hamid & company

twt.fm / radiohead -- "reckoner (twelves remix)"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:01:52 PST

twt.fm / radiohead -- "reckoner (twelves remix)" reckoner
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twt.fm / bohren & der club of gore [black earth] -- "destroying angels"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:37:28 PST

twt.fm / bohren & der club of gore [black earth] -- "destroying angels" destroying angels

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twt.fm / trentemoeller [moan vinyl] -- "a1 moan (trentemoeller remix)"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:43 PST

twt.fm / trentemoeller [moan vinyl] -- "a1 moan (trentemoeller remix)" moan
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twt.fm / trentemoeller "latenight cab driving"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:15 PST

twt.fm / trentemoeller "latenight cab driving" LatenightCabDriving
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twt.fm / nah yoonsun [6q - voyage] -- "jockey full of bourbon (tom waits cover)"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:58:14 PST

twt.fm / nah yoonsun [6q - voyage] -- "jockey full of bourbon (tom waits cover)" Jockey full of bourbon
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twt.fm / cesarea evora [montecarlo nights - nouveau be] -- "tiempo y silencio"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:09:42 PST

twt.fm / cesarea evora [montecarlo nights - nouveau be] -- "tiempo y silencio" tiempo y silencio
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Gable acc. to David Thomson, film historian, understander of sexual charisma, smart guy

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:30 PST

- David Thomson, film historian, understander of sexual charisma, smart guy.
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“Gable succeeded on-screen because of the promise of force behind the smile—that’s what made the smile knowing… He was like Jack Dempsey in a tuxedo…. Joan Crawford said [being near him made her have] “twinges of sexual urge beyond belief.”
- David Thomson, film historian, understander of sexual charisma, smart guy.
• Split screen photo grab by the fantastic Bohemea

The Footnotes of Mad Men.

FT.com / Books / Essays - Grime and punishment

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:11:40 PST

By John Thornhill
Published: October 30 2009 23:33 | Last updated: October 30 2009 23:33
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
By Victor Pelevin
Trans by Andrew Bromfield
Faber £8.99
FT Bookshop price: £7.19
The Good Angel of Death
By Andrey Kurkov
Trans by A Bromfield
Harvill Secker £12.99
FT Bookshop price: £10.39
One More Year
By Sana Krasikov
Portobello £10.99
FT Bookshop price: £8.79
She Lover of Death
By Boris Akunin
Trans by A Bromfield
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £16.99
FT Bookshop price: £13.59

The death of Russian literature has been declared many times. Russian poetry was supposed to have perished tragically early, interred with the body of Alexander Pushkin in 1837 following his fateful duel. Then along came Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva, an astonishing quartet of poets who revived and reinvented the genre in an explosion of creativity in the early 20th century.
Epic Russian novels, meanwhile, were pronounced dead after Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. But in describing the brutalities of the second world war and the gulag, Vasily Grossman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn proved worthy heirs of those 19th-century masters.
Once again it has become fashionable to argue that Russian fiction is over, buried under the rubble of the former Soviet Union. Critics have decreed that no classic works of Russian literature have emerged in the past 18 years.
That may be true, but green shoots are now pushing through the fallen masonry. Four new Russian novels reveal flashes of fabulous writing, at times reminiscent of the wild imaginings of Mikhail Bulgakov, the dystopic visions of Yevgeny Zamyatin or the gentle humanity of Anton Chekhov. Russian literature has long ago left Socialist Realism panting behind – now it is striding out in the company of Capitalist Surrealism.

The raw, the cooked and Claude Lévi-Strauss

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:12:05 PST

Posted by Jonathan Jones

Wednesday 4 November 2009 guardian.co.uk

If it weren't for the great anthropologist, who has died aged 100, I would never have learned a radical new way of looking at art history

The news that Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the grand age of 100 brings back memories of my student days, which coincided with the intellectual dominance of this great French anthropologist.
For young would-be intellectuals in the 1980s, his books The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked had a biblical status. Lévi-Strauss was the high priest of structuralism. Building on the linguistic ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure, he argued that all myth, and hence all pre-scientific thought, can be understood in terms of binary oppositions – such as, er, raw and cooked.
The strange and troubling grandeur of Lévi-Strauss lay in his insistence on the "synchronic" and contempt for the "diachronic": that is, he was interested in structures of thinking that endure over the very long term. He was apparently not interested in history, in change. Paradoxically, his ideas were of great interest to historians….

Frank O´Hara reads his poem "Having a coke with you" (1966)

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:59:29 PST

Robert Mapplethorpe via Escape Into Life

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:08:41 PST

Robert Mapplethorpe | Escape Into Life www.mapplethorpe.org

Did Cheney Lie to the Plame Prosecutors?

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:21:17 PST

By Scott Horton

In the prosecution that led to the conviction of former Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald famously spoke of a “cloud over the vice president.” His remarks suggested that, while no charges had been pressed against Cheney, the vice president was considered an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to out covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. When, after a long struggle to protect Cheney from “embarrassment,” the Justice Department complied with a court order to disclose the FBI agents’ notes of the interview that Fitzgerald conducted with Cheney in 2004, the reason for these comments became clear. The cloud over Dick Cheney seems to be more of a fog bank engulfing him, however, and the fog is of Cheney’s making.
Cheney has been famous for decades for his steel-trap mind and near perfect recall. Yet in an interview that lasted only a couple of hours, Cheney competed with Alberto Gonzales for the selective amnesia prize. His memory failed him more than seventy times, on virtually every effort to probe anything of substance that had occurred within the prior year. Contemporaneous documents show that Cheney had been obsessing over these matters.

The Footnotes of Mad Men.

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:55:15 PST

“She’ll have one of those lovely wines.”

1962 Gallo wine ad by Illustrator Coby Whitmore.

The Footnotes of Mad Men.

Ready for Her Close-Up -- Re-examining Ayn Rand's place in American intellectual and cultural life

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:02:10 PDT

Nick Gillespie | October 7, 2009

Ayn Rand and the World She Made. By Anne C. Heller. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 567 pp. $35

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. By Jennifer Burns. Oxford Univ. Press. 369 pp. $27.95

Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first and second in a 1998 Modern Library reader survey of the "greatest books" of the 20th century. Yet over the years, Rand's writing has been routinely dismissed as juvenile and subliterate when it has been considered at all. During the height of the Cold War, she managed to alienate leftists by insisting that capitalism was not simply more productive but more moral than socialism or a mixed economy because it allowed the individual to express himself most fully. And she angered the anticommunist Right with her thoroughgoing materialism, lack of respect for tradition, and atheism. (She once told William F. Buckley he was "too intelligent" to believe in God.)

The publication of Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made and Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market indicates that a belated but timely reconsideration of Rand's place in American cases for Rand's importance to the past 80 years of American intellectual and cultural life all the more convincing. That Rand's life story is in many ways more melodramatic, unbelievable, and conflicted than one of her own plots certainly helps to keep the reader's attention. As Burns puts it, "The clash between her romantic and rational sides makes [her life] not a tale of triumph, but a tragedy of sorts."

Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Russia in 1905, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926 and thoroughly reinvented herself in real life far more successfully than Jay Gatsby ever managed to do in fiction. Moving to Hollywood ……read more

Jack Morefield on Escape Into Life

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:40:04 PDT

Via Jack Morefield | Escape Into Life Jack Morefield on ARTRING www.jackmorefield.com

Barbara Caspar's “WHO'S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER?”

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:58:54 PDT

“get rid of meaning,
Your mind is a nightmare
that has been eating you:
now eat your mind” Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in Highschool

Tamara Straus
Sunday, October 5, 2008

In this first documentary film to access the literary and countercultural legacy of writer and performance artist Kathy Acker (1947-1997), director Barbara Casper gives us a mostly adulatory picture of the experiments Acker indulged in and the controversies she generated. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Manhattan, Acker is traced from her early forays in the New York literary underground of the 1970s with a series of experimental and sexually graphic self-published stories (informed by her gigs as a stripper and porn performer) to her heyday in the 1980s and 1990s as an admired writer, teacher and figure of punk feminism. The film is strongest when contextualizing Acker as a female artist. She is captured in interviews angrily and powerfully responding to the lack of tough female artists. (Acker believed that no previous writer had sufficiently articulated her rage against modern misogynistic, capitalistic society or presented her sexual and intellectual sensibilities.) Director Casper wisely juxtaposes Acker's interviews with those of her friends, students, lovers, supporters and critics, who parse her influences (Burroughs, Duras, Genet) and her destructive, brave and brazen behavior. "She was like a rock star whose meteoric rise was destined to fall," says her agent Ira Silverberg. "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker" is not for everyone, but it is an important contribution to American feminist history.
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Kathy Acker, The New York Times once called her books "a rock 'n' roll version of the Critique of Pure Reason by the Marquis de Sade as performed by the Three Stooges". A writer , poet , playwright, screen writer, Opera libreto composer , striper, rebel, Scholar, and a cultural Icon--she even inspired Delirium --a DC comics character based on her. She studied latin and the classics at Brandeis University. In 1965 she went to the University of California in San Diego to study under Herbert Marcuse , the Marxist psychologist and Critical Theory(Frankfurt School ) philosopher who was a major influence on the burgeoning counter- culture of the time (the pioneer linguist Roman Jakobson had been her tutor at Brandeis). Later she continued her studies in Classics and philosophy in New York. Although she could have worked as an academic she didn't want distraction from her writing so took a myriad of mindless jobs. They included a job in the sex industry. Again, there are conflicting stories. One says that to help pay for her studies at San Diego State she worked as a stripper in a vaudeville house. Another says it was on 42nd Street in New York and it was a (fake) sex show to pay hospital bills. Perhaps she did both. Kathy Acker died in Tijuana, Mexico, 30 November 1997. Also visit Mark Space's excellent page dedicated to Kathy .

twt.fm / vampire weekend -- "mansard roof"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:58:21 PDT

twt.fm / vampire weekend -- "mansard roof" mansard roof

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twt.fm / vampire weekend -- "a-punk"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:40:10 PDT

twt.fm / vampire weekend -- "a-punk" A-Punk

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twt.fm / pornophonique [8-bit lagerfeuer] -- "sad robot"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:34:00 PDT

twt.fm / pornophonique [8-bit lagerfeuer] -- "sad robot"

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twt.fm / vampire weekend [contra] -- "horchata"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:12:47 PDT

twt.fm / vampire weekend [contra] -- "horchata"
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twt.fm / arctic monkeys -- "riot van"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:02:56 PDT

twt.fm / arctic monkeys -- "riot van"

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twt.fm / i am kloot [gods and monsters] -- "avenue of hope"

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:45:58 PDT

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twt.fm / i am kloot [gods and monsters] -- "avenue of hope"

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Copernicus—Faith and Scientific Inquiry (Harper's Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:26:21 PDT

Jan Matejko, The Astronomer Copernicus (1872)

Neque enim ita mihi mea placent, ut no perpendam, quid alii de illis iudicaturi sint. Et quamuis sciam, hominis philosophi cogitationes esse remotas a iudicio uulgi, propterea quod illius studium sit veritatem omnibus in rebus, quatenus id a Deo rationi humane permissum est, inquirere, tamen alienas prorsus a rectitudine opiniones fugiendas censeo. Itaque cumecum ipse cogitatem, quam absurdum existimaturi essent illi, qui multorum seculorum iudiciis hanc opinione confirmatam norut, quod terra immobilis in medio coeli, tan quam centrum illius posita sit, si ego contra assererem terram moueri, diu mecum haesi, an meos comentrios in eius motus demonstrationem conscriptos in lucem darem…
For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heaven as its center would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
–Nicholas Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III (1543)

Copernicus—Faith and Scientific Inquiry (Harper's Magazine)

Letterman Moments

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:39:55 PDT

Sandra Bernhard and Madonna

Salma Hayaek

Madonna

Drew Barrymore

Courtney Love

Ozzy Osbourne

Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler

Paris Hilton

Joaquin Phoenix

Admissions about you know What

Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work

noreply@blogger.com (lonely on north 35) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:29:24 PDT

a street photographer from the 1950s - 1970s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes between 30-40,000 mostly medium format negatives. Born February 1, 1926 and deceased on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

Some samples follow although I recommand visiting the website via Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work