anthology updates...

check out the list of April poets accepted to the anthology...

new jack anthology poets

keep the subs coming poets...still have about 400 spots to fill...

...currently listening to Soundgarden Down On The Upside...

missing the first Sunset of the season...

and it's making me sad...

to all the kids at Lake Stafford right now...have fun for me...that means you: Demi, Gina, James, Miss Watkins, Matt, Abdul, Tune, Truman, Jaime, John, Sarah, Katy, Sean...

i've been going to these parties steadily since i was 15...96' dood! some of the best House in the Bay...some of the prettiest people in the Bay...some of the finest friends in the Bay...all at Sunset...

can't wait to get back to SF...3 months! just in time to catch the tail end of the Sunset season...

to all the poets who've never been to a Sunset and want to go...hit me up, i'd love to take you...

...currently listening to The Pixies Doolittle...

BB

Kasey says some

sweet sweet

things about BOTH BOTH over at Limetree...

currently listening to The Rockies and The Marlins on the tele...

ooh...my belly...

i'm so full of Pabst, Sun Chips and Pop Tarts right now...full on slovenly weekend in celebration of my thesis being approved...not going to leave the house/ not going to shower...Dark Horse reading...what's that? wasn't invited to read anyway...gurp...

just finished Peter Jackson's King Kong...i loved it, don't know why people thought it was too long, should've been longer (then again i'm the guy who enjoyed the extended version of The Return Of The King)...BUT, the dinosaur's from Jurrasic Park still looked better...go figure...

speaking of LOTR, i love that King Aragorn (Viggo Mortenson) is on the board at Beyond Baroque Books...

...currently listening to The Grouch Don't Talk To Me...

stuff...

Koshkin sent me home with some goodies the other day:

1. Elizabeth Robinson- Carrington (Hot Whiskey Press)
2. Weird Star Thing- Jennifer Rogers, Michael Koshkin, Barbara Barg (Left Hand Series no.12)
3. effing magazine #2-ed. Scott Pierce
4. Sorin Oak Review Vol. 15
5. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #128

watched Comedian which i loved...
watched Hostage which i didn't...

drank these delicious Blue Moon Beligium beers last night/ ordered a pizza...

had one of those nights of dreaming where you're constantly waking up sobbing...

currently listening to the morning news streaming from the living room...(overcast today!)

homegirls...

me and Tittyballs at my birthday party last November...


just got word that my friend Sarah.diebal aka Tittyballs (friend from SF) will be heading to Boulder with The Roots in early June (she's touring with them right now)...so, that's great...can't wait to see her and her boys...

and then Kerri Sonnenberg will be crashing in my apartment for the first week of the SWP...that's great...

awesome! visitors...

and then my brother is visiting from from May 30th to June 10...wooter!

...currently listening to Sonic Youth Dirty...

BOTH BOTH...

hey lovelies,

the new (April) issue of BOTH BOTH is printed/ bound and will be mailing tomorrow...

April issue features new work from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Anne Waldman (The Kerouac School) with beautiful/ amazing cover art from Justin Sirois (Narrow House)...

thanks so much to Justin with the late play on the cover and to Anne and Thurston for providing the dope shit...

...currently listening to Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030...

ps. Narrow House published K. Lorraine Graham's audio chapbook pictured below...

hmmm...

could this be yet another case of Naropa and white guilt?

or perhaps just another case of outside-Naropa-community-phobia...

or perhaps just another case of profs-totally ignorant-to-what-their-best-students-are-up-to...itis...

this isn't about me (this time)...

we'll see...

let's face it, this is more a diary-blog than a poetry-blog so...

a few more!

coffee table where lot's of Arrested Development happend...me asleep on magie, and then another one...

ps. Anselm says YAY! Anselm says YAY!...thesis is DONE!

K. Lorraine Graham...

just wanted to post this because it's beautiful...from Narrow House...Lorraine, i'm assuming this is an audio chapbook?

also, Justin Sirois from Narrow House contributed the amazing cover to the April issue of Both Both, mailing today...

at work on a Hollo tape from 80...

thesis...

pick up my thesis this afternoon...judgment day...we'll see if Anslem says yay or nay...

Koshkin and i wrote an 8 page seriel about balls (testes!) last night on Tino Gomez's porch drinking Bridgeport IPA in the hot sun to sunset...

...currently listening to Das EFX Dead Serious...

"bum skibidee bum hype!"

dream...

just remembered i had a dream last night where Jessica Smith wrote a manuscript called Jumping From A Boulder...

anyone peep that awful Barbara Guest pencil drawing The Poetry Project Newsletter decided to run with her obit? what's up with that...looks like something you'd see in a Dungeon's and Dragon's Monster's Manuel...

as promised...

girl stuff in my apartment, bars, magie's new tattoo (she said i could post this...eye of Horus with Arabic Allah Akbar), beautiful Magie bathroom shot, little boys gone wild on the Pearl Street Mall with big bucket of ice cream etc...

gawd! aren't we gross?


i like the smell of girl shampoo...

as promised...

girl stuff in my apartment, bars, magie's new tattoo (she said i could post this...eye of Horus with Arabic Allah Akbar), beautiful Magie bathroom shot, little boys gone wild on the Pearl Street Mall with big bucket of ice cream etc...

as promised...

girl stuff in my apartment, bars, magie's new tattoo (she said i could post this...eye of Horus with Arabic Allah Akbar), beautiful Magie bathroom shot, little boys gone wild on the Pearl Street Mall with big bucket of ice cream etc...

like you care...

but, some of magie's photos from her recent trip to Boulder...more to come (like you care)...drinks, biking, sun, rolled sleeves, etc...

update!

Scott Pierce is the devil! he convinced me to hit up happy hour (well not so much "convinced" me as much as just mentioned happy hour in an email, which in my book is the same thing)...

i have no will...

happy hour anyone?

...currently listening to Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia A Collection Of Classics...

myspace exclusive...

great news for Anne Boyer...Coffee House Press has picked up her poetry manuscript A Romance of Happy Workers for publication in Anne's words "sometime before the next decade"

go Anne!

...currently listening to Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia A Collection Of Classics...

Embodied Poetics...

just wanted to give some props to the MFA in Contemporary Performance students...

MFA IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE IN COLLABORATION WITH MFA IN WRITING AND POETICS
Embodied Poetics Project Naropa University Wedesday April 19th 7:30 pm

Clouds
Written by Erin Sharp
Performed by Ashley Hughes, Meredith Crosley, Hadley Mays, Lizi Watt

Discourse
Written by Kristen Cirda & Rebehah West
Performed by Johanna Walker, Janna Meiring, Krista DeNiro

Weekend At The Lake
Written by Julie Dunbar
Performed by Colleen Mylott

Wearing Water
Written by Gia Opris
Performed by Mary Bevington

They Will Never Cease Falling
Written by Jack Collom
Performed by Kwesi Kwarteng Justice

Poetry (arhythmic)
Written by Jack Collom
Performed by Gleason Bauer, Shana Cordon, Krista DeNio, Angela Delichatsios, Christa Ray

"Said The Moth"
Written by John Sakkis
Performed by Perry Morgan-Hall, Johanna Walker

Jose-Phine
Written by Gia Opris
Performed by Shana Cordon

Therapy
Written by Robert Roley
Performed by Jenn Hicks

Luminous
Lyrics by Junior Burke
Music by Gary Grundei
Performed by Wendell Beavers, Ethelyn Friend, Gary Gurndei

it's hard to express how amazing this performance was (and not just because i had a piece in it)...these actors/ dancers had two weeks to create 10-12 minute pieces out of the work selected for them/ they selected...that entailed memorization, choreography, space concerns, music, lighting, staging, rehersals, execution...every piece was (as far as i could discern) flawless, beautiful, elegant, professional, engaging...hands down the best event i've atended at Naropa in my two year tenure...

my piece "Said The Moth," beautifully interpreted by Perry Morgan-Hall and Johanna Walker as a dance/ audience interactive poem, was executed using placards, ballet, experimental dance and call and response..a piece that takes at most 45 seconds to read from the page was realized into an amazing 12 minute phantasmagoria...using the audience to disect/ remove the lines from the "voices" speaking said lines, Perry and Johanna utilized a tape recorder to involve the audience's voice...they held placards up, the audience read the lines, they recorded the audience reading the lines (all flawless, all part of the performance, all directions given as part of the performance, never speaking a word that wasn't in my poem), then the cresendo...the tape was played back over the PA while the actors continued their performace of dance and voice...a strange experience being the author...a cacophony of strangers recorded reading your poem to the choreography of trained actors...i loved it and was infinitly impressed...

after the performace the chair of the MFA In Contemporary Performance, Wendell Beavers, invited the poets and actors up for a Q & A...a warm 30 minute conversation insued between audience/ poets/ actors/ directors...this was a true collaborative experience...we all concluded that these two MFA programs need to work together in the future...and the chairs of the programs concurred that they will...


read:

Live Action Arcade 04.06- ed. by Jon Leon and Allyssa Wolf/ featuring Jon Leon and Allyssa Wolf (Live Action Arcade) (thanks for sending along Jon/ Tenderloin What?!)
House Of Raging Women- Los Bros Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books)
Nova- Standard Schaefer (Sun & Moon Press) (thanks for sending along Standard)
ACTS 7- ed. by David Levi Strauss and Benjamin Hollander (ACTS)

...currently listening to Living Legends Crappy Old Sh*t...

oh and thanks to Krista DeNiro (a stranger before the performance) for the ride home...

Meredith Monk tomorrow!

Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporay Performance is hosting Meredith Monk tomorrow at noon in PAC...this should be great...



...currently listening to Cowboy Junkies Cowboy Junkies...

John the animal...

Michael eats me!

Hot John on a platter

watched Scanners yesterday...

watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose on Saturday...

i liked both...

...currently listening to The Cars Complete Greatest Hits...

The X-Filly...

Gillian Anderson and her husband of 13 months have seperated...this is probably only of interest to me...



...currently listening to Anticon Comp One...

happy Greek Easter everybody!!!

to all the Hellenes out there, Christos Anesti...yesterday...

...what's that you say? Alithos Anesti...yes yes, Alithos...

Magie's heading out in an hour...it's been a wonderful four days...more later...

...currently listening to Anticon Comp One...

friday!

so Susana over at Dusie took a bunch of poems for the next issue...which rocks! but this issue is going to be a little different...she compiled a list of 35 willing participants to partake in the first annual e-book/ print chapbook trade off...so, each of the 35 poets has a list of the other 34 participant's addresses...each poet is going to make/ print a chapbook (50 copies) replete with Dusie insignia for title page and back cover, and mail it off to the other Dusie poets...so, each of us can expect 34 chapbooks in the mail over the next 2 months! a barrage of new handmade books from some of my favorite poets from all over the country (and Japan!)! plus the books will all be published/ archived on the Dusie site as the next issue...i think Susana has come up with one of the coolest ideas in e-poetry publishing yet...go Susana!

Good Morning everyone...

...currently listening to Tom Waits Closing Time...

fashion? i'm only biting off Stephanie anyway...

i think Stephanie pioneered this whole fashion and poetry blog thing...but instead of just lazily posting pictures, she actually constructs prose about the things she sees and likes...fashion note taker?

what are the ethics behind stealing a flickr friends photos to post on your blog...these two photos are by Stephanie...that i stole from her blog...i don't know whose legs those "boots" and leg warmers belong to, but what a rad picture...i think my baby sitter Mary-Anne used to sport white leg warmers...




...currently listening to Aphex Twin Classics...

fashion? my doppleganger is in the house!!!

...currently listening to Various Artists Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways...

fashion? Francois is in the house!!! redux...

because this picture is great but more importantly because that girl on the right is too cute to be true...(F. if that's your girlfriend my bad)

...currently listening to The Shins Chutes Too Narrow...

fashion? A-dub is in the house!!!

Alli yiping out in the horizontals!

fashion? Lauren Kohne is in the house!!!

she probably made half of the clothes she's wearing in this pic...




currently listening to the new The Streets album...

fashion? BB MIB/ Shufran and Hollander are in the house!!!

fashion? my little brother is in the house!!!

and so is Dutchface (girl in the pic)...they're both coming to visit me in Boulder in the coming months!

fashion? Francois is in the house!!!

Phantasmagoria!!!

fashion...

looking at my remark a few posts down about how poet's generally lack fashion sense...realizing that's total bullshit (at least as it applies to the Pacific poets)...SF poets are some of the most fashion savy peeps around (i can't speak to NY/ CHI/ LA or Buffalo)...i like clothes, i know stephanie likes clothes, brandon more and more (god bless white male poet) likes clothes, Suzanne Stein is always fitted to the 9's, AND i've seen her do a handstand while giving a reading at BB's Zeal reading series, alli certainly looks like she likes clothes, i like LRSN when he wears basketball jerseys, nicoloff has awsome hair, taylor brady is perpetually in some shiny dress shirt as is Del Ray Cross, bill luoma usually sports some kind of interesting pair of shoes (or am i thinking of taylor again?), armand cappo most definitly likes clothes (my friend sara even asked Cappo for an interview for a doc she was making about fashion)...though not SF'ers, related, jessica and lorraine have been blogging/ comment boxing (KO'd!) about the theraputic benifits of shopping...i'm a self admitted shoe-whore/ jean-whore...so, i like the fashion sense of my west coast bretheren...go left coast fashionistas!

Stephanie asked me to make her a Bay Area hip hop mix for the Bay Poetics anthology release party...flattered...i have about 5 cd's worth of songs so far...unfortunatly most of my Bay hip hop is on vinyl (well, most of my music is on vinyl proper...but i think we'll make do)...wondering if lyrics like "MURDER MURDER MURDER MOTHERFUCKER!!!" are a bit harsh for an anthology reception...knowing Stephanie probably not...i'm trying to get a nice mixture of hood-hop and backpacker rap going...you know, Saafir next to Restiform Bodies...Spice 1 next to Quaanam...Hobo Junction next to Anticon...

the Embodied Poetics performance tonight was amazing, beyond words...but i'll try tomorrow...i'm still hovering on cloud 9...

the Magie's coming the Magie's coming (on friday morning!)...so excited to see her...

watched Coffee And Cigarettes this afternoon...worth renting for the Tom Waits Iggy Pop bit alone...i taped it...so so so good...Iggy is so cute, like a little boy...the RZA GZA Bill Murry bit was pretty good too..."Bill: i know you guys, you're up to no good"..."RZA: up to no good?!"..."Bill: yeah, you're from "The Wu-Tang Clan...you're GZA, the Genius, and you're RZA"..."RZA: other wise knows as?"..."Bill: otherwise knows as Bobby Digital!"...

i want to marry Iggy Pop..."Iggy: call me Jim, or call me Iggy, my friends call my jimmy, or Jim, or Iggy...call me Iggy..." Tom: okay Jim..."

...currently listening to Rush Chornicles...

Embodied Poetics...

performance is tonight at 7:30 at the Nalanda campus (Black Box Theater)...3 of my poems have been choreographed as some sort of performance piece, i'm not privy to what sort, we'll see tonight...

coincidently,

Zafusy

just published one of the poems that will be performed tonight in their 10th issue...

...have your cake and eat it too: yeah, so, Selena and i found a way to go out last night AND meet up with Akilah...cocktails and sushi...Selena's friend works the bar at the sushi joint, so he kept feeding us all sorts of colorful shots chased with Sake...that was fun...he then ordered for us...which was great because whatever he ordered was some of the best sushi i've ever eaten....and i'm a Bay Area kid, we're practically breast fed on sushi (that makes no sense but you get the sentiment)...and then Selena puts down her card to pay and i take out my card and am all "no way, this is your NYU acceptance dinner..." and she's all "no way this is your MFA dinner..." and Ryan (the bartender) is all "neither of you guys are paying...congratulations on your thesis..."...gratis!!!...what a great guy!...amazing dinner...loved it...loved Ryan...amazing Ryan...

afterwards went back to the Catacombs, met up with the birthday party gang...saw Jamba and Erin...i want to hug those two all day...

Mr. And Mrs. Smith- i remember this movie getting trashed...right? i liked it...sort of John Woo meets The Burbs...

...currently listening to Sunspot Jonz Child Ov The Storm...

Red Letter...

just got back from Red Letter...picked up Los Bros Hernandez' House Of Raging Women, Duck Feet and Flies On The Ceiling...fell in love with the Hernandez clan after reading the collected Palomar stories by Gilbert Hernandez last summer...

also picked up Young Gods & Friends by Barry Windsor-Smith...

recreational reading rocks!!!

AND a really cute indie girl fashionista smiled at me as i was walking down Pearl...so, no matter what happens for the rest of the day i've officially had a good one...

...currently listening to Elusive And Josh Koslow Celestial Impressions...

happy birthday Akilah!

right before we went to the porn shop...

...currently listening to Various Artists Brassic Beats USA...

last night...

met up with Kevin Kilroy (MFA Prose 05'/ Naropa) at the Catacombs to celebrate thesis...


soon in walks Sabrina Calle (BA Poetry 06'/ Naropa)


then Jeremiah Bowen (BA Poetry 06'/ Naropa)


then Adam Barker (MFA Prose 06'/ Naropa)


lot's and lot's of drinks and silliness ensues...lot's of talk about MTV's The Real World...lot's of talk about movies (Jeremiah wants to write a script about Jack Spicer...i told him Ron Howard's little brother would be perfect for the role)...lot's of talk (by me and Sabrina) about fashion and how most poets we know lack it "dude, he was rockin' jean shorts and white socks!!!"...Adam and i trying to convince Kevin that Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is some of the best contemporary mythology out there...lot's of talk about Charlie Kaufman and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Sabrina used to work for Hoffman, he just offered her another job in NYC...i'm like "can you hook my up too?"...)

last night was amazing...seriously, one of the best spent evenings i've had in Boulder since i moved here...a really great group of people who haven't gotten together like that in a while...i woke up this morning smiling, refreshed, psychologically replenished...to revert back to my raver days, last night was PLUR...

so, my friend Selena (who tends at the Catacombs) got great news from NYU...she's been accepted to their graduate film program! so tonight we were supposed to go to dinner and drinks to collectively celebrate NYU and thesis...only...i totally forgot about Akilah's birthday...so, i need to call Selena...Selena and i can't seem to catch a break...congratulations Selena, even though we can't be roommates in SF anymore (she also got into SF State's program)...you rock...


...currently listening to Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner...

stencils!

i sort of live in Naropa Alley...





since i have no thesis to write or thesis related books to read i'm going to try for two books a week for the rest of my time in boulder...can't wait to dig into recreational reading...

i think i'll go to the bar for happy hour and have a whiskey in celebration of thesis...Francois you wanna meet there, say around 5:00?

...currently listening to Miles Davis Blue Miles...eck...enough with the jazz already, i HATE that i'm obsessive compulsive...i'm on order by "album"...next is "genre" then i've hit for the cycle...

look at my cute little goober boober niece...

it's Nefeli! Theo Yannis wants to squish your cheeks...