Monday, March 30, 2009



The Museum of Bad Album Covers:











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"Show Your Work!: A poet calls for a new kind of poetry criticism, and a new kind of critic"

by

Matthew Zapruder




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Habib Tengour on “Maghrebi Surrealism”




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Pere Ubu - "March of Greed"

Directed by The Brothers Quay





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Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Tang Poo"





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Something Awful presents Star Wars as Classic Art:









Saturday, March 28, 2009





Directed by Keven McAlester


"I know the hole in baby's head. I know the hole in baby's head. I know the hole in baby's head. I know the hole in baby's head. I lived together with my family in an old house. I have a big family. I have lots of brothers and lots of sisters. I have lots of baby brothers and sisters all over the house crying crawling screaming playing in dangerous areas moaning and wailing like dirty disarrayed toys they fall down a lot. My mother and father fight all the time my mother leaves the house dirty all the time always feeding the babies always leaving the babies crying and screaming while she cries all the time. And then she looks up from the bed screaming at the top of her lungs hoping someone understands her. My father was always extremely introverted always coming in and out of the house night and day and never speakin to anyone never speakin to no one and never speakin to anyone. I like to think everything is alright in my old house in my old dark house but I know it isn't. I've always had bad feelings about all the garbage and dirt and darkness and spider webs and bad smells and bad feelings - scare you. Then as more time went on I started thinking that maybe there could be weird things that could lay dormant in the old darkness of the old dark house so I try to think what these things could be. Then I got to thinking that maybe something had happened something more than that they couldn't talk about. Something that they were too stupid to understand and something they were too quiet of to be knowing of that it was bad. And they just carried on their everyday life unthinking of anything different. What's happening?

Oh my God. I know the hole in baby's head."



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Bessie Kunath comes from Orange County, California:











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The Cupboard has a blog.




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Thanks to Adam for pointing out this mysterious sandwich art site Scanwiches:








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DespairWear. Clothes Make the Man. These Clothes Make the Man Sad:








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Crispin Hellion Glover - "Clowny Clown Clown"





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“Dinosauria, We” by Charles Bukowski



Friday, March 27, 2009




James Bridle claims to be the first person to collect and publish his Twitter entries in hardback.




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Canadian artist Michael Swaney:











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New N.A.S.A Video - "Gifted" (Feat. Kanye West, Santigold & Lykke Li)

Directed by 3 Legged Legs






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New Department Of Eagles Video - "No One Does It Like You"

Produced by Directors Bureau (Marcel Dzama and Patrick Daughters)





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Artist Jordi Ferreiro makes collages with his daughter Jana:







Thursday, March 26, 2009

Illustrator Derek M Ballard:











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Sam Anderson reviews Wells Tower




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Economists Tyler Cowen and Robin Hansen discuss Fiction:

“People who have very little sense of complex fictional narratives have a hard time conceptualizing and articulating a lot of social facts. And you can argue back and forth what’s cause and what’s effect, but that the correlation is real is I think undeniable.”





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SPIKE JONZE'S WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE FINALLY REVEALED




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"Prefixated on Postmodernity"

by

Andrew Seal




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American artist Jon Vaughn:











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"The Unfinished: David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass Infinite Jest.”

by

D. T. Max



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"How novels help drive social evolution"

by

Priya Shetty




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"Isadora Duncan: sublime or ridiculous?"

by

Ismene Brown




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French artist Boris Raux:











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"The Banality of Love" is a stage play about Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt written by Savyon Liebrecht




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"Inter-Pollination in the Russian Avant-Garde"

by

John Freedman




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John Lennon describes his first acid trip



Tuesday, March 24, 2009



American Photo's Emerging Photographer of 2008, Julie Blackmon:











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My friend Max sent me a couple of cool links:





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Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"

same group, same song, two different videos/directors:


directed by The Wilderness





directed by Barker Gerard



Sunday, March 22, 2009



Picked up three pieces of vinyl at Everybody's Records in Cincinnati:











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Thanks to Blaxploitation Jive, download the complete Sun Ra Discography for free!




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Academic Earth serves as an aggregate of video lectures from the world's top scholars.




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"The Copy Family"

by

Blake Butler




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"In Ten Senses: Some Sentences About Art's Senses and Intents"

by

Heather McHugh




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Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg - “Interview with William S. Burroughs” (1961)

["Corso & Ginsberg interview WSB in 1961 for Journal for the Protection of All Beings, a periodical edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by City Lights Bookstore. This is supposedly the first published interview with WSB…"]



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Verso has started a blog!




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"Keeping it in the family"

by

Claire Watkins




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Gala Drop "Crystals"

Directed by Alexandre Estrela





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Check out Meep Meep, where CSP is posting as Veep Meep.




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Bad paintings of Barack Obama:












Thursday, March 19, 2009



Comrades, I am so very pleased to announce that my chapbook Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously is now available for your reading pleasure.

This is #15 in the Publishing Genius Press This PDF Chapbook series, which are free to read on the screen or to print out. If you would like to have a copy printed and mailed to you, that too is possible.

And thanks to the generosity of the publisher, the right honorable Adam Robinson, you can capitalize on the fact that it's my birthday and receive a free printed copy, if you act now!




Sunday, March 15, 2009




William S. Burroughs

Real English Tea Made Here (2007, Audio Research Editions)


"Real English Tea Made Here is an anthology of the cut-up tapes of William S. Burroughs. Containing rare and unpublished material, of over three hours duration, the collection provides a valuable insight into Burroughs' methodology and constitutes an important document of his expansion from cut-ups on paper to vocal permutations and sonic experimentation." [source]

The three disc set is available for free download here.



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"NIETZSCHE AND THE POSTMODERNISTS"

by

John S. Moore




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Kutiman "Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chords"





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Andrew Seal

reviews

Perry Anderson's The Origins of Postmodernity




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New issue of Foucault Studies:

Number 6, February 2009: Neoliberal Governmentality

[which includes a great review of Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel.]




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Kutiman "Thru-you - 03 - I'm New"





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"Dijoo See WATCHMEN?!"

by

Jerad Formby




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"Considering the long poem: genre problems"

by

Rachel Blau DuPlessis




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Takasugi-an by Terunobu Fujimori:









Thursday, March 12, 2009





Carla Bruni - "Quelqu'un m'a dit"

directed by Thomas Vinterberg





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Misfits - "American Psycho"

directed by John Cafiero





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Benji Hughes - "Girl in the Tower"

directed by Manny Marquez




Tuesday, March 10, 2009



French artist Romain Laurent:










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Lance Olsen mimics David Markson's style in "Critifiction as Violent Blueness"




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Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield

interview

David Lynch

for The Observer March 2009




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"Parallelogical Circuit"

by

Josh Maday




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Eric Lewis performs at TED 2009





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"Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future"

[review of Nikolas Kompridis, Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future, MIT Press, 2006 ]

by

Fred Dallmayr




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Dan Funderburgh
is a wallpaper designer and artist in Brooklyn, NY








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"I Might Blow Up, But I Won’t Go…"

[an essay on avant-rap]

by

Chris Martin

(the poet, not the dude from Coldplay who is married to Gweneth Paltrow and has a kid named Apple)




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"Citation as Explanation: Walter Benjamin and Louis Zukofsky, Colporteurs"

by

Graham Lyons




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"The Sole Surrealist Poet: César Moro (1903-1956)"

by

Jason Wilson

"The Peruvian poet César Moro was the only Hispanic poet to write for André Breton’s surrealist magazines of the 1920s and 1930s..."




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"How He Wrote His Songs"

[Review of Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty]

by

Lorrie Moore




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Love and Rockets cover art:












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"For David Foster Wallace's survivors, a paper puzzle"

by

Sara Nelson




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"Manifesto You"

podcast in which Mary Anne Caws "talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E. Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis"




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"Crack Open the Shells"

[Review of Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-60) by Guy Debord, translated by Stuart Kendall and John McHale]

by

Hal Foster




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Evan Lane is a working photographer and director based out of Los Angeles: