Matthew Simmons
Matthew Simmons lives in Seattle.
Marco Brambilla’s Civilization
Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.
That apparently inspired this. Which just goes to show: inspiration is really not enough.
The last Pindeldyboz. (And again I’m posting about a death.) Thanks to all the editors who worked there over the years. UPDATE: ‘Dja publish there at some point? Give us a link in the comments.
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August 5th, 2010 / 5:29 pm
August 5th, 2010 / 5:29 pm
Aleister Crowley on Writing
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
“I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.”
“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?”
“There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ‘More money for more work.’”
“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
“With the Dagger destroyeth He.”
And now John Callahan?
Kind of feeling like the HTML Giant Grim Reaper. James Greer’s blog mentioned the death of cartoonist John Callahan.
When Callahan was 21, he was in a car accident that left him a quadriplegic. He was, as the video above illustrates, a drunk. He and a friend were bar hopping when the accident happened.
He held his pen between both his hands to draw his cartoons. His drawings were, because of that, simple and crude. His humor, too, could be crude—sometimes juvenile, sometimes a little (or a lot) discomfiting. He poked fun at his disability, and at the 12-step recovery process that pulled him out of his alcohol addiction. He was, way back when the phrase meant something, politically incorrect*. And because of that, he was kind of brilliant. READ MORE >
Matthew Simmons—
“Published in the future.” (“A screaming comes across the sky,” translated 56 times. Here.) Also, hey. I’m reading Against the Day.
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D-Nice
The greatest second act career in hip-hop history? I’d go with middle of the pack Boogie Down Productions rapper and DJ D-Nice, who for the last few years has been directing a series of sit-down interviews with golden age hip-hop artists like Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Sadat X, Special Ed, Monie Love, and more. Note that not only are the short True Hip-Hop Stories fun and kind of informative—Monie’s behind the scenes story of Big Daddy Kane’s play for her affection, Special Ed’s sweet and sort of sad insistence on his contemporary relevance—but the pieces are really beautifully shot and edited.
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The Beyond Tonight
I was just about to post about the fact that the Museum of Art and Design in New York is playing Lucio Fulci’s amazing zombie flick The Beyond (discussed here) tonight, when it occurred to me that I live on the West Coast, and the East Coast is three hours ahead. So it’s already started. They started the film at 7pm. And you really don’t want to miss the beginning.
I’m an idiot. The Museum of Art and Design is showing a bunch of Italian zombie films, though, in their ZOMBO ITALIANO series. And tomorrow night, they will play the third film in Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy. (Which I would’ve maybe mentioned a couple of days ago when the first film played if I wasn’t, you know, an idiot.) Check out the rest of the schedule here. Possibly our friend magick mike can comment on the relative merits of the upcoming films. Know the movies, mike?
And now, everybody point at Matthew and say “Knucklehead!”
One…two…three!
A Friday Poem?
what is it called
what is it called when a doe gives birth to her litter
what is it called when you like pain
what is it called when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit
what is it called when a snake sheds its skin
what is it called when a dog gives birth
what is it called when you cant sleep
what is it called when a sea bird lands on a channel marker
what is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas
what is it called when you can’t smell
what is it called when you cant hear
More after the cut. READ MORE >
Matthew Simmons—
Amelia Gray threatened an audience at a reading. The New Republic wrote about it.