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UPDATED: Sun., 1 June, 2003; Tue., 3 June, 2003 (after adding querrelle to my friends list) Jawn, you just have to climb over somebody to get higher; I know can do that. 🙂
Tim so high on my initial list? That’s interesting. 🙂
Sadness, tears, and family…
Before anything else my Uncle died yesterday morning. He had been ill for the past year but when I last talked to him his spirit seemed as usual, full of energy and life, always a smile on his face and in his voice. He will be missed deeply by family, friends, and loved ones. He looked like Kwame Nkrumah. How’s that for a handsome man!
1. Your Live Journal “user name” & what it means: art_thirst=art3st, a combination of art and the sound of thirst. Kinda difficult for people to remember… however, water is important to me. “Still waters run deep.”
2. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest) how well does your Live Journal represent who you actually are? 7.
3. How much about your life do you post to LJ? About 25%
4. Is there anything you refuse to post about? Yes, personal diatribes, personal attacks, and my life’s intimacies.
5. On a scale of 1-10 how interesting do you think your own journal is to others? I’d like to think it was about 8 but in reality I think it’s more like 3.
6. From who/how did you find out about LJ? I found LJ because of stpbear, but signed up because of jawnbc.
7. Has anyone ever joined LJ because of you? No.
8. What proportion of your posts are friends only? Zero… if it’s that private, it’s email.
9. What do you like about LJ the most? Meeting the friends of friends and the interesting things that come from hopping from friend to friend to friend.
10. How often do you respond to/comment on other peoples’ journals? Actually, more often that I thought I would but, mostly when I feel I have something interesting to share.
11. Do you prefer to write in your journal, read other journals? Both… call me versatile, using the words of jawnbc.
12. Have you ever had something mean said to you or been stalked, harassed, or got into an argument/flame war on LJ (or did it to someone else)? No, although somebody said something that I thought was uncalled for so I deleted my post from their journal and moved on.
13. Have you ever banned someone from your journal? No.
14. Who are your favorite LJ friend(s) and tell me something about them? Well, because jawnbc invited me here I read his journal as much as I would my own. I really like reading his entries, intelligent yet multilingual and makes a nice sound in my mind.
15. How many of your LJ friends have you actually met? None. However, I’ve met many of my IRC friends.
16. Of all of the people on LJ you know of, who is the most like you? No one that I know of.
Weekend Update …
Mon., 19 May :: Being an artist is something that needs to be reassessed more often than the average person may think. The ground beneath the artist moves as often as the tides. Sometimes one attempts to shift the ground upon which one stands on purpose. Sometimes it shifts right at the moment one thinks it is safe to step into a new spot. Groundrules change. Contexts change. Philosophies change. Other times movement is imperceptable. One feels at a moment between tides. That moment when there is a haunting stillness and all is at rest. It seems not meditative but constricting and confining. As the tidewaters move up the canals there are eddys and ripples on the water’s surface but that’s not always a reflection of what’s going on below the surface where the density is different. This is also a moment of transition. Transition holds hidden so much. It is frustrating yet fills one with importunity. And this too shall pass…
LeBlanc (chief of the Tour de France) told French sports daily L’Equipe “There is a lot of regret to eliminate (team) Domina (Vacanze). But Cipollini (current world cycling champion) had an early season that was less good than last year. He’s a great sprinter, but at 36 years old, he doesn’t totally deserve to ride the Tour de France because of the mountains. Effectively, there is a risk that Mario will abandon at the end of the first week. We have not forgotten that he’s never finished one Tour de France. I have enormous admiration for Cipo, but the course of the 2003 Tour (7 mountain stages) isn’t the kind of stage that will be useful to (Domina Vacanze). Besides that, in the last weeks, he didn’t reassure us with his form.”
Cipollini is SO popular it seems more than a slap in the face not to have the world champ. He broke the record for the number of stage wins in the Giro d’Italia today. He is the only person to have won 4 stages in a row in the Tour de France. LeBlanc has always done something that causes controversy but he is the Tour boss and he has the last word. This time, the world is against him.
Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk co-author, Stanley Crouch made some interesting observations on Tavis Smiley’s radio program tonight. I had planned to post this book for next month but it’s available now.
late entry
Sun., 11 May
The opening of HAITI THROUGH DOCUMENTS opened last night. I didn’t get there until I got off work but it was well received. The show looked really good. The person I was supposed to be working with didn’t show up. I figured she wouldn’t. She was supposed to get me some plexiglass frames used for photographs although they were being used to show historical letters. They were sent to the gallery in such an inept state that I had to take them apart and resposition almost half of them. Of course, it was another waste of time. And, it was time we didn’t have much of at this point. These were letters written by Toussaint l’Overture. Links below are to the month’s activities and the Haitian leader.
Obviously, this past week has been a busy one with the exhibition but, I need to plan for a trip to St. Lucie River by next weekend. I need to be focused about what I want to do while there, which should be 2-3 days if I can afford to. I’ll figure that out in the next few days.
posted on artlab33.org @ 19:08
Giro d’Italia
Because of Greg Lemond and Lance Armstrong almost everybody in the US knows about Le Tour de France but, the Tour of Italy and Tour of Spain are the next largest annual cycling events. Cyclists from the US rarely ride La Vuelta España but Andy Hampsten won the Giro some years ago. At any rate, il Giro comes in May, le Tour in July, and la Vuelta in September. That means the racing is on! Last year Tyler Hamilton (Armstrong’s former teammate) garnered 2nd place in il Giro (with a fractured shoulder, lots of pain, but some true grit).
Unfortunately the German site that used to carry integrated audio/video has changed formats so, I use two different sites to get live daily coverage. The German site used to update images about every 10 secs. the CZ and FR sites I’ve found only update once every 2 mins. That’s better than not at all. I don’t have cable or satelite TV and, can’t afford it anyway.
I miss racing. Not so much the getting up before dawn so I could be on the road by 7am but, my fitness level has dropped so low. Training rides used to be very calming or every invigorating (depending on what type of training I was doing).
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale has the top 4 worse bicycle-to-car accident rates in the US. You know damn well the cyclist is the one getting hurt or killed. Hit-and-run drivers are really bad down here, too.
I got hit by a car back in the 80s but thank gawd the elderly driver had good insurance. I woke up in the hospital but my concussion wasn’t too bad. I got physical therapy at the office of Dr. Carmichael, father of Chris Carmichael (Lance Armstrong’s coach). That therapy got me going again and I was flying soon and went on to do some motorpacing before the racing season ended.
Anyway… il Giro d’Italia will pass close to the locale where I spent 6 months in Italy, Treviso province. I was in a village at the Dolomite foothills and had a great time. I miss it there. That’s where I gained my real appreciation for wine. Wine of Conegliano e Valdobbiadene region
Current Music: 
The Best of Ornette Coleman
hedychium – butterfly ginger
I spoke with my botanist friend and got the down low on the ginger plants he gave me. He says they won’t likely blossom potted indoors but they have beautiful leaves anyway.
http://www.botany.com/hedychium.html
http://www.oasisdesigns.co.uk/hedychium_pics.htm
http://www.hear.org/pier/hecor.htm
Using only one singer/band, answer the following questions with song titles:
I’ve used my favorite pianist/composer, Herbie Hancock.
1. Are you male or female? “Watermelon Man”
2. Describe yourself – “Ostinato”
3. How do some people feel about you? “Riot”
4. How do you feel about yourself? “Speak Like a Child”
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest – “Maiden Voyage”
6. Where would you rather be? “The Eye of the Hurricane”
7. Describe what you want to be – “A Jump Ahead”
8. Describe how you live – “Survival of the Fittest”
9. Describe how you love – “You’ll Know When You Get There”
10. Share a few words of wisdom – “Promise of the Sun”
Current music: Herbie Hancock – Jazz Pianist & Composer
How male or female is your brain?
The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.
Take the interactive empathy quotient test.
Take the interactive systemising quotient test
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Baron-Cohen’s theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. He calls it the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory.
My results: EQ=53 – SQ=63
(You need Flash to take the test. 93% of computers have Flash installed)
Mavs
I was disappointed yesterday with the finals between Portland and Dallas. Portland lost even though history was against them winning. If the Lakers had be matched up against the Mavs, LA probably would have won. Sacto Kings should beat Dallas Mavs… let’s just get it done. Lakers vs. Spurs sounds more of a challenge. Last year I remember Kobe grabbing a rebound, one-handed, with a put-back slam over Tim Duncan. Amazing it was. This is a different year and both teams are different. I’ve liked the Lakers since living in LA back many yrs. Shaq, I’ve liked since I first saw him. Let the game begin (tonight 9:30pm EDT US).
Current Music:
The Best of Miriam Makeba
Book Listings…
Now that I’ve finished my contract I have a chance to do some reading. This summer should be the perfect opportunity to do it. If you’re interested in any of the books I just found out about, check the links. They’re new publications.
“Africa since 1940 : The Past of the Present”
“Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker”
“Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America”
(all with book descriptions)
http://www.art3st.com/associates/booksmay2003.html
Books of Paul Farmer
“Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”
“Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface”
“AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame”
“Uses of Haiti”
http://www.art3st.com/anyblackman/associates/paulfarmer.html
Current Music:
Boulez: Sonates 1, 2 & 3 For Piano