October 2010
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Media log, September 2010
Books (best first, though all were worth it this month): Ice [Anna Kavan, 1967, images] The Driver’s Seat [Muriel Spark, 1970] The Torture Garden [Octave Mirbeau, 1899] The Pisstown Chaos [David Ohle, 2008] Yes [Thomas Bernhard, 1978, quotes] The Erasers [Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1964] Hopscotch [Julio Cortázar, 1963, quotes] Beasts [Joyce Carol Oates, 2002] Under the Jaguar Sun [Italo Calvino,...
September 2010
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Finally
So there’s a new movie theater open on Bedford. All films $5. All films totally incredible.The next two to show — next week — will be Vera Chytliova’s Prefab Story, one of her most noted post-Daisies works, which I’ve never been able to find in English anywhere or even a trailer for online, and something caled Pastoral: To Die in the Country, which, just look:
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Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Re-reading, annotating. 1995:
But I quit just the same. Not that quitting would help me realize any particular hopes or prospects. The last thing I wanted to do, for example, was shut myself up in the house and study for the bar exam. I was surer than ever that I didn’t want to become a lawyer. I knew, too, that I didn’t want to stay where I was and continue with the job I had. If I...
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Thomas Bernhard, Yes
Bernhard is proving to be as embittered, as vitriolic, as brilliant as everyone has been telling me. 1978:
After all, there is nothing but failure. If at least we have the will to fail we make progress, and in everything, in each and everything, we must at least have the will to fail unless we wish to perish at a very early stage, which of course cannot be the intention behind existence. (p.35)
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Flashlit faces
(part of a larger series, taken by anemic wind-up flashlight while camping)
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At the outer margins of the Rockaways
Edgemere and Far Rockaway, a long ways from the crowded beaches of Rockaway Park.
Trap-43-Rules:
1. Snitches get twerked 2. No fuckery 3. No hot boys 4. No fugazy ass niggaz 5. No scary ass bitches 6. No buck$ - no cup 7. No bread - you dead 8. No role models 9. No littering 10. Respect tha Trap 11. No lil niggaz / bitches 12. Respect tha homies!
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