February 2012
12 posts
Populating paintings, drawings and collages with her own doe-eyed protagonists, Ackermann repossesses feminine faces and bodies, transforming the two-dimensional surface itself into an exclusive club, where words drown out and mute glances are cast in exotic hues.
These rave boys are so clueless they wear shorts for fall, fun fur so shiny it sparkles, beanies so loose and shapeless that they’re basically bucket hats. They’re so lazy they pair their dingy off-brand trainers with sheer black dress socks left over from their sister’s wedding. They’re so skinny they can layer two button-down shirts and a sweater and still look concave. They’re so stoned they...
i don’t even know how to hear it; how to listen i’m not even sure what it sounds like i mean i know it has a sound it sounds like something i’m just not sure what what does it look like it could maybe look like anything anyway does the form- does- does how the form is familiar matter like if you know it already does that- does the version matter would a variation change your...
Mike Diana
Asher Penn Reading Room
December 2011
7 posts
Rat Press
no layout annual report
November 2011
31 posts
The way you walk, that’s me The way you talk, that’s me The way you’ve got your hair up, did you forget that’s me? And the voice in the speaker right now: that’s me And the voice in the mirror, that’s me
Arielle De Pinto Interview
A prime example of “eternal youth” and why that philosophy is a total Epic Fail.
The house had already been looted and partly burned. There were ripped posters of Qaddafi underfoot; anything with his image on it had been smashed. I came across a collection of videos, most homemade and labelled by hand. Among them I spotted “Revenge,” a 1990 action-romance starring Kevin Costner.
The Night Porter
The film was first pitched as a black Ocean’s Eleven that would pair producer/star Eddie Murphy with a who’s-who of black comic talent, and climax with a heist involving Donald Trump and the Trump Tower. Then Ben Stiller came onboard, the Trump element was abandoned, and the film became a crowd-pleasing multiracial heist comedy co-starring Murphy.
“Aren’t they beautiful?” a psychiatrist and playwright from Jerusalem asked me, of such girls. “Pure faith mixed with youth. It’s the most erotic thing.”
