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BOOKS I READ IN 2010Thanks to my friend Winslow's suggestion, I decided to post a list of all the books I read last year. Other than the first ten, which I picked as my favorites for the North Coast Journal, they're in no specific order. There might be a few I forgot. This year I'm going to make an effort to get off the new release treadmill and read more older stuff. The Professor by Terry

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FIVE FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2009Love In Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull)A collection that uses the lives of real historical characters and theirinteractions with animals to create short stories that display a rare mix ofintelligence, humor and emotional resonance. Some are heartbreaking, someare funny, and a few are just weird. Madonna shoots a pheasant on herEnglish estate and muses on the

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ELSEWHERESome of my blogging friends have been much more industrious than I, so why not check them out?Deric has a pretty snazzy and skeptical new blog called The Interrobang Tribune, Jesse just posted his top ten art shows and records of the year at Trophy Shot, and Steve has yet more interviews illuminating the strange world of Sasquatch enthusiasts at bIGFOOT'S bLOG.Do visit them, won't you?

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CHRONIC CITYI reviewed Jonathan Lethem's latest novel in the Journal. The image above is from the British cover, which is so much better than the American version.

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DOCK ELLISWhile listening to Barbara Manning's song about Dock Ellis I found this great animated version of the story of his LSD no hitter. A true sports hero.

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INHERENT VICEI reviewed Thomas Pynchon's new stoner detective novel here, and below he himself narrates the trailer for the book.

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DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETHI reviewed the recent documentary about Harlan Ellison here.

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QUIMBY THE MOUSE by Chris WareQuimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.(Thanks to Charlotte)

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TOM WAITSMy review of Barney Hoskyns' new biography of ol' rusty throat can be found here.

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BRUCE STERLINGMy review of his latest novel, The Caryatids, is in this week's North Coast Journal.His blog, Beyond the Beyond, is worth a look too, especially his recent post Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature.

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POP CULTURE OVERDOSEWho knew that Keith Richards was the Yogi Berra of rock n roll?The artifacts on auction from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch are just as creepy as you'd expect.Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's Metal Machine Music.Also, in late breaking news, Arlen Spector joins the Wu-Tang Clan.

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WHAT A FEW PALS HAVE BEEN UP TOMissing Link Records opens in Arcata and adds a needed flavor to the local music scene. Matt and Adam are cool folks with good taste. I support their quixotic venture, and you should too.(store mascot above by Lush Newton)Pinky shows that nature always prevails. He's been documenting the street art of Portland of late.

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SATURDAY MORNING WATCHMENA funny parody by Harry Partridge, son of Andy from XTC.I liked it much more than the movie, and it took a fraction of the time to watch.

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SHORT CUTSBarack Obama is sick of your motherfucking shit. (via Steve)Did Bruce Springsteen rip off a tune from Kiss?Etgar Keret (whose book The Girl on the Fridge you must read) meets an old friend in an Israeli bomb shelter.

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BIGFOOT'S BLOGMy friend Steve, proprietor of Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek, has just started a blog.There you can read an exposé on Bigfoot that was too hot for the North Coast Journal to print, plus his photo collection of Bigfoot roadsigns, statues and vernacular art.Way back in the late 90s we, along with Reverend Lord, were the founders of The Church of Bigfoot, Scientist, an organization for

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LIST-O-MANIAYou want lists, we got your lists....My own picks for best books of the year in the North Coast Journal.My friend Jesse's best records and art shows of the year from his great blog, Trophy Shot.And my friend Mark's best records of the year, from the Journal as well.If you need more best of the year lists, go here.

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THE ENDNot necessarily the end of this blog (though with my paucity of recent posts it might seem so), but a slide show I found of end titles from various movies.The one above is from the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera.

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BREAKDOWNSMy review of the new expanded edition of Art Spiegelman's first comix collection is here.Also, Spiegelman was recently interviewed by Michael Silverblatt for his show Bookworm.And here's Alan Moore on Arcade, the underappreciated comix anthology edited by Spiegelman and Bill Griffith for an all too brief time in the mid-seventies.

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DOWNTOWN OWLMy review of Chuck Klosterman's new novel is here.

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GIDGET ADDRESSES THE REICHSTAGMatt Taibbi on Sarah Palin.

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Rock 'N' RollMy review of the current A.C.T. production of Tom Stoppard's play can be found here.

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R.I.P. David Foster WallaceStrange that I referenced him just a few posts back. I never realized I had such a strong connection to his work 'til he was gone.Here's Michiko Kakutani's obit in the N.Y. Times.Very Sad.There's a bunch of links about Wallace at Fimoculous.

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A FEW THINGS I'VE FOUND THIS SUMMERKafka's porn stash.The fact that Ipods aren't really all that (tho' I still love mine).George Orwell has a blog.

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BORN UNDER A BAD SIGNIn David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, he created a group called the "Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts" who corrected bad grammar on signs surreptitiously.Turns out fiction is now fact. Meet TEAL—the Typo Eradication Advancement League.(via Maud Newton)

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A VERY SHORT HIATUS (ITS TOM WAITS' FAULT)Tom Waits' "press conference" announcing his summer Glitter and Doom tour below brought Winona and I a bit of disappointment, though it is a real hoot.We were hoping to catch him here on the west coast somewhere, and not in Birmingham, Alabama in July.Though I do feel those poor Waits fans in Birmingham (and Tulsa and Knoxville) probably deserve to see

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M.I.A.It looks like this blog is on hiatus.Real life beckons, I'm doing a lot of reviewing for the North Coast Journal, and I just started a blog for the indie bookstore where I'm employed. I also spend a lot less time online than I used to (though Winona would probably beg to differ).I might be back in the summer. See you then.

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MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2007Just in case you missed it, here it is.Someday I'll do another blog post that's not just a link to a piece in the Journal.Maybe.

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KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGSMy review of Luc Sante's new book is now up at the Journal.Sante recently translated and wrote an introduction to Novels in Three Lines, a collection of mordant and violent newspaper work from 19th century Paris that prefigures Surrealism and resembles the pithy and dark annotations of Harry Smith in the original American Folk Anthology.He also has an evocative

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JUST ANOTHER POST OF LINKS I'M AFRAIDScorsese does Hitchcock (rather well it turns out).Brian Wilson raps (horrible, but hilarious)And for all you filthy graphic designers out there, the Phallic Logo Awards.

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RANDOM DETRITUS AND TIME WASTING GEEGAWSAndy Kaufman on The Dating Game.Jack Kirby's version of The Prisoner.Jim Harrison on Bukowski. (illustration below by R. Crumb)

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From Winsor McCay's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (circa 1913)Answer: Yes.

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SHORT CUTS (COMICS EDITION)Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson peeks out from retirement to review the new Charles Schulz biography. Some guy named Updike had a crack at it too.Peter Bagge parties with Dick Cheney.An interview with Adrian Tomine about his new graphic novel Shortcomings.Don't worry, I still read books without pictures too. They're just not as much fun as comics.

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LITERATURE AND BEER (THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS)According to a new history of the Guinness brewery, James Joyce offered the following tagline for an ad campaign for Ireland's favorite brew:"the free, the flow, the frothy freshener".It beats the hell out of "tastes great, less filling", hmm?It also turns out famed mystery writer Dorothy Sayers was a copywriter at the ad agency that

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THE LAST HEAVY METAL BAND......in Baghdad."Let the metal unite us let the metal rule."

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DINOSAURS KILLED IN MASS EXTINCTION?In a new tract, Jack Chick clears up all that confusion about dinosaurs in the Bible, a subject brought to my attention by the late Bill Hicks. Thanks Jack! God said it, and that settles it!(via Scoobie Davis)

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THE DAYS GET LONGER AND THE POSTS GET SHORTERSo just a few random links...College Republicans show the "courage" of their convictions, Dick Cheney style. Operation Chickenhawk in full effect.Meanwhile, some troops on their way home from Iraq disagree with the party line, and the silence is deafening. And just so you don't think I've suddenly gone completely serious on you, here's Cate Blanchett

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BLOG ROLL CHANGERight after I added Matt Taibbi's Low Post to my blog roll on the left he stopped updating it. Was it something I said? It's more likely that he has a new book on tap soon, Smells Like Dead Elephants (I got my grubby little fingers on an advance copy of it, and will give an account of it soon).So Matt's bumped for the duration. In his place, check out the Rake's Black Garterbelt (

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EXIT WOUNDSIsraeli cartoonist Rutu Modan's new graphic novel is the story of a young taxi driver named Koby Franco who gets drawn into questions about his estranged father's possible death in a suicide bombing. Contacted by a female soldier named Numi, he not only uncovers secrets about his father, but discovers a tenuous connection with his family history and Numi's relationship with his father

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LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL NAMED SNOOPYPeanuts by Charles Bukowski (via Fimoculous)

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DAYDREAM IN BERKELEYThis past weekend in Berkeley, Sonic Youth performed their classic record Daydream Nation almost twenty years after it was originally released (among other things, this means that Gen-Xers will find it harder to make fun of baby boom nostalgia in the future). For those who aren't into the band, DDN is the record that really brought Sonic Youth into a semi-mainstream spotlight

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AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.""Publius"(James Madison), The Federalist No. 10 (1787)

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STAN THE MANYes kiddies, it's time for another You Tube retrospective (a glorified slide show as Pinky once called it).Recently I was reorganizing my music collection and I came across one of the first CDs I ever bought--producer Hal Willner's 1985 tribute to the music of Kurt Weill, Lost in the Stars. One of the reasons I initially purchased it was Stan Ridgway's version of the brutal anti-war "

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EVEN SHORTER SHORTSThe wonderful scary world of Terrorist Logos (via Bruce Sterling)An oral history of The Simpsons featuring Conan O'Brien and Rupert Murdoch among others.Why European films will never be replaced by American ones.

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SUMMERTIME SHORTSI do realize I promised book reviews, and they are indeed coming soon. Here's a few random links to keep you occupied in the meantime...Pompous prof Harold Bloom unpacks the poetry of Barack Obama. (via Ed)Sonic Youth recently toured the Great Wall and rocked Shanghai. Hopefully they'll be rocking Winona and I as well next month when they hit Berkeley doing their recently

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BACK TO NATURE A new record is on the way this August from my beloved Mekons, who haven't dropped one with new songs since 2002's OOOH. This one is supposedly an acoustic affair, thus the undoubtedly partially ironic title, Natural.Here's all I've been able to glean from the aether about the upcoming collection of tunes, in the band's own words (they function as a collective, so all materials are

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A DECADE IN HUMBOLDT SHOULD HAVE MADE ME BETTER AT THIS GAMEIt's time to play Jam Band Fan or Taliban?(via Fimoculous)

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USUALLY THERE'S MORE TO SEE, BUT THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORKI must offer sincere apologies to anyone who might have cruised by this blog after reading my recent story about the spunkiest hobo dog ever, but I've been moving house from the snug (and occasionally smug) bubble of Arcata to the mean streets of Eureka and haven't had a lot of spare time recently. Hell, it's summertime. What the hell are

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MORE NEW LINKAGE, BUT NOT MUCH MORE THAN THATI just tweaked my blogroll of links to the left, adding a few and deleting a few (sorry Atrios and Largehearted Boy, but you don't really need my link love anyway).The best new add is Biblioklept, a nice mix of literate intelligence, pop cultural sass and cross disciplinary mayhem. I found it by chance a few months ago. They're from my home state of

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A LITTLE LINKAGE IS BETTER THAN NOTHING, NO?I've been admonished by a few regular readers of this space that it's been close to a month since I've added new content here and I should get off my fat ass and post something tout suite (actually they were much kinder and gentler than that). Until several offline projects are accomplished, a few links are just going to have to suffice.Stay tuned for

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NOSTALGIAEarly Roxy Music, before their later dreaded MOR phase, with Brian Eno on tambourine and crazy synth freak out.Editions of You is one of the few tunes I liked when I was 16 that I still love as much today.

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APOCALYPSE OPRAHIn one of those "hell freezes over" moments, Oprah names Cormac McCarthy's ultra-bleak post apocalyptic novel The Road as her new book club selection. I can't wait 'til the people that bought into the new age blather of her previous pick get ahold of this one.No power of positive thinking here, folks. Just dark intense violence and cannibalism.(A copy of The Road sits on my shelf

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I'M NOT A CYNICBecause of my acerbic opinions I'm often accused of being a cynic. I reply that I'm not a cynic, I'm a skeptic.It turns out one of my comedic heroes, Harry Shearer, who I'm going to see perform this Friday, often gets the same question (this time from Bob, the local entertainment columnist). He makes the same distinction I do too. I'm glad there's at least a few skeptical brethren

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IRONY"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry, May 1849(via About Last Night)

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SCHIZOPHRENIAI saw this video a few months ago of some old folks performing Sonic Youth's Philip K. Dick inspired classic and forgot to post it then. Unbelievable.

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ECO-COMBruce Sterling provocatively opines on the coming Green commercial boom, and doesn't have much use for the traditional hippie granola values:They're all about creating irresistible consumer demand for cool objects that will yield a global atmosphere upgrade. It's the Net vs. the 20th-century fossil order in a fight that the cybergreens are winning. Why? Because they're not about spiritual

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ODD BLOGSHere's just a few of the interesting blogs I've run across in the last few months...Exquisitely Bored in NacogdochesA guy into Sinatra and Star Trek takes great pictures of desolate small towns in east Texas.Music from the Third FloorSomeone from Norway decided to take his massive vinyl collection of Bollywood soundtracks and digitize them for our pleasure. If you want a place to start,

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BEST.PARODY.EVER.Bob Dylan circa 1966 sings the works of Dr. Seuss. (via Ed)Get MP3s here while they last.

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POST OSCAR POST (THE ECSTASY OF GOLD)I didn't watch the Oscars this year. I don't care much about the annual Hollywood circle jerk anymore, and the fact that the broadcast station I would have watched it on was off the air didn't faze me. Despite that, I am glad Ol' Marty finally got his due (though typically not for his best work). Other than that, there was only one reason I really wanted to

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LONE STAR PANEGYRICRecent Texas gubernatorial candidate and hellraiser Kinky Friedman eulogizes Molly Ivins:Molly was a truth-seeking missile. She was a devil and an angel and a spiritual chop-buster who went after anybody who got in the way of a better world. Quite often she towered above the people she wrote about. They, as likely as not, were merely the slick, lubricated heads of well-oiled

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CONTRA ESCALATIONHere's a priapic short cartoon by Ward Kimball, one of Disney's original nine old men, created to protest a pointless war and imperial president in the sixties. Some things never change.Kimball must have had a lot of rage stored up after drawing cute funny animals for so many years.

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TERRORIST MOONINITES ATTACK BOSTONOn Wednesday, the city of Boston overreacted to a viral marketing prank and shut down the city under fear of terrorist attack. Several circuit boards with LEDs (we called them Lite Brights when I was a kid) were installed in several public places, including subway stations. It turns out the objects in question were planted by the Cartoon Network (a subsidiary of

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IN A NUTSHELLJosh Marshall gets down to the nub of things in political terms:You may remember quite a bit earlier in our long national nightmare the White House and its toadies and acolytes were very big on the so-called 'fly-paper' theory of the Iraq War. All the bombings and killings were a sign that the policy was working. Rather than have the terrorists hitting us in America or other spots

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RANDOM FACTOIDS GLEANED FROM MEDIA OVERGRAZINGThe father of the new governor of Massachusetts was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra.Shirley Temple's daughter Lori (aka Lorax) was a bass player for the Melvins.

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BLITZER VS. CHENEY VS. JON STEWARTCNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Dick Cheney some pointed questions for a change the other day, and as usual Jon Stewart put it all in hilarious perspective.

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OOH LA LAYou know who really proves that reading is sexy?Swedish Librarians.

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JOHN AND FAITH HUBLEY: CARTOON MODERNAmid Amidi's recent book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation is a fascinating look at how a new angular stripped down design inspired by both modern art and jazz developed out of a rejection of the pillowy, round Disney uber-cutesy style of animation. The book is wide ranging and shows how by the end of the decade even Disney had adopted

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DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANYONE?A description of a governor of a western city of the dead in Pynchon's Against the Day (I'm a third of the way through and enjoying the ride) :Something wrong in his appearance, something pre-human in the face, the sloping forehead and the clean-shaven upper lip, which for any reason, or none, would start back into a simian grin which was suppressed immediately,

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NEVER GONNA GET AHEADBobby Conn has a message for the kids: Just say no to the man.From the Chicago indie rock kids public access show Chic a Go Go.

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LOVING THE ALIENThis recent biography of Alice Sheldon, who wrote science fiction in the sixties and seventies under the nom de plume James Tiptree Jr., is an engrossing story, even for those with no interest in the genre. It's one of the best literary biographies I've read in years, telling the story of a unique woman who was ahead of her time in more ways than one. Sheldon led a life that in

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GET YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD CARTONS!Previously: Ronald Reagan is a brain eating zombie.

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SHORT CUTS (Scared of Santa edition)Uncle Jesse's got some video of Eureka's annual Xmas trucker parade (which, to my shame, after eleven years in Humboldt county I've still never witnessed in person).To most little kids, Santa's almost as scary as a clown.A brutal stocking stuffer for the metalhead on your list.Woody Guthrie does Hanukkah.Even Charles Dickens said 'Bah Humbug"

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WOMEN WITH GUITARS (part one)This atheist would go to church every Sunday if I could hear this kind of gospel. Sister Rosetta Tharpe shreds.

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WHY WRITE?While procrastinating on my own current writing project, I came across a link to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's recent Nobel prize lecture. Unlike many of the winners of that literary prize in the past few years, I'm actually familiar with his work, having read both his magnum opus The Black Book and his road novel The New Life (his most recent book, Snow, still sits on my bookshelf and

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A SHORT CUT OR THREE (MINIMALIST EDITION)10 Zen Monkeys is the media blog de jour for me, recently featuring disturbing YouTube video from Iraq, an exhumation of Robert Altman's surprisingly subversive network television work in the sixties, and R.U. Sirius asks, "Is America a fascist state?". One of my favorite fictional characters, Ignatius J. Reilly, has his own lovingly detailed MySpace page.

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A THANKSGIVING PRAYER BY WM. S. BURROUGHSAnd from another great American writer:Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting

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THE MONOLITH HAS LANDEDI'm only 80 pages in at this point, and I'll hopefully have more coherent impressions at a later date, but so far Against the Day marries the historical detail and poetic reveries of Gravity's Rainbow with the slightly more accessible politically engaged prose style of Vineland. I know what I'll be reading for the next month or two, and it's perfect timing, just in time for

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ONLY A WEEK TO GOI'm hyped up. I feel like a kid the night before Xmas.And I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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DUCK SOUPMarx Bros. mirror mixup. A great scene in their best film.

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BONNIE PRINCE BILLY AND UNCA LOUIt's usually either feast or famine when it comes to out of town big names stopping off here behind the Emerald curtain. Last week we had the one-two punch of alt country warbler Bonnie Prince Billy (aka Will Oldham) and eternal would be badass Lou Reed. Any guesses on which show was better?Last Wednesday Bonnie Prince and his band (which included one of my recent

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VOTE BLACK THUNDERSorry for yet another YouTube video, but this is one of the best comedic commentaries on campaign attack ads I've seen.Absolutely hilarious.In a related matter, here's the NY Times' Tom Friedman, someone I usually think is a fatuous blowhard, a guy who initially supported the Iraq war and made lame excuses for it for much too long. He's finally come around, actually making a

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TWO VIEWS OF ROLAND KIRK Ode to Billie Joe - Prague 1967Say a Little Prayer - 1969

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MONKEY PORTRAITS BY JILL GREENBERG

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FILMMAKER WILL WORK FOR FOODIt's been eight years since Terry Gilliam's version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas hit the theaters and I've been waiting for a new film from him ever since (we'll forget for the time being about The Brothers Grimm, a film where Gilliam buckled for the first time under studio pressure...the result was a mediocre and uncharacteristically formulaic mess). No

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SHORT CUTS, A SEMI-LITERARY EDITION THIS TIME, JUST TO SHOW I'M NOT A COMPLETE SLAVE TO YOUTUBEParis Review has just put online an archive of short bits from their author interviews from the last 50 years, billed as "The DNA of Literature". Among my faves that are included are Jorge Luis Borges, T.C. Boyle, Haruki Murakami, and Kurt Vonnegut. There are also examples of facsimile manuscript pages

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MORE EBNMore video slice and dice from the group whose work my friend Mark once likened to visual heroin (I'd say its more like visual LSD myself).This one has samples from the Dalai Lama, Danny Kaye and I think the little kid at the beginning is from some Ken Russell film. Enjoy.

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EMERGENCY BROADCAST NETWORKIn the nineties EBN were a video sampling collective that were the visual equivalent to hip hop. Aided by their amazingly fluid editing skill, many of their videos were strong absurdist political satires, most notably their videos done during the first gulf war such as We Will Rock You. Where else can you hear the MC skills of Dan Rather?One of their co-founders, Josh

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POLISH FILM POSTERSA while back I posted a link to a site with Russian movie posters from the 20s. Here's a site that features Polish movie posters for mostly American films, via the vast collective hive mind that is the P-list.They tend to look rather disturbing...even when they feature the Muppets.

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THE REAL WICKER MAN

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TWEEDY DVDWell, according to Billboard it looks like that Jeff Tweedy show I saw last February will be immortalized on DVD:Jeff Tweedy's 2006 solo tour will be chronicled on the upcoming live DVD "Sunken Treasure," due Oct. 24 via Nonesuch. The film was directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, the team behind the live performance DVD series "Burn to Shine."Footage was

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ROBERT CRUMB MEETS PHILIP K. DICKRead the rest of this story here.(via Return of the Reluctant)

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RUDY RUCKER'S FLURBBack in the mid 80s I had basically given up on science fiction, a genre that I had read avidly since the age of 12. The bulk of the field was stodgy and boring, lots of Heinlein pastiches and crappy Tolkien ripoffs. At that point, the stuff I liked the most were used paperbacks I'd found from ten or twenty years before, the so-called "new wave". People like J. G. Ballard,

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BRIAN WILSON AND THOMAS PYNCHON: UP IN SMOKEFair warning: It's going to be painfully obvious to the readers of this blog in the next few months before the publication of the new Pynchon novel that I'm a big fat unapologetic fanboy of his stuff. He's one of those grandiose figures like Orson Welles, Groucho Marx and Charles Mingus that loom large in my artistic pantheon.According to the new bio of

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BUSH READS CAMUS?

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FAST AND BULBOUSThe concept of underground music is dead....and here's the proof.

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STEELY DAN VS. WES ANDERSONMssrs. Fagen and Becker, resident smart asses, give Wes some unsolicited career advice after recently sticking it to his former collaborators Owen and Luke Wilson:Let's begin with a quick review of your career so far, as it is known to us and your fans and wellwishers in general. You began, spectacularly enough, with the excellent "Bottle Rocket", a film we consider to

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COOLEST. PROMO. PHOTO. EVER.From the brand new issue of Waxpoetics devoted to the mighty Parliament/Funkadelic.More about that soon...

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AGAIN, EVEN MORE SHORT CUTSStephen King begs for the life of Harry Potter?Tom Stoppard talks to Brian Eno about music and politics and his new play, Rock n Roll.David Byrne gives his take on the new documentary Jesus Camp.Definitely not your father's New Yorker: Sasha Frere-Jones on Japan's Boredoms.

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AGAINST THE DAYThis has already been all over the net, but legendarily reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon has blurbed his own upcoming 992 page doorstop, titled 'Against the Day' (out December 5th) as follows:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to

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CLASH OF THE TITANSI live in the little northern California college/hippie town of Arcata, but right across the Humboldt bay is the larger city of Eureka, a depressed former mill town. No artist captures the rubbery befuddlement, meth fueled insanity, and cloudy humor of the down and out residents of Eureka better than Jesse Wiedel. I first became aware of his work when he did a series of

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RETURN OF THE SON OF SHORT CUTSEveryone's a literary critic: Britney Spears on Wm. Blake (via bookslut)Watch the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly here (via fimoculous)It turns out all those rumors about Bert and Ernie were true.Soon I'm gonna do a full fledged post about the great music doc We Jam Econo, but the sun is still shining.

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