- Subtle Perfection is an MP3 music blog I recently discovered via my back-links. There is a Marcos Valle live Youtube clip, an MP3 track of the soundtrack of the Planète Sauvage film. and generally groovy music (a journey into sublime universal melodies, rhythms, vamps, and grooves. Crossing all genres including but not limited to: Brazilian, cosmic jazz, fusion, soul, MPB, bossa nova, OST, etc.) .
- Surreal Documents (doctrines, fine arts, ethnography, variety) has a nice animated version of Poe’s Tell Tale Heart. Update March 6th Storm over Disneyland by Ombres Blanches.
- While looking for pictures of the star of Tinto Brass’s Monella, Anna Ammirati (and here) I came across this very sexy “cinemacult” blog.
- Nenitafiles is an arts blog which regrettably does not list its sources but which has very nice imagery (who painted the After the Dance picture?)
- Marginalia (blog interessado em cultura e variedades, porém centrado em tipografia) is a prolific visual arts/retro blog with excellent tastes, similar to BibliOdyssey and Il Giornale Nuovo.
- Via myself comes this Youtube documentary on the art of Italian erotomaniac Milo Manara. And also the entire aforementioned Planète Sauvage film at YouTube.
- Dadanoias treats us to erotic art by Beresford Egan. Of course, Il Giornale had been there before. He wrote: “Egan was the art-deco Beardsley.”
- And:
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Elsewhere
For more of these delightful images, check Casey’s post referenced below, this image from here
- gmtPlus9 (-15)
- Dennis Cooper has a William Gaddis special, I picked this profile of his novel The Recognitions of which Dennis says: “Though neglected for many years, this monumental, eclectic, and intertextually dense masterpiece is now regarded as one of the foundation stones upon which American literary postmodernism is built. ” Also note this beautiful cover image — which has the feel of a Northern Renaissance piece — anyone by whom the painting is?
- S. Casey reports on one of his books called Diableries, see image here, here and here. I am very much intrigued by S. Casey, and his C. V. adds to my curiosity.
- Both the music blogosphere and the literary blogosphere have articles about ‘the conventional press’ ridiculing bloggers.
- Woebot reports on “Paul Morley [who] is almost guaranteed to be having a pop at music bloggers. … The latest piece is almost entirely about online music criticism. It’s quite hilarious really.”
- Conversational Reading quotes Sam Tanenhaus, who says “I find [litblogs] write about us, but I don’t find they write about authors and have that many interesting things to say about literature. Maybe I’m missing them?”
Blogademia / Craig Saper
Academics are not publishing their most valued thoughts about new media–the ones for which they hope to obtain tenure or promotion–in new media.
Jay Bolter (Writing Space, second edition, 111)
There’s something about this medium that convinces us that our merest flights of fancy, our wispiest free-floating musings, are Revealed Truths, outtakes from Thus Spake Zarathustra. . . . the chattering class’s presumption that it must have something, anything to say about everything? (Joan Didion famously said that she left New York because she didn’t have an opinion about everything.)
Mark Dery blog (September 27, 2005)
Via Reconstruction
Jay Bolter is an American new media specialist who has published Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999) . Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic who authored one of my favorite quotes on culture.
Various finds
Dadanoias finds an Italian Youtube clip on Valentina, the comic book character by Italian adult comic book author Guido Crepax (1933 – 2003) .
Again on Youtube, Mr. Dante Fontana finds “Planet Rock”.
And various blogs are celebrating Louise Brooks‘s 100th birthday. PCL Linkdump and Greencine.
Notes on my blogroll entries
Below are answers to the question: why I read the blogs I read:
- dadanoias
- Since about six months I’ve been reading Dadanoias, a young woman from Barcelona whose interests are sex and music. She has very good tastes in both, but her forte is the first.
- Giornale Nuovo
- Been following the work of Misteraitch for about two years now. Misteraitch buys antique art books and then scans plates of them for us to share. Unique content, excellent tastes. Misteraitch is British but resides in Finland. Works in IT (I think).
- Girish
- I discovered Girish only two months ago via the Reading Experience literary blog . He is at the center of a group cinema critics who rival the best of offline critics. His blog is immensely popular. Outside of film, he is into music, especially eighties dance but also reggae.
- gmtPlus9 (-15)
- One of the earliest blogs I started to follow, maybe four years ago. The author lives in Taiwan. His main interests are the visual arts and old weird americana (bluegrass, rockabilly, etcetera…).
- greencine
- Cinema blog, incredibly prolific, I suspect that David Hudson research and posts all day. Greencine is an American video-on-demand service provider. Very knowledgable, and not only about film.
- groovy age of horror
- Been reading Curt since two years now. He feeds my interest in ‘low culture’: paperbacks, fumetti, movies and comics of the 1970s horror boom.
- K Punk
- A perennial favourite since about 1 year. The author Mark Fisher has a degree in philosophy and literature and resides in the UK. He keeps me abreast of the intellectual core of the blogosphere and all things Otherian, Zizekian, Lacanian and postmodern. What fascinates me in his work is that I don’t understand half of it. Someday I will.
- notes from somewhere bizarre
- At the center of the fashionable blogosphere, with an emphasis on eroticism and technology.
- PCL linkdump
- Got acquainted with this European outfit through Groovy Age of Horror. Emphasis: fun pop culture. An interesting sideproject is Mr Dante Fontana’s visual guidance who posts the best of Youtube music videos so you don’t have to find them yourself.
- phinnweb
- I’ve known Phinn since practically my first steps on the internet around 1996. We share an interest in just about everything. His specialities are electronic music and Finland, where he was born. Last year he ran a very personal blog, recently he just posts about ‘cultural things’, much like I do.
- Radio Nova
- Not a blog but the best radio station in the world, met them twice: first when stuck with my brother on the Paris ring, then when Matthieu sent the entire corpus of nova CDs to me in 2002.
- rare erotica
- From the people who run disinfo. Erotica is the interest we share.
- sauer-thompson
- I have known this Australian duo since the early 2000s. Philosophy is their thing.
- spurious
- I found this anonymous writer through the Reading Experience. He is a specialist on French literature (Blanchot, Bataille, …) and writes beautiful prose poetry.
- The Pinocchio Theory
- I became familiar with the work (e. g. Doom Patrols) of Steven Shaviro somewhere in the late nineties. He is a specialist on postmodernism based in the United States or Canada and at the center of the – mainly continental philosophy – blogosphere. Friends with K-Punk, writes about music and film and literature too.
- The Reading Experience
- I found this blog somewhere in May of this year when I was researching the concept of realism in literature. He keeps me abreast of the online literary criticism world. His blog introduced me to a whole list of other blogs. Much like Girish he is at the center of the literatisphere.
- woebot
- I’ve known Woebot’s work since May 2004. He buys a lot of records, some really obscure ones too. Works in the graphic sector. Resides in the UK. At the center of the musiblogosphere. Check his Top 100.
That’s all. Thank you.
Introducing The Laughing Bone
The Laughing Bone: an American blog run by Scot Casey, who calls himself the literary executor of Bonesy Jones (who wrote his first post in May 2004 and died in December 2005). I’ve mentioned their blog before in Indeep, Penguin covers, Youtube and Don Quixote and Colin Wilson.
Digression 1: I juxtapose Scot’s Notes On Difficulty post to my complexity page (prompted by my musing on volutes and convolutes).
The Painting Monkey (1740) – Jean Simon Chardin
Again via The Laughing Bone.
Other blogs
Yves Klein… Anthropométries de l’époque bleue (1960, Flash Video 02:27) and Yves Klein réalisant des peintures de feu (1961, Flash Video 09:04). From the Yves Klein Archives, 21, avenue du Maine 75015 Paris. –via GMTPlus9 (-15)
Conversational Reading reports on “Luc Sante writes a nice essay on H.P. Lovecraft.” and “Good point. (about classics in literature) ” —Conversational Reading
Indeep, Penguin covers, Youtube and Don Quixote
From my Google reader:
Dadanoias on Penguin covers, The Laughing Bone on Don Quixote, with illustrations by Peter Howson, Honoré Daumier and Gustave Doré, Eva Deadbeat on a new female Youtube comic duo and Mr. Dante Fontana with Indeep’s 1983 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life.
Enjoy
Best of the blogosphere
The most striking visual post I’ve seen this past days was the Lonati covers post at Groovy age of Horror:
Lonati cover art exploring the beauty and the beast trope.
Other good posts from my blog reader included Os Mutantes review at 1001 albums. Polish posters at PCL Linkdump, an artist called Sergio Mora with a very nice website (here), Dennis Cooper’s post on scatology and the arts, boring art films at screenville, and criticism of Žižek by Padraig.
Continuing on Lonati, also check this collection of artists which features names such as
Vicente Ballestar | Er gab John Sinclair ein Gesicht… |
Les Edwards | Immer und überall zu finden! |
Koveck | Maddrax-Stammzeichner |
RS Lonati † | …er gab Butler Parker kein Gesicht… |
Nikolai Luthohin † | Schreiend bunt…nicht alle mochten ihn… |
Luis Royo | …dunkle Erotik… |
C.A.M. (Karel) Thole | Surrealer Horror |
Vicente Segrelles | Geschöpfe & Waffen |
And this PDF document which describes Italian science-fiction.
Si dice che quando Ludovico Ariosto mostrò al Cardinale ppolito d’Este la versione finale dell’Orlando Furioso, l destinatario lo guardasse con gli occhi spalancati apostrofandolo così:“Messer Lodovico,dove mai avete pigliato tante castronerie?”.
Search method used for both documents: “Karel Thole” + Lonati.
Ashley Benigno
Ashley Benigno is Notes from Somewhere Bizarre, subtitled A Journal of Cultural Contamination.
A list of Ashley’s current blogroll is reproduced below. I am going to pay them a visit. Would you care to join me in my walk?
Blogs
travelling breeze
freegorifero
la petite claudine
click opera
suzanne g
andreaxmas
the reverse cowgirl
dadanoias
subtopia
timo arnall
elastico
we make money not art
boing boing
warren ellis
neural
beyond the beyond
joi ito’s web
pasta and vinegar
placeboKatz
dr. menlo
abstract dynamics
purse lip square jaw
v-2 organisation
city of sound
blackbeltjones
anti-mega
future perfect
interconnected
angermann2
design observer
indie nudes
sexblo.gs
fleshbot
3xl
unscathed corpse
sugarcut
sex in art
tokyo undressed
the chooser
fluffy lychees
things
smart mobs
textually
conscientious
la gatera de Beguemot
junk for code
rodcorp
giornale nuovo
escolar.net
hallucinations & antics
wooster collective
glowlab
core77
valentina
ponchorama
enjoy surveillance
gmtPlus9
neurastenia
aeiou
octopusdropkick!
the pinocchio theory
decoder
spitting image
wood s lot
american samizdat
sach’s report
barlowFriendz
douglas rushkoff
worldChanging
bagnewsBlog
future now
ballardian
loreto martin
papel continuo
art dorks
metafilter
coudal
mocoloco
frunoflickr
1+1=1
kathryn cramer
future feeder
growabrain
eyebeam
blography
cipango
easy bake coven
madghoul
networked_performance
unmediated
needled
lunch over IP
wildhunt
bruce eisner’s vision thing
loveecstasycrime
blog77
jahsonic
technoccult
shlonkom bakazay?
william gibson