Chairman of the Board.
Katherine Taylor with Matthew Specktor. (at Skylight Books)
Kill all hoomans. #cats (at Space 4 Art)
For the later scenes featuring an older Kane, Orson Welles sat in the make-up chair from 2:30 am to be ready for a 9:00 am start.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Feel the Love
I really enjoyed Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson. It might be the most frank and open consideration of race I’ve encountered since Norman Mailer’s The Fight. I realize that’s a deeply weird comparison, especially since Loving Day is so relentlessly comic, but there’s something really admirable about the author’s determination to write about blackness and whiteness in contemporary America in a way that’s genuinely funny, particularly since it’s a conversation so many are strenuously avoiding. If this is your kind of conversation, check out my review in the Los Angeles Times.
TFL #57
The Floating Library tunes into Daniel Manoney’s Sunblind Almost Motorcrash by Spork Preess:
If you love music, but the prospect of reading a collection of record reviews strikes you as a less-than-thrilling use of your time, Daniel Mahoney just might make you reconsider.
His new book Sunblind Almost Motorcrash, published by Spork Press, collects a series of imaginary record reviews by bands that don’t exist. (If this review was in an audio format, you’d hear the sound of a needle scratching a record here.) That’s right: the songs, records, bands—even the record labels—are all products of Mahoney’s prodigious imagination.
Know the feeling.
Vermin returns to LA + SD
Come get some candy…
Respect. #vermin #cats