Oct 31, 2008
okay so...
Happy Halloween!
tonight it's looking like:
D-Structure "family only" (yay, i'm family!) (don't say "yay") pre-party for the opening...(i guess they turned the gallery into a "cathedral")
and then off to...
Sara L.'s for records and booze and Rodney Koeneke!!!
and then off to...
Julia and Lauren's for Halloween bash...
and then possibly John's warehouse thing in SOMA...
and maybe i'll dress as Robert Palmer to fit in with the girls (who are going to look just...hmmm...just really good)...
and there will be pictures and kisses and punch and candy and dance and drink...
tonight it's looking like:
D-Structure "family only" (yay, i'm family!) (don't say "yay") pre-party for the opening...(i guess they turned the gallery into a "cathedral")
and then off to...
Sara L.'s for records and booze and Rodney Koeneke!!!
and then off to...
Julia and Lauren's for Halloween bash...
and then possibly John's warehouse thing in SOMA...
and maybe i'll dress as Robert Palmer to fit in with the girls (who are going to look just...hmmm...just really good)...
and there will be pictures and kisses and punch and candy and dance and drink...
Oct 30, 2008
Crystal Castles...
are a YouTube band...fun to listen to in the office, not so much on a cold Wednesday night at the Independent...
i don't know...it was really fun going to Bean Bag before the show, beers were drunk and pills were popped (the latter not by me)...it was cute, i felt like my old raver self circa 1996...haven't talked that much about "e" in over a decade...but then the show...whatever...i'll put it to you like this...if it was a show it was a shitty one...unless you count a DJ spinning tech-House a "show"...cause that's kind of what Crystal Castles are all about...tech-House...if this was a "party" (where you would expect to hear tech-House) it would have been a lame one...everyone was standing around looking at the stage...but nothing was really happening on stage besides Alice Glass chirping into a mic/jumping around with a strobe light...um, boring...
the old school raver in me is bitter...i'm sorry but it's just too fucking early to repackage House music and call it Electro or "Rave"...i like House music but not as a show...i like dancing to good House but not watching it spun on a stage...tech-House treated as spectacle is baffling...maybe i was just the oldest person there (but i wasn't)...maybe everyone forgot about the 90's (but they didn't)...maybe House music has such a corny connotation to the majority of 20'somethings that in order to sell it to the urban masses they need to call it Electro (but they shouldn't, cause it's not)...
the friends on pills looked slightly bored, didn't know you could be bored on "e" but they seemed it...i felt bad for them...we hugged our cute little e-tards goodbye about 4 songs (records) in...
on the other hand the opening band,Lymbyc Systym, were inspiring...twin brothers (?), one on drums (he was really ON drums) and one on keyboard/macbook...they played a seemless 45 minute set of huge landscape'y instrumental rock...it reminded me of Antarctica without the vocals...the sound was fucking head knocking, and layered, and hard, and gorgeous...kind of had that Boards of Canada time-lapse photography feel to it, like watching a flower blossom in slow motion on fast forward...i didn't want it to end...the crowd was polite but not necessarily enthusiastic...
here's a Lymbyc Systym live
i don't know...it was really fun going to Bean Bag before the show, beers were drunk and pills were popped (the latter not by me)...it was cute, i felt like my old raver self circa 1996...haven't talked that much about "e" in over a decade...but then the show...whatever...i'll put it to you like this...if it was a show it was a shitty one...unless you count a DJ spinning tech-House a "show"...cause that's kind of what Crystal Castles are all about...tech-House...if this was a "party" (where you would expect to hear tech-House) it would have been a lame one...everyone was standing around looking at the stage...but nothing was really happening on stage besides Alice Glass chirping into a mic/jumping around with a strobe light...um, boring...
the old school raver in me is bitter...i'm sorry but it's just too fucking early to repackage House music and call it Electro or "Rave"...i like House music but not as a show...i like dancing to good House but not watching it spun on a stage...tech-House treated as spectacle is baffling...maybe i was just the oldest person there (but i wasn't)...maybe everyone forgot about the 90's (but they didn't)...maybe House music has such a corny connotation to the majority of 20'somethings that in order to sell it to the urban masses they need to call it Electro (but they shouldn't, cause it's not)...
the friends on pills looked slightly bored, didn't know you could be bored on "e" but they seemed it...i felt bad for them...we hugged our cute little e-tards goodbye about 4 songs (records) in...
on the other hand the opening band,Lymbyc Systym, were inspiring...twin brothers (?), one on drums (he was really ON drums) and one on keyboard/macbook...they played a seemless 45 minute set of huge landscape'y instrumental rock...it reminded me of Antarctica without the vocals...the sound was fucking head knocking, and layered, and hard, and gorgeous...kind of had that Boards of Canada time-lapse photography feel to it, like watching a flower blossom in slow motion on fast forward...i didn't want it to end...the crowd was polite but not necessarily enthusiastic...
here's a Lymbyc Systym live
spread the word!!
Please Forward Widely!
Mills College Department of English Announces Its Annual Professional Survival Day
Date: November 23rd (Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Mills College Campus
Each year, the English Department's Place for Writers presents a Professional Survival Day, free and open to the public. Writers, editors, publishers, teachers, and alumnae discuss a variety of publishing opportunities, careers in teaching and academia, and other information useful to emerging writers and scholars. Professional Survival Day encourages networking opportunities among students from Mills and other Bay Area writing programs, professors, publishers, and publishing writers.
Panels will include information on publishing fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, teaching in and out of academia, a chance to speak with agents about pitching your book, how to go d.i.y. - self-publishing, starting a reading series, and many more exciting and useful topics!
This year's speakers include Elmaz Abinader, Chad Arnold, Mary Burger, Joshua Clover, Emma Shaw Crane, Steve Dickison, Felicia Eth from Felicia Eth Literary Representation, Tomás Galguera, David Horton, Scott Inguito, Kevin Killian, Aya de Leon, Jennifer Mattson from Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Edissa Nichols, Cornelia Nixon, Elise Proulx from Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency, Carolina de Robertis, John Sakkis, Juliana Spahr, Aimee Suzara, Michelle Tea, Kara Wittman,
Professional Survival Day is free and open to the public. For more information or to view a full schedule, please contact: kbeler@mills.edu.
Mills College Department of English Announces Its Annual Professional Survival Day
Date: November 23rd (Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Mills College Campus
Each year, the English Department's Place for Writers presents a Professional Survival Day, free and open to the public. Writers, editors, publishers, teachers, and alumnae discuss a variety of publishing opportunities, careers in teaching and academia, and other information useful to emerging writers and scholars. Professional Survival Day encourages networking opportunities among students from Mills and other Bay Area writing programs, professors, publishers, and publishing writers.
Panels will include information on publishing fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, teaching in and out of academia, a chance to speak with agents about pitching your book, how to go d.i.y. - self-publishing, starting a reading series, and many more exciting and useful topics!
This year's speakers include Elmaz Abinader, Chad Arnold, Mary Burger, Joshua Clover, Emma Shaw Crane, Steve Dickison, Felicia Eth from Felicia Eth Literary Representation, Tomás Galguera, David Horton, Scott Inguito, Kevin Killian, Aya de Leon, Jennifer Mattson from Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Edissa Nichols, Cornelia Nixon, Elise Proulx from Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency, Carolina de Robertis, John Sakkis, Juliana Spahr, Aimee Suzara, Michelle Tea, Kara Wittman,
Professional Survival Day is free and open to the public. For more information or to view a full schedule, please contact: kbeler@mills.edu.
Oct 29, 2008
...
me: wait. you googled me and it gave you a definition of yasou from urban dictionary?
workingclassmagazine: haha
no
the word yasou
me: oh..
workingclassmagazine: i was just curious
me: about yasou?
workingclassmagazine: i guess i could get into ace of base
yeah i didn't know what it meant
2:06 PM i know
me: it means "hello" and "goodbye" ingreek
workingclassmagazine: yeah i figured it was greek
me: but i like tha ce of base thing
i used to have a couple of words on urban dictionary
"mounted" meant...hold on i got a phone call
2:07 PM workingclassmagazine: not in my urban dictionary...
geez
2:08 PM if i came up to sf in january
could i stay at your house for a few nights
2:09 PM it would be like early jan
2:11 PM me: yes, of course...
please come!
workingclassmagazine: well i'm not sure
but i was looking at tix to go home for xmas
and i'm thinking i'm just going to go back in january instead
it's so expensive
me: okay, so "mounted" meant a girl with a thick lower body (butt!) and slim mid-section...mounted like a satyr, or a centaur or some mythical creature
2:12 PM it would be amazing to see you...
workingclassmagazine: oh i thought mounted meant 'i have a phone call'
HAHAHAHA
me: i had to ask urban dictionary to take it down when i started donig job searches post grad school
it was one of the first things that came up if you googled my name
workingclassmagazine: haha
no
the word yasou
me: oh..
workingclassmagazine: i was just curious
me: about yasou?
workingclassmagazine: i guess i could get into ace of base
yeah i didn't know what it meant
2:06 PM i know
me: it means "hello" and "goodbye" ingreek
workingclassmagazine: yeah i figured it was greek
me: but i like tha ce of base thing
i used to have a couple of words on urban dictionary
"mounted" meant...hold on i got a phone call
2:07 PM workingclassmagazine: not in my urban dictionary...
geez
2:08 PM if i came up to sf in january
could i stay at your house for a few nights
2:09 PM it would be like early jan
2:11 PM me: yes, of course...
please come!
workingclassmagazine: well i'm not sure
but i was looking at tix to go home for xmas
and i'm thinking i'm just going to go back in january instead
it's so expensive
me: okay, so "mounted" meant a girl with a thick lower body (butt!) and slim mid-section...mounted like a satyr, or a centaur or some mythical creature
2:12 PM it would be amazing to see you...
workingclassmagazine: oh i thought mounted meant 'i have a phone call'
HAHAHAHA
me: i had to ask urban dictionary to take it down when i started donig job searches post grad school
it was one of the first things that came up if you googled my name
Oct 28, 2008
Oct 27, 2008
BOTH BOTH SERIES w/ Dodie Belamy and Cedar Cigo...a photo essay with some text...
BOTH BOTH last Saturday night was a ton of fun...huge thanks to Dodie Bellamy and Cedar Sigo for reading...and huge daps to David Petrelli for the art...if this BB was a concert it would be safe to say that it was "sold out"...we packed my apartment on a toasty Oct. night for work and booze and smokes and chats and music and World Series and dance...i love you all...thanks for bringing the vibes...
some stuff i remember from the night:
Dodie from Zumi's in a beautiful white dress reading a mash up called Cunt Norton...
Cedar wearing a dapper plaid reading new poetry for not nearly long enough...
David Petrelli bringing back the mesh cap hanging art while KRS-1's Return Of The Boom Bap bumped from the tables...
lot's and lot's of bikes...
my brother posing with 6 or 7 poets...
Kevin Killian bringing the champagne...
my roommate breaking his toe dancing to New Order...
me tongue kissing David Brazil's exposed belly...
New Wave/ punk dance party...
World Series afteparty...
my beautiful SPD interns!
new issues of Try magazine...
Stephanie Young and Alli Warren and lip gloss...
accidently fondling Alli's leg thinking she was someone else...
me and Alli being hella awkward the rest of the night...
Brandon Brown threatening to kick my ass...
Ronald Palmer...
Sondra giving the stink eye...
lot's of 415 Pierce St. #3 art talk...
rock n' roll party...
weird condoms...
brother fist fight...
Oakland in full effect...
bottles and cans...
and, bottles and cans...
so just clap your hands...
some stuff i remember from the night:
Dodie from Zumi's in a beautiful white dress reading a mash up called Cunt Norton...
Cedar wearing a dapper plaid reading new poetry for not nearly long enough...
David Petrelli bringing back the mesh cap hanging art while KRS-1's Return Of The Boom Bap bumped from the tables...
lot's and lot's of bikes...
my brother posing with 6 or 7 poets...
Kevin Killian bringing the champagne...
my roommate breaking his toe dancing to New Order...
me tongue kissing David Brazil's exposed belly...
New Wave/ punk dance party...
World Series afteparty...
my beautiful SPD interns!
new issues of Try magazine...
Stephanie Young and Alli Warren and lip gloss...
accidently fondling Alli's leg thinking she was someone else...
me and Alli being hella awkward the rest of the night...
Brandon Brown threatening to kick my ass...
Ronald Palmer...
Sondra giving the stink eye...
lot's of 415 Pierce St. #3 art talk...
rock n' roll party...
weird condoms...
brother fist fight...
Oakland in full effect...
bottles and cans...
and, bottles and cans...
so just clap your hands...
SPD HAS A CONTEST! SPREAD THE WORD!
"but then Rob hooked me up with supper and small press distribution"
—Sharon Mesmer
from "Fine Hormoney Bitch"
John Sakkis thinks LOL Cats are not very LOL...
SUBMIT YOUR POEM THAT SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE INCLUDES OUR NAME (SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION) AND GET A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE SPD BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!
Guidelines:
-Poem must be 20 lines or less and must include the words "Small Press Distribution" somewhere, somehow (creativity encouraged)
-Send poem and contact info to SPD [at] SPDBOOKS [dot] ORG. Please include the poem in the body of the email
-Selected poems will be posted on our blog
-Top three poems will receive a free SPD book of their choice (under $40) (free shipping within the US)
-Contest ends November 20th, winners will be announced at that time
ALL POETIC FORMS WELCOME: haiku, acrostic, ballad, free verse, acronym, pastoral, sonnet, rap, Flarf, lyric, "i do this i do that," hybrid, hexameter, dirge, cento, comedy-jam, beat, prose, translation, whatever/however and whenever you write the poem, we'd love to see it!
—Sharon Mesmer
from "Fine Hormoney Bitch"
John Sakkis thinks LOL Cats are not very LOL...
SUBMIT YOUR POEM THAT SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE INCLUDES OUR NAME (SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION) AND GET A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE SPD BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!
Guidelines:
-Poem must be 20 lines or less and must include the words "Small Press Distribution" somewhere, somehow (creativity encouraged)
-Send poem and contact info to SPD [at] SPDBOOKS [dot] ORG. Please include the poem in the body of the email
-Selected poems will be posted on our blog
-Top three poems will receive a free SPD book of their choice (under $40) (free shipping within the US)
-Contest ends November 20th, winners will be announced at that time
ALL POETIC FORMS WELCOME: haiku, acrostic, ballad, free verse, acronym, pastoral, sonnet, rap, Flarf, lyric, "i do this i do that," hybrid, hexameter, dirge, cento, comedy-jam, beat, prose, translation, whatever/however and whenever you write the poem, we'd love to see it!
Oct 24, 2008
BOTH BOTH SERIES is the new SASHA FIERCE...
TOMORROW NIGHT
BOTH BOTH SERIES AT MY PLACE IN THE LOWER HAIGHT
OCT. 25TH 7PM
415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL)
with
DODIE BELLAMY
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook, Barf Manifesto, is just out from Ugly
Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The
Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker
Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January, 2006, she curated an
installation of Kathy Acker's clothing for White Columns, New York's
oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer
Kevin Killian and three cats.
AND CEDAR SIGO
Cedar Sigo is 30 years old and moved to SF in 1999. His books include GOODNIGHT NURSE, THANKYOU LETTERS, two editions of SELECTED WRITINGS, DEATHRACE v.s.o.p (with Micah Ballard & Will Yackulic) STRANGER IN TOWN, and most recently EXPENSIVE MAGIC. He is currently editing a small collection of essays on poetry-CAN 2
and new artworks by DAVID PETRELLI
david petrelli is an artist living in san francisco. a transplant from the east coast having lived in boston, providence,nyc and philadelphia he moved west 3 years ago having had a long interest in the culture and history of the Bay. .. he has studied at the museum school of fine arts, boston and the san francisco art institute as well as having graduated from the natural gourmet school of cookery in new york city.. his artistic pursuits include painting, writing, graffiti, printmaking, found objects sound art and ayurvedic cooking...
BOTH BOTH SERIES AT MY PLACE IN THE LOWER HAIGHT
OCT. 25TH 7PM
415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL)
with
DODIE BELLAMY
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook, Barf Manifesto, is just out from Ugly
Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The
Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker
Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January, 2006, she curated an
installation of Kathy Acker's clothing for White Columns, New York's
oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer
Kevin Killian and three cats.
AND CEDAR SIGO
Cedar Sigo is 30 years old and moved to SF in 1999. His books include GOODNIGHT NURSE, THANKYOU LETTERS, two editions of SELECTED WRITINGS, DEATHRACE v.s.o.p (with Micah Ballard & Will Yackulic) STRANGER IN TOWN, and most recently EXPENSIVE MAGIC. He is currently editing a small collection of essays on poetry-CAN 2
and new artworks by DAVID PETRELLI
david petrelli is an artist living in san francisco. a transplant from the east coast having lived in boston, providence,nyc and philadelphia he moved west 3 years ago having had a long interest in the culture and history of the Bay. .. he has studied at the museum school of fine arts, boston and the san francisco art institute as well as having graduated from the natural gourmet school of cookery in new york city.. his artistic pursuits include painting, writing, graffiti, printmaking, found objects sound art and ayurvedic cooking...
Oct 23, 2008
okay, i like the guy's show and everything...
but i'm getting pretty tired of Keith Olbermann saying "have you no shame sir?..."
snore...
Oct 21, 2008
robocop...
today Roseanne Bar called my cellphone and told me that "Nancy Pelosi has got to go..."
it made me feel weird.
did anyone else get a call from Roseanne today?
it made me feel weird.
did anyone else get a call from Roseanne today?
this makes me smile...
"also...was it just my phone, or did you send me a picture of you eating grapes at 3:37am??? i'm thinking it was my phone. :) i woke up out of an intense dream at about 5am, thinking i was late for work, saw that it was pitch black...looked at my phone and saw you eating grapes. it was quite confusing."
Oct 20, 2008
flattery? i'll freakin take it!
Sondra says i look like Joseph Feinnes...
not sure what she's been smoking either...
the two other doppelgangers i've gotten are Hugh "House" Laurie (which is to say an emaciated, pain killer addicted, bug eyed all around prick'ish (but brilliant!) ego maniac)...
and Clive Owen (circa Closer...which is to say an overweight, sweaty, cokehead, woman hating alcoholic)...
but yeah, i'll take it...
not sure what she's been smoking either...
the two other doppelgangers i've gotten are Hugh "House" Laurie (which is to say an emaciated, pain killer addicted, bug eyed all around prick'ish (but brilliant!) ego maniac)...
and Clive Owen (circa Closer...which is to say an overweight, sweaty, cokehead, woman hating alcoholic)...
but yeah, i'll take it...
BOTH BOTH THIS SATURDAY OCT. 25th...
BOTH BOTH SERIES AT MY PLACE IN THE LOWER HAIGHT
OCT. 25TH 7PM
415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL)
with
DODIE BELLAMY
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook, Barf Manifesto, is just out from Ugly
Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The
Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker
Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January, 2006, she curated an
installation of Kathy Acker's clothing for White Columns, New York's
oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer
Kevin Killian and three cats.
AND CEDAR SIGO
Cedar Sigo is 30 years old and moved to SF in 1999. His books include GOODNIGHT NURSE, THANKYOU LETTERS, two editions of SELECTED WRITINGS, DEATHRACE v.s.o.p (with Micah Ballard & Will Yackulic) STRANGER IN TOWN, and most recently EXPENSIVE MAGIC. He is currently editing a small collection of essays on poetry-CAN 2
and new artworks by DAVID PETRELLI
david petrelli is an artist living in san francisco. a transplant from the east coast having lived in boston, providence,nyc and philadelphia he moved west 3 years ago having had a long interest in the culture and history of the Bay. .. he has studied at the museum school of fine arts, boston and the san francisco art institute as well as having graduated from the natural gourmet school of cookery in new york city.. his artistic pursuits include painting, writing, graffiti, printmaking, found objects sound art and ayurvedic cooking...
OCT. 25TH 7PM
415 PIERCE ST. #3 (BETWEEN OAK AND FELL)
with
DODIE BELLAMY
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook, Barf Manifesto, is just out from Ugly
Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The
Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker
Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January, 2006, she curated an
installation of Kathy Acker's clothing for White Columns, New York's
oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer
Kevin Killian and three cats.
AND CEDAR SIGO
Cedar Sigo is 30 years old and moved to SF in 1999. His books include GOODNIGHT NURSE, THANKYOU LETTERS, two editions of SELECTED WRITINGS, DEATHRACE v.s.o.p (with Micah Ballard & Will Yackulic) STRANGER IN TOWN, and most recently EXPENSIVE MAGIC. He is currently editing a small collection of essays on poetry-CAN 2
and new artworks by DAVID PETRELLI
david petrelli is an artist living in san francisco. a transplant from the east coast having lived in boston, providence,nyc and philadelphia he moved west 3 years ago having had a long interest in the culture and history of the Bay. .. he has studied at the museum school of fine arts, boston and the san francisco art institute as well as having graduated from the natural gourmet school of cookery in new york city.. his artistic pursuits include painting, writing, graffiti, printmaking, found objects sound art and ayurvedic cooking...
Oct 18, 2008
and here's the part where i sing Master Of The House...
from Les Miserables...
i dedicate this to my sister and the endless hours of show tunes she subjected me and my brother to growing up...
i love you big sis'...
i dedicate this to my sister and the endless hours of show tunes she subjected me and my brother to growing up...
i love you big sis'...
Oct 17, 2008
my room is all wrong...
i've felt this way since i moved in over a year and 1/2 ago...i've done nothing about it...
Cat thinks my room is all wrong...she's felt this way for a few weeks now...she's an interior designer by profession...she's done something about it...she created this mock up today at work...
it's pretty great...
we'll rearrange this weekend...
(click on image for close up)
Cat thinks my room is all wrong...she's felt this way for a few weeks now...she's an interior designer by profession...she's done something about it...she created this mock up today at work...
it's pretty great...
we'll rearrange this weekend...
(click on image for close up)
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