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The New Gallery: Michelle Normoyle : P R E T T Y V A C A N T

Emptied of customers, owners and security I photographed the interior without fear or reprimand: pressing the camera against the thick pane, the glass of the storefront becomes the lens of the camera; a membrane through which the aesthetic and commercial values osmotically exchange. Its neutrality is an illusion. The empty store, like the empty gallery acts as a transitional device that bleaches out the past at the same time controls the future. The neutral space is merely an illusion and as such, subject to change...

Geoff Dyer on a sore winner

I can't remember whether it's the author (played by Charlotte Rampling)
or her publisher (Charles Dance), but in François Ozon's film The Swimming Pool
one of them remarks that literary prizes are like hemorrhoids: Sooner
or later, every asshole gets one. This sentiment might have been used as
an epigraph to the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard's My Prizes, an "accounting" of the many literary awards that began coming his way in the mid- 1960s...

"STRAY visual REFERENCES"
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Sentimental Journey etc Chris Mullen collection

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lots of Stompin' Tom Connors links---

download Samuel Beckett BBC Radio Plays

1. A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986)
BBC Radio Cast: Ronald Pickup

2. Cascando (UK, 1964)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Denys Hawthorne, Patrick Magee Music composed by Marcel Mihalovici

3. Cascando (Ireland, 1991)
RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles Cast: Bosco Hogan, Frank O’Dwyer Music by Gerard Victory

4. Embers (UK, 1959)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Jack MacGowran, Kathleen Michael, Kathleen Helme, Patrick Magee Music performed by Cicely Hoye

5. Rough for Radio (UK, 1976)
BBC Radio Directed by: Martin Esslin Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Harold Pinter, Patrick Magee, Michael

6. Words and Music (UK, 1962)
BBC Radio Directed by: Michael Bakewell Cast: Patrick Magee, Felix Felton Music composed by John Beckett

7. The Old Tune (Ireland)
Adaptation by Beckett in English of La manivelle, a radio play by Robert Pinget RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles
Cast: Peter Dix, Brendan Gauldwell

8. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Ireland, 1958; Caedmon Audio, read by Cyril Cusak)

via::: wood s lot :::

new page at Roy Arden's blog--

photographer Greg Girard illustrates David & Solomon, Kings of
Controversy - National Geographic Magazine

Was the Kingdom of David and Solomon a glorious empire—or just a little cow town? It depends on which archaeologist you ask...

James Kibbie - Bach Organ Works

Free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach,
recorded by Dr. James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany, are
offered on this site...

BIRD CALLS and SONGS
A blog about the bird sounds of eastern North America and beyond using original recordings and sonagrams.

Issuu - the-dor - Documents -- artists books by Chris Burden, Marcel Broodthaers &c.

Did any other man frig you?

Vancouver jangle punks Apollo Ghosts
have recorded an experimental hip-hop song using words taken from James
Joyce’s personal (and extremely sexual) letters to his wife Nora.


The rhythm section lays down a steady groove while frontman Adrian
Teacher makes his way through a series of paranoid and pornographic
questions, found sound clips and string samples flickering in the
background. At 5:56, it’s nearly twice the length of any other track
that the band has previously released, and it culminates in an extended
jam, with the instruments engulfed in a swirl of samples...

great site for classical organ fans--Organlive.com

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Lampedusa in London by David Gilmour

...The eccentric Piccolo brothers were, like their cousin, talented and very unproductive intellectuals. The elder, Casimiro, took months to paint a picture of goblins in a style influenced by Arthur Rackham, while Lucio spent thirty years composing but never managing to complete a Magnificat in the style of Malipiero. In the 1950s the younger brother decided to publish his poems, Canti barocchi, which won a literary prize in Lombardy, an unexpected achievement that turned his cousin Giuseppe competitive and impelled him to write The Leopard. “Being mathematically certain”, he wrote, “that I was no more of a fool [than Lucio], I sat down at my desk and wrote a novel.”