April 20ths

4/20/2002

Nigerian Band at Hot House. Forgot battery for video camera and took some slow-shutter shots with still cam.    

4/20/2021

The book I'm currently reading is They Are Already Here UFO Culture And Why We See Saucers. There was another book that came out a couple years ago called American Cosmic which I thought was the better book but this one is good too. It hasn't changed my mind about them because first of all, I've never seen them and I always wonder how it is that they have the technology to traverse the galaxy or intergalactic space…

4/20/2022

Reading book of Man Ray’s writings. Simply amazing how long letters were. In the book sometimes they span 3 or 4 pages in a small font. It’s also remarkable that people used them to create closer bonds with people, and people would usually respond in kind. It’s just the way the world worked, it was the (good) norm. Artists would send letters to their contemporaries about things they were working on. Now everyone is too overwhelmed to even think about making anything.

4/20/2023

Total Eclipse in Western Australia, just when I was working on Silent Satellite (Radio Angel).

I find that instruments play me instead. Certain instruments make you do different things and bring out aspects of your personality that wouldn’t otherwise be expressed in the normal flow of life. For me, that instrument is the bass. Any rhythmic instrument is closer to dancing than any other.  Yes, it is natural—or seems natural to me, but perhaps not to others if they say, “That instrument isn’t ‘you’.” 

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Some of the greatest art of the 20th century was created without consideration of “talent”. “Talent” is too gray of a word for it to be an accurate measure of anything. Sometimes “de-skilling” is effective, but you can’t force it.           

4/20/2024

Song idea based Many Ray's writings. This is just the outro vamp, with repeating antiphonal phrases.

The latest demo:

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4/20/2025

Another distinction between AI-generated music and music that we make ourselves organically is that we go to the art store, we buy the paint, we buy the brushes, we take them home and we make something with just those tools–which is drastically different from using some software or app that millions of other people are using using. Take for example, there's one art store in a city of millions of people, and those are the only materials that anybody could ever use. What would the art exhibition be like with the results of millions of people using the same materials from that one store? Actually, I've been doing it in art for some time with my Black White and Red series. Sometimes constraints can make you more creative.

4/20/2047

(Anthony Townes Diary) 

Went to the Favela. Bumped into Yuthe who was rummaging around old hard drives and old cassette tapes and machines. He bought Eddie Johns and the Van Halen. I brought up “Pre-Raphaelite” he looked at-sea. Then I told him the story about Ophelia.