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[15.9.06] [Andrew Gallix]
THE MISSING LINKS
 Peter Wild interviewed by Clare Dudman: "Happiness is very definitely peace and quiet. Peace and quiet. Happiness is me on one couch, the missus on the other, American Music Club's Everclear on the iTunes, a glass of wine (or, tonight, a very fine malt whiskey with a splash of lemonade), reading our books...That's all I need to be happy. Saying all of that, every once in a while my little boy climbs up on to me and falls asleep and there is nothing in this world quite like your kid sleeping on you, dribbling through your tshirt or whatever. That's a beautiful thing. However, lest I err too far into Hallmark territory, there's also nothing like pills and booze and sex". * Dan Rhodes on his favourite bookshop (and other things) in Outsider Left: "Booksmith on Haight Street in San Francisco. I met my wife there, see -- you don't get that on Amazon." (More Rhodes in 3:AM here.) * Introducing London's Pen Pusher magazine with its obligatory blog. * An old Nude magazine article on LOMO cameras and their "indefinable sense of immediate nostalgia": "The latter is largely due to a vignetting or tunnel vision effect in which the corners of the snap fill with shadow. It's like peering through a keyhole or the wrong end of a telescope; a form of frame that bestows emotive significance upon the most mundane of objects: a lost mitten; a mouthful of toothpaste drool; a squashed spider on the sole of a flip-flop". * Larry Clark on facials in Nerve: "I'm still shocked by what happened in the film. But ultimately, it makes sense: if you start watching pornography before you have sex, a lot of kids are going to think that's the way to do it, you know. I was amazed that the correct way to have sex is to pull out and ejaculate on the girl's face -- to them, you know, this is the way it's done. But if you think about it, it makes sense. If you grew up with pornography, of course you might think that." On poonk rock: "Punk rock was all about dysfunctional fucked-up families, if you listen to the lyrics. And skateboarding was similarly dysfunctional fucked-up kids from really fucked-up families. Punk rock saved lives -- without punk rock a lot of kids would have killed themselves, and without skateboarding a lot of kids would have killed themselves. It gave kids an outlet". * Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy) is interviewed in the Paris Review: "I stayed at home and called hotlines. I called any hotline that offered help for kids. I always called as a boy, telling stories. It's not like I had the desire to be transgendered, but I wouldn't pray at night for a normal, happy family, or even to be thin -- I would pray, God, let me wake up as a boy. That was salvation for me. That was where the power lay, and that's what I became." * More litzines to check out: The Angler, Bad Idea and Acceptation Sans Limites (Sean 'Scourge of the Offbeat Generation' McGahey's off-Beat side-project which includes a story by...Offbeater Matthew Coleman). * A new Will Self short story. * Patti Smith pays homage to Robert Mapplethorpe (more Patti Smith here). * An excellent interview with Armistead Maupin. * A great feature on Manc punk legends The Worst. * The...(yawn!)...Tom McCarthy-less Booker shortlist. * JG Ballard, Tony O'Neill, Impetus Press, Scarlett Thomas, Nelson Algren, D. Harlan Wilson, Celine, Dee Dee Ramone, Lenny Kaye and the Confederacy of Dunces virtual tour, all via Dogmatika. * Women's confessional blogs. * The Underground Literary Alliance in The Believer. * Mark Ravenhill on Edward Bond. * Dave Eggers on Spamalot.
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