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Aura-Abysmal

WHAT I DID Saturday, September 13 8:01am Driving over the Williamsburg Bridge where the skyline of New York City (the place where the Energies have been swirling back to life but all kinds of evil ones) is now tinged kind of light blue. The gallery last night was orange and swirling with smoke which made me gag. I couldn’t really hear the readings.

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WHAT I DID Saturday, September 13 8:01am Driving over the Williamsburg Bridge where the skyline of New York City (the place where the Energies have been swirling back to life but all kinds of evil ones) is now tinged kind of light blue. The gallery last night was orange and swirling with smoke which made me gag. I couldn’t really hear the readings. Something about grilled chicken. Do you think we got second hand high, my friend asked me. Do you think anything artistically interesting happens anymore? We found other friends, then, which is a good thing about New York City; insofar as it always feels quite small. We meandered further downtown for a while which was nice despite everywhere feeling a bit like a crime scene and sleep deprivation due to current events in my personal life and also on a more global and national scale. 8:27am There’s a cemetery that is green green green in Middle Village and the graves are all topped with angels. There are bumper stickers that say TEACH SOMEONE HOW TO PRAY THE ROSARY on a gray car and MAKE NAZI’S AFRAID AGAIN on a blue car. 8:39am Listening to La Bás by Huysmans on tape in the car. “He could not stay in one place long and kept on inventing reasons to leave the house,” the recording says. 11:29am It is sunny in Delaware and the billboards in New Jersey are amazing. Staring at my kind of puffy reflection in a streaked mirror at a rest stop feeling kind of weightless to be outside Manhattan which is kind of how it always goes these days. I do the things I need to do, but I’m not sure if that makes them right. I try to be precise and honest. I have not been acting very Selfless, but there are other things to consider besides Nobility and Sacrifice. Purchase: uncrustables and celsius. Interrogate the mundane because there is only so much one can glean from The Bigger Picture. A dress from Zara is kind of Washington-DC-Chic. This, or a side-zip sale-rack dress from DVF. I pumped my veins full of microplastics and bought an ill-fitting wardrobe. I drank iodine until my thyroid exploded. I got a tick-born illness and now steak tartar triggers anaphylactic shock. It is good that nothing bad has ever happened. 1:00pm Washington DC is Butterworth’s bone marrow for lunch and then the bookstore nearby to purchase a new copy of Paradise Lost and then The National Gallery where I like the Italian Renaissance section best because all the images are very well preserved and reverent. The most special works to me are Frau Angelico’s Adoration of the Magi and David with the Head of Goliath ceremonial shield because it’s satisying to imagine someone going into battle with something so bejewled and decedant despite the cermemonial nature of the shield that renders this idea irrelevant and a painting that I note as just Big Baby which is wonderful because the angel wings depicted are transparent like the light is just starting to rise. There is Cupid With The Wheel of Time and Bachuus floor tiles. Bachuus being; God of wine revelry and fertility. I grew up in a home peppered with masks of Bacchus and, in my old apartment we adorned the walls in masks of Bachuus, too. I tell my friends how I bought one ceramic Bachuus mask in April and then other masks kept on arriving in the mail after that. It was a colorful kind of Venetian mask to start, and then the ones that came after were darker and smaller. Like something out of a horror movie, my friends say. And this is kind of true yes, except like all reverent images or omens one can seek either good or evil or one can also choose to accept that; the most simple explanation is always the true one. And things used to be so much more interesting because everyone was much more reverent, I am thinking. Except then we walk over to the French area where the art is less reverent but more like a fairy tale. Hubert Robert’s The Ponte Salario and Francois Boucher’s Allegory of Painting and Fragonard’s Blindman’s Bluff , which makes me feel full of light Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Blindman’s Buff (1775-85) - Photo via The National Gallery WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Wednesday, September 17 - From 7pm at EARTH — I Feel Like Seth Price in 2012 commences with BEFORE AND AFTER WRITING book launch and reading and record launch. - From 7pm at KGB — The Point celebrates the release of Issue 35 - What Is Violence For ? There are a lot of great essays in this issue including “ Demonic Force ” by Mary Gaitskill, “ American Idols ” by Sam Kriss, and honorable mention, recent online article “ Turbo America ” by Sam Venis. - LOS ANGELES : From 5pm - 7pm at 1301PE — Petra Cortright presents her solo exhibition ‘quicksilver sea bubble dramamine dream’ - “What do you lose, what can you always have.” Thursday, September 18 - From 6pm — The New Criterion hosts their Seventh Annual Circle Lecture with historian Andrew Roberts. Join The Circle to attend this and future events. - From 6pm - 8pm at Almine Rech — Chloe Wise ‘ Myth Information ’ opens - “What lurks beyond the horizon of perception? Beyond the tight confines of language, image, time, and space that hold all that is known and knowable?” - From 6pm - 8pm at Parent Company — ‘ Cessation ’ open; a group exhibition organized by Benny’s Video. - From 7pm at EARTH — Satya Paul presents ‘Does Reading Have A Future’ - a live essay as part of ‘I FFeel Like Seth Price in 2012.’ - From 7pm - 9pm at Time Again — D8 Time celebrates their first birthday with more speed dating (plus a free drink if you download Left Field App and frozen yogurt from a sour cherries pop-up). | tickets here - From 7 - 8:30pm (readings) and 8:30 - 12:30pm at Honey’s — Cake Zine celebrates the release of Volume 7: Forbidden Fruit. Readings by contributors Aamina Khan, Osama Shehzad, Grayson Samuels, and Ankit Sethi. Free dessert inspired by the issue from Taipei’s Fu Cakes. | tickets here - From 10pm at Jean’s — It’s Girl’s Night ! Donna Francesca and Mona DJ. Friday, September 19 - From 6:30pm at Baby’s All Right — The Thing Is … presents Live Music Session No.1 . Hosted by Alex Arthur . Music by Lou Salome, Tiny Gun, T Truman, and special guest Disc Jockey and Alexa Dark. - From 11pm - late at Baby’s All Right — PARTY GIRLS NEVER DIE hosts an official after party with B2B Los Angela, Desire, and Johnny Jewel. | RSVP here . - LONDON - From 7pm - 11pm at SET Social Peckham — Soho Reading Series hosts The Expansion Project Gala . Readings from Ben Pester, Saba Sams, Jack Underwood, Olive Parker, Keiran Goddard, Christine Marella, and Evie Wyld. Hosted by Tom Willis. Tickets here Saturday, September 20 - From 12pm - 8pm at EARTH — Seth Price TV 8-Hour Special Video Mixtape screens. - From 8pm at Thayer — Chris and Adeline and I are throwing a party! Antireality Zine celebrates the NYC launch with readings by us, and music by The Ficks and Lucius. | RSVP here Sunday, September 21 - From 4pm - 7pm at Colbo — Everything Physical launches. Screening to follow from 8pm - 9pm at Lubov . - From 4pm at 183 S Eighth St, Brooklyn — Jeanne Graff and Chris Kraus read to celebrate the book launch of Sylvère Lotringer’s Bloomsbury interviews … translated by Jeanne and published this year by Semiotexte. - From 6pm at EARTH — Paige K. B . Presents You Can(not) Re-Dress - a special presentation of fashion criticism as part of I Feel Like Seth Price in 2012. - From 7pm at KGB — Car Crash Collective is in New York, with readings from Catherine Spino, Brittany Deitch, Sameera Rachakonda, Naomi Falk, Justin Taylor, Izzy Cauplong, and Silas Jones. - From 8pm at Night Club 101 — Forever Mag returns to celebrate the new issue: ‘Inheritance’. Natasha Stagg, Sophie Kemp, and Will Stephenson reading Barry Hannah.

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