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This photograph makes me want to run into a wall or something.

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TODAY I BOUGHT A MADELEINE PAN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME. Also, I just taught Nicolas how to say “Da Brat” in English.

Anyone who has listened to the garbage that comes out of my mouth over the past year knows that I think about Kevin Barnes often. You should know that the reason for that is probably my background in David Byrne studies.

Hey, wanna see his blog? http://journal.davidbyrne.com/

Want a fresh link to KB’s? http://theviolenceofhandcrafteddolls.tumblr.com/

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Kelly just sent this to me via Facebook.

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"The aesthetic sensation a reader gets from the neuronovel is not the pleasure of finding the general in the particular, but a frustration born of the defeat of the metaphoric impulse. We want to make the metaphor work, to say, “Yes, we are all a bit like a paranoid schizophrenic sometimes” or, “Yes, as Mark Haddon’s autistic narrator needs to separate the foods on his plate and not let them touch, to sort colors into good and bad, so am I in my impulse to classify a new genre.” But this would be to indulge the worst tendency of literary criticism, whether of a jargony and sectarian or burbling and humanistic type: to insist on meaning or relevance when there isn’t any, or when the works themselves actually foreclose it. Instead the reader has to admit to himself that his brain doesn’t work like an autistic person’s, a Capgras sufferer’s, and that when he loves or works or fears or talks, his ordinary neurons fire or misfire for ordinary rather than extraordinary reasons, whatever these may be."

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I went to the Cinemathèque tonight to see Histoires Extraordinaires for my daily exercise of affection for Malle and the Italian people. Histoires is three cinematic adaptations of Poe novellas, directed by Vadim, Malle, and Fellini. The opening sequence of the Fellini was so great that it exists on its own on YouTube, so I share it with you here. I got to see it twice tonight, because for whatever reason, the Cinemathèque decided to play the Fellini twice: once dubbed in French, once in the original Italian/English with French subtitles. Yes.

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