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The Strange Beautiful

anchor4.jpgWhen I was young, I walked through a door that led to the street. I saw the sun as if for the first time—first of the sun, first time I could see, first I felt of heat on my skin. The thing that is strange about this memory is that I didn’t know where I was, but there was a sense of homecoming that was both brutal and wonderful. Brutality of home an enigmatic longing for a time and place that was lost. But I could feel home on my skin and it slowly sunk in deeper. Time expanded and other worlds survived, my skin revealed to me from below—as light under the bones. The sadness that accompanied those days has stayed with me and turned into many things—openness, exhaustion, despair, disappointment, disaster, and, finally, a peace that always disrepairs.

The Ghost Cities~ I had been searching for home, a place I would feel settled and connected, for the better part of my life. I grew up in Philadelphia, a place I always knew I would leave. I moved from there in my early 20s to the West Coast, to the city by the Bay, San Francisco. Over the 12 years I lived there, I saw the city change from one city into another, becoming shadows of itself. San Francisco, on its most substantial day, is a ghost. A ghostly presence occupying space near a stunning, golden Bay and on the cold shores of the unforgiving Pacific. The Pacific Ocean defines San Francisco in the way wind forms rock. Only the city is made of sand and smoke and brightly colored facades resembling houses. Read More...

February 14, 2008
St. Valentine's Issue Up Now!

The Issue of Wonder ~and~ a brief history of St. Valentine

Seldon Hunt

The Spectacular Miraculous World of Seldon Hunt

Henry Denander

Poems and Paintings

Matina Stamatakis

Poems

The Misanthrope’s Guide to a Musical Valentine

by Duncan Harman

Chris McCreary

The Great American Songbook: A Poem in Four Essays

Beth Lifson

Poems

Claudio Parentela

Tarot, Paintings, Collages and Illustrations

Logan Ryan Smith

Poems from THE NOTES

The Most Magnificent of Wonders Is Us

Strange Attractor Journal, celebrating unpopular culture

Bruce New

New work by Bruce New

The Lover's Path Tarot

Kris Waldherr's beautiful, wondrous Tarot deck

Happy Fall! Issue #3, celebrating the Equinox & Balance

September 23, 2007

Dan Machlin

8 Poems from Dear Body:

Ken Vallario

Paintings

Francis Raven

4 Poems

New Work from Karl-Erik Tallmo

Poems & Road Signs

Il Cinema Ritrovato – a couchsurfing experience

Neil Watson visits the world’s foremost festival for restored films, held annually in Bologna, Italy

William Allegrezza

4 Poems

Birhan Keskin

4 Poems translated from the Turkish by George Messo

Louder Than Bombs – A Eulogy for a Record Store

by Duncan Harman

Michael Ford

These Violets

Arts Events & Announcements

Literary & Arts Events, Conferences & Announcements

POETRY: Scroll down to see events: Poetry Project, Ugly Duckling Presse, Belladonna, Bowery Poetry Club Segue Series, First Tuesday's Reading Series, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Poets House

MUSIC: Luminescent Orchestrii

ART: Madame Talbot's New Posters


April 14th, 2007

Formal Issue 2, One Should Be Sleeping

Madame Talbot's Victorian Era Dead

Curio Exhibits, Posters, and Apothecary Bottles: Artifacts from the Strange World of the Gothic Artist

Hoarding

by G.L. Ford

Athanasius Kircher & the Cabinet of Curiosity

The World Is Bound with Secret Knots: Meditations on Curio Cabinets and Kircher, the Dreaming Polymath

Sunny Buick

Artwork & Tattoos

William Watkin

Poems

Catherine Daly

Poems

Kiiiiii Thrills the Rickshaw Stop

San Francisco, 3/21/07

Tim Lane

Paintings

Aaron Tieger

3 Poems

Magnet 659

by Sadie Worth

Whit Griffin

4 Poems

Anti-Hipster Manifesto

Most people go to great lengths to conceal their prejudices, and I’m no exception. Bias, therefore, is often like some gastrointestinal disorder: The only evidence there is of it is an occasional noxious emission you try furiously to deny. But I’m going to confess a prejudice I have, because I am trying, with every ounce of open-mindedness and liberality I possess, to rise above it. Okay, here goes. I’ve always hated hipsters.

William James Austin

Photopo

Jason Bredle

5 Poems

Poster Art

Gig Posters

Julien Poirier

6 Poems

Ellen Hoffman

Artwork

Karl-Erik Tallmo

Poems in Swedish and English with Artwork

Snow Patrol

Breaking out after 12 years in the making

Stereolab

The Fillmore, San Francisco, March 2nd and 4th, 2006

The Polysics Rock the Café du Nord

San Francisco, March 4, 2006

Jenna Cardinale

5 Poems

The Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Dark, Sweet Psychedelia of Sweden's Finest Export

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Kool-Aid, Band-Aids and Dig! Craze: How the Brian Jonestown Massacre can Rock! Your! World!

My Morning Jacket

The Fillmore, San Francisco, November 11, 2005

Lars Gustafsson

15 Poems
Translated from the Swedish by Susan Howard

Bruce New

Paintings, Mixed Media and Photomontages

Magnus Larsson

Paintings, Illustrations and Posters

Lisa Salamandra

Selected paintings from Daily Bread, Crotches and Vocabulary series

Rock Gets Fucked Up

Fuzz, sex, and drugs: the universe of The Cramps

Two reviews: Chris Whitley Soft Dangerous Shores

Chris Whitley, 1960-2005

RIP

Chris Whitley died Sunday, November 20, 2005, from lung cancer. Our condolences to all his friends and family - and our hearts in melancholy.

Brian Eno Another Day on Earth, Hannibal Records, 2005

As I was watching an Of Montreal show in Los Angeles some months ago, I was inspired with a concept for a film. A space rock opera, wherein groovy interstellar musicians flew their astral bodies around distant solar systems in search of the Eternal Vibration that creates colorful harmonious orgies of reality.