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November 10, 2017
Hypnosis, the ocean, the desert, arcane architecture, snuff film, ritual, general dread and/or malaise, strange sex, distinctive formatting. Which is to say: totally three more new M. Kitchell stories, which I'm always excited about and which totally bear out that excitement.
Story one: You told me that I had to see the hypnotist, but wouldn't say any more, so I went... Bits of Robert Aickman's "The Swords" and Thomas Ligotti's "Gas Station Carnivals", but manages to avoid predictable spooky-carnival motifs and with an excellent use of hypnotist countdown structure.
Story two: some kind of ritualized apartment interior becomes gradually drawn into new rituals directed out of a mysterious box. Far from any sort of standard story design, it's more a list of principles and guidelines and aesthetics, given strange narrative organization. Kinda hypnotic.
Story three: The most traditional of the three -- two siblings get drawn into a kind of suburban dream-underworld while staying with their aunt and uncle over the summer, a kind of classic spooky coming of age arrangement -- but still flush with specifically Kitchellian arcane significances. There are a couple good samples on line from this one.
Anyway, people, if you're interested in new, vital impulses in d.i.y. lit and aesthetics, and I know you are, you should really really be checking out M. Kitchell's awesome home-printed books and zines (if you're not already -- and I know some of you are). Some go a little abstract and poetry-chapbook-like for my tastes (though basically ignoring prose/poetry boundaries is part of his M.O., I think) but this one is an excellent starting points.
Story one: You told me that I had to see the hypnotist, but wouldn't say any more, so I went... Bits of Robert Aickman's "The Swords" and Thomas Ligotti's "Gas Station Carnivals", but manages to avoid predictable spooky-carnival motifs and with an excellent use of hypnotist countdown structure.
Story two: some kind of ritualized apartment interior becomes gradually drawn into new rituals directed out of a mysterious box. Far from any sort of standard story design, it's more a list of principles and guidelines and aesthetics, given strange narrative organization. Kinda hypnotic.
Story three: The most traditional of the three -- two siblings get drawn into a kind of suburban dream-underworld while staying with their aunt and uncle over the summer, a kind of classic spooky coming of age arrangement -- but still flush with specifically Kitchellian arcane significances. There are a couple good samples on line from this one.
Anyway, people, if you're interested in new, vital impulses in d.i.y. lit and aesthetics, and I know you are, you should really really be checking out M. Kitchell's awesome home-printed books and zines (if you're not already -- and I know some of you are). Some go a little abstract and poetry-chapbook-like for my tastes (though basically ignoring prose/poetry boundaries is part of his M.O., I think) but this one is an excellent starting points.
February 10, 2012
Abstracted avant-y horror stories? A little surrealism, a lot of creepy, and more than a dash of other? This little book was a welcome surprise in my mailbox after I'd been away a few days. The cover is gorgeous. I thought it was best when it was quiet. The three stories are like three 15-minute Twilight Zone episodes, mayhaps? Really, you could do a lot worse with 45 minutes to an hour of your life, so why don't you go ahead and snag it.
July 21, 2012
Loved it. After running uslandgrid.com / a online store for GIS data which focuses on land grid, tax parcels, etc, it was good to get a different perspective on section township range data. Land grid data now has a different meaning in my oil and gas GIS data world.
My blog for land grid is http://www.uslandgrid.com/blog if you want instant access to us land grid and texas survey data.
My blog for land grid is http://www.uslandgrid.com/blog if you want instant access to us land grid and texas survey data.
February 9, 2012
amazing
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