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countdown: subterranean homesick text
going underground to a novel format: the magazine as paperback… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ): These two little paperback books are actually NOT paperback books at all! they look like paperbacks, are printed like paperbacks, published by paperback publishers and even … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, countdown a subterranean magazine, countdown magazine, diane de prima, ed sanders, Eldridge Cleaver, gary Snyder, Jerry Rubin, Jim Morrison The Doors, jon landau, richard meltzer, robert christgau, Robert Crumb, Timothy Leary, US a paperback magazine
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A springtime massacre: hailing the god of chaos
Can pagans on a stage make pagans of the viewers? What happens when a percussive and intense style is matched with irregular rhythms and instruments pushed to the brink of their capabilities? Igor Stravinky’s revival of an ancient blood rite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Beethoven, edward green, Eli Siegel, Gertrude Stein, igor stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, Nijinsky, robert christgau, Sergei Diaghliev, Stravinsky, valentine gross hugo
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dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul
So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading
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Tagged alain danielou, Charles Baudelaire, chuck berry, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louise Bourgeois, Lovis Corinth, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, nick tosches, robert christgau, Robert Mapplethorpe, robert palmer
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Dionysian frenzy: annihilating the comfortable self
Try to find your way home. Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself ….such is the message of the eternal orgy of spring…. When Dionysus arrived at a new place, though, accompanied by his followers, the “maenads” or … Continue reading
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Tagged Eldridge Cleaver, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, lester bangs, Michel Foucault, Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones, robert christgau, robert palmer, The Beatles
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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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