Dec 31, 2012
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Dec 19, 2012
“I’ve
always been pushing that envelope. I want to risk hitting my head on the
ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not
that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I
want to risk failure every time out of the gate.”
- Quention
Tarantino.
NYT 19/12/12
Dec 17, 2012
Jackie Chan has been quoted by multiple sources as saying that he plans to tell his life story through song and dance by writing an autobiographical musical.
“I’m planning to do I AM JACKIE CHAN: THE MUSICAL. I’ve got a very interesting background. I will talk about how I got into the film business… and how I’ve come to be today. It’s a very interesting, classical musical,” Chan said.
Dec 15, 2012
Cy Twombly
Poems to the Sea (1959)
Oil, crayon, pastel and coloured pencil on paper
One of 24 sheets, each approximately 31 x 31cm
Photo: Douglas M. Parker Collection Dia Art Foundation, New York
© Cy Twombly
From here
Dec 14, 2012
Poets.org: How would you explain conceptual poetry to a younger audience unfamiliar with the tenets of conceptual art?
Kenneth Goldsmith: The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn't need to be read. You don't have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don't even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here's every word I spoke for a week. Here's a year's worth of weather reports...and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.
"Against Expression": Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation
Heather Benjamin's State of the Union Address
12 pages
Color cover, xerox interior
6 x 5.5 inches
Edition of 50
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Nov 27, 2012
"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride. When he arrived at the counter at the end of the corridor, he changed his ticket.
He flew to Mexico."
William Gibson
Count Zero (1986)
Nov 19, 2012
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Nov 13, 2012
“Sex sells and I like drawing dirty pictures,” Wilson told High Times in 1983. “I think some people who are offended are reacting to their own reactions. The drawing they see is a key that goes to the eyeball keyhole. Click! A door flies open and stuff they’ve been suppressing flies out, right? It unlocks their own repressed bogeyman or skeletons in their mental closets and this is upsetting to them, because they’ve been repressing it and the drawings are a springboard for that chain reaction. Sidewalk psychology, but I think it’s true.”
- S. Clay Wilson
- S. Clay Wilson
Oct 26, 2012
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Sep 30, 2012
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Sep 26, 2012
‘Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one’s conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.’
-J.G. Ballard
(1984, en: Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008)
Sep 25, 2012
Sep 24, 2012
Sep 14, 2012
"Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. Shoddiness that drifts with the flow of familiar speech is taken as a sign of relevance and contact: people know what they want because they know what other people want. Regard for the object, rather than for communication, is suspect in any expression: anything specific, not taken from pre-existing patterns, appears inconsiderate, a symptom of eccentricity, almost of confusion. (…) Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case. (…) Only what they do not need first to understand, they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really alienated, touches them as familiar."
-Theodor Adorno.
Minima Moralia. (1951)
Sep 13, 2012
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