You shouldn’t. Nobody should.
In Greek mythology, the mortal Sisyphus thought he was more clever than the gods. In the afterlife, he was consigned to roll a rock up a hill, only for it to tumble down every time he approached his goal. … Read the rest
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Elisabeth Blair and I are composing/editing a Gothic Funk novel to be titled Hollywood. However, it is set in Chicago.
I’m taking charge of the writing, and Lisa of the music, but we’re looking for additional collaborators. In addition to a tangible application of the “gothic funk aesthetic,” Hollywood will also be a teen noir (or at least a 20-something noir) for those of you familiar with that term… think of an episode of Veronica Mars codirected by Baz Luhrman and David Lynch.
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Check out this short article I wrote for Bookish.us:
The Decline and Fall of Cosmo Dogood’s Urban Almanac.
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Check out my nerdy essay on punctuation, spacing, and text-justification at bookish us.
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Read my article on the Uptown book and music store Shake Rattle and Read at Bookish Us: Shake Rattle and Read and the Uptown Story.
This article has also been promoted on the Uptown Update blog.
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Gothic Funk Nation
Party XIX: NO LUCK IN LOVE
In collaboration with Black Automatic and Front 312.
Launch of the
Paramanu Pentaquark:
A GOTHIC FUNK Journal
Afterparty of:
AWP Writer’s Conference
Artists:
Reinhardt Suarez
Elisabeth Blair
Jacob Saenz
Pierre Abelard
$5 Donation from 8 – 10:30
Includes a Copy of the Journal
$5 LeTourment Absinthe
$3 Domestics
$3 Well Drinks
$2.50 PBR
Friday, February 13
8 PM, 2nd Story Loft, 1931 N Milwaukee
Above Lucky Number Grill
The Gothic Funk Nation: http://www.GOTHICFUNK.org
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It is popular among educated and upper middle-class people to inveigh against television. The same people who boast about the quality and quantity of books they own are also proud that they don’t have a TV set. “Watching television,” they say, “that’s so passive.”
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Some people like the musical Les Misèrables and others execrate it. I loved it in ninth grade, appreciated it in college, and now am somewhat disappointed in it. We could debate the fact that a three hour musical contains about six tunes, or the fact that the novels most memorable characters, such as Montparnasse and Grandfather Gillenormand have been cut from the cast, but the very best argument is both simple and easy:
In Les Misèrables the musical, Fantine is broke so she sells her locket and then her hair.
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For my birthday my parents got me Dune, and it was the first time I’d seen this film in about eight years. I watched this film constantly in 7th grade, and it became one of my favorites of all time.
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