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through a cloud
no i didnt die.sometimes i dont get beyond the dozen or so characters of fb.
i found this image of an old work w text i stole from denton welch's 'a voice through a cloud'. I thought to scan it to show michael stevens whose 'the road to interzone:reading william s. burroughs reading' is a must-read for any wsb aficionado.
burroughs was a huge fan of denton welch, attested by stevens' terrific book.
'housewives sold ice as chicken'
'housewives sold ice as chicken' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009
'appalling film star on holiday'
'appalling film star on holiday'' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009
united states of influenza
influenza is a beautiful word.
I had my vaccination against the american influenza.They say i fit the profile.
The shot cost me nothing but still i paid fiftyfive dollars for the doctor.
If i had seen that coming i would have requested a script for valium or something.
Amid a newwave of heatwaves,the start of a summer of heat and smoke,the end of seemingly endless assessments i have been promoted.
Heat and smoke have quickly become our new national shudder..the new funnelweb spider,the new eastern brown snake, the new six metre shark.
ballad of you and me and pooneil..and cover of after bathing at baxters
bury my body to this armadillo
wee preview and taken by trees
snap of a couple of bits of some new works on paper that owe their colour at least to the arrival of the magnificent book on paul thek and the arrival of spring and the poppies and irises in my beloved garden. Im thinking of the text as self-referential, pm is the ahem! i notice that because of the brevity of our current prime minister's name he actually gets namechecked more these days..fewer references to 'pm'..so can we have a candidate w a longer name please?
I'm loving the new taken by trees cd east of eden. taken by trees is the former concrete's singer victoria bergsman. she took herself to pakistan for this album and recorded it with local musicians. true enough it's transporting music and great for mixing colours to in the morning
my morning jacket and calexico w. yim yames
2 bands who cant do any wrong. my morning jacket despite working every rock cliche in the book always come up smelling like genius. calexico make me want to move to new mexico. these 2 clips have j(y)im j(y)ames from mmj fronting both bands. going to acupulco is of course from i'm not there,up there in my top list..dylan tops all my lists. then theres yim yames'my sweet lord george tribute
'The Road To Interzone-Reading William S. Burroughs Reading' by Michael Stevens
Review
A fascinating and richly helpful piece of literary archeology, tracing as broadly as possible the sources William Burroughs had available to him as he wrote. Both the title and the method echo the classic
Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes' excavation of Coleridge s reading: Coleridge, like Burroughs, being more than a little interested in drugs. It is a work for which all Burroughs students should be grateful. --Larry McMurtry
Michael Stevens has found the right vein, circulating raw material of the mind of visionary genius in post modern literature and art. His exhaustive compendia and matrix is like the fractal's pattern bringing similarities that could reveal whole equation. He has provided the reader with the sources of allusion, influences, critiques, and the spirit of scatological obsessions of the late William S. Burroughs, the well-read innovator, inventor, and investigator in literature, art, culture and cosmology. Ezra Pound once advised readers who thought the Cantos too obscure, to just think of them as people throughout history sitting around talking. This book allows me the conversations with Uncle Bill that I unfortunately neglected in his presence. --Charles Plymell
To scan Michael Stevens' bibliography is to dream of entering into William Burroughs' head from a new angle -- not from his writings but from his readings. You can't live Burroughs' life but you can read the books he read. You can infect yourself with the same word virus he picked up in writers ranging from Abrahamson (Crime and the Human Mind) to Yeats ( 'cast a cold eye on life, a cold eye on death...' ) Will these get you any closer to the mutations Burroughs performed on the word virus? Doubtless you'll understand the man and his work better. And perhaps, with the help of the creative reading Burroughs espoused, Road to Interzone will even put you in position to subject the same viral sources to a few new mutations of your own. --RealityStudio.org
A fascinating and richly helpful piece of literary archeology, tracing as broadly as possible the sources William Burroughs had available to him as he wrote. Both the title and the method echo the classic
Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes' excavation of Coleridge s reading: Coleridge, like Burroughs, being more than a little interested in drugs. It is a work for which all Burroughs students should be grateful. --Larry McMurtry
Michael Stevens has found the right vein, circulating raw material of the mind of visionary genius in post modern literature and art. His exhaustive compendia and matrix is like the fractal's pattern bringing similarities that could reveal whole equation. He has provided the reader with the sources of allusion, influences, critiques, and the spirit of scatological obsessions of the late William S. Burroughs, the well-read innovator, inventor, and investigator in literature, art, culture and cosmology. Ezra Pound once advised readers who thought the Cantos too obscure, to just think of them as people throughout history sitting around talking. This book allows me the conversations with Uncle Bill that I unfortunately neglected in his presence. --Charles Plymell
To scan Michael Stevens' bibliography is to dream of entering into William Burroughs' head from a new angle -- not from his writings but from his readings. You can't live Burroughs' life but you can read the books he read. You can infect yourself with the same word virus he picked up in writers ranging from Abrahamson (Crime and the Human Mind) to Yeats ( 'cast a cold eye on life, a cold eye on death...' ) Will these get you any closer to the mutations Burroughs performed on the word virus? Doubtless you'll understand the man and his work better. And perhaps, with the help of the creative reading Burroughs espoused, Road to Interzone will even put you in position to subject the same viral sources to a few new mutations of your own. --RealityStudio.org
it took me a while to warm to YACHT..
i never liked tequila when i first tasted it
or acid
or yoghurt
or sausages
or coriander/cilantro
or the smiths
or fassbinder
or richard larter
m. s. subbulakshmi bhaja govindam
m. s. subbulakshmi is my favourite singer. this video of bhaja govindam is not the best vehicle for the performance but it is a recording made in her prime.
wendy saddington and loka nunda my sweet lord
yes i know.its over the top but i love the way wendy avoids underselling a song.
collage sooth and try state magazine
its not often i 'm called a soothsayer but in the spirit of salem there's the odd occasion....the top image of mike was made a decade before i assisted his delivery as we used to say.
the antlers
as usual my new favourite cd is the same as everybody else. This has to be the best album since funerals..its a subtle masterpiece beyond my expectations of pop
herrmann not sherman
do try this at homethe amazing viennese artist matthias herrmann has produced a new book of images of his stilled performances set in the tuscan landscape.
as always, herrmann's body is the site of the self-photographed enactments of operettas of his inner life.
I'm not sure what I'd say if I came across these characters in the woods...somewhere between 'dont worry..help is on it's way' or 'help..polizei!'
They are hilarious, tragic, menacing, and erotic in hilarious, tragic menacing ways and i for one instinctly know this language perfectly well.. but that's a secret i can never tell.
He commissioned drawings of himself by artists salvador cobrero alarcon, brian kenny, zachari logan and sito mujica included here in the book.
Matthias Herrmann has been perfecting this self-referential work for more than a few decades and as far as i'm concerned he totally out-shermans cindy.. always has, always will.
toscana 3 is the third in herrmann's pocket-size italy series.
you should buy the book from printed matter.
you should buy the book from printed matter.
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