Frankenstein vs. the World

“It is you, oh yeah
It is you, you, oh yeah
It is you, oh yeah

I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop on you”
      – “Pressure Drop,” Toots & the Maytals

Tags: Frederick "Toots" Hibbert.

Tags: love.

Hedi El Kholti’s long-awaited sex zine finally arrived in the mail this week, and it’s beautiful.  Very proud to have helped out a little on this.  Here’s the copy I wrote for it some time back:

Remember when desire could be revolutionary? Arriving in the banal wake of the artificial sex liberations lampooned by Tony Duvert and others, Hedi El Kholti’s new magazine looks back to the small-press sex culture of the 1970s to offer up visions of real freedom for the present. Somewhere between a literary fanzine, a noise-pop scrapbook, and an open diary, ANIMAL SHELTER reminds us that disclosure itself can be radical — a nonconfessional act of *sharing* that subverts our cultural coding and creates new opportunities for pleasure. This is writing that “invades its own privacy” (Dodie Bellamy), and, in doing so, activates actual possibilities for the nonprivatized life.

Stories in here by Hedi, Chris Kraus, Ariana Reines, Jennifer Doyle, & Bruce Benderson especially are dear to my heart.  Honestly one of the most exciting, genuine books I’ve read in a long time. 

Tags: (in)hibition, caginess, haven, ill-fit, love, neglect, protection, rescue.