The blog of author Dennis Cooper
_____________ Freshly, 18 Cardiff No weird kinks. Don t be a creep. Do not ask me personal questions. Guestbook of Freshly sleepless Aug 13, 2026 now is the time this is the place for you to be calm for you to relax you want to be calm you want to [ ]
* (restored) My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and [ ]
______________ Jenny Holzer Someone Wants To Cut A Hole In You And Fuck You Through It, Buddy, 2012 ______________ Sarah Bahbah Untitled, 2019 Sarah Bahbah, the Palestinian, Australian-raised artist crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships. Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning [ ]
* (restored) “I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.” – Rene Ricard ___ Life Rene Ricard was born in 1946 and grew [ ]
David Altmejd’s work is a unique and heady mix of science and magic, science fiction and gothic romanticism: a post-apocalyptic vision which is at the same time essentially optimistic, containing as it always does the potential for regeneration, evolution and invention. ‘A perfect object for me’, the artist has said, ‘is something that is [ ]
I do not want an impenetrable style but prize compression and music. I abhor quotidian easy speak, psychobabble, brands, news and slogans—a “writer’s prose” as Gordon Lish once described it. Mine calls for close, hard readers of fiction. This year in reviews of Prosperous Friends, I was bumped up from being a writer’s writer [ ]
* (restored) Infamous primarily on the strength of his shocking 1987 debut feature Nekromantik, German director Jörg Buttgereit was born to make horror films. His grandmother bought him horror trading cards while he was a kindergartner in Berlin, and for his first communion gift, he received a Super-8 camera. At age 14, he made [ ]
* interview taken from Collectors Weekly How did dark rides get started? George LaCross: The forerunner to a single-rail dark ride was an “old mill,” a boat ride that went through a tunnel. When the old mills started cropping up around 1900, they were the first type of ride where you’d sit in a [ ]
____________ Sarah Pickering Explosions (2007) The simulation pyrotechnic industry has rapidly expanded over the last few years: atrocious acts have happened in conflict throughout history, yet training in recent times has had to become more and more realistic to psychologically prepare our forces for the worst. Police and soldiers who have grown up playing computer [ ]
* (restored) - - * p.s. Hey. ** James Bennett, Hi. Well, I guess I meant that s where the central dialogue takes place? Writing once written is you but not you and is only focused on understanding you? I don t know. What you said, basically. It s all about finding your limits, no? By continually [ ]