February 2011
“During her NME stint she was relegated to the back of the office, flicking...”
– Julie Birchill, interviewed on “What’s Your Damage, Heather?”
exactly.
that's life.
i’m reading two things right now that remind me of you, 6x6 Poets (a ‘zine from Ugly Duckling Presse) and a book called “Cool For You” by Eileen Myles, this post-punk, feminist, butch brat who is also a little amazing. I bought it on a lark, because I was hungover and had woken up at 2pm puking blood, so I walked into the city (it’s still freezing here), and ...
“3. I mean: no one
ever died there. I
mean: the
dream melts like taffy
as it...”
– Emily Carr. 6×6 Poets: 6×6 #19: Bite Off The Head, Ugly Duckling Presse.
“…if you move across town I can
send you a love letter I have
the table...”
– Julia Cohen, excerpt from Everyone I knew in High School Is Dead. 6×6 Poets: 6×6 #19: Bite Off The Head, Ugly Duckling Presse.
WatchPIONEER — written & directed by david lowery, starring will oldham.
A little boy awakens from a nightmare on a dark and stormy night. His cries wake his father, who comes to his room and proceeds to regale him with a dark and epic bedtime story that is one part history, two parts make believe and riddled through and through with the honest-to-goodness truth.
it’s premiering...
“For several months, Karim’s favorite activity had been making kites, which...”
– Albert Cossery, The Jokers. Frivolity, rebellion. Tomato, tamata. Laughter is the wise man’s greatest truth, etc.
He was familiar with only one kind of subversive spirit: those scattered individuals who, intransigent in their hatred, sought glory through action and were willing to lay down...
“The best props disaster we had—which I think is going to overshadow any and all...”
– your daily whimsy.
“They were delighted to discover that I had virtually no objective in Egypt,...”
– Rachel Pollock, HOLED UP - Tunneling From Sinai to Gaza for Fun
It just blows my mind how VICE can be so simultaneously amazing — a 20something girl using underground tunnels to get from Sinai to Gaza is a great story — and fucking ridiculous all in the same breath. Every other sentence...
