Win On Diagonals
El Alto, et cetera

My daughter Majella calls Hopscotch ‘Scotch Scotch,’ which is indisputably a better name.  My wife drew the boxes and numbers on our driveway. Majella simply runs through the squares indiscriminatley repeating ‘Scotch Scotch Dady.’  I love this game as I never have before.   El Alto will perform at the Leopard Lounge in NYC (2nd…

a funny instrument…i’ve never played it.   Dmitri Shostakovich also uses a flexatone prominently in his opera The Nose, to characterise the nihilistic schoolteacher in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and in his rarely performed suite Hypothetically Murdered. Alfred Schnittke used it in the death tango movement of his Faust Cantata as well as in the…

I if I were to have a very funny bone tickling dream anytime soon; I hope it’s about Andy Rooney form the 60 Minutes show.  I see Mr. Rooney with two pairs of men’s briefs in his outstretched hands.  One pair would be a so called ‘boxer brief’ in red with no slot to facilitate…

A Fugitive Baton Summer 07’   Outdoor Event featuring several performances…   Hello,               I’m Domenic Maltempi.  I am helping to put together a day’s worth of events in Coney Island for August 19th.   I play in a band called El Alto that will be performing (www.myspace.com/elalto www.winondiagonals.com) Events will go on from 11:30…

   Yes it was some sort of dream.  It was one of those intermittent glimpses as seen a bit removed from oneself; interlarded projections of you’re routine quotidian collection of images and actions, and that other more inaccessible part of you’re mind acting on it, shaping it, contorting..et cetera.  I wake up all the time.…

            I overheard a woman with black finger nails talk about the superiority of New England lottery scratch offs.  I did not breathe into that warm left leg of early June I grasped onto.  I held fast to that burly hairless fire of fictional flesh that flexes mercurially under a skirt of gossamer like threading…