Working To Produce Gems
The press are quick and keen to hail young actors like Gael Garcia Bernal as ‘the new Brad Pitt’ and are happy to welcome this newly discovered Mexican talent into mainstream film press. And rightly so.
Glenn Fisher examines Alejandro González Iñárritu’s works in the context of Oscar-nominated Babel.
Underground, Overground
Sam Jordison has published an article about the Offbeat Generation on The Guardian‘s website: Sam Jordison, “Literature For the MySpace Generation,” The Guardian Wednesday 7 February 2007 Sam Jordison discovers how a new wave of publishers and writers are harnessing the power of MySpace and print on demand to bypass their bricks-and-mortar competitors to find […]
Top 5: Kailas Elmer
Kailas Elmer has been a journalist for over 14 years writing on subjects as diverse as 1999/2000 NYE at Ken Kesey’s Farm to the Spice Girls. He is now Publisher and Editor of Trebuchet Magazine, a new journal of contemporary politics and art. We were able to whittle down his list of favourite songs of […]
Bad Faith VII – Phantom Guilt Syndrome
Elsewhere, I’ve noted the tendency of certain middle-class leftists to publicly decry material possessions and the capitalist infrastructure on which their own livelihoods and status depend. The general intent of such demonstrations seems to be to affect a superior tone while deflecting the potential envy of those who actually like material possessions and who may wish to possess more — perhaps even as much as is possessed by certain well-heeled Guardian columnists.
David Thompson ponders Phantom Guilt Syndrome and other odd conditions.
bearparade.com
I’m typing. I’m eating fattening foods. / I’m feeling like shit. / I don’t care that I don’t like my last bear parade post, / because it’s going to stay there. / Bear parade is honest. / I saw some dishonest art last night— / Some paintings of landscapes and bronze statues.
By Gene Morgan.
Pony
if my first name started with the letter O / i would kill myself / and move to Portland / and eat cheerios / when I finished I would ask you if your pee ever smells / like cheerios / or anything besides pee / and you would say I’m disgusting and I’d say / I was joking
By Mal Coppenrath.