Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
Christina Lee03.26.12
Christina Lee breaks down why the new Perfume Genius album should never have to exist––and why we are thrilled that it does. Perfume Genius plays the EARL March 29th in East Atlanta.
Deadwood
Peter Thompson03.15.12
If androids dream of electric sheep, what does a shapeshifting alien inmate lust after? And what about an embattled staff sergeant? Science fact, fiction, and fuck: intrepid reporter Peter Thompson reluctantly investigates the further sexcapades of Reno, Nevada.
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Gean Moreno03.01.12
The landcape architecture of Roberto Burle Marx is the interstitial fluid that lubricates the intersection of nature and artifice. As the lines blur that separate insular impulses of design, the artist reimagines the usefulness––and ultimately, the paradigm––of deliniation. Gean Moreno takes us through Burle Marx’s garden of forking paths.
The Whispers of the Gods: Oscars 2012
Kevin Killian02.27.12
Didn’t your mama…er…the movies ever tell you that silence is golden? i.e. shut off that damn cell phone. Yes, no, maybe? This year that little saying, worthy of Emerson, means something more apparently. Kevin Killian and his Oscar party crew do their annual send up of the idols of Hollywood.
The Cinema of Whitney Houston (with Bradford Nordeen)
Kevin Killian02.23.12
Fanzine arrived at Moby Dick in San Francisco just in time to see Whitney sing Step By Step on February 11th in a televised tribute to her own life, as happens with celebrity, the product outliving the person, a self-made monument. Fanzine took the long way home, reflecting, and stayed up late watching her films. Kevin Killian’s 2008 essay, with fellow fan Bradford Nordeen, analyzes her mythic presence through her movies, locked in the vice-grip of fame, of performance, of the voice.
Beyond Beyond Bedlam
Wilbur Wilson02.20.12
The anti-crackpot paints the walls in splendor, decides: The work’s the thing. The daisy chain that links psychoanalysis, relative graffiti, the considerations of art, the considerations of imprisonment, the Rhineau Collection (recently displayed in the Medical History Museum at the University of Zurich), the geography of the Outsider, and the cocktail closer.
The Object is Not the Art
Matthew Sherling02.16.12
Artist Truong Tran presents his second major exhibition in San Francisco, At War, and interviewer Matthew Sherling joins in the fray. As close to home as the living room in Haight Ashbury where poetry is read, music is played, and the plastic cube everyone has been photographed naked in sits placidly, Tran’s art is a natural extension of his poetry––and his distrust of it.
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory
Christina Lee02.13.12
Dylan Baldi starts a war / attack on memory. Christina Lee listens to Cloud Nothings’ latest and talks to frontman Baldi about his Future/Past. Cloud Nothings play the EARL in Atlanta on Friday, February 17.
How I Accidentally Ended Up At An Orgy
Jane Connor02.11.12
Jayne O’Connor finds that an invite to a pajama party doesn’t always mean…
