
the film has been accepted as a work of art, and no work of art has ever done social harm, though a great deal of social harm has been done by those who have sought to protect society against works of art which they regarded as dangerous.
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"The government doesn't sponsor people to do creative work, they want to keep the lid on to confirm the agency's mandate. No government in the world will permit that. No one would have given William Blake a Canada Council Grant."
Michael Ondaatje- Karl Young- Neil Hennessey-Darren Wershler-Henry AKA the super group to form the core of the NEW Horseman Project - think of them like Journey - think of them like 4 Steve Perrys - blending their considerable talents to best service (and we do mean service) the text
Farley "Hardly Know-it" Mowat's eventually came up with a controversial deal: he would confess to the 11 murders and show police where the bodies of those not recovered were buried, and in return he wanted $10,000 paid to his wife for each victim. The authorities were outraged at first, but, as they had little evidence to tie Mowat to the killings and the families of the missing children were desperate to give their loved ones a decent burial, the agreement was eventually made. In January 1982, Mowat' pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder and was given 11 concurrent life sentences; as of 2002, he is incarcerated in Canada's maximum-security Special Handling Unit. As agreed, $100,000 was actually paid to his wife; "Hardly Know-it" Mowat wanted $10,000 for each of his 10 victims and agreed to give authorities the location and details of the first murder as a "freebie", also he swore off writing. Everyone is happy with deal.
Banning someone for calling someone a "fucking asswipe cu*t" or any other Guidline Infraction is not the same as putting people into camps and starving them to death or gassing them to death or working them to death, because they belong to a certain ethnic group. Your comparison is not only tired and overdone, it is an insult to those who died in Nazi Germany. PLEASE, most people who are banned, are banned temporarily, and for reasons which are VERY clear in the Guidlines. They are usually banned due to personal attacks ect. Yep, I'm closing the thread. Joining a Forum is voluntary. The rules here are the most lenient of any Forum or BB I have ever seen. Nuff said.




I'll never forget the day I finished Margaret Mitchell" 's The Hand Towel's Tale. I had spent the entire Fourth of July weekend riveted. Sometime between the potato salad and the fireworks I reached the haunting, perfect conclusion. I was stunned. I had never been so profoundly disturbed and enthralled by a book before. Of course, I was thirteen years old, now, don’t get me wrong - all women make me laugh my ass off, and usually so much more because of the part they play. And there are obviously other persona's for women to have. But at thirteen Margaret was a large woman, tall and well formed, her complexion was so white as lilly white as those poetess type she loves so much ...

The stars about the fair moon in their turn hide their bright planets, that around the beauteous moon stars around the lovely moon stars about the lovely moon stars that shine around the refulgent full moon 'as the stars draw back their shining faces or to pull up the treasures of ancient Egyptian pyramids in response to a search for nude "Tomb Raider" pictures.
Deceitful?
Of course. But then again I know better than you. I'm a Adjunct Professor. I sometimes think it would be for their own good.


I've been remiss in announcing a new magazine I've been co-editing in


Sure, great art should have an easy path in the world. But the fact is that in writing, as in music, there is more talent out there than there is room in the machinery of publishing or in the public's shallow attention. This being the case, the inherent difficulty of being an artist will always carry with it the ancillary frustrations of finding an audience... and yet, that's where all the wear and terror is which makes up the stuff of great art... alone and starving and trying to be a writer in a tiny room... starving for your art isn't done much nowadays... seems like more in centuries past, artists would starve for their art... they'd go mad for it, throw everything up to be able to create... people won't give up their comforts, they won't take the big risks... there aren't any risks to take... people want the name and they want the fame, but they won't lay down their blood for it, they won't go mad for it, and they most certainly don't have the passion for it... They just want the reward, but they don't really have the inner drive to really do the thing that they want to be famous for... And that's where the Canada Council comes in... If you lack the inner drive to do the thing you want to be famous for yet are unwilling to bleed for the privilege, apply to the Canada Council today and you'll see, they will give you the money. Those already bleeding need not apply... the money is reserved for those who don't need it... so it has been and so it will continue to be...

My lover Picasso is going through his Blue Period. In the past his periods have always been red. Radish red, bull red, red like rose hips bursting seed. Lava red when he was called Pompeii and in his Destructive Period. The stench of him, the brack of him, the rolling splitting cunt of him. Squat like a Sumo, ham thighs, loins of pork, beefy upper cuts and breasts of lamb. I can steal his heart like a bird's egg. He rushes for me bull-subtle, butching at the gate as if he's come to stud. He bellows at the window, bloods the pavement with desire. He says, 'You don't need to be Rapunzel to let down your hair.' I know the game. I know enough to flick my hind-quarters and skip away. I'm not a flirt. My editor, Russell Smith, an author in his own right and a columnist for the Globe & Mail, argues that it is both porn and art. While discussing a curious narrative structure, Smith focuses on the second section, “a series of episodes related by various men who are having sexual encounters with her and the transformation she undergoes while having sex with them. It works as conventional, arousing pornography, but, in a way, is playing with conventions of porn written for men’s magazines. You could call it a post-modern book because of its fragmented style and lack of literary convention that requires a clear setting and characters, but also because it’s a cross-hybrid of low- and highbrow genres: the lowbrow pornography and the highbrow small-press fiction.”
"To a certain extent, people of my generation were conned into thinking The Doors were deep and meaningful because of ‘The End’ being used in Apocalypse Now. Footage of helicopters and animal sacrifice are bound to give a tune a sort of intellectual gloss. Mostly though, I blame the drugs: I obviously hadn’t taken enough at that point. I still listen to The Doors occasionally (although definitely not An American Prayer), but never again will I sit halfway up a mountain in the adirondacks first thing in the morning, with a big spliff and a Walkman, communing with nature and really getting to grips with the lyrics of ‘The Soft Parade’" - uncle walt whitman - from the introduction to the 34 version of leaves of grass (get it!!) with "art work" by ray johnson




