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A collection of writing about and writing by René Crevel the surrealist and gay communist posted up on Dennis Cooper’s blog. denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-r…

De Rossellini se habla poco; desde luego, mucho menos de lo que se debiera; y las pocas veces que se le cita, se mencionan siempre las mismas películas. Por eso os recuerdo aquí que LA TOMA DEL PODER POR LUIS XIV (1966), es una obra maestra descomunal. En el fondo y en la forma.

When I first saw this, everything went numb and I levitated slightly. I Know Where This Is.

what u know about this west coaster

A strange literary artifact. The first issue of a poetry zine made by the CIA’s most cryptic casekeeper, James Jesus Angleton. It’s from 1939, during his time at Princeton. A time period that is right after he and his OSS father James Hugh Angleton lived in the Magenta, Italy area, when the famous Magenta UFO crash was recovered in 1933 - and just before he joined the CIA in 1947, the same year as the Roswell crash. I like to think that the Angleton family personally recovered the vehicles and kept them in their garage. Stared at them, poked them with sticks, and occasionally released zines with mid-strength famous poets.

somerville update: there is a velvet rope at diesel because of the number of teenagers lining up to use the vintage photo booth

Makes an interesting counterpoint to the story of Raúl Ruiz, who was so mortified by the nudity in Klimt that he had to leave while they were shooting those scenes and sit in a cafe down the street.

Funny to recall that while shooting this nude scene for Love, Rohmer disappeared—the actors were confused, then somebody glanced up and realized that he was perched atop one of set’s false walls, watching everything from above

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When I was in Santiago I told Andrea Palet I was enjoying Juan Cristóbal Romero’s book and she told me he was joining Laurel!

Do any of the translators I know here would be interested in working on a translation sample? Maybe @lizzie_davis_ or @estherlallen or @meganalimcd or @a_nathanwest would know?

If you’d like to see these playing at a theater near you, you can make it happen! Just send me a message. We’re happy to work with micro-cinemas, DIY spaces, etc., of all kinds of budgets.

The Battle of Chile, Part 3: The Power of the People (1979, Patricio Guzmán)

“Only a foolish poet could produce such a disquieting object.” – Jean Rouch on Trás-os-Montes (António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1976) → sabzian.be/film/tr%C3%A1s…

In the 1980's, Canadian broadcaster Global found a loophole in Canadian broadcasting legislation. Instead of broadcasting test patterns on screen and losing out on overnight revenue, they could send a cameraman into the city to walk around and film the streets of Toronto. Global producers decided to create their own original music to accompany the show instead of losing out on licensing fees. Because the show was entirely "Canadian Content", this allowed Global to leave key primetime slots open to broadcast American content. The show was called Night Walk. Although Night Walk was created to exploit a loophole, the footage that was left behind now looks like a time capsule.

@melnickjeffrey1 @urownhalloffame I did my first fine-weather commute of the season today, by foot from Spring Hill in Somerville to Copley—ca. four miles each way: deeply satisfying walk.

@urownhalloffame Literally walk on Mass Ave from my edge of North Cambridge to the South End would be sweet. (One summer night awhile back I walked from City Winery near Haymarket to home and that was nice too)

I've actually always thought that Boston is uniquely set up for this experience, downtown and parts of Cambridge/Somerville are laid out in a way that you can walk a ~2 mile commute and hit a bunch of pretty varied neighborhoods.

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