lately i’ve been starting every day with “Dear Prudence” by the Beatles and a giant cup of coffee and I think it’s having a positive effect on every day. also not working at paul mitchell probably has something to do with it.
Short term goals:
i o ally 1 critiqued pome
find 5 litmags to submit to and [...]
Archive for November, 2008
sporadic capitalization!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dear prudence, fuck alaska, th white, the beatles, the once and future king, to do list on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
And another…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged jack spicer, my vocabulary did this to me, new collected works hype on November 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
‘In the summer of 1965, the poet Robin Blaser discovered his friend Jack Spicer lying comatose in the poverty ward at San Francisco General. The forty-year-old Spicer had passed out drunk in the elevator of his North Beach flat a few days before and was wheeled in, without ID, in a torn and befouled suit. [...]
Stuck in the middle with you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, fuckin ill, jack spicer on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For whatever reason, I read this quote a few days ago after Silliman linked it to his blog and I can’t get it out of my head:
When Donald Allen published a posthumous collection of Jack Spicer’s work, he remembered these instructions from Spicer to Robin Blaser: “So don’t send the box of old poetry to [...]
omg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acid flashback, el-p, nightmares, twin peaks on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Do you think that if you were falling in space…you would slow down after a while or go faster and faster?”
“…Faster and faster…for a long time you wouldn’t feel anything…then you’d burst into fire…and the angels wouldn’t help you…because they’ve all gone away…”
El-P uses this sample (on the first track of I’ll Sleep When You’re [...]
Remote-Controlled Liver
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging piece of shit, buttes, doug nufer, liz morris, the spare room, zachary schomburg on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Spare Room reading tonight was fun! Even though I went by myself. Both poets (Doug Nufer & Zachary Schomburg) were funny and great readers. Nufer’s work is constraint-based, and tonight I learned that picking up on the particular constraint of a poem is in many cases more difficult when listening than when reading. His [...]
Posted in book reviews, tagged hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, haruki murakami on November 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Haruki Murakami is trying to get into your head.
In a story that muddles over the temporal nature of the mind, the nature of the subconscious and the (im)morality of science, Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a lot of moderately entertaining filler interspersed with meditations on the philosophical. One catches whiffs [...]
Put Down Your Dream Journal & Dance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animal planet, caketrain, haruki murakami, obamamaniaaaa!!!, pimp-ass bike, vacation on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Due to some kind of billing glitch (technically refusal to pay…) between Paul Mitchell & the temp agency I work through, I have the week off before starting my new gig in the admissions dept. of the Western Culinary Institute. In the meantime I’ve been riding my PIMP-ASS BIKE around my neighborhood through the bright [...]
