From: luther blissett (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2010 - 10:29:11 PDT
Greg- this long-distance dedication is for you, a 1983 tune by the
Glaswegian band Orange Juice (the melody may only sound within your head)...
keep reaching for the stars...
*****
When I first saw you
Something stirred within me
You were standing sultry in the rain
If I could've held you
I would've held you
Rip it up and start again
Rip it up and start again
Rip it up and start again
I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out
I hope to God
I hope to God
And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out
I hope to God
I hope to God
And when I next saw you
My heart reached out for you
But my arms stuck like glue to my sides
If I could've held you
I would've held you
But I'd choke rather than swallow my pride
Rip it up and start again
Rip it up and start again
Rip it up and start again
I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out
I hope to God
I hope to God
And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out
I hope to God
I hope to God
And there was times I'd take my pen
And feel obliged to start again
I do profess
That there are things in life
That one can't quite express
You know me I'm acting dumb-dumb
You know this scene is very humdrum
And my favourite song's entitled 'boredom'
Rip it up and start again
I said rip it up and start again
I said rip it up and rip it up and rip it up and rip it up and rip it up and
start again
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, gregg biermann <email suppressed>wrote:
> Ben -- Frameworkers,
>
> I cannot give you a review of the screenings but only my general feelings
> about the many years of screenings that I had attended in the past. My beef
> with the programming is that the Views represents only the views of Mark
> McElhatten and Gavin Smith. The screenings have a gravitational pull in this
> community perhaps in large part to their institutional affiliation with
> Lincoln Center. Whatever the reason, the programmers do not seem to take
> seriously what I see as a special responsibility to present the breadth and
> depth of what is really being produced out there in this mode. If these
> screenings have become the central venue for avant-garde cinema, the
> programming cannot be arbitrary. It needs to get beyond the peculiar tastes
> of the programmers (even keeping in mind Mark's long time commitment to
> programming in the avant-garde idiom). As an artist that was repeatedly
> ignored by the programmers and eventually stopped attending the screenings
> altogether, I felt compelled to contact Smith directly about a year ago. Of
> course I complained about being undervalued but more importantly to this
> group, I told him that I thought that these screenings had become uptight
> and insular -- an insider game. I suggested to Gavin that the best way to
> avoid that perception among artists that are productive and committed to
> avant-garde cinema and repeatedly not included in the screenings would be to
> have a different guest programmer join them each year. I had hoped that he
> would take my criticism as constructive but he rejected the idea out of hand
> and certainly did not allow that I in any way had a valid point. As far as
> expanding the list of programmers and getting another view as to what is
> valuable in a given year -- I doubt that this will happen unless this
> community demands it.
>
> Best regards,
> Gregg
>
>
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