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Monday, May. 31, 10
Return of the Perm
Has every hairstyle been exhausted? The iterations of the Mohawk? The social signifier of the Jennifer Anniston dyed/bleached and layered cut? The A-line? The New Wave asymmetrical haircut, which returned on the heels of the dance punk wave of the early 90s? The tangled implications of white boy dreadlocks? Cornrows? Balding guy shaved head? Afro? Long straight Kurt Cobain hair?
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There is but one hairstyle that seems to have lain dormant for an appropriate length of time to be revived with a vacant symbology, ripe to be filled with a new cultural message. Does it symbolize libertarianism? Is it a backlash against, or merely the most triumphant gesture of, a certain stripe of indie hipsterism? A way for men to hide their bald spots beneath a cloud of curly hair? Does it symbolizes a person who has severed connections to a web 2.0 lifestyle by committing Facebook suicide? Is the puff of hair synonymous with a more robust presence in the physical rather than digital world? Will their be a puffy-haired, armed militia movement wandering through our post-apocalyptic wasteland?
The overabundance of meanings compared to the meager numbers of physical objects makes this a rare opportunity for a perceptible experience to be truly filled afresh. Help me be the first to take the radical leap into the void. -BB
Thursday, May. 13, 10
Readings, Readings, Readings (3 in Atlanta next 3 days)
See the Atlanta events page on Fanzine.
Thursday, tonight, hit Whitespace with Jonathan Lerner.
This Friday at Eyedrum with Zachary Schomburg, Ann Stephenson, & the film 60 Writers/60 Places
This Saturday at The Hot Spot, with Brian Howe and me, Casey McKinney. (Just in, see a nice preview in Creative Loafing too by Wyatt Williams. Cool Vid by Howe there as well).
Come out and support the writers, and I promise if I don't pull a rabbit out of a hat, something will be pulled out of my ass Saturday....hehe @ Matt DeBendictus who listed that and did a great reading at the last event of the Sun and Moon series, along with the inimitable Blake Butler, hosted by Laura Carter. Brian Howe is gracing us from North Carolina. Last time he was here in GA reading he got into a brawl (Shit's that good), but let's show some hospitality this time around, Atlantans.
Oh and mark your calendars. Bret Easton Ellis will be here in June! FYI I'll be one of the ones cheering. He'll be reading from his sequel to Less Than Zero, the highly anticipated Imperial Bedrooms... was just talking about him...oh yeah, so btw, got that moon hung I mentioned in the last post... we hung the moon! Lovely, amazing drawing by Juliet Jacobson. So happy... As a fan of The Lost Lunar Baedeker (Mina Loy) and Lunar Park (Mr. Ellis again) this drawing has many meanings for our house. Werewolves, even daylight isn't a respite anymore. Thanks Steevie Brown for helping us get that up last night. Oh and great new gallery (and Atlanta framer) I recently learned is Get This! at 662 11th street. They have an opening this weekend too. See their site.
Tuesday, May. 11, 10
Bret Easton Ellis on Vice and Happy Birthday DC's
Just got an email from Matt Musick at Vice magzine saying they just published the longest Bret Easton Ellis interview in history, which made me think (maybe selfishly), huh, longer than the old Mall Punk one I did with him, aeons ago...2000? which made me google and try and find that talk, upon which I realized I'd let the site lapse that was housing it. I need to scan those old zines and make them available on the web. But then I feel I was so young and inexperienced when I made those - how would they hold up? (oh whatever, only my design and layout is sorta crummy - helvetica pre-American Apparell, or start-up simultaneously - jokingly (can thank Matt Greene for that funny tip); but the fiction and art everyone contributed was outstanding). Well until they are scanned here's well... well regardless, read this on VICE. It's up to the moment, and good.
I'm one of Ellis' biggest fans and think he's the best Satirist of the last quarter century. I can't wait to read Imperial Bedrooms. Thinking back now the only thing I did about Ellis on the web - which is kind of a mess too, but has its moments - is an essay about Bret, Dennis Cooper, Jesse Bransford, James Joyce, you name it. Called 'Fathers, Sons and Spirits' (a PDF link which downloads). Was in John Russell's Frozen Tears III book. Thank you John.
BTW, also just bought a drawing by Juliet Jacobson of the moon, for my son Rowan. A) because it's awesome and B) because it reminds me of a poster in Lunar Park, which I discuss in that essay, along with God Jr., Ulysses, um, Hamlet... There's a briefer version that delves more into the feminine side of Bransford's work somewhere too....
Oh and speaking of Dennis, here's a good interview with him about Ugly Man that just hit the web. Check his blog today btw, it's the blog's 5th birthday. Amazing opening cartoon with Oscar B. (recently also interviewed on Fanzine).
And here's Juliet's drawing at at earlier stage. It's now finished and framed, but still bubblewrapped because we still have to hang it. Properly...
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Oh and lastly, here's my drawing I did of Bret for that Mall Punk interview. Well it's a loose interpretation (and easier to scan that than the actual text for now, which needs to be in a PDF, so...that's what you get.) -CM
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Saturday, May. 8, 10
A Jungle of Signs - Lecture and Discussion
Click here to see Jesse Bransford's site.
Click here to see Karsten Krejcarek's.
If you missed it, read Fanzine's conversation between Krejcarek and Matthew Ronay. And here's an essay I did on one of Bransford's shows a while back. -CM
And then Don't Miss This tomorrow, Sun, May 8th:
FEATURE INC. 131 ALLEN ST. NYC
A JUNGLE OF SIGNS - lecture and discussion
Sunday May 9
4:30pm: Jesse Bransford and Karsten Krejcarek
5:30pm: a lecture by Michael Taussig
A talk by Professor Michael Taussig (Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University) who is one of the most innovative, distinguished and socially engaged voices in cultural anthropology. An interdisciplinary thinker and engaging writer, Taussig's work combines aspects of ethnography, story-telling, and social theory. An area of long standing interest, Taussig will be discussing aspects of Latin American ayahuasca-based shamanism and its historical interface with Western magic.
In 2007, visual artists Jesse Bransford and Karsten Krejcarek spent time in the city of Iquitos, Peru and the surrounding jungle. In a public conversation they hope to further elaborate on the experiences in relation to their art and art making in general. Topics will include globalization, adventure narratives, monkeys and telepathy.
Friday, May. 7, 10
Richard Parks interviews Josh Wolf on The Rumpus
Clip from The Rumpus. Friend and Fanzine contributor Richard Parks interviews the journalist/activist. Read The rest here. Good stuff.
Saturday, May. 1, 10
Party for Cryptic Latest McSweeney's Tonight In SF
So you think Robert Downey Jr. can do anything now that he quit drugs? Maybe so, I even liked his Sherlock Holmes to a degree. Good airplane pic, was acting at detective work, Downey was, and am psyched about Iron Man 2. Way off topic though. Way off. 'Cept that there's some good detective work in reverse imagined by McSweeny's authors Eli Horowitz and Mac Barnett for the next issue of the protean quarterly. I can't even imagine, or describe this item that's on the one hand contained in itself, a labyrinth, a clock, a mousetrap or something... and that also exists as a treasure hunt in 12 corners of the country. I'm thinking It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, with McSweeney's readers chasing for the loot, or booty I should say (if you know the pirate theme on Valencia). The Chronicle seems to do a good job though of summing it up, so read this and if in San Francisco, and well shit, hit the party tonight, hop to it, doofus.... -CM
*OH AND JUST SAW...even better write up in Salon by Fanzine contributor, etc, etc, Richard Parks.