"Your life, little girl, is an empty page . . . ." — Song lyric
* A reference to a New Yorker cartoon of July 18, 2024.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Hillbilly Geometry
For Captain Maybelline*
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For Captain Maybelline*
For Captain Maybelline*
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Hillbilly Baseball
"Hittin' sticks and stones together makes the windshield break"
— Adapted song lyric suggested by the film "The Hill" (2023).
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Hillbilly Politics: News of the World, Second Wave
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Friday, March 11, 2022
Hillbilly Requiem
Cable was born in Akeley, Pennsylvania, in 1932 and graduated
from Warren High School in nearby Warren PA in 1950.
The "online remembrance" is at the Meadville Tribune.
Members of the Church of Synchronology may consult this journal's
posts on the date of Cable's reported death.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Hillbilly Elegy in The New York Times
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Thursday, September 2, 2021
“She Walks These Hills” — Hillbilly Song
The title refers to the previous post. A related elegy —
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Hillbilly Space News
(Continued from the previous two posts.)
“Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me”
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
Hillbilly Hell
"Clog, therefore, purple Jack and crimson Jill." — Wallace Stevens
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"A 1991 PBS documentary called Dancing Outlaw introduced the world to the life and times of gas-huffing, vengeance-seeking, tap-dancin’ Jesco White. White Lightnin’ , which premiered recently at Sundance, is British director Dominic Murphy’s reportedly more surreal take on this fabled Appalachian anti-hero. While not locked in reform school, work camps, or the psych ward, the young Jesco White learned his special breed of clog dancing from his father, who was eventually killed in a random act of hillbilly violence. In White Lightnin' Jesco picks up his daddy’s tap shoes and hits the road, where he comes to grips with the art, addiction, and madness that have plagued his violent life story. And somewhere along the way he meets his wife, played by none other than Carrie Fisher. While David D’Arcy speaks almost fondly of White Lightnin' s redneck-exploitation (he was probably stretching for other ways to describe this “hillbilly slasher saga”), Dennis Harvey was less enchanted by the film’s 'pretentious glimpse of hillbilly hell.' Most early reviews are apprehensive about the film’s distribution chances unless its grotesque lyricism finds a niche market. But I can't imagine this, being the first film written by the co-founders of Vice Magazine , not generating more distribution steam in the near future. If anyone knows how to generate buzz it is those guys." — MLeary review, January 28, 2009, 12:58 AM |
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Just 17 : Circle in the Square
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Saturday, June 19, 2021
Devil’s Night 2020
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The hillbilly response —
— Image courtesy of yankeegirl60.
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Monday, March 15, 2021
The Time Signature
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Real Presences
The "Real Presences" title is from the Aug. 20 post "Inception."
See also the real presences in a recent book by J. D. Vance —
"Mom was, everyone told me, the smartest person
they knew. And I believed it. She was definitely the
smartest person I knew."
— Vance, J. D., Hillbilly Elegy (pp. 65-66).
Harper Paperbacks. Kindle Edition.
And not so real . . .
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Infinite Jest
"Democrats– in conclusion– Democrats in America
were put on earth to do one thing– Drag the
ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next
century, which in their case is the 19th."
Reply to Maher:
"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Related material: Dragging Maher into the 18th century– From
Related material– Lemniscate to Langlands (2004) |
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Palm at the End of the Mind
"Democrats– in conclusion– Democrats in America
were put on earth to do one thing— Drag the
ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next
century, which in their case is the 19th."
Happy Palm Sunday
to Appalachia and
Happy Birthday, Reba
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Friday, November 25, 2005
Friday November 25, 2005
Rehearsing Hell
Art critic Michael Kimmelman
in today’s New York Times:
The Los Angeles veteran Mike Kelley’s latest show is a sprawling, scabrous spectacle of noisome installations and hilarious videos, occupying the whole of the cavernous Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Ingratiating Mr. Kelley’s work never has been, nor is it now. But serious it is, in its brainy, abrasive, black-humored way, and this is by far his most ambitious and perversely entertaining effort, an attempted Gesamtkunst-werk of satanic rituals and advertising jingles mingled with allusions to Godard, German Expressionist cinema and Stockhausen….
A teenage girl dressed like a hillbilly recounts a nonsense parable in the manner of H. P. Lovecraft crossed with William Faulkner as part of a faux-reality show….
Did I mention the church confirmation in which a plump female communicant morphs into a devil worshiper, and teenage boys dressed in Nazi outfits suddenly rap about sex with fat women?….
… Mr. Kelley’s deep roots are in the performance tradition going back to the Vienna Actionists.
A teenage girl dressed like a hillbilly recounts a nonsense parable in the manner of H. P. Lovecraft crossed with William Faulkner as part of a faux-reality show….
Did I mention the church confirmation in which a plump female communicant morphs into a devil worshiper, and teenage boys dressed in Nazi outfits suddenly rap about sex with fat women?….
… Mr. Kelley’s deep roots are in the performance tradition going back to the Vienna Actionists.
For descriptions of the Vienna Actionists, do a Google search.
From yesterday:
Angels
Even devils too
Wait to show
How far we come
To joy
Even devils too
Wait to show
How far we come
To joy
It seems that Mike Kelley and Michael Kimmelman are among Chris Whitley’s “devils.” Let us hope that they enjoy the company of General Augusto Pinochet (see previous entry) in the afterlife.
Related material: Art Wars and The Crimson Passion.
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