bend of bay

more than words

    Saturday, July 4, 7:10 am

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    bend of bay features a changing selection of prose, poetry, images and other projects. It takes its name from the opening line of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce:

    riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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    “How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.”

    - Ludwig Wittgenstein


    Did you tell, Marcel

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The Next Place

Every day means
we’re going to be next
the next place
instantly killing a teacher
a couple of hours later,
wearing a camouflage-netted helmet
conversations about how night fell.
Helicopter gunships devastated
the headquarters police,
the presidential security forces,
the navy, and a maintenance man.
They struck taking certain steps toward openness.
This difficult incident,
several young children.
Schoolgirls have no legs.
No place to hide.
They are for the next place
and the next place.

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Glass / Wilson – Einstein on the Beach

Good short introduction to the opera, with highlights. From the DVD, Absolute Wilson

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Candy Says

In 2007, Lou Reed performed his 1973 album Berlin at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn. One of the encores was this stunning rendition of the Velvet Underground’s Candy Says, featuring Antony.

Compare to the orignal:

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In Honor Of Bloomsday

Scenes from 1967 film adaption of Ulysses by James Joyce, directed by Joseph Strick. After viewing, buy the book  here and bendofbay will take anything we earn and use it in this program.

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John Ashbery

More  in bendofbay archive

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After #712 (for E.D.)

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 


When is Emily going to
see
how
the light of day will
lead


her quickly, along the low
road
and
straight on to my house
where


we have dinner waiting for
her,
growing
colder while we await her
return.

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Margaret Leng Tan

Margaret Leng Tan plays In The Name Of The Holocaust by John Cage

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Flat 2

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She Sang

She sang in long thin lines.

Sang to her mother,

In long thin lines.

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Nurse

nurse1

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Memorize Poetry

Memorizing poetry gives you a feel for the language, exercises the brain, entertains when your iPod is dead, and carries on a tradition that predates writing. If you just memorize two lines a day you will have a nice collection in a month or two.

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Late Picasso

Others stand watching me
watching them

Other stand watching me
watching them

I believe in
reincarnation
because I have to

I believe in
reincarnation
in order to live.

The drawings are most impressive.
Are those prostitutes?

Watch me watching them

I believe in reincarnation because otherwise there is no reason to live.

More to do.

There is no other place I would rather be.
Things we come across – this is the only place to be – the only place anyone should ever wish or want to be.

I believe in reincarnation because I have to.
I believe in reincarnation,
to be in this best place to be
&
Picasso

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Palm & Bench

palmbenchpalm2

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Ensure to Drink [nutrient supplement]

I was given no solid food during the first two or three weeks, while sitting on the chair. I was only given Ensure and water to drink. At first the Ensure made me vomit, but this became less with time.


Main Elements of the  Program

Arrest and Transfer

Continuous Solitary Confinement and Incommunicado Detention

Other Methods of Ill-treatment


Suffocation by water
Prolonged Stress Standing
Beatings by use of a collar
Beating and kicking
Confinement in a box
Prolonged nudity
Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
Threats
Forced shaving
Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food

Further elements of the detention regime

Ensure a nutrient supplement.

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Talking Heads – Psycho Killer Evolves

From a show at CBGB in 1975. A pure version.

From Wembly Arena, 1982.

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