Ottagone / Selected II [2026]
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Monday, 11 May 2009
Girlz With Gunz # 38
J.G. Ballard in RE/search 8/9 (reprint)"The Science-Fiction films (in the 40's & 50's) were low budget films, and the directors had to make them out in the streets, so to speak - they couldn't afford to build fancy sets the way people like George Lucas can today. And in that way they maintained their contact with reality, as did film noir. It forces a certain relevance on you. Even...'Blue Velvet' was shot against a very stylised American suburb - but it's a real suburb and that lends a lot of power to that film. I think the lifeline to reality is all-important. - like the umbilical cord between the foetus and the mother."
J.G. Ballard in 'Rolling Stone' (1987)
Via J.G. Ballard - 'Quotes' (RE/search 2004)
Sunday, 10 May 2009
My father was a record sleeve...
Label: India NavigationCat. #: IN 3026
Format: LP
Release date: 1982
Music by Phill NiblockFormat: LP
Release date: 1982
Influences
Oren Ambarchi(Photo by TimN)
Where would you place Sunn O))) in terms of musical lineage?
“That's really a question for Greg and Stephen, but I do hear connections to everything from Black Sabbath to Indian music and minimalist music, especially composers such as Phill Niblock.”
“That's really a question for Greg and Stephen, but I do hear connections to everything from Black Sabbath to Indian music and minimalist music, especially composers such as Phill Niblock.”
David Simon - dead wrong dinosaur
David Simon (creator of 'The Wire') has certainly got it wrong concerning blogs and bloggers.story at 'Gawker' here.
Via 'Renegade Futurist' here.
REPOST - Jay Spacebubs, this post is for you
Why did Piglet go to the toilet?He was looking for Pooh!
J - there's a bear in there -
in the 'com-pooh-ta'!
love
X
X
X
(& happy Mum's day to yrs.)
Saturday, 9 May 2009
The human (Voice)
Voice (Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, Brian Eley)Recorded live at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London W1, on 13th Oct 1976
Go here.
Veryan Weston (piano) and Phil Minton (voice) improvise at Mopomoso at the Vortex Jazz club in London. 21st September 2008. Filmed by Helen Petts.
An interesting blog 'John's House' here concerned with John Osborne's house/a mirror & Phil Minton amongst other things.
An interesting blog 'John's House' here concerned with John Osborne's house/a mirror & Phil Minton amongst other things.
Nick Cave scores the movie of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'
(Photo by TimN)The ever wonderful Heather over at 'I Am Fuel You Are Friends' has all the details here.
There is also a 'BBC' arts segment about it to download.
Too kind!
"...been about a 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
decade since we last crawled the net/kerb cos what you really need is one site where someone seems to*ve done all the searching for you, today we found that site and good thing too (it,us, you, fukkit EVERYONE), blog with lots about e.g. Billy Burroughs and Patricia Smith and not a lot about Prefab Sprout, but never mind, we all mean well - www.exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com "
!!!
Found here.
Check it out/and the back pages...
Luddism/laughs/love & life (through the lens of a cider bottle!)
decade since we last crawled the net/kerb cos what you really need is one site where someone seems to*ve done all the searching for you, today we found that site and good thing too (it,us, you, fukkit EVERYONE), blog with lots about e.g. Billy Burroughs and Patricia Smith and not a lot about Prefab Sprout, but never mind, we all mean well - www.exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com "
!!!
Found here.
Check it out/and the back pages...
Luddism/laughs/love & life (through the lens of a cider bottle!)
The Art of Memory
I really can't find the words to adequately describe this blog...It describes itself as...
"adventures in minimalism including film, music, literature, poetry, architecture, and art"
Check it out for yourself here.
Spirit of Ecstasy
This comic, written by Mairead Case
, is now appearing in a promo zine made by Light in the Attic Records. It celebrates their re-release of Serge Gainsbourg's classic "Melody Nelson" album.(Click here to read page two of the comic.
)(Via dlasky@lj here.)
Friday, 8 May 2009
Jenny Saville - "Passage"
Jenny Saville: With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a sort of gender landscape. To scale from the penis, across a stomach to the breasts, and finally the head. I tried to make the lips and eyes be very seductive and use directional mark-making to move your eye around the flesh.Simon Schama: So you really do manipulate what’s in front of you through the mark-making. It’s very striking – I’m looking at a photograph of your transvestite painting Passage and that passage that moves from the penis and balls to the belly is really about the anatomy of paint as it constructs the body.
Jenny Saville: I have to really work at the tension between getting the paint to have the sensory quality that I want and be constructive in terms of building the form of a stomach, for example, or creating the inner crevice of a thigh. The more I do it, the more the space between abstraction and figuration becomes interesting. I want a painting realism. I try to consider the pace of a painting, of active and quiet areas. Listening to music helps a lot, especially music where there’s a hard sound and then soft breathable passages. In my earlier work my marks were less varied. I think of each mark or area as having the possibility of carrying a sensation. (Extract from ‘Interview with Jenny Saville by Simon Schama)
Saatchi Gallery here.
Superb site with lots of images here.
Glynn Griffiths, 'Jenny Saville in front of Plan', The Independent, Tuesday March 1, 1994
LYRICS: Manic Street Preachers - '4st 7lbs'
I eat too much to die
And not enough to stay alive
I'm sitting in the middle waiting
Days since I last pissed
Cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home
See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
I'm getting better
Karen says I've reached my target weight
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
May I bud and never flower
My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking
Mother tries to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvita
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can change, my cocoon shedding
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life
I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me
Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel
From 'The Holy Bible' by the Manic Street Preachers.
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