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Maggie Dunlap Various, 2022-2024
‘In 2014 I had an office job where I managed social media accounts and wrote copy for an estate agent in Aberdeen, Scotland. The job was underpaid but okay overall, mercifully allowing me to work with headphones which sounded great at first but very quickly caused me to develop a hatred for almost every form of music I could think of. Eventually I started just listening to podcasts instead, finding my spike in headphone-time coming almost in unison with the first episodes of Serial – the series often cited as bringing the boom in True Crime media into the mainstream. In spite of the show’s enormous popularity, listening to descriptions of graphic violence whilst tapping away at a corporate Facebook account in an identikit office felt surreal, especially when the genre’s enormous popularity meant that shows like Casefile – with a significantly darker, less journalistic approach, found their way onto the apple podcast charts. Something that should have felt deviant – listening to graphic depictions of murder, sexual violence, kidnapping and torture – could no longer, millions of people worldwide were doing the same thing. As the phenomenon has grown, an interest in True Crime media has entirely transcended subculture. Viewers have no further interest in transgressive or violent media beyond the genre, maintaining entirely mainstream media diets – the very real murders becoming just another piece of reality television.’
Dead Body Found in Warehouse, 2022
Teenage Murders, 2024
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King Cobra/Doreen Lynette Garner White Bread, 2021
bamboo, resin clay, hair weave, acrylic, silicone, tattoo ink
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Stewart Uoo No Sex, No City: Samantha II, 2013
Polyurethane resin, epoxy, ink, pigment, acrylic paint, wires, cables, clothing, accessories, ferrofluid, razor wire, steel, feathers, human and synthetic hair, makeup, glitter, synthetic eyelashes, maggot cocoons, flies, dust, and other materials
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Agnes Questionmark Attempt 1, Attempt 2, Attempt 3 (2023)
‘In Attempt I performed last year at Mimosa House in London, she became a pregnant being participating in a failed birth. In her most recent Attempt, performed for KÖNIG GALERIE in Milan’s STUDIO STXDYOZ in December, she lies on an operating table as metal machinery constrains her and a doctor opens her insides. “I call them Attempts because as an artist, I’m attempting to reach this new evolution of the human being, and I still don’t know what it may be.”’
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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Killing Machine, 2020
‘In an automated ballet of robotics, props, light, and sound, Cardiff and Miller’s The Killing Machine operates on an unseen, imagined victim. You may activate it by pushing the red button labeled “press here.”’
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Anantaphoto Amazingly gore Christ, 2016
‘My work can not be used for personal or commercial purposes.’
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Nguyễn Duy Mạnh Phách Lạc (Lost Spirits) I, table no.1, 2018-2023
‘Phách Lạc (Lost Spirits)’ is a bullet-pocked table-setting for six, a suite of ‘blue-ware’ style ceramic crockery (in Vietnamese known as the Chu Đậu style) viscerally flayed, like skin, revealing bleeding incisions of deep red. On one plate the auspicious dragon has become a vulgar noodle dish; the phoenix (the incarnation of a woman in Vietnam) is served as a wrinkled skin; a classic vase is presented as bone marrow; while the traditional bánh cuốn (Vietnamese rolled crepe) is made from the skinned surface of the actual plate.’
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Hermann Nitsch 66th Painting Action, 2013
‘Regarded as a major artist in the Viennese Actionism movement, which he co-founded, Hermann Nitsch was born in Vienna in 1938 and died in April 2022 in Mistelbach, where he lived and worked. Internationally acknowledged as the master of Austrian performance art, the artist produced a powerfully expressive body of work, borrowing from religious dramaturgy to develop a total art that culminated each year from the 1950s onwards in his “Orgien Mysterien Theater”, when he invited friends and the public to six days of uninterrupted festivities and performances.’
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Mire Lee The Milk of Dreams, 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams (2022) resembles organs entangled in machinery. As the machinery turns, the organs spill out, conveying a sense of something visceral and painful happening at once.’
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Shahnama of Muhammad Juki Buzhan Slays Human, 1440s
paint on wood
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Anish Kapoor The Unremembered, 2020
Steel, canvas, silicone, paint
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Rick Melton Various, 2011-20121
‘Come in out of the rain, shake off those brollies and prepare yourselves for a hair-raising tour of my most spectacular, spooky and downright sleazy artworks!’
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Zoe Leonard Beaver Guts, 1998
Gelatin silver print
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‘Some artists use paint, maybe some brushes, but not Butcher Bob. Butcher Bob has been a Butcher his entire life, but in 2013, he decided to use his profession as a butcher as his inspiration as an artist. He said, this is painting, but with his own twist. “In 2013, I felt like I wanted to start painting with the blood. I just felt like that’s something I wanted to do. I went to Hobby lobby, I bought some canvases and came back to the butcher shop. But my beef that I had Butcher that day and save the blood and I just started finger painting with blood.” saidRobert “Butcher Bob” Long, Animal Blood Finger Painter.” Butcher Bob claims he is the only person in the world finger painting with animal blood as a butcher. He was joking around saying, his art wouldn’t be the same with a brush and paint. He said everyone has their hobbies, and this is his. “It’s just whatever , it’s whatever I feel inside me I put on canvas with my hands on the blood and I love doing this. Everyone’s got their hobbies people like fishing golfing whatever I love finger painting with blood.” said Butcher Bob.”‘
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Nancy Spero Homage to Ana Mendieta, 2004
‘Spero decided to make a spontaneous and improvised homage to Mendieta. Ink the colour of blood was mixed up in a bowl, and from the artist’s memory of the Franklin Furnace performance which she recalls as being ‘powerful and tremendous’, she directed one of her assistants to retrace the marks that Mendieta’s body had left on the paper, this time down the surface of a white wall.’
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David Černý Art Robbery, 2011
‘I came up with this action movie scene in which robbers steal art from the pavilion. It’s not just some specific work of work, but art in general. Except that’s hard to explain to someone who sees paintings only as aesthetics. But everybody understands the virtual world of film. I wanted to indicate that contemporary art is being crushed by film and television media.’
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Suzzan Blac Your Suffering is Real, 2019
oil
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Wong Keen A Butcher’s Place, Pig (2018)
‘What becomes immediately indisputable upon any first encounter with Wong Keen is the dedication to his artistic cause. Strong sentiments of eagerness surround the manner in which he talks about his craft, and at 76, he shows no signs of stopping. Huai Seng Chong, co-founder of The Culture Story states how “At 76, most artists would be ready to hang up their boots, but Wong Keen is still building and exploring new frontiers. This is a sign of him as a strong artist.”’
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Jane Howarth Bonne Bouche, 2012
Taxidermied seagull with pearl innards
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Doreen Garner Removing the Veil: Vanity as Material for Incision, 2016
‘Garner has named incision as her guiding sculptural gesture, and thus she’s cleaved, refashioned, and re-fastened female body parts, exploiting them to the limits of their material aesthetic potential. Such literal objectification threads beauty, value, and utility, and each work presents a different angle of the purgatory they combine to create.’
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Francesco Albano The Taste – The Count of Monte Cristo, 2014
‘Francesco Albano’s human body sculptures drip, melt, hang, and often appear to be boneless – even the work primarily featuring bones is distorted and lumpy. Working with wax, polyester, latex, iron, and other materials, Albano sculpts shapes and contortions that render the erect and boundaried body flaccid and grotesque.’
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Yoshihiro Nishimura Tokyo Gore Police, 2008
‘When a crazed scientist called Key Man develops a virus that causes humans to mutate, samurai sword-wielding cop Ruka is called in to annihilate the unnatural creatures.’
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p.s. Hey. ** Jules, Hi, Jules. Coincidence upon coincidence. My only copy of ‘Sure Fire’ is on VHS, which doesn’t do me much good. Your show sounds plenty exciting. And complicated to perform? Wow. It’s probably not something a video document could do justice to, I’m imagining, but do try to film it if it’s easy. Like Nevada, haha, but with actual foliage and without overly moist sunlight, I’m picturing. You know Yucca Valley. It was interesting to film there. But we were there for two months, basically in one spot, and there were lots of far right survivalist types and meth heads hovering around in the menacing distance. But, yes, interesting even more so, I guess. I hope your weekend panned way out. ** Steve, Okay, thanks to your alert and your impending tune, I intend to be uncharacteristically aware of Bandcamp Friday this month. How is ‘Sinners’? I’m strangely very curious about it. My weekend was A-okay. That Albert Serra bullfighting documentary is quite good although about 25 minutes too long and pretty brutal if you care about the lives of animals. ** Carsten, Hey. That period of Jost — the three films starring Tom Blair — are especially excellent. Oh, on the post, you can put it altogether in, say, a Google doc, or you can lay it out in a Word doc or that sort of thing indicating in the text where any pix or videos or links go, and I can put them in, but you’ll need to send me the photos as email attachments. Or those are the usual ways, there could be others. Thanks, pal. ** jay, Hi, j. I’ve actually seen ‘Demonlover’. Yeah, it’s quite interesting, and I remember that section particularly. Assayas is an interesting director, kind of uneven, but sometimes really good. I recommend ‘Irma Vep’ if you haven’t seen it. Video game structure has been a really big influence on my fiction and how I try to make fiction/wordage work in a similarly labyrinthine, completed directed way while giving the semi-illusion of freedom of movement. So, yes. Visual novel suggestions … let me think about that. I think I must have some ideas. I hope your week’s start has a lovely sparkle to it. ** Steeqhen, I suspect you really needed that sleep, and no doubt you’ll catch up. ** Poecilia, Hi. My notion of the sigil came from Chaos Magick, and especially the Peter Carroll variant, which a friend (model for the character ‘Luke’) was obsessively into at the time. Well, for sure say hi if you come to Paris. Where can I/we see your fiction? What are you working on thereby? ** Nicholas., The pics of the French pizza were not raunchy, which is, yes, an ominous sign. Yep, that was my concept and hope — all those unsuspecting sigil receivers/activators. It didn’t work all that well, though, as far as I can tell. ** Thomas H., My pleasure, Mr H. I don’t know a single one of those books you accrued, unsurprisingly, I guess. Let me know if any of them thrill you. There really should be a bookstore equivalent of Record Store Day with ltd. ed. releases and reprints and stuff. I’m kind of surprised no enterprising book person has gotten that going. Weekend was pleasant enough. Now let’s see what the week has in store for us both. ** scunnard, I wish you all the luck in the whole word with that Crowdfunder. I’ll pass the word along as best I can. Have you thought about having an IRL local benefit/auction event or something? Artists donating works and people donating rarities that they can live without? ** _Black_Acrylic, So how did Nick do? Any colourful anecdotes? ** catachrestic, Sorry for the roughness man. Those rough weekends do happen. Better than rough weeks maybe. Wealthy cultural people in the US only want to spread their money around to institutions basically, museums that’ll name a wing after them and so on. Zac and I lived that first hand when we were trying to raise money for ‘Room Temperature’, and the people we approached who had vast amounts of money and who seemed like the most likely people to help us always had some excuse. ‘Cash flow problem’, ‘already filed my taxes so I couldn’t write off a donation, sorry’, … It’s grotesque. Lynch, right, and John Waters was trying to make a new film for ages, and no one would pony up with the money. I don’t even understand the world where that could happen. Prose-wise, I think ‘Juliette’ is probably the best Sade work by far. ** HaRpEr, Hi. Mm, by ‘fucked up’ what did I mean? I think I meant that it was considered his weirdest or least ‘successful’ novel, his most experimental one, and I do remember it being kind of a mess, but a riveting mess, and I’ll take an exciting mess over refined gamesmanship any day maybe. I should look at it again. “The Rainbow Stories’ is very good, my favorite of his. Franzen is sort of the Christopher Nolan of novelists, and that’s being very flattering to him. ‘Three Hundred Million’, on the other hand, is great! Blake Butler, now there’s a fantastic novelist right there. I’m starting to suspect that I’m not going to make it to London in time to see the Leigh Bowery show, which is very sad. Let me know when you’ve seen it. Yeah, wtf on the anti-trans stuff in the UK right now?! I don’t know nearly enough about British politics to venture an opinion, but I’m kind of very surprised that this is happen with a Labour government. As wishy-washy as the Democratic party in the US is, I do, I guess, see parallels between Labour and the Democrats, and I can’t imagine that kind of law being enacted with a Democratic government in charge. But I don’t know. What total insanity! ** Okay. I strongly suspect that today’s post is self-explanatory. See you tomorrow.
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Gore is always a winning subject for whatever medium. You seen Inside, the 2007 New French Exremism movie? That would be among my favourite recent examples, with a great performance by a blood-soaked Beatrice Dalle.
Nick’s experience in yesterday’s London Marathon was not really all that great. 2.49 was his time, which seems to me pretty good but was not quite what he was aiming for. Says it was too hot on the day so he suffered in the 2nd half. Still, what a hero!
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Ah, I love this post (no surprises there, I guess)! As much as I hate the idea of butchering, Butcher Bob’s paintings look quite great – at least the up-close bits. I also really like Jane Howarth’s and Francesco Albano’s pieces. Thank you!
I’ve never eaten Pop-Tarts, but I found a “sugar shop” nearby that has quite a wide selection of foreign, mostly US, sweets, so I’ll check if they have them – especially the flavors you listed! I’ll report back!
How was your weekend? Ours went just as planned, which is always a good thing in my books. Deep conversations, long walks with our dog – all the good stuff.
I had to check what the British one-pound coin looks like, and I have to agree – it’s quite aesthetically pleasing. Not like euros, which look like toy money.
Love naming his band Gore, only to find out the name’s already taken, Od.
I won’t need to lob a ceremonial heathen votive pebble at you, true, I could say hi because you’re actually real.
But I hope you never do see my fiction. They’re plotty, heavily reference Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, take the general vibe from my extensive collection of Celtic rock albums…it’s genre-compliant slop that aims no higher than to kill the reader’s boredom for however long it takes to read (after which I hope it’s instantly forgotten,) and worst of all I like it that way.
i’m sold, where can i read your fiction?
aw, shucks thnx. no 🫀
Well now, what timing… left Spain yesterday with a heavy heart & today they got a massive power outage. The Spanish power grid is notoriously fragile, but this smells fishy. Apparently they’re already looking into the possibility of a hacker attack.
Re. Ethnopoetics day: cool, I’ll set it up as a Google Doc.
One more thing about smoking: how do you make it through those 12 hour flights? I haven’t been on anything longer than 4 hours in a decade, but at some point I do want to combine another Mexico pilgrimage with visiting friends in LA. I had spinal surgery 5 years ago (long story) so that flight would be torture enough, but not smoking on top of it has been quite the turn-off so far.
Have you seen Luca Guadagnino’s Queer? One recent film I’m actually curious about, mainly because I quite dug his A Bigger Splash & more recently Bones & All. I wonder how he does Burroughs.
Hey Dennis,
Some good gore here.
I’m not sure if I found my inner squirrel but I’ll let you know if and when I do.
You’re basically right about Spanish food. It’s a lot of meat and fish. Although we did have a green almond salad and some rasin ice cream with sherry, which was all delicious.
I’m on the same page as you about Faulkner. I think he’s great but he doesn’t loom large in my mind.
My jonesing to go to LA (I’ve never been) has flared up again so I ordered “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis to scratch the itch. I’m really hoping to make to make it to California within the next couple of years.
I hope your weekend was fruitful and you had a good time with Maryse. I just looked up her work – it seems up my alley.
Also, I’ve just made up my mind to come to Paris for a few days in July. I’d love to get coffee and hang out again if you’re up for it. We can see how we’re set closer to the time.
Ciao my friend,
James x
Hey Dennis,
Sat in the library working on the dissertation. The reading yesterday went well, though I’m always a bit flustered reading. Been doing more reading than writing than I’d like, it’s making me a bit nervous about my ability to complete this…
Ok on the bus home and able to think again
I’m a big fan of gore (no surprise considering the owner of this blog haha), Tokyo Gore Police looks right up my alley. I also love those “Teenage Murder” photos; that type of digital camera candid look is my favourite, it reminds me of how I dream and how much that shit terrifies me in my sleep. Phách Lạc (Lost Spirits) also enthralls me, wow that is gorgeous. Do you think if I bit into it, it would compress between my teeth and slide out like a burger, or shatter?
I re-read I Wished today to take notes, plus went through that one book on you be Leora Lev, primarily for that Gluck interview though also for some academic writing on you. I was a bit scared to look at those because I came up with some good shit and part of me was scared that I’d find that it’s all just already out there, but so far most of what I’ve read is a lot more metaphorical or reading into your stuff than what I’m doing, which is looking at the form structure content and narrative in chapter 2, then discussing my reasoning for why you wrote it that way.
I’m hoping that I can email you a pretty finished draft either tomorrow or Wednesday, though at this point should I just wait until the final product is submitted?
Despite my fatigue and excessive consumption of books, and my desire to just be finished college, I feel so invigorated by re-reading your work and writing about it. I guess one of the big parts in my conclusion is about influence and the impact of the transgressive and how important that is; how the whole reason I’m writing this dissertation is because of your work and how it’s so disturbing and raw and upsetting and deeply thought-provoking. A bit cheesy but I feel like it needed to be said in it!
I’m already planning the shows I need to watch, the games I need to play, the guys I need to sleep with, the places I need to go… all once I’m finished this week!!!
I’m in Paris Sat-Tue. You around?
Hey Dennis ! Hey lovelies ! Fabulous to have typed in the URL and found the blog back after the hiatus ! How is everything with the film ! I hope there’ll be a UK showing !
I just got a new job ! It’s as a cleaner in a restaurant ! I did my trail shift the other day and they were like “you’re shit at sweeping and mopping but I’ve never seen anyone as enthusiastic about cleaning before” I’m up at 6, but I finish at 10 so I’ve got the whole day.
Also! Means I have disposable income again, so I bought Marbled Swarm – excited to read !
On Friday, I went to a reading of Solemates: A History of Our Fetish For Feet- Saturday, a punk gig- Sunday, a PowerPoint party.
My friends presented PowerPoints on; a period of prehistory I can’t remember the name of, strange experiences cleaning rich people’s houses, working as an engineer, and a 20th century trans male polish poet- I didn’t present but my friends asked that next time I did a presentation on the Dennis Cooper blog (not that I’m necessarily the expert) but if you want to say anything to a hypothetical future room of my friends staring at a projector screen, here’s your chance
Oh ! Also – I released BLU-V, the little short story pamphlet with the Blue Raspberry Flavoured Rent Boy. If anyone’s in Glasgow, jump in to Category Is to grab a copy for 2.50. I thought the blog would enjoy it, so I scanned it and uploaded it to Internet Archive for yous to have a wee vada-
https://archive.org/details/blu-v-uncommon-senses
Shit, wait, wrong link – this is the one: https://archive.org/details/blu-v-uncommon-senses
Nvm actually, link ain’t working :/
https://archive.org/details/@diesel_clementine/uploads
Ah ! This works ! ^
Ooh, Tokyo Gore Police, I vaguely remember seeing that film ages ago, mostly because it had Eihi Shiina in it. Maggie Dunlap is an artist my (hopefully) future flatmate is really big into, so it’s cool to see her here. I actually hadn’t noticed Demonlover was by Assayas – the only other thing I’ve seen by him is “Personal Shopper”, which hasn’t really stuck in my memory, but “Irma Vep” looks interesting, I’ll definitely check that out.
Long all-nighter tonight for work for me, then my final submission at 3 tomorrow. I’m all on track for it, but wow. 3 years of work ending tonight, scary! Anyway, for the day after that, one of my friends is planning to watch all of an anime I’m a huge fan of, so that’s a nice short term pleasure to moderate the huge-scale relief that comes with finishing uni.
Okay, that explanation made a lot of sense. I’ve never really understood what you meant by your writing being videogame structured, but that makes a lot of sense. Hope all’s good on your end,
Hey!!! I don’t know if you’ll see this but woah, we both have assignments due at the same time and I remembered you told me you wanted to read my dissertation, so I sent you the pdf and a message through the ko-if messaging part. As I say there, I’d love to reciprocate and read yours if you were interested in sharing it, I understand if not.
Hope everything is turning out well with your assignment xox
Oh, thank you so much, I can’t wait to read your dissertation, at least when I’m more alert. Once I’m totally done with mine, sure, you’re more than welcome to read it – although it’s very much just a dry science paper. Reading your “abstract” (I agree, bizarre to make you do that for a piece of fiction!) it looks incredibly interesting, so I can’t wait to read it tomorrow. Congrats on finishing that, and thank you so much for reaching out! Cya.
It’s been over a week; for some reason this blog updates in other browsers but not Firefox, which incidentally is the only one I have open? Anyways, yeah it’s just a restaurant, I guess I say “store” or “shop” because most people don’t eat there, they pick up and take home. It’s also sandwiches, pasta, calzones, and one day a week, “krautburgers”. I don’t know if you know what this is, it’s a very middle American white person type thing with sauerkraut and hamburger cooked into bread like a calzone, super gross honestly but people love it.
Tokyo Gore Police was a favorite film of mine in high school! I haven’t watched it in over a decade but I remember it well. I really love the Robocop style commercial breaks, especially the one for Wrist Cutter G, a little pastel device designed for teenage girls to cut their wrists with. Also there’s one that’s like a Wii game where waving around the remotes controls a real device cutting up a body, something like that? Machine Girl from that same time, I remember liking but not as much. Robogeisha I remember being funny but not really worth it.
Hey, Dennis! How are you? Very, very nice post today. It made me remember of a movie that I’ve watched recently called ‘In The Dark’. It was never officially released anywhere, but it’s available to watch on YouTube. It’s inspired by a Richard Leymon book, apparently. It’s really good, and very you I think.
I didn’t do much after I came from São Paulo. I’m starting to study Kabbalah out of curiosity and I’m with a project of making illustrations for Tarot cards. I’m also reading ‘No Longer Human’, which is nice. And I’m watching a great Brazilian Soap Opera called ‘Vale Tudo’… 80s social climbing story. Really great! There a lot of things I don’t like about Brazilian audiovisual industry, but soap operas is not one of them. Do you know any Brazilian movies you like?
Anyway, I just wanted to show you this drawing I made using a pic I found on the escorts list. It flopped, compared to the others, but I liked it. It’s ‘cult’ now, I guess
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJAXPq2ttf2/?igsh=MXhsaGJwd2hnZGcwZg==
Hey. Gaah, a stressful couple of hours. Two assignments are due in tomorrow morning. The dissertation / novel fragment and another one which is a portfolio of poems and stuff. Anyway, they are handed in now so that’s a big load taken off for sure.
If you want my take about why the labour government is really transphobic it’s because there are all of these TERFS in the UK who are basically ex-feminists who became biological essentialists for some reason. I could try to explain why but I think I’d combust. But anyway, the Labour Party is turning into the Democratic Party in America, so they basically don’t have a spine and go out of their way to pander to the loudest people in the room, which in this case is a load of mentally deranged gas leak victims hallucinating enemies to blame for their misfortunes. And by pandering to these people they are effectively making it impossible for trans people to exist here.
‘Three Hundred Million’ is indeed amazing. I love that whole thing with characters who may or may not turn out to be other characters and maybe someone doesn’t actually exist or something. Not in the cliched ‘Fight Club’ way with the obvious foreshadowing but in a completely illogical way that exposes that words are just pools of ink made to look like things you may or may not recognise and the author can manipulate you and show you one thing and give you another and that a character name doesn’t even necessarily refer to a person but something cloaked with the idea of a person. I guess what it may come down to is that I like when an author plays with what a reader may or may not recognise linguistically.
I’d say a lot of your books have the kind of quality I’m talking about. ‘The Marbled Swarm’, ‘Period’ and ‘The Sluts’ come to mind first.
I watched that film ‘A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking’. It’s so much fun! So many great people packed within a celluloid box. Gary Indiana, Cookie Mueller, Jackie Curtis(!!!) and Taylor Mead is so so great as the Capote caricature. A lot of great lines too.
I’m too disturbed by violence against animals to find AFTERNOON OF SOLITUDE watchable.
My article on Prismatic Ground came out today: https://gaycitynews.com/queer-experimentation-with-non-fiction-at-the-2025-prismatic-ground-film-festival/. The Fakir Musafar documentary almost fits this day – not much gore per se, but lots of images of hooks going through tender body parts.
I was barely able to stay awake through SINNERS, by no fault of its own. I did enjoy what I saw, but I was just exhausted yesterday. When it comes to Max, I’ll probably watch it again. (I feel a lot better today.)
The hospital called me today. They will contact a funeral home, give them my name and number, and have them get back to me.
*Poof* Gore day yum! Righty ominus but that may equally tasty too im holding on to hope. This may be harder than I propose but the sigil may not have taken fully effect due to you not forgetting it yet. Then I believe it may all kick in which is actually easy cause its a book you made and it exists so you may want to try filing it out of your mind and all that engagement may rebound to you now, time isn’t as linear as we may perceive it. Its all a matter of perspective from what ive discovered. short one today im sort of tired brrb and ttylxox!
What a lot of great artists today! I appreciate the inclusion of moldy bread among the more stereotypically gory things, as well as the sympathy re: the rough week. I ended up clearing all the hurdles to qualify to do the same thing next week, so that’s great, but there’s not much of me left right now. This isn’t quite gore, but I was thinking about Claude Shannon today, the guy who came up with the concept of “bits,” otherwise known as the idea that all information can be broken down into ones and zeroes that underpins…well, the internet and almost everything else these days. I learned that he battled Alzheimer’s in his later years which struck at a really deep fear of mine insofar as I used to like to tell myself I’d just keep up with my interests and reading and such and stave off that type of decline when I get old. Well, who was sharper in his prime than that guy? A long time ago, on TV, I saw a section of a TV show or movie or something where it was about a woman in the process of realizing she’s coming down with Alzheimer’s, like she gets a call from her doctor and starts to piece together what her increasingly elaborate note-taking system means in terms of her declining capacity to remember things, and it really stuck with me somehow. It occurred to me that this is related to gore as a kind of horror in between the famously gory “body horror” genre and that of “psychological horror,” having elements of both but not really belonging to either. The fear of losing one’s mind due to physical processes outside of one’s control. Seems like something could be done with that. Of course, there would be questions of tastefulness, but when has that ever held back the vanguard of horror filmmakers? Anyway, to segue back from this grim digression, I think my favorite of the pieces today is the Vietnamese table setting.