Well, confusion or dissonance are things that sometimes work in opposing ways but they kind of set the story straight. Sometimes the most interesting thing to watch is the way things dance with each other or connect with each other in ways that you would never expect. I’ve always felt more attracted to things that were more emotionally complicated.
I had a phone conversation with Harmony Korine recently about the re-release of his debut novel A Crack-Up at the Race Riots
Calling a practice uncreative is to reenergize it, opening creativity up to a whole slew of strategies that are in no way acceptable to creativity as it’s now known. These strategies include theft, plagiarism, mechanical processes, repetition. By employing these methods, uncreativity can actually breathe life into the moribund notion of creativity as we know it.
I had the privilege of interviewing Kenneth Goldsmith about his new book Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Honored by the news that ONE, my collaboration with Blake Butler and Vanessa Place, remained on the Best Seller list for January & February at Small Press Distribution:
Global Queer Cinema has just published my essay, “Against Any Consensual Reality: A Revaluing of Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People.”
Honored by the news that ONE, my collaboration with Blake Butler and Vanessa Place, earned the #1 Best Seller spot in Fiction for November & December from Small Press Distribution:
I am grateful to Jamie Iredell, author of The Book of Freaks, for tagging me in “The Next Big Thing” blog series, wherein authors answer ten questions about their current works-in-progress and then tag other authors to participate. I’ll do my best…
“We like lists because we don’t want to die.” — Umberto Eco
Since I, too, don’t want to die, I thought I’d make my version of the best albums of the year. Alas, so many pleasing and disquieting tunes appeared in 2012, I couldn’t possibly include all of the ones I enjoyed. For instance, no room for the new Swans album, the new Godspeed album, Frank Ocean, Scott Walker, Grimes, Raime, Caretaker, etc.
In terms of my listening habits, I spend a lot of time searching for and listening to older and more obscure material (for examples, check out Madrotter-Treasure-Hunt or Bodega Pop or Mutant Sounds, etc.), so I probably don’t listen to as much new music as do many other people. And my list obviously reveals my personal biases toward (mostly) experimental soundscapes of one type of another.
In terms of arrangement, I’ve purposefully mixed up the order, so you’ll never know which is my #20 and which is my #1. Also one album is absent, so there’s technically only 19 albums on this list.
If you click on the artist’s name/album title you can get the album or listen to samples.
