i had a pretty amazing and hardcore sex dream with Casey Spooner last night.
We never actually "consummated" because in the dream he was still gay (as he is in real life) but we did alot of other stuff.

huh.
interesting.

and WOW i wish i could go:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1007

In conjunction with the New York performance biennial Performa 09, MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series presents Between Worlds (2009), an evening-length work by New York artists Fischerspooner. Between Worlds, a pop spectacle developed in support of Fischerspooner’s 2009 album Entertainment, runs continuously over the course of three hours, with no clear beginning or end, on a large central stage that allows the audience to view the piece from all sides. With source material provided by The Wooster Group and with inspirations ranging from Japanese theater to the early years of the U.S. space program, this new performance continues Fischerspooner's interest in exploring the spaces between art and entertainment, reality and fiction, intentions and mistakes.

Fischerspooner is Casey Spooner (b. 1970) and Warren Fischer (b. 1968), who met at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Between Worlds originated in workshops with The Wooster Group, and the rehearsal process later became part of the group exhibition It's Not Only Rock N Roll, Baby at the Bozar Museum in Brussels. The piece was later performed at the twenty-eighth annual Sao Paulo Bienal in October 2008. In April 2009, Between Worlds was presented as an open dress rehearsal at The Performing Garage in New York City, and the piece has continually evolved over the course of Fischerspooner’s world tour.

Performa 09 (November 1–22, 2009) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.

Ticketing information will be available soon.

running checklist of the fischerspooner memories

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Just a quick and dirty fun journal page i did last night.
It is actually inspired by the new gutter girlz challenge

THE PROMPT:
I'll do what I wanna do!
THE SONG:
Mind your Own Business by Chicks on Speed
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE:
FILE FOLDER

And also inspired by my trip to NYC this weekend to see Casey :)
Even though that photo is from 2005.

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Now, for photos from the night with Fischerspooner!

This "show" was completely NOT what i was expecting!
It was a final dress rehearsal for their new tour - and it certainly was a rehearsal!
It was held in a small performing space in SOHO called The Performing Garage and it was a big room with folding chairs set up to the side.
Although it didn't have the energy of a real performance it was still fascinating to me to see the process and the rehearsal and organic ideas being realized and kinks worked out.

It was a little frustrating sitting in a folded chair listening to dance music and wanting to get up and dance around and sing along but it wasn't that kind of show. Odd....

They don't have alot of money to work with, but what they came up with is pretty innovative in a simple way - I'm super excited to see the real show in 2 weeks here in Atlanta! I didn't get all the ideas they were throwing out (like space age kabuki with grunge flamenco) but i look forward to seeing the full experience nonetheless!

OK, picture time!
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yes, its 4am.
i have been up for an hour surfing the net.
i really am so fascinated as to why every morning i wake up at 3sm wide awake no matter what time i go to bed. i guess the only time i don't wake up is when i put some sort of depressant in my system like xanax or alcohol (although tonight i did have 2 glasses of wine)

so the real reason for this post is i just had this CRAZY memory flood back to me!
and i'm all giggling now.
so, casey posted this to twitter earlier:

caseyspooner: I saw Jane Krakowski on the street today. I am a huge fan. I was in a cab. I yelled "Jane, I love you!" like a fucking idiot. I love NY.

OMG that totally just reminded me of the time sarah and i flew to NYC on the spur of the moment to see the last fischerpooner Odyssey preview show at Canal Room and after the show shared a cab with casey and his bf adam to a bar for an after after party drink. i sat next to casey in the backseat and was so internally freaking out. wait a sec ... now i'm fuzzy ... sarah remind me - were we sitting with adam or casey in the back seat? fuck.... well i guess the main point was i shared a cab with casey spooner one night and it was one of the happiest nights of my life.

fuck - and next weekend i'm going to nyc to see the last fs preview show for the upcoming tour at Performing Garage!!!!! wow. i wonder if there will be more shared champagne bottles on the dance floor?

is it worth trying to sleep if i have to wake up in an hour and a half anyway?

OMG
3 hours since first LJ update and I can happly say I'm still feeling the creative hue.
And can't sit still or calm down.

But OMG - I decided to listen to !!! again.
Lord have mercy (wait huh what? these southern folk are wearing off on me) but i've almost fallen out of my chair 3 times now shaking my booty.
I forgot how much I ADORE !!!.
Holy carp.

I want to follow them around the world and eat their singer up with a spoon and bowl of cottage cheese.
Cause i lurve cottage cheese.
But omg they make me silly and fan girly.
and wanna dance my ass OFF.

I mean hello sally!


*sigh*
"hey? is this thing on? am i making any sense? everybody thinks i'm fucking crazy....." (yes those are !!! lyrics)

oh ya - http://www.myspace.com/chkchkchk

AND OH MY GOD
CASEY SPOONER IS MAKING A CAMEO ON YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS TODAY!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP!!!!
And guess who forgot to set her DVR last night in the throes of creative passion?
So, I'm going to go to the gym at 12:30 and watch it!!
LMAO!

Funny interview with Casey

It really helps illustrate what I find so fascinating about what he does

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hgbd-W1nOgg

I love his whole take on pop culture and art.
I told him he's got it from the inside, outside and other side.

So, yesterday some dude who manages 2 musicians who worked with Dave Gahan on Hourglass wrote to the FS myspace page about collaborating on something so I forwarded it onto FS's manager.

I got all gooey thinking about it.
He doesn't manage Dave, he's talking about the 2 musicians he manages collaborating with Casey and Warren, but even the thought of both Casey and Dave Gahan in a room together makes me swoon.

So Melissa, FS manager just dropped me a line saying thanks and she emailed this guy and I wrote back:

"Sweet.

Man, that would be my total wet dream - Casey singing with Dave Gahan.
Not that Daryl manages Dave ... I'm just saying - those 2 men are sex on a pogo stick to me and rarely do i get to put them in the same sentence.

ok ... back to our regularly scheduled program :)"

Usually i try to maintain an air of decorum and professionalism when talking with Melissa, but i just couldn't help myself on this one.

I mean come on - the only thing hotter than Casey and Dave is Matthew Bellamy and Dave and that dream came true (although i never saw evidence i do know DM played a festival with Muse last year).

Man, I had a productive night last night!
I got home and immediately went to cleaning the house for Erics parents arrival tonight (although he just called to let me know Wisconsin is being pounded again by snow and flights have been cancelled) and then to reward myself for the cleaning I wanted to whip through a scrapbook page I had been thinking about since Tuesday when the prompt was given at the 365 blog.

I got it done in an hour - just in time to see my "girl" Chris March win the Project Runway challenge!!!! (spoiler sorry)

I love this page! It doesn't look that impressive on 2D computer and if the sun is still out when i get home from work I may try to photograph it again - the background paper has a glimmer to it as well as the transparency so I was having a total challenge trying to capture it without glare.

The journalling reads (it's a play on a U2 song btw):
Create the world you want to live in.
Create out loud!
This is my world and this is the world i want to live in

"Create" is my word for 2008 a la Ali Edwards.

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I had this short email conversation with Casey Spooner Sunday night.
This man inspires me so much.
Something about how simple he can make complex things.
Something about his passion for life, art and love.

Here's the convo for my records (before it gets lost in a sea of other email):

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CS:
both. any. all of it.

is meaningful.

the fact that you are doing it at all is when the meaning started.

Monday again.
I feel well rested though - yay!
Had a lovely weekend.
Woke up to some lovely love, courtesy of octopusouphut at SiS.
Thanks girl - it means so much!

Got a cool scrapbook page(s) done.

Rediscovered U2 and my passion for them by going to see the U23D movie and being haunted by if for the rest of the weekend.

Had a cool photo shoot using transparency and lighting - i love how the photo challenge is really pushing me to try new photo methods

Last night Eric and i hung out with the fancy pants and watched puppy bowl and super bowl on their 62" HD flat screen TV. Let me tell you though - there are some details a big TV with HD pick up that really is too much information - like ALL the ripples and sweat and jiggle when football players get knocked to the ground.
It was mellow evening.
Which was fine.

I didn't stick to my diet the way I had wanted too ( :( ) but i didn't eat super shit.
At least i exercised both days (which is possibly why i'm in a good mood).

I also had a lovely e-conversation with casey spooner yesterday. I'm going to post some of it here for my own records. He usually is so inspirational to me - he knows how to words things succinctly, simply and in ways i get it. Totally. Unfortunately i still have questions for him, i can so easily get him off on a tangent, but i've come to notice that when you can get him talking he'll talk, but most of the time he's so busy and distracted it's hard to get him back. have no idea if that makes sense....

I also proofread that CDC application which is due tonight at midnight, got the logo design job done for ryan and gave up on a Word format job for Derek - i couldn't figure out how to format his Word doc and was getting so frustrated i said fuck it, money isn't worth it. And it was so so so nice out yesterday - finally in the 60s again.

We took the dogs to the dog park!
Yay! And said hello to old dog park friends.
Charo was social and outgoing. Herschel found a girl terrier that he wanted to rape and it was really awkward and embarrassing because he would not let her go. Finally I had to put him on his leash to keep him off of her. But all in all good vissit - i miss the dog park so much.

Got alot of chores done but not the big one - clean my scrapbook studio so Eric's parents can sleep in there next weekend. At least we got it aired out - i am a little concerned about them sleeping in there with all the paint and glue fumes.

Oh, and went to a Hawks game with my brother Saturday night.
First time since he took the job in London i felt a pang of "awww, i'm gonna miss him"
oh well.

I just went to the gym and walked for 47 minutes and ran for 7 minutes!!
My personal best!
OMG I love to run. I've never in my ENTIRE life run.
In gym classes in high school I always faked injury or just fast walked.

But OMG I listened to Fischerspooner's #1 on the headphones.
Which is probably why i could run 7 minutes.
Oh - and it wasn't all at once - it was in intervals.
I can't go for more than 2 minutes now.

But OMG.
That record brings me back.
It was so FUNDAMENTAL to my recovery and new life in 2003.
Every second of every song there was a memory or a feeling that popped into my head.
My eyes were wide open and i was walking on gym equipment with people all around me, but all i could see, hear, smell, feel was Fischerspooner memories.
The first few notes of Sweetness (the first song) got my heart racing and immediately transcended me back onto my bike - biking to Print-Tech. It was the song that got me going in the morning and woke my ass up. And all I could see was the beautiful video.

By the time Emerge was on I was absolutely in another world.
That song is so ace. It's so perfect. it's so magnificent. It's so genious.
It's so.
I nearly started crying tears of joy. On the treadmill. In the middle of the gym.
Uh huh that's right.

This album saved my life. And by album I mean the whole shebang - performance of it.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.
Casey Spooner.

Did I mention?
Casey Spooner.

If there's been one constant in my life the last 5 years it has been my adoration for this band and man.
damn.
that's a long ass time.
love love love love love love love.

OK ... step away from the endorphins.

holy crap
Casey just sent me this link:
http://jdvisiontheblog.com/
(the monday superfan entry)

A "superfan" made him this painting.
I can't BELIEVE the detail!
I mean I am awestruck, dumbfounded and stunned.
I mean - the fonts are PAINTED.
I can't wrap my head around that.
I mean the talent! The drive! The skillz!

I haven't met Joseph (yet) but we've talked via email.
He's a very intense, interesting fella.

This entry started out 3 paragraphs about a dream I had last night and turned into a huge convoluted mess about dreams of CS and Adam Yauch and what I think they mean.
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I miss talking with Casey so much.
He could infuse me with such energy with an email.
I know he's super busy doing the play and recording the CD and our relationship has turned more professional than personal.
But still.

Anyways, he dropped me a note yesterday about something and I replied with this verbal diahrea.
I wish i knew how to express myself better, but I thought if anyone would understand he would.
Anyway, copied and pasted to LJ for posterity.
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back in hotatlanta.
i hate using that word, but when it's 107 out, its pretty applicable.
took the day off to recuperate and i just love love love being home.
goddammnnggnnn.
and charo is being the sweetest cuddle monster ever.

been on the computer making up for lost time for 5 hours straight now.
was on AIM for awhile - had up to 6 conversations going before i put a stop to that and just talked with matthew.
i miss him soososososoooooo much.
and its not like new orleans is that far away but the money and the partying and etc that is involved with hanging out with matthew.

some day.

been catching up with CS too. He's on hyper overdrive after the european shows. but so cute. he was on his myspace answering messages. little did he know a small shitstorm will occur since he never gets on myspace. oh well.

spent about 1.5 hours just now with eric sending out resumes. he's actually functionally illiterate so i told him he's not allowed to send his resume out anywhere unless i do it for him. it's really bad, his spelling that is. really bad.

off for an hour of crafting before i have to drive up north for my diet meeting. i am DREADING getting on that scale. its such a slippery slope into oblivian cheating on this diet. So far today I've been good though. I guess I'm back to one day at a time.

um erm um
casey spooner just gave me his phone number inadvertantly.
um erm um

i'm actually ferklempt.

thank the good lord i am:

1) not stalking him anymore
2) not crazy in love with him anymore
3) not getting drunk on wine anymore.

oh my
so rambling....
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i just emailed casey.
I've totally lost the whole fan dynamic and that makes me a little sad.

But, today I saw a video of an interview with him at the Benicassim festival and it totally sparked my enthusiasm for him again. And made me remember why I'm his biggest fan. ;)
And he's one of my biggest inspirations.

They've been in Europe touring festivals and in the interview he talks about some airline in Portugal losing ALL of their couture costumes and even some instruments. So he had to "make do" and in that he discovered some things about himself and his performance.

Anyway

This was my email to him, for lack of me trying to explain anything, i thought i'd just cut and paste:

haven't emailed you in awhile cause, well, duh, you're out of the country, workin it and stuff.

but, i just had to tell you something while it's fresh on my mind.

i saw your interview on NME and i think i like that you're getting more comfortable in dropping some of the illusion you've worked so hard to create.
And feeling some sort of release in the presentation of your performance.
Makes me a little giddy in a second hand way.

Goes to show there's always a reason for everything.
And how would you create if you weren't trying to better a mistake?

can't wait to hear some stories upon your return.
there's definately some momentum building on that myspace page of yours.

xoxo-lara