A diagram from the paper diary. At the time I was interested in boundaries and invisible boundaries which can overlay other natural boundaries. You can build towns or cities across rivers and that will eventually create "the wall in the head": "You're from the other side of the river". Developments can be created ad hoc within certain areas where they might not belong as a kind of "occupation". I think that's what I was getting at.
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The precursor to the In Sum series was a series of 3 books titled 3 Presidents, where the diary was segmented into I. Clinton Bush (entries 1997-2000); II. Bush-Obama (2000-2008); and III. Obama. The cover theme/metaphor was tricolore with the metaphor of Neapolitan ice cream. I don't know if I should revive it as it is strictly chronological and perhaps more logical for a diary. Instead of getting a feel for a month or a day, you get a feel for a presidency.
Leave a comment if you would be interested in this series. Just as a reminder, even to myself, that there are Dynaxiom annotations where I expound or explain selected entries.
The book is coming along in dribs and drabs. There will be another chapter, "Saturday Or Sunday" for photos where a specific date can't be determined but they feel like a Saturday or Sunday.
11/7/1914, Saturday
Wittgenstein longs for the company of a decent person because here I am surrounded by indecency. 11/7/1998, Saturday Film: Velvet Goldmine. A film about glam. This would have been more interesting if it was done quasi-documentary-style: the fiction elements overshadowed the factual basis of the film. It’s as though they set out to document the Glam period but ended up with a Ken Russell-ish gay burlesque film. The third edition of Some November is now available with entries through 2023.
There's always been some ambiguity about the date of Moonrise. Even in Adams' autobiography, he was unsure of it. But it was scientifically proven to have been taken on Sunday, November 1, 1941. But there's a part of me that wanted it to have been taken on Halloween, and Adams originally concluded that it was. It's interesting both as a Saturday image (Halloween night) and a Sunday image with the cross grave markers.
When I tracked it up I wanted it to have a spookiness: Album idea: "Alternate West", all songs that use an alternate tuning of some kind. Use only guitars and basses, with the bass treated more as guitar, run through guitar effects. No drums. Use some of strategies as well. Make it sound like William Eggleston...
[This eventually became both Music For Photographs--which included a photo by Eggleston ("Red Room Mississippi") and Frontiers.] This is one of the things that is useful about keeping a diary. All musicians have ideas, but the fact that they were written down may make them more likely to be acted upon. The "Alternate West" title came from a road sign. |
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