Saturday, November 29, 2008

Friday, November 28, 2008

JUST A LITTLE MORE...



THANKSGIVING MEMORY # 8: A REMOTE CONTROLLED FIRE PLACE.

HEADPHONES: SEPT. 9, 1977: IGGY POP'S LUST FOR LIFE. TRY ANYTHING TWICE? FOR IGGY POP-- POST IDIOT TOUR AND CRASHING IN BERLIN WITH DAVID BOWIE-- RECORDED WITH THE THIN WHITE DUKE THIS COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL AND ARTISTICALLY SLASH CORPORATELY APPROPRIATED ALBUM IN 8 DAZE. SUBTERRANEAN POP ROCK WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE POP LYRICS: "EVERYONE WANTS TO KISS YOUR TRASH."

THIS: Voices of Iranian Women. KGB Bar. 7pm. Two Iranian exile writers, Nahid Rachlin and Ezzat Goushegir, read from their work. FREE. 85 E 4th St, between Second and Third Aves, East Village [F,V to Lower East Side-Second

AND

THAT: On view November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009. William Eggleston: Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video, 1961-2008. @ THE WHITNEY.

THANKS FOR ALL THE WELL-WISHING PHONE MESSAGES WHEN I FELT LIKE MY TARGETS WEREN'T CONCEALED...

THEY ARE NOW.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

RUBBER TURKEY



MARSHMALLOW PILGRIM HATS............

Fruit in great abundance; fertile; Producing abundant works or results: JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON HAS TWO NEW BOOKS COMING OUT: 12 x 12. Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics Edited by Christina Mengert and Joshua Marie Wilkinson. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS. The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth. TUPELO PRESS. CONGRATULATIONS JMW.

ALSO

Felicitations, CHEERS, hats off, well done TO Stephanie Balzer for winning the Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship from the University of Arizona Poetry Center. As part of her award, Stephanie receives $1000 and will read at the Poetry Center in February.

FLYING GUILLOTINE PRESS PRESENTS : Trouble With Mapping is a 32 page, hand stitched book of poems printed in an edition of 74. 8 BUCKS. A CHAPBOOK OF POEMS FROM BRENT PRICE. BRENT IS an assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety.

LEND YOUR EYES TO THIS INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT. REVEALING, HONEST, HUMBLE, INTELLIGENT, CRAFTSMAN, GOOFBALL MLS: http://firstbookinterviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/7-morgan-lucas-schuldt.html

WE ARE LEAVING BROOKLYN FOR THE DAY TO SUBWAY/TRAIN TO A HAMLET IN NASSAU COUNTY. ITS FUNNY TO SAY A HAMLET IN NASSAU COUNTY.YOU TRY.

HAVE A HEALTHY humane, sustainable, "low carb(on)" and labor friendly Thanksgiving....

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Saturday, November 22, 2008

DUNNO...MAYBE...

christopher williams copyright.

Snowflake tableware, snowflake balloons, personalized winter banners....

I still think of CNN's election night holograms.

I watched most of a film about a place called Texas where a military-made gas turns the fine citizenry into rampaging, homicidal, flesh-eating zombies. It was sort of sexy, sort of...ok, i only watched half of it.

Tonighter: Southpaw. 7pm Scary Hours, Your 33 Black Angels, Above the Fold. $5. 125 5th Ave, between Sterling and St John's Pl, Park Slope [R,W to Rector St]

Jackson Browne vs John McCain: An artist interfering with free speech?

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sunday, November 2, 2008

LIBERAL ANXIETY



ANXIOUS,

I AM ONE (OF WHAT I MAY ASSUME IS MANY?)EXPERIENCING (FEELING) ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: flighty, aflutter, uneasy, spooky, restless, awkward, OR queasy.

FOR SOME RELIEF, YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK ONE OF THESE ON YOUR LIST:

1. Beasts of the East with Harvey Milk + The Body + Tombs + Wetnurse + Bezoar + Casket Architects + Bad Dream + Naam + Wizardry + Maw and more. Club Europa 98–104 Meserole Ave, at Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (718-383-5723)

2. Janet Hamill: Body of Water. Bowery Poetry Club. 6pm. The author reads from her new collection, with special guests Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. FREE. 308 Bowery, at Bleecker St, East Village [F,V to Lower East Side-Second Ave.

3. LISTEN TO DEERHUNTER'S NEW DISC Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.

4. SPEND SOME TIME WITH LUCAS SAYLER HOROSKY.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

AND HOW



LUCAS WAS A BEAR FOR HALLOWEEN. MIRIAM AND I WERE BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS. LATER WE DRANK (MINUS THE MINOR) FRANK ZAPPA BEER. O' THE FALLEN LEAVES.

THE MAIL WAS VERY KIND TO ME THIS WEEK: remanence. Boyer Rickel. © 2008 by Parlor Press. Free Verse Editions. Edited by Jon Thompson. A SEQUENCE OF LYRICAL MEDITATIONS ON PAST/PRESENT, SPIRIT/BODY, THE EVERYDAY/THE HOLY MOMENT, ART/LIFE THE FLEETING/THE ETERNAL, LOVE/LOSS ETC IN FIVE-LINE PROSE POEMS.

OK? GO GET IT.

THIS TOO.

Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979–2006. EDITED BY Robert D. Denham. INCLUDES POET/EDITOR/BARBECUEIST MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT.

HEADPHONES:
DEAR SCIENCE: TV ON THE RADIO
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont: DEERHUNTER
The Intelligent Design Of Joan of Arc : JOAN OF ARC

TWO SENTENCE RECORD REVIEW: OF MONTREAL

SKELETAL LAMPING IS THE CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK TRANSEXUAL NAMED GEORGIE FRUIT WHOSE NEIL SEDAKAESQUE POLY-VOCAL IS SQUEEZED INTO GLAM, FUNK, PSYCHEDELIC AND DISCO SONGS WITHIN SONGS THAT WOULD MAKE GREG GILLIS PURR. AHH, TO RIDE NEAR-NAKED A HORSE!

GO! Friday, November 7, JASON LABBE with Nick Flynn at The Center for Book Arts in New York. Things get started at 6:30. The event is part of their Broadside Reading Series, and you can find more info here: http://www.centerforbookarts.org/events/