The acclaimed satirist revealed on his personal website that he had finished the project, which is out this autumn, and which his UK publisher is predicting will “provoke the religious right”.
The famously subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb has announced the completion of his long-awaited take on the Book of Genesis.
Video clip from Serge PARYS – Music from Serge Parys on a reading of William Seward Burroughs.
Burroughs always credited Jack Kerouac for suggesting the title Naked Lunch, and Kerouac wrote to Allen Ginsberg in June 1960 confirming this was true….
In the book there is no lunch, nor dinner, barely even a snack. For Burroughs, food is allied to the cow-like existence that he seeks to escape through the more cerebral virtues of drugs and sex. The apotheosis of his disgust for food in the book appears in a restaurant menu which is composed entirely of the inedible: ‘Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles/The After-Birth Supreme de Boeuf, cooked in drained crank case oil served with a piquant sauce of rotten egg-yolks and crushed bed-bugs.’ (How Books Got Their Titles)
The William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch was published fifty years ago this Friday. Naked Lunch was a defining novel of the Beat Generation, 1960s drug culture, and gave rise to one of the last major courtroom battles over literary censorship in the United States. Now with the benefit of half a century’s perspective, it remains not only a landmark example of experimental fiction, but for celebrants and detractors alike, one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. The “novel” (a word that Naked Lunch effectively challenged and redefined) spawned the David Cronenberg film starring Peter Weller, and Weller is hosting a fiftieth anniversary fundraiser celebration this Friday in Chicago.
I’m lucky to call myself someone who got close enough to almost give him a hug. Wish I had now, instead of filmed him for my broadcast journalism class.
very sad. he wanted to hold on to cast that one crucial vote – we all hoped he could…
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” ~ Farewell and Thank You, Ted Kennedy
Because of Senator Ted Kennedy’s valiant lead on Healthcare for all, my commitment is stronger than ever to seeing that the cause of his life will be realized for the millions who wake up each day wondering and worrying about how they’ll make ends meet when they fall ill. May he rest in peace. Jude Nagurney Camwell
At two hours DAMNATION has been described as SATANTANGO “lite”…. that must, however, be a reference to it’s length not its tone.
This powerful work reveals the evolution of the essential method and style which Tarr later extends into his major work… black and white images which seem to float out of an endless drunken dream… desparate people ready to betray each other and themselves as the rain never ends and the “Titanic” bar sets sail to sink into the capitalistic unknown.
Adapted from a novel of the same name by Laszlo Kresznahorkai the novelist and Tarr this fruitful collaboration brought about a maturity, and a more profound philosophical and artistic depth to Tarr’s work that was lacking in the earlier films.(Cinema parallel)
I collaborated with Kiel Famellos Schmidt, and a woman architect name Riitta Vepsalainen. I can’t spell her last name, but I think she was from Norway, or some other country. (from Finland) She was very supportive of my idea and this is what came out of it. I have footage of students and myself and Kiel all working on it. I call it my piece because I designed it and was there on every phase. I could send you some video of the making of it too.
I am using buildings around in fresno as possible sites for murals. This is an example. There are some who would wish the mural thing to happen in fresno, and i am interested in helping so I make these images to visualize the possibilities. After seeing Yayoi’s stuff I thought a building might look cool in polkadots. (Ramiro on FB)
Zhang Xiao was born in 1981 in China’s Shandong province. There is some great work on his website, in particular his series on the demolition linked to the infamous Three Gorges Dam.
Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977). (Wiki – needs to be updated)
In some ways, Gwathmey was the architecture world’s Norman Mailer, with the same bravado, the same raw talent, and the same career-long anxiety about whether he could continue to equal his spectacular first performance. (New Yorker postscript)
These five had a common allegiance to a pure form of architectural modernism, harkening back to the work of Le Corbusier in the 1920s and 1930s, although on closer examination their work was far more individual.[1] The grouping may have had more to do with social and academic allegiances, particularly the mentoring role of Philip Johnson (NY-Five)
Eisenman has limited his work to images and models of architectural-looking designs in printed media, because he didn’t get many commissions -however he designed the holocaust museum in Berlin.
Artist, Engineer, Poet, Physicist, Inventor and Visionary, and has for thirthy years pursued a singular course of exploration of space, movement, flight, energy and the force of gravity.