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Tag: gilles deleuze

  • The Subjective

    April 20, 2026

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    Film

    Video from last month’s Religion & Art event at Goldsmiths is now online, including this great panel discussion I had with Drs. Harri Hudspith, Nina Danino and Teresa Calonje about Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich and of course somehow I ended up going on about Spinoza and Deleuze. Read more

  • Cretins

    April 12, 2026

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    Show

    Escondido’s Team Cretins put together this show with a number of other mutual aid organizations to raise funds for the AIDS/LifeCycle ride from SF to LA. Benefit shows pretty much always mean the bill comprises basically anyone who will say yes, so this particular show featured tall:shadow alongside other rappers plus cumbia, hardcore and teenage Read more

  • Strophische Gedichten

    March 9, 2026

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    Film

    Strophische Gedichten is my new film inspired by Hadewijch of Brabant, Stan Brakhage, Anne Carson, Emily Brontë and John Ashbery, premiering March 14th at Goldsmiths College as part of Religion & Art + the subjective. Read more

  • How the Years Condemn

    May 12, 2025

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    Music

    Those Darn Gnomes’ first album The Years turns a decade old today. In honor of our least-loved record, please, hit play on a forgotten experimental metal oddity and take a look back at the early days of a local band at a key point in their (so-called) development. Read more

  • Your Memory Is Not My Memory

    January 1, 2025

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    Nothings

    Blink and you’ll miss the moment Saint Laurent’s titular protagonist gives the only moment of historical contextualizing on which so many biopics are built. Saint Laurent reminisces on his mother’s parties, “and their dresses, so 1940s,” and in that fragment gives the audience all we’ll receive of the history behind Saint Laurent’s “Hommage aux Annees Read more

  • The Idea of Anything to Be Done

    April 16, 2024

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    Music

    The Idea of Anything to Be Done, a two-part solo guitar improvisation consisting of “Myself Creating What I Saw” and “Let No Name Ever Pass Our Lips,” is out today. Read more

  • Laughlin Cantate

    February 13, 2024

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    Music

    As keen readers of this blog would know (if there were any), this time last year Lucas and I drove out to Laughlin to visit his dad and do some work in Bullhead City, with digressions into Chino, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Oatman and basically anything else planted on the long stretch of the 10 Read more

Thought:

“What does she care for the atom bomb, the bed bugs, the cancer rent, Friendly Finance waiting to repossess her delinquent flesh… Sweet dreams, Pantopon Rose.”

William S. Burroughs | Naked Lunch

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