February 2012
12 posts
The Silky Otters
have joined A.J.’s MLB Fantasy League. Twin mascots!
*I hasten to add, finding this image made me almost as gleeful as seeing A. S. Hamrah posting again at n+1.
Is Bookforum omnivore down?
Did the domain really expire?
Interns?
A New Obama Cinema? By J. Hoberman →
nybooks.com
Who is the auteur? The Hollywood Reporter revealed that two members of the spot’s Portland Oregon-based ad agency had been Obama volunteers in 2008 although it is unclear what input, in any, they had in the concept. The ad itself was directed by 36-year-old David Gordon Green, the earnest oddball regionalist (in films like All the Real Girls) turned maker of stoner action comedies (most recently Your Highness). The only personal touch would seem to be Green’s goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it’s a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington would have as its hero a silent, self-contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States. “Halftime in America” seems to be one of these presents that America gave to itself.
Alright. Having established that the Bros. Dickman also had a hand in scripting “Halftime in America,” mind truly madly blown to read that David Gordon Green directed the spot. I enjoy how Hoberman calls Green—back-handedly?—an auteur. Is Hoberman’s book out yet? The one that expands on an essay in Artforum? Readers—I am shrivelling before you. My brain. My fingers. Etc.
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Newsreel
I should list the things I felt this evening while looking at the dog:
- the unbearable lightness of being
- stoic, stiff-upper-lipped, because of the articles on the BBC in my lap
- vegetarian—it’s um an upper-class feeling; the lower middle-class can experience it, too
- shock at the misery that comes upon me like a coat, with the simplest memory, misery towards agony, it can make you stop walking and say things aloud; yesterday I said, “I can’t get this sleep right!”
- Helsinki, also a book on my table, on loan
- fury: in critique today, Pavel noted that my pieces have similarities, or are extensions of each other; in that, I know my aesthetic is consistent: I said, “I have one mode, really, and I’m always mining the same vein,” e.g., “the exilic consciousness” (also from the BBC articles): that I was stuck
- run-down from running, but I do run quickly, and a lot
- my finger tips hurt because of nail polish
The dog and I are not friends anymore.
Hungerford
Evan Bryson
- I took clips from the lectures of Amy Hungerford (reading/commenting on Pynchon, O’Connor, Robinson, and McCarthy).
- Mixed with field recordings of the stadium parking lot at Notre Dame on a cold night last week.
- Added a lot of sound f/x from Pro X at about the 45second mark for a percussive interlude.
- With some music from Nadia Sirota, Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, and Four Tet.
- & added some Funky Dineva for texture.
- To create an “environmental sound piece” for my media class.
- I don’t have a final mix yet, but I think this is at least entertaining.
- Sorry for all of the copyright infringement!
