Psycho Dream Factory
Psycho Dream Factory
by Caroline Picard
holon press, 2011
111 pgs / $20 Buy from The Paper Cave
In line at the grocery store Shiloh perches in Angelina’s arms and Whitney Houston is dead. Celebrity eyelids: collated rainbows. All the flesh slick, like paper money.
Celebrity
millions upon millions upon millions of images of Marilyn
Monroe:
her absence.
Psycho Dream Factory sat in a prominent area of my home for most of winter so I could see it because it’s beautiful.
One page is a glossy, hot pink. On it, Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism:
“If memory disorder provides a compelling analogy for the glitches in capitalist realism, the model for its smooth functioning would be dreamwork.”
One morning in December I took the book off the table and brought it down to the floor. On my knees I opened it. A slip of paper tumbled out: white postcard bleating sleek, black, hyper-large:
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May 7th, 2012 / 12:00 pm
May 7th, 2012 / 12:00 pm
NEW STORES: The Paper Cave & Weightless Books
Courtesy of two of the best book producers I know: Zach Dodson (of featherproof books) and Caroline Picard (of Green Lantern Gallery & Press): a new independent online book store, and rumored brick&mortar location in Chicago. All sorts of local favorites are among the first titles presented. This has me really excited; nice to see another outlet for great books gathered, as well as a built in support system for readings and other art.
And next: Weightless Books, an ebook store. Again: lots of great presses, all sorts of prices and formats (all DRM free). Fill up those chips. Say goodbye to money.