#meaghan garvey

[mhwack]

Meaghan Garvey on Townes Van Zandt

[stroebe2]

SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 81

An interview with Malibu, queen of the yearners.

Over the years Malibu’s honed a certain aesthetic, pairing her mixes and videos with desaturated photos of sunlight sparkling on water or street lights blurring in the rain, glimpsed in passing like the scenes outside your window from the backseat of a taxi to the airport late at night. Together the sounds and images channel the feeling that I mentioned — sleepy and sentimental, lonely in the good way, the kind that makes you feel like you’re on a private mission. In a statement she released alongside “So Sweet & Willing,” the second single from her debut album (which is out today!), a short story unfolds in the hills at dusk as a girl gazes in silence at the lights of the distant city. “I am one of those that are invisible, with a window down maybe, part of this undefined symphony of cars that come and go,” she writes. “Teenagers roll-by, fast, loud, — and we all look at the same sky, the same planes landing and taking-off, the same lights blinking on the tops of downtown, the same corridors of taillights, the same trees that block the view. We sit and fantasize a thousand lives, in the blaring sweetness of the night that’s come.”

[...]

I have to say, some of these titles (“Lactonic Crush,” “So Sweet & Willing”) sound extremely horny. Just the words themselves.

But you know where “So Sweet & Willing” is from? You should look it up. Type “070 Shake and Lily Rose Depp meme.” It’s like a story that somebody posted about them, a fan that got mad at Lily Rose Depp. Anyway, I still laugh when I read it because it’s a great monologue. If I were to do a theater audition, I would pick that monologue. They said, “070 Shake was so sweet and willing.” It was such a weird thing to say about somebody, but also such a nice combination of words. “So sweet and willing.” So that’s where it comes from — mostly it’s just a joke, but it’s quite fitting, as well. As for “Lactonic Crush,” I love any fragrance that’s milky, and this track sounded… it is quite a horny track, yeah. I was definitely imagining somebody licking a steering wheel, getting fucked in the car, going to the beach on a warm summer night. But it’s all in your head. It didn’t happen.

[lanadelreyfiles-blog]

Lana Del Rey is Billboard’s The Year In Music 2017 Cover Story. Photography — Austin Hargrave Interview — Meaghan Garvey

[vagablonde]

There are visions of black beaches, burning roses, summer wine, and peaches, inexplicably ruined; it all feels like a Vanitas for contemporary America—a still life of soft decay. And on “13 Beaches,” a Hollywood film score that stutters and thuds into narcotic rap drums and ’90s alternative angst, Del Rey merges her symbolism and literalism into something like zen poetry: “It took 13 beaches/To find one empty/But finally it’s mine.” It’s at once a document of lived experience (escaping the paparazzi across a string of beaches last summer) and a meditation on the sublime—the symbol of the thing embedded in the thing itself.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life/

[2dcloud]

TCAF 2017

Another debut. Another event.

Webtoons, Longform, and The Infinite Canvas

It's been a while since the internet enabled the use of infinite canvasses for comics, but the last few years have brought a resurgence in the form though mobile apps and Webtoons. Artists Grace An (Sunshinable), Jade Armstrong (BOPU Squad, Crutch), Kim Jooha (2dcloud), and Kim Hoang (Love Love Hill) are here to give you a primer on their favourite webtoons from Korea and beyond. Listen as they discuss the potential and influence of "the long scroll" on their own work. Delve into what defines this format, and imagine what these new platforms might mean for the future of webcomics and their creators.

[mhwack]

“I’d been reading Lisa Carver, trying to feel alive. “Awareness of anything is all there is. All the world, all of life, is only the story we’re telling ourselves in that moment,” she’d told me via email in 2022. Looking back, I see that what I thought was my own motto, I’d in fact stolen from her. (“How’s life?” I’d asked as she sat in a French hospital with several organs missing, to which she cheerfully replied: “How could it be anything other than good, as a writer? The more you lose the more you win.”)”

– SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 74, Meaghan Garvey

[2dcloud]

Spring Collection

books

— Yours by Sarah Ferrick — Sound of Snow Falling by Maggie Umber — Mirror Mirror II edited by Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer featuring work by Lala Albert  Clive Barker  Heather Benjamin  Apolo Cacho  Sean Christensen  Nicole Claveloux  Sean T. Collins  Al Columbia  Dame Darcy  Noel Freibert  Renee French  Meaghan Garvey  Julia Gfrörer  Simon Hanselmann  Claude Paradin  Aidan Koch  Laura Lannes  Céline Loup  Uno Moralez  Mou  Jonny Negron  Chloe Piene  Josh Simmons  Carol Swain Trungles

zines

— 100 by Nou — Altcomics Magazine 5

[thesingingknives]

As for me, I fell in love at first sight or not at all. The men I liked were sad bastards and charismatic psychopaths — junkie musicians, wet-brained poets, guys with broken noses or missing bicuspids who cried during sad movies. Sometimes I fell in love pre-sight, planning my wedding vows with the middle-aged biker who’d emailed me a mixtape or swooning at the typewritten letter from the novelist with whom I’d start a life just as soon as he was released from federal prison. Once, I moved across the country with a long-haired piano player I’d met a couple days beforehand in a late-night bar. Things were so romantic when the two of us were strangers. It’s once you get to know each other that the trouble starts.

—Meaghan Garvey, from “Wisconsin Death Trip Revisited” (Midwestern Death Trip, Panamerica, 2026)