cognitive-behavioral therapy [redux]
Day Two of 3:AM‘s Tao Lin Week, and we are pleased to offer you six unpublished pages from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, published by Melville House. an interesting group of small children became exponentially less interesting until finally they approached to solicit my poetry in manhattan a brief description of homeless people includes the rhetorical question ‘can […]
Bending Ourselves in Leisurely Ways: An Interview With Joe Stretch
The age of angst and leisure is certainly upon us. It hurts and soothes in equal measure. Sex has escaped from our underwear. I am, for example, offended if a passing person of whatever age of gender, fails to titillate me. We do not stare at the market. The market stares at us. But I think rather than wasting time worrying about becoming a brand or whatever, just get on with the job, follow your obsessions and hope that the work is understood. I am really, really good looking. Sometimes I squat naked over mirrors. And just stare.
Andrew Gallix interviews Joe Stretch, author of Friction.
More Benzine for the Madhouse
Yes, that’s what I’m saying. He was always giving things up. You know, like any pleasure he can think of, everyone should give it up. But what I think is, he wouldn’t have liked it, not really, if everyone gave up everything he’d given up, because then he wouldn’t have been any different. He wouldn’t have been special. I’ll tell you something I learned very young, when someone says something’s for your own good, that’s the time to be ready for the worst.
By John Barker.