dear bonesters
Chicago is fantastic - brilliant sun and warm breezes- I'm up early getting coffee for the gals, taking in the morning streets of the loop, everyone hustling on the streets, selling god in that great chicago detroit black accent, i miss it. We have lunch with larry lee a professor at the school of the art institute, in the old marshal field building on state. He gives us free passes to the art institute where we check out the "NEW", [everything is new here] contemporary wing at the museum. Warhol looks fantastic, less so lichtenstein/stella/serra [b 4 his theme park period] and katz, [that guy is so finished]/and gober.. They have shockingly elegant smithson, as well as a calzolieri, and brilliant eve hesse's and gustons. The late afternoon is fantastik we absorb the incredible architecture here. Chicago is seducing all of us.
First film, "The boy with the sun in his eyes" by Todd Vertow [bangor films] is a beautiful decadent romp through paris, milan and berlin, the film has a great energy and nicely lensed and another feature, [bangor films has made 15 features in less than 10 years.] I feel great, indie, alternative, anti film is alive in chicago. I split the next two screenings, one a feature, Impolex,[a dissipation of pynchons novel gravity's rainbow, is slightly uneven but looks great and nice talent, the other is a block of shorts a couple of them causing deep belly laughs. Afterwards it's back to the Bottom lounge, on W. lake [my favorite new spot with the pink line el, passing every five minutes, completely drowning out the conversation, as a wanning half moon rises over the lake. We all hang with the film makers knocking down beers and taking in this gorgeous night. overheard conversation Chicago is like a lover in the summer, who seduces you again and you realize that everything is possible, the summer makes you forget all the bad times, that winter has brought you. Again Daisy and I are under the el enjoying herbal remedies, when Ms. Yi joins us, all three of us scream [a cabaret moment] as the el roars above us.
french kisses
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