Spread ix (dig) now spreading...
Featuring the poetry of Luke Buckham, who has been gracing and grazing our pages with his vividly vagrant verses for quite sometime now. Pow Tuazon's three-clustered 'brainfarts.' And spreadhead newcomer Lucinda Sin's 'InCuntation.'
Also in this issue: 'Calamity,' a short fiction by California-based author Wayne W.H. Wolfson; plus an explosive first 10-page excerpt from Tony Nesca's novel 'dishpig.' dig it.
1:32 PM 7/17/03
Bummerangst on bumhead...
Check out Dong Makabali's ledger of lately spilled beans and beads told in the key of void... Boomerang to bummerangst!
6:30 PM 7/16/03
Ozomatli: partying for all the right reasons...
Activism came first for the multi-faceted California band... More.
6:30 PM 7/16/03
Guerrilla filmmakers...
They describe themselves as 'guerrilla filmmakers,' independent directors who create for both fun and profit, and they see themselves as a resistance force battling the banality of mainstream movies. Read it. or Screen it.
10:18 PM 7/15/03
From email to courriel...
The French government strikes another blow for linguistic purity, decreeing that 'email' -- that English bastardization of 'electronic mail' -- shall be replaced with the more Gallic-sounding 'courriel.' More.
2:45 AM 7/14/03
Upload a file, go to prison...
Two congressmen introduce a bill to criminalize the uploading of copyright works to peer-to-peer networks. The penalty: five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Critics say the law goes too far. More.
2:45 AM 7/14/03
Peaceful heart, peaceful world...
'The question has seemed more urgent lately: How? How do we do it? How do we bring about peace in the world? A real and lasting peace, for everyone...' More.
11:10 PM 7/11/03
How to carry a wife...
The best way is to dangle her upside down over your back, with her thighs squeezing your neck, her arms around your torso... More.
7:18 PM 7/10/03
Plughead...
Imagine a gizmo you fit onto your head. Plug in, turn on, twiddle dials, and you’re an instant genius. Too risky in the U.S. But in Australia... More.
9:12 PM 7/09/03
Process vs. product...
Artist and critic: it’s a battle between process and product, actor and observer. To artists, critics can seem malicious little people who play God... More.
1:30 AM 7/08/03
Next fifty years...
In 1950, Popular Mechanics saw the future. Disposable dishes, fax machines, milk in frozen bricks, candy made from rayon underwear, and house cleaning with a fire hose... More.
10:22 PM 7/07/03
Stop making sense...
Nerve-agent words, shape-shifting facts, and the dangers of clarity:
a guide to the mind at war.
7:03 PM 6/10/03
A doomsday scenario...
Who assumes the presidency if a deranged Islamist sneaks a nuclear suitcase bomb into an inaugural, vaporizing not only the President and the Vice President but also most of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and Congress? What would happen if a bomb wiped out the federal government?
11:01 PM 6/08/03
Spread viii (slug) now spreading...
Spread viii is finally out! Featuring new exploratory poems by m.a. littler, Colin Momeyer, Luke Buckham, and Stephen Oliver. Also in this issue: Magic Mountain, a short story by Asim Rizki. Slug it out.
12:09 PM 5/17/03
New poemotion.
Digital Kafka. by Titus Toledo.
All I leave behind. by Dong Makabali
11:12 PM 5/16/03
Mute ants?
Bryan Singer's new 'X2' film has received mixed readings from critics. For some, it's a ruthlessly mass commercial adaptation of the 'X-Men' comic series without the neuroses and depth of the original. For others, it's a critique of commercialised violence. For others still, a complete waste of time. Go contemplate some Nietzsche instead: Mmm.
2:12 AM 5/10/03
Pale riders who wear black hats...
In the old days, the good guys wore white. Now Hollywood's villains are turning pale, and real-life albinos are crying foul as movies like The Matrix: Reloaded arrive with a fresh supply of pigment-challenged bad guys. Read it here.
6:42 PM 5/9/03
What next, antiwarriors?
The antiwar movement that blossomed last year was remarkable for its mainstream nature and the speed with which it grew. But now, that movement faces a sort of character crisis... Antiwar activists know the movement has to evolve, but it remains to be seen whether they can modify the message without losing support from key partners. Here.
12:12 PM 5/8/03
Changing the world 101...
So did the protests have any effect? Or were they merely what one recent letter writer to NUVO labeled them: a self-indulgent exercise, an excuse to yell, “Hey, look at me!” More.
9:40 PM 5/6/03
SARS: 'the beginning of a problem'...
The SARS epidemic, especially the quarantined Amoy apartment complex in Hong Kong, seems like the real-life manifestation of a J.G. Ballard novel ("High-Rise" or the early end-of-the-world quartet, anyone?). And the Centers for Disease Control have warned that more superflus may be on the way. SARS has already impacted on Southeast Asian investment banks and airlines: HSBC evacuated its traders as a precautionary measure when one employee began developing SARS-like symptoms (just like the time the Disinfo NYC offices battled West Nile). Cathay Pacific, Qantas and Singapore Airlines have changed their flight plans. Will this year see Hollywood inundated with scripts about SARS and 'Saving Private Jessica'? Or is there a far more diabolical script project at work? Read and roll.
1:02 AM 5/5/03
The olden mean...
'When the posthuman future meets our pre-posthuman selves'
12:32 AM 5/4/03
Future primitive now spreading...
Check out the 'future primitive' art of Ian Pyper now spreading on art.ill.ery...
3:04 PM 5/1/03
Spread vii (coil) now spreading...
Featuring the poetry of Luke Buckham, Colin Momeyer, Brent Mathew Surrat, and Durden Ysephi. New essay by Irene Koronas. Fiction by Tom Bradley. Recoil for coil.
11:40 AM 4/11/03
New 3d art on spread...
Puntos (points) is a collection of everyday inanimate objects exploring 'the duality of dream and domesticity in 3d.' A series by JuanCarlo Toledo.
11:36 AM 4/10/03
Wrong song...
'Look at the way all of these different songs have been put out in opposition to the war: the Beasties, Lenny Kravitz, Zack de la Rocha, R.E.M. Labels are afraid to put those out as singles and bring them to the radio stations out of fear for what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Now it's coming to the Internet, which is great. But it's unfortunate that we live in a time and in a country where radio is so centralized and under the control of so few voices. Our musical heroes all spoke to the times, but this time around we're not able. Not in the same way.' More.
5:05 AM 4/09/03
Barcelona letter...
No a la guerra!
11:01 PM 4/08/03
Search engine bashing...
The googlewashing of our language.
7:56 PM 4/07/03
Clip art as protest...
Have clip art, will dissent.
6:03 PM 4/06/03
Mind quote #6...
'When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.' —Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970).
1:22 AM 4/04/03
Spread vii coming...
Watch. Out. For. The. Next. Spread. Man. It. Is. Loaded...
12:01 AM 4/01/03
Brain music: brainy but no soul?
'A happy brain hums. A stressed-out brain makes static sounds. A mildly concerned brain produces a noise that sounds like breakfast cereal melting in milk. An interested brain sounds like a jumpy cat emitting a steady, low-level purr interspersed with a few high-pitched squeals.'
Hear it!
10:16 PM 3/27/03
Anatomy of a record purchase...
'Buying a new album seems like such a routine procedure when you’re an adult, it’s easy to forget what it used to be like,' an old Fishbone fan remembers... More
1:08 AM 3/27/03
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