rivers and tides



last night dan and i ventured to the palm to watch rivers and tides, the documentary of andy goldsworthy's art process. wow and wow. go see this. while watching i began to make a list of everyone i will by this dvd for. so keep your eyes peeled if your birthday is coming up.



a.g. takes the simple and the everyday and sees them as art. that is the difference... justin and i were talking about this last night. who hasn't stacked driftwood as a rudimentary ramshackle lean-to? who hasn't lined up twigs on leafs, whiling away an hour laying on the grass? who hasn't created a leaf boat and set it on its merry way, ferrying down a little back stream?



a.g. takes the beauty of what is right in front of you, stands it on end, and you see its brilliance. and then you think, "yes, of course, why didn't i think of that?"

baby : bathwater

it's interesting to me how people assume if you are anti-war that you don't support the troops. or if you are anti-war, that you support saddam hussein.

i am anti-war. i am glad that i don't have to make decisions like that either — i don't kid myself thinking that pacifism can cure everything. but really and truly — there's got to be other answers — we just haven't been smart enough to think of them.

some day, a brilliant mind will wake up in the world and "discover" truly how to create a life without war. and once that thought is out there it will seem so obvious, so rudimentary, so why-didn't-i-think-of-that. which is how most brilliant things are. right in front of our noses, we just couldn't see them.

meanwhile, i care about our troops — their safety; their psychological well being; who only knows what lies ahead for them — both during war and after war.

meanwhile, i don't think that saddam hussein is a nice man. to be trusted. i wish i knew the answers.


antiwar sampler

get yer mp3s at salon — billy bragg to ani di franco to the beasties to saul williams. and p.s. my subscription to salon has been, probably, my best online purchase yet.