Brakhage / Victoria
When Stan Brakhage died three years ago, I felt stung. Though I’m getting to that age where we start losing our heroes, Brakhage was and will be one of the few guiding stars in my firmament and was vital to the end-- a hard one to let go. He had retired to and passed away in Victoria, British Columbia, a detail which didn’t register at the time. This morning I was looking at some stills of his work on a biography page, saw the Victoria connection, and was dumbstruck. I’m going to the University there in the Fall to focus on my visual music, which owes everything to Brakhage and just a handful of others. Victoria is a small, sleepy city and so this feels like an utterly strange coincidence. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out where to go to school, so I’ll take this as a good omen, and plan to have a celebratory/ritual screening of “The Mammals of Victoria.”
For a visual introduction to Brakhage, Fred Camper’s site is the place to go.
posted by randy
11:37AM,
04 Jun 2006
4 comments:
There are many significant roles that Victoria City plays culturally in the region’s future.
Thus the famous song you may have already heard…
“…
Station to station, to Victoria City
Meet Kit Clayton, and Ken Kesey
Trans Cascadia Express
Trans Cascadia Express
Trans Cascadia Express
Trans Cascadia Express!
“
– Cascadian Knight
11:34PM,
04 Jun 2006
Huh, I dorkily posted my comment on your livejournal feed, which I guess you can ignore.
Does this mean you’re moving even further away? Fuck man, that’s rough!
– sonia harris
12:19PM,
06 Jun 2006
It’s about the same distance, except that going back and forth to Seattle all the time, I’ll probably feel like traveling less for fun. You should come up, I hear they do the tea thing really well.
– randy
1:37PM,
06 Jun 2006
Oh wierd. I’m reading your post in a computer lab on the University of Victoria campus, here for a conference. I didn’t know you were leaving Seattle. :( At least you wont be too far away.
– boyd main
8:32PM, 04 Jun 2006