Freaky "Foam Hands"

Portastatic cover w/ some krazy kids in the background, free!

This Is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like #2!

Delirious Hem announces: This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like #2, where each day this week you will find new responses.

Featuring:
Monday February 1: Ching-In Chen, Jennifer Bartlett, & Kate Durbin
Tuesday February 2: Juliet Cook & Kate Schapira
Wednesday February 3: Kirsten Kaschock & Michele Battiste

Thursday February 4: Michelle Detorie & Stephanie Strickland

Friday February 5: T.A. Noonan & Theodora Danylevich
Saturday February 6: Amy King & Kirsten Kaschock 2

With more to come!

There's been no parking on my street all week

because they're filming Black Swan, the new Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) movie. I don't drive, so it's not that annoying, but the guys they have guarding the doors to the Turner Towers next door (where all the blue "SET -->" signs lead) like to give me the stinkeye when I'm walking home, like I'm trying to sneak onto the set or something. At USC they let us go right up to the camera guys during Felicity filming. Anyway I thought you might like to know in case you are a Natalie Portman and/or Winona Ryder paparazzo. Yeah, I just wanted to write paparazzo. Busted.

Dusie 9

could distract you from work all day long:

and tomorrow, too.

Lilith Fair Is Back

in 2010 and some people aren't sure we need it, but I say, Have you ever been to Pitchfork? They do a good job of having women (and woman-fronted bands) headlining so you don't notice as much, but it's always incredibly guy-heavy.

And in spite of this, they are mean enough to say on their site about this incarnation of Lilith Fair:

we don't yet know whether we'll get to hear Paula Cole reprise her "Dawson's Creek" theme song. (Sorry. Old habits die hard.)

And in spite of myself I LAUGHED. But I was mostly laughing at Dawson's hair. That song is pretty catchy, especially if you cut someone off by singing it.

Are there other festivals you've been to where dude-centrism is really noticeable?

I'm Not Sure About Video Games Making Kids Violent

but watching people smoke in the movies--especially in movie theaters, especially in black and white--has always made me want to smoke (at least during and after the time when I did smoke). In lots of cases, the way life mirrors art or art mirrors life is mysterious to me, but in this case it is very plain.

Here's A.O. Scott in this week's Movies Update:

In the movie-smoking debate, even clear positions — that children must be protected from images that might influence their behavior, or that filmmakers should be immune from censorship and interference — tend quickly to be fogged with questions of context and nuance. That is because underneath the public discussion about smoking (or gun violence, or sexual promiscuity, or whatever social problem has seized the momentary spotlight) is another, much more confused discourse: about movies and about the ways they mirror and occlude reality.

The power of movies is undeniable, but also elusive. Even the children whose fragile psyches grown-ups fret about know that what movies depict is not real, and yet even the most sophisticated or jaded viewers habitually peruse the screen in search of designs for living. The screen is, among other things, a domain of glamour, in which ordinary actions are given a luster, a charisma, far beyond what they possess in the everyday world.

--"This Article Is Not Yet Rated"

This is from like a year ago but I am re-delighted

Stain of Poetry This Friday!

DOOOOO IT.

Don't let the winter get you down! Ride the snow yak into the sunset with Priscilla Becker, Laura Carter, Suzanne Frischkorn, Kate Greenstreet, Becca Klaver & D.W. Lichtenberg:

STAIN OF POETRY
Friday, January 22 @ 7 p.m

Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013
(718) 453-6343
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J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

Madeline Gins + Arakawa

"Couple's Dreams of Immortality at Death's Door, Thanks to Madoff: Artists Who Design Homes to Prolong Life Lost Their Life Savings; Undulating Floors"

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WORD RAIN by Madeline Gins (Grossman Publishers, 1969)

Table of Contents

1. The Waterfall of An Introduction

2. The Introduction of the Waft or Paraphrased Sensibility

3. A. Reading in the Rain or The Multiplication of Consciousness

B. More or Later

4. The Body of Letters or The Motion of Words

5. Fog in the Tunnel or Intruding Words

6. A Type of Rainbow or By Order of Words

7. Dust Storm or The Pulverization of the Metaphor

8. Lightning or The Wording of the Reader

9. A. Mist and Flood Evaporating Endings

B. Condensation The Reader and the Weather

I Was Scrolling Thru the Golden Globe Nominations

and suddenly the categories struck me as super hilarious. What other industry hands out awards divided along gender lines?

What if there were a Best Female Poet category for the Pulitzer Prize?

What if the Oscars gave out a g-damn Best Woman Director statue(tte) (hehe) every year?

"Golden Boy" by Little Claw

This song is weird and scary and long and good.

Please Somebody

I'm Wikipedia-ing words in Harryette Mullen's poems for my paper, and although I don't have time to do it right now, I thought somebody out there might want to edit this pretty awful entry for "Bluestocking." The "See also" section is especially hilarious.