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James Coburn Day
'For my generation, raised on Sunday afternoon repeats of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, Coburn was one of the great Sixties Tough Guys - part of that breed of hip macho actors like Steve...
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Jamie McMorrow presents ... TAIYO MATSUMOTO
1. GoGo Monster: And here's Taiyo Matsumoto and the best comic of 2009, a tale of two schoolboys in their third year of classes, one of whom spends most of his time fading in and out of a world of...
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Meet Tommy, Obedient&Adorbs, tragicfag, ScreamX and DC's other select...
______________TheUnknownSource, 22Imagine, never lifting a finger.I'm looking to be a domestic servant for a dom guy. I'll cook you breakfast, clean your bathroom, wash your clothes, iron your shirts,...
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Spotlight on ... WASTELAND (2016), by New Juche
WASTELAND is now available as a free PDF.WASTELAND charts a prolonged friendship and love affair with an abandoned apartment complex in Southeast Asia called The Flowers, and the swampland surrounding...
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The Legend of Zelda Day
'When he was looking to create a new game for the Famicom Disk System — an add-on for the NES that never launched outside of Japan — designer Shigeru Miyamoto built a prototype in which two players...
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Guns
Robert LazzariniGerhard DemetzPedro ReyesClaes OldenburgDavid ČernýVija CelminsFelix Gonzalez-TorresMel ChinCharles Gitnick::vtol::Joachim KoesterFrancis AlÿsKaren KilimnikJohn BaldessariBurt...
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I Quit, a fable (for Zac)
*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I like that Sondheim song. I don't like that Chicago song. ** Nick Toti, Hi, Nick! Yeah, I tried, I did, but I couldn't make it past the 15 second mark. What an...
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48 revolving restaurants
Orbit, Sky Tower, AucklandEgon Tårnet, Tyholttårnet, Trondheim, NorwayConfiteria Giratoria, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina360 Bar and Dining, Sydney Tower, SydneyFour Winds Revolving Restaurant,...
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Spotlight on ... Mina Loy Insel (1937)
'After finishing Mina Loy’s Insel, one has the impression of clasping a thing of material beauty – a slim volume composed of densely packed prose and rich, earthy imagery – even as before the eyes this...
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Bruce Baillie Day
'One of the most perfect films that I’ve ever seen runs a total of three minutes. Shot in 1966, Bruce Baillie’s All My Life opens on a pan of an old picket fence framed by the blue sky above and a...
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Taxidermists
Rod McRaeSoheila SokhanvariDavid R. HarperPolly MorganNicola ConstantinoPascal BernierJoseph G. CruzBrooke WestonAlastair MackieNicholas GalaninKimberly WithalHarriet HortonBerlinde De BruyckereDavid...
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Spotlight on ... Brad Gooch Zombie 00 (2001)
'Zombies, as we all know, are made, not born. But in Gooch's weirdly blasé tale of sadomasochism and bondage, the unnamed narrator appears to possess zombie qualities from a very young age. On a visit...
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Rerun: Wolf presents ... EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL day, or BEHOLD, MORTALS!! (orig....
----(pronounce more or less "eyafyatlay[œ]k[Y]tl". each time you pronounce it wrong Thor chops a kitten’s head off. fact. )Note: Eyjafjallajökull is the name of the glacier where the eruption is taking...
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Rerun: 'Foreign' Film Pop Quiz (orig. 05/19/10)
* this post was inspired by and is dedicated to d.l. JustinBelow you will see 27 movie posters. Each poster advertises a known -- and in many cases very well known -- American or European film. Some...
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Hideo Kojima Day
'Really, it’s a miracle that the Metal Gear franchise exists at all. The original game was made for a system that few people outside Japan owned, and released by a company that had little faith in it....
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'If you want something more than sex and fun, like a friend sex, not...
______________Fight4Muscle, 20HartfordI love fighting muscle gods and losing the fight! I love Wrestling, MMA, Boxing. I love being exhausted and sweating and in pain for a good reason! Right now even...
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Spotlight on ... Lawrence Yitzhak Braithwaite Ratz Are Nice (2000)
'I met Lawrence Braithwaite only once, at a now-legendary writing conference in Buffalo in 2001, where many of the so-called “New Narrative” writers – Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, and Kevin Killian...
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Demolished Mansions 2
Medfield Manor (Medfield, MA)Born: 1898Died: 1961The Mark Hopkins Mansion (Nob Hill, San Francisco)Born: ?Died: 1906Unknown (16 St Georges Rd, Melbourne)Born: ?Dead: 2016Clandon Park (Surrey)Born:...
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VALIE EXPORT Day
'Waltraud Lehner was born in 1940 in Linz, Austria, and by 1967, she had become VALIE EXPORT. That year, despite or due to her upbringing in a convent, she underwent a personal revolution following her...
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4 books I read recently & loved: Troy James Weaver Marigold, Stephanie Gray...
________________'Marigold is the story of a “thirty-something floral salesman” struggling to cope with the sheer horror of everyday life. For many, I’m sure, the story will be as relatable as it is...
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Chick Strand Day
'Sensuous, deeply felt, rigorous, uncompromising – the work of Chick Strand belongs in the canon of avant-garde cinema alongside that of her contemporaries Stan Brakhage and Bruces Baillie and Conner....
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Extrapolated games
Pippa Stalker/TshabalalaAshley BlackmanNabil MirUBERMORGANDaniel PinchbeckGeorgie Roxby SmithJanek SimonRiley HarmonOllie MaHunter JonakinPaolo PeperiniAnders VistiYuichiro KatsumotoDavid BorawskiHugo...
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Spotlight on ... Jenny Erpenbeck The End of Days (2012)
'At one point in Jenny Erpenbeck’s remarkable novel, The End of Days (Aller Tage Abend), a woman who is falling to her death thinks of how thinks of how, throughout her life, she had done things for...
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Gig #101: Of late 36: Little Annie, Rhys Chatham, Moonface And Siinai,...
Little AnnieRhys ChathamMoonface And SiinaiRhythmic TheoryOreo JonesNasa Space UniverseSculptureMaarja NuutGuided by VoicesOhalForest ManagementBurning HouseCat's EyesExtended OrganSecond WomanMarcus...
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Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, nonfiction, film, music, art &...
Books (fiction)in no orderLily Hoang A Bestiary(Cleveland State University Press)Jeremy M. Davies The Knack of Doing(David R. Godine)Jenny Erpenbeck The End of Days(New Directions)Zachary German Thank...
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