May BB...

okay folkers! the May issue of BOTH BOTH is printed and ready to mail tomorrow...

May issue features wonderful new work from Suzanne Stein (one of the Bay Area kids, oi oi!!!) and Michael Koshkin (translating Anatra di Battimento) with special cover art from Anthony Dines...look for it in your mailboxes in the coming days...

this afternoon after printing BB Michael and Jen began work on the cover for Hot Whiskey mag #2...i've always wondered what the silk-screen process entailed and today i found out...let me say this (no spoilers though), #2's cover is the beat! beautiful, meticulous attention to detail which we've come to expect from ALL Hot Whiskey endeavors with a twitch of sardonic humor aimed maybe at all of us "post-avants"...it's going to be a fun issue that will undoubtadly sellout fast so order your copy while they're still around...

also purchased from Michael and Jen, Joseph Massey's Bramble and Anselm Palatore's The Squalicum Harbor Suite...at $5 a pop i felt like i was ripping them off...i went ahead and gave them $20 asking that they just send what ever two projects come out next...those projects probably being Anne Waldman's new chap (i saw the proof today, looks fantastic) and Hot Whiskey mag #2...can't wait to get my greedy hands (and nose, with respect to the mag) on them...

yesterday read:

A Poem- Cheryl Quimba (Dusie) (little tiny tiny booky book)
The Metal Sunset of Tomorrow's Asending Dissension- Jules Boykoff (Dusie) (a title worthy of M.C. Esher)
In The Quells- Christopther Rizzo (Dusie) (maybe my favorite Dusie chap thus far, gorgeous design to boot!)

thanks to Mr. Thurston (Mr. Thrust On!) i may be reading in Buffalo later this year...details are sketchy (no details really) but i was invited which i'm super excited about...Brandon Brown, wanna take a trip to Buffalo with me?

dream: Jessica Smith, Martin (Jessica's man), Francois Luong and me on a yacht in the French Riviera...Martin was playing me all these hip-hop beats that he'd recently produced...they were really good, i was like "holy shit Martin! i didn't know you produced?!" he responded "totally, producing is my life..." lot's and lot's more but the details are sketchy...by the way, i've never met any of these people (in person)...i like the fact that my subconscious mind has made up personalities and voices for two dimensional representations (blogger photos and text)...i think that rocks...

good news for me (and maybe you depending on who you are)...i'm moving back to the Yay Area later this month (a full two months earlier than planned)...should be back in C-Town by June 29th...Brandon is going to make me dinner, you should come over, he's sort of the best chef in the world...go read his brand new blog "Fuck You, I'm A Chef!!!" for proof...

...currently listening to Various Artists Lost In Translation...