“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
– Maya Angelou
Big Ego Released as part of the Giorno Poetry Systems series, this 1978 double LP includes songs, audioworks and poetry by John Giorno, Meredith Monk and Philip Glass (who appear on the cover together), as well as Patti Smith, Robert Wilson & Christopher Knowles, Robert Ashley, Claes Oldenburg, Laurie Anderson and William S Burroughs. Listen here. (Via UbuWeb)
It would have been Harry Smith’s birthday today! Watch and learn…
“I had what today are called sexual identity issues that made it impossible to concentrate in any degree-winning manner on Viennese philosophy and English literature, my ostensible areas of study. I had drifted away from classes and begun crashing at various communes in houses around the Berkeley campus. One was a Trotskyite commune; another featured a study group of Frankfurt School scholars with guest lectures by Herbert Marcuse (that also raised funds for the Tupamaros); another went in for encounter sessions and scream therapy; my final Berkeley commune was devoted to cultivating peyote cacti and magic mushrooms.”
Gary Indiana “I Can Give You Anything But Love” BOMB Magazine
