Music: Bobby Conn
Casey McKinney04.30.10
So I keep harping on ‘old news’ here in some music recommends… hell Jack Hanley keeps putting Grateful Dead videos up still on Facebook so… and…
Art: Jesse Bransford : The Jungle (for Norma), works on paper
Casey McKinney04.30.10
Am stoked about this show. Two favorite persons and artists, Jesse Bransford and Karsten Krejcarek, made a journey together to the jungles of Peru…
Impermanence Opening at Hendershot Gallery
Michael Louie04.30.10
Former Barcelona resident, Fanzine contributor and Fanzine buddy Jess Shaefer just got a new gig as gallery director at…
Teen Porn
Andrew Leland04.30.10
You never know where this business starts. Erotica – You know? Maybe in the future everyone will be writing it. Everyone. Andrew Leland, ultrasuperstar in my book (and the book of many) gives us a peek at that future (Hey whatchoo lookin’ at Willis?) This is spores, this is pottery. I mean this is prose, this is poetry. I mean this is the stuff, so read. Art by Danny Jock.
Blake Bultler gets honest (and funny) on weight/body control
Casey McKinney04.28.10
Blake Bultler gets honest (and funny) on weight/body control
Reboots uniting parents and children: pop-cultural apologism
Ben Bush04.27.10
I’ve often wondered if remakes and reboots are timed about a generation apart in order to hit two demographics at once. Parents and children…
Women Making Love With Monsters
Emily Schultz04.27.10
Maybe you are well versed in mythology, like you have a good grasp of the Greek monsters – the minotaurs, centaurs, harpies, and such? the Irish Dulhallan, or the Hebrew Leviathan and Behemoth always ready to duke it out? But have you ever seen any at a party? Have you ever run your gaze over an entire Dewey Decimal horde of unearthly beasts and got your pick of the litter, the most well hhhh… happy to see you? Well parties, as they did in Roman times, still tend to end rather ugly, with drunken garrolousness and folks fighting in the streets. Emily Schultz, author of Heaven Is Small and cooeditor of Joyland, guides us on a night like no other. Art by Danny Jock.
And Now for Something Less Funky: A Fan in Search of Joanna Newsom’s Elusive New Epic
Brian Howe04.23.10
Brian Howe finds Joanna Newsom’s latest, expansive offering most generous and yet somewhat unusual to digest. In fact, Howe believes her two-plus hour and three-disc album may not be completely digestible at all. That’s not to say Newsom isn’t providing tasty musical numbers to gorge upon. Rather, sometimes one’s final say may require a readjustment that only a personal viewing can do.
One, Two, Three and Four: Bad Nature, or the Literary Universe of Javier Marias
Eli S. Evans04.21.10
The politics of telling usually don’t vary much from the school yard through adulthood; the semantics and subtleties are among the few tacit principles in life that remain static. Here, Eli Evans explores the dangers, repercussions, and motivations of the urge to tell in some of the works of Javier Marías, from the diminutive Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico to the Proustian Your Face Tomorrow and finds the similarities striking, the characters’ predicaments, their impulses to tell their stories, which in more than one way reveals their methods for escaping an unexpected death in a foreign country, and ultimately their own survival.
