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1. Facebook extends my Xmas list each time I look at it, today: Skull with skull case [via Lincoln M.] & the Nieves catalog [via Molly B.].
2. The 8th issue of Harp & Altar is out.
3. Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch + Grace Krilanovich reading in LA at The Poetic Research Bureau this Saturday, December 11 @ 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown!
4. 1993 Paris Review Interview w/ Fran Lebowitz: “I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.”
5. Exciting news from Fence:
Fence Books is now a record label. We’re at work on audio-releases from Douglas Kearney, reading thrillingly from his book The Black Automaton, and Ariana Reines, with a guest-starring Lili Taylor performing Reines’ poem “Save the World,” plus a mysterious B-side, in anticipation of the 2011 publication of her book Mercury. Look for these in early 2011. And if you’re in NYC, don’t miss Ariana’s upcoming appearances.
6. Anyone see Black Swan? OK?
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Black Swan: Saw it. No. But worth for The Tree of Life trailer on a big screen.
Black Swan: Saw it. No. But worth for The Tree of Life trailer on a big screen.
The Tree of Life has a trailer now? When did this happen? I’ve been looking forward to Black Swan a little obsessively for a month anyhow but now….
It surprised me! It premiered this weekend with Black Swan (same distributor: Fox Searchlight).
i loved black swan- a really goth, camp melodrama about mental illness and ballerinas. it’s sickly funny and psychedelic in its psychosis, so much about the rigidity of a particularly feminine rigour and how that precariousness works on the brain. and i don’t usually care for natalie portman, but thought she was actually great in this one.
I really want to see Black Swan. It won’t come to my town but I hope I can catch it in Chicago this weekend.
The Tree of Life trailer is on YouTube.
rebekah and brandon and I went on saturday. freaky body shit.
It is a kinda unique mix of highbrow and exploitation. Not sure I’d say I “liked” it.
“unique mix of highbrow & exploitation” is kind of my shit to a t, tho it’s arronofsky so i’m hesitant. def wanna see it still. MAYBE IN CHICAGO, WHO KNOWS.
I think it takes itself too seriously for me. I dunno. Pacing. I’m impatient. I had a couple of “Die already, bitch,” moments, a little bit like when I watched DANCER IN THE DARK, and was like God, please, just end this already. Nowhere near as arduous as that, though. A couple of times I wanted to laugh but felt like I wasn’t supposed to. Lots of discomfort. I think discomfort is maybe its goal, though. If so, it’s successful. I’ve never seen Requiem for a Dream or the Wrestler. I don’t really know how to talk about cinema that isn’t mainstream schlock. I was pretty wigged out for a while after. My old ballet instructor from School of American Ballet makes a very brief appearance sitting on a bench with some other ballet instructors. That maybe wigged me out the most.
Barbara Hershey is really great in it. Maybe my favorite thing.
…And whenever Mila Kunis is onscreen, you’re like, Who is this girl? Can we please hang out with her instead? Which is weird, because I’ve never liked Mila Kunis.
that’s funny- there was a lot of laughing at the screening i went to (in san francisco, where we tend to like to laugh at nasty stuff), and i felt like those moments of sick humor were an indication of the film not taking itself too seriously, winking at us, albeit creepily. i so much saw it as a camp melodrama, but my roommate didn’t see it that way at all and because of that thought it was stupid.
Be hesitant.
that’s funny- there was a lot of laughing at the screening i went to (in san francisco, where we tend to like to laugh at nasty stuff), and i felt like those moments of sick humor were an indication of the film not taking itself too seriously, winking at us, albeit creepily. i so much saw it as a camp melodrama, but my roommate didn’t see it that way at all and because of that thought it was stupid.