2. 12"/Lps (buy Vestax's portable turntable + audio interface + download Peak trial): Fsk's "Tel Aviv + Other Originals"; DJ Naughty's "Red Hot"; "Perfumed Gardens 1,2,3" compilations; "Moxie Disco Edit 1+ 2"; Steve Angello's "Acid/Euro"; Tyree Cooper's "Soul Survival vol.7"; Maus' "Enjoy"; Uusi Fantasia's "Top Ten"; Zerocrop's "Fucked"; "Flamongo Sanomat" compilation; "SJNRL 03 + 04"; Dennis Young's "Liquid Liquid"; S. Santiago's "Adventures in Failure"; Todd Terje's "Mjondalen Diskoklubb"; Bastedos' "May I?"; Out Hud's "One Life to Leave"; The Latino Scoundrals' "Meltdown Dub Remix"; Bakazoo's "Risky Disco"; Nitro Deluxe's "Let's go Brutal";
3. Research UK (artists): Luke Fowler; Katy Dove; Mark Tichner; Mark Leckey's videos for donAteller; Rob Kennedy + Stuart McGregor; Cerith Wyn Evans; Lali Chetwynd; Stephen Williats; Gustav Metzger; Jo Mitchell; Hobbypop Museum; Mike Marshall; Heidi Kilpelainen; Selfish Cunt; Tim Head; Tina Frank; Giles Round; Oswell Blakeston + Francis Bruguiere's "Light Rhythms" (1930); Angus Cook/Leigh Bowery's "Death Pie Flour"; Hilary Lloyd's "Felix + Frederic"; Jeremy Deller's "Acid Brass" (?);
4. Research UK (other): Andrew Logan's "Alternative Miss World"; Leigh Bowery's short lived band Minty; Hackney Empire's dance competitions; Granada TV + Tony Wilson's 80's music programmes; Soundslike (label)'s artists' music videos; Northern Soul balls; old UK TV programs (try to get bootleg tapes on-line): "Hitman + Her", "The Old Grey Whistle Test", "The Tube", "The Word", "Top of the Pops" (specially late 70s when they had the Pants People)
5. Research (International): Lillian Schwartz; Phil Mulloy's "Extreme Animation"; Toshiyuki Nagashima's "polyphony@ver1.0"; Kohei Kawasaki's "Aggregation"; MikoMikona's "Fourier Dance Formations"; TMema (Golan Levin + Zachary Liberman)'s "The Manual Input Sessions"; Joe Takayama's "Microcosm"; Interactive Generative Stage + Dynamic Costumes for Andre Werner's "Marlowe: The Jew of Malta"; ZZ Top animated movie; Gelatin's "Smallest Club on Earth" (4 Liverpool Biennial); clowning/krumping dance (try 2 get anonymous footage thru ebay, yahoo groups); Bill Morrison's "Decasia" DVD; 70's TV program "Disco Step by Step";
6. Contact: Sandi Hughes 4 footage of acid house parties, Linda Morris 4 footage of Andrew Logan's "Alternative Miss World" parties; Ladytron's Danny's friend who's got footage of Northern Soul balls; Jonathan Hodgson who made film "Nightclub"; Catherine Wood about British youth TV culture; Michael Clark about other dance companies dat relate 2 his work + his last year project on Human League; Keith Dando who organizes the gay + lesbian film festival in Liverpool; Toby Webster who curated "My Head is on Fire but My Heart is Full of Love" + video show in Denmark; Ian White; Mark Beasley; Gregor Muir; Matthew Higgs; Peter (friends with George + Dragon's Richard) + Aaron Moulton (Sarah McCrory's friend) who both documented a lot of performances in London in the past; George + Dragon's Richard 4 his collection of "Top of the Pops" episodes; Mike Sperlinger @ LUXX; Steve Bode @ Film + Video Umbrella; Gimpo who used 2 make visuals 4 KLF;
7. Buy/rent/find: Mike Nichols' "Everything Taboo"; Arthur C White's "Xmas for Sale"; "In Bed With Chris Needham" (part of BBC's Teenage Video Diaries series); Keith Ainsworth documentary on the crash of Imagine software; compilation of Soul II Soul music videos; compilation of Stone Roses music videos; compilation of Primal Scream videos; Alexander Jovy's "Sorted"; documentary on Gustav Metzger; Len Lye's DVD compilation; Luke Fowler's "Shaddazz" video project; Terry Walshe's "Good Times";
8. Buy (books): Michael Bracewell's "England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie"; "Brit Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture"; David Christopher's "British Culture: An Introduction";
9. Possible future collaborators (some recurring): Vaginal Davis; D'Argento; Brooks; Soft Pink Truth; Michael Lazarus; Marco Boggio Sella; Josh White; Ara Peterson + Jim Drain; Hobbypop; Trajal Harrel; Shoplifter; Andreas (DJ @ Berlin's Panorama Bar); Alter Ego; AA Bronson/General Idea; Rubens Mano; Xevi Muntane; Animal Collective; Aleksandra Mir; Black Leotard Front; Tati Quebra Barraco; Jarbas Lopes; Nelson Sullivan (estate); Phiiliip; Bernard Wilhelm; Christoph Hamaide Pierson;
10. Check Chris Hughes' video catalog 4 bootleg tapes of artists present in the "Summer of Love" show (he's got 4 sure: Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad; James Whitney; Stan Vanderbeek); Contact him about finding material he doesn't have on-line either on downloadable video sites or quick time clips. Also get from him: Isaac Julien's "Young Soul Rebels";
11. Still try 2 get (international research): Le Tigre's "Deceptacon" video (if not, download it from their website); Slater Bradley's Joy Division video; Grace Jones' "Love is the Drug" video; newer dearraindrop videos; newer paperrad videos; more Nelson Sullivan's footage; Gary Painter's light shows footage; Talking Heads' "Story Telling Giant" music video compilation; "URGH! A Music War" (with live performance by Klaus Nomi); footage of funk balls in Rio (with Andreas, friends with Ladytron's Sebastian); footage of Cockettes/Angels of Light/Sylvester;
12. Still try 2 get (Brazil research): Caetano Veloso singing "Alegria, Alegria" @ TV Record's music festival (1967); excerpts from late 60's TV program "Jovem Guarda" (with Roberto Carlos, Wanderleia, + Erasmo Carlos); episode from TV Program "Frente ònica da Mœsica Popular Brasileira" with Geraldo VandrŽ + Lennie Dale singing "Cip— de Aroreira" (1967); excerpts from late 60's TV program "O Fino da Bossa" with Elis Regina + Jair Rodrigues; excerpts from Chacrinha; Gilberto Gil + Os Mutantes singing "Domingo no Parque" @ TV Record's music festival (1967); excerpt from TV Globo's 70's soap opera "Dancin' Days" with S™nia Braga + Paulete dancing in a disco; Secos e Molhados' singing "Amor" in TV program "O Fant‡stico" (early 70's); Baby Consuelo singing "Menino do Rio" in "O Fant‡stico" (early 80s);
13. Ask: Cory Arcangel 2 send tapes of his Whitney home boy/pizza performances, his recent video collaboration with paperrad, + more Liverpool videos; Josh White 2 send full length mini DV of his 60's light shows; Michael Gillespie @ Foxy Productions 4 recent paperrad videos; Deitch 4 footage of Paradise Garage dat was part of their Keith Harring painting show a few years ago;
14. Ask Natalja 2 send to us here in the UK: Michael Winterbottom's "Code 46" DVD + Lynee Remsey's "Morvern Callar" (with scenes of Samantha Morton dancing); bootleg VHS of Yayoi Kusama + Jud Yalkut's collaboration; Steve LaFreniere's tape of Funtone's videos; Technotronic's music video compilation; "Pick Up A Winner" DVD; bootleg DVDs of Charles Atlas' 80's films "Hail the New Puritans" + "Because We Must"; bootleg VHS of Pierre Huyghe's videos; bootleg DVD of Afrika Bambaataa's music videos
avaf's to do list III:
1. Still: Get Pierre Huyghe's contact with Helmut. Send my materials to him and request permission (?) to use Annlee in a future project;
2. Keep collecting coloring books from ebay. Look for: h.r. Pufnstuf, American Wild Flowers, Space: 1999, New Kids on the Block, Flipper, Jaws, Kimba, Hart to Hart, Moonlighting, The Incredible Hulk, American Architecture, Chips, Prismatic Designs, Bugaloos;
3. Research: Lily van der Stokker, Sture Johannesson, Menphis design + Ettore Sottsass, Jim Lambie, Pae White, Jim Isermann, Ugo Rondinone, Urs Fischer, Neo Rauch, Kenny Scharf, Mike Kelley, Atelier van Lieshout, Doug Aitken, Matisse's collages;
4. Research videos: Grace Jones/Jean Paul Goude's "One Man Show" (specially "La Vie en Rose") and "State of Grace"; Sting's "What a Beautiful World This is"; Lionel Ritchie's "All Night Long"; A-HA's "Take on Me"; Duran Duran's "Planet Earth" and "Girls on Film" (use the same really long instrumental beginning); that trippy Jefferson Airplane video/film; Soft Cell's "Non-Stop Exotic Video Show" (bid on this on ebay);
5. Other future music videos: Machine's "There but for the Grace of God", Pink Industry's "What I Wouldn't Give", Soft Cell's "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face", Secos e Molhados' "Rosa de Hiroshima", Cerrone's "Supernature", Kraftwerk's "Das Modell", Eminem's "Without Me", Beatles' "Across the Universe", Blondie's "Fade Away and Radiate", B-52's "53 Miles West of Venus"; Baby Consuelo's "Menino do Rio", The 6ths' "San Diego Zoo";
6. Collaborate with Danny Wang (Balihu Records) on new dance music video idea. Accept his proposal of using a medley of his fav disco/house songs. Research best dance scenes from movies. Study dance movements from that Little Bow Wow Wow animated background music video and Mary J. Blidge's "Family Affair". Find a choreographer (maybe that Asian breakdancer who is friends with Bec?). Subscribe to MTV 2 and MTV Classic;
7. Bellwether: go to Canal Plastics and check if they have bigger circle stencils. Print big 3-D avaf sticker letters. Get ink-jet Pictorico adhesive paper at B+H. Paint "7" domino on wall to the left of projection. Collect projector and ceiling mount with Patrick. Paint "transporter" circles on the floor. Beam white, gray and black rays from corner to the left of the entrance and place various avaf stickers on top of them. Wallpaper the wall to the right of the room entrance with the "Peacock Ride Ons" piece? Produce a new "do-it-yourself" sticker for the show;
8. Work on skylight project and graffiti topiary for MacCarren swimming pool's renovation. Document most graffitis at the pool and make drawings of them. Trace water and sea motifs from Tibetan Thangka paintings and draw sea life (octopus, fish, algae, etc). Mix all that together;
9. Get that big Latino-style gold earring with name on it and rhinestones that that big Italian guy with a moustache and blue short-sleeved Carhartt shirt was wearing at that hardware store on Metropolitan Avenue. Buy it at "Edwools Goldmine" on Graham Avenue;
10. Wallpaper: Reference: Renaissance Unicorn Tapestry from MusŽe du Moyen Age, Cluny, Paris: mille fleurs background on red, old and new A.V.A.F. elements (Carla, bugs, Studio 54 busboy, spoonbill, chandelier, Brazilian humming bird, Six Million Dollar Man's computer, tons of different new flowers, Japanese tapestries lotus, Intruder, Wire's "154" cover, etc). A bit like the A.V.A.F. shower curtain at Daniel. Get more and more flower images from Image Library. The red background should be a deep shade that is both attractive and difficult to look at. The "Ride On" logo should be placed in perspective like this floating little island where elements meet. Grass and trees pop out of it. Maybe make a drawing of the fence from The Cloisters' "The Unicorn in Captivity" tapestry. Make everything look really busy, tight and overwhelming. Cover the whole space at Apex, floor to ceiling, with the wallpaper. Create more transformation images like the Green Skin Witch with Butterfly Wig vomiting a Bird's Foot flower;
11. Wallpaper 2: Get images of: English Daisy, Pot-Marigold, Narcissus/Daffodil, White Thistle, Elm, Dame's Violet, Periwinkle, Butcher's Broom, Cabbage Rose, Pimpernel, Pansy, Love in a Mist, Forget-me-Not, Bearded Isis, Bluebell, Leopard's Bane, Carnation, Primula, Columbine, Madonna Lilly, Dandelion, Pomegranate, Peach tree, Black Berry, Apple, English Oak, Damson, Hazelnut, Walnut, Linden, Blue Plum, Aspen, Date Plum, Pheasants, Lions, Narwhals, Greyhounds, Ducks, Panthers, Bunnies, Foxes, Monkeys;
12. Research gardens, amusement parks, renaissance fountain , contemporary architecture + paisagism (like that upside down garden on a wall in a hotel in Paris) for Bellwether's backyard project;
13. Buy urgent: "The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell" by Aldous Huxley;
14. Make an index of all existing avaf stickers with little icons and titles and max sizes;
15. Look for Acid software (automatically synchronizes the rhythm of different tracks) and create bootlegs. Also try Pro Tools. Look for bootlegs by: Freelance Hellraiser, Osymyso, Kurtis Rush, Richard X. Get "The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever" CD. Web do it yourself remix: www.base58.com;
16. Next music video: use bootleg version of Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice." Look for it on WinMx.com. Work on it and extend "AiAiAiAiAi" section almost infinitely. Have Carla lipsynch the song. References: Electric Circus, Cockettes, Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" video, Marvel super-heroes' superpowers (like Invisible Girl's dotted invisible body, Cyclops' eye laser beams, Hulk's green skin and hair, Phoenix's telephatic rays, Dazzler's color light circles coming out from Carla's eyes, nose and ears, etc). Start collecting cheap plastic objects that could be transformed and animated (with stop-motion) like grapes, bananas, oranges and tree leaves. Ask Shoplifter for some clothes and accessories. Make this video a collaboration with Honey Gun Labs and accentuate their V.J. background. Invite Bec to make a live V.J. set for Javier's opening and have her fuck up with the Y.O. video;
17. Javier: develop new abstract wall-drawing project with silhouettes of various avaf elements. Work on Unicorn Fountain drawing. Make a "Sick Bionic Woman' with "Cockettes Make-up" graced by "Chinese Lotus" floor sticker (finish turning "Bionic" into vector). Wrap main wall downstairs with an improved version of the "Garden I" wallpaper (even more elements on the background, new center motif, etc) that extends to the gallery upstairs. Decide which photos to print: chadeliers, johnny, carla, landscapes, all mixed? Make drawings of Cockettes pix I got on-line. Watch documentary. Buy Leigh Bowery book. Research Sylvester. Maybe talk to Penny Arcade about Sheila Baykal's state (images of Hibiscus' "Angels of Light"). Appropriate own limited edition A.V.A.F./ Miss Sixty t-shirt as the show's invitation Ð write the exhibition info on it with a marker. Use it as poster too. Put it out on the streets in SF. Break down "Sledgehammer" scene by scene. Meet Oriana at Subvoyant and figure out how they did it. Research claymation on-line. Put up a sheet-rock wall in front of the window and project Yoko Ono video on it full-bleed;
18. Turn "Free Bird" and "Alvin Row" into Quicktime movies to be given away on CDs. Talk to Marco about posting "Free Bird" on Brigatta Italia's website;
19. T-shirts for Biba and Alex, mini chandelier sticker for Lisa, big chandelier print for Jenna, "shower" picture for Cindy, "Ghost Chandelier" exchange with Danica.
avaf to do list II:
1. Make Wire's "154" cover cut outs;
2. Decide between "Assume Vivid Astro Focus" (avaf), "Vivid Astro Focus Explode" (vafe) and "Astro Focus Kiss Kiss Kiss" (afkk). Work on new business cards;
3. Work on music video mixing the Xanadu background (from the Olympus scene) with the 6ths song "Just Like a Movie Star". Research clothing: romantic surfer type, bleached blond hair, Converse flip-flops, silver shorts. Use MTV-like credits. Use a TFT LCD screen and Aiwa headphones;
4. Next music video: Panda Bear and Avey Tare's "Alvin Bow" with Partridge Family reflection on swimming pool image, Sissel on transparent floating white dress waking up from the swimming pool, Fall leaves, flying birds, couple cuddling and kissing, rotating Himalayan hills, exploding planets, "Tommy", Sissel on a field crying "I lost my singing voice, I lost my singing voice";
5. Use Ride On t-shirt background image as assume vivid astro focus logo. Change colors and research logo as wall decal (just like buses' and trucks');
6. Write Christophe and Daniel about assume vivid astro focus, explain project, propose collaborations and that they use avaf as a brand name and make their own projects with it;
7. Other future music videos: "Freebird" by Lynard Skynard (solo guitar); "Etwas Zeit" by Mikron 64; Reiko Kudo; Beatles' "Across the Universe", Blondie's "Fade Away and Radiate", Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice", B-52's "53 Miles West of Venus", Soft Cell's "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face", Cerrone's "Supernature", DMX Krew's "Come to Me", Kraftwerk's "Das Modell", The 6ths' "San Diego Zoo", Machine's "There but for the Grace of God", Dionne's "Come Get my Loving", Antonelli Electric's "Dubby Disco", Mutantes' "Ando Meio Desligado", Eminem's "Without Me", Pink Industry's "What I Wouldn't Give", G.D. Luxxe's "Geisha Girl";
8. Get Pierre Huyghe's contact with Helmut. Send my materials to him and request permission (?) to use Annlee in a future project;
9. Finish rainbow wall-drawing;
10. Work on more striped t-shirts from H+M with Ride On logo;
11. Buy Legion of Super Heroes compilation books;
12. Collect picture discs and coloring books. Look for: Dallas, Man from Atlantis, Land of the Lost, Isis, Ultra Seven, Banana Split, Laverne & Shirley, Dune;
13. Research Gerwald Rockenshaub, Sigmar Polke, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Olafur Eliasson, Rob Pruitt, Franz Ackerman, Ed Ruscha, General Idea, Olaf Breuning, Sol LeWitt;
14. Music videos to research: Grace Jones' "One Man Show" and "State of Grace" (compiltation of clips)
15. Get a bulletin board for outside the studio, work on invitation for john connelly presents, improve e-mailing list;
16. Study GoLive! And work on Andrea Zittel's site (www.zittel.org) and cheapcream.com;
17. Get a new scanner w/ slide carrier, portable 30GB harddrive, another 256 RAM, new G4 700 Mhz processor, Epson printer w/ archival ink;
18. Cat food and cat litter, Kusco-Murphy lavander hair cream and H+M white jeans;
avaf's to do list IX:
1. New pseudonym: Butch Queen Vogue Fem Bizarre $$ Dressed Like A Ninja With A Twist Period (B.Q.V.F.B.$$.D.L.N.W.T.P.) or Blast From The Past Legendary Runaway Female Figure Face Realness In Pastel Colors (B.F.P.L.R.F.F.F.R.P.C.);
2. Cds: Ark; Ruth/Ilitch; Phillipe Doray; TV on the Radio; Michael Mayer (aka superpitcher); Luomo; Kenny Dope's "Roller Boogie 80's"; Kenny Dope's "Break Beat"; "The World of Arthur Russell"; Marshall Jefferson's "Move Your Body"; "Serie Noire 2"; Devo's "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!"; New Basement Jaxx; Bush Tetras; Electric Six; Kelis; Outkast; The Faint; Savas Pascalidis;
3. Try to get Les Rita Mitsouko's "Marcia Baila" video (directed by Philippe Gautier) on ebay;
4. New video with Los Super Elegantes: a. Fill Chinatown with more lamps and hanging things; b. Get transparent sticker made for windows at javier's; c. Get floor sticker for outside the gallery; d. Hide current exhibition works; e. Ask Chinatown people to lit lamps and signs during the day and fountain; f. Have LSE vogue in Chinatown's pedestrian streets till Buddha fountain;
5. check Superstudio exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W 14th St., 2nd Floor);
6. Buy digital MD stereo voice/sound recorder (to record vogue ball's M.C.);
7. LSE project for peres projects: a. Research picture disc (specially puzzle picture disc Ð different songs? same song?); b. Make list of possible collaborators; c. Research neon sign; d. research silk-screen for banner and t-shirt; d. Contact Trajal (choreography), Renata (styling), Bec (digital effects and hoola-hooping), Orianna (video post-production), Betsy, and Michelle (both for shooting); e. Research theater and Hollywood musical stage sets;
8. Possible collaborators for LSE project: Vaginal Davis, Aleksandra Mir, Nick Lowe, Dean Sameshima, Christophe Hamaide Pierson, Marco Boggio Sella, Miguel Villalobos, Michael Magnan, Tobias Bernstrup, Xevi, AA Bronson, Black Leotard Front;
9. Watch: West Side Story; ABBA Gold greatest videos compilation; Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette"; "Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory"; Warhol's "Chelsea Girls"; Michel Gondry's music videos compilation (specially White Stripes', Daft Punk's, Chemical Brothers', and Kyllie Minogue's); "Valley of the Dolls" (plexiglass mobile); Talking Heads and Kraftwerk's music video compilations; H.R. Pufnstuf; Blondie's "Island of Lost Souls"; "Samurai Jack"; Stan Brakhage (Criterion Collection); Dario Argento's "Suspiria"; Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam";
10. Get Panasonic AG-DVX 100 camera, test it and see if necessary to get wide lens to shoot LSE video;
11. Research L.A. graffiti, take pix of sections of it and make line drawings;
12. Go to Strand and get books on theater and Hollywood musical stage sets (also second hand at amazon.com). Also research subject at Picture Library. Other books: "Futurist Performance", "The Theater of The Bauhaus", "Wiener WerkstŠtte: Design in Vienna, 1903-1932", Mike Davis' "City of Quartz", "The Mystery of The Crystal Skulls";
13. Produce transparent structures/props on wheels: transparent sticker applied on plexi or printed?
14. Separate favorite vogue movements from low-res videos and show them to Trajal. Build choreography for LSE video out of this selection. Maybe have both me and him in the video vogueing;
15. Meet Betsy. Ask her about backwards panoramic camera movement and how to play music outdoors while shooting a dance music video (boom box?). Watch Van Sant's "Elephant" again;
16. LSE video: a. White Stripes effect: jump both LSE in a trajectory doing different poses while "advancing" towards a certain direction; b. Do reversed movements; c. Split screen in two; d. Wide angle shots with LSE dancing towards the camera (Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" style);
17. Invite AA to collaborate on the last part of LSE video doing one of his butt massages on me. Me and AA in profile against a recreation of General Idea's Venetian Blinds, me naked laying on a bed on wheels, AA squatting on me massaging my ass and talking;
18. Imagery for LSE's installation: LSE dancing; ashtrays; beer and liquor bottles; vogue images; roller skates; light bulb and power hand (Guston); Chinese lamp; Chinese architecture elements; marty's shoes; LSE's sunglasses; LSE's cars; LSE's houses from outside; Milena's dresses; Milena's heels; coffee mugs; pizza; plate with snacks; piano; windows; balconies; doors; glasses; lighters; cigarettes; cigarette butts; cigarette packs; crushed cigarette packs; tambourine; microphone; musical instruments; cocaine mirror and straw; visor; peacock feather earring; church organs; birds; Ypioca bottle; skeletons; Na Bunda (cachaa) bottle; boob lighter; Cocopalm cigarette; Ginger Lynn porn star action figure; Chinese rooster;
19. Build a stage set for javier's space that is like a huge ashtray from which LSE could sing and perform;
20. See Rosenquist's show for B+W paintings references; have a look at Barbara Kruger's works and General Idea's multiples;
21. Ask Milena about Michel Majerus' mirror-like floor covering at The Geffen;
22. Ask Rama about support for theater props on wheels (with Marty's image);
23. Have Yamaha Disklaviar pianos (that would be playing LSE songs by themselves whenever Marty and Milena are not around) for the duration of the whole show at javier's space;
24. Use room at WB as a stage set for LSE. Use spiral staircase as the center of their performance (possibly attach an ashtray placard to it). Confirm with Shamim that LSE could perform there at least once (maybe without notice, during the day for regular visitors). If we don't get permit, do it guerilla-style anyway. Also check with curators the possibility of shooting part of the video at the installation when LSE come back in April. Ask Trajal to choreograph this section of the video as well, in which they would be pretty much cat walking the whole time and interacting with elements of avaf's installation, a mixture of ABBA's "Knowing You, Knowing Me" music video and Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette". Round all corners at WB, install plexi mobiles to the ceiling (referring to Valley of the Dolls and Blondie's video "Island of Lost Souls");
25. Burn music references for LSE: Rio's Funk; Freestyle; Hip-Hop; Rita Lee;
26. LSE video: create a crescendo with the images, like beats being added gradually to the same music base; first you have, let's say, the White Stripes effect (from that Michel Gondry video shot in NY); then you have the split camera effect (like in Samurai Jack) and the White Stripes effect together; and then you have the split camera effect, the White Stripes effect and the Technotronic effect altogether (blue screen with singer in the center of the screen and images floating and rotating in the background. Effects are added as beats are added. The same would be happening with the choreography and outfits: hands and arms movements being gradually added to a base movement; clothes being added to a basic bodysuit outfit.
27. Use L.E.D lights to tint B+W wallpaper. Set the lights to got from white thru a range of different colors sometimes smoothly, sometimes strobe-like. Plexi mobiles and people's clothes would also be tinted by lights. Buy xmas lights and run test with them looking at old zines (Destroy All Monsters' "Gueisha This") as per Wendy's suggestion;
28. Shape doorway as one of the transparent plexi shapes (like the jeagermeister bottle). Build a "performance" window: a window from my room to the next that people could reach going on a step ladder and look thru it to see the other room from above, from a different perspective;
29. PAF: install sticker samples in Central Park and the Key rink in the Bronx. Invite skaters (Lezly and Bob) over and get their thoughts about it. See how resistant it is to skating, to the weather, how different it is btn skating on asphalt and skating on the sticker. Talk to skaters about idea of having LSE play live at party on April 17th in CP to celebrate the project. If the skaters are ok with it, ask LSE to play Rita Lee's "Lana Perfume" (song I used to roller skate to when I was a teenager);
30. Music references for LSE's new song: Mu's "Tell You Something" and "Why I left"; Outkast's "Ghetto Musik"; Devo's "Mongoloid"; Phiiliip's "Elemental Child"; Gold Chains' "Mounts of Coke" and "Human Pony Girl"; LCD Soundsystem's "Loosing My Edge" and "Beat Connection"; Jam + Spoon's "Right In The Night' and "Stella"; !!!'s "Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard"; Ride Committee's "Accident"; Franklin Fuentes' "Tyler Moore Mary"; Robbie Tronco's "Walk For Me"; Basement Jaxx's "Fly Life"; Moi Renee's "Miss Honey"; Miss Fernando's "Octopussy"; Cajmere's "Percolator"; Mix Masters' "In The Mix"; Captain Comatose's "Don't Come Back";
31. Research Gary Lee Boas, Jimmy de Sana and Antonio Lopez;
32. Possible appropriated lyrics for LSE song from Rio's Funk and vogue songs: "Quer danar? Quer danar?/ O Tigr‹o vai te ensinar/Vou te dar muita press‹o/ Ent‹o martela/ Martela/ Martela o martel‹o/ Levante a m‹ozinha/ Na palma da m‹o"; "N‹o p‡ra/ N‹o p‡ra/ N‹o p‡ra n‹o/ N‹o p‡ra, n‹o p‡ra, n‹o p‡ra, n‹o p‡ra/ AtŽ o ch‹o/ Vai/ Vai/ A paradinha/ A paradinha/ A paradinha/ Ela sobe/ Ela desce/ Ela d‡ uma rodada/ Elas est‹o descontrolada"; "Accident/ A terrible terrible accident/ Accident/ A horrible horrible accident"; "Avalanche/ Avalanche/ Avalanche/ Ambulance/ Ambulance/ Ambulance"; "Janet Jackson got caught stealing";
33. Visit planetarium (for projection ideas);
34. Final list of elements for WB installation: transparent (plexi) theater props (marty and jeager bottle) on wheels; plexi shapes popping out of the wall perpendicularly; images mounted on sintra popping out of the wall; spiral staircase in the middle of the room; plexi mobiles with l.a. graffiti printed on them and cut to shape; floor sticker with crushed cigarette packs; ceiling sticker with cocktails; wallpaper and l.e.d lights; stickers right on wall; stickers mounted on thick foam; video projection on window in wallpaper; rounded corners; milena's camel toe ceiling and walls placard; bottle-shaped doorway; performance window with step ladder;
35. Find out who makes those Chinese lamps sold in l.a.'s chinatown and see if it would be possible to produce a giant version of it for installation at javier's;
36. Make an outdoors mural as off site work during show at peres projects. Probably somewhere in the Toy District in l.a. Have graffiti artists tag on top of it;
37. Research brackets for elements popping out of walls (like Majerus');
38. Watch Argento and Ken Russell: church organs, birds, rococo excess, decadence, ancient rituals, witches mixed with disco, house parties, museums + city squares, sexy guys on the beach wearing thongs, lots of drinking, sun, hysteria;
39. Contact John's vocal coach whenever back to l.a. Take classes;