i am reading LOADS about the history of feminism right now
it's annoying cause i know everything about but, but necessary cause i need works to cite from for my paper

reading about feminism always makes me cry cause feminism makes me happy

<3
finished this at work on friday.
gabby bess needs to write more
i love gabby bess. i wanna be gabby bess.

The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales



Japanese folk tales from circa 1000 years ago, entertaining stuff, with a really good translation. Massively sexist though.

Wow, what a piece of crap. An interesting piece of crap, but a piece of crap nonetheless.
Does anyone have more familiarity with some of Lessing's other work and can convince me that she is an author worth digging into?

readings for my train rides tomorrow and friday:

The Golden Notebooks was a strong novel I read back in college in the 80s'

Lanzarote, Michel Houellebecq

Pony my dear, do you ever read books that weren't assigned to you in your womens' studies class? You know, like for fun?

airless spaces was assigned to the board by me in my review thread.

and its one of the least fun books ever written

it wasn't assigned by me by anyone. I will read that for fun. :/
the last WHOLE book I read for class was a Kathy Acker book. Blood and Guts in High School that was. The rest of her work I had to read I happily skipped.

PLUS, this semester I am in NO women's studies class. unbelievable, right? ;)

is it good? will I like it?
I want to read all semiotext(e) releases, but I wanna start with the fun ones.

it's the best out of the semiotexte intervention series, but "fun" is not a word i'd typically associate with it, although my copy lies next to my pillow and is faded and dog eared from so many read throughs.

preliminary materials for the theory of the young girl is the one i think you'd appreciate the most. kim gordon herself has read and enjoyed it.

already read preliminary materials! I liked it, yes!

will check out the agony of power as soon as I have money again and report back! you having it next to your pillow makes me want to read it

its a wonderful text. check the amazon review.

You must spread some reputation around before giving it to pony again.

Fuck the fuck what fucking !@#$%! says about this author, you simply have to read Octavio Paz before reading any other exegeses on power and authority, TRUST ME. A poet and a Mexican at that is the most articulate at expressing those otherwise intuitively inexpressible political musings. If somehow dead_battery hasn't read it, his Nihilist ass needs to read it even more than you!

I just got these bad boys from the Ebay, for only $26 total! what a steal! My Joel Peter Witkin collection grows! I already have two copies of Gods of Earth & Heaven, one signed!

Both first pressings by the way!

Paul Virilio

virilios "The Administration of Fear", which is out on the semiotexte intervention series, the same as baudrillards agony of power.

is that the one you've read tesla or are you referring to something else?

again, not what i'd describe as fun, but still brilliant.

virilio is very strange to me, a practising catholic who also writes critical theory and drives a ferrari.

it's worth repeating how brilliant baudrillards agony of power is.

he is utterly DESPISED by the academic left right now, they've ignored him since the matrix made him unfashionable. they occasionally bring up his name to slag off, but otherwise ignore him.

you can't get a better endorsement than that.

what he says makes marxists and academic posers convinced of the moral righteousness emanating from their own petty cliques very uncomfortable.

it's bleak, and it soothes me.

1Q84

http://aminacain.com/

Amina Cain. Haven't read her, but Thurston has a blurb on her page:

“Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rear view mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure.” — Thurston Moore

i puked in my mouth a little

Kiddo just ordered following books, cause sad:

Helping the Dreamer: New and Selected Poems by Anne Waldman
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle
You are a Little Happier Than I am by Tao Lin
Even Though I Don't Miss You by Chelsea Martin
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

I don't feel better yet, but I hope I will as soon as they start arriving

"tao lin wont make you "happ-y""

dead_battery age 25, said.

"i want to buy coke." said Jane, 23.

"ok."

"yes. let us. buy-"y" coke." said Brad, 26.

"ok."

we went to buy coke. the weather was coldish-y.

then we met this girlish-y person called Marie.

"let me publish with you tao cos ur cool." said Marie Calloway, age 23.

"ok."

"i will make u think we're gonna fuck then we won't cos im fuckin adrian brody instead."

"ok."

"cum in my mouth watch me cry."

"ok."

"u r a genius marie."

"thx tao babes."

"do you want to buy coke?"

"yeah. ok."

never read anything by him, wanted to see what the hype was all about

Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood.

So far so very good

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is dead. http://www.chron.com/news/world/arti....php?cmpid=bna

Maybe he turned into a dove and flew out the window?

that would have been mackandal in alejo carpentier's "el reino de este mundo"

anyway, sad sad fucking news. gabo was really the best. feels like i've lost a friend.

Cancer of the pig tail.

And sorry for the loss !@#$%!

haa haaa haa haaa


thanks. and nothing like funerals for jokes! so thanks again.

this arrived today and i read it.
it read like it was me being upset. i loved it
if you are me, or want to be me, read it.
i think i will read it again tomorrow.

I've been going through Buckminster Fuller's books.

read this today
http://essaysspring13.qwriting.qc.cu...o-All-That.pdf

^ Her Year of Magical Thinking is very moving and highly recommended.

Reading this autobiography of Jazz Saxophonist Art Pepper. Homeboy had a crazy life.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED By The Way

HIGHLY. The shit is HARSH

I put some of her books on my "to read"-list after i read "Goodbye to all that"
Thanks, I will probably start with "Year of Magical Thinking" then!

Oh, these are the books I bought this month:



Not pictured: A Conspiracy of Images. Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War by John J. Curley
Even Though I Don't Miss You by Chelsea Martin