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overheard, an hour ago, from a retail clerk who didn't realize I was listening
"That's what I did. I learned guitar to get girls. Then I went to college and it turned out everyone played guitar, so it defeated the purpose."
Radiohead's relevant here, but I'd also say that this is why I prefer keyboards...
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poking through old files is fun, and meaningless
To the best of my recollection, this was some sort of Oulipo experiment where, during Naropa's Summer Writing Program in 2000 or 2001, either for a course on the rhetoric of madness with Brian Evenson or a course on experimental poetry mashup techniques with Laura Mullen, I intentionally wrote a somewhat bad / clichéd cyberpunky paragraph, then ran ( Read more... ) -
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“There’s no hope for mental equilibrium, but such is the cost of art.”
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the book disease
So I have this issue with buying books. I need to take a break. The piles are getting insane again even though most of the books are boxed away. Here are the most recent purchases. I think I bought all of these on the same day about two weeks ago. I hope by listing them here, I will encourage others to check them out, but I also now have a list of ( Read more... ) -
Casting Call: Top Secret Project Revealed!
Originally posted by kylecassidy at Casting Call: Top Secret Project Revealed!
I'm very excited to announce that the new Top Secret Project, is a collaboration with Caitlin R. Freaking Kiernan (aka greygirlbeast) whom you may know as the author of The Red Tree, The Ammonite Violin, Silk, Murder of Angels, etc. etc. etc. -- she also wrote the comic book series The Dreaming ( Read more... ) -
Happy (Belated) 90th Birthday to Carol Emswiller
On February 12th, the estimable and lovely Matt Cheney suggested I post about Carol Emshwiller in honor of her 90th birthday, which was three days ago. He even set up this extraordinary project for the whole shebang and you can go there to be inspired and enlightened.
Yet, even with two months notice, I only got as far as putting Verging on the ( Read more... ) -
Oliver Stone's love of The Dark Knight?
“I love it because it was, frankly, one the best. It actually was a comic book that worked as a movie. I mean it became more than just a comic book to me. It became a true story, a drama about people and about relationships. It worked at the level of, you know, as if it was everyday reality and it was a bizarre story about a man and a cape.”
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath -
Reflections on the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is one of those writers. I think of a grand dame of the Beat poets who was so jealous of Joyce Carol that, as catty as a Texan monologist who studied in Europe could possibly be, she said, “I would do anything to write like her… [long wry pause] … unless I had to look like her.”
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While washing a face
Landing on an unknown moon
Is kin to morning.