Impossible Evening — I Can't Help That I'm Pretty

What an absolute nightmare.... Juke Joint A Go-Go. If we had only been kicked out I would have something more interesting to write about. Outside of Mike Grier dry-humping me on stage while I filmed him with my Super 8, the tasty drinks the joint was providing, and the never quotidian entertainment (Dames Aflame were abundant and titanic!!) — the night was total wash.



V.I.P seating might be nice... and yelling out that Burning Man sucks and Mr. Mike Grier pronouncing to the croud over the P.A. system that Burning Man sucks as well was fun. What is not fun is (shit...and it's early mind you) at least 6 different guy's grabbing on me all night long. You go boys... only you go over to someone else. The young gentleman sitting to my right, had his hands so far up my thigh I was about to introduce his teeth to his stomach... only I didn't want to start a riot. Stupid boys... stupid and stupid. Why do you all come my way... I am interested in the women — that's why I wear I little white pin of a girl with rosy cheeks and pig-tails. Yes, this is what I want. Yes, this is my dream girl — rosy cheeks and pig-tails — boys you need to fuck-off. And the one little boy who was trying to weasle my mojo pin off my shirt... you're so fucking lucky... I was about to kill you... just wanted you to know.



I did shoot some wonderful footage on my Super 8, which makes up for the molestation I had to endure... and I will say again, it was too much... too too much. Went to the event with Kanka and we had to leave at intermission because it was fucking insane.



There were 2 pretty gay boys fighting behind us, and Kanka, the gentelman he is, decided it would be best if he broke up the fight, so the show could go on.



O.K. now a word on Jack Daniels... I hate it, Kanka hates it — yet this is what they were serving.



I'm really upset with the entire night... while the atmosphere was extremely convivial and intoxicating, I didn't get to hang and chit-chat with folks as much as I hoped. We missed the second act, because boys couldn't keep their hands off me. But, we had very interesting converstaions with the Sister. Sister Louisa was there... two large tables right in front of us. Good guy, good guy... didn't grab my ass, but did give me a big ass kiss when I was over across the room talking to Chico.

All in all, it was a most triumphant event. — Schaefer

Pleasentries Are Bourgeois Bullshit For The Masses... Why Won't You Fuck Me In the Ass... Pretty Please.

P.S. — 6' 4" Clown in white face & black polka-dot outfit making out 'hardcore' with a dog (black and white spots) on the front stage... yes, I have it on Super 8mm... perfect lighting of course.

P.S.S. — Make 'BURNING MAN SUCKS' stickers!!!

P.S.S.S. — Kanka and I have just realized we started 'Fight Clubing' at some point in the night. Kanka has a nasty bruise on his shoulder. Sorry dude... you know I've been working out for the past few months — watch out nigga.



P.S.S.S.S. — CLOWN ON YOUR SHOULDER TIP: Don't stay in public places for too long. There is a good chance that a clown in white face and a polka dot outfit "will beat the shit out of you on stage" (bourgeois will assume this is a part of the show). The following morning you will realize this to be true an yet abhorrently untrue.

P.S.S.S.S.S — 'Wallet Fan Club'

Engineer Schaefer Triumphs Again

5 years ago my Super 8 camera died in a New Orleans graveyard. The camera was put on a shelf and the film was placed in the fridge. This morning I decided I'd open up the camera and do some surgery on it. After removing all the gears and guts I discovered the culprit — a jammed actuator piston. I unjammed the piston, replaced a few parts and hit the button. The camera gave it's first breath and locked again. I again removed the parts, cleaned and re-lubed the components and placed them back in place again. I hit the button and the shutter and advance wheel sprang to life. Like a person submerged in a frozen lake and then revived this camera now has a second life. FILM FILM FILM... watch out world.

Here's a little info on Super 8 cameras —

The Super 8MM film format was developed by Kodak in 1965 to replace regular 8mm. Regular 8 had the reputation for being very unstable. It didn't get exposed properly through the film gate. Super 8 solved this problem by putting a pressure plate in the film cartridge.
People in the 60's and 70's used super 8 to record jerky home movies. This format is the second most popular format next to 35mm. The reason for this is because loading a film cartridge for your super 8 camera involves no threading of the camera. This makes it easy for anyone to use. Besides being easy, it's also very cheap. Today it costs about $20 to buy and process a full 3.5 minute 50 foot roll of colour Super 8 film.
There's been a debate in recent years to see if Kodak would actually cancel making stock for the super 8 format. If the film is discontinued completely, many low-budget independent film-makers may have to go the awful cold format of video. I don't have a problem with video being used for quick documentary purposes, but if we lose film then we lose one hundred years of tradition.

5-MeO-DMT : Bufo alvarius

In a wonderful mood tonight. It's late now... began work on an inordinately large triptych this evening. Each panel measures 34" x 40". This makes the entire work 34" x 120" — 10 feet long. The panels are 5" deep. I've decided to do Blue Jugheads. There are approximately 70 Jughead digest pages on each panel — totaling 210 pages in all. These works are part of the Adds series, which began in 1999 with the 'Product Adds'. Adds are based on Michelangelo Buonarrotis' postulations regarding his sculptural works — the marbles. Michelangelo believed that the figures he sculpted were merely trapped in the stone. He artlessly made them free of their stone tomb by chiselling away the supernumerary layer. His most fascinating works are the later, in which, he never fully freed his figures.
The Adds apply Michelangelos' theorem of hidden bodies or hidden allusion, but to everyday mass consumerist printed goods. One must remember that consumerism has been a part of human civilization since man learned the business of trade. All the marble Michelangelo purchased was through a seller / consumer market. By painting out, or 'adding' paint, to mask the unwanted data, I am in a analogous way, chiseling away at mass consumerism with globs of thick opaque paint. Creating as Michealangelo did... what he thought was trapped in the consumer goods.
To date the largest number of Adds I have produced are owned by Barker — a large series of Blue Jughead postcards.

Switching To Gas For Inspiration

Death of the Valentine Baby

HAMLET

The Tragedy of Hamlet
ACT IV, SCENE IV

I'll be with you straight go a little before.



How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, I do not know
Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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"Some misread Hamlet all their life!"
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A NOTE TO BARKER:

Regarding Richard Prince. I'm glad you like him too. I have been following Prince for quite a few years now — on and off. He is one of my favorite artists and I've accumulated an immense understanding of the artist and the rapscallions he struggles with on a daily basis. I've always found that everything he does is misinterpreted and debased by people who don't even know the works factualism (especially feminists). 'Prince has long been in the business of outrage. But at the beginning of his career, it was not his subject matter that was seen as outrageous but his method.' He is a brilliant man and not someone whose works should be looked at in a contrived and harefooted way. First impressions are bullshit... you have to peel back the layers until the semblance just blows away in the wind. Then, and only then will you understand the meaning behind the work. Written words and pictures — while they document subject matter — only victimize the substance of works, allowing critics of all sorts to add conjecture to their otherwise unascertained evaluation.

— Schaefer

19th Century Primative In A 20th Century Jungle

- There are things out there, things you can't imagine.
- He beat the difference from me by whipping my back with a wet rope.
- When you're dangeling off of a rope, it doesn't matter if your one foot from the ground or one hundred.
- That sounds good here in this nice warm room, on a nice full stomach.
- You get in this machine of yours' and you go back to where I was.

TWILIGHT ZONE WEEKEND!!! ROCK'N ROLL'N!!!

Documentation

Put It In A Letter

NO MORE EXCUSES

It's 9:12pm on this (memorial..ohhh) 4th of July weekend. I performed my "Put It In A Letter" this afternnon at exactly 4:20pm. Thank you, Kanka & Blackmon for the direction and support.

Pink Floyd @ Live 8 — Schaefer sees broadcast and notices lighted sign reading — 'No More Excuses'.

Schaefer agree's — 'Put It In A Letter'

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'Put It In A Letter' video will post when we can figure out how we are supposed to import the video.

— Schaefer

Chips and Dips

Poker Game tonight with Linton.

poker
n 1: fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire [syn: stove poker, fire hook, salamander] 2: any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand [syn: poker game]

deadpan - impassivity - inscrutability - mask - seriousness - straight face

Thomas Arthur Schaefer – Performance Event

SPRINGVALE PARK is the new location.... away from the weekenders and close to our favorite watering hole the El Myr. Springvale park is a short hop down Euclid Ave. Check out the map.



This weekend Thomas Arthur Schaefer will be performing his newest performance piece "Put It In A Letter". This is a free performance and open to the public. The performance will be recorded and available through cherrylipped.com.

"Put It In A Letter"
Springvale Park
Euclid Ave. NE & Elizabeth St. NE
July 2, 2005 — 4:20 PM

SMITTEN

smitten
adj 1: (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: stricken, struck] 2: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: crazy, dotty, gaga, enamored, infatuated, in love, soft on(p), taken with(p)]

These Are The Last Days…

I FOUND THIS DISTURBING ARTICLE THIS MORNING
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Boffins create zombie dogs
By Nick Buchan of NEWS.com.au
June 27, 2005

Eerie ... boffins have brought dead dogs back to life, in the name of science. SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours, but even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss. During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death. Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved. Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies, giving them 100% oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts. Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.

"The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.
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THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT MAN CHEATING AWAY DEATH. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT AS A CHILD YOU'D DAY-DREAM ABOUT, BUT NOW AS AN ADULT AND CONSIDERING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN, WE HAVE REACHED A FAR MORE CRITICAL JUNCTURE IN OUR EXISTENCE THAN A CHILD'S MERE DAY-DREAMS. I'M NOT A MAN THAT BELIEVES IN THE CONVENTIONS OF MODREN DAY OR EVEN ANCIENT RELIGION. I BELIEVE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS & CHAOS. THE OTHER THING I BELIEVE IN IS THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS. BRINGING A DOG BACK TO LIFE IS ONE THING, BUT TO COMMANDEER A CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE TORRENT OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IS SOMETHING I DO NOT BELIEVE IN. THESE SCIENTISTS WILL NOT HELP HUMANS CHEAT DEATH. THEY WILL ONLY BE CREATING WALKING CORPSES THAT ARE ONLY FAMILIAR SHADOWS OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ONCE OCCUPIED THESE HUSKS.

Cherrylipped Charter

Today starts my new life plan.

A consistent regiment of:
- morning: video interview — 5:00 am
- morning: body — 5:30 am - 6:30 am
- consistent written and picture daily blog entries
- specified art production (no variants)
- three correspondence mailing per week — Mon. Wed. Fri.
- reading and digestion of one book a week
- tri-weekly interaction with out-of-town friends
- bi-weekly social interaction with the local arts community
- web site completion by September 1, 2005
- (most importantly) fun & love

…and the last regiment is one of those things I've never really had.

Commitment - Strength - Allegiance - Mandate

A movie I once saw said... "I'll wear my sword at my side." I believe what it means is that at any given moment, if one strays from the path, he should have no anguish I relieving himself of command. The burden he carries by his side should be heavy enough to transform him into a straight line, capable of any act — whether in the face of victory or defeat.

A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter — 0.0929 foot candle

Dispite the copious new love I have in my heart now, today I have so far spent 10 hours working on my web site. I'm happy to say I've completed building, programing and testing the main sites new menu structure. There's gonna be so much stuff on this site eventually. It's such a daunting feeling knowing you're going to layout everything you've ever done for the public to view and criticise.

London Sour's So Sweet

"So what do you think?" she said candidly. "Feels like I'm in a modern day Hitchcock staring Fay Wray and Don Ho." I huridly replied.

Utopian Father Figure

Asia Argento

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Watched this classic western from my film libray last night... love this film. Best part is when Eastwood flips his guns around and kills two men at the trading post. Watched it in slow-motion again and again.

Ingrid Bergman

Gaslight Fascination

Black Dahlia

George A. Romero's — Land of the Dead
EARLY SCREENING

'Gore, Gore, Gore... with fireworks and dreams of Canada. The last 10 minetes of this film are a damn shame.'

Drive-In

Convoy (1978)



Kristofferson and MacGraw...ain't nothin' gonna get in their way!

Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...
Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.

Kris Kristofferson — Rubber Duck aka Martin Penwald
Ali MacGraw — Melissa
Ernest Borgnine — Sheriff Lyle Wallace aka Cottonmouth
Burt Young — Pig Pen/Love Machine

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What a god-awful long film. Sam Peckinpah this movie is just about as pointless as the 'Osterman Weekend' and as boring as 'Straw Dogs'. The only thing that saved you pal was the Drive-in and the fact that I could yellout 'CONVOY' really loud without people getting pissed.

Saturday with John

I packed boxes all day and watch some John Wayne movies...

Shields & Yarnell Fan Club

Atlanta Day 2

Atlanta Day 1

Recovery and Exit Strategy

Grand Ball Room: The Birds

Performance Piece: Alfred Hitchocks — The Birds

Grand Ballroom Navy Pier — Chicago, IL

Thomas Schaefer as Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner
Cassandra Zimmerman as Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels

Cinematography by:
Phil Holenbeck
Scott Newman
Aaron Barker
Matt George
Thomas Schaefer

ROUGH MAGAZINE

In Chicago Today

Aaron Barker Fan Club to become Huge Phenomenon. Everyone is catching the fever.... it's simply madness in the streets of Chicago.

Ingrid Bergman Blue

Life and Love

"I am so poor that sometimes I beg for the smallest lies."

Drive-In: Monster Bash

A return

There are two types of people in the world. First, those that write about what they want to do with their lives. Second, those who are out there doing it. Erstwhile, I have been doing the second. The blog is back. Greetings to you all.

June 3, 2005

3. The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.

June 02, 2005

2. [Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer shooting hat.”
“Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I shoot people in this hat.”

June 01, 2005

1. “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.

New Orleans Pictures 08

New Orleans Pictures 07

New Orleans Pictures 06

New Orleans Pictures 05

New Orleans Pictures 04

New Orleans Pictures 03

New Orleans Pictures 02

New Orleans Pictures 01

Picture Phone 05

SCHAEFER

Picture Phone 04

ZIMMERMAN & FANCY NANCY

Picture Phone 03

KANKA

Picture Phone 02

EVIL BITCH

Picture Phone 01

A. BARKER

Show Day in Dallas... Errrr Six Hours Away

Time to shrug off this hang-over and get driving. Time to leave and stop bickering... well the bickering is needed... but let's go. Today is the show.... woooo!!! Working it out...

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 14, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 04 (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - ATTENTION! (postcard 4x6)

Friday The 13th

I DID REALLY BAD THINGS LATER THIS NIGHT... I'M BACK TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF THE PAST... SOMETHING HAPPENED AND THOMAS ARTHUR SCHAEFER WOKE UP NAKED AND WITH WET SHOES ON THIS NIGHTS FOLLOWING MORN.

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In Texas... visited Art Pros. today and drank beer with the boys. More later...

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 13, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 01(postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 10 (postcard)
KANKA - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 02(postcard)
KUTZBACH - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 03(postcard)
VINSON - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 04(postcard)

Road Trip To Texas

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 12, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Kennedy Family 02(postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 09 (postcard)

I AM STILL ALIVE – On Kawara

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 11, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 02 (postcard 4x6)
BARKER - Kennedy Family 01 (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - Cheese 08 (postcard 5x8)
KANKA - Kennedy Family 03 (postcard 4x6)
KUTZBACH - Kennedy Family 04 (postcard 4x6)
VINSON - Kennedy Family 05 (postcard 4x6)

Picture Phone D

KANKA

Picture Phone C

TAYLOR & KANKA

Picture Phone B

A. VINSON

Picture Phone A

C. VINSON

Happy Birthday

2005 BIRTHDAY CARD

Late Late Night

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 05, 2005
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BARKER - Francis Red Dot A (postcard 4x6)
BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 01 (postcard 5x8)
KANKA - Francis Red Dot B (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - Cheese 07 (postcard 5x8)
SCHAEFER - Birthday: Daryl Schaefer (postcard 5x8)
VINSON - White Williams Kung-Fu Habits (postcard 5x8)

Cards From Beyond The Edge V

EFFERVESCENCE POWERED GHOSTWRITER - A

Cards From Beyond The Edge IV

FROSTED FLAKE STRATIFICATION - A

Cards From Beyond The Edge III

ASK ANDY: WHAT IS THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR? FLIP-FLOPPED

Cards From Beyond The Edge II

THE BARE SKELETON OF NEW COLA CONSUMERISM SLICED, SPLATTERED, AND FLAYED - A