Love a good pun. Courtesy the mad tregaskes.
Love a good pun. Courtesy the mad tregaskes.
Bourbon, Dogs and Art is a blog by Steven Durland. It is mainly about bourbon, dogs and art (and chickens). BDA is also the name of his art studio. More about that and other bits of practical information available at durland dot com.
Your John Lennon-El Salvador Tacit opens the floodgates of my own memory. After the war in Viet Nam, I resolved to beat my own swords into ploughshares and study war no more. But it seemed like the U.S. was conspiring to make that goal impossible, in fact, one of the main aims of our system seemed to be cloning & perpetuating (& marketing) violence: it was literally for sale everywhere & sometimes it invaded my dreams. To say nothing of how much I loved John Lennon for his non-violent principles and how he injected serious Dada into popular culture. Now – then – it was all a famine injection.
Now – again – it all feels like another famine injection. Artaud wrote that his theatre of cruelty should embody a “a passionate and convulsive conception of life.” Once I thought all that was so very cool: blowing holes in the psychic dam that held back the murky tide of our collective American Id. I’m not so sure I ever want to see the color or smell the musk of anyone’s Id, at this point. Especially when it’s strapped & loaded & looking for the next low-rent Gotterdamerung.
Paz,
John Sullivan, Galveston TX (a forever fan of CAN)