Sunday, March 22, 2009

Self-Portrait Day:

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For this latest in the blog's series of Self-Portrait Days -- which is based on an idea by distinguished local Steven Trull and uses images* provided by distinguished local Mbuitron -- you are asked to choose one (or more) of the images you see below and then use that image or those images as the inspiration or basis for a piece of writing or an artwork. If you choose to write, the work can be a short story, poem, prose poem, fictional paragraph or sentence, work of non-fiction, song lyric ... anything you like. If you choose to turn your image(s) into a visual artwork, any medium and anything else goes just so long as the work can be sent to me for posting on the blog either as a jpeg or gif or, if you choose to make a video, either via an imbedding code or a link to where the video can be watched. You should send the piece of writing or art that results from this assignment, indicating in some way which image or images you have used, to contact@denniscooper.net. The deadline is your bedtime in your time zone on next Monday, March 30th. Everyone is welcome to participate in this SPD whether you're a regular commenter, a lurker, a new reader, or a complete stranger. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Comments section or via email. Thanks a lot in advance for your participation.

* If you're interested, the images come from the Thematic Apperception Test, and more info on the TAT is here.



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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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October 2007
(top to bottom)

Halloween Post #9: Bernard Welt's 'Jason Voorhees R.I.P.'

28 pages of Little Caesar #5: The Rimbaud Issue (1978)

My 10 Favorite Porn Films (in alphabetical order, for Slatted Light)

JW Veldhoen performs 'Witchburn' (Halloween Post #7)

18 pictures of Chris Lemmerhirt

You are sort of there: 'The Third Mind' at Palais de Tokyo

Brigid Polk's 'Scars'

All for what?

Varioso #13: Halloween Post #6

Henri Bergson thought he knew what laughter meant

Pierre Clementi Day, part 1

DC's Top 10 Escorts for October

'Desert Gothic'

Halloween Post #5: Somebody buy me these animated props right fucking now!

Jose presents ... Anime Day: A selection of works for DC and his audience

The New, Improved Thomas Bernhard Day, part 1

Young Stereolab

Some whats and whos of New Narrative

Halloween Post #4; Three Ways to Make a Monster Mask (plus 10 new masks for 2007)

10 literary autographs and their current market value

Jim Shaw Day

Varioso #12: Motion Pictures

Mine for yours: My 2007 Top Ten Lists-in-progress

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Halloween Post #3

Alexander Rodchenko's Angularity


September 2007
(top to bottom)

Wolf presents ... Radiohead Day

My Christina Stead Book Report (for Susan)

May I suggest an Illinois Road Trip?

Ghost Story #7

Artist vs. Writer #3: Hans Bellmer and Paul Eluard's 'The Games of the Doll'

'Does God Smoke Pot, or is Pot Smoke God?': A fancy name for 10 Animal Collective videos

Chris Goode presents ... Speed Death ... Day

Justin Timberlike, Ilya, Kolya, Mike, and Vostik

Joe M. presents ... Edie Day

Self-Portrait Day: 'My Halloween Costume', part 2

Self-Portrait Day: 'My Halloween Costume', part 1

Kiddiepunk presents ... Charles Lamont You Sick, Sick Fuck: Baby Burlesks, Shirley Temple and Some of the Greatest Films Ever Made

It's Laura Beth Noble's 19th Birthday Day

Insidetheroar presents ... Funk Day

More recent acquisitions from my Guro collection (for Vomitingghosts)

The Seven Godlike Books of James McCourt

Halloween Post #1: How to Build a Fog Machine

'Here lies Pierre Molinier. This was a man without morality.'

The Biggest, Ugliest, Most Funtastic Thurston Moore Day Ever!!!!

chrisg presents ... jonathan lerman day

My Brigitte Fontaine Tickets

Ghost Story #6

Varioso #11: Mostly from my mailbox

for those who asked: 'Period: The Official Strategy Guide' (excerpt, from Dazed & Confused Magazine, 2000)

The Industrial Short Film Festival


August 2007
(top to bottom)

The Sorry Parents



July 2007
(top to bottom)

Felix Feneon Day

Ghost Story #4

Slatted Light presents ... Henri Michaux Day

The Lonesome Deaths of Bud and Sandy

Joe Mills presents ... Chic Day

28 pages of Little Caesar #10

Nikumaroro: Behind the Headlines

Merzbow Day

World Exclusive: Andy Warhol interviewed by teenager David Ehrenstein at the Factory on March 3, 1965 (audio)

Mat and Michael Karo presents ... Scenes from Guy 'Tigersare' Blackman's World Tour

Ghost Story #3

10 obsessed fans

Marguerite Duras Day #1: 21 Portraits

10 who did what I have only written

34 pages of Little Caesar #8

Neighborhood Mining Expedition, Part 1

Ghost Story #2

found in a box in my mother's garage #2: My awkward years

Earthen Tidbits

The Crispin Glover Vidclip Weekend

Paul Curran presents ... Aus Music Day

Ghost Story #1

30 pages of Little Caesar #7

Special Double Day: Crowd Scenes vs. Crowded Scenes


June 2007
(top to bottom)

Bernard Welt presents ... Donald Britton's 'The Dark Side of Disneyland'

from a box in my mother's garage #1: Little hopes

10 Ghost Towns

15 minutes or less: a short, sort of star studded walking tour of my neighborhood

Paradigm presents ... Pictures, words, music, pictures, words: a biased rhizome of some online art journals from Australia

The Allegedly Sexy and Apparently Evil Harlow Day

'Haxan': pix, info, two clips, three analyses

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Michael Karo 'Twelve Recent Photographs'

Varioso #9

Tony O'Neill presents ... A SALUTE TO VIDEO NASTIES

Ozu and Harriet

Day of Insanity, Confusion, Violence, Depression, Terror, and Death

The Tao Lin Preamble

Love can only do so much

The day my blog sort of geeks out on Japanese high tech gadgetry

'I owe the world a dead person.' -- Heiner Muller (1929 - 1995)

Zombie Day, part 1: My top ten videogames starring the undead

Gregoryedwin and Morgan present ... Joy Williams Day

Anarchism Day

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Scott Treleaven

10 Glam Rock Tribute Bands

Yasujiro Ozu Day

The savage art of age progression

Varioso #8

Bernard Welt presents ... Michael Williams' Watchword Technique

My 50 all time favorite songs circa this morning (in no order)


May 2007
(top to bottom)

Psst! You want to watch some porn that has a little something extra?

Oliver Twist 2007

Rigby101 presents ... Fat Man On A Beach – BS Johnson Returns to Resubmit his Research & Findings (or Buy Me, Public!)

The 'Kindertotenlieder' Glasgow Experience

The day my blog ransacks UBUWEB

I miss raves

The Unburst Bubbles and Quickie Masterstrokes of Petit Paradis

The current #6 on all my all time favorite rock albums list

On the day before Harmony Korine's 'Mr. Lonely' premieres at Cannes my blog becomes its bootleg press kit

15 subliminal and backmasked messages

'Why in heaven's name have I been forgotten? Harrumph!': Oswell Blakeston Day

The Beloveds #9: Robert Davis

Jax presents ... Down the Plughole with Jax

Happy birthday to here

The hard head

Self-Portrait Day: 'I Detest'

13 puppet shows

Math Tinder presents ... 'Fucking Poets: A Day for Research Chemicals'

Where's Waldo?

WWE Special #2: Creative Massacre presents ... The Hardy Boyz

The New Sad Man: Gary Lutz Day

Slatted_Light presents ... School Shootings Day

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Kris Kuksi

The Fotonovel's Crappy Little Life

Not not unhappy (for Gregory Lemarchal 1983 - 2007)

Rene Crevel, Scarcely


April 2007
(top to bottom)

Jose presents ... PARASITOLOGY DAY

Self-Portrait Day: My Dead

'Why Sarkozy is Dangerous', by Doug Ireland (excerpt)

Paradigm presents .... V.A.R.I.O.S.O: conversation starter

If I had a runway

Adjoun presents ... David Haines Day

Slideshow: Election Weekend

Gregoryedwin Weekend

'House of Horrors: A History of Grand Guignol', by Agnes Peirron

He doesn't deserve him

Varioso #7

Scrapbook One, p. 21: 'I heard you were looking for food'

JW Veldhoen presents ... 'Chicken in the Field Day: The River Kid Oracle: An Autobiographical Fragment'

The DC! True Internet Story: Ton (for Porcelain Skull)

5 encores

'Jerk', the radio play: The making of ...

Vomitingghosts presents ... Ghost Day

28 hints from or about Harry Mathews

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... from 'Lost Boys of Dreamland Forest'

Statictick presents ... The Official Userlands Launch Event, Detroit 03/17/07

WWE Special: The Undertaker vs. Roland Barthes

Paul

Kenji Siratori's Nerve Physics

Old folk

Scrapbook One, p. 20: 'more from the Cannibal's porn stash'


March 2007
(top to bottom)

The Distinguished Locals Shoppe

Georges Perec Day

Today you get leftovers, side trips, outtakes, and offshoots

Man's Best Day, part 1: The Peter Azur Years

DC's Visitors Guide to the French Presidential Elections 2007

'Userlands' launch events: NYC, Brooklyn

Words can't possibly begin to describe: 10 slash fictions

Some of the skinny on Raymond Roussel

Double header: (1) Recent acquisitions from my Guro collection #3, (2) 'Userlands' LA

Self-Portrait Day: 'The Book Cover' (for Richard Eichmann)

Blow Job Day

Tigersare presents ... Dennis Wilson Day

Mine for yours: 25 rock shows I saw when I was younger that make me a lucky stiff

On assignment; Postitbreakup presents ... Untitled

DC's Russian Gay Porn Website Consumer Report #3

Goners, part 1: Manhattan edition

A basic layout of David Lynch's 'The Air is On Fire' at Fondation Cartier, Paris

Scrapbook One, p. 19: more from the Cannibal's porn stash

31 notches in The Fall's big belt

Varioso #6

Day in which my blog becomes a pew in the chapel of Ivan

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... 7 Forensic Artists

10 card tricks

Graduate Seminar

Vomitingghosts presents ... Quotation Day

Bill (?), part 1

Why didn't River Phoenix become the James Dean of his generation?


February 2007
(top to bottom)

World premiere tonight, 8:30 pm: 'Kindertotenlieder'

Spotlight on Tim Dlugos' 'G9'

Misanthrope and DC present ... Vincent Kartheiser Day

SYpHA_69 presents ... American Psycho Day

Snapshots: 'Kindertotenlieder'-in-progress, etc.

France (hearts) you

Winter Rates presents ... William Gaddis (1922 - 1998)

Scrapbook One, p. 18: 10 from the Cannibal's porn stash

'Jerk', pt. 2

5stringsA presents ... Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

The strangely metafictional disappearance of Johnny Gosch

Big Pinback fan here

'The Undead' (1990)

Holography Day

James aka Blondie aka Spike aka Paul

Spotlight on ... Darius James' 'Negrophobia'

Death becomes P.O.P. (1958 - 1967)

William Burroughs' 'Time' (1965), part 2

William Burroughs' 'Time' (1965), part 1

Scrapbook One, p. 17: The Cannibal's baby steps

Alexandro Jodorowsky Day

Scrapbook Three, p. 7: 'They hate you'

Varioso #5


January 2007
(top to bottom)

Fear and awe of the Jesus and Mary Chain reunion

Naked Self-Portrait Day (for Michael Karo)

Some notes I've given myself regarding my next novel

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Group #2: Female

The LSD Short Film Festival

Doug Wasted Day

Ann King Cooper (1923 - 2007)

If I Had a Hammer: My top 10 currently available prostitutes (for 5stringsA)

Michael Heizer's 'City'

Corpodibacco presents ... 7 Italian Poets

'Kindertotenlieder', Befort Rehearsals: Report 2

Letters from home

'Kindertotenlieder', Belfort Rehearsals, Report 1

Russian porn modeling pioneers of the early 21st century, someone still loves you

Galerie Dennis Cooper presents ... Group Show #1: Male

Questionaire; Answer one (or more)

Scrapbook Three, p. 6: 'Sad Sacks'

Richard Eichmann presents ... Venetian Snares Day

Atheist presents ... A Dennis Cooper-style Lucky Dip for Dennis Cooper on his birthday

Pierre Klossowski Day, part 3: Writer

We're spectacularly alive

Mine for yours: 9 songs that trigger specific memories

The Neglected and Neglectful Howard Devoto

Matt Day

Varioso #4

'Jerk', part 1

from my photo album: Los Angeles, Dec. 19 - 29


December 2006
(top to bottom)

Recent acquisitions from my Guro collection

Good news

Day in which I survey the recent crop of Russian gay porn websites

Lydia Davis: Some Hows and Whys

antonio presents ... john v. barker & his deepest fears

Handwriting Analysis Day

Joe Mills presents ... My Top 10 Favorite Simpsons Characters

Slammer's Recurring Nightmares

Dirty Words Day

from my photo album: Preparations for 'Kindertotenlieder'

Back to Cyberpunk

My 10 favorite animated characters of all time (for Joe Mills)

Pamela Des Barres Shrine

The Beloveds #8: Laura Berringer

13: glitch

Scrapbook Three, p. 5: 'The Boy on the Far Left'

Spotlight on ... James Champagne's 'Confusion'

Handwriting Analysis Day, Part 1: The Test (for Math T)

Pierre Klossowski Day #2: Drawings and paintings

The Worst (1960 - 1971)

David C. presents a day dedicated to Juan Goytisolo

My 10 favorite video games of all time

Self-Portrait Day: 'Multiple Choice'

A bunch of other places to go


November 2006
(top to bottom)

Russia's AES+F

'Them' (1986)

Great Moments in Gay Porn #9: Spotlight on Five Fingered Joe aka Fistfucking Day

Scrapbook Three, p. 3: 'The Beheadables'

Mizu presents ... Cookie Mueller Day

Pierre Klossowski Day #1, An Introduction

from my polaroid album: Some artists, writers, friends in the 1980s

David Ehrenstein presents ... Lorenz Hart Day

Birth #2

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