This is a radio show about the writer Duncan Smith, the introduction is an abridged version of ‘Impressed’, a text I wrote in 2021 and originally published in Catalog issue 17.
Writer Duncan Smith (1954-1991) excels at making wild connections.
His essay, ‘Everybody wants exposure’ builds on the speculative relationship between the process of developing photographs and fading denim jeans.
‘An interpretation of Elvis’ car-giving’ talks about exactly that: Elvis’ habit to give out Cadillacs and the interpretation of the name ‘Cadillac’ as a virtual rebus of events in Elvis’s life: ‘cad’: 50s slang for a bad boy, ‘ill’: ill and ‘lac’: lack.
Impressed
Iggy and The Stooges - Gimme Danger
Gregg Bordowitz - Gimme Danger (lecture) [excerpt]
Devo - (I can’t get no) satisfaction (from ‘Kidnapped’, dir. Eric Mitchell, 1978)
DNA - Blonde Red Head (from ‘Downtown 81’, dir. Edo Bertoglio, 1980/2000)
‘Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac’ (GWAT TV YouTube channel)
James Chance and ...more
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