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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

  • Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
    Empire (2000)—the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left—was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome's Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire's promise of imagining a full-blown global democracy. Though the authors admit that they can't provide the final means for bringing that entity about (or the forms for maintaining it), the book is rich in ideas and agitational ends. The "multitude" is Hardt and Negri's term for the earth's six billion increasingly networked citizens, an enormous potential force for "the destruction of sovereignty in favor of democracy." The middle section on the nature of that multitude is bookended by two others. The first describes the situation in which the multitude finds itself: "permanent war." The last grounds demands for and historical precursors of global democracy. Written for activists to provide a solid goal (with digressions into history and theory) toward which protest actions might move, this timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor, major accomplishments in and of themselves. (****)

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Psychic Soviet Vs. Wrecked Room: Arthur's Excellent 2006

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Finally, a year end list worth perusing....

ALELA DIANE “The Pirate’s Gospel” album
ALLEN GINSBERG “First Blues” album
THE BLACK CROWES “Tall” album
BOB DYLAN “Modern Times” album
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY “The Letting Go” album
BRAIN DONOR “Drain’d Boner” album
CALIFONE album
CAT POWER “The Greatest” album
CORMAC MCCARTHY “The Road” novel
DANIEL (A.I.U) HIGGS “Interdimensional Song-Seamstress” album
DEAD MOON “Echoes of the Past” 2xCD
DEERHUNTER “Cryptograms” album
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS “Waterloo” album
DOGNTANK album
ENTRANCE “Prayer of Death” album
FETUS “Battiato” album
GEORGE MITCHELL COLLECTION 7-inch vinyl series on Fat Possum
GREGG KOWALSKY “Through the Cardinal Window” album
THE HEADS “Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive” album
HERESI “Psalm II” ep
IAN SVENONIUS “The Psychic Soviet” little pink book
J.G. BALLARD “Kingdom Come” novel
IDIOCRACY film by Mike Judge
JOHN CALE “New York in the ’60s” boxset
JOHN MCBAIN “The In-Flight Feature” album
KAREN DALTON “In My Own Time” album
LIARS “Drums Not Dead” album
LOS LOBOS album
LOSCII “Plume” album
LUCCIO BATTISTI “Amore E Non Amore” album
M. WARD “Post-War” album
THE MARS VOLTA album
MARY J. BLIGE “MJB Da MVP” song
THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA “Bouheloud” album
MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER “Winter Women” album
MICHAEL KUPPERMAN “Tales Designed to Thrizzle” comics
MOONCHILD “Songs Without Words” album
MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD “Green Blues” album
NEIL YOUNG “Living With War” album
NICK OLIVERI AND THE MONDO GENERATOR “Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails” album
NINA SIMONE “Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit” album
NOAH GEORGESON “Find Shelter” album
ONEIDA “The Wedding Party” album
OOIOO “Taiga” album
ORTHODOX “Gran Poder” album
PAUL WINE JONES “Stop Arguing Over Me” album
SILVER APPLES “The Garden” album
SLY STONE Grammys appearance
SOFT MACHINE “Middle Earth Masters” and “Grides” albums
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE “The Sun Awakens” album
SONIC YOUTH “Rather Ripped” and “The Destroyed Rooms” albums
THOMAS PYNCHON “Against the Day” novel
TOWN AND COUNTRY “Up Above” album
“Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me” film dvd by Margaret Brown
VIKING MOSES various albums
VINCENT BLACK SHADOW album
WINTER FLOWERS album
WIRE “Live at the Roxy, London April 1 &2, 1977″/”Live at CBGB July 18, 1978″ cd
YO LA TENGO “I am…” album

Link: MAGPIE--A year of celebration with Arthur Magazine.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007 in Music |

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