David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
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T.G.T.T.
Too Good To Title
T.F.T.L.
Too Good To Label
BLOCK LABEL MUSIC material.
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a Painter
at the Bauhaus
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by Hans Volger
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T.G.T.T. by Duke Ellington must surely be both our favorite Title and meta-Title-with-twist :
Too Good To Title
T.G.T.T. is track 10 on Ellington's Second Sacred Concert album, 1968. Wordless, sung by Alice Babs. An echo of the ineffable, the nameless, the un-namable, perhaps.
As in NNFA, No Name For Art, for _rt.
As in NNFG, No Name For God, for G_d,
YHWH
T.G.T.T.
The final track of Second Sacred Concert is Titled : 'Praise God And Dance'.
Praise ___ and Dance fits well with this chromo
-lithograph (1880-1900) that we've recently had on show in the office here.
Our staff artist - who was at Festival Hall, Melbourne in January 1970 when Duke Ellington and his all-star orchestra played at that famous barn - has now re-presented the joyful scene above as 'The Piper of Bonzaview with projection-space ideogram dancers'.
En mesure, mesdemoiselles!
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And did our artist know about the 2003 compilation Duke Ellington - Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band 1940-1942 when colouring the 'Label Music' notation yellow, red and blue? We asked. Apparently not.
With its three CD discs of yellow, red and blue? No, apparently not.
Label Music
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T.G.T.L.
_uc_ _rt, Let's Dance!
LOGOS : The Speaking into Being of the World
HA HA : from the same bag of wind and gas, disruptive other sounds - burps, farts, laughter
LOGOS/HA HA : the imperfect Word, the broken Promise, weasel words (see: biodata)
bLOGOS/HA HA : a heap of such
The extract below is the start of yesterday's Editorial in 'The Saturday Paper'. Click here to read the lot.
Suffer the children
From the gallery of press there were audible laughs. Not because it was fun but because what was being said was so appalling, because language and decency were being so defiled in the hearing room of the Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into children in immigration detention. If it were not laughter, it would have been tears.
Martin Bowles, the immigration department secretary, was being asked about the 157 Tamils held for weeks in a customs hulk before their reluctant transfer to Curtin detention centre. It could not be said how many were children, or how many were babies. The department was, he said, still addressing “biodata”.
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Paul Klee the prodigy performs Die Mattscheibe.
[ The goggle-box; the focusing screen ]
Man Ray
Later, older, wiser. Paul Klee performs Die Pieta.
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Stop the presses, everyone! Gerald's on the radio.
What a pleasure it was this morning to listen to Gerald Murnane's every thoughtful word.
Last month we posted some review links (here) when his latest book A Million Windows was published. We also made mention at that time about the book's covers. Covers, plural. So it was of interest to hear Gerald comment about the cover at the start of this morning's interview.
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Michael Cathcart : Some music there by Brian Eno, which seems a nice way to set the scene for our next discussion.
The reviewers think the world of the Australian writer Gerald Murnane. One calls him a genius, a writer widely considered to be the next Australian winner of the Nobel. Peter Craven, who is one of our best literary critics, says 'No living Australian writer has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction'. And a bloke called Blair Mahoney, who's a reviewer on Goodreads, just says that 'Gerald Murnane's a treasure'.
He's 75. He's here with his eleventh book. It's called A Million Windows, which comes from a line by the American writer Henry James : 'The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million'.
Well, it's a strange and dreamlike book about a writer who is constantly reflecting on the act of story telling even as he tells us a story.
Gerald, good morning. Welcome to the show.
Gerald Murnane : Thank you, Michael.
Michael Cathcart : Nice to have you here. Congratulations. It's a lovely book. It's actually a lovely book to handle. Did you feel that when it arrived? It just had this lovely weight to it.
Gerald Murnane : Everybody praises the cover. I had a different cover in mind, but that doesn't matter.
Michael Cathcart : Publishers are like that. They say, mate... the cover is our call, I know.
to listen to the full interview click here
'Books and Arts Daily', ABC.RN
31 July 2014
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Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for submitting an expression of interest for the Melbourne Art Trams project.
The selection panel has met and unfortunately your expression of interest was not selected to become a tram artwork. We received over 100 expressions of interest including a significant number of very high quality submissions which made the selection panel’s task all the more difficult.
The eight successful artists will be announced in the next week and the first of the Melbourne Art Trams will roll out in early October. Keep an eye on our website for further updates:
melbournefestival.com.au/trams
Kind regards
Melbourne Art Trams
melbournefestival.com.au
10-26 October 2014
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Some of us like to think about things.
Qu'est-ce que c'est un vélo?
Thinks : Must
the front wheel always win, in relation to the rear? What colour is the maillot jaune, the yellow jersey, really? Is it not an anachronism that a Republic honours the King of the Mountains? Is
the brain a binary cycler-ist? And it's rider?
c.1920 - artist unknown
Some of us simply like to go along for the ride.
collection : FIAPCE click image to enlarge
Today on the Champs-Élysées and tonight here on late night winter TV another great Tour de France will conclude. Winner of the mailllot jaune for 2014 is likely to be Vincenzo Nibali of Italy. Vive le Tour!
Louis Malle, 1962 Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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