"We must judge our own sins!"
-- David Byrne .
"We must judge our own sins!"
-- David Byrne .
Stillicide, dithyramb, jeremiad, Rubaiyyat, Moloch, ataraxia, vespertine, acrotomophilia, syzygy, suzumebachi.
Deerhoof
Athanasius Kircher
Wallace Shawn
Kara Walker
Muhammad Yunus
The Mighty Mos
OutKast. MF DOOM. Edan. Fela Kuti. Mos Def. Madlib. Prefuse 73. Deerhoof. Lupe Fiasco. D'Angelo. Iron Maiden. Pentagram. Busdriver. The fuckin Melvins.
Sunshine. Paprika. Tears of the Black Tiger. The Science of Sleep. Junebug. The Squid and the Whale. Tokyo Drift. Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes. Being John Malkovich. Putney Swope. Black Samurai. The Octagon. 8 1/2. Schizopolis. Point Break. A Scanner Darkly. Land of the Blind. Good Night, And Good Luck.
Aeon Flux. Perfect Hair Forever. Minoriteam. Shin-Chan. Bobobo Bo-Bo Bo Bo. Segments of Beat Takeshi's variety show featuring Japan's favorite monkey, Pan, and his little dog, James.
First big up all my RIP ole skool monster-stylin brothaz: Jorge Luis Borges. Joyce/Kafka/Beckett. Abe Kobo. Gibbon. John Aubrey. Carlyle. Sir Thomas Browne. Italo "t muthafuckin zero" Calvino. Henry Fielding. Julian Jaynes. R. D. Laing. The Dekonstruckshunists--Barthes, Derridizzles, Foucault, Baudrillard, no doubt. And D. ta tha H. Lawrence, word.
Also massive propz to the still-kickin, still-representinest crew ever compiled, knamsayin (apologies if some a y'all dead--I ain't have time to be googlin all y'all asses constantly, y'all too old): Salman Rushdizzles, big ups! Russell Edson. John Ashbery. George Saunders. Rikki "Crazee Sexy" Ducornet. Ben "MC Father Sound" Marcus. V.S. Naipaul. Charles Simic. Harry Mathews. Steven Millhauser. Milorad Pavic. John Ashbery. Vasko Popa. James Tate. Jeff Chang. J. C. Hallman. And Michael "BKLYN" Cunnigham.
And much love to my own personal crew of pen-type personnel, James Gendron, Gary "Harlem" Nelson, Sparrow Hall, Ollie Edz, Stevie B, Carlee Burgerz, J-Lou Cad-Kirk, X-opher Miller, Mark Porier, Chaniga, Carlos Garcia-Marquez, and Grey Cities.
And yes of course much, much love to any cat compilin lists of fantastical and/or rare meats (roaster hare, wild boar, lion, wendigo, leprechaun), and to any of my dawgs who like to write about varcolacs as much as I do, hope we meet one day.
And finally the Tremendous Pimpin award of the evening must unstoppably go to my favorite interlocutor, The Faux-British Bastard hisself, Henry "Big Pookie" James.