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Exits Are: An Interview with Mike Meginnis

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Artifice Books, Artifice Magazine, Aubrey Hirsch, Blake Butler, Brian Oliu, Elissa Gabbert, Exits Are, james tadd adcox, Matt Bell, Mike Meginnis, new forms/old forms, text adventure, Tim Dicks on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“A conversation is a journey, and what gives it value is fear.” So says Anne Carson. Exits Are is a series of text adventures conducted by Mike Meginnis published on Mondays and Wednesdays by Artifice Books and Uncanny Valley. So far, adventures from Blake Butler, Tim Dicks, and Matt Bell have gone up, and the [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: X-Men: First Class

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Angel Salvadore, Apt Pupil, Ben Gazzara, blockbusters, Bryan Singer, Buck Henry, Christopher Nolan, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dan Green, Doom Patrol, Emma Frost, Frank Quitely, Gena Rowlands, Grant Morrison, Hollywood, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Inception, James McAvoy, Jeremy M. Davies, John Cassavetes, Magneto, Marc Silvestri, Michael Fassbender, Mister Sinister, Moira MacTaggert, New X-Men, Norman Jewison, Patrick Stewart, Peter Falk, Professor Xavier, Saint Jack, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sebastian Shaw, sexiness, Seymour Cassel, short shorts, Superman Returns, The 1960s, The Holy Mountain, The Tree of Life, The Usual Suspects, Timothy Carey, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men: First Class, X2 on July 11, 2011 | 11 Comments »

A D: Much like how you hated The Tree of Life, Jeremy, I hated Bryan Singer’s two X-Men films. Hated them! Jeremy: What, seriously? They made you physically ill? Yes, seriously, ill. I would have gnawed my own arm off to escape, if it hadn’t meant forfeiting my malt balls.

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#AuthorFail 5: A D Jameson

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #AuthorFail, A D Jameson, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Chinese, Chronicles of Narnia, Curtis White, DePaul University, dragons, Epic of Gilgamesh, Facets Multimedia, Fiction International, Giant Slugs, Kurt Cobain, Lake Forest College, Lawrence and Gibson, Lemuria, Mutable Sound, Requited, SAIC, Seattle, Siam Square, StoryStudio Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, WTO on July 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Is Big Other a failure? Of course, in every way. See the proof below from our own AD Jameson, who ever-so-mildly breaks the rules of this column (submit!: see this), by stating that he might return to his long-suffering project, detailed below. Even so, we may root for his continued and everlasting failure on this [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew O'Hehir, Andy Goldsworthy, Barry Lyndon, Brad Pitt, Cannes, continuity editing, Culloden, Curtis White, Days of Heaven, dinosaurs, Douglas Trumbull, Ennio Morricone, George Lucas, Grimlock, Gummo, Haskell Wexler, Henry James, Jack Fisk, Jeremy M. Davies, Jessica Chastain, Lars von Trier, L’Eclisse, Leo Kottke, Linda Manz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michael Bay, Michael Haneke, Miramax, Néstor Almendros, Ordet, Paul Kincaid, Pearl Harbor, Pocahontas, Raúl Ruiz, Samuel R. Delany, Saving Private Ryan, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Solaris, Stalker, Terrence Malick, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The New World, The Queen, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, The Wings of the Dove, Transformers, Werner Herzog, Winstanley, Yog-Sothoth on June 27, 2011 | 33 Comments »

[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk (I’d taken in an orphan the week before). But Jeremy and I weren’t finished yet discussing the movies we’d just watched.] A D: You had a rather serious reaction to this one, Jeremy. Were you [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies—Extra: Ranking Woody Allen

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Barbara Kopple, Ben Stiller, Brad Stevens, Burgess Meredith, Christopher Walken, Cole Porter, Denholm Elliott, Diane Keaton, Elaine May, Francis Ford Coppola, Gena Rowlands, Gene Wilder, Gordon Willis, IMDb, In a Persian Market, Ingmar Bergman, Jason Biggs, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Julie Delpy, King Lear, Madonna, Martin Scorsese, Mia Farrow, Molly Ringwald, Myrna Loy, Norman Mailer, Philip Glass, Procol Harum, Richard Kelly, Sam Waterston, Sandman, Scarlett Johansson, Sight & Sound, Southland Tales, Tony Roberts, Tori Amos, Wallace Shawn, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel on June 22, 2011 | 18 Comments »

My last movie talk with Jeremy (about Midnight in Paris) made me want to rank Woody Allen’s films. Jeremy of course hemmed and hawed, but over a Millirahmstrudel I broke them down into: Masterpieces Near Masterpieces Delightful Problematic Forgettable Bad Unseen Jeremy agreed to go along with this, albeit with certain objections.

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 8½, A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Alain Resnais, Alan Rudolph, Annie Hall, Brad Stevens, Cassandra’s Dream, Celebrity, Chronicles of Prydain, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Curse of the Cat People, David Bordwell, Deconstructing Harry, Djuna Barnes, Drôle de drame, Elaine May, Ernest Hemingway, Federico Fellini, George Lucas, Gremlins 2, Gustav Mahler, Hamlet, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Joe Dante, Jon Lovitz, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kenneth Branagh, Killer of Sheep, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Larry David, Les Enfants du Paradis, Lolita, Lucinella, Manuel de Oliveira, Match Point, Melinda and Melinda, Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson, Philip Glass, Scoop, Sight & Sound, Sleeper, Small Time Crooks, Stardust Memories, Starry Night, Sweet and Lowdown, Take the Money and Run, Terrence Malick, The Designated Mourner, The Moderns, The New Yorker, Thundarr the Barbarian, Tina Brown, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Vilmos Zsigmond, Vincent Van Gogh, Vivre sa vie, Wallace Shawn, Whatever Works, Wild Grass, Wild Strawberries, Woman in the Dunes, Woody Allen, X-Men: First Class on June 20, 2011 | 10 Comments »

[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s "Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor" on his singing saw. Fifteen minutes in, two other friends stopped by, bearing bootleg DVDs of three new films: Midnight in Paris, The Tree of Life, and [...]

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An Interview with Me at Untoward

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Agnès Varda, Dalkey Archive Press, David Foster Wallace, Curtis White, Lawrence and Gibson, Charles Baudelaire, Mutable Sound, Peter Greenaway, Batman, G.I. Joe, Viktor Shklovsky, George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, Marina Abramović, Apollonian, Dionysian, Inception, Television, Situationist International, Mike Kitchell, Aurora Tabar, Amira Hanafi, Ayn Rand, Giant Slugs, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Super Mario Bros., Gilgamesh, geek culture, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Epic of Gilgamesh, ninjas, Untoward Magazine, Matt Rowan, Ota Benga, walking art, Michelle Tupko, Hamish Fulton, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Francis Alÿs, dérive, flâneur, gleaner, Sin-liqe-unninni, Legend of Zelda, ALF, Iraq, Iraq War, Uruk, Sumeria, cuneiform, The Spirit of Disobedience on June 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy), G.I. Joe, geek culture, Ota Benga, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and bad writing habits; we also discuss Curtis White, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, and ninjas, among other things. [Update: Part Two, which focuses more on [...]

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My First Novel, Giant Slugs, Is Now Available (Ordering Information Updated)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, A Defense of Poetry, Action Yes, Amazing Adult Fantasy, elimae, Epic of Gilgamesh, Gabriel Gudding, Giant Slugs, Gilgamesh, Lawrence and Gibson, Michael Kelly, Rhode Island Notebook, Richard Meros, Shane Fairhall, Stephanie Nadeau, The Collagist, Ulrich Haarbürste, Ulrich Haarbürste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Cling-film on June 2, 2011 | 18 Comments »

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Simple Plan, All About Eve, Ang Lee, Anthony Hopkins, Asgard, Batman Returns, Beta Ray Bill, Brian Blessed, calypso, Carmelo Bene, CGI, Chris Hemsworth, claustric, comics, Darkman, David Lynch, détournement, Dead Again, Diabolik, Eric the Viking, Frank Langella, Galactus, Geneviève Bujold, George Lucas, greenscreen, Grigori Kozintsev, Hamlet, Harold Pinter, Henry V, Hulk, Ichi the Killer, J.J. Abrams, Jack Kirby, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Campion, Jeremy M. Davies, John Gardner, John Milius, Joseph Mankiewicz, Kenneth Branagh, Kirby dots, Krull, Kuleshov Effect, Last Life in the Universe, Laurel Canyon, Lawrence of Arabia, Loki, Love Me Tonight, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Masters of the Universe, Mel Gibson, motion capture, Myrna Loy, Night of the Hunter, Norse mythology, Odin, On Moral Fiction, One Hamlet Less, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Jackson, Richard Kelly, Robert MItchum, Roger Ebert, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Sam Raimi, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Senses of Cinema, Shakespeare, Showgirls, Sleuth, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, superheroes, Superman II, Superman the Movie, Tadanobu Asano, Tales of Asgard, The Avengers, The Bad Sleep Well, The Box, The Lord of the Rings, The Mighty Thor, The Phantom Menace, The Portrait of a Lady, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Stoppard, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wilkes-Barre, Willow on May 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

[You want to read the earlier installments, and we want to help you: Part 1, Part 2] [Drumming our fingers on the tabletop, humming along to Debbie Gibson, we contemplated just walking out on our waitress, when Jeremy remembered a Payday he had in his pocket. Passing it back and forth, we resumed our conversation.] [...]

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Amazing Adult Fantasy Release Party & Reading

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amanda Marbais, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Giant Slugs, Halle Butler, H_NGM_N, Jeremy M. Davies, Matt Dube, Mutable Sound, New Wave Coffee, readings, Rose Alley on May 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I hope that those of you in the Chicagoland area can make it out to a release party and reading for my first book, Amazing Adult Fantasy: Friday, 3 June, 7–9pm | New Wave Coffee, 3103 W. Logan Blvd. / 2557 N. Milwaukee Ave., Logan Square, Chicago | 773-489-0646 There will be readings by:

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 7-Eleven, A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Mind Forever Voyaging, A Simple Twist of Fate, Alexander Kluge, alien, apichatpong weerasethakul, Applebee’s, Back to the Future, Bangkok, Blissfully Yours, Chicago Metra, Daily Variety, David Bowie, Der große Verhau, Duncan Jones, DVDSavant, Fantastic Four, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Howard Hawks, Inception, Invaders from Mars, Jean Luc Godard, Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy M. Davies, Justin, Kick the Machine, kluge, La jetée, Michael Crichton, mindfuck films, Monica Bellucci, Moon, Mysterious Object at Noon, Pauline Kael, Philip K. Dick, Planet of the Vampires, Quantum Leap, Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonald’s, Sakda Kaewbuadee, salapao, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, science-fiction, Scott Bakula, Sliding Doors, Source Code, Stan Lee, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Syndromes and a Century, Tears of the Black Tiger, technobabble, Thai, Thailand, The Big Mess, Thor, time travel, Tropical Malady, Unbreakable, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Vera Farmiga, Wesley Willis, Wisit Sasanatieng on May 23, 2011 | 15 Comments »

[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service at an Applebee’s, following a screening of Duncan Jones’s Source Code. Increasingly hungry, increasingly desperate, we debated the nutritional value of our napkins and tablecloths, before Jeremy remembered that Applebee’s coats all such textiles in [...]

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Announcing My First Novel, Giant Slugs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, A Defense of Poetry, Action Yes, elimae, Epic of Gilgamesh, Gabriel Gudding, Giant Slugs, Lawrence and Gibson, Michael Kelly, Rhode Island Notebook, Richard Meros, Shane Fairhall, Stephanie Nadeau, The Collagist, Ulrich Haarbürste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Cling-film on May 19, 2011 | 13 Comments »

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »

[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]

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A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Big Other, Jeremy M. Davies on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I’ve done a lot of posting since I started writing here (in December 2009). To make it all easier to navigate (both for myself and others), as well as to encourage folks to check out some of my older articles, I’ve gathered links to all of my posts and organized them by subject (below). I [...]

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I am now the nonfiction and reviews editor at the online journal Requited.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, book reviews, nonfiction, Requited, Rosemary Horn on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

What the title says. (You’ll find Requited here.) Anyone interested in submitting essays, books for consideration, or reviews is invited to email me. (My email address is scattered about this site; you can also find me on Facebook.) A few guiding notes: Nonfiction: I’m looking primarily for creative, daring, compelling stuff. The more out of [...]

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Big Other Contributors’ News, #24

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amber Sparks, Big Other Contributors’ News, Davis Schneiderman, Elaine Castillo, Greg Gerke, J. A. Tyler, John Madera, Michael Leong, Molly Gaudry, Paul Kincaid, Rachel Swirsky, Stacy Muszynski on February 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Radiohead just released a new album; and we’ve got some news to share, too. Thanks for reading!

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My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Is Now Available

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, alice blue review, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Curtis White, Edgar Degas, elimae, Harp & Altar, Like Blood in Water, Malcolm Felder, Memories of My Father Watching TV, Mutable Sound, NOÖ Journal, The Middle Mind, Three Blondes and Death, Yuriy Tarnawsky on February 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »

My first book, the prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, is now available. Interested parties can order it here. Of it, others have said: “Adam Jameson’s amazing adult fiction is alive with the life of language. Like Céline or Gertrude Stein, Jameson’s fiction works if the language works and the language works so the work works. [...]

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Big Other Contributors’ News, #23

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amber Sparks, Big Other, Davis Schneiderman, Edward Mullany, Elaine Castillo, J. A. Tyler, Jac Jemc, John Dermot Woods, John Domini, John Madera, Michael Leong, Paul Kincaid, Stacy Muszynski, Tim Horvath on January 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since I’ve posted news of all our various goings on and whatnot. But everyone at Big Other has been up to all kinds of great things.

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Announcing My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Malcolm Felder, Mutable Sound on December 11, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Please excuse this bit of self-promotion, but my first prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, will be put out by Mutable Sound in early February 2011. It will be available for pre-order starting this week. One of the pieces from the book’s second half, “Rock Albany!”, just went online at the Mutable site. Other pieces are [...]

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Autocritique

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, autocritique, Big Other, Douglas Storm, Greg Gerke, HTMLGiant, Jimmy Chen, John Madera, Michael Leong, Mike Kitchell, Rebekah Silverman, Shya Scanlon, Tadd Adcox, University of Scranton on October 26, 2010 | 24 Comments »

re: Jimmy Chen’s (very funny) obit for this site, and some comments made there by my friends Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman, not to mention Big Other’s recent one-year anniversary, I thought I’d take some time and a post to perform some autocritique. (I grew up on the campus of the University of Scranton, among [...]

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