February 2012
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A Thug Talks and Talks, and Scribbles
In a nondescript motel room somewhere along the border between Mexico and the United States, a former hit man — a “sicario” — for the Mexican drug cartels speaks. Unquestioned and uninterrupted, this black-garbed thug regales us with 20 years’ worth of kidnapping, torture and cold-blooded murder, all the while scribbling compulsively in a large notebook. Are we supposed to feel shock? Revulsion?...
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Universe of Desire
Type. Swipe. Search. Upload. Download. Post. Stream. These are the new verbs of desire. Our most intimate thoughts, fantasies, and urges are now transmitted via electronic devices to rapt audiences all over the world. These transmissions—from sexts to webcam masturbation feeds—are anonymous yet personal, individual yet collective, everywhere and nowhere, and they are contributing to the largest...
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January 2012
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Todd Hido: “Fragmented Narratives”
By Ian Epstein I once heard someone remark that the desire to have a perfect lawn was not unlike the desire to have a piece of perfect sculpture for a body – the lengths to which a person goes to achieve such perfection reveal a great deal. And so the coiffed and manicured American lawn that is a hallmark of the suburbs with perfect green grass came to resemble America’s plastic bodies,...
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In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing
In a manner of speaking
I don’t understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that I feel about you
Is beyond words
O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything
In a...
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Gem Club on Japanese boro
Few things put me at peace the way Gem Club does. Like staring at the moon, with stars dimming out of focus, clouds at all sides, churning with a rain that never falls—it’s a melancholic kind of contemplation, yet ever-assuring, as I know that this pure, unrelenting beauty lies just out of reach, just one squint away. Gem Club, comprised of Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala, has...
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December 2011
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Sleeve notes to the "Electrosonic" reissue...
The ‘phone rang a few times, then “Hello” in a light tone. I said “Is that Delia?” and she replied immediately “Oh golly, you must be John”. My first exchange with Delia Derbyshire is memorable for many reasons, not least because it introduced me to one of those unusual aspects of her lore: that she could tell before answering the ‘phone if the call...
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curiositycounts:
Some conceptions of the good life take the Aristotelian view to the extreme of denying altogether the relevance of subjective well-being. For those who do not want to go that far, the distinction between experienced happiness and life satisfaction raises serious problems. …there appears to be little hope for any unitary concept of subjective well-being. I used to hold a unitary...
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November 2011
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David Lynch Keeps His Head
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David Lynch Keeps His Head by David Foster Wallace
HOWEVER OBSESSED with fluxes in identity his movies are, Lynch has remained remarkably himself throughout his filmmaking career. You could probably argue it either way – that Lynch hasn’t compromised or sold out, or that he hasn’t grown all that much in twenty years of making movies – but the fact remains that Lynch has...
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