October 2010
3 posts
John Baldessari
“I’m not going to temper, I don’t change, don’t want to take the chance of some magic being broken. I like being in my studio, being around all my stuff, magazines, books. This is my existence, this is where I get my power.”
- John Baldessari
Martin Amis' The Information
I just re-read the first paragraph of Martin Amis’ The Information. Something about it really blew me away.
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It’s nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that… Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and your sob probes, and you would mark them. Women—-and they can be wives,...