Matthew Simmons
Matthew Simmons lives in Seattle.
Tomorrow you’re homeless, tonight it’s a blast.
Someone should write a cultural history of the celebratory sports riot.
Scratch that. Someone should give me a large enough grant or advance so I can quit my job and spend the next year or so researching and writing a cultural history of the celebratory sports riot.
(File this under a brand new category of HTML Giant post: Pitchin’ Shit to the Aether.)
The Redness of the Blood
In the vampire movie Daughters of Darkness, scenes will often fade not to black, but to red. In The Beyond, blood bubbles up and spurts out of a women’s face, and chases a little red-haired girl across a room:
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June 18th, 2010 / 7:05 pm
June 18th, 2010 / 7:05 pm
It’s Monday Morning, Go Right Ahead (And Learn About Joseph Beuys!)
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June 14th, 2010 / 1:31 pm
June 14th, 2010 / 1:31 pm
Music is great and people like to listen to it.
1. Here at Stereogum, a bunch of musicians phone in their tributes to the record Meat is Murder, and then Drew Daniel from Matmos schools the rest of them with a really fascinating, considered, kind of beautiful tribute to the record Meat is Murder.
2. Blake’s favorite band, Wavves, have a new record, and it’s not as fucked up and distorted as the last one. So someone fucked up and distorted the first single:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKJkE1l5pH0&feature=player_embedded
Mini editing prompt: take something you just wrote, compare it to one of your first published pieces, and then try to rewrite the new thing as if you were still the writer you were when you first started writing in earnest.
3. Last night, Aaron Burch drunkenly decided to have a summer West Coast tour. I propose we all send him mixed tapes. Or mixed CDs. Or whatever the hell kids do these days.
If Alvin Lucier had a Youtube account….
First, the inspiration. Listen to the Alvin Lucier track “I Am Sitting in a Room,” here.
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Done?
Okay, watch this.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEIzS_27Vt0&feature=related
Now watch what it looks like after 50 uploads and rips:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hbbsFGDhk&feature=related
And, after the cut, watch what it looks like after 1000 uploads and rips. It’s gorgeous. READ MORE >
{[(Dis)Em]Bodies}: Dore O.’s Alaska
Alaska is large and cold and slightly crazy. The film Alaska by Dore O. is small and cold and also slightly crazy. Dore O. is a German artist and an experimental film maker. Alaska is from 1968. It is a wordless film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum. (Possibly the hum is the result of age.) It may be about Alaska. It may be about the north. It may be about swimming in cold water.
It cuts between images of water, images of stippled walls, and images of a beach. And people on the beach. And all the people are out of focus or cut in two.
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Here’s where we’re looking
Using the geotags on digital photographs uploaded to Flickr, Eric Fisher has created maps of cities. To the left is San Franscisco.
Is the real city where we look for it, or is the real city the place we don’t see? Or is it both? Or neither?
Or does it depend on the city? Is your city mapped here? If so, is it the “real” city?
No Nukes
I just want to go on record saying that this is not me. If anyone was wondering.