April 11th, 2010 / 12:00 pm
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.

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34 Comments

  1. anna

      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

  2. anna

      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

  3. Landon

      i wish joyce could have expanded more on the whole blackmail thing….

  4. Landon

      i wish joyce could have expanded more on the whole blackmail thing….

  5. (not) Brent Newland

      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

  6. (not) Brent Newland

      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

  7. (not) Brent Newland
  8. (not) Brent Newland
  9. jh

      ‘the casual inevitability of dubliners’

      Perfect

  10. jh

      ‘the casual inevitability of dubliners’

      Perfect

  11. L.

      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!

  12. L.

      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!

  13. ZZZZIPP

      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.

  14. ZZZZIPP

      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.

  15. mark
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  17. mimi

      Is there something in the water?

      ZZZZIPP YOU ARE FUNNY

  18. mimi

      Is there something in the water?

      ZZZZIPP YOU ARE FUNNY

  19. Joseph

      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.

  20. Joseph

      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.

  21. (not) Brent Newland

      yeah, art is p. weird

  22. (not) Brent Newland

      yeah, art is p. weird

  23. Jhon Baker

      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?

  24. Jhon Baker

      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?

  25. (not) Brent Newland

      link plz

  26. (not) Brent Newland

      i didnt understand this post

  27. (not) Brent Newland

      hot lawn isnt a persons name its a thing (a noun)

  28. (not) Brent Newland

      link plz

  29. (not) Brent Newland

      i didnt understand this post

  30. (not) Brent Newland

      hot lawn isnt a persons name its a thing (a noun)

  31. david

      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?

  32. david

      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?

  33. stephen

      I dig Djuna Barnes (author of the Vanity Fair Joyce profile in this post). Esp. “Nightwood,” “Spillway and Other Stories,” and her magazine writing.

  34. stephen

      I dig Djuna Barnes (author of the Vanity Fair Joyce profile in this post). Esp. “Nightwood,” “Spillway and Other Stories,” and her magazine writing.