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Posted by Mark Allen on 02 Jan 2013 | Tagged as: Random Posts

If Courtney Love shaved her head she’d be a shoe-in to play Genesis P. Orridge in the inevitable Throbbing Gristle biopic.

— Mark Allen (@_MarkAllen) January 3, 2013

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Mark Allen has contributed to The New York Times, The Huffington Post, NPR's All Things Considered, The Awl and Vice, hosted his own weekly radio show at WFMU, and performed storytelling and stand-up at Upright Citizen's Brigade NYC, Cutting Room and 92Y Tribeca. As a journalist, he's lived for a week with a Japanese home-robot, and been "cured" by an ex-gay church in front of a live audience. Mark ran an experimental show at Dixon Place called Pitch!, where writers pitched ideas to editors live on stage, he used to dance in his underwear and use break-away pants for a living, and once helped wrap a giant condom over Jesse Helms' house. Mark loves his own ass, and is also an asshole.

Writer:

The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Vice, AfterElton
Radio:

NPR, WFMU
Live:

Risk! at 92Y Tribeca (podcast, mp3), Seven Second Delay at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater (audio, pics), Cornelia Street Cafe, The Moth, Ask Me! (video), The Cutting Room, Pitch!

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The New York Times

Inner Decor:
Brion Gysin's
Dreamachine

I, Roommate: The Robot Housekeeper Arrives

His New York State of Mind

Going Home Again, in a Worried Mind's Eye + (pics)

A Cellphone for Calling Butterfield 8: The Hulger/Pokia

Times Square at 100: Once I Was You

Automated Voices in the Air



The Huffington Post

An Interview With Bruce LaBruce

An Interview With Matthew Camp

Confessions of a 'Gay Slob'

The Value of Facebook in Gay Lives Then & Now

I Left My Ears in NYC

Is Gay Men's Distaste for Football Innate?

Why I Think How to Survive a Plague is Going to be Huge

Go-Go Harder Teaches Male Burlesque Class

Is the NYC Gay Pride Parade a Square Peg?

Could the Stonewall Riots Be Staged as a Battle Reenactment?



Essays/Stories

Yesterday's Tomorrow: The "Future" in Films

Obliteration Cinema: The Best/Worst Apocalyptic Films

Interview:
Thomas Haustein
from Christiane F.

Interview:
J.G. Thirlwell
(aka Foetus)

Do You Fear Music? Melophobia Is Real!

Hey Gays: Lighten Up! ('93 archives)

The first AIDS Fanzine: Diseased Pariah News!



Essays/Stories

PBR Ropes in Gay Fans



Recent Interviews

Ask Me! Interviews Me

Daniel Nardicio Interviews Me

Fierth.com Interviews Me



Essays/Stories

Driving Naked To Austin

Sam Stern: Q&A About My 9-year Relationship w/ Jim

I Wrapped a Giant Condom Over Jesse Helms' House

My Childhood Sewer

UNT's Bruce Hall vs. The Phone
Sex Tape Bandit

Football & the Homosexual Brain

A History
of Drywall

Famous Film Locations on GoogleEarth

I Suffered Stendhal Syndrome at Universal Studios!

The Teacher Who Influenced Me the Most in High School

Pinko Commie Square Pegs: My 9th Grade Punk Fanzine

The Cyber Crush/ The Cyber Crutch

Infinity People

Real Life, Just Around the Corner

The Day I Was Protested Against

It's Not Gonna Be OK

Sociopaths: They're Gonna Make it After All!

A History of Christian Stand-Up

Interview with Hot Poop!

I Know a Secret or Two About Goo: Male Gunge

The Tunguska Explosion of 1908

Art Crimes

A History of Amusement Park Dark Rides



Films by me

Sex Tape (2008)

Edge (2008)

My Hands (2008)

Shaving Party (1989)

Swimming Pool (1989)

Raw Mudland Killers (1989)

Assassination Adventure (1988)

Three Textures & a Conversation (1985)

Attack of the Killer Prunes/Invasion of the Sleeping Bag People (1981)

Untitled #1 (1981)



other

  • The Flying Lizards: A Band Arranged According to the Laws of Chance [Sound Collector #6, 2001]
  • Flying Lizards website
  • Who Is Harry Stephen Keeler? [A To Izzard, A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion, Ramble House]



My Disability Interviews

  • Bob [blind]
  • David [deaf]
  • Greg Walloch [cerebral palsy and famous]
  • Kevin [lost left leg]
  • Victor [too skinny]
  • Derek [lost most of right arm]



Photography

My 9/11 photos: downtown NYC
that morning

My 9/11 photos: "ground zero"
that night

A large gallery of photos I have taken (early 00's)

A larger gallery of photos I've taken (early 00's)

Some photos I took in the Catskills

Mark Allen photos by Hans Fahrmeyer, and the stories



Trips I Have Taken

  • Trip to the Middle of Nowhere
  • Paris
  • Columbine High School
  • Archives of Harry Stephen Keeler
  • Central Park at night



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NPR

The Teacher Who Influenced Me the Most

Shorter

Driving Naked to Austin

After a Bike Ride, Paradise
is Lost

Stendhal Syndrome in Hollywood

Football & the Homosexual Brain



The Awl

An Interview With Shane Carruth

An Interview With Kenneth Goldsmith

Marina Abramovic's New Space

The Rise and Fall of Music Download Blogs

Internet History: Jodi.org

Internet History: Sharpeworld.com

Internet History: RexsWorld.com

Internet History: Cockeyed.com



WFMU

My WFMU Shows

My WFMU Blog Posts



Hearing Voices Radio

Road Trip: Travelers' Tales

Beatrice

Losing it at Universal Studios



Experiments

My Ex-Gay Adventure!

My Night As a Gay Superhero, (pic)

Hitchiking Naked On Avenue A

Pics Of Me Through The Years

Mark & Jim At World's Largest Kaleidoscope

Mark & Jim At House On The Rock

Halloween at Mark & Jim's House, 2009

Art Follies!

Recent Hair

Recent Food

Jim Krewson's Feelings Hog

My Recent PBR Twitter Spazz-Out

My Recent John Denver Twitter Spazz-Out

My Ass

What Would It Be Like To Be a WFMU DJ On Another Planet?

Skin Condition in Romania
(pt. 1, 2, 3, 4)

Peculiar Sci-Fi Costumes of Dave T. Smith

Abu Ghraib: Torture, or Art?

UNT Bruce Hall Art School Photos c.1987

Drudge Report as an Anagram

Sam Stern: 70's Porn Music vs. 80's Porn Music

JonBenet Convicted in Mark Karr Case

Re-visiting
Taxi Driver Locations

Vegitarianism a Gate Drug to Breatharianism?

My Ultimate Disguise

Bushisms

The Jar

Pedestrian Spy

Equation To Calculate Gay NYC... Now

Pictures Taken Of Catskill While Jogging

Anagrams of Popular URLs

Live-Tweeting Andy Warhol's Empire



Fiction

Beatrice

All About Not Being All About Me

The Nothing, Nothing, Nothing Cake



Interviews

Andrea Naschak (April Rayne)
+ interview

John Friedrich

Thomas Haustein



Cam Gallery

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