searching

just been to manolis's and i want to find something that he will enjoy reading, he's in a little bit of a low patch, i offered to lend him my book of cavafy that i know he likes but he said if it was in greek... maybe... so now i'm about to search for cavafy poems in greek to print out and bring to manolis... he told me that i was very habitual, and that kant was also habitual... people used to be able to set their clocks by kant...?

also i've been on a strange and so far fruitless search since yesterday when i used some hakim bey spoken word stuff in my improvisation. it struck me that i should be able to identify where i got it from... and indeed what it is... when he was speaking and who he was speaking to...

and i have no idea... it seems to be on the winter solstice some year.. he's speaking as peter lambon wilson, i have no idea where it came from, maybe soulseek, or maybe through deoxy... or then perhaps it came from those grey lodge folk...

reminds me that when i met that iching guy who had had some contact with hakim bey he'd told me that hakim bey was really against the internet... favouring real breast to breast communication... or letters...

going over to W(floopy)shaman's tonight for chess and food... he who has only just gone over to internet chess... we're breast to breast chessing tonight as well as our internet game...

rehearsed with T's band minus the guitarist last night, we're gigging a week on tuesday if you fancy, we were fantastic @ the metro and we'll be a touch better @ leonards...

slow day i've had today, a kind of malaise i'm almost under, not as bad by any means as some days but, what with the next semester so close and the work still to be done for it... it can seem like a day like today is a waste, but i don't see it like that, if i need to spend a day like today - even as it's hard to see what it does for me... i celebrate the day i've had... i love the way i live my life...

x

playing with voices

it's possible my ipod shuffle died today... i was thinking about using different people's voices in my improvisation and i emptied the shuffle so i could play the voices through it and it... well... i don't know, it doesn't look good now but you never know, it may come round...

so i did use the voices, william burroughs, hakim bey, archie shepp, daniel pinchbeck, neil young...

speaking, although william burroughs was also taking a tape recording of his voice and pushing it backwards and forwards over the tape head... well... it was the 60's - or maybe the 70's...

the improvisation was the 32nd in the weekly series, i've just watched it... the voices work well... i think...

google is being weird, it's been uploading for half an hour and it's got almost nowhere, so i won't be putting it in this post...

it's the longest of the improvisations @ 27.44 minutes, i wonder if anyone will have the patience for it...

mind you, unless it's another symptom of google's weirdness (which it probably is) it looks as if 92 people watched my 3rd cutup film yesterday and 138 people watched last week's improvisation... yesterday... all in all the report tells me that my videos were watched 1969 times... yesterday!

either i've suddenly got a lot more popular or google is suffering from something... the improvisation blanket page over on my newly updated longcat.net has been behaving strangely yesterday and today...?

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T came round today for some help with his HTML... i told him what i know which is something but not much... in fact my HTML knowledge should be increasing fairly soon being as i now have longcat.net to play with... tinkering with HTML for blogger or myspace has kept me fairly well oiled but most of the work is done by their respective templates...

my own blank website...

maybe i'll reluctantly get a piece of software to do it for me...

ok, big day tomorrow...

x

judaism rehearsing

not sure why i've slowed down blogging...

but there you have it, i have for now slowed down... from sometimes as much as twice per day, and at least daily, i'm down to 2 or 3 a week...

it won't last...

dinah became officially jewish on friday, along with her mum, & me & Wfloopy(shaman) went along to the friday night shabbat service at the liberal synagogue to mark the occasion...

i love the way the shadows fall in a lattice in this picture, this is the eternal flame, and there are seven lights shining down on the support casting this very precise lattice... hmmm...

the service was pretty empty, apparently the saturday morning shabbat service is larger and i'd like to check it out one day, to hear the full choir singing the songs and also a full congregation repeating those hebrew words...

afterwards we went to thaitanic in crouch end... ate our fill... and later went back to W & T's for tea, pink wine, conversation, smoking...

found out that T has a book by peter lamborn wilson, a writer i love, i've borrowed it and i'm gathering all i can find by him (under that name and also under the name hakim bey) to take round there sometime... i think W in particular would love immediatism...

rehearsed yesterday with T's band, we're gigging on friday @ the metro... 1st gig outside of the south london pacific... nervous but really looking forward to it...

and my backdrop for my mypace page went offline so i've uploaded a new one, similarly foolish to this backdrop, what with the various different bright patches and the difficulty of reading some words... something i will fix one of these days, must ask Wfloopy(shaman) how to level out an image to make reading against it easier...?

ok, hope all is well with you dear reader... catch you soon x