tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65663466690765481012012-02-16T07:25:35.884-08:00Their Towers burn and their 7 classic disco records are melted for raw vinyl. No one watches their television or buys their movies. It has been years since anyone read their books. As if anyone ever read them. They want us to mourn, that their cultural industry--their centrally planned and approved thought--is dying. Do not mourn. New culture, true culture blossoms in the ashes. Look:Luckymortalnoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566346669076548101.post-20459761415931969792010-10-21T15:07:00.000-07:002010-10-21T15:12:58.800-07:00

Americans have been duped by the left-wing notion of a "proposition nation" and by myths about third-world assimilation, neither of which will occur. Historically, nations have been built upon blood and soil, kith and kin, ancestral rites, and genealogical ties. A real nation is but an extension of a tribe, Lovely. Apparently these tea party people running for office in the Chicago

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(Caption: Will Smith and Jeff Goldbloom portray heroic suicide bombers who commit a noble genocide in "Independence Day.")We live in one of two worlds, but I can't be sure which.Both of these worlds have people who suck ass and who screw everything up. Both worlds have their BPs. Their Hitlers. Their Crocks....But one world is oh sooooo exciting, for it's filled with EVIL!!! And the bad things

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(Caption: The Dalai Lama "helped" a Tibetan religious minority by; calling for a boycott of their businesses, asking businesses not to serve them, kicking them out of their homes and otherwise persecuting them. Awesome.)Please help me. I have a problem. It's a problem of "helping." I don't know how to help. I don't think anybody does. And I want to help.This is not a "criticism" of those who

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This is something Vonnegut would write."Aid" food has flooded the Haitian market, driving Haitian farmers in the north out of business. They can't compete with the free food, mostly from the US. Now, they must choose between selling their rice for $Ass, or eating.So, our "help" is literally starving Haitian farmers.Philanthropy is the devil in disguise. And the quickest road to lichdom.http://

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This isn't about videogames. It's about power corrupting or some such thing.But yeah, spooky picture, from Battle for Wesnoth. Because there are community-sourced independent computer games too.Vampires, warewolves, zombies... we all know they have to "mean something" these days, because if they don't then it's supposed to be silly for adults to be interested in them.A good straight scare and

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Yep, this is film on a small scale, but don't worry, it's not that artsy fartsy film your friend in film school made during his David Lynch phase.Believe it or not, this film was made on a budget far, far less than your average film student flick.And it's probably better too.First-time director/writer/hacker/ and maniac sailor "Moxie Marlinspike" cut this DIY film about DIY sailing on a single

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What took the wind out of my sails was the idea that I was pissing on people's dreams.I'm talking about why I haven't posted to this blog in a long, long time. And this happened more than once. The implication that the best-seller list--or commercial success--doesn't necessarily correlate with artistic merit isn't just challenging to many people, it's insulting.People I like, and wouldn't want to

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Update on my plan to do side-by-side reviews comparing best-selling novels to beer. So far, my research has been a little lopsided on, um, the beer side. Ok, I haven't actually read past the first few pages of any of the best-sellers I've picked up. But that won't stop me from posting the first Beer V Book later today, if I'm sober enough.On the not-best-seller side of things, I recommend

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Today, I stopped by Ye Ole A Booke Shoppe, "Borders" to pick up a read and do a little exploritorization. As I am the kind of person for whom WORDS are the most intriguing and compelling media of human expression, I was naturally excited about this.Until I walked in the door and remembered how willingly entering a Borders is like a root canal of the soul. Only, this time it was JOY! Well, at

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7:30 tonight in Milwauke at the Basilica of St. Josaphat, I will be doing my small part as the baritone soloist in Karl Jenkin's Armed man. Great piece of modern music. Free concert.

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Rereading and putting together thoughts on Reagan Butcher:Butcher's poetry is so honest its painful to review. Like cutting into a nice steaming hot slice of soul, served up a la mode. If you've never tried it, you should grab yourself a fork and get ready to dig in.Stone Hotel and Rusty String Quartet, both published by Crimethinc. Letters, fits into the tradition of Buckowski and Celine, a

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Philistine Corporate Publishers, The Eastern front Avant Garde, are there Absurdists?.... Is this the same as 2? What is its relation to?Wait, will it help if I read Blake Butler? Wait, should I read William Trevor?http://magichelicopterpress.com/dragons/blake.htm (Then click on the picture...)

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I'm reviewing notes for my recently completed novel "Get Filthy Rich Doing What You LOVE!"More than 80,000 w0rds on the cuttingroom floor. Amongst them, these:It is the place of those who take the hypocratic oath to DO NO HARM.Tis the place of priests of fame to care and support those who lift them up in worship.There has never been a society so strictly and rigidly controlled and centrally

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On Fresh air. Listen with me on WBEZ, Chicago. 11:00 Central time.

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Art is not propaganda, but Art always represents some attempt at solution and Art movements fit the curve of a society's unique problems. Via: http://www.elahoffman.pl/Declaration of cultural revolutionaries for 2009This is an open experiment.A putting in words of what is already in the air.The more this declaration is being read, thought or spoken out, the more its energy will manifest in our

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Been watching David Lynch's Interview Project. Continuing the wonderful work of the late Studs Terkel:http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/

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Well, I've been hearing about thiseer Twitter thang for sometime, how it's going to revolutionize art and such. And as an artist with a specific interest in new modes of expression and technology, my twitter-lack would seem an odd oversight.Although I've long been a skeptic, some friends finally convinced me to join the twitter world. And because of them, I'm glad I did.And though I'm fairly

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Went to a showing of The Unforeseen last night. A compassionate and effective documentary on land use planning, development and sprawl, a Laura Dunn film with Robert Redford as an exec producer and cameo.This is an excellent piece of propaganda and an interesting popularization of daring film techniques. After, many of the people I talked to said "it was strange how it would go off on these artsy

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Met a young film student at a party this weekend. Spoke about art, psychology, the paranormal, film, flash mobs and the Avant Garde. "I love the crazy stuff that makes you think... I want to find a way to imagine other dimensions... love things that open my mind to ideas I've never considered." A big fan of David Lynch and zombie movies....

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Merce Cunningham, exit, stage (Flip coin)So experimental a genre of parody was created in honor of him. So experimental he always seemed a sort of parody of himself.Anyone who's put underwear or a lampshade on his head and flailed about saying "modern dance" is a fan of Merce Cunningham, though he might not even know the name. Cunningham has inspired a generation of artists. Merce, like his

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John Cage is best known as composer of 4'33, the composition that features 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. For those that don't know it, you enter the hall, the orchestra sits, the concert master comes to tune, the conductor appears and bows, raises his hands to begin and......then lowers them and looks at his watch.Then there's nothing for the next four and a half minutes. Of course, we

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Cheers to Franz Ferdinand, one of those bands that have made the best of the system, went their own way against the wishes of their corporate backers and made something very new. "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand" is my early favorite for record of the year.They've kicked off the studio sound and reinvented their own experimental approach to making a record.In this video about making Tonight, they

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------->just reread Rupture, Verge, Precipice for myself--says so much so profoundly. And such good fiction too.

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Carole Maso is nothing of an "emerging artist."She is more the death knell of the "Literary" pretense of big publishing houses. And though she is obscure enough that her wikipedia page remains a stub, her 9 published books have made her one of the most important and most talked about power houses of new and avant guard literature.And none of these masterpieces were published or even reviewed much

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Performed by Evelyn GlennieBecause it's hard to tell, here's what this blog is about: a certain set of new devices, themes and techniques, which seem to be congealing into the first really distinct artistic movement since Post-Modernism, or perhaps "Minimalism" or "Globalism." These techniques and the artists that use them flow directly out of the last wave of Avant-garde, but represent an

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Dear Alex,Have you noticed that saying "cultural industry" makes you sound like a nutty nut bar?Well it does.And no, merely saying "cultural industry" will not make bare-breasted women appear to protest you. So give it up. Besides, when big-bare-tittied nubile XXX teens protested Teddy Adorno, it was all so very upsetting. Poor, poor Teddy. Did those nasty unbound and bouncing boobied young

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Evelyn Glennie is the first solo percussionist to make and sustain a living as a performer.It pains me to mention it, because once you hear her, you'll see that it doesn't make the least difference,but she happens to also be deaf.I recently performed as a soloist at a certain Chicago new music festival with a highlight on percussion. These were amazing professional percussionists, certainly.

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Great retrospective of "American Independence," celebrating 20 years of Merge records. Imagine starting up a label back in '89! No myspace?! What do I do without Ruppie?!?!http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106260795Basically, these are the good guys and this is their success story. Of course, things have changed a lot since then, but there's still a lot we can learn from their

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Recent readers recommend:Mayan Calendar Girlshttp://mayancalendargirls.com/A flash fiction serial hyper-novel in a blog-based format. A 'pocolyptic Robbins-esque bash for the end o times.From the web site:STONE-COLD CENTERFOLDSESCHATOLOGY VS SCATOLOGYZEITGEIST VS SITE HEISTCOLLIDERSCOPE TERRORISTMAYAN CALENDAR GIRLS is the fun, sexy, political, cosmic HyperLit serial that runs from now until the

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If you want to understand the major currents of culture today then pop some popcorn, pour a beer and watch this speech by free culture activist, Creative Commons founder and all-around superhero Lawrence Lessig. This is tomorrow's art history today.And --BONUS-- Lessig is quite an entertainer too. You'll enjoy this, I promise.Lessig's topic is copyright law, but he opens up a profound view of how

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Collaborative effort launched today by writers C. H. Valentino and Jerry B. Flory!!!This is a very new approach to prose and storytelling in an online collaborative serial. Flory and Valentino share a style that uses literary minimalism as a blunt tool to smack the reader around and grab them by the throat. Language that's both rich and direct combined with storytelling relayed through a constant

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Which way is the wind blowing? Which way? Which way? Follow the feather in the wind!Everything changes. Economic realities change, leaving the stodgy and inflexible masters of the past paradigm stinking up history's gutters while the flexible and inventive evolve to find a new way.Beethoven, Charles Dickens, Andy Worhol------->their ability to mine new economic possibilities and forge new

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Just come to terms with it now: the Boomers are never going to fucking retire.Ever.Accept that. It's a fact.So long as they're alive, they'll keep going to work, making winter crocs, signing Britney Spears to record deals, putting David Caruso on teevee and generally screwing everything up.And now, some of them are attempting to download their groovy consciousnesses into computers, or shoot up

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It finally happened. The music died yesterday. Yep. It's gone. No more. On the police report, it said this: "pirates." Pirate kids "stole" the music, mashed it up and used nine inch nails on it, pounded it to a cross and left it to die like a cold child's toy. How come they couldn't understand: if it doesn't make money, it isn't music. Couldn't they see that? Some kids in a garage, students

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