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jean vigo at google video

  • Taris, roi de la eau (1931, 9 min.)
  • Zéro de conduite: Jeune diables au collège (1933, 41 min.)
  • And a bonus Jean Painlevé:

  • Acera, or the Witches’ Dance (1972, 12 min.)
  • fluxus outcroppings

    from the NY Times:

    u.s.a. surpasses all the genocide records!

    Lennon & Ono standing in front of George Maciunias’s U.S.A. Surpasses All the Genocide Records!.

    Also worth mentioning if entirely unconnected: wood s lot has a collection of Michel Butor material.

    things around

  • Alain Resnais & Chris Marker’s film Les statues meurent aussi.
  • Two poems by David Foster Wallace: “Peoria (4)” and “Peoria (9)”.
  • A couple of Dada reviews from the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail: David Markus on the Hans Richter show & Valery Oisteanu on Daughters of Dada.
  • Also in the Rail: Jennifer Scappettone’s translations of Ameria Rosselli; Scappettone’s translations appeared in Issue 2 of Circumference.
  • circumference reading

    There’s a Circumference reading this Sunday, September 17th at 4pm. Hosted by the Bowery Poetry Club’s World of Poetry bilingual poetry series. Anne Twitty reads translations of Maria Negroni; Ilya Bernstein reads Osip Mandelstam; and Anita Naegeli reads Raphael Urweider. 308 Bowery (at Bleaker), NY, NY. $7. Eventually we’ll have Issue 5 out, but that’s taking a while.

    (Also noteworthy: Ron Silliman, Debra di Blasi, and Samuel R. Delany at KGB on Friday at 7pm.)

    back once again

    This was broken, but now it’s fixed. I don’t know what happened. Variously:

  • Geoff Dyer on Idris Khan.
  • The Greek Font Society has exciting new fonts out.
  • Chris Marker’s Chat écoutant la musique (from, via).
  • things for sunday

  • Alex Mindlin on New York subway map design.
  • Rachel Cohen on Nathalie Sarraute.
  • An old DesignBoom piece on Franco Maria Ricci.
  • curated poetry systems

    Ubu has posted the Giorno Poetry System recordings. A capricious selection – all links are to MP3s:

    William Carlos Williams:

  • “The Yellow Flower” (1954)
  • Edwin Denby:

  • “The Shoulder”/”The Subway”/”Over Manhattan Island”/”Disorder, mental, strikes me”/”Suppose there’s a cranky woman inside me” (1974)
  • Frank O’Hara:

  • “To the Film Industry in Crisis” (with Jane Freilicher & John Gruen, 1959)
  • “Ode to Joy”/”To Hell with It” (1963)
  • “Poem”/”Poem” (1963)
  • “Adieu Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean Paul” (1964)
  • “Having a Coke with You” (1965)
  • John Ashbery

  • “A Blessing in Disguise” (1966)
  • from “Litany” (1980?)
  • Kenneth Koch:

  • “Spring” (1966)
  • Joe Brainard:

  • from I Remember (1970)
  • from More I Remember More (1974)
  • Ron Padgett:

  • “June 17, 1942″ (1974)
  • “No Title” (1978)
  • “Zzzzzz” (1980?)
  • Ted Berrigan:

  • from “Memorial Day” (1974)
  • “Today in Ann Arbor” (1970)
  • Charles Olson:

  • “Maximus of Gloucester (’Only My Written Word’)” (1967)
  • “The Ridge” (1967)
  • “Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester” (1967)
  • Ishmael Reed:

  • “Sky Diving” (1977)
  • John Cage:

  • “Mushroom Haiku” (1969)
  • excerpt from Silence (1969)
  • Mureau” (1975)
  • “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (1976?)
  • “Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau” (1976)
  • “Five Stories in the Style of Indeterminacy (1979)
  • Claes Oldenburg:

  • “June Was”/”Panodramdra” (1976)
  • Emmett Williams:

  • “Duet” (1968)
  • Jackson Mac Low:

  • “Guru, Guru, Gate” (1976)
  • in sunday’s new york times

  • Wyatt Mason on Javiar Marí­as in the Book Review.
  • There’s also a nicely designed, if ill informed and poorly written, close reading of F. T. Marinetti’s “Après la Marne, Joffre visita le front in auto” (on the occasion of the Getty exhibition).
  • various things

  • Pierre Joris and John Berger on Günter Grass.
  • This documentary by Agnès Varda on the Black Panther Party is fairly astonishing.
  • Louis Aragon’s “A Wave of Dreams”, translated by Adam Cornford.
  • George Méliès’s Le voyage dans le lune at archive.org; more shorts at Google Video.
  • Slavoj Žižek’s The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
  • ray johnson, rudy burkhardt & peter hujar at vassar

    oedipus (elvis no. 1)

    Reviewed by Holland Cotter at the NY Times.