AMR 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 #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 MoreInvincible Summer 2010: Superchunk Divination
Reading Rachel’s poem “Therapy” yesterday, I was reminded first of Superchunk’s “The First Part” (below) and then of an old poem in Mr. Feather’s Flies Again – inspired by the song & a Rabbitesque fuck you bravado. Which isn’t saying much, really – just an Invincible Summer, sneering-in-a-good-way sort of connection. But I can’t help [...]
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