Ikon V: Jim Morrison
Some “Texts from Last Night” – I
(209) she met some random, took his vcard, peed in his bed, left, and then requested him as her boyfriend on facebook
(405) I think in growing up..I’ve been having a hard time masterbating to fictional character
(770) I just sat in the Taco Bell drive-thru waiting for a trash can to take my order. Yes, that high.
(906) i decided to cut a 3rd hole in to my snuggie so i could masturbate all the time.. all time low? or genius?
(613) I spent all night sexting your girlfriend for you because you were too drunk. You’re welcome.
(504) She was so drunk yelling at me in my driveway to fuck her. It was the ghetto version of Romeo and Juliet.
Teen accused of strangling mother and sexually abusing corpse
(from The Johnson City Press)
A 17-year-old boy accused of killing his mother last week intentionally strangled her to death and sexually abused her corpse before dumping her body in a trash can, according to a juvenile court document released Monday.
Johnson City Juvenile Court Judge Sharon Green ordered Codey Wayne Miller, 17, held at the Upper East Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center pending a June 5 status hearing, when she will hear motions in the case, including prosecutors’ request to transfer the teenager to adult Criminal Court for trial.
Miller is charged with first-degree murder, felony murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of his mother, Sherry R. Cooper, 36, at her Lake Terrace housing development apartment on Thursday.
Assistant Public Defender Ivan Lilly, appointed to represent Miller, waived the teen’s detention hearing after telling Green that details from the homicide had not been released to news media or Miller’s family.
State law allows juvenile judges to grant media access to juvenile hearings on some cases, including murder, and Green granted a request from the Press. She also released documents that are public record in the case due to the charges involved, which allowed Miller’s name to become public record. Most juvenile records are sealed by state law.
Christopher A. Johnson, 36, 1355 Breedlove Ave., Memphis, is also charged along with Miller. He’s being held on charges of felony murder and abuse of a corpse. Washington County Sessions Judge Robert Lincoln arraigned Johnson by video Monday morning and appointed attorney Jim Lonon to represent him.
If convicted as an adult, Miller faces life in prison as would Johnson. If his case remains in juvenile court and his case is handled there, Miller could only be held in custody until he is 19 years old.
Johnson is accused of watching Miller kill Cooper sometime on May 7. According to a court affidavit, Johnson did not intervene in the killing or contact authorities after it happened.
Police also wrote in the court document that Johnson retrieved a trash can from outside the residence and “instructed the juvenile to place the victim’s body inside the trash can.”
One or both of them put the can back outside, according to police, but Cooper’s body was not discovered until around 1:30 a.m. May 9.
When police responded to 2472 Mint Hill Road about 1:30 a.m. Saturday on a death investigation, Tony Hyder was sitting over top of Cooper’s body in the side yard of the apartment building crying, according to the police report. Hyder, 58, 446 S. Broadway St., was apparently Cooper’s boyfriend.
Investigators remained silent Monday about details of the killing, including what prompted them to charge Miller and Johnson with felony murder. Felony murder requires that the killing occurred during the commission of one of a list of specific crimes that include acts of terrorism, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, theft, kidnapping, aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, aircraft piracy or discharging a bomb.
“We’re not releasing that until we get the autopsy back,” said Johnson City Police Lt. Steve Sherfey. He did confirm that Cooper suffered no trauma, no knife wounds and no gunshot wounds.
“The autopsy has not been done. They should be doing that (Tuesday),” he said. An investigator in the case will likely be present for that procedure, Sherfey said.
District Attorney General Tony Clark said earlier in the day that he planned to petition Johnson City Juvenile Court to transfer the boy to adult court for trial, and Assistant District Attorney General Kelly McCoy told Green the state will file that motion.
Johnson remains jailed on a $150,000 bond.
Appreciation: Skot Armstrong
I’ve known artist Skot Armstrong from what now seems like infancy and he remains one of those people who is literally indispensable to my own sense of well-being in the world. Over four decades, he and I have collaborated on a number of projects, making our own fair share of mayhem and wonder together. As friends and colleagues, we have shared far more of life’s high points and lows than I care to (or could possibly) remember, but always we have taken joy in each other’s company and fellowship and, over the years, our relationship has evolved to a degree of comfort and closeness that now seems almost familial.
Whatever one might think of his work (and, in fact, there is so much of it that it virtually defies categorization), there is no question that it is invariably provocative and, for me at least, goes a long way to defining what “avant garde” signifies both in the best and broadest sense of the word and in any meaningful contemporary usage. I think that a major reason why Skot’s art remains so woefully (in fact, tragically) under-appreciated may well be that his very prolificness conspires to make it difficult to easily encompass the work as a whole. Its sheer volume and variety defies easy labeling and this of course plays directly to the intellectual laziness and commercial corruption of the art establishment.
Of late, Skot has been delighting cineastes everywhere with Bunker Vision, his wonderful film column in Tulsa Kinney’s artzine Artillery. Perhaps more easily accessible than his painting and work in other media, the column nevertheless reflects the same playful yet transgressive sensibility that informs and illuminates all of his art and that makes it at once so delightful and yet disturbing .
Links:
BUNKER VISION (column) PALIMPSESTS (web site)
Solitude
(from an e-letter to R.D.)
Thankee very much, but I think I’ll avoid being famous for the nonce, taking a leaf out of the book just completed by the late, deeply lamented J.D. Salinger. I’ve been thinking a lot about “Catcher in the Rye” and it strikes me with great force just really how good a book it is. People talk all the time about art that “stands the test of time” and there’s no question in my mind that “Catcher” only gets better with the years. I have not read a page of it since I was a teenager and yet I can remember whole parts of it as if I read it yesterday (which is more than I can say for many of the books I’ve been reading). Sallinger had the whole fame’n'glory thing down absolutely right and, of course, his very avoidance of it only made the machine want to devour him all the more. There is NO way to produce anything of value outside of solitude and silence, the roaring din of the media, the hateful cacophany of the crowd can only serve to destroy whatever talent one has.
Everyday I become more withdrawn, less interested in social interaction of any sort. It has become an increasing burden to go through the social gestures and niceties that are part of this life I’ve made. I’m extremely selfish about my time alone. I suppose that’s because there seems so little of it. I can’t fathom nor accept the acceleration of time as one ages — it seems so damn unfair that just at the point when there is so much to do, there seems ever less time to do it. They say that work expands to fill the time available for its completion (Parkinson’s Law), but why o why does the time shrink with every new project, each new idea, every single day’s ambition? I’m filled with dread these days — thinking that my time is fast running out and there are some many things I still want to do, so many things left unfinished. I know that this is nothing unique to me, that most people fill this way no matter what their accomplishments or talents, but the very universality of the sentiment only makes it that much more bitter.
Funny thing is how much more ambitious I have become — there seem so many more things to learn and to experience. Most of the old passions have faded except the one that drives me to dream up new things, make new connections, find new ways to new places that I’ve never been to before. I’ve fucked up so many things in my life, but this one thing I’ve been true to always. I’ve never been scared to dream.
IKON III: Constantine Cavafy
IKON: Constantine Cavafy
IKON II: Comte de Lautremont
IKON: Comte de Lautremont
IKON I: Guy Hocquenghem
IKON Guy Hocquenghem