May 13, 2012

OTRA DIA, OTRO FOTO: Trovadors de Fantasma

photo caption: 1) Poster from Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan 2012 : ENTE, a project in Casa de los Contrafuertes; 2) stencil print on cork board by Juan Ramon Gutierez, THE STENCIL NETWORK, "sin titulo", 2012.

SANTA OLAYA, PR
SUNDAY, 05-13-12 / 4:20AM

MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM MOTHER'S DAY TROUBADORS

-- WHAT'S THAT NOISE!? ASKS LILLIAN

-- UH, IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC.

-- AT THIS HOUR?

-- LET ME CHECK...

I stumble into my flipflops and go outside to see what I can find, or hear. Coming from across the mountain is the clear and distinctly amplified sound of musica tipica, the music of the jibaro, often heard here in the Mulero Valley. Two or three women are singing in harmony. Guitar, cuatro (a small high pitched 10-string guitar), flute and maracas provide the melody. My spanish is better these days, but I can really only make out the words MAMITA, FELIZ, COROZON, AMOR, FLORES, and QUIERO MUCHO.

I have visions of a small flat-bed truck with a giant sound system (the music is quite loud, it woke Lillian) and a band of troubadors dressed in traditional costumes. The women in long red skirts and white puffy-sleeved blouses, the men in black pants and long or short sleeved white flat-fronted shirts guayaberas) and large straw hats. I grab the car keys and head for the top of a nearby hill, but as I drive east towards the village of Santa Olaya, the road is deserted. I turn around and head west to barrio Sabana. No cars, trucks, people, dogs. Nada. Everyone and everything seems to be asleep. I follow a few of the local roads, winding my way through the hills surrounding the Mulero Valley. No sign of the troubadors or their truck. After a 15 mile circuit covering regions to the east, west, north and south - I return to Casa Mulero. The sun casts a faint glow behind the nearby mountains...

-- WHAT DID YOU FIND? ASKS LILLIAN

-- UH, NOTHING...

-- NOTHING?!

-- THE ROADS WERE EMPTY. NOTHING WAS OPEN - CHURCHES, GAS STATIONS, BODEGAS. NOTHING. NO SOUNDS EITHER, EXCEPT FOR THE COQUI AND AN OCCASIONAL ROOSTER.

-- I CAN'T SLEEP, SHE SAYS.

-- ME EITHER. WANT COFFEE?

-- O.K. LET'S GO TO THE BEACH.

-- O.K. I'LL GO PACK THE CAR.

-- I'LL MAKE THE COFFEE.

-- NO, LET ME. IT'S MOTHER'S DAY.

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

May 10, 2012

O.K. IMHO

photo caption: Tienda de ropas para mujeres, PR 167, south, Bayamon, PR

Posted: Mon., May. 7, 2012, 4:00am PT
VARIETY ON-LINE

A ZEST TO TEXT LETS THE RUDE INTRUDE
By Peter Bart

Hollywood seems to be in a rude mood.

A curt missive through cyberspace has taken the place of a gracious conversation face-to-face or via telephone.

"Texting and email and posting offer sips of online connection ... but they do not substitute for conversation," argues Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT.

In his new memoir, Frank Langella recounts how he showed up for an audition for John Frankenheimer, a famously rude filmmaker, to discuss the script for "The Horseman" and then pose for a quick photo. By the time the role was offered him a few weeks later, Langella had committed to another project. Trying to be polite, Langella personally phoned the director to apologize, only to listen to a Ferocious, invective-laden tirade that ended with the warning, "You'll never work in this business again." Frankenheimer even sent him a bill for $6,500 to cover the supposed photo shoot.

Given all this angst, is show business still a rewarding profession? The answer, of course, is "yes," provided one comes equipped with appropriate patience, dedication and a thick skin. Make that a suit of armor.

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FROM THE EMAIL IN-BOX:

From: "James Sr."
To: galligan
Subject: Seventyfive Grand, stop beeing lazy!

Seventyfive Grand!

savory image!

Been there, done that!

James Sr.

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Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

May 6, 2012

seems like shtick...

photo caption: Roadside restaurant, carr 167 south, between El Ocho and Narranjito, PR

"Although of course..."
David Lipsky's five days with
David Foster Wallace
March 5-10, 1996

p. 165

DL: Let's go over some directors: Woody Allen.

DFW: Never much liked Woody Allen.

DL: Why not?

DFW: Dunno. I think part of it that, when I was at Amherst -- I mean I'd never really heard of him. But I remember seein' Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex, and bein' real excited, 'cause I thought it was going to be real sexy. And then not. So, on the East Coast he was so trendy. And I'd heard so much about him before I ever saw him? I also think -- I don't think is humor's all tha tsubtle, it seems like a shtick to me. But I know like I've got really smart friends from New York, who just think he's an absolute genius. It's sort of...

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

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http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

April 29, 2012

THIS IS THE FINAL NOTICE!

photo caption: In-store display, OfficeMax, Rio Hondo Mall, Bayamon, PR

Subject: Well done inside your 2011/2012 Nomination
Date: Apr 29, 2012 7:26 AM

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Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

April 24, 2012

TIME TRAVEL

photo caption: L Mulero, JC Garrett, M Morton - Santurce es Ley, San Juan, PR 11:11PM - 04-20-12

From: Stephen Fisher - Prague, CZ
To: Jan Galligan - Santa Olaya, PR
Date: Apr 24, 2012 5:28 PM

Jan:

Nice!!!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:17 PM
To: Hector Mendez Caratini - Isla Verde, PR
Cc: Stephen Fisher - Prague, CZ

Hector:

I was digging in the archive, looking for one thing
and found many others, including the attached, and
the text below...

Jan

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To:chuck.patch - New Orleans, LA
BCC:garrettart - Rodeo, CA
date: 10/01/06

Subject:ON THE ROAD IN NEW ORLEANS 1955/2005

"What a picture this is
what pictures can be taken
about this book of poems
some day"

Jack Kerouac

Dear Chuck:
Why did it take me so long to figure
this out? It has been eating at my subconcious for
all this time and only after a long discussion with
Tim Cahill and his story about Robert Frank and Jack
Kerouac travelling from NYC to Fla to visit Kerouac's
mother, did I make the connection. Maybe the allure of
sultry weather did the trick.

Warmest regards,

Jan
Albany, NY

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June 27, 1957
Dear Joyce (Glassman), disregard last letter. I think
I exaggerated the conditions here - in gloomy mood... Go ahead
as planned, I'll be with you all the way... all the way
to Mexico, eventually, I hav an idea.. and you must write a novel about Mexico too!

Love Jack (signed)

ps My mother says if she's still here when you arrive SanFran,
we will have a nice dinner for you (she's leaving and I'm stayin')

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TIME, TIME, TIME

From Idlewords, an older post giving online deportment tips to time travelers. It's based on the exploits of John Tito, a time traveler from 2038 who showed up in IRC chat in 2000. Impossible, you say? "He had been sent back to the 1970's to fetch a model IBM 5100 computer, Because UNIX has problems in 2038, and the 5100 had an undocumented feature that made it highly desirable to programmers working on the UNIX bug. Apparently the Army of 2036 knew enough to build a time machine, but they weren't able to fix a word-size error in a legacy operating system."

That bit actually made the whole story sound plausible to me.

"Best Practices for Time Travelers"
Tags: time, travel, john, tito

June 15, 2006
from Sara Ayers blog: SMALL BLUE SPHERE
http://www.smallbluesphere.com

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hector >
>"I agree with Garrett." >

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

April 24, 2012

OTRA DIA : OTRO FOTO - IMMIGRATION

LOS INTEGRANTES DE LA AGRUPACION LOS INMIGRANTES
[members of the group of immigrants,(via google)]
JC Garrett, M Morton, L Mulero. foto: J Galligan
Viejo San Juan, Paseo de la Princesa statue, 04-20-12, 11:11am

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]