An excerpt from draft 5 (Crab Nebula) of Andre Perkowski’s eternally changing and shifting film, “NOVA EXPRESS” based on the writings of William S. Burroughs.
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BRION GYSIN EXHIBITION – Dreamachine Opens at New Museum
by Red Cell Brion Gysin Dreamachine 7 July – 3 October 2010 New Museum – NYC From the New Museum’s Press Release: The New Museum will present “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously [...]
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Karpo Godina : “Pupilias Ferkeverk Brain Au Gratain”
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk (1970), Karpo Godina’s banned short film featuring the Slovenian poets of the collective Pupilia Ferkeverk.
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IRA COHEN – UPDATE! Influential Poet, Artist and Filmmaker NEEDS HELP!
Influential Beat Poet Ira Cohen is in immediate need. Read this article to find out why and how you can help!
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JAMES JOYCE / HARRY CROSBY – “Work in Progress”
A nice scribbled on page by Harry Crosby from James Joyce’s as yet unpublished manuscript of Finnegans Wake for the legendary Transition magazine.
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SEBASTIAN HORSLEY – Dead at 47
Gadfly, artist and underworld dandy, Sebastian Horsley has died of a supposed drug overdose at the age of 47.
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MITHLY – Morocco’s First Gay Magazine
Morocco’s first gay and lesbian magazine may have had a small first run, but those ripples are sure to make waves soon.
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LITERARY OUTLAWS – New HUNTER S. THOMPSON Album in Production at Paris Records
Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” might just be the final contribution of the legendary Paris Records label to the the legacy of spoken word.
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UM, LONNIE – Episode Three
Join Lonnie the Lot Lizard and cohorts in this third installment of clawdeuS’ bizarre, ongoing web-comic, “Um, Lonnie: Pillow Talk from Truck Stops”.
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CITY OF ABACUS — Music and Words
Music and comic books keep colliding as out senses lose focus and we seek to rebel. Even better, this one’s helmed by two women and a man, so it’s not just big boobies and guns everywhere. Yay.
KULTURE
BILL MURRAY READS POETRY – To Construction Workers
Members of the construction team that built the new facilities for Poets House joined Bill Murray in May, 2009, for the first poetry reading at 10 River Terrace.
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BROADSHIRT – Phyllis Segura’s Wearable Magazine
Broadshirt was Phyllis Segura’s short lived, but very cool, mid 1990s poetry magazine printed on t-shirts. Take a close look and see who some of the names are!
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UNEARTHING — Alan Moore, Mike Patton, Justin Broadrick
Alan Moore + Mike Patton = Dreams Do Come True (and other notes on the new world of media-mixtures). In other words, OMG! We can’t wait to read/listen to this awesomeness.
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DEAD FINGERS TALK – Exhibition of Unreleased Tape Experiments by William S. Burroughs
Two rare, unreleased tape experiments by William S. Burroughs are the impetus for 23 musicians, artists, writers, composers and curators to create a unique exhibition.
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UM, LONNIE? — Episode One
That’s right kids! clawdeuS offers up a web comic like none you’ve ever seen before. Behold the tales of Lonnie the Lot Lizard: Pillow Talk from Truck Stops!
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“BURROUGHS HAS GONE INSANE” – Handwritten Letter From Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac calls William S. Burroughs insane in this rare, handwritten letter of his adventures in Tangier with the infamous junkie that was written to Lucien Carr.
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FEMINIST FILMMAKER, CLASSIC FAIRYTALE – Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard
The French director goes where both Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang have been before: morose folklore undergoes yet another resurrection.
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FRANKENSTEIN – 100 Years on Film This Week
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on celluloid this week, you can watch the entire 1910 film here!
KULTURE
THE BEGINNING OF BEING by Damon Griffith – Part I of II: Juiceball
Damon Griffith of Bull Seal! dives deep into our inner “Juiciness” in search of why we all do what we do. This is Part I of II in the Beginning of Being series.
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WORLD ON A WIRE – Fassbinder’s Sci-Fi Epic at MoMA
Fassbinder’s Sci-Fi epic, World on a Wire, gets a new lease on life from the fine people at MoMA, and the German Arthouse distributors, Arthaus/Kinowelt.
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BOOKMARKING — Erica Baum’s Dog Ear
Nietzsche once spake: “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.” Photographer Erica Baum challenges this Nietzschean notion with her ephemeral bibliophilic creations that explore presence/absence and present/past alongside spatial and semantic relationships.
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ALAN WATTS INTERVIEWS BERTRAND RUSSELL – Plus Remix Video
Amazing interview of British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic, Bertrand Russell by British philosopher, writer, speaker and counter culture icon, Alan Watts.
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NORWEGIAN WOOD + JONNY GREENWOOD — Who’s A Happy Hipster?
A beloved author and an idolized musician go big for the big screen adaptation of Norwegian Wood. Sorry though kids, release date applies only to Japan thus far, better save up those dollars to tix to Tokyo.
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THE COMING INSURRECTION – The Invisible Committee
The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is coming! The insurrection is…probably not actually coming.
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PEACE, LOVING and HORAFLORA – @ The Santa Fe Complex
Peace, Loving have performed compositions for aromatics (w/ 3 professional chefs), dances for hand-held tape recorders, as musicians, worked as set designers, video artists, performance poets, instrument builders, and have become infamous for having a rotating cast doing all these things at once.