Illustration by Ermanno Iaia. Hard to believe that Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) is only now appearing on DVD in the UK. Arrow Films release a dual-format edition at the end of this month.
• The week in perfume: Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez is reviewed by Emily Gould (“this is a golden age of perfume criticism”) and prompts a meditation on the art and process of scent from Rishidev Chaudhuri.
• Electrical Banana by Norman Hathaway & Dan Nadel is “the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields”.
• Sacred Monsters is a forthcoming collection of essays and criticism by Edmund White. Related: Colm Tóibín from 1999 reviewing A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods.
• Medium, a video by Clayton Welham and Sam Williams for Emptyset whose imminent release (also entitled Medium) I’ve designed. Related: Dave Maier on music versus noise.
• Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy: the face of US presidential contender Rick Santorum rendered as a collage of (mostly) gay porn. More provocation: All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay.
• Coilhouse discovered a rough copy of Bells of Atlantis (1952), an experimental film which features Anaïs Nin, input from Len Lye and an electronic score by Louis & Bebe Barron.
• “The idea that we should have but two options when it comes to our gender presentation, male or female, has always felt ludicrous to me,” says LaJohn Joseph.
Bely paints “a universe of strange manifestations” which drifts across Apollonovich’s consciousness every night before he falls asleep. We are even shown congeries of images that are shards of events which took place that day for the senator: “all the earlier inarticulacies, rustlings, crystallographic figures, the golden, chrysanthemum-like stars racing through the darkness on rays that resembled myriapods”
Malcom Forbes on Andrei Bely’s masterwork, Petersburg (1916).
• RIP Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press books and the Evergreen Review.
• The Brothers Quay will be at work in Leeds city centre this May. Lucky Leeds.
• Warm Leatherette, a short film by Analogue Solutions.
• Cormac McCarthy, Quantum Copy Editor.
• The importance of being axonometric.
• Always Crashing In The Same Car (1977) by David Bowie | Crash (1980) by Tuxedomoon | Crash Dance (1983) by Yello.
“…. the face of US presidential contender Rick Santorum rendered as a collage of (mostly) gay porn. More provocation: All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay.”
Super but not really exciting. Some links to the Barack Obama as Twink Daddy of Silver Gay porn would be appreciated.
That should be easy enough to arrange using one of those image-generator things. I’m expecting a variety of porn pictures to replace Shepard Fairey posters as the graphic expression (so to speak) of the forthcoming election.
I’m expecting porn picture of Shepard Fairey doing time in a Federal lockup to replace pictures of his posh la studio.
As for politics it is time for a variation of Rule 34: “If you run for office there will be porn of you.”
Love the Santorum image! He’s been Google-bombed too. If you Google “Santorum,” the first entry (after presidential results–not sure if that feature’s just visible in America) is the Urban Dictionary’s bogative, scatological definition of “santorum” as a concrete noun.