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fork-a-liciously fantastic, I finally found a fathomable form of freak-nasty fritter fodder… – sunday

If you couldn’t tell, I like alliterations, and just to prove to all you skeptics out there that I have a non-vulgar poetical side, I wrote this little diddly on the plane ride home, you see, they all connect, the beginning, middle, and end. What a magical weekend. Thanks for letting me share it with you.

Ode to Flying

Cotton balls soak up the agricultural memories of a love sowed wrong

Cement veins carry ants, kissing towards the sky as they release them directionally

Running, remembering

Ceaselessly inferring

Feathers of the heavens lay flat above, laughing at the gorgeous chaos

Communities of synthetic life nestle between sted-fast trees and tears of brown

Longing, loving

Frantically shoving

My stomach stays as my body drops

Brown life of the rivers bend and break against slopes of cement

Crashing, crying

Tearing, trying

What on earth could all this be for?

When nature has no home

I’d be crazy not to follow…

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mmm…vivian girls

Great interview with the cute cute cute cute Vivian Girls. Apparently while dating one of the Japanther boys, Cassie Ramone inadvertantly borrowed and destroyed a member of Mika Miko’s pants. DIY sisterhood of the traveling pants? In related news, Andrew WK and Nardwuar are releasing a split, Vivian Girls are playing at the Whitney with These Are Powers on July 31 (free), Japanther will perform Rock And Roll Ice Cream for a family program at the Whitney on July 11 ($10), and Mika Miko have some dates coming up which you can find in FMLY’s Show Listings that I’ve actually sort of updated.

Vivian Girls – Tell The World (live on WFMU)

Henry Darger

FMLY’s Friday Night Movie Recommendation:


Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois’s asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated novel (The Realms of the Unreal), which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls leading a child slave revolt against the evil Glandelinians. Featuring Dakota Fanning (Hide and Seek) and Larry Pine (The Royal Tenenbaums) as narrators and imaginative animation of Darger’s work, Oscar® winner Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons) brings to life one of the twentieth century’s greatest self-taught artists.

If you’re wondering, yes, this is how the Vivian Girls obtained their name. Go Brooklyn! Purchase In The Realms of the Unreal from Amazon here.

Nephews – Dakota Fanning