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Monthly Archives: November 2009
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abby Hoffman, Andre Breton, Carl Jung, Dada, Dadaist, Felix Guattari, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Freud, Fugs, Gilles Deleuze, Herman Hesse, Jacques Lacan, Joan Miro, Juan Miro, Lacan, Luis Bunuel, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Ernst, miro, R.D. Laing, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roy Behrens, Salvador dali, Siddhartha, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Surrealist Manifesto, Timothy Leary, Wittgenstein
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Poet as Con-Artist: LIBIDO OVER CREDO
”They sat down and Corso asked K., ”Would you like to ball with me, baby?” There was no surer way to K. ‘s heart. She declined with a small secretive, pleased smile and at once exerted herself to be charming. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Allen Ginsberg, Camus, Don Moraes, Edith Sitwell, Felix Guattari, Gary Lindberg, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Corso, Herman Melville, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Heller, Leaves of Grass, My Father's Son, Norman Mailer, On the Road, Paul Simon, R.Z. Sheppard, Richard Hauck, T.S. Eliot, The Naked Linch, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Burroughs
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LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE
Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Gross, Artemus Warde, Beverly Hillbillies, Bret Harte, Constance Rourke, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, George Washington Harris, Grouch Marx, Guy Owens, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joan Miro, Johnson J. Hooper, Mac Hyman, Mark Twain, Marx Brothers, Max Ernst, Nathaniel West, New Yorker, Otto Dix, Paul Newman, Ring Lardner, Thomas bangs Thorpe, Walker Percy, Walter Blair, William Faulkner, William Tappan Thompson
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CONFIDENCE MEN:Masquerade, Myth and Art
For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface which … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Al Jolson, American Humor: A Study of the national Character, Bob Dylan, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Constance Rourke, Eddie Cantor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Greil Marcus, Griel Marcus, Hannah Arendt, Henry James, Herman Melville, I'm Not there, Luc Sante, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Confidence man, The Invisible Republic, The Old Weird America
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A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex de Toqueville, Cougar Town, Elfriede Jelinek, Elmer Gantry, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Huck Finn, Hungary, Hungary Politics, Jobbik, Jobbik Party, Ken Kesey, Krisztina Morvai, Michael Haneke, Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin, Sinclair Lewis, tabatha Southey
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Sunday Bladerunners
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, Hope you had nice turkey dinners with all the trimmings. Get nice and plump with all of that. And of course who could forget the football games on thanksgiving weekend. Football, the sport of real men. Big … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Celebration, cfl, dance, end zone, football, ncaa, NFL, outrageous
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E=MC²…Or Does It?
Math has spelled doom for us in most cases. All the way through elementary school and high school afterwards we have cursed our math teachers for the incessant homework that gave us nightmares. But Believe it or not, math is … Continue reading
OUR BEDFELLOW WHO ART …. IN INIQUITY
Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Brien, C.P.Snow, Edmund Wilson, Elfriede Jelinek, Ian Brady, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Sutherland, Josef Frizl, Kate O, Lesley Ann Downey, Man Ray, Marquis de Sade, mary Ellmann, Myra Hindley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Rasputin, Stanislav Plutenko, Werner Fassbinder
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Dark Stuff For The Near-Normal
A bleak and disturbing style rubbing the coarse threads of obscure and sometimes contradictory and incoherent desires. A somewhat disconcerting and nasty view of human nature that is presented through swift and satirical discourses on a variety of moral and … Continue reading
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