hey new york just happened

[bird_in_space]

So most of my auditions went great. And so much museum time. The Met was doing a Rauschenberg exhibition and that was fantastic and they also have like a whole wall of Modigliani in one room. Probably most exciting was Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein--Sarah and I have begun just calling her Gertrude, which is kind of silly but works. We also

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[beingawake]

that sounds amazing.
why are you so talented,
and also have such a talented girlfriend?

it doesn't seem quite fair,
and i think you should share the wealth.

my parents said i can go to chicago, definitely.
i'm really, really excited.

[bird_in_space]

perfect. is the word.

[allforleyna]

You are so perfect.

What books did you buy?

how come you never ask questions with short answers

[bird_in_space]

There was a used bookshop in Philadelphia where I bought The Fly-Truffler (a novel about truffle-hunting), and Henderson the Rain King, an early Saul Bellow novel. I bought the Saul Bellow because right now I'm reading Humbolt's Gift and liking it a lot, though at times it is really unbelievably sexist.

Then in New York at The Strand I bought a Stein biography that I hadn't heard of before, focusing on her relationship with her brother.

Then at St. Mark's I bought tons of poetry:

My Life by Lyn Hejinian (a sort of prose-poem/memoir)
N/O by Ron Silliman (two sections of a poem he worked on for 26 years called The Alphabet)
Under Albany by Ron Silliman (a sort of memoir that uses the first section of The Alphabet, explaining the thoughts and events behind what he wrote)
Deer Head Nation K. Silem Mohammad (the first published book of Flarf poetry, Flarf being a strange sort of new movement that involves using Google searches and other methods to produce poetry which is just all kinds of socially unacceptable, and often creepy or funny

[bird_in_space]

I'm pretty sure I am coming this summer.

I haven't read much Nietzsche (only pieces of Zarathustra), that's why I bought the book. But he was quite insane and that is part of the appeal. People can find completely diffferent things in his work. Hitler, Winston Churchill, and a pair of child-murderers have all said that Nietzsche was an inspiration to them.

Robert Creeley is one of my favorites. My very first post on this journal contained a poem of his.

Apparently his birthday tradition was to close his one good eye and drive really fast along a cliff.