the intersection of strategy and compulsion
what do you think, we’re all asleep out here? been working on then giving up on certain internet schemes, went to the recycling center with JVW to get parts for a space city i’m building on the ceiling of HBML, eric YF took me and a bunch of folks out for ice cream boats (”YF” stands for “your friend”), maybe i did sleep a little, when it rained, but if i did, it was nice. new art show is up at the store, all cool drawings by jeff “noise nomads” hartford. he made a catalog for the show too, and it rules. stop by and pick one up. also i finally installed the soundtrack element of the sun ra solar myth planetarium- it’s two walkmans playing different sun ra songs controlled by an ingenious device with tiny momentary pushbuttons on a turtle’s back that turn each one on, or both at once. it’s further mesmerizing, and now people hang out inside it a lot.
i’m working on a zine for the 1st anniversary of the store, should be epic, sick, etc. if i ever finish it. i wrote an introduction that was going going going about the history of punk inspiration in worcester going back personally through the firecracker and the space and the go go and the WAG and then abbie hoffman and birth control and sacco and vanzetti and emma goldman’s ice cream shop, then i replaced 80% of it with a single word sentence - “Hi!”. too big a task for right now’s attempt at a nigh-overwhelming amount of curious detritus, plus what’s my attack- to talk about influence or be the influence? wild dogs v. intellectual snobs?
