Jackson Pollack by Frank O'Hara (1959)

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 31

Thursday, August 31

hand stitch neck
to body
arms

right sides facing
neck facing
pattern

folded lining shoulder
neck edges
even

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 28

Monday, August 28

“forms that frequent”
“with biting
mouth”

“I hope she
has her
cow”

lamp, briefly include
“flat insects
with

a large head”
monk scented
incense

the room is
immediate but
wrong

“from my neck”
sadness extracted
from

mistakes in cleavage
arm arrangement
“form

is not interfered”
finger fit
far

Edmond Jabes: The Book of Questions (1976)

Edmond Jabes: The Book of Questions: 2 & 3 (1977)

Barrett Watten: Total Syntax (1985)

Michael Burkard: In A White Light (1979)

Clark Coolidge: Research (1982)

David Melnick: Men in Aida (1983)

Peter Seaton: Crisis Intervention (1983)

Ted Pearson: Coulomb's Law (1984)

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 25

Friday, August 25

pond, briefly include
“flat insects
with

a large head”
monk scented
incense

passengers exaggerate embrace
instead of
envelopes

an old address
sensuous snag
lamp

trimmed with milk
rain replaces
radio

snow participates arrival
coins dispense
tickets

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“sand will never make my hiccups go away”

“have I ever fallen in somebody’s face”

rain disrupts rehearsal
actress speaking
Japanese

warm camera

submit akiyoshi kumiko in red

fluorescent cuticles emanate

gradual rhythmic interior, 1984

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 24

Thursday, August 24

the room is immediate but wrong

“form is not interfered

“from my neck” sadness extracted from

“5 minutes remaining”

dust they do “their habits” “to permit”

skin, almost curious

“front of the insect. the abdomen has nine segments”

“legs are of peculiar structure”

address “extended as” four

“mama, mama, I don’t want to run in circles anymore”

“shut up, or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor”

“they are very depressed, that is, flat, insects with a large head”

“forms that frequent” sentences “with biting mouth”

“I hope she has her cow”

This 9 used $4 Green Apples

Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons used $3 Green Apples

La Delirante, Revue de poesie No 3 used $4.80 Moes

Mark Beyer Agony used $10 Moes

Cid Corman Of Volume One and Two tucked in box used $35 Green Apples

“on the roof waiting
for the signal to”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 21

Monday, August 21

Michael Burkard with “asparagus legs”

Edmond Jabes with swimsuits

anxious to identify an orchid

branches snap, the weight of

re cemetery
I should have said, I haven’t visited him in years

when I sleep
it’s autumn

trees continue to be eucalyptus

inhabitants emerge as
mistakes in
cleavage

Joshu Sasori: Kemono Beya (1972)

Yamada-ke (1930s)

Toba Khedoori: untitled (seats) 1996

Thursday, August 17

panel 8: “zoo noises”

“urge to categorize”
mistakes in
cleavage

partials and swimsuits
unattainable skin
attracted

to her promise
“all angles
going

on in hair”
“we waited
an

hour and I
said – fuck,
let's

go! she starts
kneeling at
6"


panel 9

she prefers to
squat, dispensing
plumage

kogeta waishatsu hada
ni chira
baru

translation: burnt shirt
scatters on
skin

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 15

Tuesday, August 15

panel 6: transexual showing cleavage

stain as tongue
insisting partials
and

swimsuits deciding in
lips but
it's

her erection "which
I speak
fluently”

“swing by, fuck
me and
leave”

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panel 7

question from Lorna
“would you
bungee

jump?” no, I’m
afraid of
ropes

A John Woo Film: Hard-Boiled

Kagemusha

Frank O'Hara: To the Harbormaster

Lodge Muren, Akakura

Letter from Sachiko with pages missing

Luxor Invoice, Las Vegas, 1994

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 10

Thursday, August 10

neck facing instructions

panel 2

insects were used.
intend to
replace

panel 3

material without map
circle with
pencil

panel 4

Tribute to Kathy Acker
by Lance Olsen, Andi Olsen, Trevor Dodge

“life doesn’t exist
inside language”
Come

Taste My Hand
15 minute
video

panel 5

“I’ve been thinking
about my
hair”

transvestite showing cleavage
diane arbus
1966

draw any person
in one
minute

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“arms

I am unable”
deciding in

lips

breakaway “fourtet” conner
what is
tetoron

insects were extracted
asparagus to
stain

as tongue insisting
“partials and
prostitutes”

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panel 1

neck facing instructions
add more
legs

Harvey's Resort Hotel Invoice, Lake Tahoe, 1974

Spanner Sales Invoice, 1984

Kokusai Theatre, January 1982

Kokusai Theatre, September 1983

Kokusai Theatre, July 1981

Kokusai Theatre, December 1981

Imperial, NEBR (1958)

Long Beach, Ca (1958)

Lake Charles, LA (1958)

Long Beach, Ca (1958)

Long Beach, Ca (1958)

Los Angeles, CA (1958)

Joplin, Missouri (1958)

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 07

Monday, August 07

william basinski: variation for piano & tape
Richard Chartier + Taylor Deupree: Specification Fifteen

with envelope

Alameda Flea Market
Project 13

I-Spy Railroads, 48 pages, 1958, cover intact, clean
I-Spy Airplanes, 48 pages, 1958,
I-Spy Sports, 48 pages, 1958 (paid 3 for $5
Aircraft-Age, 66 pages, October 1944 ($1
Air World combined with Aircraft-Age, 74 pages, March 1946 ($1
Stories to Read, Pictures to Color, Games to Play (Activity Book) 64 pages, 1954 ($2
The Animal Kingdom, Volume Three, Book IV: Fishes of the World, 2,062 pages, 1954 ($1
Sears Catalogue, 1962 Spring Through Summer, 1,538 pages ($15
Lawrence of Arabia, Elliot Dooley, illustrated classics, 30 pages, 1978 ($1
Historical Atlas of the World, 40 pages, 1961 ($2
1970s, 80s women’s clothing patterns, 51 packets ($1
Book of Modern Warplanes, Harold H Booth, Royal Canadian Air Force, 25 pages, 1942 ($10
Vintage 1960s Dunes and Caesar’s Palace Keno Paper, 150 sheets with dis-colorization, ($10

pages from books

“life doesn’t exist inside language”
Kathy Acker

Come Taste My Hand: 15 minute video tribute to Kathy Acker
by Lance Olsen, Andi Olsen, Trevor Dodge
Violent Onsen Geisha
“I’ve been thinking about my hair”

neck facing instructions: 6 panels
“disregard perforations”
untitled

1

neck facing instructions
add more
legs

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 04

Thursday, August 03

“inserted,

cut according to
the size
of”

“12 minutes to
last 6
months”

conversation with actress
sentences contain
Watashiwa

kai ni naritai
I want
to

be a clam
(TBS) 1958

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something I said
20 years
ago

insisting aisles evolve
“radio surgery”
“inserted,

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projects

page 15, line 15 with swimsuits
Kokusai Theatre Film Calendar with swimsuits (1981, 1983, 1984)
Peter Handke with swimsuits (1974)
Teach Yourself Japanese with swimsuits (1958)
Colloquial Arabic with swimsuits (1962)
War Planes with swimsuits (1942)
Harvey’s Resort Hotel Invoice with swimsuits (1974)
Spanner Sales Invoice with swimsuits (1984)
Errata with swimsuits (1962, 1982)
Airway Manual with 800 swimsuits (1958)
Taisho Women on screen with swimsuits (1920s)
Japanese film from the 1930s with swimsuits

Friday, August 04

projects

text collage with swimsuits
“urgent instruction” with swimsuits
pharmacist with swimsuits

“learn to be
nauseated by
language”

“more by language
than by
things”

“Listening to Beatles’ records turned out to be an excellent cure for too much thinking.”
Geoffrey O’Brien

1 color illustrated page
2 pages from a novel
5 pages from airway manual instruction book
4 pages from a dictionary

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes August 01

Monday, July 31

partials and swimsuits
Toba Khedoori
seats

delinquents doubt skaters
in literature
weather

700 gallery shops
200 canvases

notes re Sachiko
cassette installation
by

2 blocks south to “plastic rain boots”

“I started collecting robots”

“inserted,
cut according to the size of the spools”


Tuesday, August 01

understand the trains
tag often

jump

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conversation with monk
sentences include

when