I made a video that critiques the opening three scenes of “Inception”
I’m trying out different ways of doing film criticism. In addition to writing articles, I think it makes sense to record commentaries (like the one I just did for Drive) and make critical videos. (My inspirations here are Mike Stoklasa and Jim Emerson.)
So here’s my own foray into the latter:
Nick Flynn on “A Crisis of Narrative” in Memoir
“A lot of it feels, to me, like a crisis of narrative. These stories basically follow the same model, often it’s the redemption narrative—a Christian redemption narrative of sinking low then rising above. This same narrative is repeated over and over, the culture can’t get enough of it for some reason. It’s not a bad story, but it’s crowding out alternative tellings, alternative versions, and this is very limiting, and basically false because it is limiting.”
(Read the rest, from the 2006 print interview newly posted at the Sycamore Review.)
Andrew Weatherhead—
Comments Off on velvet skies and blacksmith dreams
Chiasmus Press is Looking For a Managing Editor
chiasmus press is slowly unfurling out of hiatus. we have a big idea about our reincarnation and they want you.
YOU
want to run a nationally recognized micro indie press. like head honcho big mamma jamma.
want to work with Lidia Yuknavitch.
want to reinvent online, print publication, and cross genre media projects.
YOU HAVE
big time digital savvy and skills, including web, blog and podcasting.
large experience with alternative press world–all facets.
impeccable literary and media counter culture taste.
crazy good organization skills.
a relentless desire to correct culture.
alternative forms of marketing do not frighten you. in fact, they turn you on.
you have big ideas everyone else thinks are nutso.
it’s likely you drink and enter altered states on occasion.
OTHER
compensation negotiable. if you know what “micro indie press” means then you have realistic expectations.
it is not mandatory that you live in Portlandia, though it would be helpful. We have heard of Skype and shit before though, so you know, we are down.
if this is YOU, send a 500 word description detailing your experience and desire and why we should pick YOU to: lidiamiles at yahoo.com by April 15.
yes, really.
Midtown Skin 5/5: The Executives
5.
I just put in my fucking laundry. I put everything together in one load. There was a girl next to me. She came across the place, put her clothes next to my clothes. I kind of wanted to giver her my business card, I had nothing interesting to say. She was a typical dreamgirl.
Kyle Minor—
1163 Audio Files — author readings, interviews, talks about writing — from Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, and from the archives of the University of Iowa Libraries. All free (but not downloadable — you have to use the library’s media player.)
Comments Off on