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the cheshire cat

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About Me



alchemist, artist & writer: see www.drawclose.com . or my artist blog .

i make stuff like this video projection (and the video documenting it...)

My Interests

acupuncture, alchemy, between, birdsong, cartography, constellating symbols, crossroads, doorways, disappearance of bees, esoteric (not exoteric!), god/dess, Joan of Arc, language, liberty, Legba, Lacan, laughter, lightning, memory, music, poetry, puppetry, saints, sauna, semiotics, sound engineering, twilight zone, video production, zen.

The poetics of annihilation - how do we talk about that which is difficult, destroyed, demolished... VIGIL a documentary short I made in 2007 measures the destruction of New Orlean's 9th ward in terms of time.

Pattern Recognition the opening 7.5 minutes of a 20 minute backing video for my spoken word performance. Sound created in collaboration with dj earWIG (tx). Performance debuted Saturday, Dec 15 at a benefit for Common Ground (New Orleans women's shelter) at Your Inner Vagabond on Butler St. Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA.

I'd like to meet:

people who put their muscle where their mouth is.

Music:

everything. except the crap.

Movies:

7 movies

The Passenger Michaelangelo Antonioni
Otoshiana (Pitfall) Teshigahara 1962 Japan
Yojimbo Akira Kurosawa
Mon Oncle Jacques Tati
Diva 1982 France
The King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cour) 1966 French Philippe de Broca
Killer of Sheep 1977 US Charles Burnett

Television:

I don't receive programming, I make it.

New Invisible Joy LIVE @ the Rex 9 21 07
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2006 music video for older Chalk Outline Party song. Gun in Everyone from their EP, A Plan Lost in Dreams. This video is a segment from the backing film I produced in 2005-06 for the band to use at their live shows.

Lady Lipstik from a 33-minute backing video for a may 2006 live poetry/music performance.

Books:

8 books

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Charles Bukowski
The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Shulz
The Black Book Orhan Pamuk.
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
The Book of Disquiet Pessoa
Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein
The Trick is To Keep Breathing Janice Galloway

Heroes:



My Blog

solstice’s fiery kiss

at the hinge of the year, we burn, we burn
Posted by the cheshire cat on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:11:00 PST

clearing.

This morning before I walked to the internet I made a stop at this tiny tiny park.I walk past it when I go to work. The other day, on Monday or Tuesday I was walking home from work with the storm of m...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:55:00 PST

The New Yinzer is a magazine.

The New Yinzer's web designer and administrator! This issue represents the first New Look for the magazine in several years.This issue is absolutely fantastic. After typesetting the issue (think: read...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:11:00 PST

contemporary book of the dead 3

you have to rememberthe only people's opinions that matterare the birds flying in the skythey are the ones who go talk to godyes yes you know and I know that other people can haul off and punch orput ...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:49:00 PST

mind in a snow globe

a koanWho picks it up and shakes it hardthat you have this reaction ---the snow of it should be --- !the snow ofoh i hate it when s/he --- !there are so many ways to remain blind...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:51:00 PST

Why Men Withdraw

or, He's Stopped Calling And We Know Why Click Here and Find Outhe'll withdraw when he'slimp and uncomfortablein that wet raincoat andhis arms are tiredfrom holding up his weightso he pulls outif he's...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Fri, 23 May 2008 12:04:00 PST

the conversation i had with a customer when i wasnt working

my daughter comes home from school brokenand i talk with her and the new girl moved here when she was inthe fifth grade. she was so beautifulshe was so smart about it, too, she'donly pick on my girl w...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

our poems grow like weeds (for many of the poets i love who labor at the forge of language)

david crochets word lace with a Tiffany hookhe's woven each poem through with invisiblereferences threaded from the canonkris aches to disappear from his poems words pulled from the syruplight reflect...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Thu, 15 May 2008 05:36:00 PST

honeytongue

flowers with a little spicetart mouthshe keeps her words perchedat the gate of her teethher words are soap bubblesthey are cherry blossomsthey are nail bombsthey are dust bunniesthey are margaritasthe...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:59:00 PST

for the poet whose poem wont come to the door and say its name yet

the hummingbirdof her attention beats its wingson the insideof her bodywhat she wants to give birth towon't whisper its intent yetshe argues with itand will have dumplingsinstead...
Posted by the cheshire cat on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:34:00 PST