{"id":1686,"date":"2008-11-21T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/11\/words_of_endearment\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:22:48","slug":"words_of_endearment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/11\/words_of_endearment.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Bill&#8217;s Words of Endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a listen to the sweet nothings William S. Burroughs offers, by way of Philip Hunt&#8217;s extraordinary animation short. It was pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/supervert.com\/essays\/\">Supervert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ah Pook<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2C5XuylNFLo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;d say the film is an ideal accompaniment to Malcolm Mc Neil&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/images\/paintings\/malcolm_mcneill\/ah_pook_is_here.invite.jpg\">&#8220;lost art&#8221; exhibition<\/a>, which has been extended through January.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Burroughs reading his text, of course. The music is by John Cale, who also performs it. It comes from &#8220;Ah Pook The Destroyer \/ Brion Gysin&#8217;s All-Purpose Bedtime Story,&#8221; the fourth track on the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-City-Radio-William-Burroughs\/dp\/B000001FYF\">&#8220;Dead City Radio.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nHunt won the Media Prize for Best Experimental Technique, in 1994,  at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. &#8220;Ah Pook&#8221; was also named &#8220;Best Animation Film&#8221; at the Dresden Film Festival, in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a listen to the sweet nothings William S. Burroughs offers, by way of Philip Hunt&#8217;s extraordinary animation short. It was pointed out to me by Supervert. Ah Pook I&#8217;d say the film is an ideal accompaniment to Malcolm Mc Neil&#8217;s &#8220;lost art&#8221; exhibition, which has been extended through January. That&#8217;s Burroughs reading his text, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}