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  • Memories of Theresa
  • Play Theresa Duncan's Video Games Free Online
    Rhizome has preserved Theresa Duncan's visionary video games and they are now available to be played for free at http://archive.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/
  • Chop Suey
    "Developed in 1994 and published the following year, Chop Suey was a cunning piece of multimedia edutainment, suited just as well to grown-ups — smirking hipsters and punk rockers, probably — as it was to the prescribed “girls 7 to 12” crowd. But it wasn’t a computer game. It was something else: a loosely-strung system of vignettes; a psychedelic exercise in “let’s-pretend”; a daydream in which the mundanity of small town Ohio collides with the interior lives of its two young protagonists." Jenn Frank
  • Smarty
    Smarty was Theresa's second award winning video. This is a film version used to demonstrate the game for potential distributors. Art direction by Jeremy Blake
  • Theresa Duncan's The History of Glamour
    The History of Glamour “In the film, the main character is looking for an identity, and glamour becomes for her a potent form of self-expression. She finds it very liberating, because she’s from a small town. But by the end of the story, glamour becomes limiting, then imprisoning, so she becomes a writer, chooses grammar over glamour.” Theresa Duncan on The History of Glamour in Salon. ~ The History of Glamour, is a music-based animated film, it aired at The New York Video Festival, The Women Make Waves International Women's Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Montreal Film Festival, the Channel Hopping Festival in Austria and was selected for inclusion in The Whitney Biennial 2000. Glamour also aired on Channel 4 in the UK, on Canal + in France, and in Japan. * ~Writer and Director Theresa Duncan; Art Director Jeremy Blake; Art work by Jeremy Blake and Karen Kilimnick; animation by Eric Dyer.
  • Memorial Film
    This film was shown at a memorial for Theresa in New York, December 2007. A special thanks to Wilbur King for the use of clips from his film “Charlotte Goes Swimming” and Raymond Doherty, editor.
  • In a Land of 90's Barbieland Wreckage Chop Suey Got Everything Right
  • Memories Of Theresa Tumblr
  • The Lovely Theresa by Baron Von Luxxury
  • Eric Dyer

Worthy of Mention

  • Spoon -

    Spoon: Girls Can Tell
    This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny place--the songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. Like Jennyanykind, Moviola, and the Lilys, this Austin, Texas, trio has chosen to work on perfecting their craft without paying much heed to mainstream or trends. In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real, matter-of-fact way, Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come. --Mike McGonigal (*****)

Books

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

"I Designed It You Cunt!": Recounting The Punk Wars

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Another heavy tome on punk rock history arrives, this one entilted Babylon's Burning. John Lydon was quite beautiful, wasn't he?

"Heylin's other great problem is the nature of punk's dramatis personae, who often resemble nothing more than old soldiers; indeed, many of them refer to the events of 1976, 1977 and 1978, only half-jokingly, as the Punk Rock Wars. Like their military counterparts, they are only too keen to recount their part in the drama and equally determined to establish their battlefield credentials, their I-was-there bona fides. The credit for every innovation is jealously fought over; every breakthrough has a thousand avowed fathers.

Indeed, this snobbishness was embedded even in the earliest moments of the phenomenon. Heylin describes a hilarious face-off between Brian and Tony James, two tyros who would eventually form half of the Damned (whose 'New Rose' would beat all-comers to the title of first British punk single) and the older, balder, less hip Bernie Rhodes, eventually manager of the Clash. They meet at a gig; Rhodes and one of the teenagers are sporting identical T-shirts bought from Malcolm McLaren's King's Road shop, Sex. Tony James hisses at Rhodes: 'Don't wear the same T-shirt as us.' Rhodes replies: 'I designed it, you c***!'

Link: Review: Babylon's Burning by Clinton Heylin | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books.

Sunday, January 28, 2007 in Books |

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