minutes from mm 53 - Sunday, April 5, 2015
Attendees:
tENT
Spat
Wandi
Hyla
Elizabeth F.
Kenny
tENT waits on steps out front reading a Keith Laumer bk , "Timetracks"
7:05 Spat & Wandi arrive & go get beer, Spat asks me what kind of beer tENT wants & tENTS says "the best kind of beer they have"
Spat & Wandi return just as Hyla arrives
Spat & Wandi bring Duck Rabbit Milk Stout & Hyla brings Yuengling Black & Tan
We all sit out front since spring has sprung (sortof)
Spat gives tENT a review copy of his NEW NOVEL:
"PRESS HERE AND IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE"
wch is available for purchase from Spat & Wandi or online thru Amazon
Conversation is hot'n'heavy & tENT only makes a token attempt to keep up w/ it for the minutes
Spat talks about going to Zappa plays Zappa performing "One Size Fits All" (mm 54 field trip) the next day, Monday, April 6, 2015, wch tENT & Ben & Kenny & Eric Singer are also going to
Spat also talks about going to NYC next Monday, April 13, 2015, for a Stevie Wonder concert where he'll perform "Songs in the Key of Life" & talks about lucking out & getting great tickets from a friend
Talking about Conspiracy Theories about rock stars:
Was Jimi Hendrix murdered?
Was Peter Tosh killed by the Jamaican government?
Was John Lennon killed by the US government?
Talking about Peaches doing Yoko Ono remix - Spat describes her as "Transgressive Electro-Clash" & says she's done songs about menstruation
tENT mentions Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" (April, 1975) wch he thought was about menstruation - Wikipedia claims that it's NOT about menstruation:
""Only Women Bleed" is a song written by Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner. It is a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage. The song is often mistakenly presumed to be about menstruation, and that has limited its play on radio and in other public forums. As a single by Cooper, it was released as "Only Women".
"It is one of Cooper's biggest hits, reaching #1 on the Canadian RPM national singles chart and #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1975. It is from his album Welcome to My Nightmare. It was the first of several ballad releases by Cooper that reached the top 20 of the Hot 100 singles chart.."
Here're the lyrics according to an online source:
""Only Women Bleed"
"Man got his woman to take his seed he got the power oh she got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man she feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often he smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Man makes your hair grey he's your life's mistake all you're really looking for's an even break
He lies right at you you now hate this game he slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain
She cries alone at night too often he smokes and drinks and don't come home at all ooh
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Man got his woman to take his seed he got the power oh she got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man she feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often he smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Black eyes all of the time don't spend a dime clean up this grime
And you there down on your knees begging me please come watch me bleed
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed
Only women bleed only women bleed only women bleed"
- http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alicecooper/onlywomenbleed.html
tENT is shocked that no-one else there remembers the song (ok, it WAS 40 yrs ago!)
Spat talks about new record store in Leeds that's similar to Mikey's "Mind Cure Records" & another such store in Lausanne insofar as it has extreme punk rock & avant-garde
Spat got a John Cage 3 record boxset from Italy on Cramps Records of Cage doing sound poetry live in 1971 in front of a rowdy audience
tENT gets very excited about this
Hyla's going to Slovenia for the NSK show & other things in Ljubljana
[Laibach/NSK have offices here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metelkova ]
tENT says that he has stuff there currently in the "Networked Disruption" show at the Skuc Gallery/Aksio
There's video of that here:
https://vimeo.com/122888080#t=12m34s
The venue for the NSK show is a squat that was created as soon as Slovenia withdrew from Yugoslavia - "City of Women", an annual cultural fest, is also there
Hyla tangent: there's an ice-cream shop in Shadyside called "Oh, Yeah" whose owner prefers being pd in bitcoins
The current value of a bitcoin is $254.79; it may've started out at a value of $1.00 & been as high as in the thousands
tENT gives Hyla the GitHead CD that he got from Spat at the last mm that Spat was at
tENT gives Spat "Against the Grain" bk w/ Havelock Ellis intro
tENT brings up the accordion he recently repaired after buying it from a thrift store something like 2.5 yrs ago
Hyla attempts to play it
8:05 Elizabeth F arrives & talks about the tandem bike that she & Peter had ridden by on earlier
Hyla says they're called "Divorce Horses"
Elizabeth met Dweezil Zappa & he told her she "shreds" wch she didn't understand at the time
tENT shows a different Cage Cramps record than the one Spat was talking about earlier
Spat notices that it's got Cage's "4'33"" on it & sd he'd always wondered whether that was really recorded
Hyla talks about her recently deceased friend Arthur S. Aubry
[here's a link to a relevant website: http://gittermangallery.com/artist/Arthur%20S._Aubry/#!1527 ]
& compares his photography to that of Trevor Paglin (who's done photography of secret sites)
Talk about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation - Elizabeth liveed near there in Ellenburg, WA
tENT shows "A Chance Operation" double CD commemorating Cage & shows Spat that Zappa did a version of "4'33"" for it
tENT plays a CD of Eberhard Blum performing Cage's "62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham" (1971) & asks Spat whether this is the same piece that's on the boxset he was talking about earlier
Spat isn't sure but says that Cage's version of it is very quiet wch tENT agrees wd probably be the case
8:29 Kenny arrives
tENT plays Mildred Couper's "Dirge" (1937) for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart
Kenny talking about Ezra Sims at his 80th birthday party at Pitt
tENT plays 1st 3 pieces of Sarmad Brody's "Selected Works" K7
Kenny talks about Tuvan throat singing - if you feel like you have to cough you're doing it right
Kenny also mentions a woman who has a video on YouTube doing overtone singing:
This lady is REALLY good at singing overtones. This is not the same thing as throat singing but wow. This lady is good.
Spat talks about a music store in Yorkshire for older instruments
9:10 Hyla & Wandi & Spat leave
Elizabeth says that her mom is performing Morton Feldman's "For Christian Wolff" for flute & piano at the Gardner Museum in Boston & asks us whether we know of where she & her partner cd perform it in PGH - tENT suggests getting in touch w/ Matthew Rosenblum at the Pitt Music Dept
9:30 Elizabeth leaves
Kenny talks about textiles - his jeans have broken twill - they're "Naked & Famous" brand
And here is some info on textiles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selvage#Handwoven_selvages_vs._industrial_selvages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Flying_shuttle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim#Selvage_denim
Kenny talks about how in Taoism OCD is considered to be a spleen imbalance (Chinese medicine)
Kenny talks about Auto Sensory Meridian Response & his experiences w/ it
11:30 Kenny leaves
A good time was had by all!
p.s. tENT did shoot some footage so there'll be an mmm053 movie sometime soon too - some of the errors that're corrected in the minutes here remain uncorrected in the movie
to the mm index
forward to mm 55
backward to mm 52
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)