Lesley Jenike's Blog, page 20

One more thing: the French film I Loved You So Long is ju...

One more thing: the French film I Loved You So Long is just terrific. British (now French?) actress Kristin Scott Thomas is a revelation and oh so marvelous to look at. See it.

Nick Lachey got MTV to produce a "reality" show about our...

Nick Lachey got MTV to produce a "reality" show about our high school, SCPA, and I'm watching it right now...oh boy.

It's as if someone took a dream I once had and populated it with coiffed and polished ego-centric adolescents (well, we WERE that, to some degree) and though I don't imagine anyone who reads this will watch (except for Claudine, maybe) I do want to say that I find it all a bit shocking and I hope you don't get the wrong idea.

I've gotten old(er), true, but when did we have "ta...

My heroine:

My heroine:

Tilda Swinton in a movie about Milan? I Am Love, I'm SO t...

Tilda Swinton in a movie about Milan?

I Am Love, I'm SO there.

There (was) a huge hole in Josh's pop-music knowledge. Jo...

There (was) a huge hole in Josh's pop-music knowledge. Josh hates that. But everything will be ok; we know who Scott Walker is now. Thank God. Do you know?

After watching the Hope for Haiti telethon I have one thi...

After watching the Hope for Haiti telethon I have one thing to say:
R & B sisters, you have gorgeous voices. Just sing with a real piano, will you? It's all you need. I believe in humanity's inherent goodness because of the piano. It may be the single greatest invention of all time. Screw the wheel. Give me a piano.
And it's all you need. I'm saying this because I would like you to sound as you did then all the time:
(P.S.: I can't stand that douche from Coldplay, but at least he plays a piano.)

"The Glass Age, the author's eleventh book of poems, migh...

"The Glass Age, the author's eleventh book of

poems, might be classified as "neo-modernist"—a

term here applied to work that functions within

the postmodern tradition, but which has a special

fondness for high culture and testifies to the importance,

permanence, and seriousness of art. This lucid

assemblage gathers fragments—not to shore against

ruins, that window of opportunity having shattered

long ago—to frame a composition incorporating

visual art and its social history: Swensen's...

Word. Cole Swensen "What to Do Besides Describe it: Ekphr...

Word.
Cole Swensen "What to Do Besides Describe it: Ekphrasis that Ignores the Subject"
(presented at Conceptual Poetry and Its Others Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson)
Cole Swensen began by stating: "In attempting to get beyond the 'emotions recollected in tranquility' paradigm, which is what it seems to me conceptual poetry in its widest sense is trying to do, I've been increasingly drawn to models of poetry as revealing something about the way we think and even expanding our...

I would really like to attend THIS. I think it may be sup...

I would really like to attend THIS . I think it may be super-crowded (which I don't like) but it'll be quite possibly worth it.

This is a very nice tribute to Kate McGarrigle. Below are...

This is a very nice tribute to Kate McGarrigle. Below are two songs very dear to my heart.