For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like the greatest music videos, this one launches us directly into a fully-realized world that’s simultaneously novel and derivative, four minutes of elaborate production design that ultimately leads nowhere. And it takes its brilliant conceit both [...]
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The Multifaceted Mike Batt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 4'33", A One Minute Silence, Art Garfunkel, Bright Eyes, Elisabeth Beresford, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Love Makes You Crazy, Mike Batt, The Hunting of the Snark, The Wombles, Watership Down, Zero Zero on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Mad Tea-Party: An Essay-Collage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1950s, Alice in Wonderland, boston tea party, Lewis Carroll, race in america, tea party movement, Tim Burton on May 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
[The following is a talk I gave at Buzzer Thirty in Queens for an exhibition called "...no right to assume otherwise," which was a response to The Tea Party and related movements of extreme conservatism.] 1. “The Tea Party is saying, ‘We’re tired of this, you guys caused this, and if we don’t wake up [...]
Riding Rantipole Into Blind Cupid.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, slash, Victorian Slang on January 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I am writing some Mad Hatter-March Hare slash, which I fully intend to parade past every respectable magazine I can find when I finish. Among the delights of this project, of which there are many, I have been having an excellent time looking up bizarre old-fashioned misconceptions, sifting through internet answers to why ravens resemble [...]