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4 books I read recently & loved: Paul Cunningham Goal/Tender Meat/Tender, Amy...
_______________I am 32 years old, but I am still changing. People told me I would never change. Those people are sort of right. The problem is that people only want me to change for them. Like it’s...
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Holly Woodlawn Day
'I meet Woodlawn at her apartment in West Hollywood, Los Angeles' gay village or ghetto, on a sweltering hot day. In a few weeks she'll be in the UK to promote an exhibition of paintings of herself by...
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Mirrors
______________Jeppe Hein 'Mirror Wall' (2009): A huge mirror is mounted onto a wall. When visitors enter the space the mirror starts moving subtly and wavelike. Visitors facing the mirror will be...
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"Well, he seemed like - he just seemed like the world was at his finger tips...
Interview with Eve BabitzConducted by Paul KarlstromAt her home in Hollywood, CaliforniaJune 14, 2000PAUL KARLSTROM: Why don't you -EVE BABITZ: I thought of myself as, I was like an art groupie/art...
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Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, nonfiction, music, film, art &...
Books (fiction)in no orderMark Doten The Infernal(Gray Wolf Press)xTx Today I Am A Book(Civil Coping Mechanisms)Jeremy M. Davies Fancy(Ellipsis Press)Edouard Leve Newspaper (Dalkey Archive Press)Sean...
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Satan Worshiping 18 Year-Old Male Escort Kills 'Sugar Daddy' with Lawn Lion
Roommates of the Florida teen who allegedly bludgeoned a 36-year-old man to death last week say the suspect was a Satanic male escort after an $800 debt.Dillon O’Donnell, 18, was charged with...
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For the birds
*p.s. Hey. Happy Bastille Day. ** Bernard Welt, Morning, B. My favorite thing in the post was the way the roommates talk. 'Beyond Black,' by Hilary Mantel is sounding very, very tempting. If we hit...
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'If you are looking for cute boys I am one of them': DC's select...
__________________clips, 19BournemouthHad other profile name of clip but had problems loading/retaining pics so tried again with this one clips (added s). If this is ok I will delete the other...
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Back from the dead: The Seven Godlike Books of James McCourt (orig. 11/09/06)
----Readers of this blog know I don't tend to love American fiction the way I do the French variety. There have been and will continue to be exceptions to my literary Francophilia, but, generally...
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Gig #80: Sampler: Legendary Pink Dots
'Over 33 years and 40-plus albums, the Legendary Pink Dots have forged a unique, subterranean path through a cross-section of British, European and American musical subcultures. With roots in the same...
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My name is Luka, by James Nulick
I visited Luka Magnotta in prison. He was incarcerated at the Rivière-des-Prairies Detention Centre in Montreal. Are you a Canadian citizen? No. Are you a reporter? No. Are you American? Yes. What...
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Catherine Breillat Day
'The central preoccupation of Catherine Breillat’s work is the sexuality of women. That is, in and of itself, no major accomplishment. How many male directors, by contrast, are not in some way...
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Spotlight on ... Kathy Acker Great Expectations (1983)
'Acker proposes that her text is the other text.'The connection between reading and community is continually formed by writing that's disrupting real-time events.'“Influence” is past-tense,...
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Happy 60th birthday to Disneyland 5 days late
_____________________________Disneyland employs a patented 'Smellitzer' device designed to pump certain scents around. The Smellitzer uses a series of pumps and vents to launch the smells 200 feet at...
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Gig #81: Of late 23: Duster, M.E.S.H., death’s dynamic shroud.wmv,...
DusterM.E.S.H.death’s dynamic shroud.wmvThighpaulsandraVince StaplesTallesenRolo TomassiSlackkRP BooFlying Saucer AttackSeven Davis Jr.White PoppyXiu Xiu_____________DusterTropical Solution'There was...
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Back from the dead: The Allegedly Sexy and Apparently Evil Harlow Day (orig....
----1.Affidavit lays out details in porn producer's slayingBy MARC DAVIS, The Virginian-Pilot© May 19, 2007At first, Sean Lockhart, who is better known by his porn star moniker Brent Corrigan, didn't...
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Later (mostly) Luis Buñuel Day
'Luis Buñuel was a singular figure in world cinema, and a consecrated auteur from the start. Born almost with cinema itself, his work moves from surrealist experimentation in the 1920s, through...
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Vacances d'été composé de vingt-deux couplets (for Zac)
*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Bernard was telling me about Sondheim's Bunuel mashup. Wow. I saw 'Ken Death Gets Out of Jail'. Huh. If memory serves, having seen the film, I'm not entirely...
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Hoaxes
____________In the 1970s and early ’80s, the East German Olympic program employed the electronic composer Martin Zeichnete to create workout soundtracks for the GDR’s teams — shimmering, motorik...
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_Black_Acrylic presents ... Martin Kippenberger - The Happy End of Franz...
Since I first saw his work back in my student days, the German artist Martin Kippenberger has been a big influence on me. I was always sympathetic enough to his fabled ‘bad boy’ persona but the art...
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