Sisters With Transistors - Thank you, Lisa Rovner for making a necessary documentary about electronic music pioneers Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. Laurie Anderson’s narration is my favorite kind of ASMR.
Trickster - The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda - My pal Tia turned me onto this riveting podcast about a wily, enigmatic man who wrote books that inspired me to rethink space/time in my early twenties. I’m still trying to figure things out in that realm.
We Were The Universe - By Kimberly Kim Parsons - Please read this novel without distractions because none of its sentences should be missed. The book sinks into the boredom of motherhood, lusty desire, and buried grief. It unpacks a slow and heavy sort of ordinariness that feels painfully relatable, but Parsons is a wise and very funny woman who pays close attention. She turns the ordinary on its head and digs into its magic.
Epistemic curiosity - Or finding patterns and connections to the things you’re already drawn to to deepen the curiosity.
Sometimes I Think About Dying - Shot in Astoria, Oregon, this lovely to-look-at film is an unrushed ooze about isolation, the dullness of office life, and the serendipity of strangers.
A list within a list of music that’s been keeping me company the last few weeks:
Internal Server Error (part 2)
The second opening of my show Internal Server Error takes place at Place White Gallery tonight from 5 to 9 pm. If you are in Portland, you could try and make it. If you are elsewhere, you could try and do one or more of the following instead:
Rent a small boat and fill it with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on fluffy white bread. Jump up and down on the sandwiches while the boat sails across a lake or large pond.
Braid together all the wires and cords in your house. Attach the finished braid to the back of your car so it appears to have a mullet.
Take an upside down shower.
Consider what it feels like to be a red-tailed hawk.
Spend some time under a rug and maybe let someone vacuum that particular rug while you lie under it.
Sing all ingredient labels aloud from the food stuff in your cupboard.
