Ciao, Peter O’Toole
Once stood next to him at the Closerie des Lilas in Montparnasse on the shoot of What’s New Pussycat, still one of my favorite silly movies. A tall, lanky lad he was. Impressed me no...
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A Thanksgiving Team: Burroughs & Mustill, Redux
via Jan Herman‘s Straight Up site: November 28, 2013 by Jan Herman Leave a Comment A Straight Up tradition continues. William S. Burroughs’s words of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day paired with a couple of collages by Norman O. Mustill....
The Horse’s Ass As Aesthetic Gauge
In the German newspaper Die Welt, Siegfried Tesche speaks with filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, whose latest film Me and You just started its run in Germany, about movie-making and a range of other subjects (If you...
Happy 80th, Yoko Ono!
Her film “Fly” (1971) viewable on Ubuweb, here.
Today, Fifty Years Ago…
… the Beatles recorded their first album: Please Please Me which in this country nobody wanted to release prudishly reading the title as a request for giving head… Recorded on 11 February it was released on...
Winter along the Narrows
A man-shaped tree-trunk drifted up the Narrows some ten days ago to come to rest against the rocks and in front of our eyes. Now at low tide, in the Great Cold, iced over,...
Narrows Signage
On our walk this morning along the Narrows twixt 69th Street wharf & the Verrazano bridge, this flotsam spotted. You read it without reading it & it seems funny that a ROAD WORK sign...
Get Your Dukes in a Row
Well, I am still a citizen of Luxembourg, & the Grand-Ducky family has been celebrating, so I checked the Luxo-News on the Grand (Ducal) Wedding:
Speak, (Google) Memory!
Interesting pix from inside Googleland: the Cloud as cheery color-coded firm-ware industial plant (with no plant-life in sight…). More of the pix here.
… & an even older dancing tune…
… given that today is Gene Kelly’s 100th B-Day & it’s warm & unrainy in New York, here’s the dance-&-song genius with one of his best known tunes
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux