November 13th, 2009 / 5:25 pm
Behind the Scenes

Pretty Girls

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52 Comments

  1. Blake Butler

      this just made my week.

      a mark leidner original wins once again

  2. Blake Butler

      this just made my week.

      a mark leidner original wins once again

  3. Amy McDaniel

      i like that the category is “behind the scenes.” it is so devastatingly true….

  4. Amy McDaniel

      i like that the category is “behind the scenes.” it is so devastatingly true….

  5. Amy McDaniel

      i think, given the recent conversation about gender on here, that this plays on male and female things in really interesting ways, maybe less in terms of authorship than in audience. like it seems kind of self-consciously directed at other men, but more implicitly it kind of presents a challenge women (or at least me) and what they (or at least I) think about men’s masturbatory worlds. it reminds me of these 2 stanzas from Carson’s “Glass Essay”:

      Everything I know about love and its necessities
      I learned in that one moment
      when I found myself

      thrusting my little burning red backside like a baboon
      at a man who no longer cherished me.

      maybe Carson would learn other things about love from this video

  6. Amy McDaniel

      i think, given the recent conversation about gender on here, that this plays on male and female things in really interesting ways, maybe less in terms of authorship than in audience. like it seems kind of self-consciously directed at other men, but more implicitly it kind of presents a challenge women (or at least me) and what they (or at least I) think about men’s masturbatory worlds. it reminds me of these 2 stanzas from Carson’s “Glass Essay”:

      Everything I know about love and its necessities
      I learned in that one moment
      when I found myself

      thrusting my little burning red backside like a baboon
      at a man who no longer cherished me.

      maybe Carson would learn other things about love from this video

  7. Blake Butler

      i would like to see mark in conversation with anne carson. it might be the kitty camp of the year. or the fuckfest. or just two people smiling. or one person smiling and the other looking at something else.

  8. Blake Butler

      i would like to see mark in conversation with anne carson. it might be the kitty camp of the year. or the fuckfest. or just two people smiling. or one person smiling and the other looking at something else.

  9. Amy McDaniel

      you should direct that porno and/or cinema verite

  10. Amy McDaniel

      you should direct that porno and/or cinema verite

  11. Blake Butler

      it’s on

  12. Blake Butler

      it’s on

  13. Roxane Gay

      I loved this so much.

  14. Roxane Gay

      I loved this so much.

  15. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      wait, is mark also responsible for ‘drinking out of cups’ ?

      Also, I think ‘haunches’ might be my favorite word.

  16. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      wait, is mark also responsible for ‘drinking out of cups’ ?

      Also, I think ‘haunches’ might be my favorite word.

  17. Ken Baumann

      This is beautiful and fucking brilliant. Mark: you are one of my favorite minds.

  18. Ken Baumann

      This is beautiful and fucking brilliant. Mark: you are one of my favorite minds.

  19. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      never mind, that was a dumb and easily researched question. liam lynch. style just reminded me.

      this was hilarious, need to watch mark’s others now.

  20. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      never mind, that was a dumb and easily researched question. liam lynch. style just reminded me.

      this was hilarious, need to watch mark’s others now.

  21. Mel Bosworth

      nothing but aces

  22. Mel Bosworth

      nothing but aces

  23. man

      The ‘drinking out of cups’ video is performed by Dan Deacon and animated by Liam Lynch.

  24. man

      The ‘drinking out of cups’ video is performed by Dan Deacon and animated by Liam Lynch.

  25. Mark Leidner

      this vid was originally created for NOÖ Journal‘s rad poetry project, generously funded by the bosworth above

      this comment is for posterity!

  26. Mark Leidner

      this vid was originally created for NOÖ Journal‘s rad poetry project, generously funded by the bosworth above

      this comment is for posterity!

  27. Mark Leidner

      this comment is like the first bite of fillet mignon

  28. Mark Leidner

      this comment is like the first bite of fillet mignon

  29. Mark Leidner

      it’s like when you make a house out of legos when you were a kid, then just look at it and wonder whats going on inside it

  30. Mark Leidner

      it’s like when you make a house out of legos when you were a kid, then just look at it and wonder whats going on inside it

  31. Mark Leidner

      that carson poem rules, at first i thought it was just simple and sad but the first line sends it all down like fifty different paths

  32. Mark Leidner

      that carson poem rules, at first i thought it was just simple and sad but the first line sends it all down like fifty different paths

  33. Mark Leidner

      thank you roxane!

      chopin makes everything good

      cho me cho me cho me how you do that trick

      i been wantin to say that my whole life

      and

      chopin is the cure for what ails you

  34. Mark Leidner

      thank you roxane!

      chopin makes everything good

      cho me cho me cho me how you do that trick

      i been wantin to say that my whole life

      and

      chopin is the cure for what ails you

  35. Mark Leidner

      dan deacon and liam lynch just became ‘made men’

      in the mafia of my mind..

      i just youtubed that shit and it was awesome

  36. Mark Leidner

      dan deacon and liam lynch just became ‘made men’

      in the mafia of my mind..

      i just youtubed that shit and it was awesome

  37. Mark Leidner

      lol thank you ken, i don’t ‘mind’ this compliment at all!

      i feel like i’m at a bar and someone just bought me a really expensive beer.. like chimay

  38. Mark Leidner

      lol thank you ken, i don’t ‘mind’ this compliment at all!

      i feel like i’m at a bar and someone just bought me a really expensive beer.. like chimay

  39. Mark Leidner

      at first i thought this was a gambling metaphor, so i was like if this is four aces, you’re the 48 other cards in the deck the aces have to have to have meaning

      then (probably because i was in a bookstore earlier and saw andre agassi’s new autobiography ‘open’ with the lollingest cover i have ever seen!) i thought this was a tennis metaphor, and it was fun to picture a whole tennis match where every point is scored by aces

      what if that was the only way to score in tennis

  40. Mark Leidner

      at first i thought this was a gambling metaphor, so i was like if this is four aces, you’re the 48 other cards in the deck the aces have to have to have meaning

      then (probably because i was in a bookstore earlier and saw andre agassi’s new autobiography ‘open’ with the lollingest cover i have ever seen!) i thought this was a tennis metaphor, and it was fun to picture a whole tennis match where every point is scored by aces

      what if that was the only way to score in tennis

  41. darby

      i questioned the barcarolle choice when i watched this yesterday actually. it overwhelms it a bit. maybe its just me and my love for that piece. but i quit listening to what the robot was saying and turned it off eventually and went to my itunes and just listened to it without distraction. chopin is too good sometimes.

  42. darby

      i questioned the barcarolle choice when i watched this yesterday actually. it overwhelms it a bit. maybe its just me and my love for that piece. but i quit listening to what the robot was saying and turned it off eventually and went to my itunes and just listened to it without distraction. chopin is too good sometimes.

  43. Mark Leidner

      good call

  44. Mark Leidner

      good call

  45. crispin

      i loved this a lot
      damn

  46. crispin

      i loved this a lot
      damn

  47. crispin

      there’s another dan deacon thing, which is kind of similar to ‘drinking out of cups’, called ‘shoe faces’
      but i can’t find it anywhere online to link
      sorry
      but i like it a lot

  48. crispin

      there’s another dan deacon thing, which is kind of similar to ‘drinking out of cups’, called ‘shoe faces’
      but i can’t find it anywhere online to link
      sorry
      but i like it a lot

  49. Mark Leidner

      coool crispin.. and i looked for that other DD vid but found nada.. oh well it’s probably better in the imagination

  50. Mark Leidner

      coool crispin.. and i looked for that other DD vid but found nada.. oh well it’s probably better in the imagination

  51. Roxane

      I am so with you on Chopin. His compositions are exquisite.

  52. Roxane

      I am so with you on Chopin. His compositions are exquisite.