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May 18, 2006
Overthinking?
From an exchange with my
filmmaker friend who doesn't want his name mentioned.
Me: "I
overthink, and you've told me that before, but now I might
agree with you, and I'm ready to talk about it..."
my friend who doesn't want his name mentioned: "...'overthinking'...
comes from inaction. If you act more on your first thoughts,
you don't give yourself a chance to OVER think... You act.
If you tend not to act on those first thoughts, you end up
thinking about your thinking and rethinking that, a form of
self-cannibalism, it seems to me."
SELF-CANNIBALISM??? Jesus,
I never told my friend who doesn't want his name mentioned my thoughts on self-cannibalism, and that's
not a concept I, at least, encounter often. Am I chewing on my
own cerebrations??? Ruminating on my reasoning? Swallowing the
substructure of my self???
Also from my friend who doesn't want his name mentioned: "i'd
like to share a special
set of films with you. ...the kind of thing that got me
interested in art, film and performance. be forewarned, it's
not all easy to watch..."
How could I resist Ubu.com,
and films by the Vienna actionists Otmar Bauer, Kurt Kren, Otto
Muehl and Hermann Nitsch (1967-1970)? I watched Manopsychotisches Ballett.
Sexually edgy even for my porn-glazed eyes, it features four
people fucking each other with rolling pins, killing chickens,
writhing in the blood and writing, "The End" in their
own shit. Enjoy!
Seriously, the timing was great for me, since
I've been giving so much thought to boundaries in art.
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