February 5th, 2010 / 6:38 pm
Behind the Scenes & Craft Notes

The Sphinx

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  1. Blake Butler

      powerfeeder.

      “it’s light as fuck”

      i like when she points casually near the end at the viewer

  2. Blake Butler

      powerfeeder.

      “it’s light as fuck”

      i like when she points casually near the end at the viewer

  3. Blake Butler

      powerfeeder.

      “it’s light as fuck”

      i like when she points casually near the end at the viewer

  4. Seth Landman

      I felt so dumb for not seeing where this was going.

  5. Seth Landman

      I felt so dumb for not seeing where this was going.

  6. Seth Landman

      I felt so dumb for not seeing where this was going.

  7. Ken Baumann

      The x3 scarequotes killed me.

      Whole thing is brilliant.

  8. Ken Baumann

      The x3 scarequotes killed me.

      Whole thing is brilliant.

  9. Ken Baumann

      The x3 scarequotes killed me.

      Whole thing is brilliant.

  10. mark

      i love these things. i made one at xtranormal after you posted “pearls before swine” a couple months back. what a frustrating, hair-pulling experience — it takes so fucking long to get all the camera movies and shit programmed, and in the end i was in such a tizzy of anxiety with it that i just deleted the thing. really uncanny, tho, to hear your own words spoken by robots (as all our words will one day be spoken).

  11. mark

      i love these things. i made one at xtranormal after you posted “pearls before swine” a couple months back. what a frustrating, hair-pulling experience — it takes so fucking long to get all the camera movies and shit programmed, and in the end i was in such a tizzy of anxiety with it that i just deleted the thing. really uncanny, tho, to hear your own words spoken by robots (as all our words will one day be spoken).

  12. mark

      i love these things. i made one at xtranormal after you posted “pearls before swine” a couple months back. what a frustrating, hair-pulling experience — it takes so fucking long to get all the camera movies and shit programmed, and in the end i was in such a tizzy of anxiety with it that i just deleted the thing. really uncanny, tho, to hear your own words spoken by robots (as all our words will one day be spoken).

  13. markleidner

      i need to give this lecture at the beginning, not the end, of every semester

  14. markleidner

      i need to give this lecture at the beginning, not the end, of every semester

  15. markleidner

      i need to give this lecture at the beginning, not the end, of every semester

  16. markleidner

      that’s the tragedy of the sphinx

  17. markleidner

      that’s the tragedy of the sphinx

  18. markleidner

      that’s the tragedy of the sphinx

  19. markleidner

      thank you ken.. sometimes i think everything should be in scarequotes, then i think nothing should… 3 in a row seemed like a poignant compromise

  20. markleidner

      thank you ken.. sometimes i think everything should be in scarequotes, then i think nothing should… 3 in a row seemed like a poignant compromise

  21. markleidner

      thank you ken.. sometimes i think everything should be in scarequotes, then i think nothing should… 3 in a row seemed like a poignant compromise

  22. Mark Leidner

      thank you mark, i agree with your prophecy about our words and robots, though i think it is true today. people spewing inherited words as if they were robots…

      xtranormal is definitely though, but i like how it forces me think about my poems

  23. Mark Leidner

      thank you mark, i agree with your prophecy about our words and robots, though i think it is true today. people spewing inherited words as if they were robots…

      xtranormal is definitely though, but i like how it forces me think about my poems

  24. Mark Leidner

      thank you mark, i agree with your prophecy about our words and robots, though i think it is true today. people spewing inherited words as if they were robots…

      xtranormal is definitely though, but i like how it forces me think about my poems

  25. Merzmensch

      Grandious.
      I like the calmness of this work. Perhaps this poem should be only presented in this way – the most strong constellation.

      I know: from now I will think about this poem everytime I listen Satie…

  26. Merzmensch

      Grandious.
      I like the calmness of this work. Perhaps this poem should be only presented in this way – the most strong constellation.

      I know: from now I will think about this poem everytime I listen Satie…

  27. Merzmensch

      Grandious.
      I like the calmness of this work. Perhaps this poem should be only presented in this way – the most strong constellation.

      I know: from now I will think about this poem everytime I listen Satie…

  28. mark

      true enough! robots, robots, robots.

      i was thinking about this piece and also pearls, and how well suited these voices are to instructions (here) or rules (pearls). would be interesting to hear fever-pitch ranting as well — something bernhard-like, done in this voice. would be stupid and lame, i suspect, for some authors (can’t imagine this working for faulkner) but would produce interesting contrasts with others.

      Had the experience recently of seeing a dennis cooper piece (Jerk) that i had always heard “in my head” in an affectless voice, done onstage at extremes of emotional volatility. very unnerving and moving. the reverse process would also have to be fascinating, a flattening of something one imagined to be full of passionate intensity.

  29. mark

      true enough! robots, robots, robots.

      i was thinking about this piece and also pearls, and how well suited these voices are to instructions (here) or rules (pearls). would be interesting to hear fever-pitch ranting as well — something bernhard-like, done in this voice. would be stupid and lame, i suspect, for some authors (can’t imagine this working for faulkner) but would produce interesting contrasts with others.

      Had the experience recently of seeing a dennis cooper piece (Jerk) that i had always heard “in my head” in an affectless voice, done onstage at extremes of emotional volatility. very unnerving and moving. the reverse process would also have to be fascinating, a flattening of something one imagined to be full of passionate intensity.

  30. mark

      true enough! robots, robots, robots.

      i was thinking about this piece and also pearls, and how well suited these voices are to instructions (here) or rules (pearls). would be interesting to hear fever-pitch ranting as well — something bernhard-like, done in this voice. would be stupid and lame, i suspect, for some authors (can’t imagine this working for faulkner) but would produce interesting contrasts with others.

      Had the experience recently of seeing a dennis cooper piece (Jerk) that i had always heard “in my head” in an affectless voice, done onstage at extremes of emotional volatility. very unnerving and moving. the reverse process would also have to be fascinating, a flattening of something one imagined to be full of passionate intensity.

  31. Ken Baumann

      comedy is 3

  32. Ken Baumann

      comedy is 3

  33. Ken Baumann

      comedy is 3

  34. Mark Leidner

      thank you merzy… and you’re probably right, once a poem becomes a movie it’s hard to see it on the page without shaking its cinematic imagery off your brain, but for better or worse i still believe it can be poetry in two places at once

      satie is so good you can put him him behind any image and it will make the image feel 3d

  35. Mark Leidner

      thank you merzy… and you’re probably right, once a poem becomes a movie it’s hard to see it on the page without shaking its cinematic imagery off your brain, but for better or worse i still believe it can be poetry in two places at once

      satie is so good you can put him him behind any image and it will make the image feel 3d

  36. Mark Leidner

      thank you merzy… and you’re probably right, once a poem becomes a movie it’s hard to see it on the page without shaking its cinematic imagery off your brain, but for better or worse i still believe it can be poetry in two places at once

      satie is so good you can put him him behind any image and it will make the image feel 3d