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SEan Stanley's Amazing Book REview

REVIEW IN BROKEN PENCIL MAGAZINEJANUARY 2009

A unique, erotic, ironic and spastic voice has splattered onto the scene with the publication of Sean Stanley's Etcetera and Otherwise.  Otherwise, the Protagonist, and Etcetera, his beloved, named one another when they met in his bookstore.  She tells him from the start that she will remain with him for only 28 days, and this limiting factor acts as a structural code for the text.

    Each chapter is named after the number of days remaining for their love (unrequited though it is, with Etcetera refusing to tell Otherwise she loves him).  On their adventure to see the sunrise from the western most point of the earth, they meet with fantastical characters such as THE MARKETER and Miss Ogyny.  THE MARKETER abducts Etcetera, which spurs Otherwise to heroics.

    One of the main tensions of the book is Etcetera's refusal to admit love for Otherwise.  His requests for it are moving and humbling.  Etcetera asserts, "Real love is practical and unromantic as air and water and sunlight, and stone.  I don't love you, Otherwise, but I find you chivalrous.  Men have died for less."  Etcetera's frank logic breaks down when she leaves Otherwise 15 days into their adventure so it doesn't have to hurt so much when she leaves him later.

    The text is filled with zany pleasures such as, "'Our parents were very nearly the same people.'  'Very nearly," Etcetera smiled, 'They were separated only by a single day, one city street and three kilograms of If.'"  The juxtaposition of logic and illogic is one of the central pleasures of the text.  The fairy tale qualities of the story are highlighted by the accompanying illustrations.  These images feature quotes from the text like a Beatrix Potter book.  However, the frank eroticism of the writing often disproves the efficacy of this comparison.  I'll end on an example of the beauty of the text, "we saw a race of infants...spending their days finger painting their pain upon the limestone."  I wait with baited breath for Stanley's second book.  

(Angela Hibbs)

Polaroids by Grandylion

 

My Anthem: Joe Versus the Volcano

If you haven't seen it, or only vaguely remember it, please watch it. This is the film I try to live by

I forget where I got this. Loveology I think 

Beautiful, very Canadian, although the artist isn't Canadian at all. You can find more from Simple Moth here. 

Chungking Express by Wong Kar Wai, starring Fay Wong

I saw it first in film school and ever since then it has been my absolute favorite movie. 

My new studio

don't know why I love the Cherry Blossom Girl

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Were Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali lovers?

This is a message from a very dear, old friend. He brings me back to my old self better than I ever could have:

This is my comment on your mislexia blog, specifically the Ted Hughes Relic post: Cenotaph. Great word. Had to look it up; it was worth it. Monument to the resting place of the scattered. This script's a beaut. - A peerless ponderification of splendiforous introspection swimming through a sea of indigestion, Don King might say. I'm guessing Robin was walking around for days thinking about how time in the sea is eating its own tail. I must say your blog has great pics, some of which are pencillated rather than pixellated, and poems beatified by the proximity of said pencil. Some of these dittys are yours - it hardly seems to matter, as an exquisite taste for the beautiful, (Robin is the aesthete with the best teeth who befriends those with less teeth.) combined with a strong grip on the kung fu of feng shui, means that everything is well placed and related - choreographed chaos orchestrated by a book-stacking maestro. The blog is, as it should be - a giant experimental painting...I pity the fool who doesn't get to see your art, and in a perfect world they would all get to soak in some of the R-rays and share some enscriptillated pixellations. Maybe do it the best way -  greeting the artist as she sits, white-wool hatted and stirring a grasshopper on a crowded-yet-lonely patio. It seems like only yesterday, I was living exclusively outside the cyber world. Look at me now. Typing. How are you finding it, oh former princess of luddites?

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Anna Karina...  again

 'The Passenger' by Antonioni: Jack Nicholson Maria Schneider at their very best

4th Estate Books 25th Anniversary

 

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Still lifes I found on deviant art by Hande Kusuoglu

        

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