Yesterday I found myself thinking about a short film I first saw in 2005 or so—”Mood House”: It’s a very…
Postcards from Alsace, passed through Georg Büchner and Paul Celan.
“Towards evening he reached the crest of the mountains, the snowfields that led down again to the westward…
From the Barbaric Heart: Michiko reviews my unwritten book!
I’m going to post three short things regarding the NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. They are mostly lies and…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a…
Announcing a New Big Other Series: “A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies”
In two days, I’ll be posting the first installment of a new ongoing series at Big Other: conversations I’ve had…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 2)
Alain Resnais was directing Gérard Depardieu in Mon oncle d’Amérique (My American Uncle): Andrei Tarkovsky directed Stalker.
Samuel Beckett’s “Eh Joe”
In my last post, I mentioned Eh Joe (1965), Beckett’s first work for television. It would be remiss of me…
Guest Post: Eric Beeny reviews Carol Novack’s Giraffes in Hiding
Review of Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack by Eric Beeny Giraffes in Hiding is Carol Novack’s first…
B.S. Johnson’s Final Film: “Fat Man on a Beach”
In addition to being a superb writer (one of the finest of the past fifty years, by my reckoning), B.S.…
Art as Inheritance, part 2: Making New Art Appear as Old Text Disappears (as if by Magic!)
A friend recently alerted me to a post at Geek System (“Found Poetry in Magic: The Gathering Cards”): a fellow…