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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Out with the Old (2012)

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The fourth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Money Home The Rotograph Project Two Group Portraits Ne...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Stille Nacht

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Postcard reproduction of a poster for Stephen and Timothy Quay's short film Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988). The letters "R. W....
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Sumargestur

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A song by the young Icelandic musician Ásgeir Trausti . The title, I'm told, means something like "Summer Guest," and the song...
Friday, December 14, 2012

12/14/2012

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From today's New York Times : Each slaughter of innocents seems to get more appalling. A high school. A college campus. A movie theate...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Brothel, with Orchestra

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I borrowed a copy of this brief study of the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti because I was curious to see what Mario Vargas Llosa wou...
Monday, December 03, 2012

More Stasys

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I don't know if these are actual covers for the catalog of the Vilnius Book Festival or just posters, but either way I am in awe. The...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Notes for a Commonplace Book (11)

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Leszek Kołakowski: In short, the word “happiness” does not seem applicable to divine life. But nor is it applicable to human beings. This is...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

More Katazome

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According to the label, these katazome (stencil-dyed) calendar pages were "made by Haruo Kuriyama in Kyoto" and distributed ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Re-reading Camus

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I found revisiting The Plague as La peste considerably more difficult than re-reading The Counterfeiters as Les faux-monnayeurs. I sai...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Re-reading Gide

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When I was in my late teens I went through an intense phase of devouring every single page of modern French literature I could get my hand...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Let the Wind Blow

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Personally, I'm all for heading for the nearest high ground, but I do like this new song by Zachary Richard . The CD version of this so...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Election 2012

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Questo misero modo tegnon l’anime triste di coloro che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo. Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro de li ange...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Devil's Lexicon

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Another video from Gonwards, the upcoming Peter Blegvad - Andy Partridge - Stuart Rowe collaboration, releasing October 22nd from Ape Hou...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Notes for a Commonplace Book (10)

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André Gide (in the voice of Édouard): To strip away from the novel every element that does not specifically belong to the novel. Just as p...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Tales of a Sea Cow

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I saw most of this "documentary" by Etienne de France this summer at the Listasafns Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland) i...
Friday, October 05, 2012

A Working Museum

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I didn't really know what to expect with this one since I only knew Amy Rigby from three songs, which was exactly two and a half song...
Friday, September 21, 2012

From Germ to Gem

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A video sneak peek at Gonwards, the upcoming Peter Blegvad - Andy Partridge - Stuart Rowe collaboration, due out October 22nd from Ape Ho...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

A poem in the pocket

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To follow up my earlier post on Héctor Abad Faciolince's memoir El olvido que seremos, I should mention the same author's more rec...
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Oblivion

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Nunca acepté resignado la muerte de mi hermana, ni nunca podré aceptar con tranquilidad el asesinato de mi padre. Es cierto que él, de algun...

Briefly noted (Harry Mathews)

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An online journal called The Quarterly Conversation is devoting a good part of its Fall 2012 issue (#29) to a special feature entitled An A...
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