#hilton als

[dk-thrive]

every mouth needs filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar and savory, like love

I think often of Hilton Als’s assertion that “every mouth needs filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar and savory, like love.” I think about it a lot because I don’t quite understand it. Does he mean that love is an example of something that could fill a mouth, or does he mean that something “like love” could do the trick? What is something “like love,” but not love? Would such a thing be a cruel—perhaps the cruelest—of substitutes? Or can something that’s like love, but not love, offer its own form of sustenance? How would one know the difference?

— Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

#maggie nelson #love #like love #hilton als

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

If I have any kind of credo or ethos as a writer it’s: Don’t condescend to your audience. Let them have their imagination. And by doing so, you’re feeding your own.

– Hilton Als

#fiction #fiction writing #writing tips #writing advice #hilton als #quotes #kcawf original #writeblr

[elena-ferrante]

#hilton als #angelina jolie #i had no idea this movie was even happening lol #glad they chose an actress with charisma&talent

[darkbloomiana]

#lgbtq+ #signage #Hilton Als #Instagram

[iishtar]

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “Nyado: The Thing Around Her Neck” (2011)

#njideka akunyili crosby #art #hilton als #god made my face #james baldwin

[whateverinmymind]

#rachel weisz #brett goodroad #hilton als #Instagram #unknown date

[mythologyofblue]

Because the only thing writers have, really, is their experience.

Hilton Als

#Hilton Als #writing #to write #quote #lit

[cmonstah]

"What is most curious, however, is that this show seems to take its subject at her word. Didion’s ideas are explored largely as she framed them. For a writer who sought to unravel narratives, what narratives about Saint Joan might need unraveling? What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge?"

I've been hanging out at the Joan Didion estate sale, the Joan Didion exhibition at the Hammer Museum and have been panic reading Joan Didion essays. The result: unicorns, migraines and a wondrous Warhol sunset. Read the full piece here.

#joan didion #hammer museum #what she means #hilton als

[ashtrayfloors]

I knew that if I went to Minneapolis I would never come back. How many pies would I make for him, hoping to fatten him up. But I did all of that anyway, and not in Minneapolis. After Nashville, Prince, I returned to New York, and to the man whose girlfriend I wanted to be. I wanted to be his Dorothy Parker, and his O Sister. You know what I mean, Prince. I wanted to make him scrambled eggs, and I did. I could not make a poem out of any of it. Dorothy Parker, dark-haired, helmet-haired, was never a waitress like in your song, Prince, but she wrote some poems—not like yours. You can't write everything. In any case, you got certain things about her right in your do-rag'd head, and then you put them in your song, lines like "(Dorothy Parker was cool)" and "Well, earlier I'd been talkin' stuff / In a violent room / Fighting with lovers past / I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine / Dorothy was fast." Those people in the violent room were phantoms, I know, Prince, the ghosts of fingers past on your back, your neck, pushing your head toward the paper, forcing you to remember their old love—it keeps them alive, as my old loves keep me alive by forcing my hand, which writes lines like these.

Hilton Als, from My Pinup: A Paean to Prince (New Directions, 2022)

#quotations #hilton als #my pinup #recently read #prince #love #relationships #dorothy parker #if i was your girlfriend #ghosts

[kammartinez]

#hilton als #books #my pinup prince #music #writing

[abelsonarchive]

#Peter Hujar #karma #hilton als

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1224

first posted in facebook october 14, 2023

reggie burrows hodges -- "bathers and the cleansed: pearl" (2021)

"i start with a black ground [as a way] of dealing with blackness’s totality. i'm painting an environment in which the figures emerge from negative space" … reggie burrows hodges

"using matte-black paint to render the backgrounds of his canvases, as well as the bodies and faces of his figures, this black american painter makes ingenious use of so-called negative space as both a metaphor for hegemonic white culture and an expression of memory’s blur" … johanna fateman

"in the new body of work 'bathers and the cleansed', hodges revisits the art-historical trope of a female bather and presents her in various states of activity, from a moment of respite to exiting the bathtub. while the expressive marks and layered colors appear soft, even sensual, hodges’s paintings honor the characters—washing away centuries of culturally imposed eroticism on the black female body. by doing so, the painter imbues his bathers with a quiet agency as they occupy and reclaim their histories within the domestic sphere" … portland museum of art

"figures created by hodges are made sharper, and more haunting, not because we see those things in their eyes, we see it in their bodies, their postures, the endless desire for humans not to be alone, and to connect. to that hodges adds all that wonderful blackness" … hilton als

"i wanna see it painted, painted black black as night, black as coal i wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky i wanna see it painted, painted, painted painted black, yeah" … mick jagger

"i see a white tub and i want it painted black" … al janik

#reggie burrows hodges #bathers and the cleansed #pearl #a black ground #negative space #johanna fateman #memory's blur #hegemonic white culture #portland museum of art #bathtub #female bather #hilton als #that wonderful blackness #paint it black #mick jagger #rolling stones #a white tub #al things considered

[walls-to-the-ball]

It’s just like the other day this guy tries to pick me up while I’m waiting for the 6 on my way to rehearsal for this play I wrote and my first thought is “What if he’s got AIDS? Condoms are bullshit, what if he’s a gift giver who’s trying to lure you somewhere to infect you on purpose?” And this is all me in my glorious gay 20s when I should be laughing AIDS in the face and daring it to come after me. But this is not what they taught me in high school health. This is not what Dad taught me about his cousin Melvin who apparently ran around on his wife for years smoking crack and fucking men on the DL and got AIDS. . . . So even though in that moment waiting for the 6 I think, “Maybe he’s just into you,” I think right after that, “He probably just wants to gay bash you.” So that’s where I’m at; a bitter custody battle: thought versus thought and thought wins.

from the excellent interview between Michael R. Jackson & Hilton Als, here

#Michael R. Jackson #strange loop #white girl in danger #AIDS #theatre #thought versus thought and thought wins #hilton als

[batrachois]

Keeping up with the Waynes — now on Batflix

#consider: brucie who shifts with age from being a Paris Hilton to being a Kris Jenner #art #fanart #artists on tumblr #dc universe #Jason Todd #damian wayne #damian al ghul #dick grayson #tim drake #Bruce Wayne #Batman #nigthwing #red hood #red robin #robin #boy wonder #I love the girls too I just didn’t have much time to add them I’m sorry ;;;;;

[karmaalwayswins]

Now Reading:

Hilton Als “My Pinup: A Paean to Prince” (2022)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60534040-my-pinup

#hilton als #prince rogers nelson #lgbt #african-american #essay #now reading #not sure how to tag my own posts at this point

[whateverinmymind]

#rachel weisz #hilton als #instagram