Adult Contemporary, Cory Arcangel, Team Gallery

LISTEN TO FUTURE MUSIC

http://www.myspace.com/pointnever

Cyber Feminist Gif

This is the art to accompany Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto on the website of Stanford's Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

BITCH ASS DARIUS AT TODOMUNDO! I'M GONNA BE THERE!

http://www.myspace.com/bitchassdarius

http://www.myspace.com/lonewolflonewolflonewolf

Nothing Room at The Art Institute

Feeling this

HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR, YOU BELONG

I HAVE A SCULPTURE IN THIS SHOW

ABANDONED PLOT
Curated by Andy Meerow

June 15th 2008 and Onward

Opening reception Sunday June 15th, 6-8 pm

(Opening will feature guest performances by Charlie Looker and MPA)

For "Abandoned Plot", twelve artists create work for an abandoned plot of land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The property is an undeveloped and neglected place which currently houses a tangle of weedy urban greenery, trash and debris, all of which will be left undisturbed. The exhibiton's agenda is malleable - the artists will enter an undefined area and respond to its properties (aesthetic, political, formal, mystic, etc) in whatever capacity they see fit. In other words, just as the plot of land is abandoned, so is the plot of the show. We will go to a place and we will do a thing, anything, because nothing in New York City can be empty. Time is compressed here. Things move quickly, and places like the abandoned plot become super-charged with the simultaneous energies of past, present, and future. Narratives have overlapped or have run parallel, some memorialized, some forgotten. Certainly, more will keep coming. The work in this show will collectively speak to that complexity – to the impossibility of a straight story. The artwork itself will also be abandoned. That is, the show will never officially close, it will only break down, or possibly grow. Please join us at its beginning.


The contributing artists in "Abandoned Plot" have exhibited widely, both internationally and nationally, as well as being involved in numerous other curatorial, published, and musical projects.

They are:

Darren Bader, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Leidy Churchman, Rutherford Chang, Alex Escamilla, Shane King, Rebecca Gordon, Brendan Harman, Frankie Martin, MPA, Andy Meerow, Reid Ramirez

Abandoned Plot

Key Foods Parking Lot

Intersection of Calyer and McGuiness

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Direct all inquiries to Andy Meerow ameerow@gmail.com

SHOW ME LOVE, ROBIN S

WHY CAN'T ANY CONTEMPORARY DIVAS MAKE SONGS THIS GOOD? MARY? COMMMMOOOOONNNN!

Discipline Problems at Alogon Gallery

I HAVE A SCULPTURE IN THIS SHOW:



DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS

Curated by Joseph Grigely

April 19 to May 3, 2008

Performance and Opening Reception
Saturday April 26th 7-10pm

Film Screening and Closing Reception
Saturday May 3rd 7-10pm

Sarah Alford, Katie Lennard, Zephyr Pfotenhauer,
AndrewandAndrea, Alicia Chester, Ellen Alderman,
Danielle Sommer, Rebecca Gordon, Kristi McGuire,
Mike Gibisser, Jesse Vogler, Szu-Han Ho, and Heidi
Neubauer-Winterburn, with a performance by Joey Orr,
and a screening program of occult shit films Channeling:
An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits,
organized by Ethan White and Latham Zearfoss. The
exhibition will be accompanied by a pre-release of
Canon, a certain journal of uncertain disposition.

ALOGON GALLERY
1049 N. PAULINA APT 3R, CHICAGO, IL 60622
Hours: Sundays 1-4pm (Entrance on Cortez)
www.alogongallery.com

SAY YOU SAY ME MIDI

http://www.lyricplaza.com/midi/3/Say_You_Say_Me.mid

CAMEO-"CANDY" 1987

It's like candy
I can feel it when you walk
Even when you talk it takes over me
You're so dandy
I wanna know
Can you feel it too just like I do

(hoo!)

This stuff is starting now
It's the same feeling
I always seem to get around you
There's no mistaking; I'm clearly taken
By the simple mere thought of you

(oh!)

This stuff is starting now
This stuff is starting now
This stuff is starting now

(hoo!)

My eyes roll in my head
I toss and turn in my bed
In the morning when I think about you

(yes I do)

Simply put, you're the reason why
Even though I'm real shy

(real shy)

I attempt to look my best for you

(indeed I do - just for you)

Cause you affect me, fascinate me
I thank heaven for the things that you do (for the things that you do)
It's like candy
You sure are sweet - Sweet!
You're so dandy
You're taking my appetite - but it's all right

It's like candy

(ooh, vanilla! oh, chocolate!)

You look real nice, wrapped up tight
You're so dandy
(in the night, if I have a little bit more like that)
You're giving me a heart attack
It's the kind I like

It's like candy, you're so dandy...

(Why you do - why you do - baby)

You're like a brand new feeling (feeling)
In a special way
A surprise package
On a bright clear sunny day (you're so dandy)
And wrapped up tight

(so good - so good)

Strawberry! raspberry!
All those good THINGS!
Violets and gumdrops
That's what you're saying to me

(ow!)

(sweet candy - candy)
It's like candy
Sure seems like good candy oh baby!

You're so dandy
Just keep doing what you do

you know what i mean
baby
it's like candy ohhhhhh
your so tender sweet candy
your like your like ohhhhhh

its like candy

Tom Ford ad on the back of BUTT Magazine

NY Times Article about Transgender College Students

Overall, I think this article does a pretty good job of realistically presenting the possibility of a society operating on the basis of a gender continuum as opposed to a binary. Not as interested in the parts about women's schools, but overall it makes me hopeful for the future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16students-t.html?ex=1363406400&en=c7a5df9bbed13c29&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Say you, Say me, Say it together, naturally.

ZOE WRIGHT'S NEW WORKS

http://www.zktw.blogspot.com/

SO GOOD

IS THIS VIDEO RELATED?

Lil Wayne remix of Mario "Crying Out for Me"

Listen to the Wayne verse at the beginning. It is totally killing me...so romantic! Thanks Lone Wolf! LOVE WOLF!




So i met this shawty the otha day
I got her number called her up like what you doin she said nothin
I said whats good
She said not much
I said guess what?
She said whats up
I said i think we should hook up
She said uhh
I said what?
She said but
I said but? why you stuck?
She said f**k
I said who?
She said not you
I said then who?
She said you know
I know what?
You know who
I said i do?
She said you do
I said i do but i really dont because its you that i really want and we can do what you really
Want girl we grown if he aint gone treat you right then i aint gone treat you wrong
And thats my word but she done heard so many lies she dont whats true or not, shawty like a
Valle service i say she been through alot but i put her car in park and never let her cry alone
I listen to her heart beat because it plays my favorite song

I AM A DJ NOW

JUST WAIT

Usher--Dot Com

I like to imagine that when Usher was hanging out with R Kelly working on "SAME GIRL" R Kelly imparted onto him the wisdom of the extended sex and (insert term here) analogy (sex/kitchen, sex/outer space, sex/jungle etc.) I am happy to report that now it's all about THE INTERNET!

Usher - Dot Com Lyrics


oooo I love the way you dirty type
I can take you home on escape
oooo I need your backspace in my life
thank god you don't have a flatscreen

please...baby I got to see you
and I really want to please you
so get on my laptop so I can download

online...I love the way you log on
we can do it all night
I'll make you dot com
baby if you sign on
I'm gon make ya light up
oo baby if you log on
I'll make you dot com

I wanted to link up with you baby at first sight
with you I get to use my f keys...yeah..
I can't wait to give you megabites
I got all the memory you need
let ma finges do the talking babe

please... baby I got to see you
I really want to please you
so get on my laptop so I can download

online...I love the way you log on
we can do it all night
I'll make you dot com
sign on
I'm gon make ya light up
baby if you log on
I'll make you dot com

oooo.. baby you want this I know
I can't wait to give you my harddrive
my moonlight...if it's alright
baby...ooh I'm always at your window
ready to shift and control you
if you want me to....say yes baby
say yes baby
say yes baby
say yes baby
got to say
ooo say yes baby
say yes baby
got to say yes
yes, say it

please..baby I got to see you
cause I really want to please you
so get up on me baby get up on me
(I really want you)

online....I love the way you log on (oh baby)
we can do it all night (we can do it all night)
I'll make you dot com
(I'm gon make)
sign on
(show you ...?)
I'm gon make ya light up (gonna make ya light up)
baby if you log on
I'll make you dot com (I'm gonna make you dot com)

online....I love the way you log on
we can do it all night
I'll make you dot com
sign on
I'm gon make ya light up
baby if you log on
I'll make you dot com

Webbie INDEPENDENT

(feat. Lil Boosie & Lil Phat from 3 Deep)

M.M.Mouse Dropped A Track

I N D E P E N D E N T Do You Kno Wat That Mean Mane [X2]
She Got Her Own House
She Got Her Own Car
Two Jobs Work Hard U A Bad Broad
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down

[Webbie:]
I N D E P E N D E N T Do You Kno Wat That Mean
Baby Phat Jus Relax Front Ya Own Flat Screen
Back Rubs Cook Clean And Dont Make Her Make Her Seen
When U Call Her On Her Cellular
She Tell She Dont Need
Not A God Damn Thing You A Hot Damn Thing
If U Think U Finna Get Her Wit A God Damn Chain
You Insane Boy You Betta Get Some God Damn Change
She A Fool Been In School Even Walked Across The Stage
She Say I Love Webbie From His Looks To His Ways
The Stilletos The Jays Depend On How The Weather Look
Flip Flops Slippers Jus To Show Off The Pedicure
Flip Flop Niggas Depend On How The Cheddar Look
She'll Buy Her Own I Dont Think She 'll Never Look
In A Man Face Standin Waitin For Him To Take Care Of Her
She'll Rather Go To Work And Pay The Bills On Schedule

[Chorus:]
I N D E P E N D E N T Do You Kno Wat That Mean Mane
I N D E P E N D E N T Do You Kno Wat That Mean
She Got Her Own House
She Got Her Own Car
Two Jobs Work Hard U A Bad Broad
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down
If U Aint On Sit Down

[Phat:]
She A Dumb Dime Keeper
Gutta Like Keisha
Work That Meat Up
She A Good Freaker
She Stay On Her Shit
She Got Her Own Shit
She Dont Never Trip
All She Want Is That Dick
She Bossy Flossy
Keep Them Hoes Off Me
Gutta Lil Slang Mane I Love When She Talkin
A Independent Chick Do U Kno Wat That Mean
She Cook She Clean Never Smell Like Onion Rings
22s On Her Whip Oh She Do It Large
And She Break A Nigga Off Got A Nigga Spoil
She A Bad Lil Chick A Fly Lil Chick
Hit Me On My Phone She Like To Buy That Dick
Got Her Stunna Shades Lookin Like Something
Stallion Hair Long She A Nice Sumthing
She Like To Go To The Mall Everyday For A Outfit
Hair Did Nails Did Independent Wat She Call That

[Chorus]

[Lil Boosie:]
She Got Her Own House
Drive Her Own Whip
Range Rover All White Like Her Toe Tips
She Got A Pretty Smile
Smell Real Good
The Only Time She Need Mane For That Good Jugg
They Buy The Bar Too
They Superstars Too
They Be Like You Aint Got No Money
Take You Broke Tail Home
Baby Phat They On
They Clothes Match They Phone
They Be Like Yea!! When They Song Come On
Leave The Club Kinda Early Cuz They Gotta Go To Work
I Mess Wit Supervisors Who Got Credit Like Big Turk
So Dusty Feet Please Dont Bother Me
I Got Independent Dimes On My Mind Who Spoil Me
Coogi Hat Coogi Fit So Sick
Thats A Gift From My Independent Chick Yes Sir
Tryna Get To Her Gotta Be Yourself Mane
Cuz She Got Her Own Money
She Dont Need No Help Mane

[Chorus]

I want to go to the Liberace Museum in Vegas

Towards the end you can see the world's largest rhinestone, a gift to him. (This interest inspired by Dave Hickey's really charming essay about notions of authenticity and Liberace in Air Guitar)

Chris Lipomi

http://www.karmainternational.org/EVTs/laaupi.html

This is very strange. I have to figure out what is going on here. Check this press release written in 2006 by Karma Internation in Zurich:

"Chris Lipomi Kukadiku
22nd – 23rd September, 2006

Chris Lipomi's latest series of work is a
tribalisation and exotification of everyday
objects. By arranging them in a certain
manner he emphasizes the primitivism of
these familiar things and points out their
transcultural similarities.
His jungle, assemblage-like installations
bear signs of colonialism and refer to the
way symbols of a strange culture are adapted
in a globalised, touristic world.

In Lipomi's work it’s often Switzerland
that is referred to as an exotic country.
While hiking through the Swiss mountains
earlier this year, the artist found a regalia
of this “strange world” and included them
into his creations.

Lipomi likes to see himself as an explorer
that uses ready-mades and symbols in order
to make something new out of it and to develop
them. He arranges his works in layers, keeping
the different levels visible. These levels contain
all different kinds of motifs, symbols and
references. In this growing , blossoming universe
it’s the very trivial that becomes arcane
and even wild: The flowerpot – a magical
tropical plant, the flag of Appenzell – a
mythical tribal emblem, the mask – the
bushman inside ourselves?

Chris Lipomi's work has recently been
reviewed in magazines such as Art Forum
and Art U.S.
For Karma International, he has created
a dense room installation including a
floorpainting."

W? "...a tribalisation and exotification of everyday
objects...By arranging them in a certain
manner he emphasizes the primitivism of
these familiar things..." Really? I look now for some American writing on him that is less ummm inappropriate.

OK...this is more like it:

"American artist Chris Lipomi (1975, Miami) combines everyday industrial products to create “exotic” objects. By contextualizing these ready-mades, he explores the economics of attention in a globalized world, revealing the notion of the exotic as a racist construct of western cultures. Through several shifts of context, Lipomi draws the recipient’s attention to the aesthetic background of the works, as well as to their double role as functional items. His works recall familiar ceremonial objects from ethnological institutions, and also refer to their own logic of valuation and the function of aesthetics as a component of cultural, evolutionary techniques of ascription. Lipomi shows a series of works at Luis Campaña, which convinces us that the transformation of familiar material into an aesthetic language can serve as a tool for an emancipating kind of cultural critique." http://www.koelnshow2.com/147.html?&L=1#menu

THE RAINBOW BRAID

This was going to be the name of the blog I almost started more than a year ago.

KALUP LINZY "CHEWING GUM" AND "DIRTY TRADE" 2008

Endless winter