HEY

LATE NIGHT COFFEE & LATER NYQUIL: LIKE A PILLOW SHOT WITH ELECTRICITY.

IN NEW JERSEY (TOM'S RIVER): INFLATABLE NATIVITY SCENES & A JACUZZI: LIQUOR.

SPICER

MY DEEPEST SYMPATHIES TO CHARLES BERNSTEIN AND HIS FAMILY.






HEADPHONES 2008 PART THREE:
FRED THOMAS: JUST ABOUT ANYTHING HE RELEASES. THAT'S FRED HOVERING ABOVE THIS TEXT.

SOME RECORDS BY FRED: FILL UP THE ROOM (CD/LP)
K Records, October 23, 2007

Apple
(Even If You Die On The) Ocean
When I Lose My Eyes
Make A Plan
Peg
Money In The Afterlife
The Americans
Edison Girls
Hands In The Snow
Come With Your Arms
Whitey Hands



SOUND ON SOUND
Redder Records, February 14, 2006

“Sound On Sound” isn’t a new album, but a scrapbook that collects all of our out-of-print singles, CDR tracks, Eps and other miscellaneous unavailable songs. It's 80 minutes long! This CD is available here at Redder Records.

Can't Ever Sleep
Listen To My Heart
Nervous
It Sounds Like They're In Love With You
Liquor Store
Your Small Heart
Summer Doesn't Count (Unless You're Here With Me)
Love Will Find You
Labcoat
Pet Store
One Hundred People
(untitled)
Mistletoe
Lift Me Up
Light Bulb Heart
Diary
When You Go Out Tonight
Girl Of Mine
Until The World Stops Spinning
Hiding
Learn To Live With Your Heartbreaks
This Time Every Year
Blue Christmas
Christmas Blues
Parking Lot Blues
I Don't Wanna Go
Disaster
The Girl's Distracted (First Version)
Last Year
Own



EVERY NIGHT (CD/LP)
Polyvinyl Records, September 14, 2004

The ‘difficult’ third album, recorded during the harsh, wintery end of 2003 by Warn DeFever and Fred at Brown Rice Studio when it was above C Pop in Detroit. The LP and CD have the same songs, but some of them are different versions, mixes, vocal takes, vocalists, etc. Everyone asks “Which version is better?” and it just depends. The vinyl version was made to be more scrappy and rough around the sonic edges. The CD version is a bit more subdued.

Since You Stole My Heart
Until The World Stops Spinning
Keep Walking
All Over Town
The Girl's Distracted
If You Ask
Empty Room
When The Party Ends
Dialtone
We Can't Work It Out
Lift Me Up
When You Got To New York



ALL YOUR SUMMER SONGS (CD/LP)
Polyvinyl Records, March 18, 2003

A patchwork of recordings made in transit across the United States over a two year period from 2000-2002, this album was meticulously arranged and produced, and still stands as a one of our most beautiful, glowing offerings to the world.

The vinyl version was originally pressed with different cover art on clear wax in an edition of 1,100. Later it was re-released with the same artwork as the CD, this time on 180 gram vinyl, and the first 500 came with a bonus 7” of “Christmas Blues” and “Will U Still?”. All versions of the vinyl had two bonus songs not on the CD, “Can’t Ever Sleep” and “Light Bulb Heart”.

(untitled)
Meet Me By The Water
Underwater Heartbeat
Ambulance
The Sun Doesn't Want To Shine
Caught
All Our Summer Songs
No Good With Secrets
Alcohol
You Work All Weekend
Typing
Ultimate Stars
Last Hour



SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME (LP)
Hereforeveralways, May 18, 2000

Released on vinyl only in an edition of 330 copies.

I Wish I Could Cry
One Step Up On The Ladder
Every Single Obstacle
Everyday
I Would Find It So Beautiful
I Can See No Point To Continue
I Can't Think About Tomorrow
Don't Try To Hold My Hand
I Would Find It So Beautiful

SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME (CD)
Ypsilanti Records, Feb 2, 2002

This CD re-issued the original self-titled LP, included some songs from the "Cruel August Moon" CDR and a couple extra, newer songs. Some song titles were changed to eliminate the poorly conceived "First-Person" concept that ran throughout the LP.

Ambulance
I Wish I Could Cry
Ladder
Obstacle
Everyday
I Would Find It So Beautiful
Bright Green Gloves
No Point To Continue
Think About Tomorrow
Don't Try
Last Night I Fell Asleep On Your Floor
Car Crash
I Take A Chance Every Time
I Would Find It So Beautiful

Turn it Down (2005)

Sink Like a Symphony (2006)

Flood (2007)

A Feminine Ending/MARK YAKICH

The body of work had such a limerick kind of beauty,
a way of making friendship satisfactory.
One time, with a piece of seaweed that the body
of work had worn as a cummerbund to the prom,
I saw it walking in Central Park with five dogs
on leashes. I knew my sister would have been envious,
amid all of autumn's leaves, so
I didn't bother to say "Hi there, deary."
After dinner, I mostly lay in my bed, like Gogol,
and wrote about the body of work. Expressive,
like the dirt-filled fingernails of my sailor's
wave, I soon grew breasts, sores on my belly.
I needed to cathect my childhood urges
on a new object. But before I had
chance to find a new body of work,
I had some chores to do. In the stable,
I fell through a crack and a horse
sneezed back at me, "Stay in Hollywood a little longer,
Madam Schwitters, you'll be able to act soon.
I mean, look at me, I've not gotten close
enough to find out whether the war
in Europe and those cute little tin can finger
sandwiches can sustain life. Besides, Lady
Godiva ate her horse, which wasn't made of
white chocolate and, I'll have you know,
she didn't even have to chase it."

AND IT IS HERE AGAIN, ENJOY.

"MAYBE YOURS (IT'S A FLIRTY THING)"

CUT OUT COOKIES,

YESTERDAY (THE LAST DAY OF CLASSES) ONE OF MY STUDENTS PURCHASED ME COLOGNE. DEREK JETER'S DRIVEN. "IT'S CAUSE HE DRIVES THEM HOME," MIRIAM RESPONDED.

A STOCKING STUFFER: HALLELUJAH

MAYBE PERUSE Matthew Henriksen

OR JUST TAKE A LOOKSEE: XIU XIU

HEADPHONES 2008 PART 2:

The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
The Dodos: Visiter
Beach House: Devotion
Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends

WE WILL BE HOME TONIGHT EATING SOMETHING VEGETARIAN. COME OVER. WE MIGHT PLAY PINK FLOYD AND EAT SOME APRICOT THUMB PRINT COOKIES....HAPPY WHATEVER...

NEARING THE ADJUSTABLE HEADBAND

MIXED PRECIPITATIONS,

THE WINTER BREAK (SERIOUSLY, IS IT HERE ALREADY?) WILL COMMENCE AT 2:55PM ON TUESDAY. IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN ME IN DEFINING THE WORD BREAK, PLEASE COME OVER.

DEFINITION OF THE WORD BREAK:
1. A steep descent of GIDDY from a height; a cascade.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JULIA COHEN ON THE PUBLICATION OF HER BOOK, Triggermoon, Triggermoon, WHICH WILL BE forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press IN 2010.

also this gem

HEADPHONES FOR 2008 (PART 1):

1. MOUNT EERIE: LOST WISDOM/Black Wooden Ceiling Opening: PHIL ELVERUM. BURN THESE TWO SEPARATE EPS TOGETHER AND YOU'LL JUST WANT TO NAME YOURSELF AFTER NATURAL ELEVATIONS
2. SIC ALPS: US EASY: OH THE LO FIEDLITY. WHILE IT ISN'T NEW OR NEWS, IT CERTAINLY IS WITH THESE CALIFORNIAS SOO SIMPLE AND SOO EASY.
3. DEERHUNTER: MICROCASTLE: THE COXIAN BEDROOM DAYDREAM POP.
4. Department of Eagles: In Ear Park. YES, THEY ARE A PART OF ANOTHER ANIMAL. BUT STAY WITH THIS DREAM FOR A WHILE.
5. Hercules and Love Affair: s/t. I LOVE ANTONY HEGARTY. YES, I REALLY DO. AND DISCO AND MY LOVE IS A SWEATY AND TEARY LOVE.

WEAR EARMUFFS, IT'S COLD OUT THERE.

FOR YOU....WITH HUGS AND KISSES

SPACE INVADERS,

I am excited to announce the release of my chapbook of prose poems, LET IT BE NEARBY. RELEASED BY CUE Editions, LET IT BE NEARBY IS a limited edition of 100 chapbooks. Printed on 15 unbound 6 3/4" x 6 3/4 " chap-cards that have both a Side A and Side B, the chapbook comes in four different colors (red / mustard / blue / teal) and are slipped inside a 7" paper record sleeve with orginal art work done by Amie Robinson.

You can order the Let It Be NearbY here http://cueeditions.blogspot.com/

THANK YOU

TO SOMMER BROWNING AND EVERYONE WHO SHOWED UP TO PETE'S CANDY STORE ON FRIDAY NIGHT. IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO READ WITH ERIC, ADAM AND MIRIAM. PLEASE LOOK UP THEIR WORK.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED THE READING, BUT WOULD LIKE TO GET YOUR HANDS ON A COPY OF LET IT BE NEARBY, STAY TUNED, THE CUE PAYPAL LINK WILL BE UP SHORTLY.

THANKS AGAIN.

H.

LET IT BE NEARBY

PLEASE COME, PRETTY PLEASE, WITH POETRY ON TOP. Only at Pete's Candy Store. 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 7PM (BE EARLY) FRIDAY THE 5TH. (718) 302-3770. "L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan. READING WITH MIRIAM BENATTI, ERIC BAUS AND ADAM CHILES.

THANK YOU: MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT, BOYER RICKEL, STEPHANIE BALZER, SOMMER BROWNING, MIRIAM BENATTI, LUCAS SAYLER HOROSKY.

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.

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....

IT HAS COME AND IT NEEDS YOU

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?

IT ISN'T ALWAYS SO....

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.

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/

SWAN SWAN HUMMINGBIRDS,

ALTHOUGH MY NERVES ARE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE LIKE PARTY STREAMERS, I WANT TO JUST SAY

"HEY MORGAN, I'M GLAD YOU'RE GETTING OUT"

"HEY BOYER, SO YOU HAVE A NEW BOOK OUT......"(INSERT EXTREME EXCITEMENT)

CINEAUTOMATIC (SILLY, I KNOW): MIKE LEIGH AT THE Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (at 38 Street), Manhattan. Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7 to 42nd Street/Grand Central. Free for Museum members / $10 non-members. Members must RSVP for screenings by calling 718.777.6810.Weekend Package (for non-members): $40 for tickets to all four films and the dialogue with Mike Leigh. Order online or by phone at 718.784.4520.

TONIGHTER: Southpaw. 8pm. Love as Laughter, Citay, Lights, Matteah Baim $10. 125 Fifth Ave, between Sterling and St. John's Place, Park Slope [M,R to Union St] 718-230-0236

HEADPHONES:

MOUNT EERIE: Black Wooden Ceiling Opening, Lost Wisdom

OF MONTREAL: SKELETAL LAMPING

PERHAPS LISTENING TO ONLY THESE TWO BANDS MAY HAVE NOT BEEN......OK.....

AUTUMN TIPS: Use a high pressure hose to spray the leaves into a pile.

"i daydream often about living in the louvre and burning masterpieces to keep warm.i daydream often about living in the louvre and burning masterpieces to keep warm." SOMMER BROWNING

SOULEVER LIFT

SLAVES TO LOVE,

OBLIQUE STRATEGIES # 44: WATER

THIS WEEK MIRIAM AND I LOLLIPOPPED AROUND CHELSEA. WE SAW SOME ART IN THE MARY BOONE AND PAULA COOPER GALLERIES. WE SAW VIDEO, SCULPTURE, MUSIC, COLLAGE AND PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIST CHRISTIAN MARCLAY'S Cyanotype
WORK OF unspooled cassette tapes AND NEW VIDEO WORK.

TONIGHTER: 730PM. four bucks. Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Lea C. Deschenes AND Victor D. Infante. 85-101 N 3rd St #508 Bedford stop on the L9178654875 make note its a new number....I WILL BE THERE IN MY FONZIE T-SHIRT.

HEADPHONES:
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park
Deerhoof: Offend Maggie
Death Vessel: Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us

OK, TELL ME MORE: A new solar-powered mp3 player through Shiro.

TO SOMMER, THANKS FOR THE MY BLOODY VALENTINE T-SHIRT. IT REVERBERATES.