Mark Ari's Blog, page 9
September 21, 2012
That’s A Lot of Freakin’ Cowboys
I’ve been cleaning out the drawers and boxes. These are cuts, maybe not finished, maybe laid down and left to knock around, or fragments culled from the air in a given moment and then forgotten. Tapes sitting in cracked cases, tangled, frayed amd torn. So I cleaned and spliced, and they kind of make a [...]
September 9, 2012
Obama, Facebook Loons and a Daydream
There was a lot of reaction on Facebook to my expression of a personal conviction that President Barak Obama is by far the best choice to lead our country for the next few years. There was a lot of support. Some respectful dissent which I, in turn, respect. And some pretty crazy shit. Selected or [...]
August 15, 2012
Fiddler on the Goddam Roof
I was living in Seville, Spain in 1986. For the first month or so, I stayed at the Hostal Virgen de los Reyes. I got sick. Ferocious fever. Neck glands bulging and tight as drums. The works. Flattened me good. Then, one night, the sheets were knotted bladderwrack, the way they get when it’s late [...]
July 20, 2012
June 1, 2012
On the Proper Use of Trail Mix and the Nature of Skin(response to a letter from a friend)
The whole real/unreal thing always throws me for a loop. I don’t really get it. For something to be real, does it have to be permanent? If that’s the case, then nothing is real. Love can’t last longer than a heart, and hearts give out. Unless, of course, you believe in the long embrace of [...]
