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M83 — Wait

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:33:07 -0400

M83 — Wait

"From the moment he laid back and made it clear I was to straddle him, I wanted to go completely..."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:08:08 -0400

“From the moment he laid back and made it clear I was to straddle him, I wanted to go completely away. Instead I gripped the tightly pleated curtain above the headboard with my fingers still wet from lube and felt almost pleased at making it dirty, which is unlike me. But immediately I felt I could picture all the other paid women before me who’d touched this fabric with their slippery hands, in this storied hotel in this massive city, women who’d liked it or not liked it and who eventually left the hotel room and then left the building, and gone home to their lives, and I felt so close to them that it lifted me. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase before, but it lifted me up, it lifted me out. It sustained me for as long as it could in a tolerable place.”

- One Wing

Grouper — Stuck

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:49 -0400

Grouper — Stuck

sexisnottheenemy: Cidy Souza & Alex B. By Talkingdrum, 2010...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:57:13 -0400

sexisnottheenemy:

Cidy Souza & Alex B. By Talkingdrum, 2010 (via androphilia)

I reviewed Swoon for BookForum. The author stopped by to helpfully point out that I’m a...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:32:11 -0500

I reviewed Swoon for BookForum. The author stopped by to helpfully point out that I’m a prostitute.

Grimes — Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:47:50 -0500

Grimes — Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)

Eikoh Hosoe, Bee and Woman (1964)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:45:42 -0500

Eikoh Hosoe, Bee and Woman (1964)

britticisms: (via bremser) Shōmei Tōmatsu, Young Boys, the Sun,...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:23:54 -0500

britticisms: (via bremser)

Shōmei Tōmatsu, Young Boys, the Sun, the Sea, and I, Shikine Island, Japan, 1969

"I stayed quiet because I was becoming strongly angry, teenage angry, even, like I’d been personally..."

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:31:27 -0500

“I stayed quiet because I was becoming strongly angry, teenage angry, even, like I’d been personally slighted. It was almost out of my control when I blurted, ‘It doesn’t interest me.’
‘What doesn’t?’ He said, and that made me angry too, because I thought he should have been there with me, thinking like I was thinking.
‘Rehashing my life. Telling “my story.” I would have to talk about how I got started and…. It doesn’t interest me at all. I can’t think of anything more boring.’ I could barely speak for all the anger gathering. Sick of the suggestion that I should purposefully spread out my tired history, which I know so well, for palatable consumption and probably sick too of knowing it all the time, the way everyone knows their own history in every waking moment, like a scent you think you’ve gotten used to just before you catch a whiff of it again.”

- By The Time You Read This

Superstar — Nina Nastasia

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:56:11 -0500

Superstar — Nina Nastasia

fluffed: Janna Watson.

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:55:07 -0500

fluffed: Janna Watson.

"On the first night, without flourish, he gathered my hair in his hands and held it to his nose. And..."

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:16:51 -0400

“On the first night, without flourish, he gathered my hair in his hands and held it to his nose. And when we notched our bodies together before sleep, he kissed my shoulder quickly and lightly many times, the kiss of a man overwhelmed with sweetness, cherishing the feeling of being full. It’s almost audible, that swell of emotion, the wave that seizes up everything nearby. He did it just as my boyfriend does on nights when he loves me the most, so I thought of my boyfriend and I simultaneously thought of him, the man I was with, and whether I should feel torn or guilty or awkward were considerations that melted before they could surface.”

- Myth

Charlotte Martin — Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:40:34 -0400

Charlotte Martin — Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town (Pearl Jam cover)

fette: Screen capture from Taxi Driver, directed by Martin...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:22:24 -0400

fette:

Screen capture from Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, 1976. Via.

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Those who fight for the right of every madman and every criminal to have as many people-killing weapons as they want share moral responsibility for what happened last night—as they will when it happens again. And it will happen again. (…)

The horror is touched, inflected, by the way that the killings now intertwine with the everyday details of our lives. The killings will go on; the cell phones in the pockets of dead children will continue to ring; and now parents can be a little frightened every time their kids go to a midnight screening of a movie designed to show them what stylized fun violence can be, in the hands of the right American moviemaker. Of course, there have been shootings at school, too. We’re a nation of special effects.

Adam Gopnik, One More Massacre, for the New Yorker, July 2012.

"Immediately after, he pressed into her heavily, letting his full weight rest. The mattress felt old...."

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:33:22 -0400

“Immediately after, he pressed into her heavily, letting his full weight rest. The mattress felt old. Not dirty but used by the same body for years. A bed long in the family. She turned her head only slightly toward him. His face was buried in the pillow. She knew his eyes would be closed but hers were still open. She turned a little further, testing him. She placed her lips against his ear. She felt his ribs gather together when he exhaled.”

- From “End Comes Too Soon” which is a love story, but not the one it seems to be at first.

End Come Too Soon — Wild Beasts (The story’s namesake.)

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:25:36 -0400

End Come Too Soon — Wild Beasts

(The story’s namesake.)

It was a honor to work on this project and I am grateful...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:02:00 -0400

It was a honor to work on this project and I am grateful to fette for the invitation to do so. I am trepidatiously proud of and happy with the writing it yielded (from me.)

La Logique Assassinée.
A collaboration between Fette Sans, Sasha Frere-Jones, Charlotte Shane, Jennifer Fuchs, Tommy Smith, and Leah Dieterich.

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Please join us for the opening: Friday, June 22nd at from 7 pm to 10 pm.
INFERNOESQUE, Heidestrasse 46-52, Berlin.

The exercise began when Berlin based photographer Fette Sans sent out a series of five photographs to five writers working with the English language and based internationally. Each invitee had to commence a text inspired by the images. When the writers were partially finished with their texts they sent them to Sans who, based on these words, then sent five new photographs to each writer to inspire the rest of their story.

At Infernoesque, each text will be presented alongside the ten photographs. A book compiling the five collaborations with a forward by Andrew Berardini will be also available to peruse.

View the work at: http://bit.ly/N2QcBF

"Of course, not all or most or even many Americans necessarily ‘hate’ the rich. The..."

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:04:48 -0400

“Of course, not all or most or even many Americans necessarily ‘hate’ the rich. The Occupy movement’s purpose was hardly to complain that rich people are bad; those who argue otherwise are being disingenuous or simply ignorant. However, the common claim that Americans are fascinated by the wealthy people and aspire to be like them, so therefore cannot dislike them, is equally foolish. As any adolescent girl blacking out the teeth of a Neutrogena-ad model can tell you, being drawn in and repulsed often happens in the same beat. We desire while we resent our desire, despise those we want to imitate.”

- From my essay on The New Inquiry, “The Ways We Don’t Talk About Wealth”

theantidote: Chance Sighting Colwyn Thomas.) thanku...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:37:14 -0400

theantidote:

Chance Sighting Colwyn Thomas.)

thanku to resoulution

And Then You — Greg Laswell and Tupac, by Mother Earth

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:34:22 -0400

And Then You — Greg Laswell and Tupac, by Mother Earth