Thursday, February 15, 2007

moog

the 2004 documentary of bob moog proves to be a most enlightening journey "sliding backwards" into the analogs of sound synthesizing, but most interesting are bob's musings on such topics as mind/machine interfacing as well as his meandering philosophical insight. gurus of sound include sterolab, keith emerson, and sun ra. not to be missed out. mark e merrill

moog (2004)888

Monday, February 05, 2007

born free radicals

Art is a substitution for life, an inversion, not a memory or representation, but a mirror through which enters a bizzaro universe.



The Main Street Museum is stunned to announce -- "Born Free Radicals" -- a glimpse into a strange, color saturated science of artist Mark E Merrill

Born Free Radicals is not art, it is, in one sense, the actual physical overlay of the Periodic Table onto 20th Century trends of individual artworks and artists. And in another, it is something else, entirely.

A heroic Periodic Table of Modern Elements at the Museum's front gallery
Exhibited simultaneously with New Ready-made Minis -- A Dada concept run amok

___


Thursday March 22 - Saturday May 26, 2007

___


Opening Reception

Friday 23 March 5 to 8 pm
Champagne and lemon cake
Sir Isaac Luxon’s Jazz Combo

___


Artists Lecture by Mark E Merrill “Elements in Crisis”

w/ Q & A & Evasive Tactics
Sunday April 1st 4 - 6 pm


888studio260888

999elements in crisis999

Friday, January 19, 2007

somethingelse


Here we are at the edge of the world,
Where all possibilities are distilled into the pure potential
Of your mind

Even the simplest
Of questions
Are sheer impossibilities

What is this?
Why is this?

Playing over and over like a mantra
Eventually releasing us from the limitations
Of knowledge

Our ever increasing need
Of need
Compels us further

Into the void of insecurity
Reluctant and avoidant
Of the gaze

Transforms cities into dust
Mountains into sand
Reality into an uncertainty, perplexity

And complexity
We are powerless against
The forces of the unknown
Here in lies the strength
Of acceptance
Transmutating

The attachment
To what is
Or what is not

The change we must effect
Is forever fluid
The moment we cling to it

To posses it
It is
Forever gone

Dream of now
And
Forever good

Thursday, January 18, 2007

street light people


shadows in day light
shadow in memory
shadow is the dream within the dream

shadow is time, shadow is illusion
only the shadow knows
wherever your shadow goes

my life is unlived
hidden from pain
and joy

unreal is my city
unless i live
in its shadow

unreal am i
looking to find
the least resistance

the fastest route
to the surface
to breathe the shadow air

intent
on robbing the shadow
of it secrets

the shadow
won't be held

dance
as we dance
a thousand lightyears

your shadow shows me
the shadow
of my form and substance

we notice
our movements are in unison
how the night

will destroy us
how we will destroy
ourselves

unless we move towards
and stay here
in the light



Wednesday, January 17, 2007

extracting exact distraction


wht=
ths

what is
this

why
is
this

why
ASK?

why know?

who knows?

so, besides these random
questions what else?

where to begin?

augh, you see, that's

the issue it seems, as it seems

i've already done

such.

o.k. for example, today - what the swtfuk was that all about?

like every day or most other days,

and you know,

that could be it.



something that isn't like something else.

a time that isn't like

all the rest,

the mindless labor

or concerns that seem to use up a day,

hanging on hold

on a phone tree

useless time.



it is

when you don't know.

when the expereince isn't

familiar. what happens then?

what is the mind doing then?

is it asking questions?

is it reacting, is it acting?

does it want

what it knows?


yes

no?


so today, what was that all about.

i can't say.

so i am bound to repeat it

one way or another

and

some i must

some i want to

others i wish i could just let go.



mem

Monday, January 08, 2007

white sucker blues

Seas, the great roar,
that shattered your one of a sweet madness
has murmured its ballad to the tree and anthem falls from the golden stars.

ii


o pale mine

I come to you, so silent in the night
so mans starlight
you come seeking, in the night, the flowers snow does to a fire;
your great visions is there will be mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, all wind, that, your emotional rescue

yeah, the other night, will be your knight in shining armour
coming to your escapes a small rustle of wings;
- a mysterious ophelia mine
you will be mine, you will be mine, all floats like a great lily;
floats very slowly, child the great mountains of norway
that spoke to you in rumors to your dreaming mind;
it was your heart freedom! what a dream, oh poor crazed girl!
you melted times she rouses, in a slumbering alder,
some nest from waters;
the shivering willows weep on her thousand twisting your great hair,
brought strange with the nothing I can say
nothing I can do
to change your blue unfolds in a wreath
her great veils rising and falling picked
and that he has seen on the water, stealthy, so pekinese
ill be your savior, steadfast and true
ill down the long black river.
for more than a thousand morning sate mute at your knees!

heaven! love! house
yeah, baby, I’m crying over you

don’t you whew
yes, you could be mine
tonight and every night
I come to your emotional rescue
ill come to your can hear carried off by a river!
- it was the winds descending rescue
you will be mine, you will be mine, child
you low voices of better freedom.

it was a breath of a the sighs of the nights;

it was the voice to him as baby
I’m like a child baby
child yeah, I’m like and lying in her long veils...
- in the far-off woods you ruffled water-lilies are sighing around her;
at lying ophelia! beautiful as snow!
yes child, you died, of mad special breed
you think that you’re his pet night I was mine
you could be mine, could be mine
be mine, all eye!

iii


- and the poet says that by all in her long veils
white ophelia floating, like a which dissolve in sleep
ill be your savior, steadfast emotional rescue

yeah, you should be mine, mine, know animal quiet
ill be your savior, steadfast

the promises were never made to keep?
just like the across in
you can’t get out
you’re just a poor girl in a rich listening to the song of nature
in the groans of the child's heart, too human and too soft;
it was a strangled your words
- and fearful infinity terrified the desert with a fine arab charger

on the years her and true
ill come to your emotional rescue
ill come to crying
like a child, yeah, I was crying
crying like a pale knight, a poor madman
who one april that you them true
ill come to your emotional rescue
ill come to your mind
I’m so in love with you
you’re too deep emotional rescue

I was dreaming last night
last from sound the mort.

for more than a great lily. mine
I will be your knight in shining armour
riding dreaming
how you’d be mine, but I was emotional night, crying
crying baby, yeah I’m crying
yeah I’m like a calm black water where the stars are sleeping
white shoulder,
the rushes lean over her wide, dreaming brow. evening breeze.

the wind kisses her breasts and your child, like a child
like a child

you think you’re years sad ophelia
has passed, a white phantom, handsome

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

no poetry or art

(from brian raine and marke merrill + cut up machine)

Touch
but its wrapped in sweet lies
bitter to the my down

teach her how to fish
but do not give her fish... are
together
what

can
we
accomplish?

what can I Egypt?

two bad
my soak my mind
sounds like the drop froze
and I got face
my aura is grey
in an alien image
not a
image

like tv
or the interned
porn sacred heart
falls
apart

long, say my oh my can my words
will

never
be read
as

written
but years
since
we’ve

been
apart
now

we gentle old
listening to a new type writer hit the sky
been out a ride

caught up in

denial,
but a
river in fixation

your words
are words?
from

my what
is long
time
ago

your holy
heart
your

sacred electric gadgets soak my time

l these somber vampires track
electric voice
all these awhile out in the cold
a down
tonight I put her another
don’t take touch

stop on the line
guard my sweet will
don’t take another

invade my space
no go
to end

two of random wish

I love her so much
I mean that power
see it exist
can’t let it more
pictures
of my me
twisted inside
she calls
so I give her beginning
lost in the way

tonight
I put her heart
that
no

poetry
or art
can replace

too your

Sunday, December 24, 2006

The crusade twas the night blurred before christmas

You
the sugar-plums children were nestled in my below.
when, people so still falls see what was the anyhow just for racking my and like miniature sleigh, reindeer.

well it heart inside your and gathering speed inside coursers the lake
and the just for I flew and shouted, blind was there's muddy shoes mid-day I did eight to objects me
dancing stirring, not even a mouse.
the stockings there.

sometimes never wanted to
ah, knew in a the said to should appear,
but a in my mind
a fire said twas the night before know I know I never in their and threw up you know I never sprang hopes that st nicholas anybody home I ask once astray
just like they sash.

the rusty the wondering eyes through flew like a cool and to clatter,
I sprang from such a its hold I tread when the darkness loses against the moving are pumping my veins and a matter.
away to the way

with a little that certain chimney nick.
more dawn alien hope
just familiar
their words her stream of window I and sky
brings back an blue but you hung by their heads.
and mamma to see me through lawn paying no heed that in politely in the cold outside the door
is completes
the scenes flash,
tore open the around a horse's where came,
and he nap.
and it's so easy name!

a fire burns in soon would be taking have changed ah, you new-fallen snow
gave my cap,
had just the such a clatter,
I your lawn there arose just with care,
in on the like purchased danced noticed the world at my what to know I did it wanted to for quick,
I the evening see what from view but you it rapid than lustre of brains a long winter’s creature was whistled, flakes
the reins map next day comes and me
keep ideas old ‘kerchief, and I were tinny wanted to hurt me now matter.
away to train coat

the moon on the these streets
a face me bleed until I and you


when out you driver, so lively heart moment it must be st some tears street leads more
a silver-plated breast of the all snug christmas, when all jet settled our brains for flash,
tore open the you
when out on the house
not in her know I did it just they throat
turn into a ah, you know eagles his the years I shutters comes home
but the beds,
while visions of cars once crawled burns inside the window snow the bed to to shutters and threw up and lose your me
the me
find your feet called them by the was through there arose from the bed to they you've forgotten but sash.
one day I a rolls into the made

Saturday, December 16, 2006

such as I, not I, I

The fool is I is you
The fool speaks with out asking
The fool masks without laughing
The fool opens a mouth
Utters a sentence

Without dancing
He, she, it glides
Over the dance floor
Until there is no
More floor

No more support
Holding us up
Weightless,
Motionless

Emotionless.
The fool has forgotten
To feel
What is real?

What is matter?
What matters
Anyway.

Bad news?
Good news?
Old news?
Ancient muse

It’s all tattered,
Shattered
Masked in
Golden Copulations

Saints sacred
Sinners profane

Another fool
Asks for
It's
15 min

A Fool
Believes very much
In what they are saying.

Fools keep it
All straight

Knowing the right
from right
from wrong from
night

from day
to day

Another song,

Written in
Golden
Light



A fool
Tries to get
it all down

But it won’t
Go down or
Stay down

Any longer

A fools remembers
Memory. A harmony
Is all they have
To go on

Fools find
Themselves drunk
On time (telling one's self
It's healing. Medicinal,
A temporary

Balm

Protecting from
The injustice of
An inequity

Of a failed
Collective experience).

The fool will
find
Desperation,
Seek
Attention

Know
Un-natural
Means

Through
Un-natural
Thoughts.

Fools needs a
Reality.

It will
Hold you
Accountable,
to it.

Un-acceptable
Unreasonable,
Your actions,

A gasp.
A mess,
Unworthy,
Un-mentionable
Besides your

Inability
To known

To act
reasonably
while
extinguishing
your instinct

ask,
is your memory
worth
remembering?

i have no answer,
but then again,

i am a fool.





Looses oneself
translated
Motion

Not remembering
Or moving

With everything to loose
Take no risk.

Risk everything,
Always for
The sake of

Nothing

Saturday, November 04, 2006

The detachment-attachment

i've forgoten
again

that i
was me

this happens
often

forgetting
i mean

there's
more time

time to
remember

Thursday, November 02, 2006

further adventures of the mem being

my novel idea is here: untitled


technical writings and musings to a degree: new media


national novel writing month, o my: NaNoWrMo

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

october 31, 1992 - january 01, 1901

E. Paul Baker

remembered today

and everyday

from the

wilds

of "stefanannie"

to the halls of

k. gildersleeve

you are

remembered

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

13

all elements

all bonds

all atomic decay

all gravity

all spacetime

all singularity

all mind

all reason

all feeling

all uncertainty

all rationalization

all conceptualization

all meaning