{"id":2627,"date":"2009-02-03T04:54:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2012-02-02T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:33:50","slug":"alan-sondheim-and-his-birthday-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/02\/03\/alan-sondheim-and-his-birthday-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Sondheim and His Birthday Buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday,<a href=\"http:\/\/home.jps.net\/~nada\/sondheim.htm\"> Alan!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/alansondheim1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"alansondheim1\" title=\"alansondheim1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/alansondheim1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/alansondheim1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/34914394@N00\/140543546\/\">via flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Alan read 12 books by <a href=\"http:\/\/lilliputreview.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/lafcaido-hearn-geographic-biography.html\">Lafcadio Hearn,<\/a><br \/>\nAlan thought Hearn was extremely manic-depressive, accented on the latter.<br \/>\nAlan wished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/01\/23\/georg-baselitz\/\">Georg Baselitz<\/a> was born on Feb 3 like himself.  No such luck.<br \/>\nInstead Alan shares a birthday with the great Austrian poet Georg Trakl who was schizophrenic and possibly incestuous.<br \/>\nAustrian poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georg-trakl.com\/\">Georg Trakl <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geotrakl.gif\" alt=\"geotrakl\" title=\"geotrakl\" width=\"126\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geotrakl.gif 126w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geotrakl-92x300.gif 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/georg-trakl\/ \">Select poems by Georg Trakl<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Previous birthday celebration for Feb 3 included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/02\/03\/three-lives-gertrude-stein-simone-weil-alan-sondheim\/\">Gertrude Stein<\/a> who might have <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?uri=\/journals\/modernism-modernity\/v011\/11.4will.html\">collaborated with the Vichy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/02\/03\/three-lives-gertrude-stein-simone-weil-alan-sondheim\/\">Simone Weil <\/a>who had eating disorders and starved <a href=\"http:\/\/simoneweil.net\/dates.htm\">herself<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micklexington.com\/docs\/simone_weil.html\">death.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,808697,00.html\">The Saint of the Undecided <\/a> The Notebook of Simone Weil (Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/11\/06\/iris-chang\/\">For Iris Chang<\/a>  a heartbreaking poem by Alan Sondheim <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/~barneyoldfield\/HCAngerBio_html.html\">Kenneth Anger<\/a> was born on Feb 3. Don&#8217;t mix him up with Stan Brakhage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHlneSpOknU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2-KkS5xTsw&#038;feature=related\">Rabbit&#8217;s Moon<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Alan!(via flickr) Alan read 12 books by Lafcadio Hearn, Alan thought Hearn was extremely manic-depressive, accented on the latter. Alan wished Georg Baselitz was born on Feb 3 like himself. No such luck. Instead Alan shares a birthday with the great Austrian poet Georg Trakl who was schizophrenic and possibly incestuous. Austrian poet &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/02\/03\/alan-sondheim-and-his-birthday-buddies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Sondheim and His Birthday Buddies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-digital-art","category-philosophypsychology","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}