Penny Arcade
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Penny Arcade is a recurring person in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 19, 2024 and January 19, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Beckett ran into Penny Arcade outside of Madame Matovu on 10th. Now, Penny is the headliner”; “Here are some things that Penny Arcade says”; “Penny Arcade presents ‘The Art of Becoming’ – a performance and reading”. It most often appears alongside Amana, Arden Wohl, Ariana Reines.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 19, 2024
- Last seen: January 19, 2025
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Related Pages
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- Amana (2 shared issues)
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- Arden Wohl (2 shared issues)
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- Ariana Reines (2 shared issues)
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- David (2 shared issues)
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- Gideon Jacobs (2 shared issues)
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- Jordan Castro (2 shared issues)
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- Natasha Stagg (2 shared issues)
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- Russian Cosmism Circle NYC (2 shared issues)
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- Soho (2 shared issues)
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- Substack (2 shared issues)
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- The Relentless Shadow Where the Light Surrenders (2 shared issues)
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- Tibet House (2 shared issues)
External Links
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- Instagram: https://instagram.com/penny_arcade_forever
Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Thursday, November 14 I take the Q to the end of the line today. It's something I've always wanted to do - take the train until the cars stop and I'm the last one left on board and a voice comes on and says please exit the train for cleaning, this is the last stop on this train, please exit the train so the train can be cleaned. I'm in Bay Ridge to shoot a music video today. To be an extra in a music video, that is. I'm exceptionally bad at acting. I'm bad enough that I am even bad as an extra. I'm not particularly bad at lying, but I am bad at having an expressive face. The neighborhood at the end of the Q is nice. I've been taken to other places in New York like this before. Places where you feel like you're by the seaside, where you're under the bridge, where the architecture is more brick, more limestone, more instances of art deco. The Hudson widens into the open ocean somewhere not too far from here and so of course the air feels different. It's strange, even if anticipated, to take the subway ninety minutes to a place where the air feels different, to walk down strange streets and into an unfamiliar gothic building, to open the door to a room where I have never been, and to find it filled with people I mostly already know. The past few years have given me many instances like this. This is something I am very grateful for. The music video is for DDM / Uncensored New York. It's a cool concept. It's cool to watch things come to life. The shoot is outside, and I am the coldest I have ever been. I'm still having fun. I'm thinking about things like how monks orient their consciousness and focus towards the cause of their suffering, and then I am trying to think only about the cold. I am not able to transcend myself, but even freezing, I don't wish I was elsewhere. In the afternoon, I sit in a warm car and I thaw my hands. I have miso soup, tea, and cheese sticks. There is still a chill in me even once inside, which is simultaneously unpleasant and cozy. I'd been wanting a day like this very badly. Friday, November 15 Beckett's Tense comes together with serendipity. There was a crisis with the headliners, Lucy Sante was sick. Beckett ran into Penny Arcade outside of Madame Matovu on 10th. Now, Penny is the headliner. The unsalvageable is always salvaged. The bar can serve real liquor tonight. There's a lot of people here and it's a different crowd than usual. Tense is back in Manhattan. Penny says she’s here because she wants to see what the new New York is doing. I give Beckett a hug at Sovereign House. I say hi to Chris and Adeline. Chris and Adeline are drawing big Tense bubble letters on the chalkboard. The seats are already mostly full. I climb to the top of a ladder and I sit up there. From up there, I have the best view in the house. Tense is not just a reading series, Tense is a show, and this distinction is important. There is a program, an order of events, a flow of new and old. The serendipity with Penny’s arrival lies in this - she seems to understand exactly what Beckett is doing, and while she didn’t write her piece specifically for TENSE (she describes it as “cultural criticism you can dance to”), it speaks with exaction to the spirit of things. Here are some things that Penny Arcade says: I’d rather put a stick in my eye than go somewhere where everyone is the same age. When I was young, if I went to a party and everyone was under thirty I thought... I'm at the wrong party.”
Inline links: DDM, Uncensored New York, Beckett's, Tense, Lucy Sante, Penny Arcade, Madame Matovu, Chris, Adeline
“Community is a different word for lineage. the people that are still here tonight... that says a lot about you.” Beckett reads about The Providence Hotel, Chris reads about The Circus, Adeline reads poems. Afterwards, I stick around for a while. Ellie arrives. I try to get late dinner but there’s no one seating diners at this hour. I walk back to Sovereign House. The UFC fight is playing now. On a split screen, Mike Tyson is telling a small child that he doesn’t dream of legacy because when you die, your ego dies with you. When I get home, I have a text from a number I haven’t saved yet. It’s a photo with Ellie and her friend that I don’t remember taking. “The Three Graces,” it says. “Loved meeting you xoxo Penny” WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tuesday, November 19 In her Substack, Natasha Stagg recommends The White Ribbon screening at Metrograph this afternoon at 3:30pm. I imagine you might find a strange appeal in luxuriating in a weekday afternoon theater experience that will leave you feeling as awful as this film is sure to. Natasha also recommends the new menu in the commissary, but Shannon recently told me it's fallen far from its glory days. I'll have to stop by soon (maybe tomorrow, at 3:30pm) to see for myself.
From 7pm at Pangea — Penny Arcade presents ‘The Art of Becoming’ – a performance and reading. I heard Penny perform at Beckett’s TENSE, and she’s wonderful. A force worth seeing live.