KNIFE PLAY – 2002

CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES – EP - 2002

A PROMISE - 2003

FAG PATROL – 2003

INSOUND TOUR SUPPORT SERIES n°26 with JIM YOSHI PILE UP - 2003

XIU XIU/THIS SONG IS A MESS BUT SO AM I - split 7 - 2003

FABULOUS MUSCLES - 2004

XIU XIU vs BUNKBED - split 7 -2004

FLESHETTES Cdsingle - 2005

LIFE AND LIVE - 2005

LA FORET - 2005

XIU XIU/DEVENDRA BANHART - split 7” - 2005

XIU XIU/KILL ME TOMORROW - split 7” – 2005

XIU XIU/THE PAPER CHASE – split 7” – 2005

XIU XIU/THE DEAD SCIENCE – split 7” – 2005

CIAUTISTICO! - as XXL with LARSEN - 2005

THE AIR FORCE – 2006

TU MI PIACI - EP – 2006

CREEP SHOW - EP W/ GROUPER - 2006

XIU XIU/ WS BURNS – split 7” – 2007

REMIXED AND COVERED – 2007

¿SPICCHIOLOGY? - as XXL with LARSEN - 2007

POLOROID PROJECT BOOK - 2007

WOMEN AS LOVERS – 2008

WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM DVD - 2008

XIU XIU/HIGH PLACES – split 7” 2008

XIU XIU FOR LIFE, THE FIRST FIVE YEARS - 2008

 

to those of you who have not been in my bedroom looking at my computer the past few days.

i guess i was on the leading news webpage in hungary
i guess i am a polaroid artist
i guess i am a "bored" blogger

seriously, what is GOING ON????????

blablabla

or:

HUH???????

 

I Do What I Want When I Want
VIDEO MAGAZINE
at womenaslovers.com

Issue 5:
Nels Cline &
Ches Smith
Talk
'bout
Drums

 

The lovely 'Merch' link is now working - clicking it is probably pretty fun.

 

i am not one to buy cds. i'd rather spend it on camera equipment or something. and i hate the space they take up, and they kinda look ugly too. actually, cds look kinda cool, they are all shiny and stuff. but that big square plastic case that they are in is so stupid looking. but fuck, i can't wait til i get the new carla bozulich cd. wait, maybe i'll just buy it on i tunes. listen to the winds...

oh shit i just found this: ahhhhh, carla bozulich with scott amendola covering MASTERS OF WAR

 

May 6: Kortrijk (Belgium), De Kreun

May 11: Lyon (France), Grrnd Zero

 

if you have a catheter in forever it is catheternia.

 

but to imagine that you also know why you want what you do, do what you

do...what is it that he couldn't do to you to make you change, what is

it that he could do...kiss with someone else, find solace in blaming

your body for its ugly shape, your face for its craters and your body

hair for its everywhereness...to tell yourself that these things, if

nothing else, would make you stop wanting what you want, doing what you

do...him...but as you close your eyes you understand that even these

things will speed you on your way, increase your want for what you want,

etc. 

 

from christopher in canada




p.s. jamie, i'm an asshole. i said my name was rasputin and you did a haiku about me. someone for real might still want one, and they deserve it more than the fake rasputin.

 

ALL THE HAIKUS ARE COMPLETE
CAMERON, 18
IS THE LAST ONE
HOOT HOOT HOOT
PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU SENT ONE AND IT IS NOT THERE
THANK YOU
I FEEL LIKE I HAVE CLIMBED UP A GIANT'S LEG
THERE ARE 260 I THINK
YOU ARE GREAT!

 

maybe it's time to shut down the us base in okinawa too.

 

SHUT DOWN THE BERKELEY MARINE RECRUITERS!

Protest, Non-Violent Civil Resistance

Friday, February 22, 11AM-4:30 PM @ 64 Shattuck Square

(2 blocks from Downtown Berkeley BART)

this could work in any city. not only the hippie party towne
but you know sometimes hippies get shit done!!!!!!!!

 

Xiu Xiu Tour
03-07 Portland, OR - Someday Lounge

03-08 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey

03-10 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge

03-11 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive

03-13 Ames, IA - Maintenance Shop

03-14 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

03-15 Chicago, IL - Reggie's

03-16 Mount Pleasant, MI - Rubble's Bar

03-17 Toronto, Ontario - TBA

03-18 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon Nightclub

03-19 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa

03-20 Bennington, VT - Bennington College

03-21 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston

03-22 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Smog (Bard College)

03-24 Purchase, NY - Student Center (SUNY Purchase)

03-23 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg

03-25 New York, NY - Fordham University

03-26 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church

03-27 Washington, DC - Black Cat

03-28 Columbus, OH - Skully's Music Diner

03-29 Newport, KY - Southgate House

03-31 St. Louis, MO - Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

04-01 Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Gallery

04-02 Oklahoma City, OK - Conservatory

04-03 Fort Worth, TX - Lola's

04-04 Houston, TX - Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

04-05 Austin, TX - Mohawk

04-07 Santa Fe, NM - College of Santa Fe

04-08 Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room

04-09 Las Vegas, NV- Beauty Bar

04-11 Los Angeles, CA - Echo

04-12 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill


europe tour dates

May 2008

1 - Krems, Austria @ Donaufestival

2 - Berlin, Germany @ Magnet Club

3 - Arhus, Denmark @ Pop Revo Festival

5 - Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow

7 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso

8 - Brussels, Belgium @ Les Nuits de Botanique Festival

9 - Nancy, France @ L'Autre Canal

10 - Paris, France @ Point Ephemere

12 - Düdingen, Switzerland @ Bad Bonn

14 - Rome, Italy @ Circolo Degli Artisti

15 - Milan, Italy @ Magnolia

16 - Florence, Italy @ Viper

17 - Turin, Italy @ Spazio211

19 - London, UK @ ULU

20 - Manchester, UK @ Roadhouse

21 - Glasgow, Scotland @ Nice N Sleazy

22 - Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans

23 - Barcelona, Spain @ Apolo

24 - Madrid, Spain @ Neu!

 

they informed me that they had just killed my husband at a place called Muumbuchi,
and then they started beating me.
they were using their gun butts to hit me.
one would hit me,
and the blow would throw me to the other,
who would hit me and throw me to the next.
nobody cared about where they were hitting me.
i was beated until i was confused and i didn't care anymore if they killed me.
my two-year-old son,
who had been woken up by the noise and my screams,
ran to me,
passing between the legs of the soldiers.
as i was being thrown by the blows, from one soldier to the next,
my son was trying to hide himseld between my legs.
they were shouting at me,
telling me that they were giving me the independence that my husband had gone to get for me. they did not seem to care that there was a small child,
scared to death and screaming his head off.
as i was being thrown from one soldier to the next,
my son fell down and was trampled by the frenzied soldiers...
i was beaten so much that my body had grown numb,
until i could no longer feel the pain.
they took me outside,
and the last thing i saw was my son's dead body lying on the floor of my house.

 

Hey
he
eh
FRUIT COP
FRUIT COP
FRUIT COP
womenaslovers.com

 

Tour Link now works

Check out the Xiu Xiu Tour Schedule

 

do not regret you
the arrows are are a cactus
play them like john cage



finally!!! this new project i did with my friend mylinh is now up online!!!!!!
ASDF PRESENTS: A WIKIPEDIA READER

 

oakland made us lie
robertas failing heart beat
excepts your kindness

 

so i only have a few haiku left to write. it will be around 260 i think.

maybe i will write one about myself? or hey David you write one. i wrote one for you n'est pas?

these are the questions from the haiku project.

i am going to try and be truthful and not try to be funny

what is your name?
jamie

how old are you?
35 (for a few more moments)

where do you live?
broakland, smoakland, joakland

where or how do you want to die?
shot with arrows

what is a secret about you?
i am a big fat liar

what do you want to do differently?
to be less worried and obsessive and to be have being kind as my natural response as opposed to having to remind myself

when do you think about your regrets the most often?
when i am working on music, not that i regret music but that it is just when it lurks

why did you do something mean?
my feelings were hurt and i was embarrassed to say

what is your most prized posession?
pro tools

what is your favorite bird? cat? sea creature? plant?
all of them, roberta, sea cucumber, every cactus

what is your favorite lie to tell?
that i have a secret

who do you live for?
hyunhye

 

Announcing: Friday February 22
Shut down the Marine Recruiters in Berkeley
64 Shattuck Square (2 blocks from Berkeley BART)

Details to be announced

 

 

IF YOU...

 

happy valentine's day

it might be my favorite holiday

am i setting myself up for a fall?

i promise to have faith that i am not

i promise to have kiss me kiss me kiss me that i am not

i promise to have pornography that i am not

i promise to have the head on the door that i am not

 

people of earth~
this is yoko ono
the 3rd issue of the xiu xiu video magazine
"i do what i want, when i want" is up on the
womenaslovers.com web site
it is called
"FLASH" (aka flashhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!)
it is not about me, YOKO ONO
it is about YOU-
Jichael Mackson!

 

polaroid is over : (

 

hi
how it is going?
where is that money you owe me?
oh you have it.
wow thank you i thought this was going to be ugly.
speaking of which you look really hot.
what is that you are reading?
no, no i just like to spray paint
"reading"
under the stop on stop signs

 

“All together now” - By Jack Falanga.

 

 

did i mention that wilbert is single?

he enjoys:

teaching my cats karate

drinking kombucha for the drunken effects

riding his bike and never taking public transportation

kicking my ass a board games

getting his ass kicked by me at dr. mario

dressing well

making me delicious food

taking quick naps where ever

wilbert does not:

drink alcohol

smoke cigarettes

wimp out on shit

does this interest you?

 

"There is no right, there is no wrong, in why we live there is only wrong."

Love the song, but one of the worst xiu lyrics.

it is of course you divine right to please please please dislike anything that is a xiu xiu lyric. please please do it.
about a year and a half ago i wrote a blog saying that a writer for time out new york railed against some xiu xiu lyrics that were actually quotes from a medieval persian poem.
the above lyrics are quotes from v.s. naipaul.
i don't know if that makes them better or worse then?
does context shift opinion? of course sometimes it does. does it today?
does it just mean that i have apparently rotten taste in literature that the two times (although i know there are 1000s more i have been able to avoid) that i have read about specific lyrics being spat upon they weren't lines i actually wrote?
am i right am i wrong?
and you may tell yourself
my God what have i done

 

hi carlos
i tried to write your haiku in spanish becasue i want to go to lima and somehow it made sense for one second , that it would get me there by writing it that way like a spell, but i think it may be very very very dumb sounding or not make sense
please forgive a traitor to life
xo
j

 

Thank you to the 234 people who have sent in for the haikuz on the womenaslovers.com site
i am at 175 with the remainder to go
you are strong
i am weak
you are fervent
i am wishy washy
you are sexually forward
i am an eunuch and have no ability to respond to yr advances nor yr ideas
you are not disappointed
i am disappointed
you are love
i know i am unlovable you don't have to tell me

 

It's a little after 9pm on the west coast (but i am on the east coast). I am in a show in San Francisco: http://www.fortgallery.com/ The opening is happening right now.

 

this was taken on new years day. the man with the cell phone is my very good friend wilbert. the two behind our devin and suzanne. i want to start this year over again already.

 

 

Tony Shafrazi is an Iranian artist, curator and art dealer.

In 1974 he was arrested by the New York City police department after he spray-painted the words "KILL LIES ALL" onto Pablo Picasso's Guernica, then installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Supposedly he was protesting against the U.S. actions of six years earlier in 1968 at My Lai, during the Vietnam War. The Guerrilla Art Action Group came to the defense of Shafrazi, arguing that he was completing, not vandalizing, Picasso's creation.

A few years later ("In the creepy, amnesiac way that celebrity and money operate in America and in the art world," according to Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times) Shafrazi became the art adviser to the Peacock Throne of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Shafrazi began to assemble a 20th century art collection on the Shah's behalf. He built a museum in Tehran to house this collection. The collection was essentially Western: from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Conceptual Art. In 1978, Shafrazi opened his own commercial gallery in a small Tehran shopfront. In the 1980's Shafrazi ran a successful gallery in New York, championing graffiti artists such as Keith Haring. (who worked for a short time at Shafrazi's New York Gallery in the summer of 1980)

In regard to his 1974 attack on Guernica, he gave the following statement to Art in America in December of 1980:

I wanted to bring the art absolutely up to date, to retrieve it from art history and give it life. Maybe that's why the Guernica action remains so difficult to deal with. I tried to trespass beyond that invisible barrier that no one is allowed to cross; I wanted to dwell within the act of the painting's creation, get involved with the making of the work, put my hand within it and by that act encourage the individual viewer to challenge it, deal with it and thus see it in its dynamic raw state as it was being made, not as a piece of history.

 

knitting words (clouds, volitions, fears)
my english is short

a little face on my words
tiny in your hand
light before your hat
being a tinker (is a) bell of yours.

 

the haikus are coming along
so far 210 people have sent in a photo and answers and i have done about 100 or so
i hope you do not have to wait too long
this is harder to complete than i thought it would be
i hope as well that when you find yours, finally, you are happy.
i have not been thinking about the riots and tribal killings in kenya at all
what is wrong with me?

 

 

you can do it too

 

hello
on womenaslovers.com
there is a video magazine called
"i do what i want, when i want"
it is not the same thing as the song
it only shares a name
it is also connected in that the person that the song is about is not unconnected to the video magazine insofar as having worked on it
each week there will be a different "article"
sometimes interviews (like this week there is one with greg saunier of deerhoof talking about star trek)
sometimes video art, sometimes politcal/historical "essays", sometimes short narrative film
there will be a new one Tomorrow, or the next day maybe
called "CuTe aTTaCK """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
that could be about anything but it is about something specific.
it will be very very clear What it is about but the source will not be reveled until the end

Tomorrow by johnny the cricket the he needs a nap band
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Will it really come ?
And if it does come
Will I still be Human ?
All I ask of you is one thing that you never do
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Would you put your arms around me ?
(I won't tell anyone)
Tomorrow
Does it have to come ?
All I ask of you is one thing that you'll never do
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Would you put your arms around me ?
(I won't tell anybody)
Tomorrow
And what must come before ...
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Oh, the pain in my arms
Oh, the pain in my legs
Ooh, my shiftless body
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Tomorrow
It's surely nearer now ?
You don't think I'll make it
I never said I wanted to !
Well did I ?
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Oh, the pain in my arms
Oh, the pain in my legs
Oh, yeah; oh, yeah
No, yeah; no, yeah
Through my shiftless body
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
All I ask of you ... oh ...
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""
Is : would you tell me that you love me
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me that you love me !
Ah, I know you don't mean it
Ah, I know you don't mean it
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, tell me that you love me
Tell me, oh, tell me, oh
Tell me, oh, tell me, oh, tell me, oh
Tell me, oh, tell me, oh
"""""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """""" """"""

 

Francis Alys is my favorite artist.
I was going to follow this sentence with: I'm depressed, fuck everything.
funny how things change in a matter of minutes.
this is my new current follow up: it all happens for a reason or for no reason, you are still alive, you are not dead, let the procession continue. it was my friend's birthday last week.

 

 

my heart opens up

when you photograph the sky

blue, white, grey & pink

 

tweet tweet
i went to kenya
this is what i saw that is a bird
and that i could identify by looking in a book that has birds in it
and that i could see through field glasses
there were as many not here that i could not identify but saw with the naked eye
this is the most birds for met
this is the most birds for me
this is the most birds for me

Ostrich*
great white pelican*
yellow billed egret
common bittern
black crowned night heron (imm.)
goliath heron
white stork*
saddle billed stork*
marabou
black headed heron
sacred ibis
greater flamingo*
lesser flamingo
white faced whistling duck*
egyptian goose
black kite
african fish eagle*
bateleur*
african white backed vulture
lappet backed vulture
white headed vulture (imm.)
montagu's harrier
tawney eagle
martial eagle
red necked spurfowl
yellow necked spurfowl
helmeted guinea fowl*
black crake
grey crowned crane
black bellied bustard
kori bustard
african jacana
two banded courser
african wattled lapwing*
spur winged lapwing
black headed lapwing
crowned lapwing
grey headed gull
black headed gull
red eyed dove
pied kingfisher*
speckled mouse bird*
little bee eater
lilac breasted roller*************!!!
white thighed hornbill
von der deckens hornbill
red chested swallow
common bulbul
short tailed warbler
african paradise monarch*
variable sunbird
collared sunbird
african golden oriole
fuelleborn's boubou
long tailed fiscal
common fiscal
pied crow
hilderbrandt's starling
superb starling
yellow billed oxpicker*
speckeld fronted weaver
white headed buffalo weaver*************!!!
black headed weaver
chestnut weaver
baglefecht weaver
maxwell's black weaver
yellow bishop
acacia paradise whydah
blue cheeked cordon bleu
red cheeked cordon bleu*
pin tailed whydah
grey headed silver bill

*denotes pre travel wish list

 

 

the haiku project on womenaslovers.com is now working
there are only about 100 slots left and i want to write one for you.
very special thanks to JESSE VON DOOM for making that happen.
jesse here is your haiku to say thank you-

we have eaten food
jesse your mind is like gold
better than the food