We’re down to about 4 days to decide on Pietmond — whether it lives or dies. Thought I’d bring in Hucka D. for some more discussion on this. (pause) Hmmm, not here yet. (another pause).
Hucka D.:
Here. Michael Too from Michael Won. Michael Won carried you/pulled you through the other side of the “Art 10×10” — the Other Side. This is what you must protect. This is Yoself looking out for Yoself. This is what Lisa the Vegetarian desires to see you do.
bb:
I’m going to pull up the document where I write about Michael Too and my first and longest encounter with him. This would be from 4 years ago this October.
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bb:
Well, I can’t find it right now, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Michael Won viewed your plus carrcasses, many of them, and gave mainly very positive feedback. Said you could make a million bucks off your best creation. Let me count — that would be Carrcass+2 [in blog terminology].
bb:
Yes. I believe he really enjoyed that one. The Woods of Howl must be given light sometime, Hucka D. Light to the spooks.
Hucka D.:
Not now. Not yet.
bb:
OK. But Michael Won and I parted at the end, after about 3 years of friendship. All through the plus carrcasses, he was there. 2005, 2006, and then 1/2 of 2007. He was suspicious of my name as well, since he had met all bad examples of me-as-my-same-name in the past. I remember at the time thinking this association was a litttle mechanical, but now I seem to be doing the same with Michael Won and Michael Too — same name again.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Michael Won turns into Michael Too, who you met in the woods in 2007, just after Michael Won departed Blue Mountain. That was 4 years ago [as I said]. Getting back to Michael Won…
bb:
Getting back to Michael Won… he watches Carrcass+5 with me, Carrcass+4, I believe, Carrcass+3 [which he didn’t like as much as some of the others], Carrcass+2 [as stated], and then Carrcass+1 was being created all during that last 1/2 year we interacted. He was a co-worker. Basically my only co-worker, then. My house was falling into the woods, my back was still killing me, we were recovering still from a medical disaster, the wife and I. Times I wouldn’t want to relive. I had to dig a moat around my house, essentially.
Hucka D.:
The plus carrcasses helped get you two through. You Too.
bb:
Most definitely. Michael Won was also born very near Oblong, Illinois, and the collage series I created just after he left town was called Oblong, mainly in honor of him. It’s my most consistent collage series, I feel — the plus carrcasses and “Art 10×10” seemed to peak around the same time of 2006/2007, the mid point of each process.
Hucka D.:
Maybe you should interview Michael Won.
bb:
I don’t think he’d be interested. Michael Won has moved beyond Blue Mountain and beyond me. We had difficulties at the end.
Hucka D.:
And his friend: Grison. You’re friends on facebook though, right?
bb:
Yes. A facebook friend is a friend for life, Hucka D. The newest co-worker, the one which essentially replaced Michael Won, has unfriended me in that area.
Hucka D.:
Yes, interesting. Do you just think it’s you — that you are hard to get along? How do you put it: a minor monster from Jasper County, Illinois?
bb:
Partly me and partly them. We dance.
Hucka D.:
You do. But the important thing is that the newer co-worker, KK, is getting along better with you now. And you have an understanding supervisor. But a lot of this seems to point back to Michael Won. That era. Michael Won was a big influence on Carrcass+1, after he view Carrcass+2 and stated he thought it was worth a thousand dollars.
bb:
Actually that was a million dollars.
Hucka D.:
Isn’t that your Money Pot, then? The money you don’t have but which is yours anyway?
bb:
Could be. Michael Won also influenced Carrcass+2. I probably couldn’t have done either +2 or +1, my peak carrcasses and probably my peak creations, period, without him, or they would have been lessened without his input. I remember using The Pixies, for example. And of course his influence comes up in Carrcass-6.
Hucka D.:
Hicks, you mean. The Bill.
bb:
Thank you for talking with me about this, Hucka D. For being so understanding.
Hucka D.:
What I get paid for myself.
bb:
Then the compound where I met Michael Too and we had our longest conversation together is called Michael Won, confusingly enough. I remember thinking I can’t use those trails any longer. Now they’re opened up again. NORRIS is mine now.
Hucka D.:
Yours. Rocks.
bb:
I respect it more now because of this long absence.
Hucka D.:
You have The Freedom.
bb:
We don’t seem to be talking about Pietmond any longer, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
No need to, see.
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Hucka D. seems to be gone again. The Money Pot as Carrcass+1, eh? Million bucks. That can’t quite be right, though. I believe Hucka D. would say it was, though. 1 Pink. Peak. And the newest carrcass, Carrcass-6, is a moon of this, like Charon is to Pluto. That’s the Piepodt part, that’s what Teepot was striving for and Pietmond seemingly received. It represents the end of Pietmond.
2:22 to 2:23. 2 to 3. Too to 3. Won to Too to 3. Today I met another old friend who was worried that he might come in 3rd, and thus last, in a town election he’s entered. Another reference to the ’68 presidential election? Could be. This friend also knows about the carrcasses, but the really old ones, from the 90s.
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NORRIS:
Michael Won to Michael Too to Wallace3 and done. Where is the 4th, man?
bb:
Hi NORRIS. I understand you are a company now and not just a woman.
NORRIS:
I am all women. Woman.
bb:
Do you know of POPE, NORRIS?
NORRIS:
POPE is the Great Cheops Pyramid, Mt. Tom.
bb:
That’s right in part. In the main.
NORRIS:
POPE is YOU.
bb (to himself mostly, after a googling):
http://www.appstate.edu/~brittanma/writing/10×10/booker18.html
Nah, that’s just old Booker T. Archive stuff. NORRIS?
NORRIS:
YOU.
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