Rerun: Power Pop Retrospectivesque (1976 - 1984) (orig. 01/15/09)
The Three O'Clock 'Her Head's Revolving', 198220/20 'Yellow Pills', 1979Let's Active 'Waters Part', 1984The Last 'She Don't Know Why I'm Here', 1979The Boys 'Brickfield Nights', 1979The Jam 'Strange...
View ArticleHalloween countdown post #10: Rerun: A chronology of 26 things with Clive...
'Salome', 1973'Forbidden', 1975"I made two films which went on to be put on video: Salome, which I did when I was 18, and The Forbidden, which I did when I was 19. Both short, dark pieces. Salome is...
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Rerun: The house that death built (orig. 01/09/10)
----BasicsThe Winchester Mystery House is a well-known California mansion that was under construction continuously for 38 years, and is reported to be haunted. It once was the personal residence of...
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Spotlight on ... Edouard Levé Autoportrait (2012)
'It is inevitable that we spend the majority of our time thinking about ourselves, but what kinds of thoughts do we think? Our tendency, I would argue, is for the repetitive and the haphazard; we...
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Caked *
* Halloween countdown post #11_______Annabel Lecter_______________________Scott Hove__________________Rat cake (in progress)____________________Miss Cakehead________*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi,...
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Gig #88: Of late 27: Alex G, JOYFULTALK, Cult Leader, Deerhunter, Voices from...
Alex GJOYFULTALKCult LeaderDeerhunterVoices from the LakeProtomartyrAisha DeviM. LamarGnaw Their TonguesLaurel HaloSteve HauschildtCo LaDrrty PharmsRyan Hemsworth & Lucas______Alex GBug'Beach...
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Halloween countdown post #12: Rerun: Graves, inhabitants (orig. 10/01/10)
____________Story: '"Bruges was desperately depressing at this time...that was the reason Hugh liked it so much...a mysterious equation established itself between his own spirit and that of the place....
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Rerun: Unfinished novelists (orig. 09/10/10)
____________'Denton Welch's A Voice Through a Cloud was written largely during the final racking months before Welch's heart gave out. Echoing his own tragedy, it is a lyric, rebellious plaint of pain,...
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Halloween countdown post #13: Rerun: Brothers Quay Day (orig. 09/29/10)
-----'Trained as illustrators, the Brothers Quay's films give greater attention to mise-en-scène and the marginal, and are more associative than narrative: "We demand that the decor act as poetic...
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4 books I read recently & loved: Sonya Vatomsky Salt is for Curing, Emmanuel...
_______________'Salt Is For Curing is the debut of writer Sonya Vatomsky. This book of poetry is structured as an elaborate meal, set in preparation of the worlds grimmest dinner party. It is layered...
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Halloween countdown post #14: Dark Rides Day
* interview taken from Collectors WeeklyHow did dark rides get started?George LaCross: The forerunner to a single-rail dark ride was an “old mill,” a boat ride that went through a tunnel. When the old...
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Joe Dallesandro Day (part 1)
'Monique von Vooren was mesmerized by his “translucent skin”; Sylvia Miles called it “the warmest in the world.” To Holly Woodlawn he was “a nice guy” and “a real gentleman”; to Paul Morrissey, a...
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Meet CIRCLES, Macbeth, HandsomestGuyEver, ProlapseMe, and DC's other select...
____________cigars, 22I smoke cigars in my ass, Hi I call myself cigarass for a good reason ,, I smoke big cigars in my ass and I crave very big cigars to smoke,, ,,I may do oral,, depending on my...
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For this holiday weekend only, please accept unfettered, immediate access to...
* Warning: These phosts may contain dead things.--------2007* How to Build a Fog Machine* Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... The best Halloween pumpkins ever!* Somebody buy me these animated props...
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Spotlight on ... Rikki Ducornet The Fan-Maker's Inquisition (1999)
'There are certain writers who are deliberately out of pace with the literary lockstep that characterizes a period, certain writers who instead of going with the flow of the narrative current or trying...
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Pareidolia Day
_____________________________This vaguely resembles a kid sitting with his/her legs up in the chair. The "body" seems to fade up dramatically. If you frame-by-frame it, though, it looks like the body...
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David Ehrenstein presents ... Joe Dallesandro Day (part 2)
When it comes to Axioms of the Cinema, nobody can touch Little Joe.(Young Joe)(Old Joe)(Porno Joe)(Joe and baby)(The Smiths album cover -- Joe and Louis in Flesh)Just look at this filmographyAnd here’s...
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R.I.P.: Halloween 2015
______________A self-proclaimed Satanist accused of murdering two young men and burying the body of one of them alive on Halloween night in 2014 died in an apparent suicide yesterday in a North...
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Please welcome to the world ... Gary Lutz The Gotham Grammarian (Calamari Press)
'I came to language only late and only peculiarly. I grew up in a household where the only books were the telephone book and some coloring books. Magazines, though, were called books, but only one...
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'Isolated Rhythm Track' (for Zac)
*p.s. Hey. If you're interested, this new gif work has a backstory that might be useful. Recently, I've felt as though I am in a plateau with the literary gif work. I like what I'm making, but I...
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