Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 26

Sunday, February 26

“detarame na yoru”
suika suie

tv news with no volume
mistake entrance as exit
same conversation for twenty minutes

project: Brain Jones playing sitar
things difficult to translate
surface vomiting
accident entries
emergency initials

tasting oranges for twenty minutes
elevator door opens

pen scrapes amputee on paper
there is music, but no vocals

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 25

Saturday, February 25

“is that watercolor”

“no, soy sauce”

(young woman drawing rabbits)

***

6th Annual Monster Drawing
one hundred artists, four one hour shifts
25 artists drawing simultaneously each hour
drawings available for purchase: $50 each

***

girl sitting to the right, tracing street map

***

“what kind of paper are you using”

“I don’t know, I found it at Flax”

(pink translucent paper with white texture)

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 23

Thursday, February 23

circles compose paper
with no
noise

Aneesha asking how
do you
spell

‘mom’ in Albuquerque
: almond blossoms
to

the left, dogs
barking, counted
rabbits

five running back
to their
shrubs

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 22

Wednesday, February 22

evening, of us
Hashi Yukio: Che Che Che (1964)
hills soaked in mist: orange fragrance in the air
things in damp foliage

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 17

Friday, February 17

adhesive residue on cassette “strangles me in my sleep “

Tetsujin-28 with blue hands, nurse speaking
Chinese adjacent to the hospital

ghost visits daughter

ten days left in scissors

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 15

Wednesday, February 15

Cassette Swimsuits 15

same nipples same tongue
same tears same glue
same dogs same knees
same desk same plate
same incision same wound
same chairs same amputee
same ambulance same hospital
same posture same tofu
same clients same lamp
same shower same $60

contiguity imposes alignment:
“We waited
an

hour and I
said – fuck
, let's

go! She starts
kneeling at
6."

same furaipan same ice cream
same margins same radio
same dialect same minutes
same foliage same address
same pause same sentence

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 14

Monday, February 13

“Nippon no fasshon
te itta
nandaro”

furaipan ice cream
menko, sheet
uncut


Tuesday, February 14

first kiss: pre-moistened
lens cleaning
tissue

tear open packet
and remove
sentence

avoid contact with
same question
twice

first kiss: limbs
shadow, they
startle

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 11

Saturday, February 11

Cassette Swimsuits 15

wooden textile spools cut in half lengthwise glued to Kafka
Tetsujin-28 with blue hands
surge “pillows between knees”
news: game show stampede: 74 dead contestants
"strange days" occur quite frequently
nylon stockings stretched from the wall to the floor
“gampishi: wild goose skin paper”
five oranges painted vertically
thought to be lost but was found a few years ago in Osaka
Rashomon: an old woman plucking hair from the dead to make wigs
“ isn't there anyone to come and strangle me quietly in my sleep? “
delay aisle acacias
women speaking Chinese adjacent to the hospital
coin smudged with detergent
adhesive residue on cassette

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 9

Thursday, February 09

Cassette Swimsuits 15

Nick Park: A Grand Day Out (1989
Bill Plympton: Your Face (1987
Caroline Leaf : Entre Deux Soeurs /Two Sister (1990
Erica Russel: Feet The Song (1989
Igor Kovalyov: Bird in the Window (1996
Joanna Quinn: Body Beautiful (1990
Koji Yamamura: Atama yama / Mt Head (2002
Pritt Parn: Karl ja Marilyn / Karl and Marilyn (2003
Sarah Watt: Small Treasures, 1995
Akiyuki Nosaka: Hotaru no Hoshi / Grave of the Fireflies (1988
Yuko Tone: Omoide Poroporo / Only Yesterday (1991
Tex Avery : Red Hot Riding Hood (1943
Hanna and Barbera: The Cat Concerto (1947
Chuck Jones: What’s Opera, Doc? (1957
Dave Fleisher: Superman (1941


*****

wowowee

50,000 surged forward
dead contestants
at

random from the
audience dead
bodies

lined up on
the street
50,000

faces covered with
towels and
newspapers

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 8

Wednesday, February 08

Cassette Swimsuits 15

2 Severed bisque doll’s head, 1920s
3 Bisque dolls with missing arms and legs, 1920s
American Fruit Jar Rings with box, 1920s
3 Medicine bottles (amber with labels intact), 1910s - 1930s
2 Piano Rolls with box, 1950s
Bobbie Smith “Bobbie” Pins with box, 1950s
4 Wooden textile spools (bobbins), 1930s
Dress pattern (factory folded with envelope intact), 1950s
Pair of wooden shoe molds, 1940s
2 Brass water sprayers with pump and spout, 1960s
11 Chinese wooden stools (various sizes), 1930s – 1960s
Doughboy Big 72 Mammoth Caps with envelope intact, 1940s
Robert Crumb: Pioneers of Country Music (40 cards) box intact, 1983
Mao Tse-Tung in a blue uniform (ceramic statue) 1970s
Letter from Sachiko, 2 sheets (with pages missing), undated

(Finds at Alameda Flea Market)

Found Letter at Alameda Flea Market (pages missing

…, the anticipation cruelly betrayed me.
When Henry kindly took a boat out to tell you that I came to see you, I nearly wept for joy, but he told me that you had switched work shifts with your friend and couldn’t leave the ship. I reluctantly gave up meeting you in Osaka and went to Kobe next day and waited for you. To my disappointment, it was such a windy day that the wind speed over the ocean was 20 kilometers per hour. I figured I wouldn’t be able to see you then and decided to wait yet another day, praying for our reunion.

You never showed up at Mama-san’s house in Kobe, though. I was dying to see you again – I had been taking English conversation class every evening and studying so hard just to talk to you even in broken English. You and I speak different languages and have different cultures and customs. That may be part of the reason that we might have misunderstood each other, but I was just so upset and exhausted both physically and mentally.

What a tragedy – I had such huge expectations from self-serving pretension. My sorrow and anger has been taken over by hate. Why didn’t you see me? While I gave you the benefit of doubt thinking that you may have had so much work and been unable to leave the ship, I also wrapped myself up in paranoia that you had somebody else that you wanted to see.

I have to forget about you as if nothing has ever happened. I can still control myself with reasons. My heart is broken in pieces, but I want to say this – I regret my imprudence and ask you to return my picture.

Sachiko

P.S. I never lose my pride as Japanese.


(translated by Maki)

found letter at Alameda Flea Market
Sunday, Feb 5

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 6

Monday, February 06

Cassette Swimsuits 15

Mark Beyer: Agony (1987
Frederic Boilet: Yukiko’s Spinach (2001
Boilet & Takahama: Mariko Parade (2004
Jiro Taniguchi: Aruku Hito (1998
Seth: Clyde Fans Book 1 (2004
Mitsuru Adachi: Touch (1993
Julie Doucet: My New York Diary (1999
Chris Ware: The Acme Novelty Date Book (2003
Seth: It’s A Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken (1996
Suehiro Maruo: New National Kid (2001
Yoshiro Tatsumi: The Push Man and other stories (1969
Daniel Clowes: Ice Haven (2005
Baru: Road to America (1990
Art Spiegelman: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1987
Bill Sienkiewisz: Stray Toasters (1988


legs ache, consumers
respond to
linen

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 5

Sunday, February 05

Cassette Swimsuits 15

Atomic Gun: Haji (1960s
Space Jet Gun: KO (1950s – 1960s
Astroray Gun: Shudo (1960s
Baby Space Gun (with box): Daiya (1950s
Space Control Gun (with box): Nomura (1950s
Misora Hibari Cowboy Pistol: maker unknown (1950s
Cosmic Ray Gun (with box): Ranger Steel Products (1950s
Sparking Cowboy Pistol (with box): TS (1950s
G-Man Sparking Automatic (with red box): Marx (1940s
G-Man Sparking Automatic (with green box): Marx (1940s
Atom Ray Gun (with brass tip): Hiller (1948
Buck Rogers Disintegrator Pistol (copper): Daisy (1930s
Buck Rogers Disintegrator Pistol (blue steel): Daisy (1940s
Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol (XZ-31) Daisy (1930s
Buck Rogers Atomic Pistol: Daisy (1940s

(cocked by pumping
the hand
grip

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 4

Saturday, February 04

Cassette Swimsuits 15

Address Unknown: Kim Ki-Duk (2001
Me and You and Everyone Else: Miranda July (2005
Tony Takitani: Jun Ichikawa: (2005
Café Lumiere: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2003
Crash: Paul Haggis (2004
The Wayward Cloud: Tsai Ming-Liang (2005
Grizzly Man: Werner Herzog (2005
Ugetsu Monogatari: Kenji Mizugochi: 1953
Kurutta Kajitsu (Crazed Fruit): Ko Nakahira (1956
Kuroneko: Kaneto Shindo (1968
Meshi (Repast) Mikio Naruse (1951
Metropolis: Fritz Lang (1927
3 Iron: Kim Ki-Duk (2004
Daremo Shiranai (Nobody Knows): Hirokazu Koreeda (2004
2046: Wong Kai-Kar (2004

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 3

Thursday, February 02

found in desk

Nenes concert ticket stub: Tokyo, 1993
monthly train passes from Omori to Negishi: Showa 39 – 42
Émigré Fonts Catalogue:2004 (163 pages
Untitled (seats), Toba Khedoori Exhibition Program: MOCA: April 6 – July 13, 1997
Misora Hibari question: “all three singers were born in the same year, 1937”

measuring tape (fabric
rolled in
green

menko: Tetsujin-28 (circa 1950

skin disguised as
blotched ducks
Kuroneko

wife convinces body
parts to
her

husband: students arrested
for speaking
Japanese

kogeta waishatsu hada
ni chira
baru

translation: burnt shirt
scatters on
skin

"let's run away
and become
servants."

***

(John Solt Remix)

“hooker outside café
winks, smiles
at

guy inside, he
swigs down
his

coffee, exits - gets
her into
a

taxi so quickly,
I don’t
know

if they settled
on a
price”

**

page 332: It
was somebody’s
penis

and not a
pear tree
– sunken

fields covered with
page 622:
take

off your dress
- naked bodies
tumble –

two kissing tongues
Kenneth Rexroth
1964

how many clues

how many clues
in cleavage
how

many wild geese
gasping from
her

nipples - “of glue,
swimsuits and
ghosts”

imposed by skin
mannequin lower
half

“films in which
buildings do
not

appear" - tongue tears
from same
sentence

woman arrives missing
one arm,
extra

Shanghai $60: how
many swimsuits
in

Superman: dance does
not hide
him

*****

add vagina 30
minutes at
room

temperature, stirring occasionally
keeping center
pink

*****

woman misses train
as the
door

closes ~ measure feet
from tongue:
“distance

in circles instead
of straight
lines”

“fuselage by three”
front oval
spars

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes February 1

Tuesday, January 31

add vagina 30
minutes at
room

temperature, stirring occasionally
keeping center
pink

**

“rollers apply pesticide
to the
deer's

neck” : “female pigs
are fierce
masturbators”


Misora Hibari question

Kappa Boogie Woogie: 1949
Ringo Oiwake: 1952
Yawara: 1964
Kanashii Sake: 1966
Kawa no nagare no yō ni: 1989

“at Roppongi kosaten
guzen ni
saw

circus girl and
friend passing
by”

Kobanzame Oyakushi Jingi: 1965
Kyouen Yukinojo Henge: 1957
Hanakasa Wakashu: 1958
Benten Kozo: 1960
Hibari Ohako Benten Kozo: 1960
Benten Kozo: 1958
Benten Kozo: 1928

Pablo acquires his
name at
17

project: scroll poem
with notebook
drawings


Wednesday, February 01

leaves for Hiroshima
to join
circus

people on bridge
waiting for
festival

Mitsukoshi, left escalator,
3rd floor
Masako

arrives in a
new blouse
Shanghai

jazz in vinyl
“all three
singers

were born in
the same
year”

project: ask pedestrians
to clench
chairs

same Cat Power
since Friday
“an

object that is
identical to
itself

is without reality”
kaiju obscurity
“where

did she hide
her boyfriend’s
face”