Kurt Cobain had a Dream Machine, according to this film. Not too surprisingly, Gysin was close buds with William S. Burroughs, and the movie also includes conversations with Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, and Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo. The filmmaker Kenneth Anger turns up to talk about Gysin, as does poet John Giorno. The movie combines archival footage and more recent interviews.
Gysin himself comes across in FLicKeR as a bit of a loose cannon and a guy with bad luck on the self-marketing front. He kept ruining his own chances for success, say those who knew him, until bitterness became one of his defining characteristics. Too bad, because in exploring how mechanical devices change the expression and creation of art, Gysin was way ahead of his time. He even imagined that the Dream Machine might replace the television, prompting greater creativity in the general public.
Hundreds of independent writers, artists, and activists are claiming credit for an elaborate project, 6 months in the making, in which 1.2 million copies of a "special edition" of the New York Times were distributed in cities across the U.S.
But is it safe to tell the Immortals our plan? If I know my future-self--and, boy howdy, I do--I’ll turn this all against me.
ed. answer: Self-made Immortals need not torment themselves, it's just dudes like Prometheus who get cursed by the gods. If you're a fire thief I'd worry. I'm also afraid that most poets are promethean and doomed. If you're one of them, concerned citizen, you have reason to worry. If you're Plumber Joe, just wear a mask.
"For the Nazis, geopolitics dictated a profound interest in the Muslim peoples of what they called 'The Earth Island'--a giant, contiguous land mass that encompasses all of Europe, much of the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, India (including Pakistan at the time), and China.
And am I understanding this correctly, are you actually critiquing American writers... as a group, in a global world where English is the lingua lingua franca? Oh my goodness, what a forgotten and frozen in its meaningless tracks your polish of the door knobs are, locking in and locking out all that is meaningful and good and filled with life in this global world.
The Corpse is about to be reborn in a brand new beautiful cadaver that will stalk the streets of Amerika alongside the Cyber Corpse (www.corpse.org )! Her name will be the Exquisite Corpse Annual and she will be published in 2009 and will include flashes and dashes and smashes of Brilliance from Corpse classics like DIANE DI PRIMA, BILL BERKSON, ALICE NOTLEY, ARAM SAROYAN, WILLIE SMITH, MIKE TOPP, DAVE BRINKS, DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN, JOEL DAILEY, LANCE OLSEN, RUXANDRA CESEREANU, and MORE MORE MORE!!! We’re talking a glossy full-color cover and 150 extra-long pages of Cutting-Edge Illuminations by International Luminaries and Avant-Garde Experimentos looking for an angry fix!
Exquisite Corpse Annual #1: The Resurrection Issue, 2009 will be published through the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, with Andrei Codrescu as Editor in Chief, Mark Spitzer as Managing Editor, Terry Wright as Associate Editor, Rex Rose as Design Editor and YOU as its audience and Future Contributors!!! Advance copies of this limited, soon-to-be-historic, rare first edition can be purchased for $20 each right now! Just send a PayPal payment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with name and address, or a check made out to “UCA Foundation/Exquisite Corpse Annual,” Department of Writing, University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035, and include mailing address! The 2009 book should be in your hands before the year's end.
"That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in . . ." Palin began, before meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence.
I keep hearing on the news that I am responsible for the economic collapse of WallStreet. People keep saying "we are all to blame". Do you know an Economist who can expain how I, a visual artist who has never earned more than 7 thousand dollars a year is to blame for what happens on Wallstreet? Am I supposed to be like one of those Butterflies who can change the overall weather pattern without even knowing it? Wow.
So much for the Social Contract,
yours, Hal Studholme Chapel Hill, NC
Yup. I'm afraid you're the one. When my kids were little they blamed me if the New Orleans Saints lost, because I didn't watch right. I now think they knew something I didn't. None of us watch right. Ed.
A staged reading of Gene Wisniewski's hilarious art world satire, "And Broke His Crown", will be presented as part of the Hoboken Artists' Studio Tour.
