"it's not being postmodern it's that the world will end in 2012 who has time to argue"
12:04 PM me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IkYrIlP0kw
12:05 PM Max: ya i saw
he gives good face
me: speaking of FACE, have you ever seen face/off?
12:06 PM with nicholas cage and john travolta and margaret cho?
12:07 PM Max: not in a long time
12:08 PM me: RECOMMENDED
Max: did you read about the country's first FACE TRANSPLANT tho?
in the nytimes?
me: they did one in france last year, right?
it's not like in the movie.Max: this lady? they gave her a DEAD WOMAN'S FACE
i think a newer one
in the usa!
me: oh cool!
i think it looks nice!
Max: yeah but in the article they wouldn't give out details
so they just kept referring to how little of a face she has "from the trauma"
and i am so curious what trauma would take your whole face
12:09 PM but NOT YOUR LIFE
me: maybe a bear ate it
Max: did she get her face caught in the drain?
no bears wouldn't stop with the face tho
they'd keep munching
i mean, right?
it's gotta be weirder
me: maybe she had peanut butter all over her face and gasoline all over the rest of her body
Max: that's probbably how i'll lose my face someday
12:10 PM me: it's almost inevitable
Max: it is this, not HIV, that I see as the unfortunate but inevitable end of a gay man's life in this country
getting my face eaten off by a bear
me: :-)
BEARS
Max: ronald reagan never talked about THAT either
i'm from california dan
bears are real
me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RONALD REAGAN NEVER TALKED ABOUT THAT EITHER Max: when we were kids we were warned about them
RONALD REAGAN NEVER TALKED ABOUT THAT EITHER Max: when we were kids we were warned about them
well
in LA we were warned about coyotes
yeah
i'm a genius
when i'm in my sweatpants
12:12 PM me:
did i ever tell you about my old performance piece where ronald reagan
leaves a message on my answering machine apologizing for AIDS? Max: hahaha
12:13 PM where:
where:
i'm madonna and yr britney spears and i teach you kabbalah.
Max: huh
somehow
you WISH you could teach me kabbalah
me: haha
OH OH OH
so in some of the scenes it's that
and in OTHER SCENES
yr SANDRA BERNHARD
teaching ME kabbalah!
Max: i was bookshooppping yesterday for witchy stuff and reading qabballistic crowley stuff
that shit makes NO SENSE AT ALL
12:14 PM me: that's what i love about it
Max: the fact that madonna "gets" that is insane
me: it's just feedback
Max: that shit is FICTION
OF NUMBERS
me: BLACK FIRE ON WHITE FIRE
Max: SCIENCE FICTION INVOLVING THE PLANET MATH
totally insane
it's roisin murphy mooning her polish fans
awesome
12:16 PM me: while this is loading, let me tell you
i figured out the reason why tyson corrigan FASCINATES me
12:17 PM which
is that he cannot hear / cannot listen, and i am preoccupied with gay
boys who don't listen / are caught up in their heads / constantly
monologue / are narcissistic.
12:18 PM Max: hm
you are. it's weird.
and hair
if i was going to do a piece inspired by dan fishback
12:19 PM it would be me plucking my eyebrows on the internet
i hope that doesn't sound mean
i think you get that i get you?
i may go ahead and do that piece
"after d.r. fishback"
me: oh i like that
that makes sense
although my eyebrows are the only things i would never pluck
Max: hahaha
me: i used to pluck my shoulder hairs on stage
12:20 PM Max: no those are awesome
12:21 PM me: i like (appropriately) the idea of people doing performance pieces inspired by me
it would just be a bunch of tense people freaking out and shaving
12:22 PM Max: it wouldn't just be that i don't think
there would be religion too i think
like maybe UP MY GOD-HOLE: A DAN FISHBACK RETROSPECTIVE
me: ooooh!
12:23 PM Max:
my new friend Daniel who is my penpal made a piece on his blog (i
can't find it) that ssays "there is a god shaped hole in all of us" and
it's a closeup picture of a butthole
me: i always wanted my retro to be called "DAN FISHBACK: LEGAL, TENDER"
oh god find it!
Max: hahaha
me: brb
12:24 PM Max: i think he made this thing tho
his name is daniel portland
12:25 PM but that's not his real last name
i dunno
he's nice
12:27 PM me: wow.
that is such a beautiful picture
Max: yeah
12:31 PM me: sometimes i wonder what my life would be like if my general aesthetic was more austere and simple and unexplanatory
Max: this seems like something you'd like. not the butt part but the "we never encounter this part of ourselves" thing
12:34 PM Max: mm
12:35 PM me: i think i am maybe jealous of visual artists
people who don't have to be there for their own stuff
12:36 PM it's like leaving poo on someone's doorstep and then hiding behind a bush
when i make art, everyone is right there in front of me/
Max: yea sorta
yes
but you can sort of have it both ways, i think
12:37 PM like if the idea of having yr woork explain itself appealas to you then you can treat yr performance that way
me: hm.
explaining is my work :-)
12:38 PM that'll be my zine: EXPLAINER.
Max: hah
but you know, that's like with any art thing you just have faith that the viewer is gonna get it
i feel like we're all going for that miranda july "macaroni" moment
12:39 PM me: i am gradually honing the art of SMELLING the macaroni in the air
and not needing concrete evidence like laughter
Max: yeah yeah
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