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Comedy: David Cross – Bigger and Blackerer

05.30.10

Well I was just saying to someone, when the fuck is David Cross (ex-Atlantan) gonna come out with something new? I mean America certainly hasn’t…

My Life in the Bush of Words or, J.D. Salinger in Africa: Broken Glass, by Alain Mabanckou

05.25.10

Written in a long, continuous sentence this bawdy, intertextual novel from the Congolese author of African Psycho takes as its themes "capitulation, decadence and the joys of self-abasement." Louis Chude-Sokei, author of The Last Darky, reviews and examines the long-standing prohibition on black writers exploring themes of self-loathing and intra-community criticism, both of which he argues are essential literary tools.

And Everything is Going Fine: Soderbergh on Spalding Gray

05.21.10

Actor and monologist Spalding Gray’s suicide was all the more upsetting because he was an artist who seemed so intensely engaged with life. It seemed to say something a little unpleasant about life itself that he should choose to leave it behind. Although as Steven Soderbergh’s new documentary makes abundantly clear, Gray’s lifelong fascination with death was hardly a secret. Theresa Smalec interviewed Gray on January 9th, 2004, the day before his disappearance. Here she reviews Soderbergh’s film which is – appropriately enough – narrated entirely by Gray himself.

Marque of Goodness

05.20.10

How does one define the undefinable? It is the enigmatic and ineffable marque of goodness that Jon Leon does his ostensive best to name, winding his way through the meandering hooks of Jane Eyre, Marilyn Monroe, and the LA-based writer Kate Durbin, and in the end, winds up writing a book review. It’s good.
 

Readings, Readings, Readings (3 in Atlanta next 3 days)

05.13.10

See the Atlanta events page on Fanzine.

Thursday, tonight, hit Whitespace with Jonathan Lerner.

This Friday at…

Music: The Flaming Lips: The Dark Side of The Moon (redo)

05.13.10

Flaming Lips: I love Dark Side of The Moon, listened to it times hundreds trying to synch it up with The Wizard of Oz (ha). Once, when I was young…

When Marina Abramovic Dies

05.12.10

Okay so you’ve just read about Marina Abramovic’s ongoing performance at MoMA here on Fanzine from Olena Jennings. Meanwhile, Art Fag City has pondered what she does with all that pee everyday (my bet is Chris Burden is the one changing the catheters nightly, but then that’s whimsical thinking); and now we have take 2 on the artist, from the perspective of a fellow performance artist, Alexandro Segade (himself interviewed on Fanzine recently), focussing on a biography about what will be Abramovic’s last perfomance.

A Jungle of Signs – Lecture and Discussion

05.08.10

A Jungle of Signs – Lecture and Discussion

Music: Xasthur: Portal of Sorrow

05.08.10

American Black Metalist Malefic has staunchly refused to compromise his vision or execution since starting the project known as Xasthur 15 years ago….