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Mon Ami, Mekas
Filmmaker, poet, critic and philosopher Jonas Mekas passed away on January 23 at the age of 96. The wildly creative and willfully cantankerous Mekas was a champion of experimental cinema and a film critic whose taste and style was ahead of its time. Mekas is credited with getting Andy Warhol to try his hand at [...]
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Art, artist, avant garde, cinema, film, film maker, jonas mekas, New York, obituary, RIP, underground
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An April Season In Hell
Celebrating National Poetry Month, here’s a rad radio production of Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell which was published 145 years ago this year. Even though it might not be immediately evident Arthur Rimbaud had a lot in common with William Blake: both saw the benefits of altered states on literary vision and both were [...]
Posted in Books
Tagged 1960's, 1970's, A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, counterculture, Patti Smith, rock 'n' roll, The Doors, underground, William Blake
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