Rerun: The sculpturOpéras of Gilbert Peyre (orig. 08/12/10)
----'The French artist Gilbert Peyre (born 1947) is impossible to classify: artist, inventor, D.I.Y. genius, mechanic or in the words of Ben Vautier a ‘Realist Tinquely’. But Gilbert Peyre really has...
View ArticleRerun: 167 piñatas (orig. 09/07/10)
--------*p.s. Hey. Have you ever seen so many piñatas in one place your whole life? Maybe you have. Zac's and my new film is going to have a lot of piñatas in it. Isn't that exciting? No? Yes, it is....
View ArticleRerun: Spotlight on ... Robert Glück Jack the Modernist (1985) (orig. 08/23/10)
----'I wanted to write with a total continuity and total disjunction since I experienced the world (and myself) as continuous and infinity divided. That was my ambition for writing. Why should a work...
View ArticleRerun: The Dreadful Flying Glove presents ... Windows (orig. 09/22/10)
----1. If a person wants to develop or extend the perihelion period in the orbit of the Earth, he can think about the idea of proximity to the sun during the day, in such a way that he is more likely...
View ArticleRerun: Sypha presents ... Autopsy on a Puppet: the Philosophical Horror of...
----“If all the world’s a stage, as that bard guy and practically everyone else has said, then its playbook overflows with Grand Guignol and grotesquerie. Nor should we overlook that its actors- us,...
View ArticleRerun: Bacteriaburger presents ... Five Credulous Books from the Satanic...
----“When you once believed something that now strikes you as absurd, even unhinged, it can be almost impossible to summon that feeling of credulity again. Maybe that is why it is easier for most of us...
View ArticleRerun: Spotlight on ... Julio Cortázar Blow Up and other Stories (1968)...
----'Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.'-- Julio CortazarIntro'Julio Cortázar was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly...
View ArticleRerun: You-x presents ... 70 maps (orig. 06/24/10)
--------*p.s. Hey. You longer term d.l.s and readers will remember long lost d.l. You-x. I wonder whatever happened to him? He liked maps just like I do and just like hopefully you do too. And he...
View ArticleRerun: Unica Zürn Day (orig. 11/09/10)
----Gary Indiana: A Stone for Unica ZürnUnica Zürn has long been a semi-mythical figure. Little known and in many ways unknowable, she is inevitably associated with the Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer,...
View ArticleRerun: Pop quiz: identify the signers of these autographs and maybe win a...
----Some of these are easy and some aren't. The signers come from all over the place: the arts, entertainment, history, politics, celebrity culture. Some are alive, and some aren't. The person who...
View ArticleMeet Dumb&Dumber, InjectMe, Hellvis Presley, Idkwhatimdoing, and DC's other...
___________Lastdestination, 20A final stop to all ur deeds.__________hiker4you, 20hiking anyone? only far out in the desert. great way to get to "know" someone.________Darrell, 19My name is Darrell....
View ArticleIsabelle Adjani Day
"In the dazzling sunlight filling a gilded hotel suite on Madison Avenue, Isabelle Adjani was recalling the bleak season two years ago when she went on French national television to prove that she was...
View ArticleSpotlight on ... Violette Leduc Thérèse and Isabelle (1966)
'It was horror and fear on the part of the publishers which kept this work, first written as the opening section of Leduc's novel Ravages (1955), unpublished in its original form until 2000 – and in...
View ArticleThe Sound of 18th-Century Paris
-- from CNRS News'The musicologist Mylène Pardoen has recreated the background sound environment of central Paris in the 18th century. Her project, presented at an exhibition dedicated to the...
View Article3 untranslatable speeches (for Zac)
1.2.3.*p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I've been wanting to re-watch 'La Reine Margot' ever since I made that post. ** Steevee, Hi, S. Did I? That's makes sense. I haven't read 'THE OTHER PARIS'...
View ArticlePlease welcome to the world ... Brian Evenson A Collapse of Horses (Coffee...
'When Brian Evenson’s first book, Altmann’s Tongue, came out in 1994, it made barely a ripple in the centers of established literary might. It swiftly created a small and cultish buzz, but critics...
View ArticleGig #94: Of late 31: OG Maco, Immune, Dark Actors, Blithe Field, 400PPM,...
OG MacoImmuneDark ActorsBlithe Field400PPMSurgeonEric CopelandSainkho NamtchylakLycusDeantoni ParksMatt KarmilLucretia DaltAnna MeredithAaron David RossSamuel KerridgeFlying Lotus______________OG...
View Article4 books I read recently & loved: Brian Oliu IO: A Memoir, Szilvia Molnar Soft...
_______________'My mother was a librarian and so after school each day I would get dropped off at the library. After finishing my homework and eating a snack bag of Doritos, I would start to read — it...
View ArticleGalerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Kohei Yoshiyuki's The Park
'The X-ray is one of several 19th century inventions that were paired with photography and led to a new conception of the camera as being not a tool for recording what we see, but a means for capturing...
View ArticlePeter Kubelka Day
'A cold sort of ecstasy—that’s what he says his films are supposed to trigger. And they do. Anyone who’s ever seen the disturbingly immaculate works of Peter Kubelka in a theatrical setting will agree....
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