canadian collaboration

just found out that one of my favorite singer/songwriters, leonard cohen, is collaborated with the avant-garde composer philip glass on a 90-minute piece that sets poems from cohen's most recent book, the book of longing, to new glass compositions. performances run for three nights only beginning tonight and are in fucking toronto. lame.

david byrne = blogger

+
his blog
= awesome

or, excuse me, his "journal".

dad's briefcase

this book looks good.

Mitch Epstein: Work

latest banksy street art

"a new mural of a cash machine with a robotic arm snatching a little girl that recently turned up at exmouth market in finsbury, london..."

i found it on this website called towleroad and was wondering why the side advertisements were of mainly naked men wearing undies too small to cover their junk. then i looked up and the page title was "banksy targets banks with new mural -- towleroad for modern gay men".

girls at the pool

i love this photo. its a production still from a 2006 film called "the rape of the sabine women" by eve sussman that showed at the ifc center last year.

i found it on the cover of this week's artkrush.

sad summer songs

the a.v. club just put up a list of 12 truly sad summer songs. the kinks are up there with stevie wonder and the awesome 80s girl group, bananarama.

crazy love today

"love is blind, and so too is linda pugach, one of the loony-tuners in the somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo documentary 'crazy love'."

so begins manohla dargis's review published today in the new york times. i've been waiting to see this movie for awhile, which looks pretty entertaining due to its crazy story. the documentary tells the strange story of the relationship between linda riss and burton pugach, who began dating in the '50s when riss was in her early 20s. pugach apparently grew sickly obsessed with her and when she started seeing other people, he hired a few thugs to punish her by throwing lye in her face and consequently blinding her. the story was supposedly a tabloid hit back then, along with the closely-followed sensationalized trial. anyway, pugach was finally convicted and still, fifteen years later, the two were married.

with such an insane plot, the documentary has got to be somehwat of an entertaining rollercoaster ride. however, the times review puts a damper on all this shallow fun by focusing on the tragic side of the story, categorizing the film as a "freak family" story along the lines of the long island family pedophile story chronicled in 'capturing the friedmans', another highly entertaining tragic documentary. so basically, its going to be an emotional journey. now i want to see it even more.



crazy love opens in manhattan today. i think its playing at the landmark sunshine.