i'm about to eat lunch. i'm having italian salami and jarlsburg cheese and a handful of pistachio nuts and a handful of cherry tomatoes and four dried figs and a fuji apple.
last night i went out with Arnone, we went to Kilowatt, we talked about horror movies the whole time. we talked about Cube and HyperCube and CubeZero. we talked about Hellraiser II and "cenobites" and Miyazaki's Spirited Away. i told matthew that Spirited Away is one of the scariest movies i have ever seen. i told Matthew that Spirited Away is so scary that i sold it to Amoeba to get rid of it. Matthew reminded me that i actually gave him the movie and didn't sell it to Amoeba. the nice bartender girl bought Matthew and i some beer. Matthew and i talked a lot about Wolf Creek and about the term "torture porn." Matthew and i talked about Logan's book cover and Orth's album cover both of which he did and which are beautiful.
before i went out with Matthew i met up with Angelos at Mad Dog. Angelos and i worked on Demosthenes's Chinese Notebook. the translations are really coming together. Angelos ate a Rosumunde sausage and drank beer. Angelos asked me what "exenterates" means because i use it in a poem from The Moveable Ones. i couldn't define the word, i had forgetten the definition of the word. the word means "To disembowel; eviscerate," but i couldn't remember that at the time. the line in my poem goes "and he exenterates the islands" or something close to that.
after Mad Dog with Angelos i walked to D-Structure to say hello to Azikiwee. it sounds like there are going to be lots of fun events happening at the store in the coming months. tatoo events, new art shows, DJ nights, after skatepark jamborees etc. i bought a new tee shirt and chatted with Azikiwee about the upcoming events.
after D-Structure i went to the corner store and bought two big cans of Foster's. i went home and made my lunch for the next day and washed some dishes and cracked open one of the cans of Foster's and grabbed CA Conrad's Deviant Propulsion and headed for the stoop. I'm really enjoying Conrad's book. i've been reading a ton of poetry lately and Conrad's is pretty much tops. after about half of the Foster's i went back inside to work on Rude Girl. i put on the Star Wars soundtrack as background noise and worked on Rude Girl for about an hour. i think Rude Girl is finally starting to realize. my revision process at the moment is to take out all the boring stuff. i'm trying to make Rude Girl entertaining. Rude Girl is a giant love poem and will be searching for a home sooner than later (hi!). i've had the poetry bug for the last couple weeks. its been a while since i've had the poetry bug. it feels good to have the poetry bug again. you know?
after working on Rude Girl i went out with Arnone to Kilowatt (see top of this post)
stuff that's been on my mind lately
--crappy writers Tao Lin links to that write in the exact style of Tao Lin (and nobody calling anything on anyone (this applies to 98% of the folks who comment on his blog as well))
--"outside the Bay Area" as a paradox (see LRSmith getting invited to NYC to read for Big Game) which is awesome and disapointing at the same time (not logan reading for Big Game but for him having to leave the Bay Area to do a reading at all (you can put me in this category too)), in other words, no love...i think i'll start a reading series at my apartment and not invite anybody from the Bay Area to read except Rob Halpern and Norma Cole...
--"muffin tops" and why i can't spot them when i've been drinking, and is this a problem?
--reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest while working in a psychiatric hospital
--last Sunset of the season on Sunday at Lake Stafford in Novato
--seeking a cool, single, pretty, girl to spend my time with
--winter fruits
--was Flickr just a fad
--moving to Athens somehow someway
--missing the hell out of house readings and not wanting to ever go back to SPT but knowing i'll probably be there in a couple weeks and regreting it once again
--everything good seems to be in Oakland these days
--etc.
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My ego says, "hey, I'm in San Francisco."
I also say, welcome to the first rain of the season. I have to ride my bike in it. Although I don't think I will care since I have a beard and longish hair.
once again you're over my head
Meaning...you say nothing good in the city. Ego says....hey.
Also meaning...I always was jelous of guys with long hair. The rain always made them look cooler while making me just look wetter. Also, rafting with a beard really made me appreciate it's water retaining qualities.
Simple joys.
what do you mean i "say nothing good in the city"? what does that mean?
now that's what i call BLOGGING! maybe i should give you shit every time you lag.
and it's a BIG GAME reading sponsored by BOOG CITY.
i also would like you to know that i'm bigger than david hasselhof in germany. my blog regularly gets translated into german from some german people in germany.
i'm so fucking broke.
you should blog like this about once a week.
i'd say.
and, it surprises me that tao wouldn't be a little miffed by everyone biting his style. but i suppose he's trying to sell books and you don't sell books by yelling at your book buyers.
and SPT blows. so sterile. we need to take the STERILE out of poetry readings in the bay area. STERILE has taken over and it's gross.
good luck with RUDE GIRL. i think that was always my favorite. though it was called THRUSH TOO, back then.
yo.
hey, yo.
"Big Game" duly noted and changed.
i get the sense that tao encourages it (if only by not calling people on it)...it trips me out, it's gross and pathetic.
spt blows...i can't think of a WORSE location for a reading series. and it's fucking hot in there...i was sweating actual beads during kevin's play, it made me want to not listen to kevin's play but run out of the building (which is what i did afte the play ended)...not fun.
yes, readings in sf (of late) do suck. house/apartment/backyard readings are the only way to go...
on the other hand, there's been a glut of kickass readings in oakland...none of which i made it too, because they're in oakland...i wish that oakland vibe would cross the bay bridge,
i'm looking forward to larry kearney's reading at susan g.'s apartment
send me yr email & i'll put you on the list for my house readings/events (BARTable, baby). but also keep in mind SPT is in transition - we're looking for new sites/ways to re-animate that space...
buuck
hey david,
"but also keep in mind SPT is in transition - we're looking for new sites/ways to re-animate that space..."
that's really good to hear because the curating this season is spot on (brandon and i were talking about how it's a pretty unmissable calendar) and it's unfortunate that the CCA theater (the neighborhood?, its inaccessability?) just serves as this vacuum sucking all the energy, all the fun out of the room. it's really hard to sit still in that room, or to laugh, or to pay attention (but maybe that's just me).
anyway, long way around, kudos to you and the spt board for trying to (re)invigorate the space. i look forward to seeing what you guys do.
oh and hey, my email is merkoneus@yahoo.com
the inaccessibility of CCA is one of the big problems.
the fact that it's against the law to drink on CCA campus at any time, let alone during a reading, is the BIGGEST problem.
also, how come nobody hoots and hollers and injterjects during poetry readings anymore.
seems like they were a lot more fun before the 80s came in and ruined everything.
drinking is now happening on the cca campus pre-readings. fyi john and logan.
and, move to the east bay. vibe is better and it's THE CITY that's BARTable. baby
xxxoooxxxooo
"also, how come nobody hoots and hollers and injterjects during poetry readings anymore."
i don't know, that sounds scary, and most likely obnoxious. like whenever you read about the shit gregory corso used to pull...not fun, total dickish, bratty. or when sarah menefee talks about getting hit in the head with an ash tray during her reading...not so sure. i'm a neo-con when is comes to audence participation...the only thing that i dread more than audience interaction is a Q & A with the poet following the reading.
BB's Zeal is the paradigm. Zeal was an amazing series. booze, smokes, living room, kitchen, SF, older poets, younger poets, party, poetry, suzanne stein doing a headstand, ben hollander's levinas etc...
and by "80s" i of course mean L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.
that's right, language poets!
whaccha gonna do 'bout it???
put up your dukes!
put 'em up! put 'em up!
BB's ZEAL was definitely the best.
ARTIFACT was also a great house reading series. just a bit crampt, tho.
oh, btw, on my lunch break i'm finding the nearest language poet and i'm going to beat the holy hell out of him.
EN FUEGO!!!
i was at naropa during most of the bay area house reading stuff. i had to read a profile interview with stephanie young in poet's and writers douche-mag to get a sense of what was going on.
of the few artifact's i've been to they ruled.
kelly holt's reading series was pretty good too.
i really want to go to buuck's backyard readings in oakland.
i really wanted to go to cynthia's backyard reading/ movie in alameda...
suzanne is right, east bay! roots...
i'm not moving to the fucking east bay. all the poets move to the fucking east bay and so the rest of us have to, too? f that, mang.
if i move it'll be the hell out of the bay area and california.
the east coast is still calling my name. i think i was made to be an east coaster.
the pacific is VERY PUSSY.
that atlantic kind of ROCKS.
i'm feeling ornery this moring.
VERY ORNERY
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