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HOUSE OF SZENTE

SLOW GHOST 1997

About Me

Been dead for years, encased in plastic with a small rabbit emblem on my knee. I am Pinzy Merton. I am Lemonade from "SHARPEL". I piss Sherlock Holmes pee. a>_______________________________________________________ ___________ This is the Momus review for "Snow in the Portrait of Eyes" film and soundtrack: Slow Ghost "Snow in the Portrait of Eyes" (CD and DVD) Well, the trippy underwater sounds of these songs again raise the spectre of My Bloody Valentine. Most of these short, fragile, strange songs are lovely, like Jeff Buckley songs rewritten by Bjork or Vincent Gallo. And yes, Devendra Banhart's ghost wows and flutters over them like a raven over a corrugated tin shack. BUT... as in the case of The Billy Nayer Show there's a visual talent lurking behind these songs which exceeds them. The DVD of "Snow in the Portrait of Eyes" is incredible, a full-length video art piece which takes us into a strange world (part Peter Greenaway, part Matthew Barney, part John Bock) in which an author, Pinzy Merton, is rejected by publishers, queer-bashed, addressed by 18th century characters in periwigs, speaks to the camera out of lip-synch, sings Slow Ghost songs, shows us his paintings and poems and photographs, inserts inter-titles like "Pawnsy a little lesser swims through the sea", and travels through snowy landscapes. It's all ravishingly strange and beautiful, and makes me think that its creator, Brian Szente, might become an important artist in the future. If I were a billionaire philanthropist he'd already have a million dollars for his next project, and if I were a curator I'd put him in a big show. A show about beauty and its return in an ugly age. (www.imomus.com).. width="425" height="350">.. ..>Here is a video I directed with Mike Kash for the Warner Brothers band The Sun.. width="425" height="350">.. ..>Szente Family crest/Related to Dracula

My Interests

That awful gut feeling that said: the 100 acre woods was really a World War II trench warfare test program.

I'd like to meet:

the retired ghost of Marzipan MopAnd I really want to meet this person who made this film:and CHOCKY

Music:

Scott Walker, Momus, Ana Lola Roman, lizzy Mercier Decloux, Nine Inch Nails -Year Zero, Black Dice, Rod Mckuen, Alpha, Flotation Walls, Marvin the Robot, Divine Comedy, Klaxons, Polvo, M.I.A., Shudder to Think, Bill Evans, Christ, Dizzee Rascal, Luke Haines, Koushik, Bombs, Dr. Monokrome, Pentangle, Other Box, Toots and the Maytals, Gorecki, Linda Perhacs, Jandek, Pulp, Rocket Surgery, The Redcoats are Coming, Aphex Twin, Third Eye Foundation, Flying Saucer Attack, Adam Green, Milky, San Sebastian Strings, Nirvana (UK), the sound of japanese horror films. And a bunch more, you know it Teddy Ruxpin mind control tapes.Momus and the Great Pumkin:here is a poster i just did for the family business CMJ showcase featuring ALR:

Movies:

The Year of the Sex Olympics, Noriko's Dinner Table, Strange Circus, Able Edwards, Lost Things, , Inland Empire, O' Lucky Man, 3 Extremes, Children of the Stones, Whistle and I'll Come to You, Paper Rad, Casting the Runes (ITV), Myra Breckinridge, The Falls (Peter Greenaway), Mondo Cane 1 and 2, Memoirs of a Survivor, The Plague Dogs. Chosen Survivors, Tears of Kali, Quatermass (4), The last Man on Earth, ID, F For Fake. The Sun Also Rises. A Tale of Two Sisters. Martin. Sweet Movie. Steppenwolf. Montenegro. Tomie. V for Vendetta, Blue Beard. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Hiroshima Mon Amour. The Wicker Man. The Orphic Trilogy. Orson Welles: One Man Band. Hellavator: The Bottled Fools. Suicide Club. Brittania Hospital. The Knack and How to Get It. Bad Timing, 964 Pinocchio. Bone. Fallen Angels. Sleuth. Jack Frost (stop-action). Kwaidan. The Ruling Class. The Horse's Mouth. Blow Up. Pola X. Revenger's Tragedy. The Man Who Haunted Himself. The Final Programme. Seconds. The Mansion of Madness. The Razor's Edge. Die Nibulungen. Spellbound. Bell, Book and Candle. Woman Times Seven. Willard. Satan's Brew. God Told Me To. The Fall of the House of Usher (Bunuel and Corman) Asylum (70's documetary), Watership Down, A snake of June, The League of Gentlemen: Apocalypse, Bizarre, The Orchestra (Zbig Rybczynski), Spectres of the Spectrum, They Came Back, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Madhouse, Time Without Pity, Darling, Percy, Jandek on Corwood ... .. width="425" height="350">.. ..>

Television:

Ace of Wands, Chocky, Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, great job, The Armando Iannucci Show, Black Books, The Omega Factor, Lost, Survivors (BBC), Kolchak, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Man to Man with Dean Learner, Beasts, Brass Eye, Coogan's Run, Jam, I'm Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Big Train, Supernatural, Jekyll, Monkeydust,

Books:

2012: the return of quetzalcoatl (my favorite book) THe Hospital of the Transfiguration, Thousand Cranes, Steppenwolf, The Esp Reader, The Tokyo-Montana Express, A Long Trip to Teatime, The Wanting Seed, The Medusa and the Snail, Cosmic Trigger, it really goes on for a very long time and once I fell off a church steeple and I couldn't remember anything so sometimes it takes awhile. You understand. Books about yogurt and liposuction and rainy days when you have a migraine and ghosts who eat tacos and flame throwers that get bored and want to take a nice long hot bath. Exactly. Books -check em out!

Heroes:

(positive and imagination based evolution) and Chocky, Scott Walker, Jerry Cornelius andMomusmy old friends: Adriano Shaplin +the RiotGroup Ziggy

My Blog

Chapter 6: The cat introduced to synthetics

A lick on the face. An offer to experience the other lick on the face. The Cat has elliptical eyes. Show room mosaics. This un-named cat asked for the trophy. The observationals, a group of cat-hybrid...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:13:00 PST

chapter 5: family of cats

I came back yesterday to see my two sisters. It has always felt lonely without them around. They calm me down, they know my name, the one that others don’t know. And, it seems very logical to me...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:21:00 PST

Chap. 4: Kali

The Cat That Ate The UNIverse So THAT it Could SHIT out an interesting one. Cahpter Four...KaliUnder it's tired breath,the sleak-grey oriental cat said " I know Kali, I have tried to wash Kali, I hate...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:53:00 PST

Part3: Cats Down the Wonder Hole

The Cat that ate the Universe so that it could Shit Out an INTERESTING ONE pat 3:Cats Down the Wonder Hole. God created silence. Than something else got bored and created the cat. And we all know how ...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:34:00 PST

Cat 2: the industrial revolution

The Cat THat Ate TTHE UNIverse SO THAT it COULD shit out AN INTERESTING ONE:Chapter Two....The Industrial Revolution. When I got home to Apartment &zed I fell to the floor with a swanish dive as if ap...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:09:00 PST

2nd online book: the cat that ate the universe so that it could shit out an interesting one.

The First October CatI was out in the rain this morning. I wasn't sure if I was sick or just tired. I had been sleeping 6 or more hours a night for the past three night, but it was sleep driven by ext...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:48:00 PST

Painting Show @ Simple CAFE NY

http://a352.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/119/m_b2e31a10 aca82e27e03aebab5410d297.jpgSeptember through october....Brian SzentePainting showSimple CafeBedford Ave. and South 3rdBrooklyn, NY 11211...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:25:00 PST

ha ha ha

nothing is solid, ever. Get used to it!
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:03:00 PST

not happening now

unfortunately this is not happening anymoreTHe book is finished, for now... I'm going to be working non-stop on developing and writing a script for Ben Barenholtz, who has lived a very interesting lif...
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:17:00 PST

the end

Farewell for now: a new chapter will begin soon. Everything you have read up until now, will be contained in the book: Brooklyn Werewolf Diaries by Brian Szente.cheers.
Posted by HOUSE OF SZENTE on Sat, 12 May 2007 07:35:00 PST