From the monthly archives: December 2009
Rick Moody lays out the ultimate mixtape tracks to get us through the holidays.
David Wanczyk My brother on Log Plain Road with Creedence on the stereo, too close to the guardrail in that Taurus he’d later explode. He’s breaking the limit on a fifth-gear coast, gliding home from a mile away without the brakes, 38 in a 15, Down on the Corner, Out in the street [...]
Scribbling from the margins of that cultural framework is seventeen year old Jolene, a high school senior in Toledo, Ohio. The teenage Jolene is a girl that many of us have known, or dated, or perhaps even were; the kind of girl whose carefully cultivated gothy exterior functions a carapace for the anxious, artistic depressive beneath.
i’ve got fourteen passports, ranging from
the seychelles to singapore
two CD’s: guns n roses and paul potts.
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Only weeks after my adoption had been finalized, I was whisked to the first day of first grade with a new first name – along with the new last one. The Catholic school in which I was enrolled recognized only the names of saints. This obliterated the only first name I’d ever known, “Honey,” and bumped up to first-name status my middle name, Elizabeth (Hebrew for “consecrated to God”).
Candice Breitz (South African, born in 1972) 30?Channel Installation / 30 Hard Drives * Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium. *Courtesy of the Artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery *Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston About a year ago I had to chop 10 inches off of my long, blonde locks because they were caked with black, acrylic [...]
Turning right, Route 22, in the night sky a jeweled jet arcing left. On the radio: When a man loves a woman. You and I married 22 years. Some scientists say time does not exist, only human aging, crisp leaves releasing, ringing of chimes. This thing we invented— [...]
In a shoebox of cassettes the scrawled-in-pen names of DJ’s are spelled-out on thin, white stickers. These faceless heroes of our forgotten scene have taken day jobs or managed to tour Europe with only their decal-covered travel case of vinyl records to spin in still-happening clubs, like minstrels carrying pairs of turntable needles instead [...]
Lisa Mednick-Powell Twenty-five years of memory can kink a lot of cable. —Richard Hugo If you haven’t been shopping, with a migraine in the snack foods aisle at a brightly-lit convenience store in a cold dead city, choosing between salt and vinegar chips, or cayenne-flavored crackers shaped like tiny fish, you wouldn’t notice Rod [...]
