Roundup
Third Mess Section
1. Artists of genius, such as Goya, or those of merely remarkable talent, do their best work outside the bounds of capital, patronage, and today’s Great Strip Bar of Artistic Veneration that is New York City, and to a lesser and lesser degree, Paris. Autonomy of creation relies on autonomy of thought and production. –John Sevigny on Francisco Goya, at Guernica
2. “Wasn’t there a sentence in there somewhere that we don’t have now,” Simon asked Mills outside, “where he says — and this is a terrible sentence, but — ‘I went over to the house, and I was hoping there would be a message there or something’? I feel there’s an emotional bump between him talking about his father, which is real substantive stuff, to a moment of what sounds like, by comparison, almost petty practicality about, What I’m going to do with Dad’s house? It goes from one to the other and there’s no…” –David Simon on the set of Treme, a NYT profile
3. Ji Lee on his Bubble Project, creativity & advertising.
4. The group sits back, perplexed that they together decided to take a trip which none of them wanted. They each would have preferred to sit comfortably, but did not admit to it when they still had time to enjoy the afternoon. –the Abilene Paradox
5. “They are all there, the great talkers,” he answered, “them and the things they forgot. In Ulysses I have recorded, simultaneously, what a man sees, thinks, and what seeing, thinking, saying does, to what Freudians call the subconcious,–but as far for psychoanalysis,” he broke off, “it’s neither more or less than blackmail.” –James Joyce, A Portrait of the Man Who Is, at Present, One of the More Signifigant Figures in Literature, from Vanity Fair (1922)
6. In a series of mock gunfights with colleagues Bohr always drew second and always won. –The gunfighter’s dilemma, or, Always draw second
7. Seizing the moment I told him that I had been hustling him and had deliberately lost the first four games. His response was that I was a patzer. All during the filming of 2001we played chess whenever I was in London and every fifth game I did something unusual. –Playing Chess With Kubrick
8. The warp collage of Lola Dupré.
Tags: abilene paradox, david simon, francisco goya, Guernica, James Joyce, ji lee, john sevigny, lola dupre, mess section, stanley kubrick
re: # 6
“In developing his theory of the shootout Bohr went on to suggest that the logical conclusion was a negotiated settlement.
Since neither protagonist would want to draw first, there was nothing to do but talk.”
nice
re: # 6
“In developing his theory of the shootout Bohr went on to suggest that the logical conclusion was a negotiated settlement.
Since neither protagonist would want to draw first, there was nothing to do but talk.”
nice
i wish joyce could have expanded more on the whole blackmail thing….
i wish joyce could have expanded more on the whole blackmail thing….
hey yall nice table at awp its p. cool that yall decided to share it w/ like a hundred other things and have it all disorganized cause its importent 4 potential fans to know that you dont give a f about theyre stupid butts (and advertising dollers
hey yall nice table at awp its p. cool that yall decided to share it w/ like a hundred other things and have it all disorganized cause its importent 4 potential fans to know that you dont give a f about theyre stupid butts (and advertising dollers
hey i was wondering do yall like will tower. hes this indie fiction writer that no one knows about (everythings ravaged everythings burnt is one of his books heres the amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wells+tower&x=0&y=0
hey i was wondering do yall like will tower. hes this indie fiction writer that no one knows about (everythings ravaged everythings burnt is one of his books heres the amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wells+tower&x=0&y=0
‘the casual inevitability of dubliners’
Perfect
‘the casual inevitability of dubliners’
Perfect
Will Tower is okay, but have you read Gao Lin the Wal-Mart Realty writer? He has a book called Sharecropping At American Apparel that is good!
Will Tower is okay, but have you read Gao Lin the Wal-Mart Realty writer? He has a book called Sharecropping At American Apparel that is good!
MY FAVOURITE BOOK IS BY HOT LAWN. “SUPER-SOAKING ON A NICE SUMMER DAY: YOUR MOM IS NICE EDITION”. LAWN IS A CONVENIENCE STORE LOVER.
MY FAVOURITE BOOK IS BY HOT LAWN. “SUPER-SOAKING ON A NICE SUMMER DAY: YOUR MOM IS NICE EDITION”. LAWN IS A CONVENIENCE STORE LOVER.
“Because I really don’t give a flying anal gland about Danny Eggleston or Jonathan Safran Fuckface or David Foster Walrus…”
http://www.nealpollack.com/cgi-bin/blog/do.cgi/200304290132/permalink
“Because I really don’t give a flying anal gland about Danny Eggleston or Jonathan Safran Fuckface or David Foster Walrus…”
http://www.nealpollack.com/cgi-bin/blog/do.cgi/200304290132/permalink
Is there something in the water?
ZZZZIPP YOU ARE FUNNY
Is there something in the water?
ZZZZIPP YOU ARE FUNNY
The above Goya showed up in last night’s episode of The Simpsons. So weird to bump into it twice in one day like that.
The above Goya showed up in last night’s episode of The Simpsons. So weird to bump into it twice in one day like that.
yeah, art is p. weird
yeah, art is p. weird
The article on Joyce and the Gunfighters dilemma were great reads. While gun fighting wasn’t real popular in the old west – not as popular as Hollywood would have you believe (each city had an average of 2 deaths recorded per year), what no one takes into account is the variable which matters most – what drew two men to battle. In that moment of heightened emotion – would not the angrier of the two draw even knowing the gun fighters dilemma thinking it not apply to him?
The article on Joyce and the Gunfighters dilemma were great reads. While gun fighting wasn’t real popular in the old west – not as popular as Hollywood would have you believe (each city had an average of 2 deaths recorded per year), what no one takes into account is the variable which matters most – what drew two men to battle. In that moment of heightened emotion – would not the angrier of the two draw even knowing the gun fighters dilemma thinking it not apply to him?
link plz
i didnt understand this post
hot lawn isnt a persons name its a thing (a noun)
link plz
i didnt understand this post
hot lawn isnt a persons name its a thing (a noun)
disregarding the fuzzy syntax of the first sentence in the Guernica thing (which is about par for Guernica) why on earth would anyone think of **Paris** next after NYC as an example of capital and patronage and (not quite clear from the syntax but apparently) today’s Great Strip Bar of Artistic Veneration?
disregarding the fuzzy syntax of the first sentence in the Guernica thing (which is about par for Guernica) why on earth would anyone think of **Paris** next after NYC as an example of capital and patronage and (not quite clear from the syntax but apparently) today’s Great Strip Bar of Artistic Veneration?
I dig Djuna Barnes (author of the Vanity Fair Joyce profile in this post). Esp. “Nightwood,” “Spillway and Other Stories,” and her magazine writing.
I dig Djuna Barnes (author of the Vanity Fair Joyce profile in this post). Esp. “Nightwood,” “Spillway and Other Stories,” and her magazine writing.