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28 books that either faked ingesting LSD or did

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Published: September 6, 2024 06:48

Terry Taylor Baron’s Court, All Change (1961) ‘Terry Taylor did it all. He was the model for the unnamed narrator of Absolute Beginners, did some serious work in drugs and magic (taking up from Berber practices he picked up in Tangier), hung out with…

Marilyn Roxie presents … The Boys of VOCALOID *

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Published: September 5, 2024 06:52

* (restored)   My introduction to VOCALOID was through the eclectic Teen Witch zine’s coverage of “cyber idol” Hatsune Miku and her hologram concerts some years ago. VOCALOID consists of YAMAHA’s multitude of software of synthetic voicebanks and the…

Bruce Baillie’s Day

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Published: September 4, 2024 06:42

‘One of the most perfect films that I’ve ever seen runs a total of three minutes. Shot in 1966, Bruce Baillie’s All My Life opens on a pan of an old picket fence framed by the blue sky above and a stretch of summer-brown grass below. On the soundtrack, you…

Readers *

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Published: September 3, 2024 06:43

* (restored)     * p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hi. I’m totally good with Takeshi Miike. His films are very clear about what they are and what they’re doing whereas to me Von Trier’s stuff is very manipulative and sneaky and has this kind of ‘I’m smarter that you…

Spotlight on … Barney Rosset Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship (2012)

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Published: September 2, 2024 06:46

‘Barney Rosset turned down a chance to publish “The Hobbit.” That, he would recall, was an act of “stupendous stupidity.” ‘But “The Hobbit” would surely have seemed out of place on the long list of significant books Rosset published in his several decades…

“I do not like pain itself, just its image and its impression.”

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Published: August 31, 2024 06:39

_______________ ReluctantlyUp4Grabs, 21 Took a year hiatus from these apps, especially this, as they were my Daddy Mark’s favorites. After he physically disabled me and dumped me I wanted nothing to do with kink or sex for a long time. 1 year sober in…

The opening credits of 57 largely horror movies

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Published: August 30, 2024 06:55

____________ Ginger Snaps (2000) ‘When Ginger Snaps, the cult horror-comedy directed by John Fawcett and written by Karen Walton, was released in 2000, it was an outlier among outliers. In a genre oozing with regressive and often outright sexist portrayals…

Spotlight on … Edouard Levé Autoportrait (2012) *

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Published: August 29, 2024 06:33

* (restored)   ‘It is inevitable that we spend the majority of our time thinking about ourselves, but what kinds of thoughts do we think? Our tendency, I would argue, is for the repetitive and the haphazard; we reflect on those aspects of ourselves that…

Fires

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Published: August 28, 2024 06:25

_________________   _______________ ‘A piece by Danish artist Jeppe Hein where a flame ignites in the center of the pool, and it’s then pushed up by a spout of water.’   ________________ ‘I hope you die in a fire! Hope you’ll be stabbed in the heart, hope…

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents … Greer Lankton

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Published: August 27, 2024 06:17

‘Trans girls writing about Greer Lankton’s art have a tendency to make her work about themselves. It’s a sentiment I encounter often as I’m researching her life, and it’s certainly true that trans women are often accused of rewriting our saints to fit our…