. Talk about another stereotype of clothing. Flip flops and shorts. White people who are too brown and gonna be badly wrinkled or cancerized in a couple years. Blonde hair and bikini tops.

We think penguins all dress alike. At least they have an excuse, they are terrible at sewing. Well also it’s just functionality. So then maybe it is the same for the socioeconomic groups on some level.

People here in La Jolla wear more shorts, sandals etc because of the environment. Penguins are black and white because of light/shadows in the water or maybe black to absorb maximum heat. And rich men on the upper east side wear those silly leather shoes with the tassles because they have special money generating properties.

I know CI people tend to dress a like. Is it a functionality issue? Baggy cotton pants for good friction and airflow? Tights/spandex too slippery therefore less control. And Jeans to restrictive plus those rivet things could hurt.

Darwinian evolution of clothes…I am sure that at one time in ancient history the tie had a purpose. Now I am not sure what it is. Tieing(sp?) a random piece of fabric around a random part of your body. Man, that makes you look good.

If you had to reinvent the tie, what shape would the fabric be and where would you attach it to the human body?

As soon as I write this I am guaranteeing that i will get one, but I am glad that I do not have an iPod. Saw so many people on the subway today. only one guy was moving to the music. Could hear the music of several people, made me wonder about their hearing. But hearing loss aside, receiving so much stimulation without a response seems like a bad thing. As with negative emotions, it is bad to hold them in, no? Leads to cancer and all kinds of tumors. So then does that mean it is bad to hold in good emotions, or that it is good to hold in good emotions. But my point about not having an iPod is that, and this is a guess here, music eventually becomes just more noise to people. I know that NPR is kinda like that for me. I have it on all the time even if I am not actively listening to it, but if it not on I miss that stimulation. Does the radio/iPod just become extra stimulation so that my mind can’t wander. I know for many people it is a scary situation if their mind wanders…

And then once people are inured to the music they have, they gotta buy more. iPods are like cigarettes- the ultimate delivery system

Flew to NYC today for a show at Dixon Place. http://www.dixonplace.org/ Was waiting to meet my friend with whom I am performing (her piece) at Park and 92nd. Sitting on the planter cement thing between the directions of traffic ( there must be a word for that thing ) watching the people walk by. Being the Upper East Side, there was a demographic, and funny to see that. Business men who looked like brooks brothers ads. people actually wear those light brown shoes with the silly tassles. navy jacket and khaki pants. Jogging moms with the newest baby carriage. The mixed race arty couple with the black clothes and thick framed glasses looked severe and sensitive at the same time. Urban hip kids with the thin soled shoes and tight pants, urban hiphop kids with the big shoes and baggy pants. Do they/we not see how they/we are fitting in our roles? Is it conscious? …..I must dress this way….do contact must wear baggy pants and wear a northface vest….must buy organic food…

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”-Mark Twain

So…Bush’s rating keep going lower and lower. Great, fine, wonderful…but what I want to know who the morons are who liked him 2 years ago. Has he really done anything differently than he did when he first snuck into office? He is still the same inept bumbling fool now as he was then
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2646755?htv=12.
But for some reason the public is finally waking up. Duh, people, did you finally pull your heads out of your asses cuz the air was getting kinda stale? Lemmings, all of them…

Mmmmm, nachos!