She Wolf vs. She Wolf

A latino goddess and an indie white boy, both are worth a download:

Shakira - She Wolf [zshare]

She Wolf- The Violet Hour [zshare]

More Kapoor

I will fully admit to being a fadist, but this is for anyone who missed the Cloud Gate reference in my last Kapoor post.

A Poem for Last Week

I retired my copy of Lunch Poems today for a new handbag book of poetry. Poems are the best kind of subway reading, and I cannot recommend Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara highly enough (it even fits in my smallest handbags).

FIVE POEMS

Well now, hold on
maybe I won't go to sleep at all
and it'll be a beautiful white night
or else I'll collapse
completely from the nerves and be calm
as a rug or bottle of pills
or suddenly I'll be in Montauk
swimming and love it and not caring where

• 
  

an invitation to lunch
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?
when I only have 16 cents and 2
packages of yoghurt
there's a lesson in that, isn't there
like in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls?
hold off on the yoghurt till the very last,
when everything may improve

• 
  

at the Rond-Point they were eating
an oyster, but here
we were dropping by sculptures
and seeing some paintings
and the smasheroo-grates of Cadoret
and music by Vaese, too
well Adolph Gottlief I guess you
are the hero of this day
along with venison and Bill

I'll sleep on the yoghurt and dream of the Persian Gulf

• 
  

which I did it was wonderful
to be in bed again and the knock
on my door for once signified "hi there"
and on the deafening walk
through the ghettos where bombs have gone off lately
left by subway violators
I knew why I love taxis, yes
subways are only fun when you're feeling sexy
and who feels sexy after The Blue Angel
well maybe a little bit

• 
  

I seem to be defying fate or am I avoiding it?

-Frank O'Hara 1960

Been Waiting a Long Time for Bye Bye

There are few bands I follow as closely as LCD Soundsystem, and there are few bands who have had so little activity in the last few years to follow. Thankfully, the new album is out in November, and in the mean time an amuse bouche:

LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou [zshare]

A Sculpture Says a Thousand Words

"I have often said that I have nothing to say as an artist. Having something to say implies that one is struggling with meaning. The role of the artist is in fact that we don't know what to say, and it is that not knowing that leads to the work." -Anish Kapoor

Slug

Svayambh

Tall Tree and the Eye

Ever since I saw Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate reflecting all of down town Chicago, I have wanted to see an exhibition of his work and the Royal Academy of Arts finally provided me with the opportunity. Kapoor's sculptures play on instillation and are like magnets interacting with their viewers; from small children to my date, it was easy to find visitors to the gallery guiltily looking around before quickly reaching out to touch the art. His pieces are a wonderful balance of organic forms and synthetic materials, which like a new species of plant feel oddly natural and totally foreign. Kapoor is one conemporaty artist whose work I will believe will be survive into future generations.

Shooting into the Corner

Every 20 minutes a canon would be loaded with red wax and shot into another room of the gallery. I pity the intern who has to clean the thirty tons of wax, which will be splattered all over the walls of the Royal Academy for the duration of the exhibition.

The Chicken or the Egg

I found this picture on PMA and the song a few weeks ago on a different blog; its hard to say which is responsible for this post. Although Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is ancient history in blogosphere years, this remix is not to be missed:

Rome (Neighbors remix feat. Devendra Banhart) - Phoenix [zshare]

Everyone's a Winner

"The nobel prize for lack of chemistry went to John McCain and Sarah Palin"
- David Letterman

Koons in Covent Garden

This is the closest I will get to a thanksgiving day parade this year

Black White Yellow

An entire basement of used books for 50p some of which are arranged by color. It has everything and nothing you ever wanted, stop by on your way to Portobello.

28 Pembridge Rd, W11 3HL

What's in a Name

Having stepped down as Governor, Sarah Palin has written her memoirs entitled 'Going Rogue: An American Life,' which will be available in mid-November. I am admittedly very curious to see what Palin will have come up in the last few months which is ready for publication, and I am not alone. Amazon as well as Barnes & Nobles have seen significant pre-release sales.

When Palin's political career began to decline, maybe when she 'went rogue' I secretly hoped she would stay in the public eye. She makes Jon Stewart's life easier with her never ending supplying of increasingly comical poor decisions. Like the fact that she named her book after the title of a Slate article, which was less than flattering. I doubt John Dickerson has already ordered a copy of his namesake.