“I want to be preserved in a speed bump. Everyone will be driving along the interstate at 75 miles an hour and then there’ll be a warning sign for the Mark Morris Memorial Speed Bump, and they’ll have to slow down, to like, zero. Everyday people will be driving to work and saying, ‘Fuck Mark Morris.’ When I die I want to be an irritation, not a religion.”
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Patti Smith Remembers Lou Reed
“A complicated man, he encouraged our efforts, then turned and provoked me like a Machiavellian schoolboy. I would try to steer clear of him, but, catlike, he would suddenly reappear, and disarm me with some Delmore Schwartz line about love or courage. I didn’t understand his erratic behavior or the intensity of his moods, which shifted, like his speech patterns, from speedy to laconic. But I understood his devotion to poetry and the transporting quality of his performances.”
Cincinnati Symphony Begins A New Era
A new music director, some financial stability and some forward-thinking…
Study: There’s More Gun Violence In Movies
“The authors found that episodes of gun violence in PG-13 rated films had been rising since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, and it now surpasses the violence in R-rated films, which are technically not open to young viewers unless they are accompanied by an adult.”
Study: Singing Along To “The Sound Of Music” Helps Alzheimer’s Patients
“The sessions appeared to have the most striking effect on people with moderate to severe dementia, with patients scoring higher on cognitive and drawing tests, and also on a satisfaction-with-life questionnaire at the end of the study.”
Performance Artist Nails His Genitals To Ground Of Moscow’s Red Square In Protest
A performance artist has been detained in Moscow after stripping naked and nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in a protest.
“The Dirtiest Great Book In The Western Canon”
Joan Acocella considers a new translation of the Decameron – in particular, its abundance of sex without guilt.