December 2009
37 posts
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
The New Year- Death Cab For...
An Atheist in Heaven
mapsandtransit:athensmusicandarts:
“I’m not a victim, I’m not a victim, oh I-I-I, I am an atheist. I am an atheist.”
— Vic Chesnutt, from “Little,” released in 1990
About five minutes before I sat down to Christmas Eve dinner, I heard the news that Vic was in a coma. I knew that was it. I think everyone did. Don’t know why.
Vic was the first story I was assigned to write for the ABH. 1996. I...
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe Remembers Vic Chesnutt :... →
fuckyeahemilyhaines:
“Detective Daughter” -...
The Existence Machine: On Flannery O'Connor and... →
Richard Crary on Flannery O’Connor’s interesting (to say the least) relationship to the politics of race.
Dan Green wrote this recently in a post on Flannery O’Connor:
[David E.] Anderson identifies as a flaw in O’Connor’s fiction “the almost complete absence of attention to race and the civil rights movement.” It has always seemed bizarre to me that an...
“- What are these?
- My life’s work. My memoirs. My confession.
- What...”
– dialogue from Henry Fool
via Spurious
WatchKID CUDI “PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”
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athensmusicandarts:copycats:
Christmas Card...
Happy 60th Birthday, Mr. Tom Waits →
On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.
Breaking News: Amanda Knox Found Guilty On All... →
Roughly two years after Meredith Kercher’s body was discovered in their shared Italian cottage, and nearly a year after her trial began, American exchange student Amanda Knox (and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito), has been found guilty of murder.
After a trial that lasted 11 months, the jury took 11 hours to reach a verdict, returning to the courtroom at midnight to deliver the...
James Franco on General Hospital and Performance... →
I was recently treated to an early prototype of a dessert that Marina Abramović, the “grandmother of performance art,” created with the pastry chef Dominique Ansel. It’s a cylindrical pastry with a lychee center sprinkled over with chili powder and raw gold. I was instructed to kiss a napkin that had been printed with a square of gold powder that would transfer to my face...
