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So, I turn 30 today. I'm in Montreal with L Boogie. I went to Drawn & Quarterly store, after hanging with some Hasidic Jews, and put my face in the sun. Bye, 20's. You were awesome, confusing, fleeting and super educational. I found the love of my life when I was 23. I moved to New York at 25. I started to write fiction seriously. I've done some dumb shit, but am extraordinarily joyful to be

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Eric Fensler is a wizard.

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Free WillzyxTags: SOUTHPARKmore...Weirdly, this has more to do with my novel than I care to admit.

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Mike Tully made a great film. I was lucky enough to catch it at SXSW. It was hilarious, bizarre and involved football. The poster is also pretty ill.

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Artist Ji Sheng Li is an ass man. The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco does it, again. Why is this so funny? He's just so precise! I think if I tried this I couldn't hit the same booty spot. That takes mad skills.

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Last week, when I was in New York, I saw 5 movies. It was the closest thing to an orgy I imagine I will ever have. A few weeks before that, I saw a handful of great films at SXSW. But, one I missed, was Todd Rohal's The Catechism Cataclysm, which looks bizarre, hilarious and beautiful. Then, there is the Chilean director Sebastian Silva's second feature, which came out last year, called Old Cats.

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Odd Future Gets Signed from Odd Future

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Jokes.comExclusive - Hari Kondabolu - It's Really Funnycomedians.comedycentral.comJokesJoke of the DayFunny Jokes

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Please Say Something from David OReilly on Vimeo.

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Wiley - Igloo (Murlo Refix) by Murlo

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Black smoke floated over the bone-colored house. Fernando, half-deaf, was back from a flea market. Sweat made his back watery. He didn't want to walk around the house, into the backyard, which was a dungeon of dormant tongues. His cousins, standing in a circle, talked about chemical plants, Chinese whorehouses, Ford trucks, the hours Mass was given in Spanish. He shoved the black Chicago White

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How can fiction keep up? Sigh. I gotta keep working on this novel. More soon!

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Don't forget the fleshy materials of history. I have loved this year so much. New York smells like white fluff. Tacos are wizards. I danced a huapango last week. I will get married this year. 61 Stories. Drug cartels eat at Whataburger (trust me). I have kept this blog for 6 years. Last week, I saw aunts and uncles and 1.2 million cousins that I hadn't seen since my abuela Catarina died in 2000.

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The lead singer of Israeli rock band Monotonix once, while I watched him in a tiny club in Brooklyn, got on top of a bar and poured candlewax down his pants. It was that kind of show.I love H-town's finest psych-graphic design crew, Funwunce's poster.

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Ya'll know what I've been into the past month? Two things: Beatnuts and Philip K. Dick novelz. Shut it down, Mr. Peanut. Game over. Press reset. Press Accept. Go get a third bottle of Ginger Ale because suds up. Time's up. Finito. Put on the done-s cap. Duh, Cap. Gun clap. Standing-O. Uh Oh. Dick up, Oates down.

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I miss baseball. I miss playing it. Somebody got the blunts and '96? Jean Grae is still the dopest female emcee. Ever, ya'll. Oh, shit. I just thought about my favorite baseball game in the history of video games. I used to stay up all night playing my Nintendo. 10 years of Little League wasn't enough, I had to virtually chase the diamond. What ya'll know about that soundtrack? That was future

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TV crying is the best! Go Dawson!

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Exclusive: Backstage With Devo (The Colbert Report) from The Nation's Home on Vimeo.

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Hari knows best. Si, señores.

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Quitters Raga by Gold Panda Nice track that came out last year. Gold Panda is comfy.

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Jokes.comHari Kondabolu - Ethnic Needscomedians.comedycentral.comFunny JokesFunny VideosDaniel Tosh Stand-Up

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Boing Boing, one of my favorite sites, did a great interview with a blogger who reports on the shitty narcos who have taken over where my family is from: north Mexico. It's a stunningly beautiful little piece that is odd for me because it hows the HTML violence these fools are wrecking. I find this all so weird: how not only the Internet is such a billboard for everyone (because this is free and

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I remember writing these guys a letter in 1997. Like, a paper fucking letter. Holy shit. You know the name!

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LA's finest rapper, and huge literary influence, Busdriver dropped a free mixtape, Computer Cooties. He rhymes over beats that mirror his Uzi flow: arrhythmic, glossy and overweight with psychic explosions. I recommend it.El Busdriver Vive!

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Don B(arthelme) + Bun B= H-town's literary history.

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Beards, to me, are a white people thang (or Indian or genius, gay black SF writers). I'm not sure why but every time I tried to grow one in Brooklyn I always ended up looking like a pedophile or a B-list Hollywood stand-in for an old, creepy professor. I'm trying to be avant-beard this year in Syracuse. Cold weather always brings this subject to hairy light. Last year, I tried to grow one in the

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El Guincho - Bombay from CANADA on Vimeo.

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Knight Magic - Domestication by knightmagic

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Seeing this picture makes me giddy in so many ways. I'm glad somebody is talking about hip-hop in book publications. I am also super confused as to what Biz Markie would think about his face in the same publication as Roland Barthes (Biz Barthes?)I fucking hate Jonathan Franzen. What?

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Cold has now taken over Syracuse, but not really. I just finished a draft of another short story. I'm supposed to turn in a story to Opium Magazine for a special issue they're doing. See if I can get my shit together 4 that. Last Spring (?) when the Israeli writer Etgar Keret visited he was kind enough to give me some suggestions for Israeli writers he thought were dope. They were Yoel Hoffman,

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I'm going to stand up here, in these purple shoes, and talk about my self (Biz Markie atheist, Astros fan, tamale eater) probably vaguely, and (wipes hand over tired face) there will probably be timing issues, I'll smuggle in a punchline about how colonialism of telenovelas by drug cartels has zapped our brains, and then what will happen is you will have a biological reaction where, inside of you

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I think I found a link, a certain word, that runs through Kurt Vonnegut, J Dilla, The Beta Band and Martin Kersels that makes sense for the novel I'm working on. Now that my first year is over, I have some time to process the wealth of gold information I got this year about fiction writing from some of the most generous, smart, unpretentious and kind people in the world. I have three months to

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Dear Mr. Hannah,One morning many years ago, early, too early for a hung-over narcissistic nineteen-year-old cretin like me, our intense young college literature instructor, a man with crisp trousers and the tight but slightly permissive haircut of a Coast Guard officer, chalked a series of diabolical diagrams on the board: mythos, dianoia, thought, thought-content. The entire lesson seemed

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The Hot Chip Mixtape by Hot Chip on MixcloudMy non-homedogs Hot Chip are why I want to live in London (or just visit a lot via YouTube). This mix should only be played on rainy days (which we've been having a lot of in Syracuse) or 80-degree nights. Agreed? I'm almost finished with my first year in an MFA program and couldn't be more ecstatic at how much random information I've picked up about

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Jokes.comHannibal Buress - Wasting Timecomedians.comedycentral.comFuturama New EpisodesFunny Demon Zombie TV ShowFunny TV Comedy Blog

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I'm not sure if Hannibal Buress wrote this, but it's hilarious either way.

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I finished two books recently. I was lucky enough to re-read Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, whose straight-forward prose masks hidden bombs of knowledge (layers and layers and layers of mystery, right Papa LaBas?). The other was I finally finished Maus. Heartbreaking is a miserable word. But, it's the right word.

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On another planet, I have opened up a taco truck called Barthelme Tacos and in them I put little pieces of paper with secret messages. Like the following story:The Schoolby Donald BarthelmeWell, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that ... that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems ... and also the sense of responsibility, taking

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(SEE YOU DUDES, THERE.AUSTIN, I MISS YOU.)

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The best mix I have heard in a long time, especially since all the tracks are original blends/remixes. Fuck, I love the INTERNET. They have an EP on Warp, too.I'm still waiting for that Lil' Wayne/Sunn O))) collab!

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"Hello, hello, is there really anyone else at home in the brains? Must be printed on every cup of yogurt at 19 cents to the minutest detail, what's inside. Why this should be at literature differently? Readers are also consumers."-An unhappy German reader from Amazon.de that I Google translated in response to this novel by Helene Hegemann

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I remember in Austin a few years ago--maybe in 2005?--Ozomatli started some shit with the Austin police by taking their show out to the streets. A few cats got arrested and I was talking to Azdru, the afro-headed dude, and he was cool as shit. Then, some reporter dude started asking me questions about what happened. I started telling him. He thought I was in the band. So, for a minute, I was in

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(Yasser Aggour, "George and Abe", 2002)I'm taking a recent history of art photography class with my teacher Yasser Aggour and it's pretty dope. Photographers are zipping by me in each class whether it be about an artificial sun created at the Tate Modern in London by Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Or, the awesome work of canonical photographer Cindy Sherman (which, I didn't know, was the

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John Lennon was in Syracuse in 1971. Weirdville.

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(for Hurricane Earl)

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A mix by Salem for The Fader. Been out a while, but super nice. Who knew goth synths worked so well with Southern rap? Simplicity, people. The picture above has nothing to do with Salem but is pretty dark. Black metal!

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Jocelyn Hobbie

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Né en 1971 à Mexico où il vit et travaille, Miguel Calderón, considéré comme un enfant terrible de l'art contemporain, est l'un des artistes marquants de la nouvelle génération d'Amérique latine. Son œuvre protéiforme touche à divers médiums. Son regard provocateur et enjoué se porte sur les différences de classe, de culture et de sexualité, pour écrire des histoires construites à partir de

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?This is the kind of track that makes it all alright. Atlanta, stand up. (via my boy Mikael Awake)

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Enter the Void from Purple Magazine on Vimeo.This video is an insanely long standing ovation for French-Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé. It is really fun to remix in real-time and fuck with.Tee-hee.

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(via DJ /Rupture)

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Live at GothamHannibal Buress - Hand in Pocketwww.comedycentral.comJoke of the DayStand-Up ComedyFree Online Games

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I had an amazing 2009. I'm still writing a novel and an essay on weird rap and literary fiction for The Believer's Music Issue out next year. I have drafts for about four stories from this year's workshop. I'm in Florida. I'm reading more creative, bugged-out novels that inspire me more everyday. I got the complete box set of The Wire from L Boogie for X-Mas, which was phenomenal. Also, a toy

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Nicely titled novels don't come out enough. For my money, little else compared to 400 page books about obsessive cultural mofos in a bizarre version of Manhattan name their shit after Dr. Dre.

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Goth 'N' Screwed. A mix by the Chicago trio Salem. Listen to the dark, chopped-up mayhem here. Nothing out there like it.I now feel like I'm living in the 21st century!

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There is a Yiddish proverb that goes like this:"A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity."But, that's only half-true. You should also go on because of this.

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"People Who Do Noise" Trailer from Adam Cornelius on Vimeo.Portland is nice.

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_RLT.render('c06677e34f7687c476b6082e4658d3a0');Shackleton vs. Eno vs. Harmonia. WHAT?

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volcano (four tet remix) - anti-pop consortiumDumb, dumb, dumb track off of APC's latest album, Fluorescent Black. Anti-Pop Consortium single-handedly kept my interest in rap's love of lyricism. These dudes are serious! I'm back!

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Neon Indian is a kid named Alan Palomo whose a Mexican-born, Texas-raised dude who makes music on old 80's synths. The weird things beyond those interests mirroring my own is that he lives in Denton, Texas where I went to school at the University of North Texas and got down at the once-awesome Fry St. I've seen his production name around and today he got a glowing review from The Evil Swayers of

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West Then South from Gorilla Face on Vimeo.My dude Rah shot this great vid called "West then South" on his Bike Cam that captures the gorgeous innocence and nuances of a city that I miss very much. He rides bikes. I don't. I wish I did. I'm afraid to fall and die. I'm afraid the bike will revolt, turn its arms into rifles of rage and destroy my tender body. Watch the damn video!

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Tortoise do it, again. Northern Something - Tortoise

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Ping-Pong freaks: just a heads up that my friend Temsy Chen just edited a documentary called Hardbat Classic that is airing on ESPN this Sunday, September 27th at 5PM EST. It has all these weird, obsessive characters that I'm sure are pretty entertaining. Of course, you also get that wonderfully archaic and stereotypical announcer.

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David Foster Wallace, from an interview, in 1993 (when I was probably listening to Snoop Dogg, Too Short and NWA):I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other

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One of the illest DJ's in the universe has passed away today. Sad, sad day.

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David Robinson, one of the greatest centers to ever play in the NBA, was elected into the Hall of Fame tonight along with Jordan, John Stockton and many other great players I grew up watching. But, nothing gives me greater joy that to ruin a night speckled in golden twilight. Robinson was always, always, always second best to my man Hakeem Olajuwon. Nothing is ever more certain of that than the

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This video makes me want to jump on the Internet and hug the Internet with warm arms like it was a baby. 3 geniuses: Black Moth Super Rainbow x PFFR x Funwunce. Extra big props out to Funwunce for being from Houston. I'm from Houston. Please, tell me that Houston is not the next big city for explosive LSD animation. I am afraid to move back. Funwunce also made this promo, which like few other

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Austin is a lot of things. A new (much more independent) little Hollywood is one of 'em. At the premiere of the new Mike Judge movie, Extract, there was a meeting of super talented minds caught by rap scribe and SXSW dude, Matt Sonzala. Arrested Development star Jason Bateman (Michael Bluth!) and rapper Bun B held it down and made a weird dream of mine come true. Now, only if Mitchell Hurwitz

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Everybody Else Is Wrong - Hudson MohawkeNintendo folk (as in, folk-rooted-in-digital-not-acoustic)?

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This video below contains some explicit cartoon scenes, flashing lights and is FOR OVER 18's ONLY.Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com

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ATP NY tickets!

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Hard As Hell (feat. Akon) - UGKThey make me proud of being from Texas.

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Why does the picture above make me proud to be American? It's from the Michael Jackson birthday celebration in Prospect Park in Brooklyn yesterday.

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Weird, great photo + text essay on the new Panopticon. El Google!

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Broadway Mark Sanchez, the next Namath around town, is getting the football folks around here amped. I was driving to Ithaca last week when I went through a town called Cortland where the Jets were having their mini-camps. I hadn't paid much attention to the squad since I moved to New York three years ago. When the Giants won the Super Bowl it was a cinematic finish to a season that enraptured me

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(drawing by Matt Furie)Still Feels Like Tears - Broadcast

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Elders - CloudsIsn't amazing what two white dudes from Finland can do with dub? I wish I could eat MP3's for dinner.

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Blind - Michael GiraMichael Gira is what God will look like when you make her mad. I would be frightened.

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I had a dog. His name is Dexter Gordon. L Boogie & I picked him up in Athens, Georgia a few weeks ago and took him on our road trip back up to New York. He looked like a teddy bear and just wanted to hop like a bunny and hug you. He gave me that Daddy feeling and it was dreamy, surreal and beautiful all at once. I had never had a dog of my own before him. We had to give him away due to allergies

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Not like I don't get on my soapbox enough, but I recently ran across a great organization through hip-hop scribe and activist Jeff Chang's post on a former gang member-turned-peacemaker named Alex Sanchez who is currently being grilled by the nice people at LAPD.Homies Unidos is the kind of organization I would form if I wasn't so timid, easily self-deprecating and busy writing a novel about

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Canadian author Minister Faust is dope. I'm reading his highbrow superhero spoof From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain. I likey.

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