Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  Some have claimed that the birth of Abstract Expressionism in the US while not caused by it may have had connections to McCarthyism when it was deemed safer not to be explicit. In China, Ai Weiwei claims that to solely make paintings of traditional themes is forced by the repressive mechanisms of the state against the body and spirit. When will political bullies bugger off and allow artists to create art representative of the enormous capacity and potential of the human spirit? Social media umpires demand that an artist explain herself at all times quoting things out of context and denying the symbolic and the dramatic, modes, poetics, traditions, fiction, the right to transgress to name but a few. It gets harder and harder to make art where a sophisticated audience is required, after all everything on the internet is rated G. & so art is embroiled in suspicion much like it was under Hitler & Stalin, the message that the human is so terrifying that if she lets go in her art,

  … babble babble babble… Why did they stop taping up my mouth? I used to know my boundaries then When I was 6   Copyright Malachi Doyle 2022.

 dhdcbdhcwd   Why is it that discussions of reggae singer Peter Tosh are discussed in terms of relative popularity whereas John Lennon is discussed in terms of his artistic achievements? It appears that Third World art appreciation is discussed in teen language while First World art appreciation is discussed in academic language. Why do all poetry magazines about Africa on the web come from America? Some would say that none of these questions matter much to discuss. That we know what exists and what has to be done. That literature is dead. Still politicians deliver speeches.   Copyright Malachi Doyle 2022.

Here lies…   Here lies recumbent slumber to an insomniac. Man that hurt, my mind is getting stupider by the day & I have to consult web dictionaries because my vocabulary is diminishing. An access issue. I’ve switched off part of my brain to preserve my sanity. Mentally and emotionally exhausted. Better to make animal noises or what the pentecostals call talking in tongues. I do it in the car, where nobody can hear. It feels good to do so. It had got to the point where I was recording everything and the observer effect is felt because one is always self conscious not to sound crazy. That one’s utterings adhere to standard historical modes of artefact. For now I prefer the unrecorded. That which passes forever into space untranslated into text. Vibrations are good said Wilson Brian. Is it clear I like the Beach Boys? I listen to them every day. Because of those good vibrations and joyous balmy seaside thrills. I could quite easily move to the tropics and wear shorts and savats e

  Really not wanting to write, imagination dormant. Writing to stave off boredom. Really want to listen to the yellow Bait Ep today will try to remember. Mikey did great work on that one. I miss him every day. He was always available for a chat, except when he was in his cave. Patient and kind. I would like to discuss Beyonce’s recent self-censorship incident and the impression management that is so central to the ‘art’ of our Billionaire industry ‘artists’. Gee, talk about dangerously banal. In the old days, governments banned things. Now artists ban themselves. Anything for a dollar. Clearly if you recorded it, produced it and went through the kind of Industry hoops to release it through a major label, made the millions dollar videos etc, then you meant to say it. I’m not going to tell you what you meant by it. No one can do that. Surely all art is mysterious and what is revealed is more often what the audience sees/hears. Inevitably the artist doesn’t even know why they felt called