February 2012
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Dora Malech
“Here Name Your”
My friend spends all summer mending fence for the elk to blunder back down and the cows to drag the wires and the snow to sit and sag on, so all the twist and hammer and tauten and prop amounts at last to nought, knot, tangle. The next year he picks up his pliers and fixes the odds all over again. There are no grownups, and I think that all of us children...
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Ben Gazzara
Has passed on.
Here he is “siding with the money” on a particularly weird and raucous Dick Cavett episode.
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Denis Johnson
Denis Jonhson’s notes forTrain Dreams.
Via this fantastic site, which I’ll no doubt be reblogging ad nauseum.
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Afterschool
Afterschool, Antonio Campos, 2008.
January 2012
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Philip Larkin
Has a new “Complete” edition of his poems coming out. The Guardian has their review up. I could also be totally confused, but I believe it’s also like 700 pages or something. Jesus.
In other corners of the internet, Francis-Noël Thomas writes that
What Larkin said of Betjeman’s relation with the reading public is true of his own. “In this century English poetry,” Larkin...
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Edmund White
White in 1982. Photograph: Matthew Salacuse
Interviewed in Vice.
Do you like to kiss? Passionately.
Describe the perfect man. Clothes, habits, ethnicity, what he likes in bed, etc. He’s taller than me, six feet plus. He loves to fuck fat asses and is insatiable, he’s clean but not a clothes horse, and he can be dark or fair.
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Night Moves
Night Moves, Arthur Penn, 1975
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"He Ate The Sandbox," Maureen Thorson
He Ate The Sandbox A swarm of ghosts in Pacman Park. Dreaming Of past encounters with a fantastic shape — A waning pie, a martial moon, each new convert Queries his marshmallow fellows — oh, golly, how did it taste? Like carrots and icing! Like the battle’s details from The joystick perspective, and there are details Still unknown to us! Brothers,...
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Craig Zobel on being heckled at Sundance
Director Craig Zobel’s newest film “Compliance” was received by a charged audience at Sundance this weekend. To wit:
So, did you anticipate any of the reaction some of these viewers had to the film? Actually, while I was casting the film, one actress that came in to read for the character of Sandra (played by Ann Dowd in the film) had had a similar reaction. I could tell...
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Anthony McCann and "I
The poet Matthew Dickman comes out high and jolly for Anthony McCann’s 2011 collection I <3 Your Fate:
“I ♥ Your Fate” is a lyric book of poems that will make you feel like picking up a guitar, a paintbrush, dance your ass off alone in your room. That is to say, McCann will make you feel alive.
This may say more about Dickman than it actually does about the collection itself. He...
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Hunter S. Thompson, 1978; John Kaye for the rest...
Not written by Thompson, but nevertheless:
“I was told by Mister Thompson to mark you down as a VIP, that you were on a mission of considerable importance,” said Inga, the head of guest services, as we rode the elevator up to my floor. “Since he was dressed quite eccentrically, in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, I assumed he was pulling my leg. The bellman who fetched his bags said he was a...
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Two Clarks
Guy Clark
Dillard and Clark
via
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A Recent Email From A Friend
Sent while today’s Packers/Giants game was on.
DAMN! Sorry to miss you — but let me know when you’re leaving; I may be able to catch you before you depart. I’m in Shanghai right now watching Packers / Giants at the home of a Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer. He’s got action on the game and keeps standing up and leaving the room. His teenage daughter is at the...
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Top Three Films of 2011
In order of release.
Melancholia
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Margaret
And no, the alliteration was not a factor.
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Clyfford Still posterior incident and etc.
Clyfford Still, 1957-J-No. 2
“Oddly enough, fame, urine, and profit-enhancement in contemporary art was addressed back in 1995 when Brian Eno pissed in Duchamp’s urinal. Paddy Johnson joked that Eno’s piss may have actually increased the urinal’s intended value:
Claiming to be upset with the way the object was handled (it had been insured for 30,000, an act which would have been...
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"Guide to Vague Relationships" - Megan Boyle
An excerpt:
Sample Introductions to Friends
“This is my co-worker, Frank.”
“This is Amy, my friend.”
“My co-worker, Amy.”
“I met Frank at work.”
“Frank, my friend. We met at work.”
“Amy knew my brother from high school, actually.”
“Oh, my brother introduced us. He and Frank work together.”
Nice Thing to Overhear
“I’ve actually never had as much fun with a girl as I do with Amy.”
More...
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An interview with Michael Robbins
Buju Banton
In your dissertation you argue that
the poetic self [in poets such as Allen Grossman, Jennifer Moxley, and Paul Muldoon] might serve as a locus for thinking about and working through problems—as, for instance, an allegory for larger social and moral problems—rather than be dismissed a priori as an ideological construct whose only possible function is obfuscation. The poem...
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Damien Hirst: Point, kinda counterpoint
Spot paintings!
From The Guardian
For a while, coloured spots signalled a fresh, sophisticated, zesty new Britain. Whether Hirst had much to do with this is uncertain. No one owns the spot, although designer appropriations always remind you of Hirst, or of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who has been covering her work, and her body, in polka dots for 60 years. (Kusama is at Tate Modern...
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Permanent Water
“Permanent Water”
You just texted me two cock pics It used to be more artful The way you did it, the composition. Like last week. It just stopped raining. I have a cold quicksilver feeling. I could put this in a place where you could find it But I am hiding it here.
One time I wanted you to call me So I held my blackberry to my forehead.
Why am I so stupid. Do you know why?...
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Haterade →
Length and Girth
Mark O’Connell writes about the “Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels:”
You finish the last page of a book like Gravity’s Rainbow and—even if you’ve spent much of it in a state of bewilderment or frustration or irritation—you think to yourself, “that was monumental.” But it strikes me that this sense of monumentality, this gratified speechlessness that we tend to feel...
Lecture Series!
Full audio of Edward Albee, Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Jane Smiley and more. MSU for the win.
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Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station"...
…is certainly worth one’s time. An excerpt:
I put on the same clothes and came out of the bathroom to find Teresa dressed, smoking and drinking her coffee on the red couch. She smiled at me, the cat blinked at me, and I said to her in English, “Everything here is beautiful. You are beautiful. The shower is beautiful. The coffee. How did you know I was awake? How was the...
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