NewWorLdLog: Guard Dogs

Monday 18 October 2010

Guard Dogs

Feeling the need to start songwriting again
this time it's personal
all about guard dogs
manipulation modification mutation of the alarm barks of the local canines
a base fom of canine communication?
we sure understand
not to go near them
to turn heel and run
Political symbols of deterring criminals and now, border crossing immigrants
their keen sense of smell allowing them to 'smell past' the disguise of a gym bag
a kids rucksack
to find the hidden, the secret. inside, within, concealed, stuffed,
smuggled (attempting)

feeling the beats,
asked a new/york contact if he'd produce a video
hip hop
something neither of us have done before
walking off the south asian vegan meal down the length of Williamsburg Bridge
found some locations just perfect to film in
large grilled gates and barricades
simulations of those border crossers risk life and limb to climb
not to mention cornered criminals trying to clamber over down a dark alley surrounded by the cops

Sound Samples of recent recordings to be posted soon.

Drug Dogs Aren't Always Right
Often, at border patrol checkpoints, police and U.S. border patrol agents will bring drug dogs around all the cars. If the dogs alert, it could lead to your arrest. At Cates, Hanson, Sargeant & Schoenau, we've had past successes challenging the use of drug dogs to discover drugs.

While these dogs are used often at immigration checkpoints, they're not always right. Sometimes drug dogs are improperly trained. They may be overworked or triggered into alerting by their over-eager handlers. If a drug dog was used in your case, we'll look carefully to make sure that your rights weren't violated. And we'll make that evidence from an illegal search and seizure never enters the courtroom.
eXTRACTED FROM: http://www.duilawyer4u.com/PracticeAreas/Immigration-Checkpoints.asp

BTWN BLDG & CHKPT & BLVD
K9 CAPTCHA
K9 CAPTCHA

IT'S A NUM-BERS GAME-

AN YR #NUMBER# WAS UP

CAN I INS-PECT YR CAR-GO SIR
PLZ STEP OUT THE VE-HICLE
JUST A ROU-TINE CHECK  MA-DAM
YOU BETTA B
PR-AYING FOR A MI-RACLE

THAT I AIN'T ALERT
OR I'M GONNA LEAD YR A-RREST
GONNA SECON-DARY SEARCH YA  
& MAKE U UNDRESS

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CEP Proposal

Deleuze & Guattari once wrote that “New York is virtually a city without a language...” [from Postulates of Linguistics in A Thousand Plateaus, 1923, pp. 103]. How provocative a statement to make about a city brimming with so many languages, dialects, slang etc. I thought. New York for me has always been, as for so many before me, a city of such artistic prestige and accomplishment, vitality and possibility. It has drawn young artists to its bright lights and wide streets for decades now, and it will continue to. Surely New York is a city without any ‘without’: a city of infinite possibility and opportunity, offering itself to all whom arrive, making them never want to leave, offering everything they need.

But I was too hasty; my argumentative cry against with their provocations would have been quickly silenced, had I read a little further on: “There is no language that does not have intralinguistic, endogenous, internal minorities...” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1923, pp103). But my silence was brought with a smile, with a sense of relief, of assurance. Just as I believe[d], and have argued, New York is a city without a language- without a set, solid and all-conforming ‘language’, but rather a multiplicity of tongue, of variations of the tongue, the lingua franca, of English. New York for me is a prime example of how all languages, exchanged by so many different people from such different places is continually being shaped, changed and modified, mutating every day through common shared discourse and people trying to make sense to each other.

Having been born in one country but then being raised between two countries has brought difficulty when pledging allegiance to either. I have felt neither here nor there, not this nor that. What happens to those who don't feel a part, or feel apart, from their surroundings? They start something new; they seek out new places to live and to start again, afresh. The historical implication of New York City having been built ex nihilo by such a wide group of people(s) having travelled from their Old World in search of the New, ready to build themselves a New life in new contexts has always inspired me to travel and work there, to also become a part of the engagement with the 'new' moving away from the old, the traditional, the conventional, the usual, the obvious. I can see a direct link between this state of mind, towards progression through experimentation, in my journey to art and performance College and my future journey to New York and the USA, to frame my questions around the 'New' within city whose very name and ethos is just that.