HEAT DEATH Issue 2: Borgo Lapsus
162 pp. Colour & B/W, mixed papers, perfect bound, French flaps.
ARCHITECTURE; RUIN PORN;
SICILY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SICILIAN
BAROQUE; LATIFUNDIA;
EMPTINESS; DE CHIRICO;
NECROPOLIS; IN COUNTRY;
ITALIAN FASCIST ARCHITECTURE;
PROSTITUTION; ECOLOGY;
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION;
SYMMETRY/ASYMMETRY;
ARGONAUT; BEYOND THE FRAGILE
GEOMETRY OF SPACE AND CRIME
My withdrawal from this place of administration was a performance and a penitence. In my living vestment of bees I drifted glacial as time back through the corridor, my arm painful in its frozen salute, and then out of the building’s front entrance, where I found myself at the top of a double external staircase. I looked ahead at an overgrown meadow full of wildflowers, with copses of oak and pine a short distance away, and with no further hesitation I turned left, and with meticulous care climbed down that side of the staircase. With each step more bees flew or fell from my body, my muscles relaxed and my ordinary movements returned, and when I arrived on terra firma I was confident enough to brush the remaining insects from myself and then remove my clothes one piece at a time before taking great deep euphoric breaths as I stretched and preened myself in the tall grass and then began to smile and laugh out loud.
“New Juche writes with the sun-blasted madness of D.H. Lawrence living his final days in Mexico, or as haunted amanuensis transcribing the ravaged dreams of Ezra Pound in his spotlit prison cell tucked away in the night hills of Pisa. Heat Death 2 bears the hallmarks of prophecy, and behind the scarred architecture of a man casting himself adrift lies the clarity of a warrior monk’s keenest vision. No-one is writing like this today. They simply fucking can’t. Read it!“
Philip Best (Amphetamine Sulphate)
“There is no Maslow’s Demon in New Juche’s hermetically-sealed Word Universe. The entropic march toward a complete disassembly proceeds with or without his endorsement. He’s not here to cast a judgement, but simply to record the dissolve as he’s torn apart at the seams himself. Borgo Lapsus is the next step on that pathway toward entropic equilibrium; toward a wiping clean; toward our Heat Death. Read his work, it’s brilliant.”
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p.s. Hey. So, before I get into why the blog was away for so long, I want to say how pleased I am to welcome it back by helping to welcome the new work by the great New Juche into the universe. NJ is one of the topmost sterling writers, etc. of our times, and thus I highly hope that you’ll spend this re-inaugural weekend perusing and maybe even scoring the book you see above me. Now, very long story very short, while I was away in the US, my hosting site suddenly announced that my blog was using too much memory, and they shut it down. This was followed by a bunch of back and forth until it was determined that the blog would need to be migrated to a larger server. That was supposed to take a couple of days. Ten+ days later, they finally got on the task only to tell me that the new server they chose also wasn’t big enough. More negotiating before they decided to move the blog to an even larger server. That took days and days, and working out the technical issues that came along with the migration took more days. Finally, on Thursday, I was told the blog was in its new location and wide open again. And here we are. Hopefully everything will run smoothly from here on out, but we’ll see. I’m very sorry for the unexpected delay. It was very annoying. Finally, there are 62 comments. Honestly, there’s no way I can adequately respond to so many comments in my normal fashion today. I would be brain dead before I got a third of the way through. So I’m going to respond briefly to each comment, and, if I miss a question you asked or miss something you specifically want feedback on, please restate those things starting tomorrow when presumably the comment count wil be at its usual doable length. My sincere apologies for any short-shrifting in advance. And, hey, it’s really good to ‘see’ you all again! ** James Bennett, Thanks, pal. I saw an email from you, and I’ll get to it pronto. ** jay, Hi, jay! How’s it? Right, Ethel Cain, that was an obvious miss on my part. I’ll get the Ed Atkins book, great, thank you! Look forward to catching up! ** Katie Jean Shinkle, Hi! I would love to get your new book! Write to me at my email (denniscooper72@outlook.com) or on Insta or Facebook, and I’ll give you my mailing address. Really nice to see you! ** Chris Kelso, Hey. Well, of course (on including your book). What’s the status of your film now? ** Susie Bright, Susie! The great Susie! So lovely to see you, maestro! xoxo. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben. ** Larst, Thanks, L. And for the love and peace and especially for the gnarlyness. ** Malik, Hi, Malik. I’m happy to see you mention Backxwash. I feel like that amazing album has been really overlooked. Wonderful list. I’ll pore over it. ** zach, Hey, hey, zach. I’m not hugely into painting. Or not like I am re: sculpture, installation, videos, etc. Painting is more sellable, and that’s a lot of what the art world is about. ** Alistair, Hi, A! Phil Ochs and 100 gecs in the same list! How cool is that? ** scunnard, Hi, J. Thanks, pal. Things going well on your end with your project(s)? ** Sypha, I’m literally calling Emergency Services to take me to the hospital on account of the extreme state of shock I am in at learning the Lady Gaga album is one of your year’s favorites, haha. ** Dominik, Hi!!!! Unexpectedly long time no see. How are you? What’s been happening? Thank you for the shiny ‘bests’ list. Love wishing he could do a heavy edit of those ‘two weeks’, G. ** Steve, Hi, Steve. Thank you for your lists. I’ll go over them with a fine toothed comb. My plane blockbusters weren’t a revelation although it was interesting to find out that ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ were as respectively boring and mediocre as I had imagined. ** politekid, Hi, O! Sad to catch you on a day when I have to move swiftly, so come back. Lots on your lists I want to know intimately. No, I don’t know ‘Petscop’ but I will, thanks to you. ** Justin D, Hi, JD! The States portion of my away time was very good, thanks. I’ll make notes on the things on your lists that I don’t know once I’ve hit today’s finish line and recouped a bit. I hope all’s really good with you. ** MR. OMAR KING, Hello, sir. Very happy and a no brainer to put your lovely book on my faves list. And thank you for your faves. That shirt you liked that Zac was wearing was indeed made by Michael Salerno. You could write to him and see if still has any? @ kiddiepunk.com. ** Tyler Ookami, Hey, Tyler. Thank you for your faves and of course for the links. I’ll head over to them asap. ** julian, Howdy. I’m very happy you liked ‘For Disobeying’. All’s well with you, I hope? ** PL, Hey, hey. I miss talking too. Things are good, busy, film stuff, the usual. I was very young when Nixon and my dad were close friends. I only have one memory of walking into our livingroom and seeing him sitting on a couch with Pat talking with my parents. And even that’s blurry. I hope Sao Paolo was fun. The drawing re: ‘The Sluts’ (thank you) seems to have removed or something? I met Tom of Finland once at an art opening where they were showing his drawings. He seemed nice enough. I just basically said hello. ** BimboFagDoll, Hi. Thank you. I hope you had a good vacation, so to speak, too. Great about the interview. Maybe write to me via email? denniscooper72@outlook.com. ** sasha!, Hi! So great to see you here! Well, of course, re: your book. It’s easily one of my ultra-favorites of the year. ‘“Crawlspace” by chat pile’: will do, straight away, thanks! Of course I would totally love to read your pro-wrestling novel whenever. Wow. What an amazing idea. Thanks so much for coming in here. ** lotuseatermachine, Thanks. Things with the film went really well. Thanks for the nudge on your stuff. I will. I’m a little behind as seemingly usual. Thank you a lot for your faves list. ** LQ/Lily, Hi. I’ve always been hugely into the New York School poets since I was in high school. They were very influential on me. I think there just happened to be bunch of books by or about them this year. No, I mostly see art in Paris and then wherever I happen to be traveling. Thanks a bunch. ** oliver jude, Hi, oliver. The screening went really well. Totally, there were so many self-driving taxis in SF it blew my mind. Spooky. I’m glad your LA trip went so well. With any luck, I might be able to announce a NYC screening somewhat soon. Just waiting to see if we’re lucky. ** Hugo, Hi. It was great to get to meet you in Paris. Sure, you can send me your novel. I just can be very slow, that’s what you need to know, but yes! ** Alice, And it was awesome to see you and hang out in Paris! Very cool about the games. I utterly agree re: the ones I know. Sorry to have to be in a rush today, but we can talk/catch up more vociferously next time. ** Bill, Hi, Bill! Yeah, it was so great to see you in SF, and I’m so happy you like the film. Zac was really happy to meet you. Thanks a lot for your exciting looking list. I’m going to have to wait just a bit to look through it carefully ‘cos today’s a whopper. Great! Alls well since we left? ** William, Hi. I did like the new Deerhoof, yes, but I wasn’t sure if it was a total fave, but it’s still accumulating in me, and the year is youngish. Thanks. ** Joe, Hi, Joe! And there you are right up above there. Thanks so much for giving the blog the honor. xoxo. ** Carsten, Hey, man. It’s not bad form to ask, no. I saw Neil Young live the other day. It was great. It was like experiencing something from another time. It was very interesting. ** HaRpEr //, Hi, HaRpEr //!!! The US/traveling part of my time away was very good, thanks. And the summer hasn’t been too, too brutal since I’ve been back. Yet, obviously. ‘Castration Movie’ played at the same festival we were at in SF, and it won the Audience Award for best film. Wild. I’ll go check your list once I’m finished scurrying through the big comments pile. Thank you! Great to see you! ** Nicholas., If there’s anyone who needs a *poof* return today, it’s probably me. I’ll check your site. Everyone, Nicholas. has updated his site Closed Practice, Go check it out. Here. Dinner … uh, pasta, capellini, with Basilica sauce mixed with Mushroom sauce and lots of Parmesan. ** Steeqhen, Blog is back later than expected but better than nothing. Thanks for the catch up own your recent artistic experiences. I’ll have to come back and concentrate later/tomorrow as my brain is staring to fade. ** Darbz 🎃, Hi, Darbz 🎃! You’re making me even more excited for Halloween. I’m really glad you’re out and feeling better. My trip was good. The film went down well. Saw friends, you know, good things. I remember Chaos Magic being very tricky. Really nerdy in a great way. I’m still kind of new at Instagram. I just post links to the blog and do announcements about the film and stuff so far. But it’s cool to find so many super interesting people and lost friends there and stuff. It’s really good to see you, my friend! ** nat, Hi. Yeah, the technical stuff was a big hassle, but maybe we’re in the clear now. Here too: tourists everywhere you look. But they’re all wide eyed at Paris, and it’s kind of sweet. Cool, talk with you better and more soon. ** Bernard Welt, Bernard! Yeah, it’s a pile, but it’s a great, heartwarming pile. I was given a copy of Crooked Fagazine when I was in LA. It’s very cool. Is it #10? Wow, I’ll check back. I love Wes Anderson’s films. I get that he has become even more ‘Wes Anderson’ with time, but he gives such pleasure, as far as I’m concerned. Rachel and I are pals, and we go quite a ways back. She’s great. ** horatio, Hi! Thanks, pal. Another Backxwash fan, excellent. Thank you a lot about ‘Permanent Green Light’. That’s so nice to hear. And obviously I’m chuffed that you’re liking GbV. Best of luck with MIX NYC. To us too. How cool if we could festival neighbors. ** SP, Hey. I’m disappointed with ‘I AM MUSIC’ to be honest. There’s great stuff in there, but the totality is so bloated, and I’m disappointed that he did the standard thing of packing the record with guest superstars. I was hoping he wouldn’t go that route. I think my expectations after ‘Whole Lotta Red’, which is one the most exciting records in years, I think, were maybe too high. So I like the new one, or parts, but it didn’t blow my mind. What do you think? ** rewritedept, Acid, nice. I’m back in relatively sane France, yes. Thanks for reading ‘Enter at Your Own Risk’. I like that book. I wish it would get reprinted. Theremin, yes, wild, congrats. And for finding the perfect ass. Anyway, you caught me after my brain exhausting set in, sorry, but we’ll talk more soon. ** Kavita Choudhary, Wow! ** Tosh, Hey, Tosh! We’re back. I’ve missed your eyes. ** Right. We’re back and hopefully on track. Enjoy New Juche and your weekend at large, and I’ll see you on Monday.
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