Fangela

Here is a wonderful song by Luke Temple’s new group, Here We Go Magic: “Fangela.” It reminds me of Paul Simon’s world music, and really makes me wish I still had a radio show!

Expression

“All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it. True expression hides what it makes manifest.”           —Antonin Artaud

There’s an interesting fragmented essay by Rick Moody concerning Artaud in The Believer. Small gripe: I don’t agree with his calling the absurdist or scatological humor in Beckett and others “juvenile.” Such a dismissal is wrongheaded. Just because it actually makes you laugh out loud doesn’t mean it’s juvenile and thus unworthy or embarrassing. It means it’s funny.

Basement Jaxx – “Raindrops”

Death is not the End

Here’s a fantastic essay in the Point Magazine concerning the misunderstanding of David Foster Wallace’s ambitions and achievements as an artist.