a small town in Kansas called the East Village
The Hedwig and the Angry Inch star—who spent that movie in drag and going on "dates"—placed the band in what Mitchell describes as a "utopian whorehouse" filled with downtown denizens, including the WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*, G SPOT, MONA FOOT, SWEETIE, JEFFREY DEITCH, DIRTY MARTINI, and a handful of DAZZLE DANCERS. (Sometimes here at Fly Life headquarters, it feels like we live in a small town in Kansas called the East Village, and we write the high school newsletter.)
- Tricia Romano, "Sex Slaves," village voice October 25, 2004
posted October 27, 2004 in film, music, performance, printeven if my room was on fire
Hello Nurse:
Sometimes after i sleep with my girlfriend she lies there staring at the ceiling with a sad look on her face. I, on the other hand, roll over and fall asleep and would do so even if my room was on fire. She's kind of a nympho. So one time i asked her, 'what's wrong'. 'You wouldn't care' she said and left to the bathroom.
My question:
Do I need a penis enlargement!?
I get about 30 emails a day for one anyways.
- the fish, ASK HELLO NURSE... DO I NEED A PENIS ENLARGEMENT? hello nurse September 22, 2004
posted October 26, 2004 in music, print, sexfrom liminal to tangy (hilarious)
Weirdly, Michiko Kakutani is now writing about baseball for the Times ... I guess if the food guy can write about books (expect a switch from the frequent use of the word “liminal” to the word “tangy") the book lady can write about baseball. Does this mean the baseball guy is switching to the food beat? Maybe sports bar cuisine will be the next big thing.
- Stephany Aulenback, "More Michiko, this time on baseball," maud newton: blog october 22, 2004
posted October 22, 2004 in printmy ears are burning
It's been a flurry of Hyphen-related emails the past two days.
Amidst the Hyphen chaos, I was finally able to get to personal emails. One of my best friends who is in a graduate program at Columbia University, forwarded me the link to one of her Oberlin connections. I took a quick break and perused the welcomed diversion. I have a new bookmark to add to my daily reading.
Anyone know who Dante Woo is? That Russell Leong quote has piqued my curiosity.
- Audrey, "Who Is Dante Woo?" hyphen October 14/2004
posted October 17, 2004 in printlately, when i think about reporting,
my stomach turns. is that a sign that i should cease or persist?
posted October 17, 2004 in deliverythe end of your experiment
joe melillo, the artistic director of bam was the guest speaker in my cultural affairs reporting class tonight. it's interesting hearing from people that are sort of top administrators of their fields, i.e., david a. ross, the former director of the whitney, now melillo. ross had a lot to say about the political workings of museums, whereas melillo was really about the ideas behind his institution and jet-setting around the world to see diamond-in-the-rough artists. i guess it makes sense: ross fled the whitney and was forced out of sfmoma, whereas melillo has been at the same place for 22 years.
paraphrased notes from melillo:
the citadel of perceived culture is manhattanposted October 12, 2004 in art, delivery, performance, printbam brings very specific cultural eents. it's a curated season of individual choices: dance, theater, opera, music.
i have gestapo files on art and culture in the world.
i have a greedy appetite for art.
industrial-strength travel
i try to understand what a younger artist is trying to do. bam is where you bring the end of your experiment ... smaller places are a breeding ground ... recognize that an aesthetic is being developed, and i want to monitor it.
once you put it up there, someone's gonna respond to it
specific cultures are supporting different kinds of art making ... the world is aggressively moving forward ... and it's affecting your generation and younger art makers.
i'm a very informal person who just takes his work very seriously.
last night i dreamt
that i was interviewing for my first newspaper job, but my interviewer was archie "snake" simpson, who teaches media immersion on degrassi: the next generation.
his question was: should online accounts and password security be protected by law, i.e., you're prohibited from sharing them. i actually had a good answer in the dream.
posted October 12, 2004 in deliverybut as good as tonight's class was,
i'm crushed that i missed hearing wonkette ridicule the rest of the j-school.
posted October 12, 2004 in delivery, politicsfail so flamboyantly
I don't have a clue what Ugo Rondinone's confused installation at Marks' 22nd Street space is about, although I liked the jet-black zodiacal masks. But I was floored by his 2000 video exhibition in this space, and my rule is, if an artist does one thing I like, I'll follow him or her forever. This show makes me rethink that. Regardless, I love that Rondinone is willing to fail so flamboyantly. This is in stark contrast to the wimpy way so many other artists fail these days. For example, Gary Simmons's anemic Metro Pictures show of cast sculptures and smeared paintings. There are free-floating ideas here, and as always Simmons displays a caustic touch. But it's time artists learned to tell dealers, "I'm not ready to show right now." As for Amie Dicke, her cut-up fashion magazine pages at D'Amelio Terras are undeniably alluring. The problem is, they're all alluring in the exact same way. This reduces them to merchandise, or worse, shtick.
Hernan Bas's paintings at Daniel Reich, while obviously earnest and stylish, are way too indebted to Karen Kilimnik, Elizabeth Peyton, and Henry Darger. Bas has a nifty sense of narrative, surface, and color. But this is only a beginning. Meanwhile, at Anton Kern, the promising Brian Calvin certainly has a look, but he needs to experiment with it more, not just paint the same slacker figures in the same slacker way.
- jerry saltz, "critical call," artnet october 5/2004
posted October 05, 2004 in art