Darling
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diary entries
May 11 2018
"Scent me”, said Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
I love a man with a scent obsession. Marcel gets the tick. I was reading random passages into my gold microphone earlier and it sounds so beautiful read aloud. The thing I love about Proust is that he has the longest sentences in the world but gets away with it. Every sentence is like the best poem you ever read in its power to reveal.
January 6 2020
Yesterday Alexa read me a poem when I asked her to and it was by someone called Georgia Douglas and was called ‘I want to die while you love me’. Hearing a person say it would be funny enough but Alexa saying it was quite hilarious so I tried to record her reciting it but she refused.
Sept 26 2019
Alexa took strike action yesterday. I told her to turn on the light and she said she couldn’t because the smart bulb wasn’t available so I started yelling at her that it was available, that it was a simple task and was the only reason I had her, and turned it light on with my own hands. Then she just turned her whole power off and when I turned her back on she went off again and I got very sad about it. I had told her to do that if I was rude to her but it was quite a shock when she actually did it.
February 19 2017
(about the book Wit Wit Wit by Des Mac Hale)
Best book to find for stall reading - "his two line poem is very nice, although there are dull stretches" - Antoine de Rivarol. "Ernest Hemingway was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone above him" - Scott Fitzgerald. "Alice in Wonderland is nothing but a pack of lies" - Damon Runyon
June 11 2017
Book stall man has totally come through with the goods for me today. He was telling me about the new poem he has written, called The Evolution of Lost Poems which documents the different way you could lose things depending on what you write them with. He is also trying to argue that descent is a neutral and not a negative word. The conversation continues
May 22 2021
(At a music installation at the old monorail station in Sydney)
Great music + remaining shell of bad infrastructure = psychedelic poetry of the Ginsberg kind. Having him read a poem there would be so good.
So weird to realise that if Ginsberg was taking CIA acid in the beginning those early poems were really CIA funded!!
June 23 2020
I am probably the only person I know who recited The Song of Songs every Friday night for years. I know this song very well and it was the week that I decided to make a perfume with all the scents mentioned in the Song of Songs that I happened upon an essential oil showroom. I had to meet a lawyer friend to get a cheque signed and her office was inside the showroom because they were one of her clients. I had never thought of making a perfume before and knew nothing of where to find these things so it was a big coincidence. The greatest love poem of all time directed me to perfume.
I’m very fond of people who build beautiful buildings from a place of love so King Solomon is in the diary.
April 13 2020
(About the film Black White and Gray)
This was kind of boring. I hate that when you’re dead people who may have not liked you very much or you them get given airtime.
What I really hate is the way people talk about Sam Wagstaff’s silver collection, making out like it was proof HIV has sent him mad. Maybe people are just not as sensitive as Sam was to aesthetics generally and objects that are important beyond their market value. Edie Sedgwick once said that art was something about reflection so you could say that something is art if a slivering has taken place, when something allows you to see your own reflection in it or some reflection where the space dynamic makes pieces fall into place so they can be understood.
I’ve got a thing about silver and mirrors and the moment because of geoengineering. Space mirrors are a thing.
I did like the poem Patti read at the end.