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Outer Space

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The Fun Parts HereLet’s talk about cosmology for a second. You...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:13:46 -0600

The Fun Parts Here

Let’s talk about cosmology for a second. You can sometimes glimpse it in a fiction writer’s…

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2012, 5/5/5

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:05:57 -0600

Here are my top five albums, movies, and books that I’ve listened to, watched, or read this year. This list will be on Anobium in a few days, but I wanted to share it here first.

Top 5 Albums

1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012]— A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea.

2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012]— I waited something like 10 years for this album, and it was well worth the wait. Functions as a mirror in special occasions.

3. Swans: The Seer [2012]— Michael Gira consistently creeps me out, and this album—cover-art included—gives me a classic case of the heebie jeebies, arousing some kind of Lynchian pleasure-in-self-loathing.

4. Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves [2012]— A Nick Drake iteration, minus the suicide (though there is a depressive current here). Plus, a song about Chicago.

5. Father John Misty: Fear Fun [2012]— I’m not a Fleet Foxes fan, but there’s something catchy about what the FF frontman is doing here. Maybe it’s the pseudo-religious aesthetic; can’t take nothin’ seriously.

Top 5 Movies

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) — The AFI put Vertigo at #1 this year, and the Siskel Film Center in Chicago screened an ultra-rare Technicolor IB version with original soundtrack. Worth it.

2. Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) — So it’s not very new, and it’s not a very original choice, but it was my first time seeing it, and I saw it in a somewhat altered state, which made it pretty damn affecting.

3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) — Criticized for being obtuse, but who gives a fuck? Joaquin Phoenix is legit insane and cast perfectly, or imperfectly.

4. Breaking Bad: Season 5, Part 1 (Vince Gilligan) — Yes, I know, it’s not a movie, but it’s the penultimate entry in probably the most intense TV show ever made. Think of it like a serial movie, with a lot of violence and meth cooking.

5. Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn) — It came out in 2011, but I didn’t see it until 2012. Gosling eroto-mythos aside, this is a solid flick; not as solid as Refn’s Valhalla Rising, but still, totally cool (accept all nuance).

Top 5 Books

1. 2666 (Roberto Bolano) [2009]— No, it didn’t come out this year, but it has been on my list of longreads, and I finally did it, finishing it in about two weeks. Thematically, it’s a terrifying book, worthy to be matched with that Swans album I picked.

2. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) [2006]— Following up on that list of longreads, I finally tackled this behemoth as well.

3. HHhH (Laurent Binet) [2012]— Probably the most entertaining history book I’ve read, because it doesn’t take itself so damn seriously. A rare trait for an entry in the WW2/Nazi lore.

4. Revelations (Elaine Pagels) [2012]— In theological circles, Pagels might have a reputation for being kind of a pop-historian, but there’s some solid mythbusting happening here, shedding light on both historical and contemporary Christianity. A good read for everyone, and also for Christians.

5. Believing is Seeing (Errol Morris) [2011]— It’s good to know that Morris is just as good with a typewriter as he is with a camera.

Gore Vidal, 1925-2012

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:15:42 -0500

“The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.”

R.I.P.

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darksilenceinsuburbia: Nikolay Sazhin. A White Bone, 1989....

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:06:18 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Nikolay Sazhin.

A White Bone, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

Blue, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 59 X 76 cm.

Green-Eyed, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

Two and a Half, 1989. Colour pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm.

The Yoricks series
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alecshao: Tham and Videgard - Tree Hotel, 2012

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:04:59 -0500

alecshao:

Tham and Videgard - Tree Hotel, 2012

Head in a Jar: Watching Artists

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:02:48 -0500

Head in a Jar: Watching Artists:

“That tension between wanting to erase oneself, becoming only the work yielded by the process of erasure, to find oneself not only more there than anybody else but also the subject of scrutiny, makes compelling narrative.”

- Kari Larsen talks about Marina Abramovic, Robert Crumb and more over at the main site. Click the link!

Dirty Three ft. Nick Cave - Sea Above, Sky Below

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:16:12 -0500

Dirty Three ft. Nick Cave - Sea Above, Sky Below

supersonicelectronic: Happy Birthday Alphonse Mucha! (Thanks...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:11:27 -0500

supersonicelectronic:

Happy Birthday Alphonse Mucha! (Thanks Tatiana!)

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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:55:27 -0500

jacobvanloon: they have taken with them the world | Jacob van...

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:53:30 -0500

jacobvanloon:

they have taken with them the world | Jacob van Loon

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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:53:03 -0500

fimpress: Marc Snyder’s eight linocuts for Noel Sloboda’s “Our...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:22:10 -0500

Insomnia, Marc Snyder, linocut

Sun Mask, Marc Snyder, linocut

Baba Yaga, Marc Snyder, linocut

Tar, Marc Snyder, linocut

Squirrel, Marc Snyder, linocut

Doppleganger, Marc Snyder, linocut

Vicious, Marc Snyder, linocut

Polonius, Marc Snyder, linocut

fimpress:

Marc Snyder’s eight linocuts for Noel Sloboda’s “Our Rarer Monsters”, a fantastic book of poetry to be published in 2012 by Sunnyoutside Press.

showslow: Surreal photography by Kyle Thompson. His Tumblr.

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:13:11 -0500

showslow:

Surreal photography by Kyle Thompson.

His Tumblr.

brancusi7: Infant Urban Guerilla Utility Uniform (female)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:17:10 -0500

brancusi7:

Infant Urban Guerilla Utility Uniform (female)

"KABUL, Afghanistan — War is an ageless poetic wellspring, yielding wrenching odes to the white heat..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:41:58 -0500

“KABUL, Afghanistan — War is an ageless poetic wellspring, yielding wrenching odes to the white heat of combat, the longing for lost loved ones, the dust of graveyards. Now a controversial new anthology unveils a collection of seldom-heard voices: those of Taliban fighters.”

- ‘Poetry of the Taliban’ elicits both anger, astonishment

"I had again that second of pure joy I sometimes experience. It came, as always, without warning, and..."

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:44:31 -0500

“I had again that second of pure joy I sometimes experience. It came, as always, without warning, and vanished nearly at once. I was on my way to the bakery with exactly eleven pesetas left. It is difficult to define and perhaps I shouldn’t try. It must be the highest and sharpest point of all the senses, or the mind, I don’t know. Remembering, I see myself and the street in a clear but blurry light, static, like a film abruptly stopped. I remember thinking suddenly these words, “Now I shall know,” then, when the rush of feeling I can only describe as pure joy was pulling away, these words: “This is why one lives.” It was like a wave and an inner explosion of light all at once, and not physical in any way.”

- Everyone should read Mavis Gallant’s journals, excerpted this week in the New Yorker, though sadly unavailable online unless you have a subscription. (via michelledean)

pin-upscripture: President Bush and the reptilian Ambassador.

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:40:28 -0500

pin-upscripture:

President Bush and the reptilian Ambassador.

pulmonaire: Sculptures by Jon Rafman

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:29:09 -0500

pulmonaire:

Sculptures by Jon Rafman

jacobvanloon: Symphonie pour un homme seul | Jacob van Loon

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:28:38 -0500

jacobvanloon:

Symphonie pour un homme seul | Jacob van Loon