Kick to the Ego

denoting or relating to design etc. that is thought likely to be current or fashionable at some future time.Life has an insistent inability to live up to the aspirations of the imagination: visio...

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Nikolaus Gunther Nakszynski eventually grows up into equal parts Oliver Kahn and Gene Simmonds: one part Klaus Kinski: he gains his big break as Werner Herzog watches a film: he steals his attent...

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I forgot I had hairs on the back of my neck until I, until I... this music danced in my brain, just a woman’s voice and a guitar, a couple, with other stuff, between, then (recipe: half human, ...

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Bubba Spar KISSKISSKISS!; Joshua Selsky’s Digital Summer; that last verse of Jus’ A Rascal, voice almost getting away from body; Philip Sherburne’s ‘Needledrops’ AGAIN, a marriage propo...

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I've spent so many of the last few months' moments part angry at Katy, part solemn and dumbed, part effervescent and excited about new futures but without really talking through with any one of m...

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Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled SlowlyIt could take from Monday to Thursday and three horses. The ink was unstable, the characters cramped, the paper tore where it creased. Stained...

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No room has ever been as silent as the roomWhere hundreds of violins are hung in unison.

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Robert Hass, Misery and SplendorSummoned by conscious recollection, she would be smiling, they might be in a kitchen talking, before or after dinner. But they are in this other room, the window h...

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All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset shot them black into infinity: next morning darkness returned from the other infinity and the shadows caught ground and throug...

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In The Asylum Dance, his work of singular liminal poetry, John Burnside lifts then quickly drops an element he all-but-calls the “weekender’s idea,” the outsider’s inaccurate map of the q...

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DISC 1It starts, when it starts, with Stephen Merritt's voice falling down these stairs: Don't fall in love with me yet- he's (meaning 'is', meaning 'has') a story to tell, a laugh, a joke, a son...

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Why do people always say when you move that, "Oh, yeah, we'll be best friends forever, blah blah, keep in touch," and crap like that?I mean, half the time, it's not CLOSE to true... It's really a...

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New Order, Technique (Melody Maker, 1989)It begins. It thumps with glee, it swirls with lackadaisical intensity. "You're much too young to be a part of me, you're much too young to get a hold on ...

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"Obviously I’m interested in human relationships, but I think often we stop there. Most literary art is about relationships between humans, most often about urban relationships, about marriage ...

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“When I began writing long ago, I believed — I knew — that the means and manner evolved at that time to argue about pop culture had the potential to be expanded to crack open other subjects...

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warning: overly stuffy and didactic post follows. end warning.Not sure if I agree with a long-gone post of Luke's where he's talking about how we attempt to relearn the rules of engagement when w...

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"Tarmacadam's melting down on Ferdinand StreetAnd your soft heart has put me to shameYou once said that there is no line between thought and deedSo you might say, I've been thinking againHere's t...

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"It's enough to make you… enough… enough to make you watch… the SNOOKER!" - The Memory of Ian Penman's Boredom"I can't expect nobody to follow me!" - Hasil Adkins"I was not extraordinary!! ...

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Alasdair Roberts - "The Crook of My Arm"Like a thousand other post cards of towns like this in towns like this, surrounded by hate and indifference, prejudice, ennui. In tomorrow's light, to you,...

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“Never admit anything personal, codify, and render… gen-er-al”.“But we couldn’t help feeling a weight in our air. There was another darkness coming, that was all we knew – no need to ...

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The house is snuffing out around me, I set to listen to this: light by light, rooms gestured into containment: emotions, stresses, fissures folding up and storing in the net of sleep. (To reawake...

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A theory of the world where life doesn’t unfurl in linear chronicle, objects do not descend into places in time but life is a succession of moments, each conflating time and space, each thing a...

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The Russian Futurists – “Let’s Get Ready To Crumble”I forgot I had hairs on the back of my neck. Not that he’d use something as crass as a pun but that he’d use it like that. I’m no...

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Arrive like this: stood behind Savinien a beautiful young man. "Marthe, this is Pierre," Savinien says. "What a freakish downpour! Just out of the Arlequin onto the Tour Montparnasse and caught i...

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The Blue Nileone) You won’t like them. A Walk Across The Rooftops contains slap bass, trite lyrics on the debris of relationships, pans from (yawn) Coppola’s One From the Heart into (yawn) Pa...

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