Wednesday, November 30, 2005

how many swimsuits in Superman

how many swimsuits in Superman

“dance does not hide him”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 30

Wednesday, November 30

explain blind woman on the street with her eyes open

“there were people dancing who could only move their arms”

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Robo no Ishi: 1960


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Monday, November 28

Pop Ambient 2006 (Kompakt)

Exactly As I Say
a rapid learning method devised partly by
The Hafler Trio (2004)

“repetition is intentional and necessary”

shovels return temperature

witness rehearsal

inform hand
moving, not
spring

wavering, slightest
stretch

Prince Far I: Silver & Gold (1973 – 1979)
The Travellers: Black Black Minds: (1977)


Tuesday, November 29

tv
screen applied to
torso

clock
red tin raising
cardboard

“astronaut lifts gun”

“head splits apart to reveal “ arms at top of box

“door in torso opens”

“astronaut lifts gun”

two legs with box

“torso with door reveals motor”

scrapes vinyl

“window in torso where sparks are visible”

blue arms behind
astronaut
instruction

how many swimming pools pasted in Edward Ruscha
how many transvestites in cleavage
how many months in map
how many urinals in Robin Rhode
how many erased de Koonings in Rauschenberg
how many shoes contain in surgical stitches
how many rehearsals in “mannequin lower half”

superman doubles as swimsuit

Anata wa Nerawarete Iru: 1943 (You’re Being Aimed At

34 days ago: seats: vacant attendance
33 days ago: to squat (dispensing plumage
32 days ago: 45s arrive in the mail (Tetsujin 28-Go
31 days ago: “all angles going on in hair”
31 days ago: Marx G-Man Sparking Automatic w/box
33 days ago: moist beetle dung (potato foliage
28 days ago: Mr Abrupts Puppet Show
27 days ago: Dzama crying ghost lamp
26 days ago: skin infested with scissors
25 days ago: to define in adhesives
33 days ago: wild geese gasping from her nipples

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 26

Saturday, November 26

shoes contained in surgical stitches
magazine: fruits (in pink
four floors with atrium: information desk
Pat Morita: 1932 – 2005
Saul Bass: 1920 – 1996
she follows us across the street to absorb “anatomical fragments”

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 25

Friday, November 25

shouldn’t speak as participants include furniture
Ginza girls in Shinjuku
street lamp injures two sisters

Friday, November 25, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 24


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Thursday, November 24

82 days ago: rice lingers for several days
81 days ago: down to recurrent detective
80 days ago: rabbit intended as manga (muzan-e
79 days ago: repetitive vexing

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 23

Wednesday, November 23

Emigre arrives in the mail

how many swimming pools pasted in Edward Ruscha
how many transvestites in cleavage

explain tattooed man at carnival: Diane Arbus
contestant climbs building
language in magazines

swimming pools interspersed with “mannequin lower half”

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

“How Salty is Your Pacific”

How many postures in tofu
How many patients in Artaud

How many fingers in detergent
How many swimsuits in Superman

How many seats in Toba Khedoori
How many pillows in please

How many cats in cake
How many questions in Misora Hibari

How many receipts in $400
How many sentences in Gertrude Stein

How many hyphens in pavement
How many buildings in Harold Lloyd

How many minutes in Chinese
How many kilometers in Akiyoshi Kumiko

How many haiku inspectors in a diagram for two
How many amputee drawings in Dzama

How many scratches in nitrate
How many door prizes in Isamu Noguchi

How many smears in ambulance
How many inserts in film

How many scissors in nurse
How many instructions in cleavage


for John Solt

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 22


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Tuesday, November 22

“we were wet for 3 months”
“we found the library on the map”

how many smears in ambulance
how many inserts in film

**

how many haiku inspectors in a diagram for two
how many swimsuits in Superman

“dance does not hide him”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 21

Monday, November 21


The Travellers: Black Black Minds (1977)

Match Rhythms to Address

1: Channel One Recording Studio
2: Joe Gibbs Recording Studio
3: Harry J Recording Studio
4: King Tubby’s Recording Studio

Match Address to Rhythms

A: 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13
B: 24 Retirement Crescent, Kingston 5
C: 10 Roosevelt Avenue, Kingston 6
D: 18 Dromilly Avenue, Waterhouse, Kingston 11

inaka de baito

“I can’t speak when I’m walking”

how many door prizes in Isamu Noguchi

“pencils and ink on separate pages”

“ don’t sell the ink”

“song you got going”

“Watashi ga kinoo Kyooto de katta hon wa omoshiroi: Itai hodo mabushi katta
Saiminjutsu no shiwaza mitai ni kuchibiru waru: Tokyo de katta hon o yonde iru”

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 20

Sunday, November 20

you’re late, did you watch the movie twice?
specifically: furnace

if someone recognizes
joyful swirling

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 19

Saturday, November 19

white fin nagara fish

further emphasis: abekku ramen tabe nagara, futari de shinbun yonde iru

“his crip walk is impeccable” stencils rhythmic gymnastics specific to the slow-motion sway of they'll become the rare people in Wong Kar-Wai's world

Khedoori: seats
“he walks, she skips”
counting blind people in Berkeley
dj spin celebrated eros
didn’t two describe
“there are no more seats downstairs, I brought them all up”

“things so pleasant to see”

Naruse: Shanghai no Tsuki: 1941
“swing by, fuck me and leave”

“there are no more secrets downstairs, I brought them all up”

how many scratches in nitrate

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 18

Friday, November 18

argument: ventriloquist
charcoal smeared on mouth

dots contain falling
puncture

bulbs in their mist fingers
2 pillows please

amputee drawings repeat on paper
hum penetrates plaster

“a cat born in an oven is not a cake”

opening an address

how many scissors in wound
how many cats in cake
how many bulbs in mist fingers

how many dots contain falling

Friday, November 18, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 17

Thursday, November 17

rhyme fractures

up
pencil
posing
inspectors
paper
pavement

three
thieves

(noise)

Misora Hibari: souvenirs from New York
page 49: four people in a diagram for two

access to canvas conflicts with pencil

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 16


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Wednesday, November 16

29 days ago: three receipts quickly added up to $400
28 days ago: 10 minutes looking for pencil
27 days ago: thieves posing as haiku inspectors
26 days ago: “paper instead of canvas”
25 days ago: access to noise conflicts with pavement

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 15

Tuesday, November 15

Anata wa Nerawarete Iru: 1943 (You’re Being Aimed At

34 days ago: seats: vacant attendance
33 days ago: to squat (dispensing plumage
32 days ago: 45s arrive in the mail (Tetsujin 28-Go
31 days ago: “all angles going on in hair”
31 days ago: Marx G-Man Sparking Automatic w/box
33 days ago: moist beetle dung (potato foliage
28 days ago: Mr Abrupts Puppet Show
27 days ago: Dzama crying ghost lamp
26 days ago: skin infested with scissors
25 days ago: to define in adhesives
33 days ago: wild geese gasping from her nipples

Monday, November 14, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 14


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Monday, November 14

“we came here to collect hair”

The Bunnys: Let’s Go Shake: 1967
The Tigers: Seaside Bound: 1967
The Wild Ones: Omoide no Nigisa: 1966

how to accumulate as after fifteen minutes
“real locations which mean low ceilings”

John Alonzo: Director of Photography
Lady Sings the Blues: 1972
Chinatown: 1974

how many fingers in detergent
how many swimsuits in Superman
how many questions in Misora Hibari
how many scissors in nurse
how many instructions in cleavage

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 12

Saturday, November 12

Ulrich Schnauss: Far away trains passes by (2001)

“the last four days in bed, the urge to categorize”

“two days later, they were rearranged by color”

“she spoke Chinese but a different dialect”

assortment, said several vague accumulating

monthly train passes x 34: Omori – Negishi: Showa 39 – 43

Jakuen: 2-11-8 Yayoi-cho, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

Kabukiza Theatre Reserved Seat Ticket: Showa 51: 7/3: 4:30

how many instructions in cleavage

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 11


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Friday, November 11

Misora Hibari “marriage”
this paper examines “Tokyo Tower in the rain”
kilometers distribute themselves
typographical rupture

“the term umu not only as biological reproduction, but also as spinning
thread for the production of Chijimi”

“Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law,
(gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or
some variant.”

instructions to insert film
Off Course: Kotoba ni dekinai
vocalist receives interiors

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Souvenirs from New York


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Souvenirs from New York: Wednesday

“there’s no more frogs downstairs, I brought them all up”

“producing an image through the removal of paint rather than its application”

“somebody wants to buy your apartment”

“he was able to attend high school by promising to plant rice”

radio 8 minutes

Nagisa Oshima: Seishun Zankoku Monogatari (1960)

purse embossed with knife

“Fritz Lang speaking French”

Marlowe responds to Prince Far I

**

Souvenirs from New York: Thursday

Isamu Noguchi door prizes

please do not put in mouth: “the ear that was sold to a fish”

535 W 22nd Street, 3rd Floor: “pools, parking lots and gas stations”
511 W. 25th Street, Suite 101: “vertebrae continuo”
530 W 25th Street, 2nd Floor: “estimated landscapes”
527 W.26th Street: “tail (exercise in punctuation)”

address: “Amy and Jordan” question

Igort: Baobab (2005)

page 3: He died before you were born,
before this rain began to fall

**

Souvenirs from New York: Saturday

graffiti tags collected in jars

2 notebooks in brown

Film Forum Calendar: Naruse Retrospective
Nov14: three shamisen daughters attempt Kawabata (1935) 6:00, 9:30

The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 (2002)
page 155: here it ended, further
page 153: two squares in six constructions

is here: twirl: 1.8 seconds: vinyl

**

Souvenirs from New York: Wednesday

“there’s no more frogs
downstairs, I brought them
all up producing
an image through the removal
of paint rather than its
application “

**

Souvenirs from New York: Friday

“if you’re going to kiss my daughter,
you’ll have to kiss me first”

don’t wait more than 20 minutes

“what glue did you use?”

“seaweed”

Soba-ya: Train: L to 3rd Ave; 6 to Aster Place

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 9

Wednesday, November 9

Akiyoshi Kumiko is accurate: blouse spills on film
Akiyoshi Kumiko clusters to Leonard Cohen
Akiyoshi Kumiko surprise us with salmon skulls
Akiyoshi Kumiko decides on her kilometers

Gertrude Stein + scissors

after their Gertrude Stein
arrives in Japanese
there are ten days left in scissors

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 8

Tuesday, November 8

Superman trapped in triangles

suika taberu?

Japanese film: thieves disguised as haiku inspectors rob bank

Monday, November 07, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 7

Monday, November 7

33 days ago: “I want possible to speak”
32 days ago: Superman disguised as Izu no Odoriko
31 days ago: Jinbocho: secrets in scissors
30 days ago: used train tickets x 32 (Showa 40 – 43)
29 days ago: vendors disguised as florist

Jackie Mitto: Macka Fat

“the tub was in a slot in the wall so I actually had 3 sides around me enclosed as I showered”

“passes given out to employees are not quite as common”

“ Wallet phones can be used as prepaid electronic cash”

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Sannin Musume: 1955


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Saturday, November 5

beverage startles pigeon
hoard scraps scraped from pavement
promises tethered to the nearest branch

“genkan o aketara ninhun de gohan”

“I see a window with blue on it”

“the camels have grieved for ten thousand years”

a breeze
above her
as she burns
her robe

how many scissors in nurse

“he stopped absorbing new music after he turned 40 because his brain was full”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 4

Friday, November 4

cleavage presented as an apology

how many questions in Misora Hibari?
instructions to excess dance

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 3

Thursday, November 3

disguised as Shinobi no Mono
disguised as folded shirts
disguised as “Misora Hibari” question

how many swimsuits in Superman?

“dance does not hide him”

“from this basic posture, the couple can shift to any other position”

stay in the same photograph

Japanese film: thieves disguised as health inspectors rob bank
“I have to scare myself once a day”

triangles are not appropriate (skin cut by film

“vieux vinyl”

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 2


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Wednesday, November 02

“Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity”

pen applied to notebook

“don’t confuse the defendant with adult films”

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes November 1

Tuesday, November 1

“every time she sings ‘wool’” they remove Superman

threatening pharmacist with infection
of other insects “framed in the form of an interview “

learn how to speak haiku: hitorigurashi no interior
“it’s the first Sunday in every August”

Japanese film: thieves disguised as health inspectors rob bank
“Misora Hibari” question: 1955

TV Programs (notes for Jakuen
Watashi wa kai ni nari tai (I want to be a clam): 1958 (TBS)

“Superman, why did you carry me up the fire-escape when you were sad?”

4 days ago: Jun Negami dies at 82 (Inazuma: 1952)

“things so pleasant to see”

Naruse: Shanghai no Tsuki: 1941
“swing by, fuck me and leave”