Japanese master
Happy 70th birthday, Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki in conversation with 3:AM Asia contributor Roland Kelts:
Of Vampire Junkies and Slutty Teenage Hobos
There may have once been a time when I could watch violent movies, scenes of horror, degradation, torture, and general menace. Fake and real. I took an Arab cinema class as an undergrad where we watched completely graphic unvarnished documentaries drawn from news footage I don’t think you can see any way else in this country. Almost punching yourself in the stomach with “the truth.” Back then I felt like it was a cop-out to admit you had limits to how much you could take. Consequently, the older I get the less I can watch, like: I wouldn’t watch the von Trier movie. These days I don’t want to see any of that shit. I think where a line can be drawn is in the salacious or pornographic intent. Violence with the purpose of wish fulfillment on the part of the filmmaker and the viewer, or that which strips the human subject of its inherent value, body integrity, dignity, wholeness, etc. I am anti-pornography but I appreciate and value explicit content. Is that strange?
Maxi Kim interviews The Orange Eats Creep author Grace Krilanovich.
You know, for kids
News that Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is being edited to replace the “N” word with “slave” prompts HTMLGIANT to (rightly) ask, “Is this the beginning of a national clean-me-so-we-feel-better literature trend?”. Enid Blyton’s Noddy books suffered the same fate in 2009, and Tintin au Congo is not without its controversy. The reasoning […]
High society
‘Well Did You Evah!’ (1990), Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop directed by Alex Cox (via John Coulthart)
3:AM Awards 2010
3:AM NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2010 Tom McCarthy‘s C (Jonathan Cape) 3:AM POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2010 Jenni Fagan‘s The Dead Queen of Bohemia (Blackheath Books) 3:AM NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2010 Owen Hatherley‘s A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso) 3:AM ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2010 Jon Savage‘s Black […]