What the hell is the family?
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
she probably told Gilgamesh he’d get fat off all those loaves of bread, probably sucker punched Jesus, replaced Roland’s horn with a protophonograph that split his temples from sheer sonic distress, told Vlad the Impaler that his methods were obsolescent, flooded Paris a few times for a laugh
the junction of a tricycle & a hammer under a busted gambling table
A cheer arose. Somehow they had gotten the entire dome of the Madonna dell’Orto off intact. A true feat of uncivil engineering, and they rolled it through the streets as though they had decapitated a giant. Onto the rubbish mound it went.
What are you going to do, tear down half the city
Well, watch out. One of these days you'll turn on the tap, and blood will run out...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
A cinema worth its salt could do much worse than to dedicate its next year, or however long it will take, to screening as many of the 500 plus films from Film as a Subversive Art on which hands could be laid. An occupied cinema could do no better.
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
To enucleate this low-res Polyphemus bolted to the ground of a roof, cursed to swivel and not to call out to its father at sea any words of blame and loathing other than WELCOME TO VIRTUAL VIEWFINDER! TOUCH THE SCREEN TO GET STARTED
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
The entirety of your case, which asserts that ‘I now owe a sum of money because I spent what I had borrowed on the terms of an agreement I signed according to which I would repay it’, rests on the mistaken assumption that the five instances of “I” in this sentence correspond to the same
A film in the catacinema
The ocean froze. Montage was exciting and vacant. The movement of history was expressed through the three-way cross-cutting of pin stripes, the melting of glaciers, and a dog trying to ride a skateboard. Many workers went on strike and struck out toward the sea. Why should we stay at the factory gates, they sang, if
Glossary
Arrested on numerous occasions: bank robbery, impersonating a doctor, impersonating an ambulance driver, armed bank robbery, insurance fraud, assaulting an officer, impersonating a cruise ship captain...
The Noonday Shadow
First, they are run you over, then they insist on not polishing their ornament. Such is the ultimate sign of luxury: to have a $320,000 ornament, supported by a mass of ramming weight and speed, and to let it get rusty.
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
We might consider making things that can’t sink. One good way to do this is to not build boats. But there are landslides, and many houses are placed along the sea. Once you open the door to non-sinkability, it’s hard to know where you reasonably stop. Or perhaps a boat made of water, but that
On Rage and Swagger
An excerpt from Roman Letters
To Sit on a Throne of Teeth, Graced With a Crown of Teeth
This has been a summer of blown opportunities, at least insofar as cinema allegedly devoted to taking those opportunities goes.
Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
Novelist China Miéville joins Evan Calder-Williams to launch Calder-Williams’ book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (Zero Books) by announcing the death of the “Salvage punk” theory it presents.…