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Where did all the music go?
Breaking it down. THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy albums, which were exorbitantly priced, and Napster had not yet…
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Saturday Morning Links
It’s my little sister’s 40th birthday today. I doubt she’ll thank me for mentioning that here. HTMLGIANT jumps on the book club wagon (and we’re glad to have them). Their unique spin on it is to look at literary magazines.…
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Herbert on Leonardo
“The peculiarity of Leonardo’s disquiet is that it does not manifest itself in violent gestures. It is disquiet that respects the line, disquiet controlled and therefore doubly disquieting. How great is it and how great is he who mastered it.”…
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Chordal Wheeling
There are geeks, there are music geeks, and then there are the chordal crusaders, the modal moradeurs. In their own words, “powerambient” band Chord summons the feeling “of a single note being rendered into an unsolvable riddle–a harmonic Gordian knot…
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September’s Monthly Rumpus: Where’s Steve?
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: Where’s Steve? Click here to buy tickets! On September 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm. Featuring authors Creston Lea, Katie Crouch, Rives, and Daniel Alarcón. Music by John Craigie and Shovelman…
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A Dark, Dark Summer Day: Fahey vs. Hollywood
How much bad Hollywood filmmaking can one man take in a day? With my wife and kids out of town for a week, I decided to find out.
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New York Alki
Rumpus contributor Ryan Boudinot, author of The Littlest Hitler, talks with I09’s Charlie Jane Anders about his forthcoming novel, Blueprints for the Afterlife. The novel takes place in a full-scale replica of Manhattan in Puget Sound (cue Synecdoche, NY comparison). …
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Friday the 13th Book Club Round-Up
-Tao Lin’s in the spotlight this month; his latest book Richard Yates is our August Book Club pick, and it seems like everyone has some questions for him. Including, well, Tao Lin.
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“Model Release”
William T. Vollmann’s invoice to Penguin for “four street prostitutes’ modeling time,” from Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad…). Larger version here.
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Single Man Seeking Woman 4 Duets in Sacramento, CA
Let’s find this guy a karaoke girlfriend (he posts his phone number here).
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Dead Ahead
Doller’s facility with language, and his wheeling imagination, which pushes language into fresh directions, never ceases to delight the reader.