“Artists are the worker priests of the cult of man.”
That’s a statement by Brice Marden. A brand new painting by Marden will set you back about nine hundred thousand dollars. In addition, Marden has been pretty up front about his drug use. He really likes to smoke pot. So what kind of cult is he [...]
My stalker has returned. Maybe “stalker” isn’t the right word. He’s not outside my door every night; he doesn’t call me at weird hours; I’ve never felt unsafe. But I haven’t been able to electronically get away from the first man I ever slept with. He has found me wherever I go, under whatever email [...]
Please read me—please read me—please
Because I got out of bed to write this
Please read me—please read me—please
Because if everyone read this I’d be anthologized for ever
Please read me—please read me—please
Because it’ll only take a moment
Please read me—please read me—please
Because I look under every dark emotion for an even darker one
Please read me—please read me—please
Because you [...]
The Last Movie, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper (1971): My weekend started early with a day off on Friday, so I went with my friend Stephanie to Anthology Film Archives to see this classic of early-Seventies American cinema that I’d never had the chance to see. They had a new print playing for a [...]
When I was a kid in the mountatins of northern Arizona, just about anything we wanted to do required driving 45 minutes to two hours, depending on the size of town we needed — three and a half if we were heading to Phoenix for a live show. This meant that the late 80s, for me, [...]