“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of my preconceptions about language and thought.”—Rob Horning, “Exhaustion of generic raw material” Frank Hinton would be the first to tell you that I adore Steve Roggenbuck. Not only did his star rise as fast as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kathy Acker’
Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics of Reading “Adrien Brody”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adrien Brody, Bake Butler, Frank Hinton, Hate, haters, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jimmy Chen, Kate Zambreno, Kathy Acker, Madison Langston, new narrative, Peter Sotos, Rob Horning, Roxane Gay, satanic cats, Stephen Elliott, Steve Roggenbuck, submissive men, Tao Lin, The Rumpus, xTx on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jenny Holzer, The Shining, Jean Luc Godard, David Bowie, Woody Allen, Brian Eno, Manhattan, Kathy Acker, Art Garfunkel, Stanely Kubrick, Blood and Guts in High School, John Lennon, New Wave, Talking Heads, George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back, DJ Kool Herc, Paul Simon, One Trick Pony, Bad Timing, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Truisms, Lodger, Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks), New Romantic, Rod Stewart, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, Afrika Bambaataa, Universal Zulu Nation, Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”, McDonald’s Happy Meal, Sony Walkman, Stardust Memories, ambient music, Music for Airports, Fear of Music, 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.
Vagina Rebel (small) contest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Ash, Henry Miller, Kathy Acker, Nick Mamatas, Vagina Revel on April 17, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Sometimes a vagina can be more than a vagina. Sometimes it can be freedom. The ever-vigilant Nick Mamatas shared the URL for this new book on Facebook. Yes, it’s Vagina Rebel, by Adam Ash, whose other 2011 work is a poetry book called Suck My Poem. These both appear to be self-published affairs. The tag [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (23-53/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Hume, Jean Genet, Kathy Acker, Madonna, William S. Burroughs on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the rest of the essay….was coming in smaller bits, but now an explosion. (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) (18-22/53) 23. Despite any recourse to the nuanced heteroglossia of an Acker novel (available even to the casual, and perhaps dismissive, reader), part of the contrapuntal allure of her texts remains the difficulty in deciphering the [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (11-17/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Debut, Headphones, Kathy Acker, Larry McCaffery on August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier: (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-11/53) 11. From Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School (1978): “The plants in her room cast strange, beautiful shadows over the other shadows. It was a clean, dreamlike room. He fucked her in her asshole cause the infection made her cunt hurt too much to fuck there, though she didn’t tell [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (7-11/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Empire of the Senseless, Homogenic, Kathy Acker, Walter Benjamin on July 27, 2010 | 5 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 [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Homogenic, Kathy Acker on July 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
1. ‘All I know is that we have to reach this consumer construct. And her name’s BJÖRK.’ ‘That’s a nice name. Who is she?’ 2. Perhaps the answer can be found on Björk’s Homogenic record (1997), a collection of lush orchestral soundscapes and tenuous, artificial symmetries cut through a drum ‘n’ bass mix. The photograph [...]
Currently Reading: Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dennis Cooper, Dodie Bellamy, Impossible Princess, Kathy Acker, Kevin Killian on May 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Do you ever catch on a sentence while reading, one that no matter how many times you reread it, you just can’t derive any meaning from it, it sort-of remains more or less completely… algebraic, but instead of reading ahead to something that does resonate, you keep reading the sentence, over and over, hoping to [...]
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