A Two-Week Disney Waltz: Thoughts on the 2009 NBA Finals Between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic
Jason Jude Chan06.04.09
In our preview, the line was Lakers in 6, they got it in 5. We didn’t see the LeBron James and Kobe Bryant matchup that some were hoping for. No, while James, perhaps Cleveland’s highest figuring GDP, was couching it for the 2009 NBA final series, before the first tip off Jason Jude Chan imagined what may happen over the next couple weeks as a largely favored Los Angeles Lakers took on a somewhat less formidable Orlando Magic. Art by Danny Jock.
R.I.P. David Carradine—Goodnight Sweet Autoerotic Prince
Michael Louie06.04.09
If you caught the early AP reports of David Carradine’s death, you may have gotten a different mental image of the nemesis of Kill…
Now at the Whitney: Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley05.29.09
There is a whole lot of awesome currently crammed into the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973” is third in a series of exhibitions that focuses on the photography collection amassed by the Whitney. This show, though tiny, is comprised of incredibly compelling conceptual photographs by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Adrian Piper, and Mel Bochner, to name only a few.
Fanzine’s Web Saviors
Casey McKinney05.28.09
Wanna give some love back to our sometime savior, Karsten Krejcarek, one of the best artists working these days, and others, love you all.
Heller’s Fanzine piece referenced in Freakonomics
Casey McKinney05.28.09
Roids keep Rumbling – Heller’ Fanzine piece ‘Roid Rage’ in The New York Times excellent Freakonomics column
The Rumpus – Whoah
Casey McKinney05.22.09
The Rumpus and Fanzine just discovered each other, Whoah!
Talk Show 25 with Brian Evenson, Lev Grossman, Elizabeth McCracken, Karen Shepard, & Gary Shteyngart
Jaime Clarke05.20.09
A treat and a milestone, TS#25 came in on my birthday, May Day, but is just now going up as we’re a little ahead of ourselves in the Talk Show arena. Danny’s gone bat shit prolific with the drawings and Jaime’s ever surprising with the authors he brings in, like Brian Evenson, a fave, and the amazing rest, including Lev Grossman, Elizabeth McCracken, Karen Shepard, and Absurdistan author Gary Shteyngart. The focus of the chat is a blast too, a sort of Rorschach sans the drippy subterfuge – Clarke simply asks: what’s the big "irrational fear?" So get prepped to laugh, relate or cringe along. Woody Allen’s sold the spiel that all writers are neurotic as hell, so see for yourself with this Whitman Sampler…
James Blackshaw’s New Classic
Brian Howe05.19.09
James Blackshaw is one of Michael Gira’s (of Swans and Angels of Light fame) dashing young gods. That is to say – well at the least – he’s on Gira’s Young God Records label. And as Brian Howe serendipitously concurs, for such a relatively young man, Blackshaw’s music is mythical in its reach, with an uncanny ethereal timelessness to it. Here Howe reviews the new record Glass Bead Game, which is out officially next week, along with a Blackshaw collaboration from 2008, Brethren of the Free Spirit’s The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb.
