Bent Zine #5

Interview by Avery Trufelman

“If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.”

—Yiddish Proverb

Vetements FW21

Johnson O’Connor English Vocabulary Builder (1939)

Unknown to 87 Percent: Fain

adj. Glad, rejoiced, pleased. Fain may also mean pleased under the circumstances, glad to accept the alternative.

Positions of the Sun by Lyn Hejinian (2018)

“The madman does not notice that he is changing subjects. He grasps a piece of shining yellow straw and shouts that he is holding the sun.” Denis Diderot make this observation to his beloved Sophie Volland in a letter dated October 20, 1760.

An Image that Moves Me

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

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I’M A SOLAR FLARE, SO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY

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NSFW

Bent Questions: Avery Trufelman (@trufelman)

Host of Nice Try! a podcast from Curbed about utopian experiments, as well as the host of the podcast for The Cut, from New York Magazine.

So tell me how BENT you are…

1. Virus or Bacteria? Virus! Because language is a virus from outer space.

2. Preferred Pronoun? She/her/baby

3. What Periodic Table Element are you? Helium

4. Favorite Object? My wristwatch. I still wear it every day in lockdown. I’m naked without it.

5. What shape are you? Gehry’s Dancing House 

   

6. Give us a texture. Freshly shaven legs.

7. Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc. Socialist hedonist

8. Favorite person of Color that you disagree with? May I please count Malcolm Gladwell

9. What sound are you? Room tone

10. Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? Ok hear me out Jeff Koons but only the Made In Heaven series sorry

11. What’s the last thing you broke? This vase my friend sent me. I moved it all the way from Oakland to New York and then I was an idiot and left too many dead flowers in it.

12. Last person you kissed? A friend of a friend set me up on a completely blind date like it was the 90s

13. Best thing about men’s right activists? You can ignore them when they troll you

14. Do you meditate? Not well

15. Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare? I have to google all of these

16. Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS: I don’t want to google all of these

17. Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist. It can’t even be sustained in Lesbian bars.

18. Favorite Mythological Character? Sisyphus

19. What type of Cancer are you? Extremely benign 

20. Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? Parental approval

21. Who do you actually hate? Louise Linton but like I hate her so much that I love her and I cannot wait to see her movie.  

22. Best regrettable purchase this month? A very hot lingerie set that I will wear… for myself? I dunno. What a dumb purchase

23. Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian…Will go down in history like Andy Warhol and Selfish will become a seminal collectors item.

24. Your favorite body of water. Dubai Creek

25. What’s the most middle class thing you’ve done this week? Printed out material for my taxes

26. I’m only politically correct when…I’m on the internet which is most times

27. What’s your favorite scar on your body? A cut across my nose from a bike accident

28. Last time you cried tears of joy. Someone said something really beautiful in an interview

29. Your most noble trait. Listening

30. I know the taste of...A banana from the 1860s https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/

NO ISSUE.