IDEAS, RAMBLING, STUFF.

From my art journal thingy:

Dear Packet #1:

I spent some time with my weblog, http://magdalen.blogs.com/goddard , changing it around and adding the Idea Bucket. This, I thought, would be a good way to claim ideas without having to do tthem.

But here I am talking to myself on paper. There is a reason for keeping half-baked ideas private. I mean, hell, let’s be honest here, I experiment and I send many half-baked ideas into the world. Intentionally making a public list of them seems smirky and stupid, now that I have tried it. It’s like trying to claim everything at once.

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Somehow it feels okay to read Allan Kaprow's random things that he never "did" and to accept them as some kind of "art." Then again, once that shit is written down, no one can do it without feeling like they are (or being accused of) stealing his idea. I heard Harrell Fletcher is doing this in some form, but he seems very interested in appropriation in general; personally, I'm just not into it so much. It's good that people challenge notions of authorship, even while gaining respect and money for their own alleged "authorship" via appropriation, but I wouldn't want that to be what my own work is about. In other words, I would rather talk to Kathy Acker or read about her than actually read her stuff. (Sorry, Kathy, and I'm sure though I never said that to you when you were alive, you wouldn't care.)

Anyhoo, it seems like a very cheap copout to publish one's ideas and lay claim to them, even if one doesn't make the effort to actually make the idea real.

Wait, wait!

Maybe I have to change my mind, here. Maybe that is the whole point of writing. Writing is the ultimate not-bothering-to-make-something.