February 2012
7 posts
“When the work of art is instead offered for aesthetic enjoyment and its formal...”
– Giorgio Agamben, Man Without Content, p. 102 (via yourharbour)
This is one of those ideas that takes itself way to seriously, but on the other hand might be exactly right. The concept of an “origin that gives itself in the work of art and remains reserved in it” probably isn’t...
This plays an untitled banjo tune played by Emma...
http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/irelands-first-s... →
This is Jesse P. Karlsberg’s essay on the first Irish Sacred Harp convention, which took place last year. I missed it, but I’m going to be home for the second convention next month and I can’t wait. The plans are made, I’m staying with lovely people and trying to hound more of my friends to come down for it. Jesse’s write up includes a lot of good background on what...
January 2012
6 posts
A half-formed, but potentially enjoyable, little...
She chops! She chops!
shitmystudentswrite:
She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee, like every girl in history, She bangs! She bangs! An old Ricky Martin song, She Bangs, tells of the power that women have. In Lizzie Borden’s case however, she chops.
Drinking in Poetry / Poetry Off the Shelf : The... →
This is a whole heap of fun.
science tumbled: The Discovery of Vitamins →
This is some interesting information about vitamins and contains the following words in this order:
the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk
Casimir Funk, I don’t know you, but I’m sure the bands named after you are brilliant.
science:
The concept of vitamins is a hundred years old this year.
During the late 19th century, there were outbreaks of fatal beriberi in East Asia. The study...
December 2011
9 posts
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Okay so here's a small morning thought
For a long time, I’ve pretended to understand the role the audience plays in art, but I think I’ve been messing it up, working with a false theory.
What I already knew: The audience interprets, and each member has a unique experience of a given work.
I like that idea and on that basis I’ve left some work wide open, for the audience to have a kind of playground where you can...
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EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN AISLE SEVEN
poetrybyemilydickinson:
Bro ghost crying naked hysterical In a grocery store fantasy on fire, face discovered girlfriend you cannot empty a basketball court of dogs or a face full of soy sausages or a generation of madness
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REMIX by: helpimburnt
ORIGINAL TEXT by: eyedoc11, vomitweet and ponsfordmcquain.
This is the best of these I’ve read yet, though I...
November 2011
10 posts
5 tags
Juliana Finch and the Gentlemen Scholars →
Friends, Atlanta friends specifically, but everybody sure why not, If I may promote for a moment - let me share with you the great fun I’ve been having in Juliana Finch’s new band. We’ve been getting together for the last month or two creating a mix of originals and covers in the grand old Irish-American folk tradition, and I can happily say my banjo and I are outclassed on all...
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Arise and Go! Review
In the current Critical Flame I review the heck out of SJS and Enda Reilly’s album/EP/whatever, Arise and Go!, which is well worth it if you’re into poetry and Irish music. They have some videos on youtube that give you the gist.
I enjoyed writing the review, even though it confused me a bit. Who really has the authority to go around reviewing things? How do you do it effectively?...
This isn’t the official party line, and perhaps my co-editor Clodagh Moynan won’t thank me for breaking away from that line, but for me Moloch is above all a conversation between Clodagh and myself.
- Ailbhe Darcy, interviewed in 3:AM
Getting over the giddy fun of quoting Ailbhe’s interview like it’s a Real Thing (which of course it is), I’d never really thought of Moloch (a...
October 2011
6 posts
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Last weekend at the National Storytelling Festival...
Love and the leaver-outters →
bobulate:
I had the privilege recently of contributing to the first issue of the thrice-annual The Manual. In addition to it being a tremendous example of design, the content speaks volumes.
Founder Andy McMillan asked authors to contribute a “Lesson” along with each piece. Below, an excerpt from mine:
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not...
Poet's Sampler -- Aaron Kunin →
Ailbhe turned me on to this.
“Sigh no more,” moron, sigh no more!
is the best opening line of a poem I’ve read in just about forever.
Pure and complex →
bobulate:
Weather affects the market — how sunny (or not) shades how people trade stocks and buy products. As does the complexity of product names. But complexity has a place, says psychologist Adam Alter:
What complexity does is it acts as a cognitive roadblock. …. If you have a communication that last 30 seconds or a minute or even five minutes, if you know there’s a particular point that you...
September 2011
13 posts
1 tag
So it's early in the morning
And my boss had a live radio interview. I listened in, as I do from time to time, on the internet. Then, while he’s right there talking, I get a call from a the number that I know he’s using for the interview. And for a little tiny second my brain didn’t know what world I was in. I said ‘hello?’ like I was about to talk to somebody from another dimension, so you know,...
“Everybody who writes is engaged in the remarkable enterprise of making...”
– Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page (via nickmiller)
Lisa Hannigan - Knots
This week I will be mostly posting music videos wherein a woman is covered in paint.*
It’s a surprisingly fruitful subgenre.
Charlotte Hatherley - White
*Probably not.
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TYNS Project 01: LaTricia
tynsproject:
“I started my assignments last night, 30 days is going to fly by. Thank you Mark N. for selecting me first! I don’t know you, but you won’t regret your decision.”
Hurray, The Young Never Sleep is of to a heroic start.
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News and adventures
I wrote a review for the Critical Flame. You can read it here, if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s run by poet, rascal, and all around good guy Dan Pritchard and his tremendous friends and associates.
The review is of Ben Mazer’s verse play, A City of Angels. It’s a strange literary fish, the verse play, even stranger coming in a run of 100 copies.
I was proud this...
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WORD OF THE DAY
justicepublishinginc:
metaphrastic
\met-uh-FRAST-ik\ , adjective; 1.Having the quality of a literary work that has been translated or changed from one form to another, as prose into verse.
So. So. SO. Okay. So. I saw this. And I. You’re not going to believe it. But I
Having the quality of a literary work that has been translated or changed from one form to another, as prose...