Totally Crass ILX Arts Survey!

Cor that was quick

the cars that ate paris dvd i havent played yet, and telling tracer about rita sue and bob too

>>>Comics

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>>>Music - Pop/Other.

lots of country music, especially cosmopolitan nashville and western swing, and jay dee - plastic dreams, the and justus kohncke cover of old man, and spencer chows micrhouse cd (esp the mri and autobianchi tracks)

>>>Poetry

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>>>Prose Fiction

ive been tired and havent really been able to concentrate on reading, and have been reading stuff like pelevin and auster recently, as well as lonely planet guides, however i have made a start on gaddis carpenters gothic, which is...ok so far

>>>Television

i dont see tv any more, but if i did it would be football and top of the pops i guess

>>>Theatre

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>>>Videogames

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>>>Visual Arts

renger-partzsch is an exception to my antipathy to black and white, and ive been enjoying his work recently, stephen shore to an extent also. the perry-castaneda uni of texas map site is always a wonder to behold, but i can now add to that the following

www.forgotten-ny.com

roads of az
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arizonaroads,
pahighways,
texas freeway,
mass roads

theres also a houston freeway book which looks good, i met get this alongside the renger-partzsch book

ive also been enjoying some of nick kilroys photography on the electrokin site

Comics - Vic Fluro's reviews much more interesting than any comic. Drawing a comic on Saturday night great fun.

Music - Pop - totally excited by current manufactured British pop, it all seems pretty excellent, my Pazz and Jopp Top 10 this year will be the shallowest ever I suspect.

Music - Other - The colossal case of old hip-hop and microhouse and dance and god knows what else that Mike gave me, and Ned's 70s CDs! I am looking forward to sitting down and sifting through some of them.

Prose Fiction - I have been on two big book-buying sprees lately for the winter months. Fopp are doing loads of classic sci-fi for £3 a pop and I bought a few of those. I also got a few Victorian adventure novels from Borders: I've decided that what I like in fiction are rip-roaring yarns for the moment and I am sure these will provide.

Videogames - I'm excited by the prospect of playing all those Gamecube games. I'm very excited by the potential of online gaming but am also horrified at the time-sink aspects: I think shut-in adolescents like I was are going to have a fucking fantastic time of it over the next few years though.

Music: i count Alan Braxe as pop, Basement Jaxx also - grooving to a lot of their stuff as always. Outkast album still in heavy rotation. lots of brilliant 80s tunes as ever. random stuff like the Jacknife Lee remix of Marianna Faithful. new Missy.

Videogames: having a big SWOS relapse lately - very sad. wouldn't mind a PS2 so i can play ISS pro Evolution but the GameCube appeals too.

Visual Arts: the Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry video collections on DVD, Shynola music videos still, my own music video ideas. oh and i want that recent book 'American Modernism' and maybe some more Warhol reading matter.

Music - Pop - Old John Lennon albums, especially Plastic Ono Band.

Music - Other - Been listening to Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages more lately than I ever did when I bought it.

Prose Fiction - Jonathan Lethem

Television - K-Street

Comics -- Nothing really stands out to me right now. The new Straczynski series is good, but there are only so many ways you can redo the superhero deal, and I think I've had my fill. Fables and Lucifer are my top two.

Music - Pop -- I'm anticipating the new Pink album.

Music - Other -- Listening to a lot of Evolution Control Committee lately.

Poetry -- Just got a book called "little geisha poems" or "little poems by geisha" or some combination of those words, but haven't read it yet.

Prose Fiction -- Nanowrimo in one week; Dark Tower series is finally wrapping up

Television -- Carnivale.

Videogames -- The Sims comes out for Gameboy this winter.

Visual Arts -- have several photographs on their way for painting projects.

Comics: I read through a copy of the Beano the other day. God it was awful.

Music - Pop: Kate Bush, Nextmen, Nico

Music - Other: Neopolitan mandolin music.

Poetry: Sterling A Brown, still, the more American poetry I read, the more I go back to him

Prose Fiction: The Great Gatsby (American Literature 304 student)

Television: Daria. Vastly underrated.

Theatre: Hahahahahahahahah. Good one.

Videogames: Championship Manager 4 with the EP5 addon is actually playable. Eagerly awaiting Total Extreme Warfare as well.

music - pop: taking a break from strokes and bjaxx stuff, liking new sugababes stuff, waiting for new kelis stuff and new jay-z stuff. looking for copies of 'ready to die', the naughty by nature debut, the human league's 'dare'. must remind self to buy first destiny's child album.

music - other: is dancehall 'other'? i've started listening to ambient stuff again. investigating buying that OHM comp from amazon. now's maybe a good time to purchase another dylan album what with these remastered releases, considering i've only got 'blonde on blonde' and i like it lots.

prose fiction- too busy reading for examination purposes to enjoy anything

television - they show futurama here at 5:30pm, so i'm never home to catch it. otherwise just the daily show, we only recieve the 'global edition' on weekends at 12:30pm, so i tend to miss that too. i've only got one more episode of 'the critic' to download before i have recorded copies of the whole first season.

videogames - i wish i had a console, any console. i play multiplayer shooty things when i'm at my friends house with the networked pcs.

visual arts - still making animated flash movies.

Comics: I'm going to borrow Craig Thompson's Blankets from a friend soon. (That, or read it at her house; she's nervous I'll bend the spine.) I didn't so much like Goodbye, Chunky Rice, but this one is immense (like 500 pp.!) and looks like it's right up my alley.

Music - Pop: I like that "Thoia Thoing" remix that incorporates "Sweet Georgia Brown." Not much else lately, besides Outkast.

Music - Other: I listened to three new CDs yesterday -- Basement Jaxx, The Shins, and Rachel's. My current favorite of the three: Rachel's, who go this new ambient route that really suits them.

Poetry: A friend e-mailed me a poem by Stephen Dobyns yesterday that I really liked (probably because it was quite prosey). I have a Dobyns book at home I haven't picked up in over five years; I should read it again.

Prose Fiction: Really digging Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, though I haven't had much time for it lately. (This week, I've been reading in 20-minute blocks before I leave for work.)

Television: Now that the Cubs are out of the playoffs, I haven't watched much TV.

Theatre: On Saturday, I'm going to see a friend do improv. I've seen his team before; they're very good.

Videogames: Don't play 'em.

Visual Arts: Friends of mine have an exhibit opening next weekend at a new art space above the Empty Bottle. Curious to see their work.

music - other: saw a great show last night by sub-rythm and am looking forward to live performances by kidnapped by robots, venetian snares & plaid

television: my inexplicable obsession with survivor continues

Comics - Inu Yasha, X-men, X-Statix, Ranma

Music - Pop - I like the latest, Mates of State album, I like Holly Valence's new video, I must get the latest La Casa Azul album, haven't seen so much music TV lately. Been obsessing about making Metallica/Guns'N'Roses CD-r's.

Music - Other - all music is pop

Poetry - none

Prose Fiction - Eeek, I must start reading something!

Television - oh, that programme on Back Yard Wrestling that was on last night, I can totally get why kids want to do that. Byker Grove is also cool.

Theatre - Must go some time

Videogames - I swear that I will finish Golden Age: The Lost Age, otherwise I will have wasted another 46 hours of my life.

Visual Arts - hmmmm

Comics - The comics in the New Yorker this week were generally excellent, though they've been crap for the last six months or so. This was nice.

Music - Belle&Sebastian are coming to play here soon, and I finally bought "Underwater Moonlight" which is all I'd dreamed and MORE!!

Poetry - We're reading Baudelaire, translated, in class. I'd always thought poets didn't translate? I suppose possibly it's more of a reflection on the translators in some cases. But anyhow, the first poem, "To the Reader" was discussed a bit & the professor says, "So essentially in this poem the author is condemning everyone - without exception - to sin and vice." and a girl raises her hand and sez, "Well, except Jesus, right?"

Prose Fiction - I just finished "Earthly Powers" which was great & witty if a bit samey somewhere around page 600. I'm going to go look up "Backlash" at the library SOON!!

Television - I strongly dislike television. It's always on in my dorm & I've no use for it. I heard it going for four hours this morning & when I went out to get a glass of juice, discovered no one was in front of it. Why turn it off when you could so easily save yourself the trouble of turning it back on?

Theatre - I read "the Vagina Monologues" this morning. It had some very true parts I think.

Videogames - I beat Snood yesterday while talking to my mother on the phone, but I've only the free trial demo edition with 15 levels.

Visual Arts - I'm going to see the El Greco exhibit at the Met this weekend which is aces cuz his elongated faces are wonderous. Wonderous!!

The internet?

visual arts: the royal ontario museum is having an art deco exhibit, this weekend (i think) - any toronto ilxors interested in tagging along¿

Cinema
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Music - Pop
Music - Other
Poetry
Prose Fiction
Television
Theatre
Videogames
Visual Arts
Websites

god that was depressing.

Comics: Just finished the first two "Doom Patrol" trades, great stuff. Also there's an Enemy Ace one-shot that's tops, too.

Music - Pop: Sugarbabes single is quite, quite good. Hoping to finally give the new Franz Ferdinand and Hold Steady a listen, and am gearing up to becoming totally immersed in the Curtis Mayfield discography.

Poetry: Just finished an anthology of dadaist potery - I think I like the Zurich crew best.

Prose Fiction: Reading a Penguin anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories, loving every line. Also, I'm sort of psyched that two of my favourite living authors (Ishiguro and Saramgo) have recently realeased new novels, though I won't actually read either one of them I don't think.

Television: Well, I got the first season of "Babylon Five" on DVD, and am semi-excited about how crap it actually is. Excited because it shows me that I've Grown since Last Viewing It, I guess.

Theatre: They're doing a Chekov play in Oporto right now that I'm gonna hafta check out.

Videogames: Nothing since "Sonic Compilation". But I'm no video game buff.

Websites: www.badgerbadgerbadger.com were doing their Halloween special, dunno if it's still up.

When was the last time I got excited by an artform? I think it was architecture, and the piece in specific was Nash's Brighton Pavillion.

Oh, and seeing that the Bath Crescent is up for sale, which fills me with hope and trepidation at the same time.

not too old for comics tho ;)

that imagequest site looks great, cheers Martin.

this is not such a crass way of doing things