ian maxton
@attheimax
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cut-rate surrealist. fake marxist.
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Joined July 2011
contained herein: a history of the united states of america in its last days.
Poet Ian Maxton's (@attheimax) "The Possession" roams across the "spooked-out American map," surveying the machinery of empire and the scorched landscapes it leaves behind.
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RT @r_emmet: Sun Ra wishing Louis Armstrong happy birthday in a 1970 issue of Downbeat (posted by @ethan_iverson as an outtake from his Nat….
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real tv is back.
Season 13 of "Rick Steves' Europe" debuts this fall. Keep on travelin'!.
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broke: new james l. brooks movie. woke: new julie kavner performance.
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the season 5 mcnulty plot is also apparently divisive but merely stating what it is should be enough of a defense imo.
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the wire is by far the best of the “prestige” tv class and a big part of that is how season two gives you a glimpse of the black hole around which the show orbits but from which it must avert its eyes.
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two paths for the novel.
Zeuxis and Parrhasius had a competition of who could make the most realistic art: Zeuxis painted grapes so realistic that birds went to peck at them. Parrhasius went to pull back the curtain to reveal his work — only to reveal the curtain was a painting. Parrhasius wins!.
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i sort of remember feeling this way when i watched mon oncle, too, after the first two tati films which maybe have less on their mind but are funnier as a result.
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love all the abstract stuff in playtime – it’s pure geometry – and how gags are built around that, but found myself less enamored with the rest.
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RT @matthiasellis: Yes. You should be embarrassed. Sorry but some of us are going to be extremists on this one.
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good book.
It only felt right to begin Women in Translation Month with first book that Deep Vellum ever published, Carmen Boullosa’s TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT, now in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition!
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staying out of the kg-account-holders vs. mega-link-sharers fight . none of my business.
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was always one of the hollywood classics that didn’t click for me in my teens and twenties but rewatching it last night i felt like saul on the road to damascus.
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lots of good reasons for an individual to make different choices than i did and i’m not in the business of advising people on their life based on my own but i do think it is a narcissism that posits academia as substantially worse off than most other sectors.
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i am committed to not being neurotic about this whatever happens to me next – my dad used to deliver uniforms and car batteries in the desert heat, his mom spent most of her life in restaurants and factories.
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as i reach the end i can only say i have very much enjoyed english graduate school and know i would not have used my time outside of it as well as i’ve managed to do inside of it.
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i have wanted a lada nova since i was 16 or 17 so this is a big day for me.
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interesting that there isn’t (to my knowledge) a novel where corn plays a role like the rockets in gravity’s rainbow or oil in cyclonopedia (putting this in the notes for my indiana book).
its the corn-fed part that is scary. what if us capital were just the agency of corn itself, hoping to universalize its hegemony, both capital and consumer good, both fuel and booze, maze and master?.
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