Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism… where on Earth are we? We are on Earth, and it is a very strange place. Read about movement and momentum building among the arts.
Entertainment Weekly’s review of Pearl Jam’s No Code:
Trapped somewhere between purgatory and bliss, the album leaves you with the vaguely unsettling feeling that Pearl Jam without pain are like a pretzel without salt, or Seattle without rain.
All it wants are line breaks.
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Up until now I’ve offered a one-sided criticism of psychoanalysis, all the way back to its roots in Freud and Jung. I always took the angle that Freud was a gifted observer who formed some highly faulty models of psychology based on speculation as to how the human brain worked.
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I will be reading from Hungry Rats at this Friday’s debut of Earshot‘s 2007-2008 series.
I will also be selling (for $3) a limited number of The Hungry Rats EP, featuring readings of Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2, and music by Elisabeth Blair, Mr.
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Imagine a writer, unnoticed, unrecognized, pushing thirty without a major publishing credit, but who knows that his offhands pack more finesse than most others’ spit-shined epigrams. He sees a dirty limerick contest (a redundancy) with the prize of a T-Shirt, a chance to post on a lit-porn weblog, and publication in a burlesque ezine.
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This month I’m returning to Baz Luhrman’s Red Curtain Trilogy as my original inspiration for Gothic Funk. But I’m really thinking about developing a more proximal and intuitive definition, a clearer sense of to what extent we need to relate justify the project critically, and to decisively differentiate our efforts from what has come before.
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The Onion: Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not.
Unfortunately, the actual Wikipedia article is much more prosaic.
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Notes for Students
or
White Swan
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I should say, it will be:
What title would you use?
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