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COLLECTED AGENDA #7

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COLLECTED AGENDA #7

WHAT I DID Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I go to the gym, I go to pilates, I go to dinner and I make a scene.

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WHAT I DID Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I go to the gym, I go to pilates, I go to dinner and I make a scene. I’m happy and I’m productive and I’m not sure I see the value in writing the mundane. I see the value in this writing by others, I see it when it’s not just cyclical. Journaling Won’t Save You , my friend Grazie wrote in a beautiful essay last year, but she didn’t mean a diary, she meant bullet points, a bullet journal, a Five Minute Journal. I’m trying to write a novel with little avail, and I’m starting to understand the value of PLOT. Plot, perhaps, as more valuable than Interior Monologue, or at least as inextricably connected, both valueless without the other. I’m not sure it’s a given that art and life are inherently connected. I used to make lists of my consumption: ART AND LIFE OF 2022 - chronicling film, books, food, friends. There’s harsher distinctions between those categories than the titles to my notebooks allowed. This week, I will be in El Salvador, writing about lectures on things like The Art Of The State. In Emily Sundberg’s substack this week , she wrote about how there is more writing than ever before. She wrote about lists, the monetization of lists, how lists are proving to be a valuable economic model. She quoted someone saying that they cringe when they hit a paywall on a diary entry. It upset a lot of people, in my interpretation, because it read as an indictment of self indulgence, and it swept a lot up into a wide net of what qualifies as self indulgent prose. Substack is an economic model, which I think is the most interesting element of Sundberg’s point. I think it’s fair to distinguish between what you are being asked to consume, and what you are being asked to pay for as a consumer product. On the other hand, a free market functions in that you charge what people will pay. If you balk at a paywall that other people subscribe to surpass, then perhaps this is simply a product that is not For You. Anyways, I find this all to be rather depressing. I forgot to take notes this week, and so now I can’t remember if The Hegelian E-Girl Dinner I meant to write about was on Tuesday or Wednesday. I don’t remember what you missed this week. I can’t possibly begin to imagine everything I’ve missed, this week, this month, all the time, ever. This is a journal entry, but I’m not monetizing it. I probably would, if I thought that would work. I’ll be in El Salvador this week, but if you’re in New York, here is what’s happening. Here’s some of it: WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tonight: Tuesday, August 13 from 10pm to late - Devil’s Workshop Presents RED LIGHT at Jean’s . Sounds by Citibikeboyz , Jacksonwalkerlewis and others, hosted by Cozyraf , Henry Casson , and others. I’ve noticed a lot more events hosted at Jean’s this summer, which I previously thought of as more of a restaurant and typical reservations only nightclub. Perhaps a Butterfly replacement? Wednesday, August 14 at 6:30pm - Matthew Davis celebrates the launch of his debut novel Let Me Try Again — “An electric picaresque charting a young Jewish man’s spiral of neurotic pride and self-improvement within a culture that only caters to his worst impulses”. Matthew will be in conversation with Adam Friedland at McNally Jackson Seaport on the occasion. Also Wednesday, August 14 - Roman D’Ambrosio presents a reading of his new play Homemade Dynamite at Sovereign House . The play debuted at the New York Theater Festival — featuring “intense drugs, sex, violence, and religious fervor”. Doors at 7pm, Play at 8pm Thursday, August 15 from 6pm to 9pm - Princess Gallery opens their first group exhibition, featuring works by Clara Collins , Emilia Howe , Tess Manhattan , and others. I’m yet to visit Princess Gallery, Heart House , Pretty Garden Club , etc… but it seems to have been a busy summer for the openings of event spaces with dainty names. Later, on Thursday, August 15 from 9pm to 11pm - Catie Fronczak presents Words at Flings , with an extensive lineup of readers: Paige Garcia, Izzy Capulong , Leg5 , Adeline , Peter Vack , and more. I feel like nothing happens on the weekends anymore, but Friday, August 16 is busy: From 8pm to late — Adeline celebrates her 21st birthday at Sovereign House , hosted by Adeline, Peter Vack, Cassidy Grady , and Chris Bray . From 11pm to late — PerfectlyImperfect x YouMissedIt presents bassvictim at Baby’s All Right . Also featuring Club Casualties , Harto Falión , and Number1Fairytale (dj) . From 10pm - 4am — Dirty Mag Issue 8 Release Party at Le Bain . Lots of hosts, lots of sounds, ft guest of honor Rene Imparto . The pool will be open. Saturday, August 17 from 7pm - 10pm - Drunken Boat Production presents a truly incredible lineup for The Drunken Boat Film Festival . The evening will include a screening of Nepotism, Baby (starring Betsey Brown ), scenes from Brutalist Couture , and more. A few other very special events coming up not this week but this month, that are worth flagging sooner rather than later: Friday, August 23 from 8pm – Beckett ends a magical TENSE summer at The Locker Room with THE UNKNOWNS . Readings by Beckett Rosset, Hansen Shi , Annabel Boardman , and John Padula , among others. Music by The Herald Square Tribune ( August Lamm and Vern Matz ). More performers TBA, tickets here . Sunday, August 25 – Confessions is back at KGB , with a forthcoming lineup, and the rumored attendance of some Hollywood producers. Saturday, August 31 from 1pm - 6pm — Mars Review of Books celebrates the end of summer with a white party in Connecticut, hosted at the estate where Ernest Hemingway wrote one of his earlier works. Drinks and catering provided, musical entertainment, bring your swimsuit. Tickets for the party, as well as for a more intimate vip dinner, are available here . Thanks for reading Chloe Pingeon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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