Oh, goody. I just read that Johnny Depp is starting work on a movie about the Earl of Rochester.
Now that's entertainment!

Silliman mentions Hermann Nitsch today. I've always been fascinated by photos i've seen of his "Orgy Mystery Theater". That's a direction (meat, blood, dirt, nudity) my work has mostly eschewed, but it's good to know someone else has explored it to the max. Art in the late 20c. has all too much been subject to the white-walls & theoretical-rationale side of the professional avant garde, & not enough to the amateur & the ecstatic (which it ceded to Rock early on). I think poetry in particular needs to get over its insistence on decorum (of whatever sort); poetry should not be afraid to be embarassing...