State(s) of the Union?

...two hilarious headlines up on yahoo news right now...

"Bush to say Americans addicted to oil"

"Poll finds men want Jessica Alba as a girlfriend"

found a used copy Neil Gaiman's Death graphic novel in Red Letter today...though it wasn't priced/processed yet so i couldn't buy it...wack...

...currently listening to N.E.R.D. nerd...

"hey girl, i'm a provider!"
—N.E.R.D.

Mueller gets ups!!!

if you're aware of my editor's mission statement published in the first issue of BOTH BOTH then this email from Daron Mueller of the Left Hand Reading series will make sense...



Hi John -- Daron here -- how are things?? I hope very well. I had
been
meaning to send this Shakespeare to you for some time (IF YOU HADN"T
ALREADY FOUND IT) -- I happened to be reading the Tempest right when
BOTH BOTH came out. Just a few minutes ago I realized that I could use
the MIT Shakespeare website and cut and paste the text to you -- there
maybe other "both both"s in Shakespeare and I suppose one could search
all text of all the plays with a "find" command and type in the text
"both".

fun fun!
d

here is the Shakespeare from the Tempest Act I, Scene 2
the MIT SHAKESPEARE site:

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

*MIRANDA*

O the heavens!
What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
Or blessed was't we did?

*PROSPERO*

Both, both, my girl:
By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
But blessedly holp hither.

*MIRANDA*

O, my heart bleeds
To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.


...thanks Daron!

...currently listening to Mystik Journeymen Magic...

ORTH learns more about the energy-efficiency improvments that will be made to his home as a result of winning the 2006 Energy Makeover Contest

P1010055,
originally uploaded by John Sakkis.

we got the beat!

woo hoo! we should make a bundle off this one...we got Jello Biafra and Thurston Moore to do a benifit show for Bombay Gin upcoming at the Boulder Theater...Anne Waldman will also be performing as will Naropa's own Strangers Die Everyday...


A Night of Poetry and Music for
Progressive Action presented by the Student Union of
Naropa University, Bombay Gin Literary Magazine, and
Estrojam

Featuring: Jello Biafra, Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman,
Andrea Gibson, Strangers Die Everyday, and DJ Yer Momm

When: March 9th, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street,
Boulder, CO, 303-786-7030

Price: $20 Presale (for presale info., call
303-245-4612) $25 at the Boulder Theater

...currently listening to Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition and/or some Richard Buckner album...

new poetry stuff!!!

of late, a bunch of new stuff has found it's way onto my lap...

Etel Adnan sent me a copy of Discourse Journal For Theoretical Studies In Media Culture from Winter/ Spring 98'...her essay "The Unfolding Of An Artist's Book" is included...in her words (from her letter) the essay is "a probably interesting oblique view on translation, as it includes another form of expression, painting." (thanks Etel!)

Michael Magee's wonderful mag Combo (issues 1-11) found their way into my office this morning...lot's and lot's of fun catch up reading to do...

Michael Magee's book morning constitutional from Spencer Books/ HANDWRITTEN PRESS was also included...

and then in the mail this afternoon, Jessica Smith's beautifully put together/presented chapbook, bird-book...(thanks Jessica!)

should i start my thesis today or tomorrow? i'm thinking tomorrow, like, workday(mon), thesisday(tues), thesisday(wed), workday(thurs), thesisday(fri)...


...currently listening to Mogwai Come On Die Young...

Bound To Get Fuller (just imagine me beat boxing in the middle)

,
originally uploaded by Stephanie Young.

photo by Stephanie Young...

darg, i miss Armand...

"well well well, it appears as tho, you were up plenty late last night and ya know Logan, I could have really used your help last night in the TENDERLOIN. It appears, that at roughly 2am, a beer bottle went sailing out of Arnone's apartment towards a mob of about 20 hipsters outside the Castle. A few moments later, I found myself inside of the gate screamiing at a mob that now had grown to roughly 40 hipsters all wanting to rip me apart while Katie with a K, Orth and Pokarney desperatley tried to prevent me from entering the street and most likely my death. The scene outside, was truly something to be seen, like a choreographed Hipster-Thriller, or a scene from Thunderdome. Not only was I told to "go back to Fresno, you Yuppie-Fuck" whereupon I began a riveting monologue about how I was from Chicago, but I was also called a certain outdated term usually directed at an African American, which provoked me to start pointing my finger at the angry mob, counting them and screaming "Honkey". Eventually, a Budweiser "Big Boy" went sailing through the gate, towards me, fell on the ground, whereupon, Orth being incredibly aware, picked it up and screamed "Free Beer!", picked it up and then began thanking them by saying "Thanks for the free beer dude!....I love free beer!" Somehow this ended, we came back up stairs, I took a few sips of my "Big Guy" and then promptly took a power nap in the chair.

"Oh....thats our Armand" said Arnone."

...BTW, the apartment from whence the beer bottle was chucked is none other than my old apartment...Geary between Polk and Larkin foo'...glad to see, read, hear that the old TL apartment is still as ruckus as ever...and that Armand "cappo" C. is still the homie...

also, had a dream last night that i was performing with Brandon Brown and Alli Warren's super group Bound To Get Fuller at the San Francisco Poet's Theater...Brandon was sort of yelling surrealistic nothings into a microphone all the while Alli was looking embarrassed all the while i was beat boxing...people didn't seem to be into us...they looked really bored...

...currently listening to a Michael Palmer lecture...

back at work...

so, didn't leave the apartment all weekend, didn't answer the phone (ironically this seemed to be the weekend EVERYTHING was going on), drank approximatly 25 cups of "yogi herbal tea," and two gallons of "Simply Orange" orange juice concomitant with mounds and mounds of fruit...if fact the first "real" meal i had in three days was a bowl of chili yesterday afternoon (i think i lost 10 pounds this weekend, no joke, i had NO appetite)...prologue to that it was all fuji apples, bananas, cantalope and canned pinapple...

movies watched this weekend:

1. Sin City (#1 comic book movie ever...Batman Begins #2)
2. Gandhi (wow! this movie! i had no idea...)
3. American Me
4. Coming To America
5. The Shining

American Me struck me most (i hadn't seen it since middle school)...watching the "making of" and learning that more than half of the cast were actual gang members/ Folsom prisoners...and then learning that a lot of the actors/gang members in the movie were killed/maimed shortly after the film wrapped...not because of the film, but just because...

got sick of taking NyQuil so i did some meds digging and found some old prescription cold pills...currently taking those...though i'm holding off on the Amoxycillin until i know this head cold is a sinus infection...we'll see...

currently in my office listening to Drew Gardner reading at Segue in New York (http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Gardner/Gardner-Drew_Segue_NY_11-5-05.mp3), thanks for the link Kaplan! waiting for Ann (librarian) to bring me a box of new audio tapes to dig into and start digitizing...

"i'd like to think my stomach is beautiful"
—Drew Gardner

look at that folks, he jumped the gun...

so, TOTALLY not well...in fact, full blown cold...which blows...

so, Michael Koshkin and Jennifer Rogers, i probably won't be at your reading tonight at Left Hand (8 PM for the Boulder folks)...we'll see how i feel...

...i think i'm going to get dressed, go to Safeway, buy a gallon of orange juice, tea, some more cold medicine and Kleenex, go to the Writing and Poetics office and pick up mail, come home and watch movies all day...

why is the germaphobe always the one to catch the cold?



...currently listening to Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News...

Trane Devore asks...

told you,
originally uploaded by John Sakkis.

"um...is it real? looks ouch..."

for the record...yes, totally real...this is me pre-acclimation...and this one was mild...

so, come on down to Colorado...that's fun!