If You Go Away - Scott Walker

He grew up in rural south east England, and at the age of eleven moved to upstate New York just in time for the US bicentennial and the KISS Love Gun/Alive II world tour. He now lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. He once used a stack of found bar mitzvah thank-you notes as a literary device. For two decades he hid his roots, but now divulges them in tight, nano-doses of his art, where beyond the adventures of a painterly and historical surrealism lies the activism-poetry of critique and resistance with its deep compassion, gallows humor, and anxious vulnerability. He once revived the unused accent on his last name for the publication of his first poem 'Exuviae', ---"because it seemed like a funny comment on my mixed british and cuban heritage, but I failed to realize everyone would just assume I was a pretentious @$$&%)* ". He received his first BA in English and critical theory from Syracuse University, has an unfinished photography degree from that Nabokovian university in Ithaca, NY, which he is still paying off, and at the age of 36 received his honors BFA in visual art from the State University of New York. He has lived in New York City since 2004.

This is his first ad.


For One Moment - Lee Hazlewood

I shift lucidly from fiction to documentary in honest, intelligent, and occasionally, eloquent ways. I am a cheerleader of the ye-ye set, and provoke minor scandals with my writing. I favor both intimate naturalism and extravagant symbolism in both my personal and artistic lives. I think there are still ways to fuse politics and romance.


going to everglades - herman düne

affection / anglophilia / architecture
art / art history / bam/
the bbc / britpop / critique/
* cuddling * custard / design/
performance / pub / punk/
radio / saucy slapstick / socially conscious /
swimming /
theory; showering you with compliments
in the shower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRbnmjzY7U

I'm a slow burn, like a Birthday Party B-side, or raindrops of doom.

Marina Abramovic, Jens Lekman, Almodóvar, Gerhard Richter, the Dessau Bauhaus, J-L Godard, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jeffrey Lewis, Atom Egoyan (the earlier, funnier films), Guided by Voices, Diego Rivera, Richard Serra, V. Woolf, Friedrich Engels, Banana Yoshimoto, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Teresa Ebert's Red Feminism, The Stooges (Iggy's), Herman Düne, Kenneth Anger, Mark Morris Dance Group, Juliette Binoche (acting and dancing), Louise Bourgeois, Freeway 1 and 2, Aimee Bender, Nicholas's Roeg and Ray, Husker Du, New Joy Order Division, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Jenny Holzer, Bill Callahan, Let the Right One In, Withnail & I, King Khan and BBQ, Whitney Biennials, Magnetic Fields, Duino Elegies, Isamu Noguchi, Scout Niblett, The Fall, Oscar Wao's Brief and Wondrous Life, Cuban health care, Erik Satie, Ana Mendieta, fad gadget, birthing icebergs, bacon, momas, mocas, numus, and neue galleries. The Mighty Boosh. Sylvia Plath, Needles and Pins. Glenn Branca, Can, DNA, PiL, Olivier Theyskens, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, The Ventures, Flipper, and Q-tips after swimming.

le cinéma, l'histoire, la photographie, l'art en général, l'ironie, le cynisme, le féminisme, l'écriture, l'amour, my skin soaking wet.

la mélancolie, le roman gothique, le roman d'horreur, le recits policiers, la taxidermie humaine, and you.

lest I all but fall apart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPj7M9oUvtM&NR=1

I think modern dance is as close as we can come to pagan rejoicing and I celebrate it as such.

You'd pull me on the dance floor to Scott Walker or Savage Republic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxCCYBKXn44&feature=related


Amsterdam - Scott Walker