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On May 25th PME-ART will be performing a new version of The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information for the opening of OFFTA in Montreal. We will tell every story, and play every record, we have. We've never tried it before but think it will take about seven hours. (The audience can come and go as they please. They can also arrive at any time.) We've been gathering these stories for the past five ye... read more »
On May 25th PME-ART will be performing a new version of The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information for the opening of OFFTA in Montreal. We will tell every story, and play every record, we have. We've never tried it before but think it will take about seven hours. (The audience can come and go as they please. They can also arrive at any time.) We've been gathering these stories for the past five ye... read more »
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Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed
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Families are Formed Through Copulation
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Unrehearsed Beauty
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The Coming Envelope: Issue 1 Summer 2010
by Malcom Sutton , Jacob Wren (Goodreads Author), Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
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― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.”
― Lynne Tillman, American Genius: A Comedy
― Lynne Tillman, American Genius: A Comedy
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Thanks for the friending, please feel free to check out my bookshelves, quotes, friends and groups for things that might interest you or you read and forgot about.
Jacob, thank you for befriending me. I like performance art. I'm interested in seeing what your work is like. You're definitely creative with your book titles! LOL
Thanks for adding me, Jacob. I see you're in Montreal, a city I visit frequently (and love) because my son lives there.
