looking to move soon

due to getting a new landlord who wants to make some money by evicting us, I am now looking for an apartment or room to share in san francisco.  I would love to live with creative people and have space to work on my painting and sculpture.  Let me know if you know or hear of anything. 

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barney and tomatsu

Saw the Matthew Barney and Shomei Tomatsu shows on sunday, last day for Tomatsu so I am glad I went. Aesthetically Barney was nice but lacked solid and interesting ideas, for me, and did not live up to the hype. Tomatsu on the other hand is a master photographer and should get more attention here. The link above goes to the SFMoma site for Tomatsu and the photograph is one he took in Afghanistan. His work in Nagasaki is powerful and he reluctantly took that assignment. Barney is fine but it is ironic that he had a show investigating Japanese culture to some extent while the floor below was indeed Japanese. Barney was impressive but Tomatsu is perfect.

novels and such

After reading Seth Godin's blog linked above I am probably going to put my novel Blue, my 1st novel, up for free pdf download soon. That will be good. Was thinking about keywords: it's about drugs, insanity, and linguistics. The new novel, which I am thinking of calling "beautiful noise" is about sex, art, and language. and the environment. and music. and technology. mainly nanotechnology. this brings up comparisons to the diamond age, although mine is more about the next ice age. if kafka wrote science fiction, or paul bowles did. grim. with lots of high fidelity sex and dating neuroses.

apparently "beautiful noise" is a neil diamond song. interesting.

stay tuned.

more about squidoo

Hey, thanks to your clicks my lens has generated a little bit of money for charity...and helps this organization and their ideas:

A LITTLE ABOUT SQUIDOO:

We have built a new online platform and community that makes it easy for anyone to build a single page--called a lens--on a topic, idea, product or cause he is passionate about. These lenses in turn help finders get unique, human perspectives instead of computer-selected and often irrelevant search results. Not only can Lensmasters spread their ideas, get recognized for their knowledge, and send more traffic to their Web sites and blogs—they could also earn royalties.

Squidoo's goal as a platform is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo's goal as a co-op is to pay as much money as we can to our lensmasters and to charity. And Squidoo's goal as a community is to have fun along the way, and meet new ideas and the people behind them.

THE CAST OF CHARACTERS:

Squidoo was started by the Original Squid, Seth Godin. Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission marketing online. After Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo, he served as VP Direct Marketing for Yahoo for about a year. In 2000, Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public speaker, an author and a blogger. Seven of Seth's books have been bestsellers somewhere around the world, and his blog has been picked as the best business blog by several leading publications. Seth's head is the most recognizable author icon in business. Yes, his head.

General update, music, Erase Errata

Bought some paint, canvas last Saturday, cleaned and organized my studio space a bit, enough to work in it. May be able to get a real studio sometime this year, either live/work or standalone. Close to finishing my novel, I think, and thinking of changing the title from Daydream Nation to Beautiful Noise. We'll see. Saw three bands last night that were all excellent, at Club Six for the Guardian Best of Bay Party. It was quite a shindig. I saw Extra Action Marching Band, Numbers, and Erase Errata, who I actually went to see. But for $10 what a deal.

The link is to some cool older pictures of EE. Check out more things about them esp. their music and live shows. Amazing bass!

I updated my squidoo lens

I have updated my "lens" at squidoo where I am focusing on linguistics and postmodern theory...check it out and I think if I get enough visits money can be donated to charity, in my case the Fund For Peace, just by viewing my page:

Fund For Peace