for J.D.
We don't want to turn this into another site of mourning, but for today we'd like to acknowledge the passing of director, Jonathan Demme.
More than the man who heard the "Silence of the Lambs", his excellent early exploitation work (story for Pam Grier's Black Mama, White Mam, writer/director for prisonflick Caged Heat); the shooting of Spaulding Gray's "Swimming to Cambodia", which gave the performer a larger platform for experimental narrativization; & Talking Heads uptown weirdness in "Stopping Making Sense" all made him an auteur of idiosyncratic variety. He gave Anne Hathaway and Melanie Griffith their best roles in "Rachel Getting Married" and "Something Wild". Both of those film are two of the best from their respective decades, especially “Rachel Getting Married”.
Below is the full movie of "Caged Heat". Watch it with us tonight.
This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads (from STOP MAKING SENSE)
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Toasted by Voices
Great new poem by Emily Toder in Pounch #8. Recalls GBV’s “Quality of Armor”.
WILD AT THE WHEEL drivers safety video
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The trailer for my new durational film, DECADES, is done. The film will be out in September 2017. The first decade is the 1970s. The excerpt is a short sample from the 6-hour 1970s installment of DECADES, a durational film that traces the history of a decade using film sound, noise, and score. This particular clip is from a 47-min section that focuses on demolition, eco-disaster, mechanization, and the elements—in particular, water. The film is part of an on-going series and will be released in installments, by decade.
“Rhythms The omnipotence of rhythms. Nothing is durable but what is caught up in rhythms. Bend content to form and sense to rhythms…Instances of sound must be musical. Sounds and silences circulate in the memory like colors and smells. When I make a film I listen to it the way a pianist listens to the sonatas he’s going to play. I train the images to fit the sound rather than the other way around…Sounds in film must become music. Today, I believe that the entire film must be music.“
-Bresson
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Happy Birthday to the King.
This is still one of the best audience assaults I've ever seen on television, terrifying the Khakis.. A brilliant song/sequel to "TV EYE".
We’ve also made a Spotify playlist to celebrate. Some deeper cuts and rarities that should be heard. Chek it out.
https://open.spotify.com/user/1211710277/playlist/5EkMZHmphRNvqcstRMQaAW
1. Iggy Pop - Mask
2.. Iggy Pop - Sweet Sixteen
3. Iggy Pop - Funtime
4. Iggy Pop - I Need More
5. Iggy Pop - I'm Bored
6. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin
7. The Stooges - I Got A Right
8. Iggy Pop - Beside You (Steve Jones demo 1985)
9. Iggy Pop - Johanna
10. Iggy Pop - Dog Food
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Two new poems by me at PEN America
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(via https://open.spotify.com/user/1211710277/playlist/1bGUJoRLleu0zeCLcDVxoY)
fucked week, fucked news, but still room for some anger spirituals.
MYTHANTHROPE #2
1. Pissed Jeans - Have You Ever Been Furniure
2. Feedtime - Thought
3. Barney Wilen - Tindi Abalessa
4. Fad Gadget - Lady Shave
5. A.R. & Machines - Globus (Globe)
6. William S. Fischer - Patience is Virtue
7. Fred Wesley & The JB’s - Damn Right I Am Somebody (Parts 1&2)
8. Pussy Galore -Nothing Can Bring Me Down
9. Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
10. The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
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Have You Ever Been Furniture
Pissed Jeans - “Have You Ever Been Furniture” - Why Love Now, 2017
Arthur Blythe - “Lennox Avenue Breakdown” - Lenox Avenue Breakdown, 1979
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Brandon’s Bava Mom
Tune Abhi Dekha Nahin, 2009 by Brandon Downing
Kishore Kumar's famously hyperactive musical number, heavily re-sequenced, from 1978's "Do Aur Do Paanch" is teamed with edited footage from Mario Bava's 1973 horror mess "Lisa & the Devil". Editing, remixing and subtitles by Brandon Downing. Dedicated to motherhood.
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Crucial Sumeau
Sumeau - "Diggin’ Out" Live at Jam in the Van Headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.
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Each week we at HQ will post a playlist of what we've featured and/or what we've been listening to. Here is the first. Happy Friday, meatballs!
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Bridging Noodles
gil scott-heron & brian jackson - delta man (1977)
The Flaming Lips - Okie Noodling
a short musical tale of fishing & masturbation
The Southern Oklahoma Trigger Contest - 0:00
Noodling Theme [Epic Sunset mix 5] - 7:30
At the Fish Fry and the Bigot's Drunk - 10:57
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from “Tuning” by David Antin
i dont think im unique in feeling the
absence of urgency in constructing a literary object its
in fact i think a fairly recent aberration the existence
of literature conceived in a tight framework there is
some sense of urgency out there a passing police car
they have an audience they have an audience and a
need and they may respond to it badly but they
have their sense of urgency the most exotic example i can
think of and the most striking example i can think of
which i have thought about recently and which is not
something i want to spend a great deal of time thinking about
here is a kind of post napoleonic commitment to
producing an amazingly important object balzac say
i dont
really want to talk about balzac except that hes an example of
incredible arrogance and ambition with nothing to say a man
goes into a closet in order to say it a half baked kid decides
to be a great writer to be like napoleon to take over the
empire of letters what would he do? whatever was going
to be great what would be great? classical tragedies
that was what was great in paris what else would be great
in paris? racine what else? he would write plays
now its very difficult you go with nothing in your
mind in particular except your own future greatness
you go there to paris to write great plays because
thats where they write them you go there mainly to
exercise your dominion balzac is a good example he
couldnt speak he had nothing to say
coffee black coffee
was the answer self intoxication late at night what
came out presumably
ive never seen an autograph manuscript
of balzac and i dont know anybody who has but ive seen
early proof sheets
he obviously managed to achieve
finally utterance a string of clichés an incredible
propulsion of garbage an incredible group of commonplaces
flowing one after another
but they flow after endless
cups of coffee which presumably finally killed him
second proof sheet third proof sheet i never saw a second or
third proof sheet presumably i saw eleventh proof sheets
or something of that order theyre filled with literary
high class the flow of clichés the flow of platitudinous
trash is interrupted primarily by self conscious reflexive
high class prose that enters into the flow one thing
was flowing and it was nonsense but it was at least flowing
after that there were second thoughts and third
thoughts and fourth thoughts balzac criticizing balzac
getting smarter learning little bits and pieces of junk
embedding a mosaic of early 19th century cleverness
going swedenborgianism going sociology going
real worldism going whatever to take away the
embarrassment of this fluent trash which flowed all the way
through unrealized and absurd clichéd scenes followed
largely by modifications that add respectability and slow down
the pace of the prose till finally in what? the
22nd proof sheet we have the brokenbacked mosaic of a balzac
novel a monster
what we have is a fluency of utterance
and energy broken and restrained in a disastrous mosaic
which is an image of what an image of class an image
of mentalism an image of whatever it was the now nearly
worthless currency of 19th century hip that had value then
for that reason that it was their currency and there are
strata in balzac and all the strata appear together
pressed in various sized fragments onto the surface of the
text a balzac novel is an archeological trove its not so
much a work as it is a series of self conscious reflections on
his inability to let his talk fall where it fell because he
wanted to be great
its very bad to want to be great because
theres no reason in the world why you should be great until
the world decides that you are great which is all that
greatness consists of now i didnt start from a critique
of balzac and im not interested in laying balzac open to this
critique that could apply almost as well to so many other
writers but balzac is an enormously interesting case
for the reason that he is so typical of the arrogance of
literature as a construction that will eventually claim to
equal the career of a progressively accumulated intelligence
that the world had just come to call science and this new
career would be something like a science a quasi science of
the real world
what "real world" the world of common
sense made to seem as if it was more than common sense?
or less than common sense? the world of if A then B
the truth table its the plausible world of the marriage novel
the plausible world of the money accumulating novel the
plausible world of the success story its all plausible but
its plausible but its plausible only afterwards because
before that what is it its an opera or a fairy tale because
balzac writes basically a romance or an opera which he then
subjects to a somewhat cynical critique a 19th century
critique of this romance and the critique is called realism
now theres a
kind of comedy to this because the critique is a kind of
afterword its as though balzac expects to be judged why
does he expect to be judged its an interesting question
he expects to be judged because hes going to have an object
in front of the world and the world will have the leisure and
the desire to examine it once and then examine it
again and then examine it again and then again and
its as if he was back in school and he was preparing to face
a board of examiners and he was turning in his examination
booklet that this board of examiners was going to scrutinize
over and over slowly turning its pages to see if they pass
now theres one
issue in a book its that a book is always reinspectable
when you recall a passage it is always the same which is
unlike talk which you can also recall but is never the
same and is never reinspectable except in your
memory that is you may believe that its the same
but you have no certainty that its the same and the talk
goes out into the world and its gone and its not worth
any more than anyones confidence in you or confidence in
their ability to perform the interpretive act upon the discourse
with you because the discourse is the one thing
that youre sure of theres a situation and you respond to it
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No Snake Charmer Has The Same Song
Can you find me?
I’m in my parents’ house
where part of me remains
I’m on white sheets
for real
I am
my finger smells like the most dangerous perfume
I’m nude as a painting
did you know I’m addicted to email?
I am
I once bought a taxidermied frog on eBay
it was dressed like a policeman
I gave it to my first boyfriend
where’s it now?
somewhere among the chaos
ground into bits
last night I flirted with a dude by giving him my social security number
have you ever tried that?
my hair is so unkempt that just I felt like Kurt Cobain
as I stepped over the yoga mat and checked out my boobs in the mirror
John is in Silentland with the teen monks
do you know John?
he is the sweetest
his neck is a place
he’s got great hair
he almost never channels Kurt Cobain
he’s more like Harpo
or Olive Oyl
I had to Google the spelling of that
do you ask your most embarrassing questions on Incognito tabs in Chrome?
I do
I ask about love and read the message boards
I love reading frantic wtf messages from women about to be married
I like the desperation
and the frankness
I like when the original poster returns to the board to update us
I like being part of “us”
I’m wearing my mouth guard now
can you hear the difference?
a naked woman talking like a little girl is like something you see in a circus
in the natural circus
like a mother with food on her nose
or two catfish quietly in love
See more poems by Rachel.
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Get Felt: Julius Eastman - “Stay On It”
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You can now stream Throbbing Gristle on Spotify
#throbbinggristle #spotify
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Low Level Nuclear Waste
Marie Curie’s Notebooks
Beastie Boys secret Country Album
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Generated Detective
from “Generated Detective”, an algorithmic comic generated from a series of fragments of public domain detective books. By Greg Borenstein.
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