Miranda July.Los Angeles--based artist, writer, and performer Miranda July is currently making a feature film set for release next year. Her multimedia project Learning to Love You More is included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1918. and is ongoing at learningtoloveyoumore.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 SKY DANCERS Sky Dancers were a toy marketed by Galoob Toys between 1994 and 2000. Galoob was purchased by Hasbro in 1998. The dolls themselves were pre-posed ballerina characters made of molded plastic, about the size of a Barbie Doll, and had foam wings attached permanently to their It took a lot of Web searching to discover their official name: Sky Dancers (not to be confused with the flying doll of the same name, recalled for lacerating children's faces). What I'm talking I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, noted for launching vocalist Kate Ceberano. History After the break-up of the Melbourne-based experimental funk band Essendon Airport in 1983, members Robert Goodge (guitar), Ian Cox (saxophone) and Barbara Hogarth about are those huge, air-filled promotional figures whose arms wave above their heads like they're eternally tormented spirits. Their desperate, needy flailing either infuriates me or moves me to tears depending on how I'm feeling about us, the people of Los Angeles, whose souls I'm sure these are. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 THE GIRLS GUITAR CLUB Mary Lynn Rajskub Mary Lynn Rajskub (sometimes credited as Marylynn Rajskub) (pronounced "RICE-cub" or in IPA: ['raɪskʌb]) (born June 22 1971) is an American actress, artist, and comedienne of Czech descent. (Punch-Drunk Love, the TV show 24) and Karen Kilgariff (Mr. Show) are the Girls Guitar Club, a "band" that is also a live comedy act and also a movie (dir. Ruben Fleischer) you can watch at www.ruben.fm/ggc.html. If your demographic doesn't precisely overlap with mine, then you might not think this loving parody of girl empowerment is as incredibly hilarious as I do, and I really do. Mary Lynn Rajskub should be in everything. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3 WWW.GROUPHUG.US A random sampling from this disturbingly addictive confessional website: "Everyone thinks I've been a vegetarian for the past 8 years, but I'm not. In fact I really love meat and can't get enough of it." "I peed in my very expensive, silk pants yesterday, so I just splashed some talc powder on the crotch crotch n. The angle or region of the angle formed by the junction of two parts or members, such as two branches, limbs, or legs. and am wearing them again today." "I like to refrain from holding on to the handholds on the subway, then when a sharp curve or bump comes I pretend to lose my balance and fall into somebody else.... I know this is weird, but I crave physical contact." 4 SOME GUY'S HOMEMADE BARBELL Barbell A bond investment strategy that concentrates holdings in both very short-term and extremely long-term maturities. This is also known as the "dumbbell" or "barbelling. This is my favorite piece of public art in LA. It's sitting right there in his front yard, so anyone can walk by and see it, I guess he filled two buckets with cement and then stuck a metal rod between them. Sometimes I see something I want but can't afford, and I think: Maybe I could make it. But this guy really did. 5 THE ART OF KHAELA MARICICH Like most of those artists living in the low-rent town of Olympia, Washington, Khaela makes more art for her friends than for selling (my current favorite is her pink-paper "Yeah" streamer)--but her performances and CDs (Bonus Album, The Concussive con·cus·sion n. 1. A violent jarring; a shock. See Synonyms at collision. 2. An injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow and followed by a temporary or prolonged loss of function. Caress [K Records]) have that same radiant intimacy. When she's standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people, I'm always surprised to hear her asking the same profound question that she asked me on the phone the night before--only now there's a really good beat with it and everyone's dancing, which is a better answer than I can ever come up with. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 6 THE TEENAGE READER OF ARTFORUM Yes you, as you stand in the bookstore reading this entire issue so you don't have to pay eight dollars, or perhaps you will buy it, because the magazine itself is evidence of a future life, one where you have your own coffee table to place such a magazine on. And you can't help noticing that much of the art, whether nostalgic or rebellious, seems to be about you, the teenager, and now, adolescence. Which gives you a kind of meta-teen feeling about yourself, as if you were eating your own firm tail. 7 BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL Berkeley High School refers to the following high schools:
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8 CLEAR CUT PRESS The Clear Cut Future anthology (the first volume of an eight-book series) made me a little lonesome lone·some adj. 1. a. Dejected because of a lack of companionship. See Synonyms at alone. b. Producing such dejection: a lonesome hour at the bar. 2. for the Northwest, my old home. Robert Adams's photographs of clear cuts and the Office of Soft Architecture's essay on Rubus armeniacus (the blackberry bush) reminded me that it was somehow easier to understand where I was, geographically speaking, when I was living in Portland. (Once there was the intention of going for a walk; now there is not even that.) These smooth little books of new research and popular literature are designed by Tae Won Yu, edited by Matthew Stadler (the novelist and literary editor of Nest), and published by Richard Jensen (of Sub Pop and Up Records fame). 9 EMMA EMMA Engstrom Multigas Monitor for anesthesia. HEDDITCH This London-based artist works in all media, with other people and alone (see the full range at www.andiwilldo.net), but my favorite thing she's ever done is a drawing she made one jet-lagged night in America. I found it by her pillow in the morning. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10 JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus. Early life and career Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. , "THE SEX FILM PROJECT" First Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) did a nationwide search to find great actors who were willing and able to have real sex on camera, then he workshopped with them (in the style of Mike Leigh) to create a narrative structure that aims to be as funny and moving as any of the great movies about relationships (he admires The Heartbreak Kid and Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. Memories)--but filled with emotionally complex sex. He shoots the movie this summer, so we can expect it next year. But in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , I would like to salute Mitchell's adherence to his own reality in the face of a deeply censorial industry at the heart of a country gnarled gnarled adj. 1. Having gnarls; knotty or misshapen: gnarled branches. 2. Morose or peevish; crabbed. 3. with sexual fear. |
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