Tribute video for Robert Culp
Michael Louie04.13.10
This is a still image I took from the tribute video for Robert Culp’s memorial service this past weekend at the Egyptian…
Music: The Necks: The Boys
Casey McKinney04.07.10
Okay (don’t ask why, well you can but) forgot what I’ve hastily said times before about no belief in genius – that it’s all just masked…
Bong Joon-ho’s Mother
Michael Busk04.07.10
Influenced by Hitchcock and David Lynch, Bong Joon-ho has made a series of films that blend horror, suspense and dark comedy to comment upon Korean society and human nature. In his latest, Mother, an older woman defends her developmentally disabled son when he is falsely accused of murder by a lazy and corrupt small town police force. Bong takes this seemingly feel-good premise and turns it into one of the most surprising and unsettling films in recent memory. His use of inventive cinematography often tricks the viewer’s eye, a fitting choice for a film that is in the end about our ability to deceive ourselves.
iPad anyone? I still like Kindle (for iPhone Mind You)
Casey McKinney04.05.10
iPad anyone? I still like KIndle (for iPhone Mind You)
Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century
Jesi Khadivi04.05.10
A plentiful supply of images, music and video are offered by the bandwidth you’re using right now and so contemporary art seems increasingly interested in offering something that the internet cannot: experimental settings in which face-to-face community can occur. If the marketplace, the church and the school have been traditional public gathering places, school is certainly the model that has been most readily adapted for art experiments. With an array of contributors, this collection presents rad examples of school-as-art-project as wells as challenges to the underlying assumptions of accredited art schools. While the collection’s purview is primarily community projects and MFAs, it seems worth noting that, with state budgets strapped across the country, public school arts education — like the perenially murdered Kenny of South Park — is once again on the chopping block.
Lebanese Man To Be Beheaded For Witchcraft
Casey McKinney04.01.10
Lebanese Man To Be Beheaded For "Witchcraft"
Adios Los Mets, The Weather Sure Is Fair Up There in the Bronx
Pete Hausler04.01.10
Pete Hausler weighs the ultimate question in sports fandom: how much is enough heartbreak? As a fan myself of a team of perennial disappointment, I’ve also asked that question many a time after season after season of underachieving, flashes of brilliance interspersed randomly between stretches of lazy, uninspired, inept, and seemingly uninterested play. When does a sports fan cut his/her losses? Alas, I find myself unable to make a statement-making move. It’s like sticking with a bad, abusive, and indifferent lover year after year—or in my case, 35 years (though I’ve only been around for 32 of them). Hausler on the other hand, invoking wise words from author Nick Hornby and an inspired friend, seems ready to cross that threshold into a new world unknown to most of us stubborn, beleaguered, and otherwise hopeless fans. Art by Danny Jock. -MKL
Where’s a Good Dictator When You Need Her/Him?
Casey McKinney03.31.10
Where’s a Good Dictator When You Need Her
More Kevin Killian to read
The Fanzine03.30.10
In case you aren’t overwhelmed by his incredible output already, from the tip of the Amazon iceberg on down to the heft of his plays, poetry…
If You Give Enough Helper Monkeys Enough Typewriters: An Interview with Madras Press Publisher Sumanth Prabhaker
Pasha Malla03.29.10
Sumanth Prabhaker’s Madras Press recently published a quartet of novellas by Aimee Bender, Trinie Dalton, Rebecca Lee and Prabhaker himself. The books are small, square, beautifully designed and include neither bar codes nor blurbs. The profits from each book are donated to a charity of the author’s choice. Part of what makes this interesting is the type of non-profits they select — the proceeds from Prabhaker’s book will be donated to a Helping Hands, a group that trains helper monkeys for the disabled. Pasha Malla, author of The Withdrawal Method, speaks with him about the ideal way to read a short story and fiction of odd lengths.
