HEROPHILES(300 BC) Quote

"When Health is absent, Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless, and Reason is powerless." Herophiles (300 BC)

CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW of IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE by JOSH FRANK with CHARLIE BUCKHOLTZ

IN HEAVEN EVERYTHING IS FINE
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
C Josh Frank 2008 By Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz
Free Press a division of Simon and Shuster publishers


... AN UNSOLVED MURDER MYSTERY on the PUNKIEST NEW WAVE SCENE in Los Angeles; Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death on March 3, 1983 in his downtown artist's loft, just when he'd picked up a hefty check for a screen play and was quitting his gig as the host of the New Wave Theatre show. The cable television show featured local bands and sketch comedies inspired perhaps by the mad world of National Lampoon Magazine or Saturday Night Live TV.

... Ivers was a hyperactive, we believe heterosexual, character with a zany showman's antics (wearing diapers on stage), a child of privileged back-east class, wealth, and edu, who no doubt had much more to do. He'd just used his big screen play check to pay back friends who had believed in him, his talent and energy, to keep him in that loft for quite some time. He was destitute. Still, Ivers had succeeded beyond most of his Go-West-Young-Man peers. His girlfriend, Lucy, had become a rare executive woman in movie production - a suit, while he held perhaps a bit too long to his own vision. They had recently lived a bit of a retro homespun life in musical Laurel Canyon, with all it implied.

...While the book has caused LAPD to reopen the case and no doubt the authors presented a comprehensive take on the scenesters around Peter, many who speak a few lines, it fails with too much respect to Peter Ivers. Unaddressed is the menace of the real PUNKS versus the POSERS, the competition for material success among Punk bands which most would deny. If anyone had any motivation to kill Peter, he's too beloved for that to be believed anyway, and what really spoiled this read is that the authors failed to get me even a little angry about his murder. It's as if it were reported in the La Weekly's LA DEE DA COLUMN (la dee da as in BORING, get it?), a column where generations of those desperate enough to be famous for being famous bared and glared for a little photo op.

Review by Christine Trzyna C 2009 All Rights including Internet and International Rights Reserved

PROJECT GUTENBERG (PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOKS ON LINE) HERE !

I'll probably never give up reading books - paper - in bed, with a pot of hot tea or some crackers and cheese by my side. But if you have the eyes for reading long books on the computer, Project Gutenberg is a great resource.

EXCERPT from I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR - ANDY WARHOL

From an interview with Joseph Gelmis 1969. Gelmis is described as a Newsday magazine film critic. Page 161

G: There's an element of confession and of autobiography in almost everything you film. The people who act for you seem to be constantly confessing. What's your fascination with the confessional?



W: They're just people who talk a lot.

JAMES WOLCOTT AUGUST 2009 VANITY FAIR ARTICLE - LITERARY SNOBS and TECHNOLOGY

"Books not only furnish a room, to paraphrase the title of an Anthony Powell novel, but also accessorize our outfits. They help brand our identities. At the rate technology is progressing, however, we may eventually be traipsing around culturally nude in an urban rain forest, androids seamlessly integrated with our devices. As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects—digitize and dematerialize—we approach a Star Trek future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. Reading will forfeit the tactile dimension where memories insinuate themselves, reminding us of where and when D. H. Lawrence entered our lives that meaningful summer. “Darling, remember when we downloaded Sons and Lovers in Napa Valley?” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. The Barnes & Noble bookstore, with its coffee bar and authors’ readings, could go the way of Blockbuster as an iconic institution, depriving readers of the opportunity to mingle with their own kind and paw through magazines for free. Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.... " James Wolcott writing

MURDOCK's UK WORLD NEWS BREAKS PRIVACY LAWS TO GET THE SCOOPS

It's time to invent your own code language to communicate with cherished and intimate friends and family. FORGET USING THE "NO PRIVACY CELL" PHONE! JUST TRY AND FIND A CLOSE, WORKING PHONE BOOTH! (Recently we learned that Thomas Jefferson wrote in a cryptic code to a friend and 200 some years later the code was finally cracked!)

Maybe I should write this blog in code?

EXCERPT from I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR - ANDY WARHOL

ANDY WARHOL interviewed by Gerard Malanga
pg 194

MALANGA: Do you feel you've changed the media?

WARHOL: No, I don't change the media, nor do I distinguish between my art and the media. I just repeat the media by utilizing the media for my work. I believe media is art.

PG 195 - 196

MALANGA: Why do you use a rubber stamp?

WARHOL: I don't always use a rubber stamp for my signature; but I turned towards the idea of a rubber stamp signature because I wanted to get away from style. I feel an artist's signature is part of style, and I don't believe in style. I don't want my art to have style.

MALANGA: Do you think of your self as media?

WARHOL: No one escapes the media. Media influences everyone. It's a very powerful weapon. George Orwell prophesied the potency of the media when he spoke of "Big Brother is watching you" in his visionary novel 1984.

From:
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master
Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).

FROM PARCHMENT TO PIXEL - GREEK BIBLE - BRITISH LIBRARY

Considered to be the worlds earliest surviving book, from the 4th century, and now assembled by the British Library, a handwritten on animal hide parchment bible in Greek... Catch this story now by clicking on the title above...

Parts have been assembled from Britain, Egypt, and Russia... and you can use a translater on some pages...

From ONE DROP by BLISS BROYARD

ONE DROP My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard C 2007 Little Brown and Co New York 

Bliss' father was Anatole Paul Broyard, a literary critic for the New York Times, who had been born in New Orleans and had decided to "pass" as White when he began to work. 

Page 366 about Greenwich Village. "In the Village, a cold-water flat could be had cheaply. Barkeepers let a person sit for as long as he could nurse a beer. A ten-cent plate of spaghetti and meatballs from the Waldorf Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue could fend off hunger for most of the day. Among the artists and writers who hung out in the San Remo Bar, the Cedar Bar, and the Minetta and White Horse taverns, conversation was the only currency that mattered. "Nobody cared where a person was from; nobody asked about your family. They wanted to know what you thought --- about Freud, Surrealism, The Modernists. Had you been to Paris?...Were you in analysis?...What did you make of the Stevens poem in the latest Partisan Review? Everyone in the Village had run away---from conventional backgrounds and burdensome family histories, from petty lives short on grandeur and futures that would leave them as normal and discontented as everyone else. It was in Greenwich Village that my father could figure out the person he most felt himself to be... 

Page 387 "Onto this unexplored frontier a new cultural hero appeared --the hispter. Famously portrayed by Norman Mailer in his 1957 essay "The White Negro," this latest incarnation of the American individualist rejected all pressures to conform, ignored society's expectations and traditions, and lived only for the moment and according to the "rebellious imperatives of the self." Found in New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago, and especially Greenwich Village, Mailer's hipster too inspiration for "Negros," particularity those associated with jazz...