Tales from the scene
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william kent
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Made a deal with God.
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Why not barge it down to Australia and poetise there during the winter?
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shakahislop
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I'm drinking on rue des bonnes femmes in la rochelle, I'm making my own scene, we're waving around old white stone streets on bikes
shakahislop
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there's a difference between the US and UK senses of what a 'scene' is i think, which are played out in the first couple of pages of this thread. in the US there's a serious merging of fiction and reality, it's quite widespread around arts and music people, especially younger ones, that the pinnacle of being an artists of some kind is to be part of the scene of the day. there was that utterly gross article that spendo posted about that new york writer who opened up his house to invite-only parties for example. but that's just a recent manifestation of a broader reality-fiction merger that goes back a long way and has had a billion iterations, mostly along bohemian lines (which is itself a tradition and set of ideas that goes back 150 years or whatever).
whereas in the UK all of that sounds like bullshit i think.
whereas in the UK all of that sounds like bullshit i think.
shakahislop
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everyone dreams of having mates (and very importantly girls/lovers of your choice) who are into the same things as them, people who have an idea of what you're on about when you talk about cabaret voltaire or anna and dasha or jim jarmush or hyperdub or whatever. you feel like you're going mad otherwise if you're into these niche things
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shakahislop
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that jeremy gilbert podcast i keep going on about refers to mancuso about five times an episode. i think some form of the loft is still going isn't it?
it was this article i was talking about. absolutely gross. sticks in the mind as the best example of the US arty scene fantasy (that is apparently different to what linebugh is getting at in this thread)
The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon (Published 2023)
They came. They drank. They staged plays and argued about Shakespeare. For dozens of up-and-coming writers, actors and artists, it was nice while it lasted.
shakahislop
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i reckon UK and US are different in this respect. not that it particularly matters.
shakahislop
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i'm also curious about the blogging thing that dissensus apparently sprung out of. i've seen fragments of those stories on here. it sounds like it would have been a nice thing to be a part of, particularly as a lot of people were writing and publishing stuff. the zero books genesis is intriguing too.
shakahislop
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seems like it would have been all blokes though
There was a woman and she was the best writer of all but she was snapped up by the apex predator
Mr. Tea
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That's when it's at its best, though.