I love this post. Really devastating. I think you should read it.
I also love this article by Jan Lauwers in the May/June issue of American Theatre. (And if you go buy a newstand copy you'll see a liddle picture of me...)
I think that both writings are cosmically linked, somehow... like one is the pepper to the other's salt on the baked potato of my mind...
Last night I met the team that put this together. The topic came up incidentally, when we were chatting about something unrelated. I nearly peed myself when they told me. I was like, "Holy shit, that was YOU??"
This website basically got me through my first navigation (suffocation?) of Ulysses. Initially, I was determined to complete my reading without the help of skeleton keys or annotated guides or footnotes or any external sources. But I quickly realized what a big dummy I was. And when you Google the words "Ulysses" and "dummy", the first site to pop up is theirs. Ta-da.
So this couple (I'd tell you who they are but I'm afraid they may want to remain anonymous) made the site years ago to amuse themselves, and it became like, famous. They got into some copyright trouble from the "for Dummies" folks (of course), and the site was on ABC's World News Tonight, and etc...
But anyway the best part of the story is that they created the site so long ago that all the animations were designed for dial-up connections, and they never updated the frame speeds for our modern age... so the current result is this very apoplectic, seizure-inducing narrative that transforms a miasmatic literary monolith into Pure Punk Rock. AWESOME.
To this effect, my favorite panel is the one with Bloom masturbating on the strand...
By the way, did I tell you that we started rehearsals for DEAD CITY? And that we wrote a letter to Patti Smith inviting her to be our guest of honor at our opening night party?
I know I didn't. Because technically, I am in an extended period of Blog Silence. In fact, I'm not really even here. You never saw me.
But you could come talk to me in person. On Monday night, May 1, from 6:30 to 8:30, I'll be here (preview event for DEAD CITY), and from 9:00 to 11:00 I'll be here (13P prom/benefit).
Just come. I'll wear a pretty dress and get drunk and do something truly horrendous that you can gossip about for years.
No one wears a floor tom better...
This Wednesday. I'm singin'. Rain or shine, mofo's.
| Wednesday, April 26 @ 8pm NYU Composers Concert featuring ICE Ensemble The concert will include a piece by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos entitled "Stain," with lyrics and vocals by Sheila Callaghan (Other pieces by fellow NYU composers Jenny Olivia Johnson, Felipe Lara, Alexander Ness, and Matthew Quayle) Merkin Concert Hall |
Gotta be quiet on the blog for a few weeks... dealing with some stuff. Will come through with flying colors, rest assured.
I'll miss you while I'm gone... But for now, browse the archives if you're feeling distant. I'll list some of my faves to keep you busy:
- Birthday redux
(a request from zee spouse)- Caution on board
(got me a money gig)- Gum candy bandaids
(for la ketch)- Fine
(for m. daisey)- Dead man's soup
(for willie)- Death in the family
(for the divine ms. dizzia)- The hum
(for palmer)- The wrong century
(for mr. s. nickerson)- What we'll do
(for someone who has never read this but whom I think about often)- Tour
(for sherpie)- Smoke
(for yatta)- For those about to blog
(for YOU)- :(
(for brooksie) - Caution on board
If anyone has any further suggestions let me know and I'll slap 'em up.
Bye-bye, babies... *snif*
