The Beyond Tonight

I was just about to post about the fact that the Museum of Art and Design in New York is playing Lucio Fulci’s amazing zombie flick The Beyond (discussed here) tonight, when it occurred to me that I live on the West Coast, and the East Coast is three hours ahead. So it’s already started. They started the film at 7pm. And you really don’t want to miss the beginning.

I’m an idiot. The Museum of Art and Design is showing a bunch of Italian zombie films, though, in their ZOMBO ITALIANO series. And tomorrow night, they will play the third film in Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy. (Which I would’ve maybe mentioned a couple of days ago when the first film played if I wasn’t, you know, an idiot.) Check out the rest of the schedule here. Possibly our friend magick mike can comment on the relative merits of the upcoming films. Know the movies, mike?

And now, everybody point at Matthew and say “Knucklehead!”

One…two…three!

Film / 14 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 7:37 pm

A Friday Poem?

what is it called

what is it called when a doe gives birth to her litter
what is it called when you like pain
what is it called when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit
what is it called when a snake sheds its skin
what is it called when a dog gives birth
what is it called when you cant sleep
what is it called when a sea bird lands on a channel marker
what is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas
what is it called when you can’t smell
what is it called when you cant hear

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Author News & Craft Notes / 31 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 6:46 pm

I ask this question with all sincerity: Why would people actively choose to read Twilight over any other good book of fiction? Psychologically, wtf are they thinking?

John Jodzio picked the following three people to win the Jodzio Book Giveaway: Brooks Sterritt, Snowden Wright, JScap. Winners, please email us your mailing address at htmlgiant [at] htmlgiant.com so we can send you the books.

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“Stop throwing pigeons”

(thanks to Michael Schaub, Bookslut editor and occasional HTMLG contributor)

Word Spaces / 16 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 4:10 pm

Unto Us, These States of Grace: A Love Letter to Sugar

When I was younger, I used to read Dear Abby and Ask Ann Landers. Those advice columns offered brief glimpses into the troubled lives of others. Sometimes, the columns were lighthearted and humorous with advice on how to deal with inlaws or children who refused to move out at the age of 31. There were more serious columns that dealt with addiction, or the death of a loved one, or a crumbling marriage. The advice of Ann and Abby was always sage, albeit a bit tame. In a few sentences they applied down home wisdom and common sense but more than anything their advice felt like a brief reminder that we are not alone.

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Massive People / 48 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 3:35 pm

IsReads #7

(Photo by Daniel Wolfe)

isReads 7, the haiku issue, is now live, featuring work by Stephanie Barber, Colin Bassett, Dan Brady, Jimmy Chen, Sarah Eaton, Fred Ecenrode, Molly Gaudry, Jamie Iredell, Chris Killen, Tao Lin, Megan Martin, Sam Pink, Audri Sousa, Bianca Stone and Della Watson.

This issue was posted around Baltimore, Chicago, LA, Indianapolis, Louisville, Minneapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Providence and Seattle.

We’re now accepting work for the 8th issue. Poems should be clean and fewer than 10 lines. Send them to editors@isreads.com.

Uncategorized / 34 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 11:00 am

Ellis on Wallace

Everybody’s innovator-buddy Bret Easton Ellis, during a q/a in Hackney:
Question: David Foster Wallace – as an American writer, what is your opinion now that he has died?

Answer: Is it too soon? It’s too soon right? Well i don’t rate him. The journalism is pedestrian, the stories scattered and full of that Mid-Western faux-sentimentality and Infinite Jest is unreadable. His life story and his battle with depression however is really quite touching…

[via The Howling Fantods]

Behind the Scenes / 207 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 10:51 am

Frances Bean’s Art + Polish Prison Tattoos

1. Gawker analyzes Nirvana baby Frances Bean’s art (which you can see more of here):

2. Polish prison tattoos preserved in formaldehyde [via 5cense]

Roundup / 14 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 10:10 am

“Galco holsters, specializing in gun holsters, including, pistol holsters, western holsters, concealed carry holsters, shoulder holsters”

I feel like I’m wired for clutter. The apartment I grew up in was crammed and overstocked. My bedroom looked like a garage. There was a giant wooden cabinet in the middle of the room—way larger than my bed if you’d set it flat—full of things like paint thinner, power drills, broken toys, empty old tins of Danish cookies and Slim Jim boxes stuffed with expired coupons. This was not my stuff. This was being stored. READ MORE >

Behind the Scenes / 51 Comments
July 16th, 2010 / 3:23 am