Kimono our place!

[imomus]

A little party was held last night watashi no tokoro on the Karl-Marx-Allee for twenty or so optimally funky Berlin-based people. Featuring Kaori and Mika, Mr and Mrs Cameron, Jason Forrest / Donna Summer, Jim Backhouse from Resonance FM, some friendly wheatpasters with a big bucket of wheatpaste, Craig Robinson and Hanni, Andrew Cannon, Eric, Lupo and Rika from Belleville (where I'll be playing a little show next Sunday), Mario Canario and Anne Laplantine.



Click the photo for a video of the highpoint of the party: our terrifying initiation ceremony into The Order of The White Igloo. Those who pass are sent to meet The White Archer. Those who fail are sent to meet him twice.

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Re: oFFiCiaL_w0rLd_LaNgUagE

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I like the image of overspill. It implies a container. As Lewis Mumsford (The City in History, Technics and Civilization) wrote, a container can only function as a container if it changes less quickly than the materials it contains, and which surround it.

Momus's mind as a container--a somewhat fixed framework into which various materials are poured. To remain coherent, the mind must maintain a certain structure and integrity. It cannot dissolve into the surrounding milieu. Something happens to materials poured into the container of Momus's head. Perhaps it's something like a chemistry laboratory, and chemical reactions take place, and bonds are broken, formed, exploded, new molecules created. Interesting question as to whether the theory of conservation of energy and mass applies to the open system of Momus's mind.

But then there is the question of choice and will. Or are those decided--in our vastly simplified hydraulic system we're cartooning here--by the materials that went in early on, which established the base formula with which all later materials would be greeted when introduced into the chamber of Momus's mind.

What am I going on about?