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1. BUT NOTE:THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN’T, I WOULDN’T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA. –from a letter from David Mamet to staff writers on The Unit
2. It is as though what Stein’s generation needed to do to make art was to find out for the first time what art was. In other words, the whole point of acknowledging the present for Stein is to disclose what, once laid bare, seems always to have existed. When this happens, art happens. Understood in this sense, the avant-garde isn’t just the struggle for its time. It’s the struggle in its time for something lost or forgotten or repressed by its time. Stein’s term, both for this struggle and for its object, is “a continuous present.” –from an essay by R.M. Berry
3. ‘I’m not a genius. Sloppy? Perhaps. It’s like this: When I am feeling good, I train a lot. When I feel bad, I don’t bother. I don’t enjoy working to a timetable. Systematic learning would kill me.’ –from an interview with Magnus Carlsen, 19 years old, world’s #1 ranked chess player
4. A dose.
Antichrist Superstar: Rule of Threes Resurrected
1. Holy hell. Antichrist, the film, might have ruined my life. And on top of that, it was one of the most beautifully shot films I’ve ever seen. Talk about content versus craft. Fuck.
2. I dreamed last night that I had a reading in front of 1,000 or so people, and I hadn’t prepared. Got up on stage and couldn’t decide which poems to read. Blake Butler offered to read one of my poems for me, but I wouldn’t let him and proceeded to babble and choke my way through something until some audience member began playing the piano…
3. A girl I like:
Artist Kendra Binney
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Little House on the Bowery Reading
Dennis Cooper, James Greer, and Mark Gluth read at City Lights, March 16, 2010
Who made who?
The “art as nature” vs. “nature as art” quandary may not be something we’ll solve today, which is fine, though artist Tim Knowles seems a little closer to the answer, or at least more keen on being the provocateur of such disparity. Is it harmony in entropy, or just taping pens to trees in a some sublime post-MFA bong hit? I don’t know, but I was immediately reminded of Monet’s waterlilies, whose tendrils of weeping willows seem to dance the surface of water in some attempt at recording their presence. Modernism was far less self-conscious, so we’ll leave it to Knowles to beg the question: What if trees, inherent with nature from soil up, were given the chance to flay their mark upon a most glorious human enterprise? What if the tireless human transcript of culture were merely incidental, just some random wind?
Magic is tight
Winner of the Magic: The Designing Contest at Kitsune Noir, by Pedro Fernandes [via Clusterflock]
Any Magic freaks in the building? Wish I still had that shit. Like I wish I had my Dragonlance novels I sold in a lot on eBay. Worst move ever.
Matthew Simmons—
Inquiry: besides Sigur Ros and Magma, can you name a band whose lyrics are in a language made up by a member of the band? (Did a little edit on the sentence. Sounded made-up.)
Live Giants #3, with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Mark yr datething: the third Live Giants reading is scheduled for a week from today, Tuesday March 30 at 9 PM Eastern. Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read live here on HTMLG from his place in Chicago, from his most recent book Selenography, coming very soon from Sidebrow Books. Here’s a sample:
Multicultural Spellcheck
Folks at Charlie Rose are calling Salman “Salmon”; looks like “Deepa Mehta” and “Ehud Barak” completely fried their spell-checker. Even this WordPress platform can’t handle this post; ha ha, WordPress thinks they are a misspelling. READ MORE >