When he asks “Where are you going?” he really means “Why haven’t you bought me a gun yet?”
Neil Young’s Voice and American Violence
The soundtrack of my war was always Young. No other voice was so touched by the violence it was itself participating in.
While much contemporary experimental fiction concentrates on the failures of human communication — the liminal spaces — Gamboa seems more interested in how we finally succeed in sharing with each other.
When I Was a Child, I Read Weird Books
I read sitting cross-legged on my cold concrete basement floor, surrounded by the drying exoskeletons of dead bugs. That was really the only way to read Omni.
Sharks seem to occupy some strange borderland between the world of actual and preventable danger and the darkened recesses of our imaginations.
A list of charges against PROMETHEUS, a film that I had high expectations for; a film that broke my heart.
Reading: Confession / Absolution
My thinking was always, “What’s the point of a long Hemingway work?”
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
The hypocrisy that’s so prevalent you almost only notice it when it’s absent.
Hilary Mantel and The Great Wall of China
No matter how well-researched or “authentic” the book is, it’s still a novel, a very modern artifact, made to solve modern problems and address modern issues.
Gnostic Creation Myths and Foul Language
FORMING is a super strange graphic novel published by the super strange English publishing house NOBROW and written by possible genius Jesse Moynihan.