Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Haiku #514: You Are One of the Bad Guys

Just a jezebel/Celibate against her will/Without connection

books


  • "Democracy in America" - deTocqueville
  • "Rainbow Stories" > William T. Vollman
  • "The Great Race" Dorothy Shovine
  • "Unfamiliar Fishes" - Sarah Vowell
  • 1861 - Adam Goodheart
  • Adjunct: An Undigest > Peter Manson
  • America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
  • An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge > Ambrose Bierce
  • Best American Essays 1986
  • Bowling Alone > Robert Putnam
  • Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves - Adam Hochschild
  • Candy Girl > Diablo Cody
  • Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists, and Dreamers
  • Child 44
  • Dashiell Hammett
  • Dirty White Boys > Stephen Hunter
  • Dizzy: the Life and Times of John Birks Gill (Palisades/Westwood)
  • Don't the Moon Look Lonesome? > Stanley Crouch
  • Europe and Elsewhere
  • Far From the Madding Crowd > Thomas Hardy
  • Fierce Pajamas
  • Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style > Alain Silver
  • Girl's Guide to Rocking
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn > Hubert Selby, Jr.
  • Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds > Dawn B. Sova
  • Lonesome Dove > Larry McMurtry
  • Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
  • Odd Girl Out
  • On Beauty > Zadie Smith
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude > Gabriel Garcia Mårquez
  • Orientalism > Edward Said
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Random Family
  • Reading the OED > Amman Shea
  • Slow Man > J.M. Coetzee
  • Special Effects: An Oral History > Harry N. Abrams (Westchester)
  • The Corrections > Jonathan Franzen
  • The Culture of Narcissism > Christopher Lasch
  • The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks
  • The Economics of Warfare > Cecil Pigou
  • The Garden of Allah > Sheilah Graham
  • The Great Crash of 1929 > Galbraith
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks > Rebecca Skloot
  • The Lives of Great Composers > Harold Schonberg
  • The Master > Colm Toibin
  • The Name of the Rose > Umberto Eco
  • The Odyssey > Homer
  • The Pillars of the Earth > Ken Follett
  • The Plot Against America > Philip Roth
  • The Prophet > Khalil Gibron
  • The Red Queen > Margaret Drabble
  • The Sea > John Banville
  • The War Against Cliché > Martin Amis
  • To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild
  • Typee > Herman Melville
  • Vanishing Point > David Markson
  • Walden > Thoreau
  • Web of Debt > Ellen Hodgson Brown
  • When the Body Says No
  • Wiseguy > Nicholas Pileggi
  • You Can't Say You Can't Play
  • You'll Like This Film Because You're In It > Michel Gondry

movies/t.v.


  • Abigail's Party
  • Beaten Down In Beantown
  • Bleak House
  • Danton
  • Deerhunter
  • Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
  • Get Low
  • Gleaming the Cube
  • Gun Crazy
  • Minnie and Moskowitz
  • Modern Romance
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Paradis Perdu > Abel Gance
  • Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • Sexy Beast
  • The Conversation
  • The Front > Martin Ritt
  • The Funeral
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • The Last Mistress
  • The Marx Brothers Collection
  • The Return of Jezebel James
  • The Wanderers
  • Un Chien Andalou > Wong Kar Wai

Areas of Interest

  • ABECEDA" Karel Teige
  • "Complete Savages" "The New Show" "Not Necessarily the News"
  • "Downright" Illustration Show
  • "Eternal Summer" (Sonnet 18)
  • "Learning to Curse: Essays on early modern culture"
  • "Novelists on Novelists: an anthology"
  • "Pale Fire"
  • "the click of a well-made box"
  • "The Goon Show"
  • "The Graham Greene Film Reader"
  • "The Revolution will be accessorized"
  • "The Universal Baseball Association"
  • "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"
  • 'Earth to America" "Up Your Giggy" Studio 360 "Cosmos, Spheres, Voyager"
  • Allen Ginsburg > Howl
  • Amy Homes
  • Amy Jean Porter
  • Anish Kapoor
  • Apollinaire
  • Ben Brown Fine Art
  • Billy T. James
  • Blueberry Divinity
  • Book Mooch
  • Charles Dickens > GRADGRIND
  • Chris Ware
  • Conservation International
  • Croesus + Mammon
  • Crumble. Crack. Burn. > Von Glitschka
  • Daniel Barenboim
  • David Foster Wallace
  • David Leavitt "The Body of Jonah Boyd"
  • deMan/Foucault
  • Design Can Change, It's Green Thing, Heated Issue
  • Dizzy Gillespie > "You Ain't Such A Much" (I Love Paris, 2008)
  • Does it Offend You, Yeah? > You Have No Idea...
  • Donald Barthelme's "The Balloon"
  • Donne, Hopkins, Larkin, Puig, Cortazar
  • Edward Said
  • Ellipses
  • Encounters at the End of the World
  • Francisco Collado-Rodriguez
  • Frank Darabont
  • George Meyer as Formal Couple in I Heart Huckabees
  • Ghost World - Clowes
  • Gibson, Eurudice, Heidegger, Wittgenstein
  • Gore Vidal
  • Greek Mythology
  • Harvard Lampoon
  • Herzon + deMeuron, Tallix, Narciso Rodriguez
  • Howells, Wharton, Updike, Oates > realism
  • hypnagogic/hypnapompic
  • Ian Frazier
  • Islands
  • Jay McInerney "The Good Life"
  • Jean Rochefort
  • Jim Crace
  • Jim Flora
  • John Bayley "The Power of Delight"
  • Josephine Dolan
  • Justin Ahrens
  • Komedy Kool Kids
  • Lee Evans
  • Linda Hutcheon
  • Lobochevsky, Riemann
  • Lorrie Moore
  • Loyd Sigmon [Sig Alert]
  • Mackinac Island
  • Mark Leyner "The Tetherballs of Bougainville"
  • McLuhan
  • metafiction
  • Michael Paul Spikes
  • Mike Reiss
  • Moral Re-Armament
  • Nabakov, Borges, Barth
  • net ball
  • Pagent of the Masters
  • Pali Canon
  • pedalo
  • Peter Sellers
  • Pigovian Tax
  • post positive adjectives
  • post-structuralism
  • Ralph Steadman
  • Raymond Chandler
  • representing the "familiar" as unfamiliar
  • Rhys Darby
  • Rick Powers
  • Robert Coover "A Child Again"
  • Robert Pinsky, Barbara Morgan, Dick Gordon
  • Robert Scholes
  • Robert Sklar
  • Roger Wilmut, Spike Milligan
  • Roland Barthes
  • Sam Simon
  • samizat
  • Satyidat Ray
  • self-reflexive games
  • Short Attention Span Theater
  • Simon Wiesenthal, John Swartzwelder
  • slow progress of technology
  • Soylent Green
  • Stephanie Mellarmé "A Tomb for Anatole"
  • Steven Heller
  • Susan Daitch "Storytown: stories"
  • Taz Tagore
  • The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival
  • The Shire New Zealand
  • Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King
  • Tuvalu
  • Valentina Tereshka
  • Vittorio Hösle " An essay on the nature of the comical"
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Yuri Gagarin

Haiku # 513: Royal Blue

Met a stifled King/
One who has no emotion/
yet filled me with Dreams