Comments on: the girlfriend experience: “this number is the nadir of passion”

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:48:26 +0000

Gaddis.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:44:52 +0000

I’ll admit to liking my infra-interesting better when it’s taken to extremes, which might gel with your idea of the meta-ness. My favourite practitioners are Michelangelo Antonioni and especially Georges Perec – both made works that challenged primarily one’s ability to remain attentive, find interest.

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:50:47 +0000

PS re my other comment — look at her mass-produced eyebrows in the second pic and how they don’t really fit the shape and size of her face.

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:49:15 +0000

Been reading Duchamp lately, eh?

This sounds interesting — and yes to the whole “self-employed instability” bit; it seems like the doctrine of externalities has been applied to absolutely everything these days.

Did you see the film _The Wrestler_? I found it similar — I was going to say I was interested in the same thing as you are here, but you’re going off in the direction of spaces and food, whereas I’m obsessing with the need to self-promote and manage one’s aging as part of dealing with being one’s own boss for a company of one.

By: peli grietzer

peli grietzer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:19:44 +0000

I’m disturbed by how much fun everyone’s having cutting down Grey’s pretentiousness, both as a literati — like *anyone* of these assholes did so much better than Minimalism, Situationism, Brecht and Yeats at 20 — and as a pornographer with what seems to be pretty painstakingly thought-out ideas for porn. I don’t know if what’s at play is anti-pornography or anti-precociousness, it’s pretty damn ugly. Reminds me of how Robert Christgau used to get a huge kick from belittling the culture-class of art-rockers.