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We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amputee, car crash, David Cronenbrg, direction, disability, dissociation, eye, flower, L'iceberg, love, narrative, Peter Greenaway, space, torpedo, Writing, Zombie on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Peter Greenway’s film A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) [1985] begins with a swan crashing into a car, killing two people. The driver survives, but lives the remainder of the film as an amputee having lost her right leg. By film’s end, the amputee decides to remove her one remaining leg and falls in [...]

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This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Alvin Lucier, Dalkey Archive Press, David Behrman, David Van Tieghem, Eric Bogosian, Four American Composers, Gordon Mumma, Jill Kroesen, John Cage, John Sanborn, Laurie Anderson, Lovely Music, Meredith Monk, Music with Roots in the Aether, Pauline Oliveros, Perfect Lives, Peter Greenaway, Philip Glass, Robert Ashley, Spalding Gray, Terry Riley, UbuWeb on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

And it’s a reprint, and I already own the original: It’s that good.

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An Interview with Me at Untoward

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

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Absolute Beginners, Ava Adore, Dom and Nic, Donald Barthelme, Gangs of New York, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jerry Lewis, Julien Temple, Lolita, Martin Scorsese, Peter Greenaway, Smashing Pumpkins, Sylvia Lewis, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The Ladies Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Tout va bien, Wes Anderson on May 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius. Case in point: his 1961 masterpiece The Ladies Man: Whether you’re a fan of Lewis’s eccentric comedy or not, this film is worth watching for its legendary “dollhouse” set alone, supposedly the largest built by [...]

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The Barthelme Problem

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Darby, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Adams, Ellipsis Press, John Madera, Joy Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Alexander, Lucrecia Martel, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Rohe, Peter Greenaway, Raymond Carver, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Paul-Martin, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Pynchon on January 27, 2011 | 21 Comments »

[This post is something of a response to John's recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby, John, and me.] Back in high school/college, my favorite filmmakers were Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway, and Martin Scorsese: As you can see, I gravitated toward a visually spectacular cinema. Everything else looked so [...]

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Style as Imitation

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Amy Hempel, Andy Kubert, Ann Beattie, apple pie, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brazil, Carole Maso, Charles Shultz, Chris Claremont, Citizen Kane, Dan Green, David Bowie, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Adams, fine art vs. craft, Frank Miller, Franz Kline, Fresh Air, Henry Darger, Ira Glass, Joy Williams, Kathy Acker, Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Alexander, Marc Silvestri, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, Michael Nyman, Nadia Boulanger, Nintendo Power, NPR, Orson Welles, Peter David, Peter Greenaway, Philip Glass, Prospero's Books, Raymond Carver, Ronald Sukenick, Sacha Vierney, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terry Gilliam, The Empire Strikes Back, The Legend of Zelda, The Lord of the Rings, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Wolverine, X-Men on December 1, 2010 | 15 Comments »

1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an apple pie. I don’t know where he got the original recipe from; I highly doubt that he invented it. Certainly he didn’t invent the idea of baking pies. And he didn’t invent the idea of [...]

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Hail the New Puritan

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bruce Gilbert, Charles Atlas, Glenn Branca, Leigh Bowery, Mark E. Smith, Michael Clark, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, The Belly of an Architect, The Fall, Wire on October 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Hail the New Puritan (1987) is a feature-length film directed by Charles Atlas. The choreography is by a very young Michael Clark, who was then still the enfant terrible of the London dance scene, famous for his post-punk ballet. (He later went on to play Caliban in Peter Greenaway’s magnificent Prospero’s Books (1991); today he’s [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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My Favorite New Movies of 2009

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Antichrist, Bill Murray, Bradley Beesley, Bright Star, Bruno Delbonnel, Chaos Reigns, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Christmas on Mars, Christoph Waltz, David Mamet, David Yates, Fanny Brawne, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Frank Miller, George Salisbury, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hayao Miyazaki, Il Divo, Inglourious Basterds, J.J. Abrams, Jane Campion, Jerichow, John Keats, Katyń, Lars von Trier, Les Plages d’Agnès, Mike Stoklasa, Nicolas Roeg, Nightwatching, Oren Peli, Paolo Sorrentino, Paranormal Activity, Peter Greenaway, Ponyo, Puffball, Quentin Tarantino, Redbelt, Rembrandt, Richard Kelly, Ricky Jay, Rita Tushingham, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, The Beaches of Agnes, The Box, The Spirit, torture porn, Tsai Ming-Liang, Visage (Face), Watchmen, Wayne Coyne, Wes Anderson, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder on December 31, 2009 | 21 Comments »

[Update: 2010 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m drawing from the films I saw in the theater this year, some of which were “officially” released a year or two ago. But they’re all new. …So, Mr. Cranky, what did you like?

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Posts Tagged ‘Peter Greenaway’

We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky

This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year

An Interview with Me at Untoward

Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room

The Barthelme Problem

Style as Imitation

Hail the New Puritan

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

My Favorite New Movies of 2009

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