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Bookmarks from July 26th through August 1st

“Actually, the budget issues facing LA and the State aren’t all that different than the “crisis” brewing here. As part of its “austerity” efforts the government is pushing hard for a radical restructuring of the Danish workforce. They want to push the maximum work week 37 to 38 hours. Can you imagine? 38 hours! To encourage support for the proposal, the Danish government has a media campaign which goes along the lines of “you give us an extra 12 minutes a day and we’ll keep you happy, educated and well fed for the rest of your life.” Or something like that. It couldn’t help but remind me of the all-news radio station pitch that promised “give us 22 minutes and we’ll give you the world.” (A statement which of course has now been made obsolete by Google’s ability to give you anything in the world in .22 seconds.)”

link: Commuting (back) from COPenhagen « Commuting from COP

“In 1967 TJ Clark, latterly ensconced in brilliance and tenure at Berkeley, was a PhD student at the Courtauld and a part-time acolyte of Guy Debord. Together with Donald Nicholson-Smith, Charles Radcliffe, and Christopher Gray he wrote ‘The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution’ in which he avers, bracingly: Most of the crap passed off as culture today is no more than dismembered fragments – reproduced mechanically without the slightest concern for their original significance – of the debris left by the collapse of every world culture. This rubbish can be marketed simply as historico-aesthetic bric-a-brac or, alternatively, various past styles and attitudes can be amalgamated, up-dated and plastered indiscriminately over an increasingly wide range of products as haphazard and auto-destructive fashions. But the importance of art in the spectacle today cannot be reduced to the mere fact that it offers a relatively unexploited accumulation of commodities.”

link: Notes toward an understanding of the festival-spectacle complex « Overland literary journal

“​I ordered my burrito and retired to the back of the building. My selection fascinated me, as this was a burrito that skipped across multiple regions of “Mexican” cookery and some that have yet to be discovered. The burrito, of course, is a borderlands creation that reached American obsession in San Francisco’s Mission District. The mix of jack, cheddar, and another cheese is a Tex-Mex addition; the green pepper, wholly “Southwestern,” just like the bold color choices. But who told Burrito Boyz that adding raw jalapeños to a burrito was a good idea? When we Mexis eat green chiles frescos for some heat, it’s always serranos–we either roast or pickle jalapeños. And the steak was Chipotle-perfect, by which I mean it had no flavor whatsoever. The trucker-hat girl also asked if I wanted some “burrito sauce”–given I asked for sour cream, I declined.”

link: The Good, The Bad, The Stereotypical, and the Strange About Eating a Burrito in Toronto – Orange County Restaurants and Dining – Stick a Fork In It

“If you bitch and moan about the type of establishment this is, you obviously don’t belong in Highland Park or anywhere near it. It’s typical Highland Park as it’s cheap as hell and it isn’t all the great, but yes, it’s cheap as hell. Cheap as hell is all you really need for a place like this. This isn’t the Ritz Carlton, so expect some teenagers in front of you sharing wondrous bodily fluids or old Mexican men drinking Bud Light. It’s all part of the experience. Can’t deal with it? Pack up your monocle and spats and go to Gold Theater in Pasadena, you rich son of a bitch! Unfortunately, I have an elitist wife or refuses to come here! Pashaw! Flim flam!”

link: Highland Theater – Highland Park – Los Angeles, CA

“Cardew was interested in the idea of improvisation as a way of reaching something original and truthful – a philosophy that he shared with the AMM Group which continues today with this Prom’s British pianist, John Tilbury, among its ranks. Tilbury was a friend and since his death, biographer of Cornelius Cardew and has written knowledgeable essays such as this one. Cardew eventually rejected Stockhausen and the rest of the avant-garde, seeing them as being just as elitist as those in traditional classical music. He became more and more involved in politics and the left. Such was his commitment to left-wing philosophies that when he was killed in 1981 by a hit-and-run driver while still only in his mid-40s, there were some who suspected the deadly hand of MI5 to be responsible.”

link: BBC – Gomp/arts: Prom 47: Cornelius Cardew

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