This is one of the best of our corporate media pieces on the subject of climate change / pollution I’ve seen. Chris Hayes rocks. Keystone XL: Time to end the addiction Chris Hayes’ take on why the president needs to turn down the pipeline if America is ever going to break its dependency on fossil fuels.
This Thursday (Jan 30th) our good friend Denis Brun is having a “Finissage Cocktail” to close his first solo show in New York. You can stop by anytime between 6-9PM BUT if you want to hear Nicole Peyrafitte’s send off to him make sure to be there by 7PM. Address: Giacobetti Paul Gallery 111 Front St, New York, NY 11201
Roulette Presents: The Connie Crothers Quartet Deep Friendship a CD Release Celebration, February 4, 8pm, two sets “The music of the Connie Crothers Quartet manages to balance traditional patterns and free improvisation in a way that is mysterious, magical and brilliant” -Music Boom What: The Connie Crothers Quartet When: Tuesday, February 4, 8pm Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR Cost: $20/15 Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368 The Connie Crothers Quartet, practitioners … Read more The Connie Crothers Quartet
When I was putting together Poems for the Millennium 4 (North African Literature), I asked the excellent Spanish-language translator Joseph Mulligan to help with bringing over some of the work of the Sahrawi poets from the ex-Spanish colony of the Western Sahara. Joe did a superb job — & has continued his interest & involvement with Sahrawi poetry, so that he now has a near complete anthology of Sahrawi … Read more More Sahrawi Poetry
HI FOLKS HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU AT THIS EVENT. I DON’T HAVE EVERYONE’S EMAIL ADDRESS ANYMORE, SO IF YOU CAN, PLEASE FORWARD TO WHOEVER MIGHT BE INTERESTED. PLEASE NOTE A SMALL MISTAKE: THERE WILL BE WMALL WORKS OF ART OF MINE FOR SALE, BUT NOT FOR AUCTION. WATERCOLORS AND COLLAGES. NOTHING OVER $150. THE POEMS I READ WILL BE FROM “POEMS ARE ANGELS” AND FROM “THE BLACK NOTEBOOK”, “THE CORK … Read more Diane Di Prima Reading & Fundraiser
… Via the German Perlentaucher site (my daily info place for Kulchural matters from Germany) I just came upon these long interviews with David Cronenberg (btw. the above is a still pix, not a link). These aren’t available — as far as I can see — on youtube, but very watchable on the German 3sat site, here. (In a strange way my haircut theme from yesterday’s post on Cassavetes … Read more & Cronenberg Interviews
YouTube comment: The Haircut (Tamar Simon Hoffs, 1982) A true gem of a film … you either get it or you don’t. If you get it, you never forget it. For a better quality video pick up a copy of Tamar Hoff’s “The Allnighter” on DVD, it includes “The Haircut” as a bonus feature. The Haircut also features a short performance by ‘The Bangs’ a predecessor to the all-girl … Read more See John Cassavetes Get A Haircut
Peter Riley is a poet & commentator whose work I follow with much pleasure & gain. His latest column for the Fortnightly Review is available HERE & here is how Peter describes it: It concerns poets pulled or self-propelled part-way or more towards the “advanced poetry” climate in UK, especially its ex-Cambridge (anti-lyric) flavour, set against a poet from quite elsewhere who by cultivating the history of an interceding … Read more On UK lyric, anti-lyric, and political poetry.
The below is a summary of an article I came across via friends & Siji Jabbar. It is in the February issue of the New African (and draws on an interview given by Professor Mamadou Koulibaly, Speaker of the Ivorian National Assembly, Professor of Economics, and author of the book The Servitude of the Colonial Pact). Here is how Jabbar frames the argument: “Just before France conceded to African demands for independence in the … Read more How France lives off Africa with the Colonial Pact
…how Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state We live in a world of covert court decisions and secret bureaucratic procedures and where privacy is being abolished – all familiar from Kafka’s best-known novel, The Trial. Excellent essay on Kafka & the modern surveillance state by Reiner Stach, author of a recent Kafka biography in the New Statesman this week. Opening paras below: “Kafkaesque” is a word … Read more Death by data: