I realized only the other day that Andy Hummel died earlier this month, on July 19th. Alongside Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, and Jody Stephens, Hummel was one of the founding members of the Memphis rock band Big Star.
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2010, the Year of the Death of Big Star
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Star, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel, Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow, The Posies, The Box Tops, Rhino Entertainment, R.E.M., The Minus 5, SXSW, Elliott Smith, Jem Cohen on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Which would you buy?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Donald Antrim, John Gall, The Verificationist on July 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
On the left we have Jan Bruegel the Elder’s (Flemish, 1568–1625) A Woodland with Travelers (detail). On the right is a design by John Gall, art director at Vintage. There are many details in the Bruegel painting, which Edward Mullany and I recently found in the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. The Gall cover provides an [...]
When You are Giving a Reading, and Look Out Into the Audience, Picture This:
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Moriarty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Moriarty, Depeche Mode, La Blogotheque, Pauline Acquart, Tom Waits, Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town, Naïve Records on July 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
…has been my favorite new band for the past year or so. Below I’ll embed some of their videos in the hope that I can make you like them, too.
Subscribe to Artifice
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2010 | 16 Comments »
For the last week of their July subscription drive, Artifice Magazine is ramping up the awesome. Subscribers will be entered in a drawing to win one of several prize packages that include some of the best in current and forthcoming independent lit, including issues of Annalemma, Another Chicago Magazine, Sententia, Pank and Hobart and much-anticipated [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (7-11/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Kathy Acker, Homogenic, Walter Benjamin, Empire of the Senseless, Blood and Guts in High School on July 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier: The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53) The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53) 7. And so become blinded by the arrival of Kathy Acker, deceased “punk” novelist whose three decades of work “puts in its place a universe of shameless, playful freakery,”[1] a writer who matches “guts [...]
Your Summer Jam
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Maximum Balloon, Your Summer Jam on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Jason Jordan Said Let There Be Two Books, & There Were
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the rare same-publisher / double-release, Jason Jordan’s CLOUD AND OTHER STORIES & POWERING THE DEVIL’S CIRCUS [ REDUX ] are both available right this very minute. The beauty covers are from Steven Seighman & the publisher is Six Gallery Press. Go forth & dig in, especially if you like your lit curvy & powerful [...]
There Will Be 2001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Stanley Kubrick, Paradise Lost, Chinatown, Roman Polanski, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2001: A Space Odyssey, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis, John Huston, György Ligeti, Jonny Greenwood, Upton Sinclair, Oil!, Punch-Drunk Love, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Burning Star Core, Milton on July 26, 2010 | 15 Comments »
This is somewhat late to the party, but three years later I still haven’t seen this argument made anywhere else, so here goes. Many critics have noted that Daniel Day-Lewis‘s performance in There Will Be Blood (2007) drew heavily from his fellow Irishman John Huston‘s turn in Chinatown (1974). See, for instance, here, here, here, [...]
The Special Relationship #2 (a guest post by Jarred McGinnis)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 7:35 in the Morning, Aminatta Forna, Bageye at the Wheel, Colin Grant, Freeda Sangra, Granta, Jarred McGinnis, Katy Wix, Marcus Garvey, Nacho Vigalondo, Negro with a Hat, Samuel Taradash, Sting, The Special Relationship, Tim Wells, Tom Basden on July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
[The Special Relationship is a new multi-genre performative reading series in London. Jarred's report on the first one is here. —Adam]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Radiohead, Robert Smigel. Kathy Acker, Rolling Stone, Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Beastie Boys, Verspertine, Deleuze, Guattari, Judge Schreber, Freud, Pagan Poetry, Richard Linklater, Waking Life on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
3. Reproducing visual images on distant screens through the “natural” magic of electricity helps to precipitate a Robert Smigel “Fun with Real Audio” segment of “TV Funhouse” (on the March 17, 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live). The segment features a cartoon Björk inhabiting an alive and increasingly irate swan dress while singing her Oscar-nominated [...]
New work by Tom Delinger
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged tom denlinger on July 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tom Denlinger is a cool Chicago photographer/digital artist, and my collaborator, among other projects, on The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game, eds Kanta Kochar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger (Nebraska, 2009). I was struck by these images he shared with me via email for a recent show in Chicago, which I [...]
Throw Your Hands in the Air (The Dionysian Impulse)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pitchfork Music Festival, Major Lazer, Diplo, Apollonian, Dionysian, The Birth of Tragedy, dancehall, daggering, Skerrit Bwoy, Beach House, Pitchfork, Kate Gardiner, Switch, Victoria Legrand, Alex Scally, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ian Johnston, Eric Wareheim on July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last Sunday I went to the Pitchfork Music Festival. The act I most wanted to see was Major Lazer. Well, I saw Major Lazer. And during the set, in the midst of all the onstage daggering antics, I started thinking about Friedrich Nietzsche.
New Narrativists on Gossip
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s Time to Listen to Cory Doctorow
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A story came out today that a guy in Japan was arrested for sharing some TV shows on BitTorrent. These stories of violations of civil rights in the name of copyright are becoming more frequent – and often in locales we see as fairly progressive (Sweden, France, Japan, etc.). I think a lot of us [...]
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 10 / 39, TRILCE
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Click through for a review of James Wagner’s TRILCE, the tenth in this full-press review series of Calamari books.
Lee Siegel on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eyes Wide Shut, Stanely Kubrick on July 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is one my favorite essays on Kubrick and art in general, and it was written eleven years ago, but I think the sentiments expressed still stand. Below are some of the first reactions to Eyes Wide Shut.
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