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When the weather starts getting warm, I often find myself turning to Pavement. I think it’s ‘cuz the music is free, easy, optimistic, clever, balls out, sort of stoned—all these things. For me, pretty much it’s the feeling of the start of something good. This year, I think the feeling’s gotten stronger after seeing Slow…
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The Rumpus posted this contest earlier this week. NYC writers are being asked to use a line from Sam Lipsyte‘s novel, The Ask, to write a 300-word jump-off story. The winner gets to read onstage alongside Lipsyte, Colson Whitehead and Lorelei Lee this Tuesday night at the Highline Ballroom, as part of the Rumpus/Tin House/Flavorpill…
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This weekend I finally saw Elephant—I’d been meaning to see it for years. I had seen Gus Van Sant‘s other two films in his “death trilogy,” Gerry and Last Days, both in the theater. I don’t know why I had missed Elephant. I think probably because it came out the same year I moved to…
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Just found out we’ll be playing a huge loft party next Friday, April 2. It’s actually the home of Dynasty Electric, who we played with in August at Galapagos. The address is 76 Rutledge St. in Brooklyn. Show starts around 10:30 and should be totally packed and very sexy. If you like that sort of…
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Here are the details: March 24, 2010 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Release event for Shya Scanlon’s debut poetry collection, In This Alone Impulse, published by Noemi Press. Reading from the manuscript will be a variety of writers and artists, including: Lincoln Michel, James Yeh, John Madera, John Dermot Woods, Rozalia Jovanovic, Nicolle Elizabeth, Todd…
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The Dead Sextons are playing Zebulon in Williamsburg on Wednesday night, St. Patrick’s Day. C’mon out. It’s at 258 Wythe between N. 3rd and Metropolitan. We’ll be with Man Bird Lion, who are totally cool.
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Shya Scanlon’s new book of poems, In This Alone Impulse (Noemi Press, 2009), is impossible to categorize and endlessly rewarding. His ability to play with words, to jumble them, to change their meaning through all this jumble, is what makes it unique, and moving. None of the poems are longer than seven lines, and within…
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The Guardian had this article on Tuesday about authors opting out of having their books available to be read on Google Books for free. There are a number of prominent names on the list. To me, it basically sounds like the early days of Napster and downloading music for free, and Lars from Metallica being…
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The Rumpus has been posting a Literary Fashionables column each day this week, in honor of Fashion Week here in New York. I’ve been reading them with great joy. Here’s the first installment, from where you can read them all.
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I’ve been meaning to mention that I finally got to take in the 1979 film Wise Blood, based on the Flannery O’Connor novel of the same name. The movie started as a black comedy, then got disturbing towards the end. Brad Dourif seemed to have this permanent scowl throughout, and Harry Dean Stanton was his…
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