October, hello! Welcome back, welcome. You kitschweird diamond, you! Withoutadoubt, the most surrealist of all our months. Smileyface. And we love it too, we really do. That special spectral time-of-year, October—when the ol’ veil-between-worlds is at her honeycomb’ed thinest. (& getting thinner each year, too…!) I speak of that bluest of veils, that one between [...]
Times of tumult call for tumultuous imaginations. There is a wonderful germ lurking in the 19th century romantic genre of “closet drama”. The term is usually applied to an unhinged dramatic production by some radical poet, so vast or unusual in concept, and so beyond the realm of possibility, as to be unstageable. Could this [...]
A pin in the worm A pin in the teacher A pin in the eye of a scientist A pin in Eyjafjallajökull A pin at Waterloo A pin in the brain of Mendeleev A pin in Transylvania A pin in the preacher A pin in the pit A pin in the pendulum A pin in [...]
Two short surrealist inquiries recently posted online. DREAM FILMS INQUIRY Do you have any memories of strange lost films from your childhood? Films which may have been real or may have been dreamed, or perhaps were combination of both? Casi Cline: First Scene: A young apprentice prostitute in a white nightgown is laying on a [...]
(A Game from Anthony Redmond) “Too many Captain Cooks” -Rembarrnga man, Paddy Wainburrangga In 2020, as colonial Australia commemorates its founding myth on the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Capt. James Cook’s death ships along the eastern seaboard of Australia and New Zealand, a global revolt is erupting against state violence in settler colonies. [...]
“In a place beyond time, comes a terrifying challenge beyond imagination!” “Conquest" (1983) is a celluloid spirit who was birthed (apparently) from inside some still-uncharted void, a lost Surspace where both time and the imagination have been thoroughly transcended. (At least, if its marketing tagline is to be believed) This possibly facetious origin story may perhaps [...]
Rebellion is its own justification, completely independent of the chance it has to modify the state of affairs that gives rise to it. It’s a spark in the wind, but a spark in search of a powder keg. - André Breton If only one thing has brought me joy in the last few weeks, it [...]
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Beautiful, marvelous week. America is on fire, america is shining, america is a flower of joyful rage. A dead tree, bearing unexpected fruit. A fresh batch of lynchings by repulsive pigs and pig wannabes earlier in May. Yet this time it felt different. The wound had a stronger sting to it. Patience already worn thin. [...]
A collection of the Chicago surrealist newspaper, "What Are You Going to Do About It?", including an article on the LA rebellion of 1992 can be found below. Thanks to Bruno Jacobs for the images. DOWNLOAD HERE OR HERE
