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for J.D.

We don't want to turn this into another site of mourning, but for today we'd like to acknowledge the passing of director, Jonathan Demme.

More than the man who heard the "Silence of the Lambs", his excellent early exploitation work (story for Pam Grier's Black Mama, White Mam, writer/director for prisonflick Caged Heat); the shooting of Spaulding Gray's "Swimming to Cambodia", which gave the performer a larger platform for experimental narrativization; & Talking Heads uptown weirdness in "Stopping Making Sense" all made him an auteur of idiosyncratic variety. He gave Anne Hathaway and Melanie Griffith their best roles in "Rachel Getting Married" and "Something Wild". Both of those film are two of the best from their respective decades, especially “Rachel Getting Married”.

Below is the full movie of "Caged Heat". Watch it with us tonight.

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads (from STOP MAKING SENSE)

#jonathandemme #cagedheat #blackmamawhitemama #stopmakingsense #talkingheads #rachelgttingmarried #spauldinggray #somethingwild

Toasted by Voices

Great new poem by Emily Toder in Pounch #8. Recalls GBV’s “Quality of Armor”.

WILD AT THE WHEEL drivers safety video

#emilytoder #toast #gbv #propeller #Guided By Voices #qualityofarmor #wildatthewheel

mashatupitsyn

The trailer for my new durational film, DECADES, is done. The film will be out in September 2017. The first decade is the 1970s. The excerpt is a short sample from the 6-hour 1970s installment of DECADES, a durational film that traces the history of a decade using film sound, noise, and score. This particular clip is from a 47-min section that focuses on demolition, eco-disaster, mechanization, and the elements—in particular, water. The film is part of an on-going series and will be released in installments, by decade.

“Rhythms The omnipotence of rhythms. Nothing is durable but what is caught up in rhythms. Bend content to form and sense to rhythms…Instances of sound must be musical. Sounds and silences circulate in the memory like colors and smells. When I make a film I listen to it the way a pianist listens to the sonatas he’s going to play. I train the images to fit the sound rather than the other way around…Sounds in film must become music. Today, I believe that the entire film must be music.“ -Bresson

Happy Birthday to the King.

This is still one of the best audience assaults I've ever seen on television, terrifying the Khakis.. A brilliant song/sequel to "TV EYE".

We’ve also made a Spotify playlist to celebrate. Some deeper cuts and rarities that should be heard. Chek it out.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1211710277/playlist/5EkMZHmphRNvqcstRMQaAW

1. Iggy Pop - Mask 2.. Iggy Pop - Sweet Sixteen 3. Iggy Pop - Funtime 4. Iggy Pop - I Need More 5. Iggy Pop - I'm Bored 6. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin 7. The Stooges - I Got A Right 8. Iggy Pop - Beside You (Steve Jones demo 1985) 9. Iggy Pop - Johanna 10. Iggy Pop - Dog Food

#iggypop #$stooges #mask

Two new poems by me at PEN America

#brianfoley #poetry #penamerica

(via https://open.spotify.com/user/1211710277/playlist/1bGUJoRLleu0zeCLcDVxoY)

fucked week, fucked news, but still room for some anger spirituals.

MYTHANTHROPE #2

1. Pissed Jeans - Have You Ever Been Furniure

2. Feedtime - Thought

3. Barney Wilen - Tindi Abalessa

4. Fad Gadget - Lady Shave

5. A.R. & Machines - Globus (Globe)

6. William S. Fischer - Patience is Virtue

7. Fred Wesley & The JB’s - Damn Right I Am Somebody (Parts 1&2)

8. Pussy Galore -Nothing Can Bring Me Down

9. Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown

10. The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

#mythanthrope #popgroup #pissedjeans #feedtime #fucked

Have You Ever Been Furniture

Pissed Jeans - “Have You Ever Been Furniture” - Why Love Now, 2017

Arthur Blythe - “Lennox Avenue Breakdown” - Lenox Avenue Breakdown, 1979

#pissedjeans #arthurblythe #rip

Brandon’s Bava Mom

Tune Abhi Dekha Nahin, 2009 by Brandon Downing

Kishore Kumar's famously hyperactive musical number, heavily re-sequenced, from 1978's "Do Aur Do Paanch" is teamed with edited footage from Mario Bava's 1973 horror mess "Lisa & the Devil". Editing, remixing and subtitles by Brandon Downing. Dedicated to motherhood.

#Brandon Downing #AbhiDekhaNahin #kishorekumar #doaurdopaanch #mariobava #lisaandthedevil

Crucial Sumeau

Sumeau - "Diggin’ Out" Live at Jam in the Van Headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.

#sumeau #jaminthevan #chrissousa #katprimeau #sumu #yama

Each week we at HQ will post a playlist of what we've featured and/or what we've been listening to. Here is the first. Happy Friday, meatballs!

#playlist

Bridging Noodles

gil scott-heron & brian jackson - delta man (1977)

The Flaming Lips - Okie Noodling

a short musical tale of fishing & masturbation

The Southern Oklahoma Trigger Contest - 0:00 Noodling Theme [Epic Sunset mix 5] - 7:30 At the Fish Fry and the Bigot's Drunk - 10:57

#gil scott-heron #flaminglips #okienoodling

from “Tuning” by David Antin

i dont think im unique in feeling the absence of urgency in constructing a literary object its in fact i think a fairly recent aberration the existence of literature conceived in a tight framework there is some sense of urgency out there a passing police car they have an audience they have an audience and a need and they may respond to it badly but they have their sense of urgency the most exotic example i can think of and the most striking example i can think of which i have thought about recently and which is not something i want to spend a great deal of time thinking about here is a kind of post napoleonic commitment to producing an amazingly important object balzac say i dont really want to talk about balzac except that hes an example of incredible arrogance and ambition with nothing to say a man goes into a closet in order to say it a half baked kid decides to be a great writer to be like napoleon to take over the empire of letters what would he do? whatever was going to be great what would be great? classical tragedies that was what was great in paris what else would be great in paris? racine what else? he would write plays now its very difficult you go with nothing in your mind in particular except your own future greatness you go there to paris to write great plays because thats where they write them you go there mainly to exercise your dominion balzac is a good example he couldnt speak he had nothing to say coffee black coffee was the answer self intoxication late at night what came out presumably ive never seen an autograph manuscript of balzac and i dont know anybody who has but ive seen early proof sheets he obviously managed to achieve finally utterance a string of clichés an incredible propulsion of garbage an incredible group of commonplaces flowing one after another but they flow after endless cups of coffee which presumably finally killed him second proof sheet third proof sheet i never saw a second or third proof sheet presumably i saw eleventh proof sheets or something of that order theyre filled with literary high class the flow of clichés the flow of platitudinous trash is interrupted primarily by self conscious reflexive high class prose that enters into the flow one thing was flowing and it was nonsense but it was at least flowing after that there were second thoughts and third thoughts and fourth thoughts balzac criticizing balzac getting smarter learning little bits and pieces of junk embedding a mosaic of early 19th century cleverness going swedenborgianism going sociology going real worldism going whatever to take away the embarrassment of this fluent trash which flowed all the way through unrealized and absurd clichéd scenes followed largely by modifications that add respectability and slow down the pace of the prose till finally in what? the 22nd proof sheet we have the brokenbacked mosaic of a balzac novel a monster what we have is a fluency of utterance and energy broken and restrained in a disastrous mosaic which is an image of what an image of class an image of mentalism an image of whatever it was the now nearly worthless currency of 19th century hip that had value then for that reason that it was their currency and there are strata in balzac and all the strata appear together pressed in various sized fragments onto the surface of the text a balzac novel is an archeological trove its not so much a work as it is a series of self conscious reflections on his inability to let his talk fall where it fell because he wanted to be great its very bad to want to be great because theres no reason in the world why you should be great until the world decides that you are great which is all that greatness consists of now i didnt start from a critique of balzac and im not interested in laying balzac open to this critique that could apply almost as well to so many other writers but balzac is an enormously interesting case for the reason that he is so typical of the arrogance of literature as a construction that will eventually claim to equal the career of a progressively accumulated intelligence that the world had just come to call science and this new career would be something like a science a quasi science of the real world what "real world" the world of common sense made to seem as if it was more than common sense? or less than common sense? the world of if A then B the truth table its the plausible world of the marriage novel the plausible world of the money accumulating novel the plausible world of the success story its all plausible but its plausible but its plausible only afterwards because before that what is it its an opera or a fairy tale because balzac writes basically a romance or an opera which he then subjects to a somewhat cynical critique a 19th century critique of this romance and the critique is called realism now theres a kind of comedy to this because the critique is a kind of afterword its as though balzac expects to be judged why does he expect to be judged its an interesting question he expects to be judged because hes going to have an object in front of the world and the world will have the leisure and the desire to examine it once and then examine it again and then examine it again and then again and its as if he was back in school and he was preparing to face a board of examiners and he was turning in his examination booklet that this board of examiners was going to scrutinize over and over slowly turning its pages to see if they pass now theres one issue in a book its that a book is always reinspectable when you recall a passage it is always the same which is unlike talk which you can also recall but is never the same and is never reinspectable except in your memory that is you may believe that its the same but you have no certainty that its the same and the talk goes out into the world and its gone and its not worth any more than anyones confidence in you or confidence in their ability to perform the interpretive act upon the discourse with you because the discourse is the one thing that youre sure of theres a situation and you respond to it

Read on here

#davidantin #newdirections #tuning

No Snake Charmer Has The Same Song

Can you find me?

I’m in my parents’ house where part of me remains I’m on white sheets for real I am my finger smells like the most dangerous perfume I’m nude as a painting did you know I’m addicted to email? I am I once bought a taxidermied frog on eBay it was dressed like a policeman I gave it to my first boyfriend where’s it now? somewhere among the chaos ground into bits last night I flirted with a dude by giving him my social security number have you ever tried that? my hair is so unkempt that just I felt like Kurt Cobain as I stepped over the yoga mat and checked out my boobs in the mirror John is in Silentland with the teen monks do you know John? he is the sweetest his neck is a place he’s got great hair he almost never channels Kurt Cobain he’s more like Harpo or Olive Oyl I had to Google the spelling of that do you ask your most embarrassing questions on Incognito tabs in Chrome? I do I ask about love and read the message boards I love reading frantic wtf messages from women about to be married I like the desperation and the frankness I like when the original poster returns to the board to update us I like being part of “us” I’m wearing my mouth guard now can you hear the difference? a naked woman talking like a little girl is like something you see in a circus in the natural circus like a mother with food on her nose or two catfish quietly in love

See more poems by Rachel.

#racelglaser #thebeliever #songcave #snakecharmer #aarondilloway

Get Felt: Julius Eastman - “Stay On It”