C.E. Santana's Blog, page 22
June 7, 2013
dameht:
Meet #Triberus guardian of house #DAMEHT #Aubonpunk...
Meet #Triberus guardian of house #DAMEHT #Aubonpunk #Newyorkcity #rockcult
rock & roll, coffee, and books. new york city shit.
18 People Who Missed The Point Of Classic Novels
Misguided one-star reviews, taken from Amazon and Goodreads. Via Love Reading Hate Books .
AMAZING.
May 24, 2013
alistairhenning:
“Develop an interest in life as you see it;...
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.”
- Henry Miller
April 24, 2013
vicemag:
An Interview with Harmony Korine
In 1998, shortly...
An Interview with Harmony Korine
In 1998, shortly after his feature-length directorial debut, Gummo, Harmony Korine published a novel called A Crackup at the Race Riots. The book is built from an insane collage of images and thoughts, including lists of ideas for movies, titles for novels, suicide notes, joke routines, celebrity rumors, and strange short scenes and dialogues involving rapists, amputees, dogs, vaudeville performers, and manic-depressives. Like all of Korine’s work, it is a rare collision of fun, fucked, funny, sad, and bizarre—the kind of thing you pick up every so often just to buzz your brain. For years the book has been out of print, fetching prices upward of $300 used online, until recently when it was repackaged and rereleased by Drag City. Harmony was kind enough to get on the phone with me and talk about the making of the book.
VICE: The first thing the reader sees when they open A Crackup at the Race Riots is a picture of MC Hammer at age 11. Why did you decide to start the book that way?
Harmony Korine: At the time I was doing a lot of narcotics. I remember basically the process was that I would hear things, or I would see things… I would hear somebody walking down the street, and maybe they’d say something interesting, and I’d put it on a piece of paper. Or I would see a pair of socks hanging from a telephone pole with a Star of David on the ankle, and I would just write that. Or whatever… I’d see someone juggling some toilet paper, and I would describe that. And then I would see a picture of MC Hammer at age 11, and I would just think maybe it all kind of came from his imagination.
The book is a thought in MC Hammer’s mind?
Well, it could be. Like most things in life, it could be. [laughs]
So, if I’m understanding you correctly, you basically started acquiring bits and pieces and then just let them fall as they may on the paper, in the order you found them?
Not exactly. What happened was I would just write everything down. I’d write things in crayon or on the side of the wall in my apartment, or on a typewriter or whatever. You would just see things, you know… cut them out of books. I might hear something really crazy that somebody said on a city bus, like somebody might be spewing some kind of crazy racial rant, and then I’d go back home and write that down, and then I would just look at it for a while, and I would imagine, like, What if it wasn’t that guy on the bus? What if Harrison Ford said that? What if I was actually riding a horse or something, and Harrison Ford was riding a horse, and we were riding somewhere, we could even be racing, and what if he just turned to me, and he said that same exact thing that I just heard? And I was like, Whoa! The context completely changed the humor. That’s basically what the book is. I started thinking about it like that, and there started to be these thematic connections in that way, and after I had amassed all of these fragments, these tripped-out, micro narco blurts, I went back and recontextualized them into something that was closer to a novel, or closer to a novel idea.
April 19, 2013
April 18, 2013
Step your garden game up.
Step your garden game up.
April 17, 2013
chicagopubliclibrary:
Library Slide By Moon Hoon
via...
Library Slide By Moon Hoon
Architect Moon Hoon recently designed the Panorama House (scroll down), in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. One of the most unique features incorporated into the home is a wooden slide built directly into a library which also functions as a stair-stepped home theater seating area.
Click here to see more photos of the Library Slide!
April 6, 2013
I love that the books I order on Amazon for 99 cents or find in...
I love that the books I order on Amazon for 99 cents or find in used book stores come all fucked up with handwriting and highlights. Charming imperfections non-existent in digital.
April 3, 2013
whatshewanted:
The Joy of Reading by artist Joel Robison ...
The Joy of Reading by artist Joel Robison “F is for Finding Fiction in the Forest”
thank you to fillingham for telling me about this wonderful artist and sending me the link! ;)
