{"id":68876,"date":"2014-03-28T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=68876"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:22:05","slug":"what-were-loving-strokes-sex-appeal-splenetic-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/what-were-loving-strokes-sex-appeal-splenetic-surfers\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Strokes, Sex Appeal, Splenetic Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw <i>American Hustle<\/i> with your parents, as I did last Christmas, you will have noticed something that set it apart from pretty much every Hollywood movie of the last few years. I refer to the sex appeal of Amy Adams. Her hotness was a blast from the past, and not just because of the disco d\u00e9colletage. For some reason, Hollywood doesn\u2019t really do sexy these days, at least not in female roles\u2014and certainly not compared to the French. Just think of Lola Cr\u00e9ton in <i>Goodbye, First Love<\/i> or Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos in <i>Blue Is the Warmest Color<\/i>\u2014both playing teenagers with a soulful teenage horniness that\u2019s taboo in American movies\u2014or Marion Cotillard as a double amputee in <i>Rust and Bone<\/i>, or best and most recent of all, Emmanuelle Devos, the fifty-year-old star of <i>Just a Sigh<\/i>, who\u2019s never looked better (which is saying something), and who smolders so intensely for Gabriel Byrne that the poor guy just sort of disappears off the screen. Until the actual love scenes, you hardly notice: this is a one-woman show. \u2014<b>Lorin Stein<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo de Souza Le\u00e3o died shortly after the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dogs-Blue-Rodrigo-Souza-Leao\/dp\/1908276207\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1396041200&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=all+dogs+are+blue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>All Dogs Are Blue<\/i><\/a>, an autobiographical novel detailing his time in a Rio de Janeiro mental asylum. Souza Le\u00e3o uses a kind of language his schizophrenia has taught him, creating a poetry that\u2019s at one moment absurd\u2014his two recurring hallucinations are Rimbaud and Baudelaire\u2014and the next heartbreakingly self-aware. (\u201cIs it the kiss of Judas? Will I betray my father in my madness?\u201d) It\u2019s an innovative, original book, though not an easy one to read. But then, as Souza Le\u00e3o writes, \u201cThe truth can be a sloppy invention and still convince everyone.\u201d \u2014<b>Justin Alvarez<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When will spring arrive\u203d Isn\u2019t all this cold weather lovely though\u2e2e I love it\u2014I hope it never ends\u061f If you\u2019ve been feeling that we have a lack of punctuation marks at our disposal\u2014we don\u2019t have a way to represent, for instance, an ironic question\u2014then why not revive the obsolete irony mark\u2e2e It has a long history of failure in mainstream typography that you can read all about in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shady-Characters-Punctuation-Symbols-Typographical\/dp\/0393064425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks<\/i><\/a>, by Keith Houston. But if you believe that to point out irony to an intelligent reader would defeat its purpose wholesale, perhaps you would prefer the percontation point, which was invented by the English printer Henry Denham in the nineteenth century\u2014it\u2019s meant as a visual indication of a rhetorical question. Or the interrobang, which combines the feeling of the exclamation point with the function of the question mark. Or my favorite, the love point, used to denote deep affection. \u2014<b>Anna Heyward<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Geoff Dyer was not killed, or even, apparently, seriously impaired by his recent stroke, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n07\/geoff-dyer\/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he<b> <\/b>writes buoyantly about the experience<\/a> for the <i>London Review of Books<\/i>. Ten days into his new life in Venice Beach, his vision went weird and his coordination abandoned him, and he stumbled about half-blind in perfect weather. His is a kind of coming-of-age story that reminds you how many such stories make up a life, whatever your age. \u2014<b>Zack Newick<\/b> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If <i>Girls<\/i> has begun to grate, tune in to\u00a0<i>Broad City<\/i>, written by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, produced by Amy Poehler. In many ways the anti-<i>Girls<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Broad City<\/i>\u00a0follows also-IRL best friends Ilana and Abbi as they blunder their way through New York: buying marijuana \u201clike a grownup,\u201d for example, involves the stashing of said marijuana in a very grown-up body part, while attending a roof party full of beautiful people has deeply weird consequences involving a pair of bearded DJs. Though the show is more sketch comedy than high-concept, the chemistry and timing alone of these two feckless oddballs make for some\u00a0refreshingly\u00a0killer comedy.\u00a0\u2014<b>Rachel Abramowitz<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 1987, the Butthole Surfers played a show in Trenton, New Jersey that has since become the stuff of legend. This week, I read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2009\/03\/how-did-it-comes-to-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Did It Come to This?<\/a>,\u201d an oral history of the concert published online a few years ago. The Buttholes, as fans call them, really knew how to pull out all the stops. (And how to put them in; Gibby Haynes, their frontman, liked to remark onstage, \u201cDon\u2019t you hate it when your dad walks in and you have a wine bottle up your ass?\u201d) They poured lighter fluid on the cymbals and lit them on fire; \u201cthere was the naked woman onstage and then Paul from the Buttholes pulled his pants down and was flipping his dick around.\u201d When a security guard tried to put a stop to the madness, Gibby Haynes covered <i>him<\/i> in lighter fluid, too, and threatened to ignite the guy. For anyone interested in the singularly splenetic alt-rock subculture of the late eighties, this is an invaluable resource\u2014and it is, in the extremity of the events it describes, almost endlessly quotable. \u201cThe Butthole Surfers\u2019 music was totally over my head,\u201d says one attendee. \u201cIt just sounded like a jet landing\u2014forever.\u201d \u2014<b>Dan Piepenbring<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw American Hustle with your parents, as I did last Christmas, you will have noticed something that set it apart from pretty much every Hollywood movie of the last few years. I refer to the sex appeal of Amy Adams. 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