ANTI-ADD LEAGUE

CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:58:03 -0400

Dir. Jacques Rivette. 1974. 193 minutes.

We had the opportunity to see a print of this last night.

Beautiful, fun, unlike anything else.

Also an endurance event.

THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:13:35 -0400

Spend the rest of the afternoon listening to The Carnival of the Animals. This version is accompanied by verses by Ogden Nash, narrated by Noel Coward. Recorded in 1949.

SOLARIS

Mon, 28 May 2012 21:10:10 -0400

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 1972. 167 minutes.

You’ve gone long enough without seeing this movie. Watch it this week.

TIME

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:23:56 -0500

You’ve heard some people say that time seems to pass faster as you grow older because as you age, each unit of time (an hour, a day, a month) represents a smaller and smaller proportion of your life in total.

A month when you were six was 1/72 of your life, but a month now? The fraction is so small, it’s gone, it’s poof! Or so they say.

Does this explanation feel adequate to you?

NEW YEAR 2012

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:56:26 -0500

You’ve already let 11 days slip by. FOCUS.

Steve Reich, It’s Gonna Rain (Part I), 1965

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:30:30 -0500

Steve Reich, It’s Gonna Rain (Part I), 1965

JENNY HOLZER

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:52 -0500

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

EXCERPT: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE SYLLABUS

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:58:04 -0500

If you are used to whipping off papers the night before they’re due, running them quickly through the computer’s Spellchecker, handing them in full of high-school errors and sentences that make no sense and having the professor accept them ‘because the ideas are good’ or something, please be informed that I draw no distinction between the quality of one’s ideas and the quality of those ideas’ verbal expression, and I will not accept sloppy, rough-draftish, or semiliterate college writing. Again, I am absolutely not kidding.

Don’t just go through the motions. Don’t accept dogma. Look for ways that you might be wrong, don’t look for ways to prove you’re right. Think. Express your thoughts with as much precision and care as you can muster.

As much precision and care as you can muster.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/roiphe/2011/11/david_foster_wallace_s_syllabus_is_there_any_better_.single.html

NEW TOUCH TOUCH MIX

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:11:42 -0500

Touch Touch Fall Winter Mix. Made by r s e. This is a beauty.

This mix is in alignment with the AADDL mission.

Please listen. http://bit.ly/v3UujY

EVENT: WAVELENGTH

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:24:33 -0500

LOS ANGELES: Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) showing at Cinefamily.
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:30pm.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-november-2011/#michael-snows-wavelength-2

WHOLE ALBUM FRIDAY

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:53:44 -0400

Today’s Whole Album Friday will be dedicated to Broadcast’s The Future Crayon (2006).
Know it as well as you know Tender Buttons.
Send kind thoughts through the universe to Trish Keenan.

STEVE REICH: EARLY WORKS

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:39:04 -0400

1987 compilation album.

It’s Gonna Rain, Part I (1965)
It’s Gonna Rain, Part II (1965)
Come Out (1966)
Piano Phase (1967)
Clapping Music (1972)

CRITICAL MASS

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:30:42 -0400

Film by Hollis Frampton. 1971. 25 minutes. 16mm.

First we see nothing. Then we see a couple fighting. The sound of their argument is repeated, looped, layered on itself for the duration of the film. You get the impression that the fight will never end.

It is not ideal to break it into parts.
But it is broken into parts and available for viewing here, here and here.

THE DAY OFF

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:04:41 -0400

How closely can you follow the list you made for yourself today?
Follow the list in order, please.

UPDATE: LENNON & ONO IN PLAYBOY

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:27 -0400

ONO: So maybe both of us learned a lot about how men and women suffer because of the social structure. And the only way to change it is to be aware of it. It sounds simple, but important things are simple.

LENNON: If the Beatles or the Sixties had a message, it was to learn to swim. Period. And once you learn to swim, swim. The people who are hung up on the Beatles’ and the Sixties’ dream missed the whole point when the Beatles’ and the Sixties’ dream became the point. Carrying the Beatles’ or the Sixties’ dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That’s not to say you can’t enjoy Glenn Miller or the Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It’s not living now. It’s an illusion.

ONO: All the isms are daddies.

UPDATE: SUNDAY

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:40:00 -0400

This is tedious work you’re doing. Copying and pasting and reformatting.
If you can catch yourself before you admit This is tedious work, you can actually begin to enjoy it. Stop yourself from saying it.

You’re listening to the Sonics and finding what pleasure there is in completing these very repetitive tasks. Your accomplishments have doubled.

LENNON & ONO IN PLAYBOY

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:05:40 -0400

1980 interview. 24,000 words. Read it with a full heart.

UPDATE: SUNDAY

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:02:31 -0400

Your whole day today was a living tribute to the AADDL mission.
You had so much work to do, and you did it. No naps for the duration.

WHOLE ALBUM FRIDAY

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:41:01 -0400

The first AADDL Whole Album Friday will be dedicated to Moondog’s Elpmas (1992).
Listen exclusively to this album today. Preserve its original order. Know it better.

UPDATE: LA CHAMBRE

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:29:00 -0400

Finished. I find myself somewhat unconcerned with what this little movie might mean. Instead, I challenge myself to memorize the layout of the room: door, curtain, chair, table, fruit, stove, kettle, dresser, bed, woman, table, basin. And back again.
A quick 11 minutes, easily repeatable.