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July 21, 2000 “Randy Goes to a Rave at the Rocks”
The first surprise was that the audience was mostly shorthaired college kids–short hair not in a skinhead kind of way or in a fashionably unfashionable kind of way, but in a “I’m majoring in business” kind of way–not the longhaired misfits I expected. I didn’t see a single tie-dye all night–but those bizarre light… Continue Reading »
Interview with Jane Siberry on “Hush,” June 28, 2000
Note: The first couple of minutes of this interview were lost due to engineer error (me). Randy Roark: There’s lullaby-ish qualities to the songs themselves as a whole, as a unit, as a CD. Jane Siberry: So there’s that too. That’s actually more of what I should probably say. You’re my first interview, Randy, so… Continue Reading »
April 18, 2000, Review of “Deliberate Prose” by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995 Edited by Bill Morgan Foreward by Edward Sanders $30.00 Harper Collins ISBN: 0-06-019294-1 It took me almost a month to do what I knew I had to do when I first received a review copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Deliberate Prose—to go into my files and go through a… Continue Reading »
February 18, 2000, Review of “The Stranger” by Satyajit Ray
18 February 2000, 4:30 a.m. Dear Andrew: Thanks for loaning me “The Stranger.” There’s a lot to like about this film, but it’s also not surprising that my film encyclopedias have almost nothing to say about it and only give it 2 1/2 stars (approximately a C+). For someone like me who’s only seen… Continue Reading »
February 5, 2000, Review of “Reside” by Patrick Pritchett
Review of Reside Author: Patrick Pritchett Dead Metaphor Press PO Box 2076 Boulder, Colorado 80306 40 pages staplebound, paper 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 $5.00 ISBN: 1-880743-14-0 There is nothing really new in the concept of the poem, or the text, as something that only really happens on the page, somehow removed, as Wittgenstein suggested,… Continue Reading »
December 8, 1999, Review of “Screaming for Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg” by Caveney Graham
Review of Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg Author: Caveney Graham Broadway Books Special Markets Department Random House, Inc. 1540 Broadway New York, NY 10036 216 pages; bibliography, index hardcover 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 Price: unknown ISBN: 0-7679-0278-5 Reportedly, one of Allen’s final instructions to Bob Rosenthal, his literary executor and long-time… Continue Reading »
Anima Mirror
Given away for free to participants of a Surrealist Festival at Penny Lane. 30 pages December 1, 1999 50 copies. Cover photo by Kai Sibley Cover design by Mikell Yamada 41 pages October 11, 1999 50 copies Continue Reading »
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November 15, 1999, Chuck Close Retrospective, Seattle Art Museum
In 1988, the painter Chuck Close suffered a stroke, which left him a quadriplegic. His first painting after his injury, returning to his portraits of Alex, was sadder but brighter than he expected. As a student, he’d been interested in the paintings of Willem de Kooning and had painted a number of “Willem de Kooning… Continue Reading »
October 15, 1999, “Surrealism” text for a multi-media performance at Penny Lane
SURREALISM In December 1919, the poet Tristan Tzara, one of the art terrorists who helped plot the Dadaist’s attack on culture at the Caberet Voltaire, arrived in Paris from Zurich. World War I was over and the pacifist Roumanian writer was free to travel. When he arrived in Paris, he quickly joined a group of… Continue Reading »