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Halloween countdown post #3: Lucio Fulci Day
'Lucio Fulci is best remembered for his delirious hallucinatory and visceral horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Expressed in these films was a creative libation of splanchnic yet...
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Spotlight on ... Claude Simon The Trolley (2001)
'If formal experimentation in art were a crime, Claude Simon would certainly have been charged, convicted and sentenced. He is usually associated with a group of French novelists writing in the decades...
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Halloween countdown post #4: Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Tracey...
_______________Tracey Snelling The Last House on the Left_______________Marnie Weber The Night of ForevermoreIf it is said that Hieronymus Bosch draws with his brush, then Marnie Weber films with her...
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Please welcome to the world … VALENCIA (Nine Banded Books), by James Nulick
*** You’re about to read Dumpster kicker, if you have time. It’s a chapter from Valencia. But first you get an interview and a few keys to the novel.***My nephew was seventeen in 2003. I was...
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Halloween countdown post #5: DC's Scary Candy News Outlet & Sales Emporium
______________In 1964, Long Island housewife Helen Pfiel was arrested for handing out goody bags containing dog biscuits, steel wool pads, and arsenic laced ant traps to teenagers who she felt were too...
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Spotlight on ... Eileen Myles I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems...
'When I think about being female I think about being loved. What I mean by that: I have a little exercise I do when I present my work or speak publicly or even write (like this). In order to build up...
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Meet Cleats, mental_ill_boy, CutMyBallsOff, BillythePig, and DC's other...
_____Rich, 18Does a boy whose looks drive girls and gay guys crazy, who has extremely wealthy parents, a guaranteed million dollar plus yearly paying job waiting for him in his father's business, and a...
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Gig #87: Of late 26: Destroyer, Dj Richard, Endon, Emptyset, TodoTodo, Frog...
DestroyerDj RichardEndonEmptysetTodoTodoFrog EyesShampoo BoyDialectStephen O'MalleyRF x VisionistYears of AbuseBig BraveLizzy Mercier DesclouxLoren Connors& Kim GordonOlivia BlockVenetian...
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Spotlight on ... Tony Duvert Strange Landscape (1973)
'Tony Duvert lived most of his life in his native France, where sexual boundary-pushing in literature has been de rigeur since the Marquis de Sade’s cum-drenched epics of the 18th century. Duvert’s...
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'24 DEAD, 11 INJURED, 7 CRITICALLY', a Halloween maze * (for Zac)
* aka Halloween countdown post #6*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I've tried 'Full Metal Jacket' a few times, and every time it seems very fuzzy and imprecise, and I've never been able to figure out...
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Please welcome to the world ... Bill Reed SHARED AIR: My Six Decade Interface...
'The year is 1950 and I was nine. Just about everyone else in the housing project where we lived in West Virginia consisted of garden variety Snopes and Joads . . . except for une certaine Jerry...
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Halloween countdown post #7: DC picks the most charismatic American* haunted...
* excluding Southern California (coming soon)________________The House of Shock(New Orleans)The House of Shock is quite possibly the most amazingly detailed haunt I have ever entered. This is not a...
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Serenity is a fake waterfall.
*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. They've evolved into a kind of serious art form, if you ask me. The things I dislike about 'A Single Man' are probably pretty predictable. A very happy birthday...
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Halloween countdown post #8: Vincent Price Day
'Vincent Price, the suavely menacing star of countless low-budget but often stylish Gothic horror films, died at his home in Los Angeles on Monday. He was 82 years old and died of lung cancer, a...
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Spotlight on ... Lucia Berlin A Manual for Cleaning Women (2015)
'I have known Lucia Berlin’s work for more than thirty years—ever since I acquired the slim, beige 1981 Turtle Island paperback called Angels Laundromat. By the time of her third collection, I had come...
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Halloween countdown post #8: DC picks the most charismatic Southern...
________________The Opechee Way Haunt: Doll House of Death(Glendale)The Opechee Way Haunt is a home haunt located in the hills of Glendale, California. Tucked away in this quiet, cozy neighborhood, Sam...
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Rerun: Dirk Bogarde Stepladder (orig. 09/26/09)
'Dirk Bogarde was the biggest British star of fifties cinema: a heart-throb whose protestations of being a "serious actor" was seen as just another pretty boy's whinge. He made several films which...
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Halloween countdown post #9: Rerun: 20 coffins (orig. 09/17/08)
____________1.'This huge casket, which is 20 metres long, six metres wide and six metres high, is decorated with wreaths and dozens of normal-sized coffins. Morbid diners can browse the funeral...
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Rerun: Ashbery's (orig. 10/02/08)
----'The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.'-- John AshberyThe Ashbery Resource Center____________Four Earlier PoemsSome TreesThese are amazing: eachJoining a neighbor, as though...
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'Another fetish of mine is fucking inflatable toys and then popping them':...
______________Max, 21Toulouse"Il y a un point commun entre les chats et les prostituées, c'est que pour obtenir leur affection, il faut le mériter." - MICHEL SIMON "L'écriture ressemble à la...
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