There's a giveaway going on at Blake Butler's place, which includes a copy of my chapbook, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously. Many thanks to Blake and Jereme Dean for their kindness. Fainthearted beware, the guidelines for the giveaway require you to channel your inner Marquis de Sade.

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Canadian artist Matthew Feyld:

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Johnathan Mann writes a song every day, usually by request (you can submit requests at his website). he also encourages people to remix his work.

Here is song #33: "I Love Battlestar Galactica"

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For those of you compiling your list of best albums of 2009, likely you've got Pierre Yves Macé's Passagenweg on that list, now add Emily Loizeau's Pays Sauvage and you'll be on your way -- [again, click words to find free download]:

Emily Loizeau - Pay Sauvage

Here's a crazy-worded interview with Emily Loizeau about the album. At the end of the interview there is a message: "This text is translated by a machine. Thank you for your understanding."

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Interview with Will Oldham

by Noel Murray April 14, 2009

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"Death of a Surrealist: Franklin Rosemont, R.I.P."

by

Robert Archambeau

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Talita Hoffmann is a 20 year-old artist, illustrator, and graphic design student from Porto Alegre, Brazil:

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"In 1967, I hired Frank Zappa for $2,000 to do the sound track for this animated tv commercial that I was animating and producing. It won a clio award for “best use of sound.” it was the beginning of a two year relationship that had me filming 14 hours of footage to be used for a film he called “Uncle Meat”."

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"Crossing the Zone: Mathias Énard’s 517-Page, One-Sentence Train Journey"

Essay by François Monti

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"Untitled 2" by Benedict Drew & Emma Hart

Extracts from the opening of their performance entitled "then the silence increased" 19th May 2007. Filmed by Steve Hunt

[Annoyingly, they have disabled embedding, but here's the link]

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"The World of Chemistry"

Directed by Hungry Man’s Roderick Fenske this spot was commissioned by agency Media Consulta and producer Till Drier for the Marie Curie programme which provides funding and logistical help to students who study science.

[thanks to Viper Pilot]