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Hobo #14 | Willem Dafoe

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One thing I know about Willem Dafoe is that he likes to pretend. He is as convincing playing a vampire as he is a messiah, equally an asset to the tragedy of Lars Von Trier, as he is to the whimsy of Wes Anderson. Impossible for us to ascertain who he will show up as next, we just know that we will believe him.

We all coexist in a pretend world full of pretenders but no one has presented more personas with more frequency and as successfully as Willem Dafoe. I’ve caught glimpses of him in fifty or more films made by as many directors, and he’s always the character and identity he’s pretending to be. I was jazzed to have an opportunity to talk about his passion to transform, and his current impersonations and adventures.

[Interview by Brian Hendricks / Photo by Terry Richardson / Styling by Heathermary Jackson]

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Hobo #14 | Poetry volume 2

“Poetry is aversion of conformity in the pursuit of new forms, or can be.” - Charles Bernstein, A Poetics

When you enter a poem, you are entered. The relationship is always reciprocal, always both. You extend a poem’s amplitude with each sensation you carry outward, forward from it. A poem’s mutter in your mouth, it delivers you into perspectives until then unforeseen; an ethics reverberates. The shape of this space is always changing: there are new subjectivities to speak from, pavilions for our ever-shifting patois.

The poems in this folio bid you to enter them, to allow your self to be located within their body, their form, their awareness. Let us here imagine the medium of poetry—so variable, so indefinable—is the echo, and, as an echo, let the language of these poems resonate through you—through the chamber of these pages, our mouths, our ears, our minds—and be vocalized in the spaces that connect us.

[Introduction by Michael Nardone]

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Hobo #14 | Tom Waits

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Few names loom larger in the history of American music than
Tom Waits. He is the epitome of the eccentric mad hatter to some and for others a spiritual guide, Kerouac-esque in his jumble of theatrics, poetry and jazz.

Over the past thirty years, Waits has created a body of work distinguished by its bizarre imagery, its eye for the implausible, and a growl that seems to grow mightier with age.

In the winter of 2007, I proposed an interview with Tom. In the spring of five-years-later, the phone rang.

[Interview by Jules Moore / Photo by Anton Corbijn]

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Hobo #14 | Glenn O’Brien

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Glenn O’Brien is a poet and essayist who understands the importance of mode and manner within society. Besides having produced and hosted Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party which David Letterman believes to be “the greatest TV show ever” and been photographed by Andy Warhol for the cover sleeve of Sticky Fingers, Glenn provides ponderable solutions for life. “When I get confused or dismayed or bored I always think: but what if this was an art movie.” While his collection of diatribes, homilies and screeds, Soapbox, quite simply “touches on the parts philosophy left out”, his newest book, How to Be a Man, is more than just a style guide, it is “a roadmap out of the doldrums of social rote and onto the path of cultural triumph.”

[Interview and photo by Shawn Dogimont]

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Hobo #14 | John Giorno

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Poet, performer, and media provocateur, John Giorno has been one of the most consistently provoking of New York artists since his works first debuted in the early 1960s. Never settling on a single mode or method, Giorno’s early poems emerged in response to relationships with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, then later with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and explored the use of found images, appropriated language, and collage. Giorno then began to explore the possibilities of recorded sound, establishing entire Electronic Sensory Poetry Environments, in which poems could be listened to and simultaneously experienced by all the senses in multi-media atmospheres. These experimentations continued with the Dial-A-Poem installations at the Museum of Modern Art, and with the Giorno Poetry Systems LPs that brought the poet’s voice to record players around the world. Giorno, in his mid-seventies, is now known for his outstanding, high-energy performances of his own work.

[Interview by Michael Nardone / Photos by Shawn Dogimont]

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