Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The CIA calls this mostly innocous:
1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.
2. Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.
3. The Belly Slap: A hard open-handed slap to the stomach. The aim is to cause pain, but not internal injury. Doctors consulted advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal damage.
4. Long Time Standing: This technique is described as among the most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are effective in yielding confessions.
5. The Cold Cell: The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees. Throughout the time in the cell the prisoner is doused with cold water.
6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.
from making light
1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.
2. Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.
3. The Belly Slap: A hard open-handed slap to the stomach. The aim is to cause pain, but not internal injury. Doctors consulted advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal damage.
4. Long Time Standing: This technique is described as among the most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are effective in yielding confessions.
5. The Cold Cell: The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees. Throughout the time in the cell the prisoner is doused with cold water.
6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.
from making light
thomas robbins, the cnn anchor for the evening news program, from 4-6, came out at the national cacus of gay and lesbian journalists, and two days later, the 4-6 pm news cast was elimanated, and he was moved to siberia (perhaps literally)
nancy grace yelled at a woman on national televsion, to admit that she killed her child. the mother committed suicide earlier today.
12 people were shot and 4 killed in Montreal today, by perhaps two gunmen, at Dawson College. One gunman is dead.
nancy grace yelled at a woman on national televsion, to admit that she killed her child. the mother committed suicide earlier today.
12 people were shot and 4 killed in Montreal today, by perhaps two gunmen, at Dawson College. One gunman is dead.
artshab looks great, ashley and i had to go to walmart to do it, but its all hung, and jim is pleased with it.
got things on disk, and will mail posters out, etc as well. the curator of the aga is coming !!
need to sign contracts, and get the food together, they are hosting a bar, but hope that there is gin as well
a bit nervous, but then im always a bit nervous.
also a bit sad, the seasons are changing, the light is growing dimmer, and the autumn is falling in, im finding myself, even with the work and the satisfaction of the work, being finished, and the art met, banff thing, depressed and not working nearly hard enough on other projects, getting my shit out there--flickr is updated almost daily, and some photos get a large number of views, but less comments, and less favourites, got to stop being neurotic about it.
speakinf of neurotic, ash and i went to applebees the other day, and it was super creepy, i had a salad, and it was greasy--deeply greasy, and the serving size, could without exaggaration feed 4 people, ashley had a basket of fries, and he sizing was similar, that and the cak on the walls, the fact that everyone there was 70, and the general fake cheer made it feel both exotic and uncomfortable
dont feel uncomfortable with curried goat or sea urchin, but get a spinach salad with garlic shrimp at applebees and well yeah
got things on disk, and will mail posters out, etc as well. the curator of the aga is coming !!
need to sign contracts, and get the food together, they are hosting a bar, but hope that there is gin as well
a bit nervous, but then im always a bit nervous.
also a bit sad, the seasons are changing, the light is growing dimmer, and the autumn is falling in, im finding myself, even with the work and the satisfaction of the work, being finished, and the art met, banff thing, depressed and not working nearly hard enough on other projects, getting my shit out there--flickr is updated almost daily, and some photos get a large number of views, but less comments, and less favourites, got to stop being neurotic about it.
speakinf of neurotic, ash and i went to applebees the other day, and it was super creepy, i had a salad, and it was greasy--deeply greasy, and the serving size, could without exaggaration feed 4 people, ashley had a basket of fries, and he sizing was similar, that and the cak on the walls, the fact that everyone there was 70, and the general fake cheer made it feel both exotic and uncomfortable
dont feel uncomfortable with curried goat or sea urchin, but get a spinach salad with garlic shrimp at applebees and well yeah
Monday, September 11, 2006
teh last ppgh on that link, about cops, is the core of the matter--and the recent acvitity in banning pseduo porn, written porn, unpleasent porn b.w consenting adults, and uppign obscenity requirements, and using duplicitous means to entrap and arrest people is the dark side of this coin...
has any legal eagle done the research on police presence online, and entrapment?
(cafila in (edit:public sex and sex to power) seems realvent to qoute here, but i cant find my copy)
has any legal eagle done the research on police presence online, and entrapment?
(cafila in (edit:public sex and sex to power) seems realvent to qoute here, but i cant find my copy)
one thot on the jason rf mess
the internet is a matrix of information, the assumption that any information one directs thru that matrix can be kept b/w two people is painfully naive. any privacy on the net is impossible, so come out.
another:
i keep wondering if the sex on the net is safe, it seems much more degrading, violent, less humane and less beautiful than it is even in anon meatspaces...the sheer hard violence that is discussed in the threads scares me (and i know about fantasy, writing, poltiics and aesthetics, when it comes to this sort of thing)
and another:
jason's pleasure from others misery is either a pyschopathic desire to humilate others or the best situationist prank in recent memory, untangling those two will prove dificult.
and a last one:
all of my sexual quirks are here, and on craigs list, and remain unedited--but then so are the rest of my quirks, it might be an aspie thing relted to my complete lack of understanding social skills, and what is right/proper, and my belief in full disclosure has gotten me in trouble before, and i have temepred it (tempered the writing here, temepred the photo taking, temepred how i react to people) in that last five years, and i wonder if that tempering means that i have become more mature, realised the difficulty of the world, or if it means i have given up.
the internet is a matrix of information, the assumption that any information one directs thru that matrix can be kept b/w two people is painfully naive. any privacy on the net is impossible, so come out.
another:
i keep wondering if the sex on the net is safe, it seems much more degrading, violent, less humane and less beautiful than it is even in anon meatspaces...the sheer hard violence that is discussed in the threads scares me (and i know about fantasy, writing, poltiics and aesthetics, when it comes to this sort of thing)
and another:
jason's pleasure from others misery is either a pyschopathic desire to humilate others or the best situationist prank in recent memory, untangling those two will prove dificult.
and a last one:
all of my sexual quirks are here, and on craigs list, and remain unedited--but then so are the rest of my quirks, it might be an aspie thing relted to my complete lack of understanding social skills, and what is right/proper, and my belief in full disclosure has gotten me in trouble before, and i have temepred it (tempered the writing here, temepred the photo taking, temepred how i react to people) in that last five years, and i wonder if that tempering means that i have become more mature, realised the difficulty of the world, or if it means i have given up.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
dump, pump, rump, lump, krump, dump
an erotic epic of submission wrestling and gonch pulling
william garnett, a california photographer, who's arieal photographs of the new suburbs of los angeles, are beautiful and scientific discussions of population and how we live now, adn who ahve the same kind of energy as some of he new topographers 10 or 20 years before they did it, is oneof the more under rated american photographers, and one i feel tender towards. he died at the end of august.
here is his bio from the LA times
these three are from the lakewood seires, a narrative of photos of a suburb emerging, from trenching to landscape, now at the getty
(he is most famous for his suburban work, but other arieal work is as amazing, the sheer hard geometry of some of his agricultural photos, and the sinous, romantic photos of the ibex dunes, in death valley)
here are two of his photos of hay fields, from a site called hay in art:
mom notes how straight, even and parrell farmers hay is in farmers filed, and how it orders discordant geography, garnett notes this in the work above...
dave thomson on the auter driven 70s
a flordia 9 11 widow finds mohammed
dozens of photos of hard steel shards, on every available sleeping and sitting surface, including hydrants and ledges, incredibly uncomfortable, to do something basic. from someone who does a lot of walking, and my knees/ankles start killing me, i need to sit down, i dont know the harm...(well the harm is to prevent homeless folks from actually living in the city, or from anyone living in the city at all, unless you can afford to sit in places that allow you to sit, then yr fucked...bad people making cities unliveable...
a theory heavy, difficult interview with samuel delany
French Vogue, Sept 2006, hot.
a corrective for the lack of homoerotic fun at the DKE frat rush i went to on thursday
william lamson an mfa candiate at bernard, makes really funny parodies of the bleak, peopless, middle american photos that serve as the dominant aesthetic these days
arnie
behaves in a racist, sexist manner
the problem with the pope saying things like this to ontario bishops, is that it unfairly presupposes that those who are for the autonomy of woemns bodies, or for same gendered marriage, ahve not thought about the issue, deeply, and have not brought it to god. it assumes that the only ethic for the liberal left is ease, and not mercy, charity, justice, love, and those virtues are not difficult to mantain
a hindu devotion features dropping large statues of the gods into the water, sometimes they return...they should have been left at the bottom of the ocean. there is a movement to amke these devotioanls biodegradable
In a horrifying show of brutality, gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, after covering patrons with their weapons, officials said.
Heavily armed men fired their guns in the air as they entered the bar in Uruapan in the central state of Michoacan, said Magdalena Guzman, spokeswoman for the state prosecutor's office. The gunmen ordered patrons to the ground before tossing the heads.
full story here
clothes for yr ferrett
Pimp or Marichi
I forgot who did this
Condoms for Good Catholics is an amazing campaign
controversy about marc jacobs new fashions, mostly i think, because the homoerotic kissing features large men with beards...(sort of pisses me off,cause they will advertise with us, but they wont give us clothes that fit)
gay sex, in public, b/w men, in russia, in front of a large crowd, with no violence
16th century last supper, from lima peru, forget the artist, but the meal in the center is a guinea pig, a tradtional meal of the first nations there. this image hits me, in the same way that our lady of gaudlope hits me, in that christ comes to us as we understand him, he transmorgifies his humanity adn hsi divinity to messages that can be absorbed (this is bullshit in many ways, and we have to be careful, because christ came on the edge of a sword, in the volley of firearms, and in the folds of smallpox ridden blankets, maybe positive examples of the reclamation of xian culture is sugar coating dangerous messages...) (and maybe our lady is a more sophiscated version of the doctorine of constatine)
it also proves that cultures absorb and change the xian message, and 20th century concerns about african masses, folk masses, masses in the vernacular, amsses with dancing, etc etc ar against tradition
great collection from a berlin art gallery, of items stolen from famous musuems (not art, more like coat hangers and those stupid white linen gloves that never fit)
an erotic epic of submission wrestling and gonch pulling
william garnett, a california photographer, who's arieal photographs of the new suburbs of los angeles, are beautiful and scientific discussions of population and how we live now, adn who ahve the same kind of energy as some of he new topographers 10 or 20 years before they did it, is oneof the more under rated american photographers, and one i feel tender towards. he died at the end of august.
here is his bio from the LA times
these three are from the lakewood seires, a narrative of photos of a suburb emerging, from trenching to landscape, now at the getty
(he is most famous for his suburban work, but other arieal work is as amazing, the sheer hard geometry of some of his agricultural photos, and the sinous, romantic photos of the ibex dunes, in death valley)
here are two of his photos of hay fields, from a site called hay in art:
mom notes how straight, even and parrell farmers hay is in farmers filed, and how it orders discordant geography, garnett notes this in the work above...
dave thomson on the auter driven 70s
a flordia 9 11 widow finds mohammed
dozens of photos of hard steel shards, on every available sleeping and sitting surface, including hydrants and ledges, incredibly uncomfortable, to do something basic. from someone who does a lot of walking, and my knees/ankles start killing me, i need to sit down, i dont know the harm...(well the harm is to prevent homeless folks from actually living in the city, or from anyone living in the city at all, unless you can afford to sit in places that allow you to sit, then yr fucked...bad people making cities unliveable...
a theory heavy, difficult interview with samuel delany
French Vogue, Sept 2006, hot.
a corrective for the lack of homoerotic fun at the DKE frat rush i went to on thursday
william lamson an mfa candiate at bernard, makes really funny parodies of the bleak, peopless, middle american photos that serve as the dominant aesthetic these days
arnie
behaves in a racist, sexist manner
the problem with the pope saying things like this to ontario bishops, is that it unfairly presupposes that those who are for the autonomy of woemns bodies, or for same gendered marriage, ahve not thought about the issue, deeply, and have not brought it to god. it assumes that the only ethic for the liberal left is ease, and not mercy, charity, justice, love, and those virtues are not difficult to mantain
a hindu devotion features dropping large statues of the gods into the water, sometimes they return...they should have been left at the bottom of the ocean. there is a movement to amke these devotioanls biodegradable
In a horrifying show of brutality, gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, after covering patrons with their weapons, officials said.
Heavily armed men fired their guns in the air as they entered the bar in Uruapan in the central state of Michoacan, said Magdalena Guzman, spokeswoman for the state prosecutor's office. The gunmen ordered patrons to the ground before tossing the heads.
clothes for yr ferrett
Pimp or Marichi
I forgot who did this
Condoms for Good Catholics is an amazing campaign
controversy about marc jacobs new fashions, mostly i think, because the homoerotic kissing features large men with beards...(sort of pisses me off,cause they will advertise with us, but they wont give us clothes that fit)
gay sex, in public, b/w men, in russia, in front of a large crowd, with no violence
16th century last supper, from lima peru, forget the artist, but the meal in the center is a guinea pig, a tradtional meal of the first nations there. this image hits me, in the same way that our lady of gaudlope hits me, in that christ comes to us as we understand him, he transmorgifies his humanity adn hsi divinity to messages that can be absorbed (this is bullshit in many ways, and we have to be careful, because christ came on the edge of a sword, in the volley of firearms, and in the folds of smallpox ridden blankets, maybe positive examples of the reclamation of xian culture is sugar coating dangerous messages...) (and maybe our lady is a more sophiscated version of the doctorine of constatine)
it also proves that cultures absorb and change the xian message, and 20th century concerns about african masses, folk masses, masses in the vernacular, amsses with dancing, etc etc ar against tradition
great collection from a berlin art gallery, of items stolen from famous musuems (not art, more like coat hangers and those stupid white linen gloves that never fit)
fiction
14-11 three volumes of ralf konig, maybe maybe not, and killer condom, v. funny, v. sexy, and well constructed, under rated, and unknown in NA, one of my favourites.
10 Embrodiriesm by the woman who did persopolis, interesting issues of gender an sexuality, open, and not constructed as the other, deeply moving, and realyl about the potential for gosip as social change, esp in tehran, among arabs...this book and teh two prsopolis books, are rather amazing, and i love the art.
(ten!)
14-11 three volumes of ralf konig, maybe maybe not, and killer condom, v. funny, v. sexy, and well constructed, under rated, and unknown in NA, one of my favourites.
10 Embrodiriesm by the woman who did persopolis, interesting issues of gender an sexuality, open, and not constructed as the other, deeply moving, and realyl about the potential for gosip as social change, esp in tehran, among arabs...this book and teh two prsopolis books, are rather amazing, and i love the art.
(ten!)
Saturday, September 09, 2006
1) Does film best tell the truth (Godard) or tell lies (De Palma) at 24 frames per second? (Thanks, Peet)
All fiction tells lies, in order to tell truths. Docs are a little different, but follow the same pattern (ie michael moore telling us bush is evil or errol morris crack at teh redemption of mcnamara)
2) Ideal pairing of actors/actresses to play on-screen siblings
Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds
3) Favorite special effects moment
the zombie mother giving birth to zombie baby in a high end kids clothing store, in the remake of dawn of the dead. (a scene of great perversity and horror, esp how it is shot so tenderly)
4) Matt Damon or George Clooney?
matt damon is the better actor, i think
5) What is the movie you’ve encouraged more people to see than any other?
imitation of life (people dont tend to lvoe it as much as i do)
6) Favorite film of 1934
thin man, cause ive seen it 5 or 6 times, and i have yet to figure out all the lines.
7) Your favorite movie theater
before it died, the paramount in edmonton, also fond of alliance atlantis, the fox, the royal, and the bloor, in toronto. all except AA have old sound, no stadium seating, and acres of plush velvet, my favourite seat, the middle row, center seat, in front of the balcony
8) Jean Arthur or Irene Dunne?
irene dunne, for her majesty in falling apart
9) Favorite film made for children
anything made by disney before 1940 (ie snow white, dumbo, fantasia, pinochio) spirited away, the gene wilder willy wonka, and the misudnerstood and easily forgotten candleshoe (for jodie foster, its comfort in cliches, and how she did all of these strange, difficult, adult work (ie taxi driver, the little girl who lived down the lane, etc etc), and then went back to make a great, fun, low key, and comforting disney movie)
10) Favorite Martin Scorsese Movie
i dont like scorese, as a general rule, adn the work i like of him is usually scenes featuring women. cybil shepered and jodie foster in taxi driver; liza minelli's subtle revealtions in new york new york; aida turtoru as nurse crupp in bringing out the dead; sharon stones white hot eroticism in casino, sandra berhnhard actually avoiding annoying people in king of comedy...
11) Favorite film about children
bully
12) Favorite film of 1954
carmen jones--the closest thing that racist hollywood could do to show how brilliant dorthy dandrige was, adn one of the best otto preminger films
13) Favorite screenplay written by a writer more famous for literature than screenplays
Sartes screenplay for the Freud biopic. An anti-freudian writes for a twisted homosexual, obsessed with his own masculinity, a role that has nothing much to do with the subject's real lfie
14) Walter Matthau or Jack Lemmon?
Lemmon, for some reason, i can forgive his sentimentality
15) Favorite character name
augustus gloop
16) Favorite screenplay adapted from a work of great literature, either by the author himself or by someone else
brokeback, i think--cause the lacuane, the edges of unreal, the long slow pace, and the sadness of geographical isolation all are mantained (also basil rathborne as sherlock)
17) Favorite film of 1974
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (i could talk about this using high theory terms, but sometimes goign to the movies is about dark things happening in dark places) (taking of pentham 1,2,3 is one of the better directed movies of the 70s, and its breakneck pace, and its claustrophobia belong here as well)
18) Joan Severance or Shannon Tweed?
Can i choose Steve Reeves?
19) jackass: the movie-- yes or no?
1970s body art stripped of abjection, restored to its proper hi/trash bdsm place, god yes
20) Favorite John Cassavetes Movie
The Killing of A Chinese Bookie or Gloria (though thats my favourite gena rowlands film)
21) First R-rated movie you ever saw
i dont even remember, maybe the birds?
22) Favorite X-rated film (remember that, while your answer may well be a famous or not-so-famous hard-core film, the "X" rating was once also a legitimate rating that did not necessarily connote pornography)
midnight cowboy, pink narcissus, beyond the green door
23) Best film of 1994
either the lion king or the professional (ive decided i really like the lion king, mostly for its violence, and genuine menance, and its lack of misogyny, i could do without large swathes of it, but certain segments, the stampede, mufasa, the hyenas, keep getting to me) (i thot heavenly creatures was released in 1993, but it wasnt,and the two performances make the folie a deux shockingly real, without being voyueristic)
24) Describe a moment in a movie that made you weep
bunch of toronto hipsters, my friends and i, broke back mountain, im albertan, and i try to keep it together, despeately, but it gets worse and worse, i start sniffling, no kleenex, go to the bathroom, come back, and than the last 15 mintues, im jsut weeping, racked with tears, like someone in my family had died, and than the lgiths come up, and all of these queens come and stare at me, like i had done something gauche. growing up queer in the west, and dealing with the violence there in, combined with my lasting fear of being alone, and of being isolated in general, adn ahving to go back there though my family was in toronto, due to money and the complications of geography, hit it way to close home...
(i also wept at any of the sirk films in school, and todd haynes far from heaven, in addition to the prize winner of defiance ohio, and any larger amount of trash...i overemote in cinemas)
25) Ewan McGregor or Ewan Bremner?
McGregor
26) One of your favorite line readings (not necessarily one of your favorite lines) from this or any year
this year, jeremey stratham in the transporter two, playing the riddle game with the main tyke, before the action starts, or the last line of the film has that brsque butch masculinity, analysed and restored, that i enjoyed immensley.
any year--liz taylor in cleopatra (christ, liz taylor anywhere)
27) What, if any, element in a film, upon your hearing of its inclusion beforehand, would most likely prejudice you against seeing that film or keeping an open mind about it?
i would assume violence for the sake of violence, the porongraphic violence kael wrote against in dirty hairy, but i have found my self liking it's more slick forms, in hong kong, and neo hong kongs that ive watched in the last year or so means that if its pretty enough ill gobble it up...which worries me. (american procedual television, ugly, vapid, with a sour belief in the glories of the states, and performances that are somewhere left of automatic, where all sex is punished by death, is the work that i often dismiss immidately though)
28) Favorite Terry Gilliam Movie
The documentary abotu his failure to direct Quixote
29) Jean Smart or Annie Potts?
Jean Smart (for that scene, about astronauts and ballerieas, in the god awful kid movie with bruce willis)
30) Is it possible to know with any certainty if you could like or love someone based partially on their taste in movies? If so, what film might be a potential relationship deal-breaker for you, or the one that might just seal that deal?
they gotta love trash and art and hollywood and france and everywhere else--thats the thing, an unwillingness to see crank the same weekend as cache would be a deal breaker
All fiction tells lies, in order to tell truths. Docs are a little different, but follow the same pattern (ie michael moore telling us bush is evil or errol morris crack at teh redemption of mcnamara)
2) Ideal pairing of actors/actresses to play on-screen siblings
Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds
3) Favorite special effects moment
the zombie mother giving birth to zombie baby in a high end kids clothing store, in the remake of dawn of the dead. (a scene of great perversity and horror, esp how it is shot so tenderly)
4) Matt Damon or George Clooney?
matt damon is the better actor, i think
5) What is the movie you’ve encouraged more people to see than any other?
imitation of life (people dont tend to lvoe it as much as i do)
6) Favorite film of 1934
thin man, cause ive seen it 5 or 6 times, and i have yet to figure out all the lines.
7) Your favorite movie theater
before it died, the paramount in edmonton, also fond of alliance atlantis, the fox, the royal, and the bloor, in toronto. all except AA have old sound, no stadium seating, and acres of plush velvet, my favourite seat, the middle row, center seat, in front of the balcony
8) Jean Arthur or Irene Dunne?
irene dunne, for her majesty in falling apart
9) Favorite film made for children
anything made by disney before 1940 (ie snow white, dumbo, fantasia, pinochio) spirited away, the gene wilder willy wonka, and the misudnerstood and easily forgotten candleshoe (for jodie foster, its comfort in cliches, and how she did all of these strange, difficult, adult work (ie taxi driver, the little girl who lived down the lane, etc etc), and then went back to make a great, fun, low key, and comforting disney movie)
10) Favorite Martin Scorsese Movie
i dont like scorese, as a general rule, adn the work i like of him is usually scenes featuring women. cybil shepered and jodie foster in taxi driver; liza minelli's subtle revealtions in new york new york; aida turtoru as nurse crupp in bringing out the dead; sharon stones white hot eroticism in casino, sandra berhnhard actually avoiding annoying people in king of comedy...
11) Favorite film about children
bully
12) Favorite film of 1954
carmen jones--the closest thing that racist hollywood could do to show how brilliant dorthy dandrige was, adn one of the best otto preminger films
13) Favorite screenplay written by a writer more famous for literature than screenplays
Sartes screenplay for the Freud biopic. An anti-freudian writes for a twisted homosexual, obsessed with his own masculinity, a role that has nothing much to do with the subject's real lfie
14) Walter Matthau or Jack Lemmon?
Lemmon, for some reason, i can forgive his sentimentality
15) Favorite character name
augustus gloop
16) Favorite screenplay adapted from a work of great literature, either by the author himself or by someone else
brokeback, i think--cause the lacuane, the edges of unreal, the long slow pace, and the sadness of geographical isolation all are mantained (also basil rathborne as sherlock)
17) Favorite film of 1974
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (i could talk about this using high theory terms, but sometimes goign to the movies is about dark things happening in dark places) (taking of pentham 1,2,3 is one of the better directed movies of the 70s, and its breakneck pace, and its claustrophobia belong here as well)
18) Joan Severance or Shannon Tweed?
Can i choose Steve Reeves?
19) jackass: the movie-- yes or no?
1970s body art stripped of abjection, restored to its proper hi/trash bdsm place, god yes
20) Favorite John Cassavetes Movie
The Killing of A Chinese Bookie or Gloria (though thats my favourite gena rowlands film)
21) First R-rated movie you ever saw
i dont even remember, maybe the birds?
22) Favorite X-rated film (remember that, while your answer may well be a famous or not-so-famous hard-core film, the "X" rating was once also a legitimate rating that did not necessarily connote pornography)
midnight cowboy, pink narcissus, beyond the green door
23) Best film of 1994
either the lion king or the professional (ive decided i really like the lion king, mostly for its violence, and genuine menance, and its lack of misogyny, i could do without large swathes of it, but certain segments, the stampede, mufasa, the hyenas, keep getting to me) (i thot heavenly creatures was released in 1993, but it wasnt,and the two performances make the folie a deux shockingly real, without being voyueristic)
24) Describe a moment in a movie that made you weep
bunch of toronto hipsters, my friends and i, broke back mountain, im albertan, and i try to keep it together, despeately, but it gets worse and worse, i start sniffling, no kleenex, go to the bathroom, come back, and than the last 15 mintues, im jsut weeping, racked with tears, like someone in my family had died, and than the lgiths come up, and all of these queens come and stare at me, like i had done something gauche. growing up queer in the west, and dealing with the violence there in, combined with my lasting fear of being alone, and of being isolated in general, adn ahving to go back there though my family was in toronto, due to money and the complications of geography, hit it way to close home...
(i also wept at any of the sirk films in school, and todd haynes far from heaven, in addition to the prize winner of defiance ohio, and any larger amount of trash...i overemote in cinemas)
25) Ewan McGregor or Ewan Bremner?
McGregor
26) One of your favorite line readings (not necessarily one of your favorite lines) from this or any year
this year, jeremey stratham in the transporter two, playing the riddle game with the main tyke, before the action starts, or the last line of the film has that brsque butch masculinity, analysed and restored, that i enjoyed immensley.
any year--liz taylor in cleopatra (christ, liz taylor anywhere)
27) What, if any, element in a film, upon your hearing of its inclusion beforehand, would most likely prejudice you against seeing that film or keeping an open mind about it?
i would assume violence for the sake of violence, the porongraphic violence kael wrote against in dirty hairy, but i have found my self liking it's more slick forms, in hong kong, and neo hong kongs that ive watched in the last year or so means that if its pretty enough ill gobble it up...which worries me. (american procedual television, ugly, vapid, with a sour belief in the glories of the states, and performances that are somewhere left of automatic, where all sex is punished by death, is the work that i often dismiss immidately though)
28) Favorite Terry Gilliam Movie
The documentary abotu his failure to direct Quixote
29) Jean Smart or Annie Potts?
Jean Smart (for that scene, about astronauts and ballerieas, in the god awful kid movie with bruce willis)
30) Is it possible to know with any certainty if you could like or love someone based partially on their taste in movies? If so, what film might be a potential relationship deal-breaker for you, or the one that might just seal that deal?
they gotta love trash and art and hollywood and france and everywhere else--thats the thing, an unwillingness to see crank the same weekend as cache would be a deal breaker
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
LINK DUMP FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
a number of kits, avaible from a protugese architecutal firm, where you can make prefab houses out of shipping containers...here is the lin i love this sort of shit.
someone
in Tiblisi, threw a live grenade at Bush, and the damn thing didnt explode.
To the Editor:
Dave Itzkoff’s review of Julie Phillips’s “James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon” (Aug. 20) has shown your readers a fragment of the conundrum that was Alice Sheldon, but could have shed far more light on that enigmatic author. Perhaps I can help. I was a friend of Sheldon and her second husband for the last 13 years of their lives (dating from well before the truth about James Tiptree was exposed).
Itzkoff correctly notes that Sheldon was a C.I.A. agent (though he neglects to mention that Huntington Sheldon, her husband, was with the agency as well). In fact, it was during her three years there that Sheldon learned how to create a false identity, including how to acquire the Social Security number she used as “James Tiptree,” thus ensuring that Tiptree’s royalty checks could never be traced to her.
Itzkoff’s review implies that Alice’s suicide was mandated by the mercy killing of her husband; she was technically guilty of Huntington’s murder. The truth is more complicated. Ting Sheldon was in constant pain, but with no imminent hope of natural death when Alice shot him dead, phoned her lawyer with instructions to notify the police, then shot herself while holding hands with her beloved husband. In a 1980 interview (published in Charles Platt’s “Dream Makers”), Sheldon revealed that she had struggled against suicidal urges since her childhood. The handwritten suicide note found beside her corpse in 1987 had been written years earlier; she had carefully saved it until she was ready to use it.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
From the NY Times
There is something so incredible about these two stories, so difficult to parse, the instabilty of personal idenitity. the construction of self, and sheer self control, that one chooses the time of ones death, with careful precision
(the new bio looks amazing, and its getting ltos of buzz, first sf book to be on the cover, notices in book forum, publishers weekly, etc--story too good for it to be true, maybe we will get more tiptree in print)
the exaggareted fear of pedophillia is being used to increase police pressure--this time msn has a police button (which wont be mis used at al)
figuring out who has more influence, porn lovers or xians, is going to be a really fun game to watch--the puritans are trying to ban porn in hotel rooms. here is there website sophiscated web design, made to be a personal choice, family friendly service, and not anothr example of a nanny state obsessivbley making sure we dont touch our genitals
and a waldenbrooks in missippi is pulling the entire realtionships section, cause someone found the good sex bible offenisve here
hezbollah boy band
the cheif excorcist of the vatican, makes silly statements on harry potter
Tori Amos, Viktor and Rolf.
Pluto and Astrology
CA Conrad is an amazing poet, and this is a link to one of his poems, its funny and sexy
xian sex toys
here is a site where you can buy whole container ships full of irish crap, to hang on walls of simulacra laden irish pubs from darwin to lagos (including one called o kims in seoul). i want to buy a container of this, and put it on gallery walls, in a mockery of anthropology
blog from global guerrillas
Dick Dale, Surfer Musician, Mirawis composer (make one inch pins out of this imagE?)
Southern Africa's Catholic bishops have warned priests to stop moonlighting as witchdoctors, fortune tellers and traditional healers, and to rely on Christ for miracles.
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which represents bishops in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana, said on its Web sites some priests were adopting the traditional African practice of calling on ancestors for healing.
(whats the difference b/w saints and ancestors, b/w witchcraft adn prayer, b/w different kinds of magick?)
Unfinished Pine Cross, from Michaels
Nigerian poet Chris Albani, writes about sexuailty, gender and Africa...here is an interview with him here
Academic publisher Reed Elsevier, is involved in the arms trade here is a site that records all the nessc info
a number of kits, avaible from a protugese architecutal firm, where you can make prefab houses out of shipping containers...here is the lin i love this sort of shit.
someone
in Tiblisi, threw a live grenade at Bush, and the damn thing didnt explode.
To the Editor:
Dave Itzkoff’s review of Julie Phillips’s “James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon” (Aug. 20) has shown your readers a fragment of the conundrum that was Alice Sheldon, but could have shed far more light on that enigmatic author. Perhaps I can help. I was a friend of Sheldon and her second husband for the last 13 years of their lives (dating from well before the truth about James Tiptree was exposed).
Itzkoff correctly notes that Sheldon was a C.I.A. agent (though he neglects to mention that Huntington Sheldon, her husband, was with the agency as well). In fact, it was during her three years there that Sheldon learned how to create a false identity, including how to acquire the Social Security number she used as “James Tiptree,” thus ensuring that Tiptree’s royalty checks could never be traced to her.
Itzkoff’s review implies that Alice’s suicide was mandated by the mercy killing of her husband; she was technically guilty of Huntington’s murder. The truth is more complicated. Ting Sheldon was in constant pain, but with no imminent hope of natural death when Alice shot him dead, phoned her lawyer with instructions to notify the police, then shot herself while holding hands with her beloved husband. In a 1980 interview (published in Charles Platt’s “Dream Makers”), Sheldon revealed that she had struggled against suicidal urges since her childhood. The handwritten suicide note found beside her corpse in 1987 had been written years earlier; she had carefully saved it until she was ready to use it.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
From the NY Times
There is something so incredible about these two stories, so difficult to parse, the instabilty of personal idenitity. the construction of self, and sheer self control, that one chooses the time of ones death, with careful precision
(the new bio looks amazing, and its getting ltos of buzz, first sf book to be on the cover, notices in book forum, publishers weekly, etc--story too good for it to be true, maybe we will get more tiptree in print)
the exaggareted fear of pedophillia is being used to increase police pressure--this time msn has a police button (which wont be mis used at al)
figuring out who has more influence, porn lovers or xians, is going to be a really fun game to watch--the puritans are trying to ban porn in hotel rooms. here is there website sophiscated web design, made to be a personal choice, family friendly service, and not anothr example of a nanny state obsessivbley making sure we dont touch our genitals
and a waldenbrooks in missippi is pulling the entire realtionships section, cause someone found the good sex bible offenisve here
hezbollah boy band
the cheif excorcist of the vatican, makes silly statements on harry potter
Tori Amos, Viktor and Rolf.
Pluto and Astrology
CA Conrad is an amazing poet, and this is a link to one of his poems, its funny and sexy
xian sex toys
here is a site where you can buy whole container ships full of irish crap, to hang on walls of simulacra laden irish pubs from darwin to lagos (including one called o kims in seoul). i want to buy a container of this, and put it on gallery walls, in a mockery of anthropology
blog from global guerrillas
Dick Dale, Surfer Musician, Mirawis composer (make one inch pins out of this imagE?)
Southern Africa's Catholic bishops have warned priests to stop moonlighting as witchdoctors, fortune tellers and traditional healers, and to rely on Christ for miracles.
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which represents bishops in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana, said on its Web sites some priests were adopting the traditional African practice of calling on ancestors for healing.
(whats the difference b/w saints and ancestors, b/w witchcraft adn prayer, b/w different kinds of magick?)
Unfinished Pine Cross, from Michaels
Nigerian poet Chris Albani, writes about sexuailty, gender and Africa...here is an interview with him here
Academic publisher Reed Elsevier, is involved in the arms trade here is a site that records all the nessc info
one of two drawings of cock sucking, in a bathroom in college station, aside from being great drawings (concise, with an economy of form, an exquistlely light touch, ), they gave me an insight into warhol--what i assumed was a cocteau lightness, in his early line drawings, was really bathroom wall cribbing, or maybe the gentleman who did these drawings (some of the best art i saw in TO), was fond of both cocteau and warhol...
here is a great cocteau:
linked cause it wont let me just put it up here
here is a great warhol:
see how the lines are so similar?
is there a homosexual line?
Monday, September 04, 2006
Sunday, September 03, 2006
follow up to toronto
call ashley
blog
coordianate qoutes on kurelek
email lorna's contacts, about deer, and with blog etc
respond to ruscha/deer work ive found
un pack
laundry
email david, thanks, and the list
email michael apologies
chesney edits
email left hip, pitch snider and the aussie
write those two
call list for wk (veronica at corpus christi, av issacs, the city hall, winnipeg art gallery, niagra follow up)
find the second cd
burn coleman
research flickr books, find works, make them, send to ann
ukala (photos/writing)
roger for dear
poptimist podcad
figure out banff
torontoist interview
call ashley
blog
coordianate qoutes on kurelek
email lorna's contacts, about deer, and with blog etc
respond to ruscha/deer work ive found
un pack
laundry
email david, thanks, and the list
email michael apologies
chesney edits
email left hip, pitch snider and the aussie
write those two
call list for wk (veronica at corpus christi, av issacs, the city hall, winnipeg art gallery, niagra follow up)
find the second cd
burn coleman
research flickr books, find works, make them, send to ann
ukala (photos/writing)
roger for dear
poptimist podcad
figure out banff
torontoist interview
Saturday, September 02, 2006
1300 dollars gets you hundreds of liters of juice, 30 books, 12 comics, 10 magazines, 8 cds, 8 day passes, 6 trips to star bucks, 5 nights of drinks out with various friends, 4 cab rides, one movie (with popcorn and drinks), one art print, and one trip to niagra falls (5 meals, three cab rides, train ticket, hostel bed, trip on the giant ferris wheel, etc)
(also 5 shirts, one sweater, and other incedentals)
so i spent too much money, but i think it might have been worth it
(also 5 shirts, one sweater, and other incedentals)
so i spent too much money, but i think it might have been worth it
Friday, September 01, 2006
reading, seeing pictures, and considering alex katz in relation to his wife ada, is something that seems so blaringingly obvious that its a wonder no one considered it before...there a retrospective of the paintings from 1950s to now, at the jewish musuems in nyc this fall, and seeing the work from the early 60s, there is a painterly lovliness, devoted to the formal notes of clothing,the odd detail of hat, coat, jewellery, that is so lovely, so pretty, that it makes me reconsider katz all over again
(esp ada in pillbox from 63, with a lemon yellow coat, a ochre hat with a red band, and her black hair. pale skin, makes her look autunumal and graveful and a little down market, a simualacra of jackie
(speaking of jackie, remind me to talk about gender, paint qaulity, strokes, negation, and printing mistakes in 16 jackies, silver disaster, troy donahue, and also the doubling, colour choice, etc in the elvis canvases, from cronenbergs andy show)
(esp ada in pillbox from 63, with a lemon yellow coat, a ochre hat with a red band, and her black hair. pale skin, makes her look autunumal and graveful and a little down market, a simualacra of jackie
(speaking of jackie, remind me to talk about gender, paint qaulity, strokes, negation, and printing mistakes in 16 jackies, silver disaster, troy donahue, and also the doubling, colour choice, etc in the elvis canvases, from cronenbergs andy show)
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