Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 31

Friday, March 31

coheres in trimmed thwarts. appropriated by. provokes enactment. accelerate accurately. irreversible complexion. film brochure with push-pins. dispense with. sufficient. disrupted by. announcement tears. disc was damaged. adhesive smudge. inserted in. apricot spread on toast. weather instead of. replace. comparable to. immediate in clothes. subway includes. with isolated. acacias amplified by. scribbled in pencil. continuous fold. attached to. emerge as. substitute their shoulders. aquarium luminous cling. adhesives blur. pedestrians soaked. complete dispersion. calf roping is immediate. abrupt measurements. secured as evidence. discourage the drive across. various thoughts. accumulate with. the distance between Bach and Joan Tower. 300 years. sometimes, the room is only 46 minutes. occupants correlate. furniture wrapped in. confine. pavement as. access sustained by. 5 months. "dance furthers the plot." familiar requirement. Mo' Wax provides. "acrobats change the size of their bodies when they rotate." with noise. "let me pick up the Revlon for you." refrigerates bread. "imputes a similar." 12 Tuesdays accustomed to. film begins. with proximity. inflicted by. plates distend interior. equivalent to. spatial instance. atrium situates

Meshi: 1951

Hikinige: 1966

Horoki: 1962

Maihime: 1951

Uwasa no Musume: 1935

Kimi to Wakarete: 1933

Denise Liddell Lawson: Where You Form The Letter L: 1992

Bruce Andrews: R + B: 1981

Allen Fisher: Hooks place 32 taken out of place: 1980

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 30

Thursday, March 30

tinged with. wet leaves accumulate. emerge. accordion brochure. musicians respond. to her blouse. fold prompts thought. inflicted with distance. contiguity imposes alignment. basil cleansed in cold water exudes. a quick promise. staalplaat or steel plate. three aisles average to film. regardless of posture. "we waited an hour and I said fuck, let's go! she starts kneeling at 6." a thin horizontal line with. uninterrupted undulant curves represent. ambiguous tension. weather equivalent envelope immersed in unexpected complexion. accelerate inherent dialect. grid replaces numerical assignments. concession detergent package. with an entry fee. bracket with an embossed circle. an actual lock to emphasize persistence. clients prefer "lamp" to evoke the interior. furniture conducive to. thought essentially requires. inferred from. two circles extended. intervals dispense train fares calibrated by kilometers. two identical lines. culminate in thought. "the final slope of the ramp ascends towards the solarium." distance imbued. with repetitive folds. acquire discipline. restricted in concrete alludes to. a permanent description. Cindy Sherman embellished in anonymity. reinforces evidence. replete with. weather deteriorates to. complexion extracted from. sand remains preferable. fabric with exact measurements. partial entrance spindles to. airport embrace. sand an accurate complexion. of loss. "mushroom with an apricot fragrance." your flight back from Chicago arrives. without delay. aisles accrue . initiated by its

Tabi Yakusha: 1940

Nagareru: 1956

Ukigumo: 1955

Inazuma: 1952

Joshu Sasori: 1972

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 29

Wednesday, March 29

flow until what falling visible green stain lean hold realize field curtain point movie clarity with air quick scrape airport further angle often under distance erase float propose which silence hat will body with fingers start this at tape skull ingredients mix take afternoon knot because noise precisely early at how reason were eucalyptus standing on trades crumbs to rain if tags skin after gentle open faucet count give insects were extracted romaji twisted next accident swing forth from was spell recognize then shirt waiting paragraphs four minutes tap flat where shape wearing floor maintain must bought scrawl forward for chance ignite seem gather bowl steps hanging visit aching slip asparagus to vacant expecting brings notebook chewing punctures repeat leaves moisture scissors above steam object always limp meant carnation traffic wrap ceases pencil warm nasturtium which back memory amulet distorted moth instances hovering next airport taxi clothes between continuous mailing lost someone’s wet spiral notebook on graffiti stain as tongue insisting depends on admit umbrella much very ample leap to focus on red omitted from how many scoop socket might ginger each flicker stops her turn slow blueberries between will read under their walking curls heat entering audience lean hair these used pavement driving slow tape biscuit with two cliffs she leaves the room for three minutes paper consisting ambulance erasing legs in samba feet adjust spots smaller make green glittering hasn’t open much because they recommend comforts expression menu left on the table at least push incapable stairs habit were is next prepare else moment holding most confining contagious throat waiting imminent said have shapes mechanical occur clear is their someone sweating wasn’t glass sounds bus raise become delay describe balance

Aozora Tenshi: 1950

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 28

Tuesday, March 28

flow until what falling visible green stain lean hold realize field curtain point movie clarity with air quick scrape airport further angle often under distance erase float propose which silence hat will body with fingers start this at tape skull ingredients mix take afternoon knot because noise precisely early at how reason were eucalyptus standing on trades crumbs to rain if tags skin after gentle open faucet count give insects were extracted romaji twisted next accident swing forth from was spell recognize then shirt waiting paragraphs four minutes tap flat where shape wearing floor maintain must bought scrawl forward for chance ignite seem gather bowl steps hanging visit aching slip asparagus to vacant expecting brings notebook chewing punctures repeat leaves moisture scissors above steam object always limp meant carnation traffic wrap ceases pencil warm nasturtium which back memory amulet distorted moth instances hovering next airport taxi clothes between continuous mailing lost someone’s wet spiral notebook on graffiti stain as tongue insisting depends on admit umbrella much very ample leap to focus on red omitted from how many scoop socket might ginger each flicker stops her turn slow blueberries between will read under their walking curls heat entering audience lean hair these used pavement driving slow tape biscuit with two cliffs she leaves the room for three minutes paper consisting ambulance erasing legs in samba feet adjust spots smaller make green glittering hasn’t open much because they recommend comforts expression menu left on the table at least push incapable stairs habit were is next prepare else moment holding most confining contagious throat waiting imminent said have shapes mechanical occur clear is their someone sweating wasn’t glass sounds bus raise become delay describe balance

Takekurabe: 1955

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 27

Monday, March 27

9 minutes contact repeat music Kaoru all eleven includes screen similar left converting it begin apartment proceeded to return evidence length whoever inserting shop is realism succeeds of however difficult else begins in an urge forward provide this traffic script enlist as wife wants arrival news film about prevent at Toho change tickets realistic interior conversing with restaurant he could proceed to weather at the same ending instead near allows kilometers facial an hour traveling actors generally how warmer to wet requirements subway ascend to map counting new require convenient exhale set pocket report stir blockage wrist she’s back ½ acre furniture step location they change “Stratocaster” she says arrange $2000 “your hands are cold, go away” entrance coffee possible location numeral inhabitants stir twine paragraph knees close pencil containing foliage in romaji for soap to rouge pencil insects Misora Hibari in sentence samba face loops lips jacket jowl they down this green what strap hairpins suppose cliffs alignment notebook of point take plug pencil moisture adjust chair further arm nine sheets Hashi Yukio: Che Che Che 1964 “there is some tape residue on them” alignment orange people option of further rented readers adjust hoist swag act as dance notebook pencil chair hand tell is in door fire taste room suitcase preparing puppet show involves grid composition disrupting instead it more an thrash garnished lettuce the moon will numeral hairpins suppose cliffs alignment notebook of point take plug pencil moisture adjust chair further arm both obtain relating to plant start mostly narrow extends from humidity having article before accessory beside hitting top furthermore plant added mixture remove plastic factory dispersed 7 minutes trying told outlet space luminous cold with theatrical sculptures through tunnel aspects package page using a trout van on microphone left channel volume knob at the same release left caps tape possible Ashby exit difficult to complicate ambulance directly biscuit individual there house with some aprons function as dozen following with stage except loop before unspecified hours by 8 minutes consume two pages clearly lips speaking as a gesture existing machine take point plug as tongue corner moisture apparently noticeable beside another preface during that glance twine paper consisting entire complete trout to group speech which separate knots from a term and avoid hairpins suppose cliffs alignment notebook of point take plug pencil moisture adjust chair further arm jumble movement maintenance excessive as in construction bone card skim earliest chemistry exceed lounge pillow fragrant eyebrows swarm insects approach closes page permit accurate signal about to glean scrap doesn’t open coal reaction to second emphasis no voice often in conversation explain aesthetic primarily abundance intend to measure distance duplicate public benches active consult electricity to assert everything they display imperative dancers intuitive questions fonts formed respond interim example installation either test immediately in fact the streets urgent both because fashion at this drawing pulp dispersals outline soap furniture is almost crow clothes close pencil where at sound mist next to rouge hairpins suppose cliffs alignment notebook of point take plug pencil moisture adjust chair further arm pillow fragrant eyebrows swarm insects approach closes page permit accurate signal about to glean scrap was exact from an exceeding 6 minutes parallel to on Haight isn’t green enough another grid notebook $4 someone starts talking block with groove to insert things so on their way to paint choices door taste the leaves for three minutes refrain from moving mouth, fifty swimsuits inevitable guitar tattoo on her right Belen, New Mexico “train tickets collected by” Knife City, Two Guns frost in sunlight 45 boxed menko sheet uncut Tetsujin-28

Takekurabe: 1955

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 26

Sunday, March 26

9 minutes contact repeat includes similar converting begin apartment return evidence whoever of difficult else forward provide this traffic as change interior with weather ending near kilometers an hour generally warmer wet subway map set the moon will report accessory outlet microphone left channel volume knob at the same release left caps tape possible ambulance directly convenient what hand tell boats require is in location door paragraph pocket strap thrash garnished exhale biscuit both numeral obtain relating to plant start mostly narrow extends from humidity having article before individual there house with some aprons function as dozen following with stage except loop before unspecified hours by 8 minutes consume two pages clearly lips speaking as a gesture existing machine alignment of further rented readers adjust hoist swag act as option lettuce arm wrong notebook pencil chair take point plug as tongue corner moisture apparently noticeable beside another preface during that glance stir new furniture arrange knees face jowl as they step down for coffee this green entrance jacket blockage twine paper entire complete consisting trout to avoid jumble group speech which separate knots from a term and movement maintenance excessive as in construction bone card skim earliest chemistry exceed lounge beside hitting top furthermore plant added mixture remove plastic factory dispersed 7 minutes trying told everything they display imperative dancers intuitive questions fonts formed respond interim example doesn’t open coal reaction to second emphasis no voice often in conversation explain aesthetic primarily space luminous cold with theatrical sculptures through tunnel aspects package page using a trout van on fire Ashby exit difficult to complicate room involves grid composition disrupting instead it more an abundance intend to measure distance duplicate public benches active inhabitants stir twine consult electricity to assert installation either test immediately in fact the streets urgent both because fashion at this drawing pulp dispersals outline soap furniture is almost crow clothes close pencil where at sound mist next to rouge hairpins suppose cliffs alignment notebook of point take plug pencil moisture adjust chair further arm pillow fragrant eyebrows swarm insects approach closes page permit accurate signal about to glean scrap was exact from an exceeding 6 minutes parallel to foliage Misora Hibari in romaji taste hand climate leaves mean mistakes trace sentence samba corrosion dish instruction 6 minutes man with suitcase preparing puppet show on Haight no one stops on their way to Amoeba paint choices door isn’t green enough another grid notebook $4 someone starts talking block with groove to insert things so pleasant to see marginal bleat abdomen single closure project to catalog emitting from the adjacent room do not taste the leaves for three minutes refrain from moving mouth, fifty swimsuits inevitable guitar tattoo on her right wrist she’s counting back change “Stratocaster” she says “your hands are cold, go away” ½ acre $2000 Belen, New Mexico “train tickets collected by” Knife City, Two Guns frost in sunlight 45 boxed sets containing nine sheets Hashi Yukio: Che Che Che 1964 orange people “there is some tape residue on them” menko sheet uncut Tetsujin-28

Janken Musume: 1955

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 25

Friday, March 24

documentary exit
longing to see a car
“it’s always exactly what I need”

curtains contain ceiling

in two weeks
briefly include
lamp

shibuya station isn’t news anymore
coins dispense lips respond
exhume implies kappa


Saturday, March 25

Language to cover a page
Vito Acconci / edited by Craig Dworkin

“delay in glass,
as one
would

say a poem
in prose”
Duchamp

“language as matter
and not
ideas”

“the physical space
of the
page”

cups steaming

swimsuits distributed to
amputee at
random

“index-card contribution”
9 minutes
Esquire

“take an object.
do something
to

it. do something
else to
it”

Joshu Sasori: 1972

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 23

Thursday, March 23

“my mother wanted to be an opium addict”

Shanghai jazz

1920s

salmon asparagus

source sound ear

blue coffee and insects

***

Émigré No. 67

page 54

classic Esquire covers: Muhammad Ali and Richard Nixon

***

Dhomont divides his fingers
Richard Chartier performs anonymously behind the audience

Recombinant Labs Compound SF (June 26, 2004
with delete thought and friend

***

notes re Sachiko

swimsuits and amputee conflict

“fingers occasionally embracing her torso”

Joshu Sasori: 1972

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 22

Tuesday, March 21

Zarsanga: Chants Du Pashtou / Songs of the Pashtu (Afghanistan 1993

raised as a shepherdess

“a man on the verge of emigrating speaks to his wife”

surface prepares to accept protrusion

watercolor project

wood engraving blocks

learn how to tie her arm back on

sleep schedule

untitled: 3 days ago, Misora Hibari in romaji


Wednesday, March 22

glued together fabrics blending
learn how to paste her arm back on

“leans over, touches her breast”

“accused of kicking down the door”
“he is not a suspect”

“it’s not in the wrist so much as in the fingers”

how cloth without

was the finishing square

align moisture with foliage

mist

lamp

books

Botchan: 1953

Tokyo no Kyujitsu: 1958

Ika Naru Hoshi no Moto ni: 1962

Neko to Katsuobushi: 1961

Chi no Hate ni Ikuru Mono: 1960

Fundoshi Isha: 1960

Mito Komon: 1969

Jiken: 1978

Shacho Hanjoki: 1968

Kigeki Ekimae Tanken: 1967

Shacho Ninpocho: 1965

Ware Hitotsubu no Mugi Naredo: 1964

Daidokoro Taiheiki: 1963

Hadaka no Juyaku: 1964

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 20

Monday, March 20

notes re Sachiko

do not “engage or ignore the mouth”
“pages come apart in water”

“unidentified hand”

dialect
equivalent to
5


notes re Sachiko

do not mention Shanghai weather between two park employees
do not mention “his first wife executed by the Nationalist"
do not mention “students from Moscow”
do not mention hospital scars
do not mention Sophie Crumb apprenticing at a tattoo shop
do not mention “Mexican dwarf in his hotel room”
do not mention unattainable skin


***

Chinese woman throws water on pavement: brothel entrance
wrapping tissue pinned to the wall
28 chairs drawn from the left to the right
similar to static

Kappa: “an embryo begs to be aborted out of fear that he will succumb to hereditary insanity”
same fingers clutch detergent

Norimono

Norimono (back cover)

Nora Neko: 1958

Kitsune to Tanuki: 1959

Yukiguni: 1957

Noren: 1958

Mimizuku: 1958

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 19

Sunday, March 19

“injures her finger in gym practice”

“should not move, the background should be plain as possible”

do not accumulate combs in stencil, burnt salmon skin

amputee deteriorates without swimsuit

notes re Sachiko

“Nippon no fasshon te itta nandaro”

Tetsujin-28 with blue hands, nurse speaking Chinese

Jinsei Tonbo Gaeri: 1955

Hesokuri Shacho: 1956

Meoto Zenzai: 1955

Romansu Musume: 1956

Neko to Shozo to Futari no Onna: 1956

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 16

Thursday, March 16

notes re Sachiko

“their friendship should be unexpected”

room installation: woman panting on cassette, 40 minutes

“why the multiple photos of Sachiko”

“every third woman is a plagiarist of the first
and this first is a copy”


notes re Sachiko

“female inmates showering in their clothes”

“never place any amputated appendage on ice”

do not trace woman panting on tape, 40 minutes

tongue hesitates on nipple is not a requirement


notes re Sachiko

“female pigs are fierce masturbators”

“our wall is not for their soiled

blank cards. i don't trust the audience, even though they aren't there and

there is no wall and no exhibit”


notes re Sachiko

“when you die, what do you want me to do with your clothes”

“wear them”

Frank Sinatra hat

Konchu Dai Senso: 1968

Eki Mae Hanten: 1962

Hadaka no Shima: 1962

Ikiru: 1952

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 14

Tuesday, March 14

notes re Sachiko

“water is for the rice, not to wash your feet”

“determine to get pregnant in 24 hours”

beverage blouse: fluorescent salmon display

“Never place any amputated appendage on ice, as it softens
the tissue and destroys the cellular struction, preventing reattachment.”

boating receipts, “seaweed bruise”

Sachiko collapses on cassette

“swim 100 m backstroke in under 60 seconds”

1964: monk disrobes in flame

“when you die, what do you want me to do with your clothes?”

“wear them”

Frank Sinatra hat

Beni-Dasuki Kenkajo: 1959

Oatari Tanuki Goten: 1958

Oatari Sanshoku Musume: 1957

Ojosan Sacho: 1953

Romansu Musume: 1956

Janken Musume: 1955

Takekurabe: 1955

Aozora Tenshi: 1950

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 11

Saturday, March 11

sign on the window: “chair for rent”

dissolving: poems printed on chocolate sheets

how many amulets in monk

she said you can’t take pictures or walk your dogs in the desert to pee
without paying ten bucks

tourists who don’t pay are blindfolded

***

skin conceives its own departure

bones in her eyes a promise she can’t explain vase
with vertical notches

***

15 minutes, five times a day

skin speckles with adhesive infection
skin acclimates in cleavage

15 minutes, five times a day

skin smears with amulet contestants
skin disguise as folded shirts

15 minutes, five times a day

scissors scrape skin as prize
skin prefers mistakes in cleavage

Kuroneko: 1968

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 10

Friday, March 10

02 days ago: “ladder tethered to the ocean floor”
03 days ago: Ali Farka Toure died from bone cancer
06 days ago: Honoring Kansuke Yamamoto at Foreign Cinema
14 days ago: take turns pasting pedestrians on pavement
22 days ago: with pencil clothes, pencil so close
06 days ago: miss meeting Mr Fuckface, Wirtz Gallery, 5th floor
06 days ago: Bert Williams prints out green
08 days ago: plate 195: Scar 1984. Illness 1996. Ishiuchi Miyoko
14 days ago: “fingers do battle with their responsibilities”
07 days ago: Frank Sinatra hat
32 days ago: skull resides with monk
13 days ago: adhesive residue on cassette
15 days ago: Tetsujin-28 with blue hands, nurse speaking Chinese
07 days ago: “and the fourth is Dissolving”
04 days ago: ai tsu tu red monkey in Taiwanese
06 days ago: Sumatra: “fisherman mending nets and repairing boats”
15 days ago: girl sitting to the right, tracing street map
11 days ago: same ambulance same hospital
33 days ago: Letter from Sachiko, 2 sheets, undated (with pages missing)

Hanakasa Wakashu: 1958

Tetsujin-28 (menko, sheet uncut)

Jakuen

Hakujitsumu: 1964

Unagi: 1997

Gorugo 13: 1973

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 6

Monday, March 06

“something ‘asks’ to be put into sentences,
and suffers the wrong of not being able to be at the moment”

random ink spatters
beverage contains
trout

dermatologist with tattoo
fluorescent cuticles
emanate

“everything I buy
quickly becomes
useless”

brim nave in
a practical
clasp

skin habituates film
partial access
applicable

pull chest to
achieve desired
cleavage

kilometers trim, aisles
inhere in
thought

***

Akiyoshi Kumiko question
“animal bite"
repair

shirts have tongue
tourist realizes
souvenir

contagious beverage skin
coins remain
accurate

***

pen scrapes amputee
difficult to
translate

exhume Akutagawa Ryunosuke
cyclamen needs
water

there is music,
but no
vocals

“thought is made
in the
mouth”

letter from Sachiko
with pages
missing

swimsuit prepares amputee
2 sheets,
undated

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 5

Sunday, March 05

pen scrapes amputee
difficult to
translate

exhume Akutagawa Ryunosuke
cyclamen needs
water

there is music,
but no
vocals

“thought is made
in the
mouth”

amputee arrives late
swimsuit prepares
Sachiko

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 4

Saturday, March 04

Cassette Swimsuits 15

Phil Niblock arrives in the mail

"the reawakening of the voice always presupposes a break,
an irreversible distance from the lost object"

how many minutes in insects
trumpet reeds percussion
vocals blur
“with whom he’s frequently compared”
decay evanescent

“He was asked near the end of his life why,
since he valued silence so much, he
had produced such a volume of language”

Jallaludin Rumi, 13th century Persian poet

The ear that was sold to a fish
Reasons for knocking at an empty house

Sumatra: “fisherman mending nets and repairing boats”

Cassette Swimsuits (working notes March 3

Friday, March 03

Cassette Swimsuits 15

“and the fourth is Dissolving”
chappatsu hair
Mitsukoshi at Gion Matsuri
dobleces en papel
wooden textile spools
other is interior
project: paste used train tickets on grid paper
“thought is made in the mouth”
words occur round
“the room is a vehicle existing only to explain the light”
28 days ago: infinity in reverse
yubi mo ase ni naru
dog sleeps in the closet
Letter from Sachiko, 2 sheets, undated (with pages missing)
burnt blunt tip, 40 watts, replace bulb