your silence will not protect you

slubcoda: Director Nobuhiko Obayashi discussing the origins of...

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:30:26 -0400

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi discussing the origins of the concepts of his 1977 fantasy film House (ハウス)

snowed in

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:54:00 -0500

There’s well over a foot of snow on the ground and I don’t plan to leave the house anytime soon. Tonight is all about loading up my e-reader with new things to read. (Well, that and eating too many post-holiday leftover snacks!)

Just Read/Currently Reading:

Barbara Comyns, The Skin Chairs
Sara Levine, Treasure Island!!!
Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

What did you read and love this year?

clawclawcaligulaw: Michael K Williams, as King Lear and Richard...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:15:43 -0500

KING LEAR

RICHARD III

clawclawcaligulaw:

Michael K Williams, as King Lear and Richard III respectively, for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:27:15 -0500

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

vintagelibraries: Chicago Public Library Bookmobile Service,...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:02:07 -0500

vintagelibraries:

Chicago Public Library Bookmobile Service, ca. 1940

neurosciencestuff: Social bee-haviour: The secret life of the...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:01:31 -0500

neurosciencestuff:

Social bee-haviour: The secret life of the hive

The extraordinary mental feats of bees are forcing us to rethink what we thought we knew about intelligence. Prepare to be surprised at what a tiny brain can do as we take a look at some of what these industrious honey-makers get up to.

acceptablecoast: HIP HOP’S QUEER PIONEERS YES, THEY’RE ALL GAY,...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:58:09 -0500

acceptablecoast:

HIP HOP’S QUEER PIONEERS

YES, THEY’RE ALL GAY, BUT THE SEVEN MCS IN THIS PORTFOLIO ARE AS DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER AS KANYE AND LIL WAYNE, WITH INFLUENCES THAT RANGE FROM NAS TO BJÖRK TO JEAN COCTEAU. YET THEY DO HAVE ONE OTHER BIG THING IN COMMON: THEY’RE INDELIBLY CHANGING THE FACE—AND SOUND—OF RAP.

The wording of this article weirds me out (conflating “gay” and “queer”), but I’m glad these folks are getting the exposure. Mykki fanclub 2k12!

Feminist Resources

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:45:50 -0500

Feminist Resources:

farahjoon:

Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Aurora Levins Morales’s Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood

bell hooks’ Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Chandra Talpade…

"Thank God. I’m happy he’s still alive and we won’t have to keep hearing about his boring books. It’s..."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:44:23 -0500

“Thank God. I’m happy he’s still alive and we won’t have to keep hearing about his boring books. It’s very generous of him to stop.”

- Eileen Myles, on Philip Roth’s retirement (via beautravail)

Photo

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:50:29 -0500

foxesinbreeches: Three Views of Truffaut by Duane Michals,...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:39 -0500

foxesinbreeches:

Three Views of Truffaut by Duane Michals, 1981

Also

newwavecrashing: tomorrow

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:09:43 -0500

newwavecrashing:

tomorrow

The 50 Watts tumblr: Question your teaspoons: an interview with Oulipian Daniel Levin Becker

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:41:04 -0500

The 50 Watts tumblr: Question your teaspoons: an interview with Oulipian Daniel Levin Becker:

writersnoonereads:

Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo, a writing group or secret society or “bunch of nerds” who employ constraints in the construction of elaborate—whether apparent or not—literary works. The Oulipo, an acronym for Ouvroir de…

"Recently, the New Jersey State Supreme Court handed down a statement on memory, describing it as..."

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:59:29 -0400

“Recently, the New Jersey State Supreme Court handed down a statement on memory, describing it as complex and often unreliable. The ruling went on to question the admissibility of eyewitness testimony. “Human memory is not like a video recording,” they said. And they’re right. It’s more like a set of still photos. I remember coming down through the Blue Ridge Mountains in a truck with its brakes on fire and dropping over Chester Gap in the middle of the night when it was still hot and the air was loud with the chirping of bugs. I remember sitting in the drizzle in a truck while the crime-scene tape was strung around a Dumpster. I remember driving around Ohio howling along with Bruce Springsteen and buzzed out of my brain on Diet Cokes and being sad that the ride ended because it was a safe one and I had almost been able to be myself for a second, but that second had passed. I remember a fuel island in the blue morning light and a driver with a white shirt that stood out like a flag, and taking the turn back east, then south, and a gray day just before a storm so pressurized my ears hurt. And I remember being in the woods off I-95. I only ran about a hundred yards before I turned and hid, because I didn’t know if I was being chased and needed to see. I crouched on netted twigs and breathed into my shirt to muffle the sound. The woods were blue in the gray light, which was either dusk or a coming storm. At the center of everything was my own breath. The birds went silent, and I didn’t know what it meant. I watched the truck idle on the side of the road until it finally pulled off.”

- Vanessa Veselka, “The Truck Stop Killer” for GQ (via batarde)

lookuplookup: matthewedwards: buryitinhope: sebadoh - not too...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:18:08 -0400

lookuplookup:

matthewedwards:

buryitinhope:

sebadoh - not too amused

what was that you just said? that didn’t make any sense to me. it’s not the way i see it, man. i’m almost tired of listening to you. why do you tie me up with words? the way your eye shifts makes me wanna go. black-jawed living room couch professor. when will you be through with me? i’d like to know. everywhere i go i feel it. but i won’t talk, i won’t get stuck with you. everyone’s so lonely, i dig it. but i’m afraid i can’t share this with you. so don’t make me your captive. i don’t feel like talking your shit. i nod my broken head. i’m not too amused with humans.

Perfect song is perfect. Seriously perfect.

UGGGHHHH MY HEART IT HURTS

Ditto! “black jawed living room couch professor / when will you be through with me?”

snagamat: Georges Perec and Jay-Z At times he restricts...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:20:20 -0400

snagamat:

Georges Perec and Jay-Z

At times he restricts himself formally, like the Oulipo, that experimental French literary group of the 1960s. In the song “22 Two’s,” from 1996, we get 22 delicious plays on the words “too” and “two.”

Ten years later, the sequel, “44 Fours,” has the same conceit, stepped up a gear. “Like, you know, close the walls in a bit smaller.” Can he explain why? “I think the reason I still make music is because of the challenge.”

— Zadie Smith, “The House That Hova Built”

☾: post photo of yourself

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:07:49 -0400

☾: post photo of yourself
æ : tell 5 things about your best friend
✌: share 5 things that you really want
☮ : share 5 favourite movies
❂ : share 5 favourite foods
☯ : share 5 person you love being with
☪ : share 5 favourite celebrities
❀ : share favourite thing you do when you get bored
♡ : share 5 favourite songs
❁: share 5 favourite blogs
✓: tell 5 facts about yourself
♧ : share 5 facts about your appearance
☆: share your current mood
♒ : share about your crush
☀ : something that made me smile today
✖ : something you hate
☼ : something you love
ϟ : ask anything

"One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever."

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:18:16 -0400

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

- Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (via foxesinbreeches)

feastingonroadkill: A version I adore. Even more than the Kinks...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:15:59 -0400

feastingonroadkill:

A version I adore. Even more than the Kinks original.

The Raincoats: ‘Lola’

If I ever make that mythic Favorite Covers mix, this is track one. Love.

rebeccaartemisa: sweaterkid: Hausu (1977) wrap party look at...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:49:13 -0400

rebeccaartemisa:

sweaterkid:

Hausu (1977) wrap party

look at dat cake!

UM. DREAM PARTY.

Dream party, dream cake!