ooh, love the Phoebe Gloeckner cover on that book ...
one of my BFFs (who was actually with me at Enid's a week or two ago, when we were congregated there for Claw) is Diamanda Galas' personal trainer. he absolutely loves her -- says she's his favorite client of all time.
haha, yeah, it was kind of chaotic that night. hard to keep up with everyone there! my pal, Devon, a.k.a. Diamanda's trainer, was one of the Metal Doodz I was hanging out with, and works at David Barton Gym in Chelsea. he also trained Jody Watley and Alan Cumming for a while! me, I have zero contact with celebs of any sort, so I'm all kindsa starstruck. the most exciting thing is that he's struck up a sort of friendship with Diamanda, and they e-mail pretty regularly ... recently, she even sent him tix to one of her shows.
the Gloeckner art is beautiful ... I have a copy of A Child's Life, which includes a full-sized print of that cover, along with other stuff like show posters, etc., that she's done. highly recommended!
wow that David Barton gym is schmancy from what I hear and I like to talk training whenever I get the chance. Too bad it was so crazy. I coulda maybe got a free pass or something. Ah well. Next time.
In other news, I'm beginning to question democracy again. I don't think it is the logical political system to bring about a just society. I have a LOT more reading to do, but that thought is floating around.
More and more, I find myself not trusting democracy because I don't trust the majority of people.
ha ha. i used to love those when i was a teenager. i was so thrilled when i met v. vale at the sf book festival one year; such a small man so fantastically perverted.
*waves hello* I hope you don't mind me commenting on your LJ, but you seem cool, and I'm all for making new LJ buddies. :)
In other news, I'm beginning to question democracy again.
That's one of my constant obsessions. I mean, do I trust the majority? Hell, no. My friends and I joke that we need an enlightened despot, but in all honesty democracy cannot work in a state-system with a population as large as the one we have. And democracy cannot work when aligned with capitalism. At smaller levels (like back in the tribal days), we could have systems of true democracy which were more anarcho/socialist in make-up and that used consensus as the way for decision-making. But today, with majoritarian democracy, two-party systems, and the tragedy of the commons taking over...yeah it's a problem.
Oh and you're reading Judith Butler and Spivak? Fun. And I'm going to have to check out that "Re/Search's Angry Women" book. That Diamanda Galas essay sounds tight.
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one of my BFFs (who was actually with me at Enid's a week or two ago, when we were congregated there for Claw) is Diamanda Galas' personal trainer. he absolutely loves her -- says she's his favorite client of all time.
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the gloeckner cover has a lot of fun details you can't see in the smaller image.
wow I was in the same place as Diamanda's personal trainer and we didn't get to chat? darn!
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the Gloeckner art is beautiful ... I have a copy of A Child's Life, which includes a full-sized print of that cover, along with other stuff like show posters, etc., that she's done. highly recommended!
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More and more, I find myself not trusting democracy because I don't trust the majority of people.
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In other news, I'm beginning to question democracy again.
That's one of my constant obsessions. I mean, do I trust the majority? Hell, no. My friends and I joke that we need an enlightened despot, but in all honesty democracy cannot work in a state-system with a population as large as the one we have. And democracy cannot work when aligned with capitalism. At smaller levels (like back in the tribal days), we could have systems of true democracy which were more anarcho/socialist in make-up and that used consensus as the way for decision-making. But today, with majoritarian democracy, two-party systems, and the tragedy of the commons taking over...yeah it's a problem.
Oh and you're reading Judith Butler and Spivak? Fun. And I'm going to have to check out that "Re/Search's Angry Women" book. That Diamanda Galas essay sounds tight.
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yeah i'm always thinking about a benevolent queen sorta situation. this is the problem.
And Butler and Spivak? Well I GOT the two books. Lord knows when I'll actually crack them open.
Definitely cop that Angry Women, it's incredible.
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