January 24th, 2014 / 7:35 pm
 Snippets
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i know everyone lives in brooklyn, so don t miss out on macaulay culkin s pizza band, which is playing somewhere in brooklyn later tonight!! or at least that s what i heard at this very hip coffee shop black brick today, which was freezing cold btw. also, the barristas were rude, but oh whatever, it was all worth it to see that girl in moonboots & balenciaga.

Moon-Boot-Black

anyway, this book, looks AMAZING, no? i mean, i dunno, but i dig the trailer.

(so yeah, i wonder what everyone is reading, actually. but if you want to talk about things you re watching that is also fine. why not?)

27 Comments

  1. January 24th, 2014 / 7:53 pm bartleby_taco—

      trailer is pretty good. reading barley patch by gerald murnane, like life by lorrie moore, shantytown by cesar aira, hilly william by scott mcclanahan, and villa bunker by sebastien brebel. also a bunch of essays for a class. been watching the linklater ‘before’ trilogy.

  2. January 24th, 2014 / 8:45 pm ZZZZZIPPP—

      FINISH SHANTYTOWN OKAY THEN LET’S TALK ABOUT IT

  3. January 25th, 2014 / 1:17 pm shaun gannon—

      i watched jim norton’s latest special a few hours ago and i liked a lot of it, he had some undeniably good points my favorite was regarding spree shooters and their narcissism. i forgot how much i liked jim norton in middle/high school when i watched a lot of CC, specifically Tough Crowd

  4. January 25th, 2014 / 2:55 pm elias tezapsidis—

      cool reads, dig. sometimes i like to change shakira songs into aira jokes, everyone in da club loves it

  5. January 25th, 2014 / 2:57 pm elias tezapsidis—

      what s u readin, zzzzipppster?

  6. January 25th, 2014 / 3:19 pm ZZZZZIPPP—

      LAST NIGHT ZZZZIPP FINISHED READING LORRIE MOORE’S “WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL?” AND IT MADE HIM FEEL REALLY SAD ABOUT LIFE BUT NOT IN THE WAY THAT MAKES SOMEONE WANT TO LIE DOWN IN A SNOWDRIFT MORE LIKE THE WAY THAT MAKES SOMEONE WANT TO TURN INTO A PHOTON AND DRIFT AROUND IN THE AIR

      OTHERWISE HE IS PICKING THROUGH BOLAÑO’S “BETWEEN PARENTHESES,” CONRAD’S “NOSTROMO,” AND BENJAMIN’S “THE ARCADES PROJECT,” FOR SOME REASON

      WHAT ARE YOU READING ELIAS

  7. January 25th, 2014 / 3:41 pm elias tezapsidis—

      so much lorrie moore! i m reading ‘pale fire’ and ‘a separate peace.’ i do have some bolano in my queue tho! (‘savage detectives’ coming up)

  8. January 25th, 2014 / 5:34 pm bartleby_taco—

      i got you. already got a draft i’ve been ‘cooking up’ for the past two or three days for you Z

  9. January 25th, 2014 / 8:11 pm deadgod—

      A man haunted by a fixed idea is insane.

  10. January 25th, 2014 / 10:38 pm mimi—

      i was the shadow of the waxwing slain
      by the false azure in the windowpane

  11. January 25th, 2014 / 10:50 pm elias tezapsidis—

      where the term “throwing Shade” originated from, literally

  12. January 25th, 2014 / 11:51 pm Jeremy Hopkins—

      ghosts aren’t real, so…

  13. January 26th, 2014 / 12:32 pm mimi—

      i am now interested in reading benjamin’s “the arcades project”, having recently finished reading “wanderlust” by rebecca solnit [ref: chapter 12 “paris, or botanizing on the asphalt”]

  14. January 26th, 2014 / 3:10 pm A D Jameson—

      I’ve most recently read “The Three Little Pigs” (several different versions) and several Sherlock Holmes adventures; these are for a creative writing class that I’m teaching. Also, I reread the first few chapters of Yuriy Tarnawsky’s novel Three Blondes and Death, and Miranda July’s New Yorker piece on shoplifting (“Free Everything”). Those were also both for the class. Next, we’re looking at some sections of Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel.

      Some UIC colleagues and I also just met to reread/discuss Michael Fried’s late 60s essay “Art and Objecthood.” And I’ve been working my way through Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing and several books by/about John Cage; this is for a research paper I’m writing.

      More casually, I finished Phil Lapsley’s recent book on phone phreaking, Exploding the Phone, and finally started reading Alan Moore’s Marvelman/Miracleman.

  15. January 26th, 2014 / 6:59 pm Shannon—

      I just started Bad Sex on Speed by Jerry Stahl and I’m about halfway finished Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia: Blake Butler. And I’m about half through Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May. Next I think I might read some Donald Goines and maybe Junkie Love I haven’t decided yet.

  16. January 27th, 2014 / 12:14 am ZZZZZIPPP—

      “PALE FIRE” IS SO GOOD BUT ZZZIPP DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHY KINBOTE DOESN’T RECEIVE RESTITUTIONS FROM ZEMBLA AT THE END (SPOILER?)

  17. January 27th, 2014 / 12:14 am ZZZZZIPPP—

      OH COOL THAT SOUNDS GOOD SEND IT WHEN IT IS READY

  18. January 27th, 2014 / 12:16 am ZZZZZIPPP—

      SOMEONE ON HTMLGIANT SAID THAT AFTER THEY FINISHED “NOTHING” THEY COULDN’T SLEEP FOR THREE DAYS (CAN’T REMEMBER WHO, SORRY)

      ZZZZZIPP CAN’T GET THE IMAGE OF THE BOULDER IN THE CEILING OUT OF HIS HEAD

  19. January 27th, 2014 / 12:23 am ZZZZZIPPP—

      YES THAT’S WHY ZZZZIPP TRANSFORMS ALL OF HIS SILVER INTO A HARMLESS COMPOUND THAT DEGRADES WHEN OXIDIZED

  20. January 27th, 2014 / 12:24 am ZZZZZIPPP—

      ZZZIPP HAS BEEN MEANING TO CHECK OUT SOLNIT

      HAVE YOU READ HER NEW BOOK MIMI

  21. January 27th, 2014 / 12:29 am elias tezapsidis—

      i love “silence”

  22. January 27th, 2014 / 1:12 am Shannon—

      I’m really enjoying it so far. I’ve had terrible insomnia since I was a kid. Some of it rings in a very familiar way in my head.

  23. January 27th, 2014 / 10:52 pm mimi—

      no i haven’t, ZZZIPPP, not yet, but i’d like to!

      and i’d also like to read her River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, because I’m interested in photography, and technology, and i live in the wild, wild west

      and also, because it is bad-ass to spell a name eadweard

  24. January 28th, 2014 / 12:33 am Shannon—
  25. January 28th, 2014 / 12:37 am elias tezapsidis—

      i know. :) i was making a character joke.

  26. January 28th, 2014 / 12:38 am elias tezapsidis—

      love that movie, btw.

  27. January 28th, 2014 / 12:40 am Shannon—

      LOL at ,myself. I had no idea. I was just the other day talking to someone about Paris is Burning. Now I feel a serious need to watch it. I haven’t watched the whole thing in a while. I love it too.