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TENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

 
 
illmatic
12:23 / 05.08.05
I can't introduce this guy better than he can himself:

Extroverted behavior of a calculatedly complex & politically/socially theoretically backed nature has constituted a significant part of my activities throughout most of my life.

The link that follows lists his various actions/performances?incidents from his life. He is probably one of the most creative, uncompromising and damn fucking funny people I've ever had the pleasure of reading about. Each of his actions is given a number and each one is listed in chronological order.

A random sampling:

While embedded between 2 floors of a building I listened to a "hypnotic" tape that I'd made which attempted to convince me that I could walk thru walls & perform other extraordinary defiances of "consensus reality". The audience was kept at a distance from this action by 2 "bodyguards" (Kirby Malone & Richard Ellsberry). The "attempt" was either witnessed thru doorways or on 2 monitors which were stacked vertically - the top monitor showing the top half of my body in 1 room & the bottom monitor showing the bottom half of my body in another. Because none of my flesh showed, it was unclear to those who had arrived late whether there was even a body in the clothes.

What a life. Makes me aware of my own stifiling conformity and mediocrity, but in a good way. I'm glad he's alive.
 
 
illmatic
12:24 / 05.08.05
Would help if I put the link in wouldn't it?
http://www.fyi.net/%7Eanon/MereOutlineIntro.html
 
 
Ria
15:37 / 05.08.05
yes. we have met a few times and I consider him a warm, friendly, soul and completely different from anyone you will ever meet.
 
 
astrojax69
18:01 / 05.08.05
you know, perhaps he'd like to meet stelarc? they'd get on a treat, i dare say.

i'd love to meet this guy, he seems scintillating.
 
 
illmatic
10:11 / 08.08.05
Ria: what's he like then?
 
 
illmatic
10:56 / 08.08.05
No. 48:

Throughout this festival, at various locations - including "Des Refusés", the loft of 1 of the festival organizers, a gallery, & a cable tv studio where we were part of a "pre-nuclear war party scene", HannaH AvivA & I shaved off all of each other's hair from the waist down (which we had pre-dyed red & green). Our pubic hair was then exhibited in a "Shit Show" at the Kwok Gallery. After we'd shaved off each other's hair, we painted layer after layer of latex on each other's skins in order to make 2nd skins that we could then peel off. The original idea was to enable us to "wear each other's skins" (or "get under each other's skins")

Apparently, some garbage collectors peeped into the window of Des Refusés & saw HannaH & I "performing" & reported us to the vice squad. From then on, someone that we assumed was a vice squad cop sat a few feet away from us & watched us intently with a grim face. We weren't arrested. This process was done so ineptly by us that it wasn't satisfactorily finished by the end of the festival. When we returned to Baltimore we continued it - finally exchanging skins & making a film of us fucking while wearing them.
 
 
Laughing
11:10 / 08.08.05
mR. a cONVENIENCE provided a lot of artwork for The Book of the SubGenius. Such a mighty feat speaks for itself.

Hail "Bob".
 
  
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