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A short film by Everynone, in collaboration with WNYC’s science show and podcast “Radiolab.”
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Steven is gay! Ahhhhmen!
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Somewhere in his seclusion , Don Delillo is smiling.
There is now a encyclopedic website that provides a proper accounting of the post-modern condition. The tumblr site is called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” Like it’s namesake suggests, it is a dictionary of previously undefined contemporary ennui:
Contact High Five: n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.
Selectric: adj. in the mood to get struck by lightning, to stand in an open field and be singled out and drafted by the universe because of your innate potential to resolve a battle between faceless titans roaring in the sky, a task which doesn’t require you to write a cover letter.
Get all your modern day angst delineated by clicking here.
(Also see unhappy hipsters.com, so your irony encased heart can totally melt with the joy of laughter)
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The only regret is that I waited
longer than a breath
to scatter the sun’s reflection
with my body.New stars burst upon the water
when you pulled me in.On the shore, our clothes
begged us to be good boys again.Every stick our feet touched,
a snapping turtle, every shadow
a water moccasin.Excuses to swim closer to one another.
I sank into the depths to see you
as the lake saw you: cut in half
by the surface, taut legs kicking
and the rest of you was sky.Suddenly still, a clear view
of what you knew I wanted
to see.When I resurfaced, slick grin,
knowing glance, and you pushed me
back under.I pretended to drown,
then swallowed you whole.— Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones was born in Memphis, TN and raised in Lewisville, Texas. He recently received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark. He’s a graduate of Western Kentucky University where he won the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Poetry. While at Western, he was the poetry editor for Rise Over Run Magazine. He has studied with writers like Tom Hunley, Dale Rigby, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rachel Hadas, and Tayari Jones.
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On July 29, Mary had the good fortune to attend a benefit party for the movie Four, based on the play by Christopher Shinn. The event was held at the Ramscale Penthouse in the West Village, NYC and was filled to the brim with literate cinephiles–how we here at Mary got through security is a question for another day.
Four tells story of two unlikely, interconnected couples–both gay and straight–who discover the limits of desire and the possibility for transcendence.
The director, writer (and Mary contributor!) Josh Sanchez is adapting the play for the screen. He plans on starting principal shooting this fall.
Christine Giorgio, one of executive producers on the film, said, “…the benefit was a great opportunity to bring people across different communities together in support of this wonderful project. Playwright Christopher Shinn was in attendance, as well as director Joshua Sanchez and author JL King. Donations, big and small, poured in as guests bid on auction items including an original one-act to be written by Neil LaBute and performed in the winning bidder’s home.”
If you missed the party and still want to donate to the project please click here.
JL King with friend Kalvin
Joshua Sanchez with a Omar Gamez Print, one of the auctioned items.
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“Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the now famous and often misconstrued line, ‘All art is quite useless’. In fact, following the novel’s original publication in 1890, Oxford undergraduate Bernulf Clegg was so intrigued by the claim that he wrote to Wilde and asked him to elaborate.”
The following is a transcript of Wilde’s response:
16, TITE STREET,
CHELSEA. S.W.My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde
( Shaun Usher via Letters of Note)
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The 1970 soul classic, Maybe, as performed by The Three Degrees.
“”I stood there looking dumb and let that man walk right outta my life…”
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(via CTRL+W33D)
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A history of urban gay culture can be mapped by simply taking note of what was being played at the dance clubs at any given moment.
Below is a link to a website that offers a vivid, insightful, evocative and personal accounting of the house music scene, and the gay culture that both inspired it and helped shape it.
DJ Apollo’s History of House Music Blog:
http://www.livingart.com/raving/articles/housemusic101-07.htm
