[NetBehaviour] Re: [webartery] autobio

[Michael Szpakowski]

Well I was on the edge of my seat.. you look at it and
you think 'fucking hell, did he really say/write
that?'  not, I think, agog in a voyeuristic way, but
with a respect for the integrity & fearlessness with
which you present your work and yourself(ves) in it.
It's the thing of just going for it, that I think I
find most admirable. Of course without your skill,
creativity and depth of reference this would be
meaningless but with it, it becomes a model of what
honesty means in art ( even when what you're saying
here or elsewhere may not all be "true" in the literal
sense -I mean *I don't know*, obviously; if it is all
word for word true then I guess I'm even more
impressed). I also like the fact that even at your
gloomiest your pieces are never completely devoid of
humour- there was a point when this piece slightly put
me in mind of an early Woody Allen stand up routine
when he talks about his supposed life on the left
bank:
http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/allen.htm#Lost

best
michael 

--- Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

> 
> Thanks - I appreciate this - I had real doubts about
> sending it out at 
> all. At first i saved it as a quicktime text-mov,
> but realized it could 
> also be opened as a text-file; I saved it as a
> standard .mov which is 
> harder to reverse-engineer (if possible). In a way
> it's too revealing. I'd 
> also hidden it from myself (found it in a directory
> of basic programs). 
> Sending it out, with a few additions, was a kind of
> exorcism. - Alan
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> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
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> > Well - I'm a confirmed Sondheim fan & it would
> > probably be deeply dull if I raved about every bit
> of
> > work I enjoy, but 'Duet' and now this - just
> great. A
> > masterclass!
> > michael
> >
> > --- Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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