Matthew Simmons
Matthew Simmons lives in Seattle.
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet from Will Guzzardi on Vimeo.
(via Christian Bok, who also showed me where to go to play chess with Marcel Duchamp today.)
UPDATE: Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet came from Wag’s Review #7. Check out the rest of the issue (including an interview with HTML Giant patron saint Gary Lutz!) here.
Post-Structuralism Explained
“Post-Structuralism is pretty easy, right?”
Right?
P3T3R CHR1ST()PH3R5ON is also gone.
(Turn this WAAAAAY up.)
While we’re on the subject of me, seven musically inclined friends of mine wrote songs inspired by my new book, The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge. You can listen to them on the book’s Bandcamp page. You can pick a favorite. You can go here to my blog and vote on that favorite. The song that gets the most votes wins the musician a hardcover copy of The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge.
What the hell are they yelling?
Glenn Beck, currently getting people all worked up about George Soros, took a little time out to—through heavy, unsubtle implication—get people all worked out about Esperanto. (Which he believes is called “Esperanza.” What a cutey!) One language! One government! One world! Communism! Or one of the other bad ones!
I can’t be the only one who wishes the damn New World Order would get a move on and take over and turn the world into a grand fascist, communist, socialist dictatorship already. I’m sick of listening to these people. Am I? Or can we get the Reptilians to hurry up and invade? Haven’t they softened us up enough yet?
But I can’t think of a better reason than Beck’s mentioning of “esperanza” to post a piece of the William Shatner esperanto movie Incubus. (Done above.)
And ask the following question: what’s your favorite constructed language? Is it the language that Sigur Ros, Magma, or Ruins sing/sang in? Klingon? Elvish?
Matthew Simmons—
After a long hiatus, my friend Bryan and I have gathered enough material for a nice few months of updates for our prayer narrative web journal, On Earth As It Is. First up, HTML Giant’s own Kyle Minor.
Matthew Simmons—
After the Shya Scanlon interview, me and he (interviewer and interviewee) were thinking a little about it and wondering about how to make the posts a little more like the beginning of a conversation instead of the end of one. What do folks think about Roxane’s comment-bound discussion idea? When one of us interviews someone, would you like it if we asked our subjects if they would be willing to schedule some time to interact with commenters after the interview is posted?
I asked Brandon Stosuy about black metal.
As I am lately wont to do, I was thinking about black metal. Specifically I was thinking about my difficult relationship with the less savory elements of the philosophies of some of my favorite black metal artists. As I have been wont to do since the column started, I was read Haunting the Chapel by Brandon Stosuy and noticed that the same issue had come up for him recently. I like to listen to synchronicity. (And I used to like to listen to Synchronicity—weird, huh?) So, I dropped Mr. Stosuy an email with a couple of questions on the subject. Here are his answers:
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