Hello, all you textual deviants! I hope you are as excited as Tomek and I are about the advent of season 3 of Texting. Here are some of the “texts” we are considering:
William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
the passage on kissing / horny tusks from Proust’s The Guermantes Way
Koreality #8 (the “Russia” issue)
the moon
Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited
the Ned Beatty speech from Network
Charles Barkley
Eckhart Tolle Teaches a Young Man
a one-act play by Beckett
Ezra Pound’s last canto
a painting by Bosch
Mark Lombardi – Death Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy
an episode of The Dana Carvey Show
Robert Johnson’s “Hell Hound on My Trail”
Todd Barry’s Medium Energy
Michael Parenti’s “The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State”
D.H. Lawrence’s “Why the Novel Matters”
Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind (Netflix)
Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
JFK’s American University speech
Eisenhower’s speech on the military industrial complex
Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Cronenberg’s Videodrome
Threads (1984 film)
Any other suggestions? Please let us know!