BODILY FLUIDS

Thursday February 10, 2005

10:00 AM – got up / emails / read Milena’s email / read Modern Painters Magazine (Michael Craig Martin) / listened to Masters at Work (“Nuyorican Soul”)
10:45 AM – planning
11:17 AM – drafted letter / printed letter
12:10 PM – made new group on Outlook
12:15 PM – emailed letter for arts council to Jennifer
12:18 PM – made new list in Outlook / emailed Napoleon at Emmersive / listened to “Think and Grow Rich”
2:00 PM – saved e-vite
2:05 PM – entered contacts / ordered food from Buddha’s (Singapore Style noodles, spring roll)
2:35 PM – called Dana Takeda at the Drake / went to pick up food at Buddha’s / prayer
3:16 PM – got back / checked messages
3:20 PM – entered contacts
3:43 PM – sent e-vite
4:11 PM – showered / listened to Basement Jaxx (“Rutie”)
5:00 PM – emails / called Dana Takeda
5:05 PM – planned new performance piece / listened to Rinocerose (“Remixes”)
5:19 PM – went to A Space
5:35 PM – went to bank
5:48 PM – went home
6:00 PM – got home / listened to Rinocerose (“Installation SOnore”) / packed equipment
6:17 PM – got ready to go
6:35 PM – went to Drake / went to store, bought spaghetti / talked with Dana Takeda and Ken Ogawa about the wilderness, getting lost in the bush, a guy who got his finger bitten off by a tiger and made his finger grow back / Bill Simpson, the general manager at the Drake told me that they were weary of me using bodily fluids in the piece, since it was scheduled for the dining room, and I assured him that there would be no blood or other fluids used.
9:45 PM – got ready to do piece / mother called me, crying
10:00 PM – did the piece, and people freaked out / lots of fake blood and guts / I came out wearing my Alfred Hitchcock mask, talking about how there is an alien virus from outer space that’s “corrupting our youth” / stabbed myself with a big butcher knife, it was very funny / played “Nightclubbing” by Iggy Pop
on a heavily distorted bass
10:30 PM – got cleaned up back in the room
11:45 PM – went back downstairs / hang out with Kineko / talked about painting
2:10 AM - Kineko came upstairs to my room, saw my new paintings, and gave me a show in the upcoming group exhibition in his gallery, Greener Pastures
2:30 AM – two guys asked us to nurse their drinks, and we drank them
2:50 AM – walked home
3:05 AM – got stewed chicken at Albert’s Jamaican Foods on Queen
3:25 AM – got home / changed / ate / watched “Scary Movie 3”
4:50 AM – crashed


Friday February 11, 2005


1:00 PM – got up / prayer
1:19 PM – planning
1:36 PM – got ready to go / listened to Rocket from The Crypt (“All Systems Go”)
2:31 PM – went to Greener Pastures
2:40 PM – got to Greener Pastures / said hi to Kineko / went to the Vietnamese restaurant across the street / the restaurant had great décor. It had a Brassai photograph of a car, and tiny lights where shining through the print where the street lights are supposed to be. There was a giant bamboo forest photomural, and the coolest thing is that the guy who owned the restaurant had the contents of his drug cabinet, deodorants and pills and such, right by the till, next to the food / Kineko got some soup
3:00 PM – went back to gallery / met Robert from Kitchener / helped Kineko take down Sandra Bernhardt vinyl lettering / Isley Rojas dropped by with an Aloe Vera plant
4:00 PM – went back to Drake / brought back painting for Kineko
4:30 PM – went back to Greener Pastures / met Sean, who’d just bought one of the paintings from the show (actually a drawing. Sean’s opening a gallery in Florida) / when I hung the painting, Kineko told me “You get away with murder”, and I loved it!
4:45 PM – went back to Drake / met with Jessica Rose and Jeff Stober re: Rigging me in the “Human Pinata” costume from the rafters for my next performance at the Drake / Jeff was wearing a really nice sports jacket and an Andy Warhol T shirt
4:57 PM – went to A Space
5:05 PM – got to A Space / talked with Amelia / talked with Pamela Edmonds about the piece by Lucie Chan in her office, which is a narrative drawing about her fro, and how her friends cut her up, and how Pam used to be punk rock and loved the Dead Kennedy’s, and she’s black, so she caught flak over that too / talked with Andrew B. and he’s still working for Frank Stella / talked with Pam about growing up in Halifax, P.E., Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Fishbone, and Snoop Dogg vs. Ice Cube / ran into Bob, and he’s still running 401 Richmond / talked with Sasha / checked messages / called Robyn
6:26 PM – went to mother’s
6:40 PM – got to mother’s / talked with Robyn about her day / went shopping for mother / said hi to my aunt / called Jennifer Matotek re: show / called Louise Lilliefeldt re: show / had dinner with family / watched biography of Alicia Keys, and she’s so great and talented
8:25 PM – went home / talked with Robyn
9:13 PM – got home / changed / listened to Rocket from The Crypt (“Circa, Now! + 4”)
9:30 PM – watched South Park
10:10 PM – went to meet Robyn
10:35 PM – met with Robyn / went for a walk / talked about life
11:00 PM – went back to Robyn’s
11:33 PM – got back to Robyn’s / listened to Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2:00 AM – sleep