SATURDAY
i was just reading over that previous post and im thinking you out of control rick
where does all this lead, i dont have time to open another initiative, another front
okay, im swearing off army building, disregard everything i just said, as of this moment never again
i dont have time for all that, i really dont - thats just specultive - that what i would be doing if i
wasnt giving everything i got to this novel - help me lord, stop me before i organize again....
rdoc
SATURDAY
preparing to go to marthas vineyard for a week, will be posting spotty, suppose going to vineyard only fitting, i seem in last couple of days to have turned into a celebrity whore
as you know i been trolling facebook trying to build an army, i been doing a lot of celebrities lately
still hunting artists and afrospirituals, but also been friend requesting folk like chris rock, morgan freeman and george stephanopoulos
names in the game, literary cultural academic hollywood memphis anybody w/potential pull
or cultural resources of some sort, anybody might be useful to me ever
anybody might be useful to me establishing myself as a cultural force in our age
i dont bother my time w/folk talking about be my fan - forget you,
unless i really am a fan, randy crawford, cassandra wilson, kevin mahogony, musicians mostly, some literary folk
im reminded of that nietzsche quote that ima translate as - if you in awe of the players that mean you aint got no player in you
in my world im one of the greatest players this world has ever seen
i realize thats delusional but in order for it to ever possibly be i have to
conduct myself as if it actually was - thats what high magicians do
conduct yourself as you aspire to be and eventually you are
when reality say you must be dreaming you just defy reality, keep dreaming, systematically planting seeds
designed to bring reality into accord with your dream -
and if you understand the game young hoodoo eventually reality starts adjusting itself to your vision
even if only to the most minute degree, this is a major victory when you dealing w/reality
when you longgame on the hoodoo board of destiny
i feel like im getting twisty here, either you got this or you dont
i assume half the name folk ive friended got their people doing it, but some you can see they in it
what tickle me is that when they say yes they likely thinking im a fan want to bask in their radiance
they dont know im the one trying to shine some radiance up in here, we gon see who influencing who
before this is over
when you trying to manifest social influence the name of the game is influence the influentials - they magnify your power
one thing im noticing is that now that im getting such a large friend roll ima have to "hide" the unessential
so that im only monitoring folk who actually saying something - which is unfortunate cause you will miss the random gem
but facebook is still a time destroyer, a demon to be conquered and used that could just as easily conquer you
and strip you of your soul
use it strategically the value will be worth the investment - minimum maintenance rootwork - just enough to make the time spent worthwhile - god i love building armies
thats what im trying to do w/you
spiritual and strategic advice - i would you
all be masters of the longgame
happy and satisfied
all my love
rdoc
FRIDAY
learned dcs in memphis had scheduled evan to come here next week w/o any coordination with me, this is indicative of this whole process
its been more than a notion
okay, they had their brewski, does this mean the skip gates debacle is over
god i hope so, i have refused to read another article about skip gates
i just cant take the pain
i had a powerful day yesterday, must have clocked about 6 pages
now thats what im talking about, 20 more days like yesterday and i will make it to the promise land
i need to clock 4 pages a day to be done in next 20 odd days, god help me - difficult but
doable - this where we separate the writers from the dilettantes
remember now - lone wolf recital corps - new museum on bowery, aug 6th 7 pm
Charles Gaines/Terry Adkins Collaborative
Get Weird is honored to present an evening of new compositions by acclaimed visual artists and gifted improvisers Charles Gaines and Terry Adkins. Led by Adkins, the Lone Wolf Recital Corps will be performing Invocation for Bessie Smith, an exploration of shared space and emotional depth. This large ensemble brings together the talents of Arthur Flowers, Joie Lee, James Andrew Brown, Charles Gaines, Terry Adkins, Juini Booth, Blanche Bruce, Jacolby Satterwhite, and The Sacred Order of the Twilight Brothers. Charles Gaines, Juini Booth, and Terry Adkins will reconvene as ACTG Solar Trio to perform Freedom Suite, a relentless and soulful piece built from subtle delicacies and passionate fireworks.
Terry Adkins is an installation artist, musician, activist, and cultural practitioner who for twenty years has pursued an ongoing quest to reinsert historically transformative figures to their rightful place in the landscape of regional and world history. Although his “recitals” combine sculpturally based installations with music, video, literature, and ritual actions that intend to uphold and preserve the legacies of his chosen subjects, Adkins’s work is always abstract and lyrical. His Lone Wolf Recital Corps is a unit with revolving membership that has premiered works at ICA London, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, New World Symphony, Miami, P.S.1 MOMA,s and ICA Philadelphia among others.
Since 1995 Charles Gaines has focused on the postmodern sublime and metonymy to make art that combines drawn or photographic images with text. Drawing from an array of literary sources, especially arguments challenging conventional ideas about meaning in art and its relationship to aesthetic experience, he made these ideas the basis of his work. His art began to address the irreconcilable opposition, in classical theory, between the conditions of feelings (beauty) and the conditions of culture (sublimity), which negate each other in the same experience. Gaines also has a parallel career as a drummer, accomplished pianist, and composer.
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got to work on my piece: praise song for haint bessie
last time i did it i blew it but the audience didnt realize it
they never do - all my love
rdoc
i was reading in the latimes that obama is shifting his focus from explaining what this does for the uninsured to convincing the insured that this was good for them too, this is a good thing
both tactically and strategically - look like will have to pull this one out the hat (the hat, get it?)
dont know why i seem to be surprised that taking down healthlobby would be hard
dont know why i seem to assume obama would do this easy, hard the only way this could be done
okay, adoption moving into final gear, appreciating my last days of freedom, working again, something
like 20 odd days of freedom left there, what else lord
have tried to slow down the facebook as instrument initiative but i guess its just my nature
still doing pontifical posts, which embarrass me, and now im biulding up my friend list cause
i need at least a thou to feel like i got critical mass, instead of waiting for folk to request me i been
raiding my friends, in particular my literary folk, i look at pictures, go for folk who look like artists and such
pull them up and bam, we share a bunch of literary friends, cool, i also check their friend numbers, folk w/only a couple of friends not into this, i need folk who thrive in this medium, who utilize it
i do about 10 a day, got to build me aN army - its kinda embarrassing a player of my stature trolling
for friends but such is the nature of army construction -when you build quick like this instead of patiently
waiting for folk to come to you you will have a lot of slush in the pile, 1st beef it up, then weed it out
also i do posts designed to mythwork myself as hoodoo holyman
put up some photos from performance i did w/terry adkins because i knew
it would speak to the africans on my list and reinforce my presentation
of myself as a contemporary hoodooman who capable of the full monty
i will put my shamanistic performance skilz against any shaman on the planet
just that my style is designed to appeal to the 21st century sensibility
i pride myself on being a cosmopolitan mamifestation - using facebook to mythwork that, 21st century stylee
okay, im gone, i got so much work to do
all my love
rdoc
WEDNESDAY
interesting how the haters, birthers and assorted racists are crawling out the woodwork now that they sense vulnerability in obamas game -
tpm report that florida repub official sent this photoshop of obama and new guinea practitioner to his listserve and somebody snitched him out
its been making the rightwing rounds - i believe they consider it an insult,
the old hoodooman does not
wish i had thought of it
wish too that obama had never gotten involved with this skip gates mess, - it has diminished them both,
buffalo soldier say its diminished us all - now this meeting at the white house, if obama wants that to go
well he do best to advise skip gates to be cool afterwards and not crow about his 'victory' like he been
doing in the news accounts so far - one practitioner to the other i wish obama had stayed out of that one
he lost power - we practitioners hate that
rdoc
YOU KNOW MANY OTHER SOLDIERS WANTED TO DESERT. BuffaloSoldier salutes Samuel J. Battle. I was
recently at my family reunion and a heated discussion came up about the first African(his father)
American(his mother) President. The Soldier was all but accused of being a Birther. The Birthers
are this eras Birchers. So I thought I'd set the record straight. The LionKing is an American citizen. As I am. I do question the depths of his roots here as far as BlackAmericans are concerned
because, unlike him, we didn't arrive here in 1961. (It would be nice if we did. No slavery. No
Tuskegee experiment. No destruction of The Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla.) Yes, we'd all would
like to be in that number. See, those forces shaped us. That's exactly why we're not Kenyan or
Nigerian or anyone else. At any rate, The Soldier is not a Birther. The Birthers are mostly
our home grown knights of Templar. I'm BuffaloSolder and I approve this message.
Posted by: BuffaloSoldier | August 05, 2009 at 05:55 PM