By Mark | October 24, 2017
This weekend, my friend Forest Juziuk is going to be hosting a festival called Morbid Reflection: Michigan Horror Films 1976-2014 at Planet Ant’s new Ant Hall in Hamtramck. You can find ticket information at the end of this post, but, first, here’s a short conversation between Forest and myself about how the festival came together, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan | Also tagged Aaron Dilloway, America’s Funniest Videos, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Atman, Back From Hell, beds, beds that eat buckets of chicken, beds that eat hands, Border Angels, Brian Hunter, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Demon Lover, Demons, Devil Master, domestic violence, Donald Trump, Everything Is Terrible!, Evil Dead, Film, film festivals, film trailer, Forest Juziuk, Frank Zappa, Ghost Light, Halloween On Christmas, Harmony Korine, HAVEN, horror, horror movies, It Follows, Jeremy Wheeler, Kye Potter, Matt Jaissle, Memory Hole, Morbid Reflection, murder, Planet Ant, Planned Parenthood, psychedelic, Purple Rain, Purple Rain: Terror Beyond Belief, Ruth Ellis Center, Sean Curtis Patrick, sexual assault, The Carrier, Toshio Matsumoto, Trash Humpers, University of Michgan, VHS, Wolf Eyes, zines |
By Mark | October 3, 2016
There was going to be super thoughtful post tonight about something really important, but then came the screaming. I was sitting at the kitchen table, looking through our bills, when it started. Arlo and Clementine were in the kitchen. I think Arlo, who is four years old, was the first to yell. They’d opened up […]
By Mark | October 25, 2015
I’m sure I’ll live to regret it, but I made the decision this weekend, after learning that filmmaker Jen Proctor had moved to Ypsi Township, to broaden the scope of the Ypsi Immigration Interview project to include people moving not only into the city proper, but also the surrounding environs… Could this be the start […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Movie, Amway, Annex the Township, art films, Art Prize, birthday cakes, Bruce Conner, depression, Dick DeVos, Donald Harrison, Film, ghost hunting, ghosts, Grand Rapids, haunting, Jen Proctor, Jeopardy, One Ypsilanti, Paranormal Convention, Pittsfield Township, San Francisco, Sault Ste. Marie, Spalding Gray, Star Wars, Sweet Heather Anne, Winnie the Pooh, Ypsi immigration interview |
By Mark | February 23, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, rusty sliver of it that infected me 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I respected back in the day, during the period which many of us still consider to be […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott Labs, abortion, Agent 355, alcoholism, Alexis Buss, Alexis St. Martin, Alison Lewis, Ameoterone, American revolution, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, anarchists, anarchy, atheist, Auschwitz, Betsy Ross, Big Cheese, bioethics, bossicide, Brew Squat, Bruce Orr, Centereach, cheese, cheese money, chocolate, clinical trials, death penalty, digestion, Dishwasher, documentary film, Donald McCabe, Donno Layton, drug development, Edgar Allan Poe, Eva Mozes Kor, experiments, France, Free Voice, freethinker, fuck, gene therapy, Guinea Pig Zero, Harper’s, health care, Hershey’s Kisses, human guinea pig, human test subjects, Indianapolis, International Workers of the World, IWW, James Bond, Jeff Kelly, Jesse Gelsinger, Johnson Space Center, Jonestown, Josef Mengele, Keffo, Kenosha, Kinko's, labor law, Lehigh Valley, liver, Long Island, lying, Mackinac Island, medical experimentation, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nazis, Neptune, New Jersey, New York Times Magazine, Off Label, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, patient zero, Paul Gelsinger, Pennsylvania, Pete Jordan, pharmacokinetics, Phil Buchanan, Philadelphia, placebos, printing, Prozac, psych drugs, Randall Phillip, Ritalin, Robert Helms, scams, secret agents, sleep deprivation, SmithKline Beecham, squats, stomach, syphilis, Temp Slave, The Age of Reason, The Untold History of Zines, This American Life, Thomas Paine, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, twins, underground press, union organizing, unions, University of Pennsylvania, vasovagal syncope, William Beaumont, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Books, workplace violence, Wyeth-Ayerst, zines |