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'I’m going to write a book with a much more erratic or excited voice than this one, even though I try to aestheticize or brand myself as less erratic/excited. It may still fit in a very good way based on the content of the book, which will be done by December 21, 2012 and may have a vague “end of the world” theme which will be influenced more by post-modernism and post-structuralist anarchism than by “apocalypse.” ...
'i submitted a long story to metazen a while ago on frank hinton’s request and then i emailed/facebook messaged them ahead to let them know that it’s probably too long for metazen and they haven’t hit me back.
'i already submitted the story to banango lit long ago before i had published anything or started talking to any writers, and then after that i submitted it to gayng but decided i didn’t want to be published in gayng because i was pretty certain that i would then be lumped in with men.
'it doesn’t matter if i publish this or not because hardly anybody will read it and if i ever become more well-known then it will be because of a different piece of work that will be thought of as “better” by other people and probably by myself as well.' -- CSO
Habitat
'Cities are dark places. Anonymous people live in cities. So many people pass by in a big city they can only be described by how they look or how they don’t look. Codi gives only one of them a name only when absolutely necessary. The first impulse of these characters is to judge. Knee-jerk reactions are easy things. Reflection leads each one of them to take a more rage filled approach. Upon their realization of anger they move away. Codi realizes this important part of life. One minute everybody wants to kill each other, the next they are hugging, crying, vomiting in extreme emotional cases. A major goal in anybody’s life is to comfort others. While this never seems clear it is a learned skill.' -- Beach Sloth
Excerpt
The City
A boy in a long coat is holding a boy wearing shorts to his breast. They are standing on a sidewalk in the cold at three o'clock AM. The boy in shorts is blaming the boy in the coat about something. The boy in the coat regrets himself. The boy in shorts is angry and crying and swears at the boy in the coat. The boy in the coat keeps holding the boy in shorts to his breast and wishes for something to come and make everything better for the boy in shorts. The boy in the coat blames himself for something. A man in a hood is vacant while he walks past the two boys. They stay like this for another hour.
In a different place, a girl in a coat is holding another girl to her breast, and the girl being held is blaming the girl holding her. The girl in the coat does not feel regret. She watches past the girl she is holding to her breast. She is waiting for something else to happen. The girl she is holding says something. The girl in the coat looks at the girl she is holding without an expression and says that she is sorry and she does not know what to say.
A young woman in a hood walks past them. She is holding a chain and every few steps she whips the ground with the chain. She walks drunkenly for eight miles until she gets to the beach. She feels more drunk. She whips the lake with her chain. She whips the lake with her chain again and screams "fuck" loudly. A man sleeping on the beach wakes up and looks at her, gets up, and walks away from her. She drops her chain and sits on the beach at the edge of the lake. She shakes and whispers "fuck" to herself seven hundred times.
The boy in the long coat wishes he was dead. The boy in shorts buries his head in the other boy's coat and says "I hope you die. I don't want you in my life anymore and I can't stand the idea of you affecting anybody else's life. I need you to die. I want to die but not if I know that you're still here." The boy in the long coat grips the boy he is holding closer to him and rests his head on top of the other boy's head. He closes his eyes.
In a different place, two girls are walking down an unlit sidewalk. One girl says to the other "I'm trying to support her, but I don't want to jump to any conclusions before I hear Matt's side of the story. Matt is my friend and I want to make sure she's telling the truth before I have to lose that friendship."
The other girl says "Right," but she is thinking "You're so fucking wrong about this, you're so fucked up." They turn into the first girl's house and the first girl makes the second girl a quinoa salad.
The girl that is being held swears at the girl in the coat. The girl in the coat says nothing, repositions her face, and puts her hand on the head of the girl she is holding. She is thinking about later in the day when everything will be better.
The boy in shorts quakes. He stays held by the boy in the long coat, crying, for another hour. His phone rings. He wants to yell but he does not feel like he can. He pushes away from the boy in the coat and looks at his phone. A friend has texted him apologizing for something and asking how he feels. He does not respond. He stares at the boy in the coat.
"Everything about this is fucked. I don't want to feel like this. I don't want you to have done anything or to do anything any more. My emotions are running contrary to my politics right now and I blame you for being so reckless. There is nowhere you can go from here. I'm going to stay here for the rest of our lives. I'm going to continue like this for as long as we live. I want you to have to see me every day and think about what you've done."
A boy comes up behind the young woman in the hood and places his hand on her shoulder. She grasps around for her chain but she can't find it. He looks at her worriedly and she scowls at him. She is unable to do anything. She stands up and her arms shake. She falls to her knees and vomits. He attempts to put his arm around her shoulders but she backs away about to cry. She walks into the lake until it is up to her waist, and then she begins to swim.
A man walks by the boy in shorts and the boy in the coat. He asks if they want to buy any weed. The boy in the coat says no thank you. The boy in shorts never takes his glaring eyes off the boy in the coat. The man continues to walk down the sidewalk. A car slowly passes by. The boy in shorts begins to choke the boy in the coat. The boy in the coat doesn't know what to do.
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'i almost went to art school for this / show me truer words / and i’ll show you a dad / in a Land’s End collared shirt // seems good that nathan masserang wrote this/ slingin the art ‘allusions’ / and growin the alt lit canon // let’s all sell bait now / and die in a silo // let’s all experience death in the middle of the action / and sell our souls for / deviantArt store credit // complete a picture and post it to Twitter/ to show we exist // and how about the first alt lit poem / about jury duty' -- i am alt lit
3 things by Nathan Masserang
Given the presence of everything before us, I find it impossible to even consider the creation of a nature poem.
I am taking my laptop to the woods
and turning their little speakers up all the way
and playing ‘Call Me Maybe’
until nature connects with the song
or the song connects with nature.
Connect me to your spotify
Connect me to your Internet
Connect me to your Facebook
We can worry about how Facebook connect
Ruins the Internet
When we get out of the woods
I am starved for natural attention
like a dog wanting to be loved in summer.
Carly Rae Jepsen is starved for natural attention
But she is doing okay now
Since we just started a wildlife fan base for her.
Listen we are almost next to nature
and I think we are getting the attention we deserve.
My computer is in a tree now
And I can’t stop saying
‘dude, you’re getting a dell.’

I have a cellphone and we are in the seventies and I don’t know what is going on oh my god.
Full moon as in I’m showing the world my ass
For comedic effect or to piss someone off.
Or something we are looking at as I drive us
Down I94 to get back to my house in Detroit.
I cannot tell if it is waning or waxing.
I did not pay attention in college Astronomy.
You tell me that my power lays in the moon.
I am a cancer and that much I do know.
My life in astronomy is uncertain
But you knowing my life in astrology is certain.
Tycho Brahe was a punk kid who grew up
To be an astronomer with no nose
Who believed in geocenticism.
We need more punk kids to change things in our lives
Even if they are inherently wrong
Or proven to be wrong when they are older.
I am your Johannes Kepler.
Teach me how to orbit things like your body
And your cock and your mouth.
We are listening to Com Truise really loudly
This is the music that is played in the seventies and eighties
During a science fiction film with rock stars.
And as the moon moves from left to center on the drive
I will end up at home in bed by my window
And I will tell you to paint the moon on my back
With eyeliner or sharpie or whatever will stick to skin.
And you will paint every crater and shadow
Because I told you we only see one face of the moon
And you will then take a picture and show me
And I will laugh and you will lay on top and inside of me.
A real man in the moon teaching me
About how things work in the world.
actualy nathan masserang
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'I want to learn your name and discover you don’t have a Facebook so I can never talk to you again. I want to learn your name and ask my friend if she knows you, she does, and I discover you’re easier than the first level of the first Crash Bandicoot game on the first Playstation.
'I want you to ask me why there is cum on the game controller and I will say Metal Gear Solid makes me solid and you will fall on me and we will kiss for the last time because you mistook me for somebody else, you thought I was him but I’m only me.
'I want to call you a faggot because I hate you and I want you to cry so I can lick your tears away (I imagine they taste like the twenty-fourth flavor in a can of Dr. Pepper.)
'I want you to mistake my thigh for my dick and I want to look at you and I want you to look at my forehead because eye contact is more uncomfortable than a wet vagina or you will identify my eye color as “the brightest brown” and my tears will fall across my face like a horizon and you will call me a hopeless romantic and I will call you a nihilistic cock-juggler and I will hold you until you stop shaking because your cousin died in a car accident, you couldn’t remember her name, but the crying feels good so I don’t blame you for the way you feel but I hate you one week later (a used condom in your pocket is a boring way for me to find out.)' -- Alexander Seedman
self-published
'Alexander Seedman reverts back to childhood in this timeless holiday classic. Eleven years old is a tough time for anybody. Friends surround young Alexander. He thinks of sexy thoughts. That’s no good. Sexy thoughts belong to kids older than the age of eleven. While Alexander might be eleven he’s having erotic thoughts on a 7th grade level. This is impressive. How else are they supposed to entertain themselves in the frigid moisture? Well Eldar has a way of keeping Alexander entertained.' -- Beach Sloth
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Myndskeið0003
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p.s. Hey. Oh, I want to mention, if it's not already clear, that all these wonderful eBooks today are free of charge and can be had/read by merely clicking the designated links up above. So, easy peasy. Speaking of books, I'm very happy to be able to share the news that Mark Doten, amazing writer and one of the original d.l.s of this blog, has just had his first novel 'The Infernal' -- which I've read, and which is really brilliant -- accepted by the superb Graywolf Press, so, hooray for Mark and for all of us! ** Lee, Hi, L-ster. Young and untricky, nice. Nice combo. Nice: sloshing. I can almost picture those works-in-progress, and they sit quite gorgeously and antsily in my imagination. Thanks for the Lem clarification. I'll go see if I can find that. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. I need to watch 'My Blueberry Nights' again. I'm not sure I gave it a total chance. Anyway, fingers crossed on the new one. It gives good advance vibes, and that trailer does look quite good, yes, thank you for that. Yes, a new Bowie song, how about that surprise? I actually love the song, which I didn't expect. I'll try to dispel my shyness and say hi to Mr. Rappaport by email. Thank you! ** Sypha, Ah, well, I'm happy that you decided to give 'IJ' another chance. Can't argue with the Braque quote, but then I wouldn't, would I, ha ha. I need to read 'The Tunnel'. It's one of those musts that I've been putting off for far too long. And I think you know that I love James McCourt's books very much. Great about 'Django'! I'm hoping to catch it this weekend maybe. Nice. ** Kyler, Hi, K. This might sound weird, but I'm in awe of the p.s. too, ha ha. I often feel less like its maker than its go-between or something. The big one, err ... I'm still dreading the official part, but I'll get to spend it having a bunch of fun with a close friend of mine, and that'll compensate for the ticking time aspect. 8 left is a lot left, so fingers as crossed for you as they need to be, know that. And then, if all eight are total dunces by some horrible miracle, you can begin the 'smaller' target hunting, and, even if that happens, it shouldn't be as hard or as stressful, I'm pretty sure. ** Colbaltfram, 'Downtown Abbey' will join the future stack of DVDs that I look forward to watching. Really, TV-wise, or American TV-wise, I'm 7 years behind the times, so that's going to be full-fledged crusade. Yeah, the environment where you are certainly is an important factor in the self-identification thing, for sure. Big extenuating circumstance. Weirdly, I can't remember the name of that 'MLT' character? Hm, Bobby doesn't sound right, but you could be right. Oh, you know, like I think I've explained, my characters aren't real to me at all, so I don't think about their future or past in a realistic way, so I don't know the answer. If I was to take a step back and try to think of that character as person rather than as a prose configuration, I guess I would say that the sexual activities that he undertook in the book in order to try to create a clear public definition of himself as a 'person' were specific to the circumstance and don't necessarily indicate a self-revelation that he would act on in the future. You mean 'Speak, Memory'? I did read it but ages and ages ago. I know I liked it, but I honestly can hardly remember anything about it now. ** Posing at the Louvre:, Louvre-ster! It's going okay with me at the moment, actually, I'm happy to report. Up and down but well ... that sounds acceptable, all in all. Can you get away for a sunny holiday? Where would you go? Where is the sun the best in your imagination? I hope Tony saw your comment. I think he may be boycotting the internet or something, but word famously travels. ** Alan, Hey! Really? I think the new Bowie is really beautiful, and I really like the strange, melancholic Tony Oursler video too. But I'm really interested right now in representations of the personal and elegiac, and I'm studying them, and I actually think Bowie's choice in that song is kind of extraordinary, so maybe that colors my opinion, but, yeah, I find the song moving and really well crafted, words-wise. For your sake, I read an interview with Tony Visconti, who produced the album, yesterday, and he said the single is not characteristic of the album at all. No, it seems that few are excited for 'The Weaklings (XL)', but maybe it'll be a sleeper or something. Good to see you, man, of course. ** Bill P. in Chicago, Hi. Really very interesting thoughts on horror. I felt excited reading them over Tony's shoulder. Kudos, and thank you. ** 5STRINGS, I think I like CrotchlessRock. No, wait, that would mean Rock with its genitals exposed. I don't mean that. Maybe I like BaggyCrotchRock. Yeah, that's probably a better term. AIC ... I'm blanking. What do those letters stand for? Well, I totally understand why you loved that. I clicked over while drinking my first coffee, and I didn't get out of there for an hour. I absolutely love that stuff. And I learned new things, like that the prison wasn't located smack dab in the center of Place Bastille, which I had assumed, and that it looks like they completely rerouted the Canal St. Martin because it's in a different locale in those old drawings. Weird. Anyway, I loved it, thank you! ** Trees, Hey, man! Very awesome to see you! New job, training, gotcha. Boutique skincare stuff. Yury would like that. Every other words out of his mouth are Creme de la Mere. You like the job, related-sleeplessness and all? If you're getting to write, it sounds like an okay deal to me. Cool about the synching of our year end list. I don't have Nu Sensae's 'Sundowning'. I'll get that right away, clearly. Thanks. Cool about 'The Wilding'. Its director is a d.l. of this very blog. How about that? I haven't seen 'Snowtown', so thank you for reminding me. I meant to, and it got lost in my brain somewhere. Uh, well, the Alex Dimitrov book was on my list because I've liked some work of his that I've read, and so the book interested me. Just that simple, I guess. I don't know him personally, other than being Facebook friends. Your letter to him is very interesting. Hm, yeah, I guess I want to read the book and see what's inside the book and what relationship it has or hasn't with the cover before I have an opinion on the Wojnarowicz thing. I don't feel like I can have an informed reaction to it until I know the whole picture. My only reaction so far is that it's a ballsy choice, and I'm curious to see why he decided to do that. Like I said, I don't know him or have an opinion of him, so I'm just waiting to get a better sense of his work and him, and I guess I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt until then for whatever reason. But, yeah, I see what you're saying, and I totally get how there could be a real problem there. What's the Dan Hoy that you're liking? I like him too. Big gracias for your anticipations list. Great stuff. And, yeah, Arthur is back, that's pretty cool. Okay, man, you take good care, and it's lovely to see you, my pal. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! Oh, sure, I would love to have a look, if you don't mind, of course! Do look into Paris around then. It'll be fun, and there might be some other cool people and d.l.s here at the same time. Yay, another thumb up for Jedward. I'm feeling much less bizarre. I actually loved that you 'live the first version immensely', ha ha. Maybe I can retitle it 'The Weaklings, a Biography of Thomas Moore'. ** Bollo, Hey, man! Sweet to see you back! As an iPhone klutz, I totally understand. Sucks about the idiocy behind those show rejections, but, obviously, onwards and upwards. Curators are blind all the time. I speak as a part-time one. My sickness held on long enough to be really annoying, but I think it's vamoose now, and yours will be. Short-lived fuckers. The xTx will be back in business in early February. I don't know if it can be preordered yet. Must get. Yeah, welcome back, man! ** Steevee, Hey. My guess would be yours, aka Cannes, since most or maybe even all of his films have premiered there, but I don't know. I guess the Cannes line-up will start leaking pretty soon. Thanks for the link to the Kar-wai review. I'll read that pronto. ** Billy Lloyd, I read that too. I mean that Rowling was at least not against going back to Potter, and I did go, Ooh, more films maybe! A prequel would be better than Harry and friends as married with kids and all that. I mean, I liked the last shot of them older and all that, but I think I'd rather leave their middle-age antics to my imagination, but, hey, you never know. To be happy is what it's all about, isn't it? It has to be, right? Sounds like you had a rich night there. In the future, hangovers usually end up seeming like they were fun. I've had a few murderous ones, and now they're just material I can use to make people laugh. Still, I hope you got de-spaced. Well, of course you did. You're probably humming the melody of your next masterpiece to yourself right now, aren't you? ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul. Take even more mega wishes. Thanks for the link to the doc, man. I'll watch that later, of course. Everyone, the kindly and very talent-impaired Paul Curran can link you up with a documentary relevant to the Video Nasties yesterday. It's here, and it's called 'Dear Censor - BBFC Documentary - Video Nasties', and, in Paul words, it shows 'fascinating/absurd/hilarious letters between the censors and the directors. In Britain things are only acceptable if they are 'educational'.' Check it out. Thanks a bunch, man. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Palace does look really interesting. Thanks, I've heavily bookmarked it. And I'll pass on your suggestion. Everyone, _Black_Acrylic has a really good tip and possible suggestion to you guys out there. Here he is: 'All these Video Nasties put me in mind of a project by my friend Darren Banks. I worked with him last year on THE SHAPE, and he has something on the go called the Palace blog that I'm gonna do some writing for. If anyone else maybe fancies it, he's looking for some writing about one of these films: The Evil Dead 2, Dream Demons, Night of the Demon, Brain Damage, Vampire at Midnight, Edge of Insanity. Drop me a line for further details. Anyway, it's rather a luscious site he's got going on over there.' Go for it! Cool, man. ** Rewritedept, Hi! I think I saw your thing in my mailbox. Thanks! I'll open it, etc. in just a bit, but, yeah, awesome! Haven't heard the new Yo La Tengo track. I'll listen today. I like the Bowie track and the accompanying video. I think I read that he's not going to tour or do any interviews. I did see Kanye Wes Anderson, yeah. Pretty funny. I'm not a Kanye fan at all, but what the heck. Well, okay, world domination without fascism sounds okay. ABBA pulled it off, so I'm sure you can. Good luck with that. Oh, gosh, thanks about the p.s. Yeah, it's weird how it works. Nice future things list, and thanks for putting my thing on it, of course. ** Bill, I know, I had it my head that Paul's book was coming out this year too. Damn! Hope your flight was as tolerable and as great film-inflected as possible. ** Tomkendall, Hi! I've read the dialogue one so far, and I'm going to read the other(s) hopefully later today. Beautiful! A month, that's a long time to be apart. When does she come back? Oh, shit, overdraft. Ha ha, or, rather, not ha ha: I went to the ATM this morning and got an 'insufficient funds' announcement, so, urgh, I hear you, bro. Oh, thanks, man, about doing the page dip reading method on 'TMS'. I ain't saying nothing, but it just could work. Hugs. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. I don't know what's up with Tony's book and HP. We do share the same editor, so I'll query him. I read something somewhere that said Tony's new novel was only coming out in Germany or something (?), which I didn't understand. Word on the Grandieux as soon as I get to see it. September! Yes! Man, so great, please, yes, give the word when there is word. Jesus, could 2013 possibly be more exciting? I don't think so. My novel: I think, maybe, I think I found my way back into it, although I'm very hesitant to be too confident about that yet, but maybe I have found a way to finish it without becoming a total emotional wreck again. That's been a lot of the problem, fearing that. Thank you for asking. Heavy work on the new theater piece just started. Gisele and them are down in Tarbes right now working, and I join in on Monday. So, it's the beginning of crunch time on 'The Pyre', but I think I can do that and novel too. Thanks for asking, J. ** Misanthrope, Ha ha, yes, will you all please stop objectifying me! Well, perfect then, plan for it. Bring enough Xanax along to get Joe on the Eurostar too. Like that'll ever happen, God love him. When will you know about the job extension? Surely they'll extend you. You're perfect for them, I'm sure. And they need your cuteness, man. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Oh, Jesus, ha ha, I swear there's a little tiny version of you sitting on my right shoulder giving me little love-slashes with a tiny benevolent whip as we speak. You should meet him. You'd like him. Yours, me. ** Paradigm, Hi, Scott! Welcome back! Thanks about the novel. I sure hope so. The Day would be a dreamy birthday present, I mean only if it's no trouble. Thank you kindly, sir. I've known about the secret tunnel for a couple of years now, but, for some reason, I've only just become obsessed with finding it, and I have a plan and a co-conspirator friend who's equally obsessed, and we're going to find that thing now if it's the last thing we do. Hm, I imagine that there's perfectly logical reason why the vast majority of Australians live on the East Coast, or rather why the cities ended up being built there rather than elsewhere, but ... what is it? Prettier, calmer seas, better nature, better access to New Zealand, ... ? That is nice and unexpected about all the Dalkey stuff in the library. Literature-wise, you hardly need much more than what they've published. Fine day to you! ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi! Oh, interesting, about the Bachelard. 'Round' is a beautiful word. I mean, I don't know the specifics of its allure for you, but, even just seeing the word typed without context, it really jumps out and radiates. Beautiful comment too. Your comment, I mean. Thank you very much for its great pleasure. ** Creative Massacre, Hi, M! I'm feeling pretty good, thank you. And you? Lonely Christopher is really good. Well, I published his book, so obviously I think so. Oh, I hate the 'Frisk' movie. I think it's miserably bad, but there are people who like it, so, if you see it, tell me what you thought, but, yeah, I really don't like it. I think you can watch it on Youtube now. Really nice to see you, my friend! ** Okay. Those eBook up there are real good. If you read them, I think you will be glad. See you tomorrow.
43 comments:
Thomas M, Paul C and Mark D: big congrats on your impending-nous,guys!
Great re-run of Tony's Video Nastie day, Dennis: I still love 'Brain Damage' and 'Basket Case'. Gonna investigate today shortly.
On Monday night I attended my first 'Ballet Basics' class, along with 15-odd other odds & sods of varying shapes, sizes and ages, under the supervision of ballet-master Robert Doherty, who's friendly, funny and patient. It was very cool but man my legs were really sore the following day! Basically we just did a lot of toe-pointing and standing very straight while keeping everything tense, which is much more tiring than it looks– oh, and at the end? We did 'changement', which is that jumping thing where your feet reverse positions each time you land? Needless to say,mine was all over the place, but hey I have 9 more classes to perfect my technique. It felt good, not really sure why. Maybe cos it was one of those non-thinking experiences, you know? Plus, on the hour's walk there and back I listened to a few of Samuel Beckett's radio plays and let them wash into me as I trudged through the rain in the dark.
And while we're on the subject of the great man's radio drama, I sent you a birthday pressie for tomorrow, so check yer email, pally.
Yeah, I think if someone woke me up at three AM, pointed a gun to my head, told me to write a late-70s Bowie pastiche, and gave me 15 minutes to do it, I would most likely Google a street map of Berlin and start intoning place names in melancholy, world-weary singsong.
But the production sounds good. If only he had stuck with Visconti through the 80s and 90s maybe some of that shit would be listenable.
Hey D,
Ha, if you're seven years behind the times, you should start with 'The Wire.' There's this great bit on Family Guy where Peter, in the course of watching 'Breaking Bad,' is hypnotized into saying how 'It's the best show since The Wire. You will not shut up about Breaking Bad and The Wire.' It nearly made Chad and I shit ourselves, because The W is the only show we talk about ENDLESSLY to people who haven't seen it. And Breaking Bad really isn't that great.
Very awesome about Mr Doten. Was this the book you told me about when I was in the process of meeting Ross, as a well to tell me that sometimes agents can provide really great feedback?
This new Bowie video is blowing my mind. And didn't you say just recently it looked like he'd retired? March is shaping up to be great -- doesn't the new Knife album come out then too?
Yes, 'Speak, Memory.' It's a difficult book to me, for two reasons, I think: N. admits to being tone-deaf, and he seems to hate dreaming (he calls it ignoble, or some such). Both of these elements are incredibly huge to me in my own work; when I'm writing, I demand a sense of musical rhythm and a sense of the abstract or super-real. So with N., what you have is an incredible mastery of English (and that's more than just his vocabulary: he really does have a technical dazzle), but you have something that feels...I don't want to say 'inert,' but I'm struggling for a truer word. It makes me miss my boy Banville. That said, I still want to read the big books by N., including this one.
How is your sort-of memoir going? I know you don't think of these things, but you could have a breakout hit on your hands, really. The market is really responding well to experimental memoir, like 'How Should a Person Be'.
J
Interesting stuff today. Will peruse closely.
Does anyone know what's up with James McCourt? I haven't heard hide nor hair of him for at least five years.
black acyrlic-
i so want to write something about evil dead 2. what the haps? can we make this happen? cuz that is seriously like my favorite horror movie of all time. let me know.
d/cobaltfram-
you mean larry? like the narrator? i just finished MLT, so i'm like recalling it pretty well right now?
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excellent. ebooks. that means i don't have to buy anything. i hope, i only just kinda scanned cuz i'll get to do the long read of this after work. i'm about to start into 'sans you' finally. i downloaded it on my compy like whenever you posted it, but i couldn't remember what folder it went into until last night, at which point i moved it onto my desktop so i don't misplace it again. wouldn't have even lost it in the first place if it downloaded to my porn folder like i thought it would.
i'll be giving the bowie stuff a closer listen at some point. for me, the last time he was really relevant with the stuff he was making was briefly in the 90's when he was working with reznor and eno. and that was after like a 13 year break from doing much of anything decent. so, we'll see what happens.
i know better than to get too excited for it (you know, since it probably won't happen or anything), but if we actually get a new MBV album this year, i might come in my pants. like, if i'm naked when i hear about it, i'll throw a pair on, come in them and then go about my day from there. if i'm already wearing pants, i guess i'm in the clear?
yeah, that kanye wes stuff had me in stitches for a while. i think it's more the wes anderson bit than the kanye bit.
you and cobain both with the ABBA (that's like two of my hugest influences right there, you and cobain). i don't get it. they were always a little too gay for me (you know, what with being so disco), but then i've been accused of being a rockist many, many times over. i guess for swedes, i just like nilsson and refused more? i always feel like i could go back and give them another chance, since most of my antipathy comes from the fact that my mom is a HUGE fan too. and she used to get drunk and play them like all the time when i was trying to sleep. and then she got mamma mia and watched it like all the time late at night. when she was drunk. which she used to be a lot more than she is now (although i'd still be inclined to say she drinks too fucking much, so do i, so i can't really be like 'you need to stop drinking, but i'm not going to stop drinking and support you on this'). but hey, she did also get me into morrissey/smiths. and bowie. and the cure. so there's hope for her yet.
i'm just poking fun, of course. the biggest thing i've learned about music taste is that it's all subjective, and what gives my ears a boner usually makes everyone else's wilt.
but hey, new yo la!
ok, i gotta go get ready for work (ugh). will be back later to read and probably post more. and then also my plan for the next couple nights is to get wired on adderall and not stop until i've got the book done. has to go to the printer at the end of this week (and it's not like there's much that needs to be done, i just need to glue everything and decide on the final page order). so if i seem more verbose than normal, i promise it's the amphetamines talking.
talk soon. love.
-me.
also, i guess since by the time you read this it will be that time and i want to do it now before i forget to later. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! have so much fun tomorrow/today.
Happy Birthday, Dennis!
Hey D.
man oh man is physical therapy kicking my ass...sheesh. it's good to feel sore though. at least sore in a different way than I have since my accident. but I'm pretty beat up today.
I could tell it was helping last weekend in the desert. fairly painless throughout. but I have a long way to go for sure. still can't hold a guitar for longer than a half an hour. that seems the limit before my shoulder starts to throb. still, positive, positive, positive...that's the order of my days.
my car is dead for unknown reasons...hopefully just the battery but I'm too lazy to sort that out today. if it's the alternator I will truly grumble. hate dragging it to The Swede for repairs despite his rather miraculous and cheap solutions. I know you needed to hear that...SoCal car-ish culture thang that it is (cue laughter and applause sign).
we are reserving judgement on the new Bowie. Well...I am. Jules is powerless in the face of the man. Thought of you a bunch while staring at the Milky Way out near J-Tree. I tend to think of good things while feeling perfectly insignificant.
love you, you good thing you
M
E.M. Forster gives some dude a hand-job and says "Orgies are important." Well of course they are, dear.
60!
"Makes a girl think."
Hi Dennis, yep just like to keep you guessing! Haha the finances are a little too tight at the moment for any sunny getaways… There was talk of Rome next month, but that fell through. Hmmm, so sunshine will probably be of the affordable variety and not until this summer (I suppose that could mean Spain or Portugal or one of those places that easyjet seems so keen on), although LA would definitely be nice. How about you? Yeah, I suspected Tony probably wouldn’t see it, but thought I’d chime in. Wow, the ebooks are such an open form, it’s cool to see.
w/o comment: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/08/decayed-daguerreotypes/
hey man,
Camila is back on saturday but its going to be hectic cause she has a lot of uni work on. I can't wait though. She's been in peru managing the wedding. I've got to learn spanish somehow.
Today the kids in my school were laughing at my phone with the cracked screen:
- Why don't you fix it?
- I don't have any money
- Doesn't Mr Martin pay you?
- Yeah but....i don't earn very much
- You're poor
- Yeah. I pretty much only eat when i'm here now
- Hey Shamsa guess what? Mr Kendall is poor
- Mr Kendall are you poor?
- Mr Kendall is poor?
- Yeah he's poor
- Lets talk about something else.
- Why are you poor?
ad infinitum.
Glad to hear you might have figured out how to get back into your novel. I need to do that too, have spent too many days puddled into myself.
BaggyCrotchRock! BaggyBoxersRock! Don't get me wrong, there is a perfect Emo skinny-jeans ass/legs ever so rarely, however, there is nothing like baggies. Baggy clothes to thin skater body, it's the stuff dreams are made of. Chains man! Gives me the willies. I think they should rebuild Sade's Paris/France. Everywhere the man went, everything he did, rebuilt and celebrated. LOL funny story, I stayed in this hotel one time with this tres endowed top boy, the hotel room had a round like tower form in the room, so I imagined I was a young French boy getting fucked in the basement of the Louvre =) Anyway, the world is pissing me off, have to move my library into a basement today. Read Artaud's letter on Lautreamont. I believe I am thinking clearly when I hate the world. Hugs, S.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Dennis:
Happy b'day, man. Hope it's awesome.
Currently job hunting. Some interesting options. If none of those take then Pizza Hut seems to a lot of open positions in a 100-mile radius, haha.
-will
Happy birthday!
I hope Tony's silence isn't a sign that he's fallen into his old bad habits.
Good news: it looks like I'll be interviewing Australian director Cate Shortland for Filmmaker. The only awkwardness is that I'll probably be talking to her via phone from Australia.
@ rewritedept, I'll pass on your comment to Darren, and see if he's up for that. Oh, Dennis and your mum are both very right about ABBA! It's a band to polarise opinion like no other, though.
I got an email from The Skinny today asking me if I'd like to write more art reviews for them. I used to write tons, but the only thing I've reviewed in the last year has been the DCA's Infinite Jest show. I do feel inclined to get back on board the art criticism train again. I find reviews are good writing practice and it all helps me to look at, and think about, art.
Two things jumped out at me from your PS. The first was that Yury likes Creme de la Mere (haha, expensive taste! So does my super-rich Aunty) and secondly, that it's your birthday. Well, Happy Birthday to you Dennis!! I'm really glad this day happened sixty years ago. I know my life is better in a whole stack of ways because of it. But it's not about me, it's about you, so I wish you a really awesome day, hope you celebrate and get a Creme de la Mere glow about your entire soul.
You know, with an artist's predilections for all the bad stuff in life, I sometimes look in the mirror and think, Christ I need some Creme de la Mere. But on an artist's wage and all, with that holy nectar so unattainable, I have got a name for myself as the dude who goes regularly well out of my way to run through Melbourne's main shopping cosmetic/fragrance hall and take massive scoops of Creme de la Mere tester to slop over my face before the attendant can stop me and run back to where I'm meant to be with thick globules falling off my weary appearance. It's the most superficial equivalent of trying to run the Louvre in record time.
I will not apologise for the flippancy of my mood this morning because (blowing my big extender whistle) it's your birthday. I don't quite know what to give you except a big virtual kiss.
Yours with a silly pointy hat,
Grant
PS. In answer to your querying as to why most (white) Australians live on the East coast. Indigenous people live all over the continent, but the white people live only along the most inhabitable spots, which are along the East coast, and dots of spots around the rest of the coast. Australia was established in Sydney by the British on the East Coast and then we began to build other cities. In the end, our population is not really big enough to warrant cities everywhere and so Australia remains inherently East-centric.
Hey D. Wow.
This is generous feast from the all involved, delight. A potlatch with out the mania of squander. I need to savor not lick, so no comment on pudding.
Thanks for supplying some of the 'more' I did request.
Birthday! Rah Rah!
Happy birthday, Dennis ! I'll catch up with you in September, and I'll be able to retire from my state job. That's about the only thing I'm looking forward to about 60.
2012 was a tough year for me and my family. I had my heart surgery around Halloween of last year, and had just returned to work in early January. On Jan. 3rd my youngest brother, Bob, had a massive heart attack and was on deathwatch for almost a week. He recovered, but it was slow going. In June I had to put the Tybee home on the market. In July I had a major moving sale, but ended up having to donate the majority of it to the Salvation Army, and my book collection which was considerable to the Georgia Prison system. It was a thoroughly demoralizing experience. Then, in early November my brother Kerry, three years younger, had a mild heart attack. He didn't require open heart surgery. So, that was all three of mama's boys with heart issues in one year's time. My mother is stressed beyond the pale. I dunno what the odds of that are, but, I'd say the odds of a heart attack taking one of us out is pretty good. If I had another sibling I'd say, "Go straight to the fucking doctor, immediately !"
We're making no more payments on the Tybee home, we can't, so, that's a done deal. The bank can have it. We have three months to get everything else out, that is if it doesn't miraculously sell between now and then. While I'm saddened by all of this, I'm moving on from it. We had the home in a time when we were much younger and in better health, and had a much larger circle of friends, and money to entertain, and the energy to do repairs and maintenance. That's all done now, and my hope is that somebody will wind up in it that will enjoy it as much as we did. The upside is, now my asshole won't tighten up everytime a tropical system rolls off the African coast.
On the subject of Micheal Pitt, I just have to ask this, and hope I'm not opening a can of worms. Do you think he had a problem with you due to his association with Laura Albert, and her sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop ? I mean, did he suck up Albert's black bile back when she was still pretending to be a truckstop whore cum literary sensation and cop some attitude about you based on what she said ? ( or even Knoop who was the physical standin for LeRoy, and a person so bright she once said she was from the state of "South Virginia", in a real fake southern accent which REALLY griped my ass ! )I'm basing my thoughts on the time Pitt spent with Asia Argento and Knoop ( parading as LeRoy ). Just wondering...
Happy Birthday Dennis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It sucks we're not there. We are losers! Or at least I am.
But don't worry, we'll celebrate when we come back. I'll take you to the Hard Rock Cafe baby!
*Loved the posts about Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and the end of the world!
Dennis, thanks for the new reading. Alexander Seedman's piece, the last one, was really powerful--I love that technique of using a sort of misdirection within the sentence, so that you kind of catch the reader leaning the wrong way ("I want to learn your name...so I can never talk to you again"). It's such a brave way to write, because in effect you have to find new meanings for words as fundamental as "and" and "so"...
And happy birthday! I'm on my way to the library to pick up Smothered in Hugs, so my cats and I will raise a coffee in your honor later tonight. I can't tell you how glad I am to have discovered your work, and what a delight it's been to crash this amazing party.
I want to wish good fortune and good health in 2013 to Pilgarlic, whose story shook me up. My father has been going through similar hardships--illness, walking away from his mortgage--and they've caused my family a lot of hurt. Here's hoping for a rebound for everybody, and for everybody's brothers.
Dennis, yes, I loved "Django Unchained." I'll never understand the critics who claim that Tarantino's films have no heart, or that you can't care about the characters (a claim I've seen attributed to Wes Anderson as well).
Only 3 days left in my vacation. I've got so little done, though. Have just been too ill.
Oh yeah... happy birthday!!!!
DENNIS!
Birthday! YES! I'm telling the little whipper to take the day off. Eat some cake and/or nachos for me.
Yours,
Ken
Happy Birthday Dennis
Maybe they'll do a sequel and it'll turn out Voldemort had a kid with Beatrix or something and then Harry's son has to fight Voldemort's but they end up being put in the same house at Hogwarts and through a series of comical mishaps and bonding experiences (Harry's kid really struggles with Potions while Voldemort's kid is great at it) they become best friends and establish a new world order or something.
Today (when you're reading this) begins my 7 day exam, so while I should be totally fine, there may be a chance I won't be on here these next 7 days. That being said I'm feeling fine and confident so yeah. I'm actually working on some new stuff! Think I've got a really good instrumental going but it's just getting the vocals JUST right!
Yes, agreed that usually the worst you feel the better the story is of the night before. Though my best night (the aforementioned night out in London with Italian boys) I felt unhungover because I didn't drink. And there is the moral of the story, kids, drugs don't give you a hangover.
(ok well maybe some do of a different kind but shhhhhhh the line is punchier this way)
Dennis, It's your birthday in Paris, so Happy Birthday! Rock out with your cock out! Wooooooooooooo!
I'll probably say something when it's the 10th here too.
You know me: objectify, objectify, objectify... :P
Man, I'd love it if someone would objectify me right now. Oh, wait, you did a teeny tiny bit there at the end. Okay, I'm all stocked up for the year.
I have a feeling I can get Mills out of his hermetically sealed apartment one way or another. I'll work my Misa magic on him. Or tell him there's a 1p sale on used leather cock rings in Paris. That'll do it.
Well, I'm supposed to get finger-printed for the background check this week and fill out one more form and I'll be on board as far as having general access (no more escorting me all over the place for my co-workers). I'm hoping that's an indication of a longer stay. But it seems I won't really know until the latter part of February. Hell, I might just have enough money saved up by then to make a trip anyway, no matter what happens.
Congrats to everyone! Wow!
Dennis! Bon Anniversaire, Sto Lat, Happy Birthday! You are a great friend and person, and I'm glad that you are here. Hope your day is absolutely wonderful.
Things here are okay, at the moment, though I am suffering from a totally bizarre and painful skin thing on my belly which I believe is probably an ingrown hair of some sort. If I can't tease it out in the next day or so, I'm going to go to the clinic because not being able to wear a belt with pants is kind of shitty.
I like the Codi Suzanne Oliver stuff a lot, thanks for the exposure!
In terms of Nu Sensae, check out the videos for two songs from "Sundowning." Here's "Swim": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuouEacpX6I . And just today, the video for "Spit Gifting" premiered on Pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/news/49084-watch-nu-sensaes-screaming-thrashing-video-for-spit-gifting/.
The Day Hoy thing I most recently read was a small edition reissue done by M. Kitchell of "OMEGACHURCH." Deeply funny while being deeply unsettling at the same time. His "The Apocalypse of Dan Hoy" series is entering some new thing this year, so...
Also, hey, I have a book coming out this year, too! 250-print run chapbook of some poems that you've seen before as well as an adaptation of my talk on Wojnarowicz that I gave in April, and again in June. I'll send you a copy when I have them, they should be out quite soon. The other cool thing is that I'm reading with Leopoldine Core (Eileen's girlfriend, I guess) in New York in March. My boyfriend is coming with me for that trip, so it should be a wild, fun time.
Also, re: the Dimitrov thing....I'm sorry if I came off as overzealous or yuk-yumming you. I have not just personal but political grudges with Alex, and to be honest, don't really think much of him or anyone in his circle. But that's my take, and all are welcome to theirs, obviously.
Okay, hope your day is amazing. You deserve it. I'm off to read some Miranda Mellis and eat stew.
love,
ted
Dennis, today is your birthday? Congratulations on having another one. I got a card for you one month ago when I saw a notice on my Android. But I forgot sending it because I am very busy in selling things on amazon.com thesedays. It's a peak business time because a new school semester starts soon. Sorry about that. My survival is an important thing, I think. Hope you had a great day, though, which I bet. Now I go back to my business again, but happy birthday. Kindly yours, H
Happiest of birthdays Dennis! Thanks for your work, your friendship and your generosity!
I hope life is good. I found it a bit tough to transition back into the year and work, but getting into the swing of it. Funny, i got home from work one night, felt blasted, but listened to Nazoranai and the next morning felt so much better--that band is good for the soul. Have a splendid Parisian birthday, Love Alistairxo
Dennis - I made it an hour and eleven minutes in before I feel asleep. I've seen worse films but this one was really boring to me. I definitely prefer the book over the movie.
Happy birthday!
x
dennis (cobaltfram might also be interested): this porn and the bossy guy with the weird voice & their interactions with the 3/5/9 people in the chatroom watching them, and the thing that happens around 18 minutes in at the very least, idk.
i'm reading "lynch on lynch" this book of DL interviews, it's awesome except it doesn't include INLAND EMPIRE or have enough on FWWM.
x
oh, whoa, happy birthday!
Dennis, I wish you the best for your birthday. Have a super nice day!
Uli
hey dennis,
the day is done only problem is i can't find your email to send it through to. i asked you for it again yesterday but it might have been after you loaded the new day.hope you enjoy it.
having a conspirator is always great for those little secrets. i always wanted to find secret tunnels. did to a certain extent as my impending day highlights.
downloaded these yesterday. read the Seedman last night. i liked the way he used the screengrab. especially that shot that is just all text boxes of different sizes/ different spaces. interesting concept.
hope you have a good day. and enjoy your birthday! 60's the new 50's which is the new 40 which is the...
see you when your digits have changed over.
scott
Happy Birthday Dennis!
hope you have something tasty to munch on!
awesome ebooks to check out + i got asked to be in a show later in the year without even applying it turned out to be a good day yesterday.
http://youtu.be/qtYvEfRDYD4
have a great day!!!
Thanks a lot, Jax!
And of course over here, Happiest of Birthdays, Dennis.
Great ebooks today. Had a quick look and immediately hit download.
happy birthday my friend!
there is a gift from me at yr
dcooperweb@gmail.com address, i just mentioned it on yr facebook but i figured you might miss it as you are one popular birthday fella over there right now!
i've probably not poppped up and said hey for a over a year, which sucks of me, but obvs i'm 'here' every day, not much to report on my end except it looks like i have hodgkins lymphoma (!) so 2013 may be a year of hanging around hospitals. asides from that, i'm basically reading tons, watching tons, write the ocassional album/live review for extra cash.
wish i could report better things, but i know you're happy to hear either way.
again, best of days to you dude.
jheorgge x
Hey Dennis,
Happy Birthday! Been meaning to ask you if you've read Aaron Shurin's Unbound - a book of AIDS. I've been reading it and liking a lot. (I'm annoyed with myself that I didn't get it on the New Narative table). Hope you have a lovely day.
XOX
Dennis,
Happy birthday, dude!
<3
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