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Frank in all directions

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Monday
Sep072009

In Which We Recollect Our Recent Past

The Week in Review

It's getting early late, and a new fall season will soon be upon us. Still we hold dear the simple joys of summer, like a pleasant afternoon's walk, or any entrance in our secret life.

The writing of Almie Rose, Molly Lambert, Durga Chew-Bose, Owen Roberts, Eleanor Morrow, Jessica Ferri, Will Hubbard and Jamie Beck grows more dominant when examined closely, over a series of days, by scholars with some distinction in their field:

These Are All The Hot Places In L.A.

We Don't Really Like Ray Drecker Or His Penis

We Try To Blow Up A Meth Lab

This Is My Life In Cookies

We Hope They Leave Their Cameras To Us

I'm Peggy Olson And I Want To Smoke Some Marijuana

We See A Portrait of Ourselves

We Try To Simply Survive The Donner Party

Girl Power Found A More Pliable Metaphor

Our Reading Habits Grow Quite Strange In This Light

Mad Men Whispers To Us Over and Over Again

Ingratiate Ourselves to Quentin Tarantino

from Vic Chesnutt's new album:

"Concord Country Jubilee" — Vic Chesnutt (mp3)

"Philip Guston" — Vic Chesnutt (mp3) highly recommended

"We Hovered With Short Wings" — Vic Chesnutt (mp3)

"Chain" — Vic Chesnutt (mp3)