weekend...

i'm in a carb coma

my eyes are puffy

yesterday i watched Saw V and The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and Prom Night

i dreamt that Snoop Dog was on a "the state of hip hop" panel...he said "and look at all these kids just now discovering Eazy-E..." and then an Eazy-E beat dropped, hard, in my dream...

yesterday i ate pizza and spanakopita and tomato soup and apples and peanut butter and a 40oz and coffee

what does the state of economy mean to you?

it means i drink 40oz all over again

i wanted to write a rap

in the rap i would have the line "so broke i soap with shampoo"

i'm currently reading On The Road for the first time...

and Acts #1 printed in Robert Duncan's basement in the early 80's

i think i'll send that picture of my boner to Try magazine

will you publish a picture of my boner Try magazine?

Lorelei Lee is very nice, she bought my book

Graham Foust is deadpan, like Fox Mulder's weird little brother, i like reading him more than hearing him

Sara Mumolo was a total gentlewoman, and thank you to "Ben" for introducing me

i read mostly from Rude Girl and a few Gary Gygax poems and sold a bunch of books...thank you nice East Bay crowd for actually buying books

and here's a nice photographic interlude by Drummond Buckley (Studio One Gallery Reading 11/7/08)(me, Lorelei Lee, Lorelei Lee, me and Logan Ryan Smith in front of The Avenue Bar)






"the poet's barter system has got to go"
--Eleni Sikelianos

Logan and me and Drummond went to The Avenue bar on Telegraph before the reading...it's a good bar, the only bar in Berkeley? anyway, it reminded us of Brawley, Livermore and Concord respectively

Drummond drove us back to the city debating the whole way about Kindle vs. Object

and then i read an article in Publisher's Weekly on the toilet the next day titled "Kindle vs. Object" and i thought of Carl Jung

if i were to start a poetry movement i would call it The New Paranoids and the above incident would be my poetics

dropped Logan off, dropped Drummond off, drove around for an hour looking for parking in the LH steadily getting a headache...

took 3 Excedrin

met up with my brother and Brett and Steve H. for a free show at The Independent...Vin Sol and some psychedelic rock bands...

met up with Brandon at Delerium for afternoon beers

watched Knocked Up

grabbed 40oz and walked to my brothers

played with little bathtub musical instruments while my brother got dressed while i drank the 40oz

40oz 40oz 40oz 40oz

grabbed cab to the Mission for Repeater/ Veil Veil Vanish show at The Knockout

Repeater killed it...maybe my favorite band live? this is possible?

there's something entirely charming about a lead singer who is so shy the bass player is the one for crowd interaction...

and then Veil Veil who i like but not as much as Repeater

and then back to the hotel

i got invited to read at The Rebel Reading Series at The Knockout

but they want me to read "drug poems" and i don't have any

and then Steven Trull wrote me a nice letter and sent me a poster of Farah Fosset

i have Tuesday off so tonight i'm going out with Matthew and maybe Brandon at maybe Lucky 13