not much in the reservoir

Tuesday September 05, 2006 at 11:12 AM in

so i am skipping my first class today. is this to be an example of how my semester is to go? is this complete lack of enthusiasm to be the tone of the next three months? lets wait and see. on to different things, the question of what i have been up to these past few days has yet to been answer, yet to have been ask for that matter. none the less, let me tell you. i attended a splendid artist lecture last Friday. the artist goes by his birth name micheal dee and while he does work in a variety of mediums his video work shines above the rest. his work, which for the most is 30 to 120 second loops, is monotonous yet rythmic. they remind me of good noise music and have the nature of being abrasive and invasive. such as the niagra falls piece which was a film of the falls projected over urinals. the bathroom in which the said urinals where in where public and the artist reported that men found it difficult to pee because the noise and the people who would come in to view the piece where watching them . i also had the joy of attending a showing of the movie little miss sunshine with my wife and dear friends amy and andy. it was funny and fulfilled my need to see an elder man doing crank, freakish creations know as children in a beauty pageant and a man being saved by porn. the leading roll played by a volkswagen van without first or second gear shined threw as a gem. i also read a short excerpt from a jean baudrillard essay on hyperreality and i am wondering how it ties in with guy debords critique of the society of the spectacle. hmmm, something to think about.