a testament to the corruption that is the Harry Potter novels...
on a bus today on my way to Keith Abbott's Brushstroke class i overheard a conversation between a 7 year old and her mother...
7 year old: mommy...
mother: yes honey...
7 year old: wouldn't it be cool if i could write the letters and...and...if i had an owl that could deliver my letters...
mother: yes sweetie that WOULD be cool...
ha! whatever, owls TOTALLY can't deliver letters...non-Harry Potter people totally know this...
Nov 30, 2005
Nov 29, 2005
bimbogun6
look what these two son's of bitches had to say...and the whole time i thought i looked like ziggy stardust...and NO it's not a self portrait...but YES i am a total megalomaniac...
Hot Whiskey Press said...
Yeah, Sakkis really did have the whole wrestler thing going on. But what would his wrestler name be? Here are some ideas, please feel free to add to the list:
-Sakkis the Beast
-Million Dollar Sakkis
-Hacksaw John Sakkis...but maybe pronounced Sackiss
-Sakeezi
-Sacka Sacka Keezi
-Slim-jim-a-jackiss
????
Logan Ryan Smith said...
here are a few more:
Skeezy Sack-iss
The Sakkisalator
John John Boom!
Marky Mark
J to the S to the Smackdown!
John Sacker
John "hootie-hoo" Sakkis
and so on...
Hot Whiskey Press said...
Yeah, Sakkis really did have the whole wrestler thing going on. But what would his wrestler name be? Here are some ideas, please feel free to add to the list:
-Sakkis the Beast
-Million Dollar Sakkis
-Hacksaw John Sakkis...but maybe pronounced Sackiss
-Sakeezi
-Sacka Sacka Keezi
-Slim-jim-a-jackiss
????
Logan Ryan Smith said...
here are a few more:
Skeezy Sack-iss
The Sakkisalator
John John Boom!
Marky Mark
J to the S to the Smackdown!
John Sacker
John "hootie-hoo" Sakkis
and so on...
bothster boy...
golly! look down yonder at all them beautiful BOTH BOTH (s)...the new December "it's the Christmas issue!!!" is just out and will be mailing tomorrow to all you lucky subscribers...what's that? subscriptions you ask?...why yes, the fine people at BOTH BOTH are now offering subscriptions...for a mere 20 slices of chedder ($20) you get twelve sexy issues of today's sexiest writing and art...what a deal!!!
just a run down thus far (in the decending order found at the bottom of this page):
August issue one: Rachel Levitsky/ Logan Ryan Smith (cover art by church sign generator)
September issue two: Parker Zane Allen/ Kevin Killian (cover art by Lauren Kohne)
October issue three: Paul Hoover/ Alli Warren (cover art by David Larsen)
November issue four: Brandon Brown/ Stacy Doris (cover art by Daniel Fleres)
December issue five: C.A. Conrad/ Anna Moschovakis (cover photo by me!...John Sakkis)
...paypal orders coming VERY soon for both individual issues and subscriptions... in like the next couple of days...
just a run down thus far (in the decending order found at the bottom of this page):
August issue one: Rachel Levitsky/ Logan Ryan Smith (cover art by church sign generator)
September issue two: Parker Zane Allen/ Kevin Killian (cover art by Lauren Kohne)
October issue three: Paul Hoover/ Alli Warren (cover art by David Larsen)
November issue four: Brandon Brown/ Stacy Doris (cover art by Daniel Fleres)
December issue five: C.A. Conrad/ Anna Moschovakis (cover photo by me!...John Sakkis)
...paypal orders coming VERY soon for both individual issues and subscriptions... in like the next couple of days...
Nov 28, 2005
american ninja1
i remember growing up watching Michael Dudikoff kick ass in this perennial favorite...imagine my surprise to stumble upon this in my apartment complex..."crazy wisdom like whoa..."
since birf...
it was my birthday yesteday...though celebrated on friday at my sister's apartment in the Mission (thanks Deme! thanks Gina! thanks Truman!)
highlights:
1. seeing my first major crush Pisha Warden 10 years epilogue...now married to a wonderful boy named justin...
2. pisha giving me a photograph of my chapbook BOUT BOUT relaxing on a beach in Kawaii (they brought the book with them on their honeymoon...swoon...)
3. Matthew Arnone confessing to Billy Jacks and Meg that the reason i moved out of our Tenderloin abode was because all he ever wanted to talk about was "bricks..." (which might be true)
4. Matthew Arnone denying that he's a cyber-punk
4. Matthew Arnone teaching me the word "manderin"
5. Matthew Arnone's AMAZING birthday speech (second year running)
6. five minutes after initial birthday speech, Matthew screaming "WAIT!!!...put down the pipes you fucking hippies...i'm not done speeching about John..."
7. Matthew Arnone giving a second, more enthused (impossible!) speech...
8. running my jaw to people about poetry...blah blah blah...
9. the twins
10. my new jeans, my new shirt (thanks deme!), my new dress shirt (thanks mom!)
11. censored censored censored (fa' shoo ma' boo)
12. offering Kevin Killian a beer (what?!...i was drunk...)
13. confessing to KK that my sister and i used to party on Minna St., KK responding "did you used to be junkies...?"
14. ma' fuckin' ARMAND ARMAND ARMAND!!!
15. cheese zombie stories (if you went to highschool in the East Bay then you know)
16. missing Brandon Brown and Parker Zane Allen
17. an amazing party through and through...
here's a link to a photo collage that Truman made: http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/XF5tf3eZ
thanks everyone!!!
highlights:
1. seeing my first major crush Pisha Warden 10 years epilogue...now married to a wonderful boy named justin...
2. pisha giving me a photograph of my chapbook BOUT BOUT relaxing on a beach in Kawaii (they brought the book with them on their honeymoon...swoon...)
3. Matthew Arnone confessing to Billy Jacks and Meg that the reason i moved out of our Tenderloin abode was because all he ever wanted to talk about was "bricks..." (which might be true)
4. Matthew Arnone denying that he's a cyber-punk
4. Matthew Arnone teaching me the word "manderin"
5. Matthew Arnone's AMAZING birthday speech (second year running)
6. five minutes after initial birthday speech, Matthew screaming "WAIT!!!...put down the pipes you fucking hippies...i'm not done speeching about John..."
7. Matthew Arnone giving a second, more enthused (impossible!) speech...
8. running my jaw to people about poetry...blah blah blah...
9. the twins
10. my new jeans, my new shirt (thanks deme!), my new dress shirt (thanks mom!)
11. censored censored censored (fa' shoo ma' boo)
12. offering Kevin Killian a beer (what?!...i was drunk...)
13. confessing to KK that my sister and i used to party on Minna St., KK responding "did you used to be junkies...?"
14. ma' fuckin' ARMAND ARMAND ARMAND!!!
15. cheese zombie stories (if you went to highschool in the East Bay then you know)
16. missing Brandon Brown and Parker Zane Allen
17. an amazing party through and through...
here's a link to a photo collage that Truman made: http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/XF5tf3eZ
thanks everyone!!!
trogdor the burninator part deux...
just in case ya'll haven't noticed, a recent chapbook of mine BOUT BOUT (icon and link at the bottom of this page) is available from Small Press Distribution...get em' while they're hot...or burned... (see story on phillysoundblog)...
also, for really recent pdf. chapbooks by me: An Anglo-Saxon History...Brandon Brown: My Life As A Lover...and Logan Ryan Smith: Ghosts Spiders &Dogs go to www.detumescence.com...
...for those who read (and there can't be many of you) Gary Parrish's comment to this posting...or in turn, my own response to Gary's remarks, i've decided that this blog isn't the forum for such a discussion and have deleted both accordingly...especially a discussion as old-hat as the one brought up by mr. Parrish...
...regards...
also, for really recent pdf. chapbooks by me: An Anglo-Saxon History...Brandon Brown: My Life As A Lover...and Logan Ryan Smith: Ghosts Spiders &Dogs go to www.detumescence.com...
...for those who read (and there can't be many of you) Gary Parrish's comment to this posting...or in turn, my own response to Gary's remarks, i've decided that this blog isn't the forum for such a discussion and have deleted both accordingly...especially a discussion as old-hat as the one brought up by mr. Parrish...
...regards...
Nov 21, 2005
as i write this digitizing a tape of...
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, David Levi Strauss and Robin Blaser (called "Robert" Blaser on the audio slate) at Naropa July 17, 1992...
fortuitous because two of the three (Rachel and David) have everything to do with my upcoming critical thesis..."The Analytic Lyric: ACTS In Opposition..."
...okay, back to listening...
fortuitous because two of the three (Rachel and David) have everything to do with my upcoming critical thesis..."The Analytic Lyric: ACTS In Opposition..."
...okay, back to listening...
Nov 20, 2005
some highlights from the Bimbo Gun masquerade...
1. getting my face painted by the amazing Jane Werle
2. Michael Koshkin's surrealistic "penis-eye" mask
3. censored
4. depeche mode on the one's and two's
5. censored
6. Alex-who-lives-in-my-old-room-and-i-don't-know-his-last-name telling me that this girl that i like is...censored censored censored...
7. logan ryan smith after an exceptionally bad poetry reading (not his) storming out of the party yelling "that's IT!!!...i'm FUCKING OUT OF HERE!!!"...and then Liz Guthrie shouting "BRING BACK THE GOOD STUFF!!!" as he's stumbling down the street three blocks away...
2. Michael Koshkin's surrealistic "penis-eye" mask
3. censored
4. depeche mode on the one's and two's
5. censored
6. Alex-who-lives-in-my-old-room-and-i-don't-know-his-last-name telling me that this girl that i like is...censored censored censored...
7. logan ryan smith after an exceptionally bad poetry reading (not his) storming out of the party yelling "that's IT!!!...i'm FUCKING OUT OF HERE!!!"...and then Liz Guthrie shouting "BRING BACK THE GOOD STUFF!!!" as he's stumbling down the street three blocks away...
da diggity doppleganger...
wow! sort of incredibly flattering and frightening to go to a masquerade ball and find that one of the party goers has turned your face into a mask/costume...
reminds me of a poem by Demosthenes Agrafiotis that i recently translated...
discarded masks are welcomed
by "character claims"
in family court
no me not me
blackmail
Nov 19, 2005
excerpt of an overheard conversation at the downer last night between two women smoking what looked like virginia slims...
while having drinks with these lovely ladies (Sabrina Calle and Akilah Oliver (not "west-side" girl)) last night...
first woman: i don't know i just feel like i can trust "ass men" more...
second woman: yeah, i think i know what you mean...
i went to auction and all i got was this lousy Dylan poem...
that's right folks...you to can own an original handwritten poem by Bobby Dylan for a mere 60,000 clams....saw it on yahoo entertainment news this morning...if i remember correctly you can also purchase Jim Morrison's handwritten lyrics to The Doors song "Not To Touch The Earth" on official The Doors stationary (!!!) for measly 20,000 bucks...
...who said that poetry was a temporal art form...?
...who said that poetry was a temporal art form...?
Nov 17, 2005
last one then i'm going to eat a tuna salad...
working on a recording of Lee Ann Brown's lecture "Poetry In The 4th Dimension: A Math-Poetry Reader With Chance Operations," delivered at Naropa July 4th 1992. A seemingly off the cuff presentation centered mostly around Oulipian methods of aleatory madness. Brown read one of her own "N + 7" with "Lipogram" poems titled "A Present Bow: Epithamalion For Stacy Doris And Chet Wiener," which caught my ear and tickled my funny bone...a line "a best behest/ in you says..."
no small matter...
currently having a small (pun) love affair with Alexander Pope...probably my favorite 18th cen. poet outside of Christopher Smart (who shant be fucked with as numero uno)
from one of my fav 18th cen. poems...
from "An Essay On Man"
I.
Say first, of God above, or man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known,
'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
He, who through vast immensity can pierce,
See worlds on worlds compose one universe,
Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns,
What varied being peoples ev'ry star,
May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are.
But of this frame the bearings, and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies,
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul
Look'd through? or can a part contain the whole?
Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?
from one of my fav 18th cen. poems...
from "An Essay On Man"
I.
Say first, of God above, or man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known,
'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
He, who through vast immensity can pierce,
See worlds on worlds compose one universe,
Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns,
What varied being peoples ev'ry star,
May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are.
But of this frame the bearings, and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies,
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul
Look'd through? or can a part contain the whole?
Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?
three things...
1. it just started snowing
2. jameson irish whiskey and pistachios make a good dinner
3. w/regards to Clark Coolidge's "The Crystal":
student: would you call this a Language poem?
Hejinian: would i call this a Language poem?
student: yeah
Hejinian: i guess...
2. jameson irish whiskey and pistachios make a good dinner
3. w/regards to Clark Coolidge's "The Crystal":
student: would you call this a Language poem?
Hejinian: would i call this a Language poem?
student: yeah
Hejinian: i guess...
get to work...
but first a dream: Logan Ryan Smith was snorting lines of what he thought was cocaine off our coffee table while we were watching the new Battlestar Gallactica...skip to...i confront the man who sold logan the yay...the man tells me "it isn't yay at all, it's epiphany powder...it gives you epiphanies!"...woke up...
am about to start digitizing a workshop led by Lyn Hejinian at Naropa during the 92' Summer Writing Program...lot's fun stuff involving Anglo Saxon riddles, Gertrude Stein, Russian Formalism, Sir Francis Bacon...basically a spoken/heard "Language Of Inquiry"...yaddamean?!
...i'll post a picture of my neat office space...portentiously called "The William Burroughs Gray Room"...
...also, BOTH BOTH series will soon be available for subscription through paypal on this very blog...
am about to start digitizing a workshop led by Lyn Hejinian at Naropa during the 92' Summer Writing Program...lot's fun stuff involving Anglo Saxon riddles, Gertrude Stein, Russian Formalism, Sir Francis Bacon...basically a spoken/heard "Language Of Inquiry"...yaddamean?!
...i'll post a picture of my neat office space...portentiously called "The William Burroughs Gray Room"...
...also, BOTH BOTH series will soon be available for subscription through paypal on this very blog...
Nov 16, 2005
taxi cab confessions...
Michael Koshkin of Hot Whiskey Press is the cab driver...Logan Ryan Smith and I tend to be the fare...
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