ice + fog + mind map #10 ...
gotta wonder if there’s an original thought out there, or in me ...
if it's a waste of time chasing, or presuming, pursuing, perpetuating some ambitious lie, or illegitimate pride ...
i’ve read so many books ... and remember [1647] , how things look through other peoples’ heads - or their description of it - that its hard not to see, referentially ...
last night’s walk through the forest during an ice storm:
somewhat treacherous - keep moving - caution through darkness - plato’s cave - forest philosophies - my father’s quiet wisdom - forest - gump - life is a ... - a box - a cell - dendrites - committed - sentencing - confining thoughts or feelings to words - syntax - context - opposed to an urn - three days for the soul to leave the body - what’s the big hurry - can you take what you’ve earned - touching the treasures of tut - to eternity - icicles everywhere - drops of frozen water - stasis - water is life - everything flows through it - it flows through - water memory - bowie’s looking for water - lennon says it’s cool and clear - jones drowns in a pool - frozen - like memory - stuck in my brain - pisces - seven - didn’t know they were born again - artaud - leftover - who has it over on the left - excuse our absolute freedom - or quest for it - penniless and toothless in an insane asylum - inane - lucas sumaras - robert hughes - never shocked by news - bushes and dark ages - castelli - pop sages - parallel lines - times - bushes, darkness, trees, and ice ...dark wood[s] to white rose - charlie rose’s interview with malcolm mudderidge explaining the meaning of life as ‘adapting to suffering’ - early sobriety - divine comedies - monty python - jai guru dev - nothings gonna change my world - mickey bush - rings of hell - walking in circles - camus - amsterdam canals - tres maggots in the rain with mona - under bridge and boardwalk realities - jersey poems by lally - triana ceramica - the guadalquivir - boats to the new world - isabelle’s money for nothing - or something - 3rd grade prize for a heart poster - he art hurts - live aide - i want my own pc - sade - angelic and statuesque - odalisque, obelisk - 2001 - twins and spirits - art can’t hurt - leigh’s wit and smile - crescent moon, impending gloom - occulting venus - desert skies and sha’lak’o - frozen, breaking limbs - a punch in the mouth - cracked cuspid - crumbling metal - ambulance silence - fear - original sin - bad trees and bad fruit - matthew - dogma foundations - gothic cathedrals - guilt without change - strange fruit - gil evans - spoonful - but at night it’s a different world - stranger than fiction - pulp - give me an ear - twin peaks - saturday nights alive - sicilian and pizza - forgiving sounds of altos - martin & john - 2525 - mayan calendar - jose algrues - everybody’s predicting - what about the weather - wet feet - immigration - feudal, futile systems - unknown grandfather preaching - austrian, jew, gypsy, or navajo - others buried in coal - the black stream, sting - coltrane, taylor, and monk - miles’ venom that he couldn’t write or speak himself - but so sweet the music - ascenseur pour l’echaud - to the seventh floor - life begins again - easy peasy - overlooking everything - overshadowing - eclipsing - why two k - black crow through blues - diving on anything shining - joni and gino in west l.a. - paco and jorge - 3rd street studio - run riot and panic - principles precede - robert wilson’s set designs - alternative enclaves - witten’s reviews - debts to humility - remembrance of things past - proust, kerouac - noble reds - scarlet letters - paris paintings - traffic, distractions - baroque, braque, barac - probably too cold for snakes - moon tigers - oprahic deeds - paik - av pleasantry - unrequited, patti smith - einstein’s beach - cab driving glass - serra - steel and wax - dripping sky - welding for money - chapped hands and blood - suffering succotash - psychedelic prayers - gibran - coattail weight - essentials of consequentialism - isolationism - schemes and dreams - schisms of isms - proof positive maintenance - what the center could and can’t - sludging from - chinua achebe - it’s all in a name - ann rhyss - good morning, midnight - an awkward young fawn - slivers and fragments - all that remains -time to make dinner - vestiges, vestibules, and venues - purgatory’s waiting rooms - garlic and cheese - pasta and greens - distant christmas lights - red, blues, and distant rants of green day conservation psalms - very noble prizes - contrived orchestrations - paul winter’s solstice - steve reich's brain - safe harbors - quaker meeting rooms - dunoon - icy rocks - don’t slip - still afraid of falling - never missed a chance to fly - just walk - acts of faith as if - indiana jones’ search for the grail - connery as father - alec's giveaway - ask not - camelot - one small step - easy to forget - is the final exam true, false, multiple, or essay ...
except when i paint ...
