I adored this book. It’s such an exciting mix of genres, prose and images, the political and the personal. I can’t recall having read a book quite like this. She fearlessly ranges from her sexual experiences to her politically ideologies and relentlessly sticks to the truth that any and all binary positions are false. I would hope some young adults get to read this book, as it serves as a timely, relevant guidepost for those figuring it out.
Books I Read in 2024: Victory Parade, I Hate Men, My Friend Dahmer, The Crying of Lot 49, Machines in the Head, Big Magic, The Valley, End of Active Service, An Honest Woman, The Money Shot, Atomic Habits, Finding Your Own North Star, Crazy Cock, Sigrid Rides, Your Money Or Your Life, The Big Sleep, Eventually Everything Connects
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In the early 2000s, I was working on a project I called The Fetish Alphabet. It was a series of flash fictions, all named for the letters of the alphabet, each letter representing a fetish. Over time, I had various of those stories published on various literary platforms. In 2003, Born Magazine published one: “C Is for Conjoined Twins.” I don’t quite recall how it worked, but the idea was the site was coupling texts by writers with multimedia creators, and the text and multimedia were combined into one cool result. My story was turned into a Flash-based (I believe) … I don’t know what to call it but artwork sounds about right … by the French artist Rolito. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can see the interactive, animated original story here. (This interactive work is also cited in Donna Leishman’s “The Flash Community: Implications for Post-Conceptualism.”)
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I know as a “serious” creative, which I’ve never really considered myself to be, you’re supposed to hate AI, but I had so much fun when I used Meta AI to create my latest newsletter. With prompting, Meta AI made up sex toys and virtual erotic poetry readings and fiction it claimed I wrote. There were some fascinating exchanges between me and Meta AI along the way, too. I also really had fun using Substack’s somewhat limited but whatever AI image generator to illustrate the newsletter. In any case, check it out here and subscribe.
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These are some of my all-time favorite movies, listed arbitrarily. (A single director can only get one mention.)
Amélie
The Wizard of Oz
Reservoir Dogs
No Country for Old Men
Goodfellas
Sixteen Candles
Moonlight
Grey Gardens
Apocalypse Now
Black Swan
Léon: The Professional
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Zone of Interest
Hustlers
I Am Love
Eastern Promises
La La Land
The Truman Show
I Am Not Your Negro
Sexy Beast
Death and the Maiden
Blue Valentine
Metropolis
Cast Away
Past Lives
Bonnie and Clyde
Un Chien Andalou
Daughters of the Dust
Tár
Sweetie
Blade Runner
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Do the Right Thing
Spring Breakers
Mulholland Drive
The Royal Tenenbaums
Body Double
Children of Men
American Psycho
Dior and I
The Shining
Moulin Rouge
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Magnolia
Irreversible
Brazil
Magic Mike
Alien
Suture
Nomadland
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