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some things i had forgotten
Aug. 30th, 2009 10:38 amsorting through the pile of stuff i need to distil into BSF's footnotes this morning -- a task i am taking very relaxedly, yes! -- i came face to face with the infamous issue of the wire, with michael jackson on the cover: #, june 1991
a: i've always said had nothing to do with this issue, no knowledge of the shock the cover was intended as -- i'm listed as "contributing editor" but had no contribution; was as startled as everyone else when i saw the posters up all over hackney... it was a big relaunch-new-direction push, and i hadn't been consulted
b: the cover is semi-pixellated, JUST LIKE the cover of invincible a decade later, and haha the main coverline is "michael jackson for grownups": given the mag's brief and the issue's brief, this is as tart as it's defensive... yes he is an popstar, yes this is a mag for the discerning adult, WOT OF IT! it is you mr so-called grown-up that is missing the point etc
c: as startled but very pleased -- everything was moving towards my sensibility!
d: anyway, glancing through the issue i find i wrote a WHOLE FEATURE i didn't remember, about david byrne, a critical (kinda) analysis of his instrumental release "the forest", his more or less wordless meditation on the first civilisations, ur, kish, nineveh, etc ; actually i did kinda remember (though not that it was in this issue); i just pretended i forgot and damped it out of my mind bcz the record itself maybe isn't that good, so presumably the piece will be too? but the piece -- while not exactly deep -- is fun, it's all about primitivism, as a technique, and how excited and complicated it all is (obvious byrnish stuff, but basically me juggling my speculations with his Mitey Midbrow Artwork as a walk-on framing pretext now and then) (viz DOIN MY JOB vg tick)
e: the contrast between the ease of this, to read and i suspect to write, and the stuff i have been drilling so laboriously and painfully out of my subconscious in recent weeks is a bit massive (as vick said -- cheerfully -- of the recent stuff, this is a hideous tangled nightmare for me the writer and BY GOD the reader is going to experience every horrible spasm of it, EVERY ONE!) (she read the whole first draft, bless her, and delivered a careful Professonal Academic Reader and Advisor Critique, during possibly the most emotionally horrible two weeks of her year)
f: anyway i think i am going to scan and post it, if i can remember how
a: i've always said had nothing to do with this issue, no knowledge of the shock the cover was intended as -- i'm listed as "contributing editor" but had no contribution; was as startled as everyone else when i saw the posters up all over hackney... it was a big relaunch-new-direction push, and i hadn't been consulted
b: the cover is semi-pixellated, JUST LIKE the cover of invincible a decade later, and haha the main coverline is "michael jackson for grownups": given the mag's brief and the issue's brief, this is as tart as it's defensive... yes he is an popstar, yes this is a mag for the discerning adult, WOT OF IT! it is you mr so-called grown-up that is missing the point etc
c: as startled but very pleased -- everything was moving towards my sensibility!
d: anyway, glancing through the issue i find i wrote a WHOLE FEATURE i didn't remember, about david byrne, a critical (kinda) analysis of his instrumental release "the forest", his more or less wordless meditation on the first civilisations, ur, kish, nineveh, etc ; actually i did kinda remember (though not that it was in this issue); i just pretended i forgot and damped it out of my mind bcz the record itself maybe isn't that good, so presumably the piece will be too? but the piece -- while not exactly deep -- is fun, it's all about primitivism, as a technique, and how excited and complicated it all is (obvious byrnish stuff, but basically me juggling my speculations with his Mitey Midbrow Artwork as a walk-on framing pretext now and then) (viz DOIN MY JOB vg tick)
e: the contrast between the ease of this, to read and i suspect to write, and the stuff i have been drilling so laboriously and painfully out of my subconscious in recent weeks is a bit massive (as vick said -- cheerfully -- of the recent stuff, this is a hideous tangled nightmare for me the writer and BY GOD the reader is going to experience every horrible spasm of it, EVERY ONE!) (she read the whole first draft, bless her, and delivered a careful Professonal Academic Reader and Advisor Critique, during possibly the most emotionally horrible two weeks of her year)
f: anyway i think i am going to scan and post it, if i can remember how
