Art News: Anticipating Desire
by Mark Fullmer Anyone know where my installation’s supposed to go?” “Seth might.” “Which one’s Seth? Hi. Are you Seth? Are you Seth?” “Seth’s in the bathtub.” “Installing his piece.” “It’s about Dylan Thomas.” “Who used to live here.” This is three o’clock on a Friday afternoon in Suite 1024 of the Hotel Chelsea which [...]
Read MoreFilm: Just One Thing (A Brooklyn Short)
I first saw Mark perform this piece as a one-off at Penny’s – a hurdy-gurdy holy roller that literally had the crowd holding their breath until he erupted, at the final blue-faced moment, into a trumpeted “Saints Go Marching In”. Seeing it again now, stripped of the stage and without redemption, “Just One Thing” reminds [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #33 – “Leadership, Finally,” Says My Corpse
In This Podcast: Visceral post-apocalyptic scenarios; sexual débutantes; lots of vodka; fuzzy mics; rocky road pancakes from PrimpMyPancake.com or dot org; yelling on the floor; heading to The Cloisters; victorian calisthenics & the walking cure; fear of the underground; known unknown knowns; the unconventionally pretty girl and whether or not she called Bat back; “a [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #32 – The Rule Against Quoting Joan Didion
In This Podcast: Twitter poetry read aloud; Paul Simon on the record player; a mysticotelegraphic fistbump panegyric to the American open road odyssey; staged epiphanies; facebook novels; asphalt french kisses; western music meets Waikiki; the end of Williamsburg; the fictitiousness of lived experience and the need for agency; the rule against quoting Joan Didion; reading [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #31 – Repeat Twice for Full Effect (NSFW-ish)
In This Podcast: Origin myths; James Joyce’s french letters read aloud (NSFW); Mark’s head wedged between fat thighs; onomastical canniness; all the johns in academia; a bottle of Beaujolais in the morning and the girls with their pouty breasts; a one act/one minute play, acted; Mets Win!; &etc. Click here to listen to AMR podcast [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #30 – Be Your Own Tony Robbins
In This Podcast: Mark as cocktail/messiah; love feasts; slightly problematic songs from childhood maybe-cults; parsing mankind; being your own Tony Robbins; the cult of Nick Courage; red carpets on Christmas; hanging out in the ladies room; world traveling; vibrations of blue in Taos, New Mexico; green flesh/orange toe nails color blindness; &etc. Click here to [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #29 – Mark Fullmer Grows in Brooklyn
In This Podcast: Ontological inquiry, moving to New Orleans, moving to Brooklyn, moving to China, zugunruhe, sazeracs, switching gears for a second, majestic hair coronas, Mark’s Friend of a Friend interview, world traveling, sneaking into classes at Oxford, mockney: the accent of choice, annoying foreign exchange students, getting into Jazz Fest for free, how you [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “Bleeker St.”
Click to listen to “Bleeker St,” performed by Mark Fullmer Context: A couple weeks back, as I sat transcribing the lyrics for “Beijing Huan Ying Ni,” my mp3 player got stuck on “Bleeker Street,” a Simon & Garf. number from their pre folk-rock phase (and did you know folk-rock wasn’t even really their idea?). Well [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: Beijing Welcomes You
Click to listen to “Beijing welcomes you,” by Mark Fullmer Context: I’ll be leaving for China in June for 2 years to serve in the Peace Corps. So. There you go. The song title translates as “Beijing welcomes you,” and I think this is sort of the Chinese equivalent of “It’s a Small World.” It [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “Po’ Man’s Blues”
Click to hear “Po’ Man’s Blues,” by Mark Fullmer Context: The musical inspiration for “Po. Man’s Blues” came mostly from The Beatles’ “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”, with a dash of Sammy Davis Jr’s version of “Have a Little Talk with Myself”. Personally, the most enjoyable part of recording the thing was laying down the bass line. [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: “The Crusades” (Dalai Lama via David Lynch)
Click here to listen to “The Crusades,” by Mark Fullmer Context: Ever since I was a kid, I always wondered what a David Lynch film about the Dalai Lama would be like. This is my musical realisation of that film. I suppose the composition also has a personal meaning, as it imbricates three spiritualities I’ve [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month: Hot Kristeva (Rap)
Click here to listen to “Hot Kristeva (Rap),” by Mark Fullmer Context: Back when I was in grad school–near the end, clearly, when all of us second-years were a bit slap happy from postcolonial hybridity and the fictive imago–a murder of us flocked to our T.A. offices in a solemn effort to compile the most [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month – “My Love”
Previously: AMR Music Month (Introduction) AMR Music Month – Track 1 This one’s a laffer for all you pre-Valentine’s day <3 birds, lyrics after the jump: Click to hear “My love,” by Mark Fullmer Quick Housekeeping: All you folks participating in AMR music month, send me your mp3s! I just remedied my own recording situation [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month, Track 1
Click here to listen to “Vespers” (cover), by Mark Fullmer The first installment of AMR Music Month, an updated version of the cover song you may remember resonating so profoundly with me in a previous post. Without repeating myself, this version – this version is darker and more hopeful, which seems like an impossibility, but [...]
Read More“The Right Shadow Spoke”: A Facebook App Novel Shout-Out
So the novel is called 1337: A Videogame Novel About Videogames and it’s an honest to goodness facebook app by Friend of a Friend Mark Fullmer, drawing on your friend-base for characters and fully interactive in a post-modern but also old school text adventure sort of way. Points for Ennui and Whimsey! A refreshable Lustiness [...]
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