The Pony
Allissa and John’s romance was a delicate one: in the dark of November, a gentle brush of his hand on her cheek between furious drug-induced rages. A distracted kiss in February after a remarkably successful street score. In April, a secret blow job indicating indubitably, the proof of John’s affections.
By Jessica Buck.
David’s World
A searchlight — b/w — spells out the words INLAND EMPIRE. The screen is filled by a needle stuck in the groove on an old 78 record.
The story is simple, told in a complicated way…
Bertie Marshall reviews David Lynch‘s Inland Empire.
Two Old Lovers Bring Their Guns
Drama, the life force of Americans, it is like our religion now. When it became our religion I don’t know. But it is now. God died and was replaced with drama. We all go to the alter of drama and pay tithes, we bow and pray at the alter of drama, of pseudo emotions and play-acting. We love it, we love watching it on television, reading it, talking about it, starting it, ending it, being a side actor watching it, we love to hear about it, and the grosser and more despicable it is, the more we love it.
By Noah Cicero.
Excerpt: Memphis Underground II
Despite coming from a very privileged background, Young also moved in what might quaintly be described as “low-life” circles for the whole of her adult life, and partly as a result of this she wrote from a liberal position that was on the whole to the left of her broadsheet colleagues. Liz had a difficult existence and hard drugs, as well as books, were her retreat from the world.
In another exclusive excerpt from his latest book, Memphis Underground, Stewart Home remembers the blank generation literary criticism of Elizabeth Young.
Excerpts: The Indiscretions of a Bleeding Heart
Salt soaked boots, covered by canvas,
on the face beneath, there lingers a smile,
a thought that was had, before death came,
of a mother and child greeting forever.
By Giles Paley-Phillips.
Stoned On Thorazine
Tony O’Neill, one of the rising stars of the Offbeat Generation (who also happens to be a Brutalist), organised the recent Userlands reading in New York. Here he presents the readers from left to right: Zac German: turned up late, read, and then vanished into the ether. His stuff is completely original, crazy. He sounded […]