FIRE IN QUEENS NEW YORK

Wind can either blow out the candles and you get your wish, or fan the flames of a burning building. Outside the All Saints Church on 46th st in Queens, a crowd stands watching a building burn. No one really talks. No one is smiling. People are taking pictures to bring home to their apartments which hopefully are not on fire. The top floor windows are all melting. There are black clouds of smoke all over the neighborhood which reflect the early evening sun and make the sidewalk look very very bright. I am watching everyone watch. Firetrucks all up and down Skillman ave. A shitsu in the window of a limo looks at the people. The firefighters are stomping around in the top floor windows you can see a think layer of orange on the ceilings above them. Everyone watches and waits thinking it could be me. The statue of St Francis of Assisi is small and covered in soot in the courtyard.

PERFORMANCE ART I DRAW THE LINE AT SALMONELLA

Quick fast blog here. I was doing a 3 song set for a friend in downtown LA opening her art show of GORGEOUS paintings of America in disrepair taken from a cross country road trip she made in search of buildings and things that had been abandoned. Gorgeous. LA has a nice scene of "happenings" that spring up randomly especially at art galleries and fire pits. For this one I became accidental MC. It was mostly performance artists. So lemme just break one down for you. She puts on a video of nature and deers and stuff. She goes around in a cape with a red riding hood basket and hands out fistfuls of raw hamburger meat. She drops cape, and is nude with big bush. She affixes a fox tail to her ass and dances around in front of the nature video. There is some ironic music playing cant remember because I am too busy gagging from the smell of raw meat all around. I have successfully avoided it by wandering out of reach everytime her weirdness approached. At this point in the story lance was like "Yeah, So?" To which I reply, "i know not that big a deal." More naked dancing and she actually picks up a taxidermied fox carcass thing and starts waltzing with it as the crowd of about 30 hold their meat. Yeah, so? Then the music changes a little and she one by one goes up to each person and eats the raw hamburger out of their hands. Sorry. That's my limit.