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John Cage took me to a party for Buckminster Fuller. I was surprised to meet my friend Ellen Burstyn, and introduced her to John. We gabbed until Merce Cunningham arrived. John excused himself. “Who was that?” hissed the Oscar-winning actress. A month later I read in The Times that Burstyn and Cage had hosted a lavish party for Fuller. They forgot to invite me.

Merce danced in John Cage shoes.

10 September 2009

As Allen Ginsberg was known as the Beat poet, John Cage was the Silent composer. His most famous work is 4’ 33” of Silence.

I published a lot of Cage’s writing. On the morning of 11 September 2001, I had it all in the Kinko’s on Reade Street, and was determined to make it into a book. But the building shook. I said to myself, “Gas explosion. Someone’s been careless.” I looked out the window. There were flames a couple blocks south. Damn careless! I resumed my work with greater care. Eventually there was another explosion. Parts of the World Trade Center bounced off the window. People outside were running. Only the cashier and I remained in Kinko’s. “Oh my God,” she said on her cell. “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.”

I danced the John Cage Waltz starting precisely at 3:00pm 10 September 2009 at the southern foot of Trinity Place and then concluding north of there in the middle of James Street at 3:40.33pm. I walked silently past the site of the WTC. It was a mediation and a mourning. I mourn John Cage and Emily Harvey and my mother who died March 6 and the victims of 9/11 and the many more victims of miasmal America’s horrible revenge.

I walked to a waltz composed by Elodie Lauten. It was a mournful procession. I entered St James Church at the last second.

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ALL OVER THE MAP

I’ll be on the road and for the most part off-line for the next three weeks. I’ll be visiting Narrowsburg; my home in Kingston, Ontario; Montreal, where Ben’s starting at McGill; Brandon; and finally Red Hook, to visit the John Cage Trust at Bard. ALL OVER THE MAP, a work in pencil and watercolor on canvas, will be exhibited at Haven Arts, 50 Bruckner Boulevard, the Bronx, from September 3 to October 10, seven days a week, 12-6pm. It’s part of an exciting group show MEN ON MAPS.

Michael Andre Goes Amok in the Bronx!

JULY 11, Friday 6-10pm, Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx: --

Mad Hatters Review will present another Mad Hatters' Revue, an evening of poetry, fiction, music, moving artworks, videos and flash animation. Artists, musicians and writers: Michael Andre, for instance, will read LESS THEN THAN TODAY and THE CADENZA OF THE CLARINET IN CARTER’S PIANO CONCERTO accompanied by Austin Publicover.

With Ann Bogle, Orin Buck, Carmen Firan, Heidi Hatry, A. D. Jameson, Peter Knoll, Benjamin Rush Miller, Carol Novack, Wanda Phipps, Shelly Rich, Larissa Shmailo, Alan Sondheim, Rob Stephenson, Stephanie Strickland, and Yuriy Tarnawsky.

$8 admission includes a glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage.


MAD HATTERS' REVIEW: edgy & enlightened art, literature, & music in the Age of Dementia: http://www.madhattersreview.com.

Public transportation to Haven Arts Gallery, 50 Bruckner Boulevard:
Take Lexington Express 4 or 5 to 125th St. Transfer to 6 Train. Exit the train at the next stop: 3rd Ave 138th Street at Alexander Ave. Get out at the Alexander Ave exit, turning right onto Alexander. Walk: 0.3 mi - about 7 minutes at most
1. Head southwest on Alexander Ave toward E 137th St - 0.2 mi
2. Turn left at Bruckner Blvd & cross the street - 400 ft
You’re there! Haven Arts Gallery, 50 Bruckner Boulevard, Mott Haven, the Bronx.

L.E.S.P.A. SOLSTICE

LOWER EAST SIDE PERFORMING ARTS presents:

Mary Hurlbut’s premiere of JUSTIFCATION BY FAITH AND THE LONG BALL with Andrew Bolotowsky, flute. Music by Elodie Lauten. Words by Michael Andre.

Rafael Aguedelo reprises SEX AND PRE-ANTI-POST-MODERNISM
Music by Elodie Lauten. Words by Michael Andre.

Mary Hurlbut, soprano Andrew Bolotowsky, flute Julianne Klopotic, violin Rafael Agudelo, voice and contrabass Jonathan Hirschman, guitar

Saturday 21 June. 383 Grand Street. 6:00-9:00pm. RSVP: 212 388-0202. Donation $10
REFRESHMENTS SERVED. A CELEBRATION OF THE SOLSTICE.

Gay Bob and the 3 Johns

Cage, John and Johnson, Ray met Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) at Black Mountain College. I never met Rauschenberg. Johns, Jasper sent me a print. All four were gay. Ray expelled me from one of his clubs for so saying in a letter.

40 MINUTES AND 33 SECONDS rewritten

As Allen Ginsberg was known as the Beat poet, John Cage was the Silent composer. His most famous work is 4’ 33” of Silence.

I published a lot of Cage’s writing. On the morning of 11 September 2001, I had it all in the Kinko’s on Reade Street, and was determined to make it into a book. But the building shook. I said to myself, “Gas explosion. Someone’s been careless.” I looked out the window. There were flames a couple blocks south. Damn careless! I resumed my work with greater care. Eventually there was another explosion. Parts of the World Trade Center bounced off the window. People outside were running. Only the cashier and I remained in Kinko’s. “Oh my God,” she said on her cell. “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.”

I danced the John Cage Waltz starting precisely at 3:00pm 26 April 2008 at the southern foot of Trinity Place and then concluding north of there in the middle of James Street at 3:40.33pm. I walked silently past the site of the WTC. It was a mediation and a mourning. I mourn John Cage and my mother who died March 6 and the victims of 9/11 and the many more victims of miasmal America’s horrible revenge.

I walked to a waltz composed by Elodie Lauten. It was a mournful procession. I entered St James Church at the last second.