viscerality

So it was that, with my good mates Francis and Andy, I wandered up to Eruption, an evening of bands and burlesque at the Halt bar in the West End of Glasgow, where the support act, The Fnords, set the tone for the evening with some in-yer-face surf-punk garage-rock, loaded with vim, vigour and viscerality.

Duncan's Patent Remedy Hal Duncan 2008

To go to the music analogy, there are songs that can survive on pure viscerality despite piss-poor recording quality and crappy instruments, there are songs that shock you with originality, that are so perfectly produced and played that you forgive them for being somewhat uninspired.

Mon Petit Pont Faible, Obscurci Dans Le Brouillard SVGL 2008

So it was that, with my good mates Francis and Andy, I wandered up to Eruption, an evening of bands and burlesque at the Halt bar in the West End of Glasgow, where the support act, The Fnords, set the tone for the evening with some in-yer-face surf-punk garage-rock, loaded with vim, vigour and viscerality.

Archive 2008-10-01 Hal Duncan 2008

The bitching about "that one" just goes to show that even the semi-enlightened portion of the electorate still falls victim to the meaningless, bullshit "exasperated sigh & eyeroll" viscerality.

Obama Scores Clear Win In Low-Key Debate 2009

Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

David's comment Dodie Bellamy 2008

Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

Its capacity is not to sexualise in the now-ubiquitous mold of the bad girl, which, as you rightly note, has witnessed its charge collapse, but to circuit this through the revolting/the substandard - the ugly and cheesy - as a means of accruing sexuality through tactility, viscerality, carnality, mammality.

Bedtime Reading Dodie Bellamy 2008

How can you, reading a poem on a computer screen, feel the viscerality of the cover page ripped from passion -- Pasyon, I tell ya!

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

In defense of viscerality and plotlessness « Jahsonic

In defense of viscerality and plotlessness « Jahsonic 2007

It has made me feel very vulnerable, it has demanded I am searchingly honest with myself, in print, in public, on TV - and it has demanded an emotional viscerality I have been frequently very uncomfortable with.

Riding the Tiger Rachel 2006