Four Gems

POP QUIZ: What Is The Answer To

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VERSUS

THIS?




Find out on my lovely friend Sarah's new blog:

NAPTIGER!

Sarah is a genius with any tool you give her, paints, pastels, tofu, pencils, crochet needles, and now a computer machine! Singlehandedly, she expands the field of Tiger Napping, Alex P. Keaton and Twitter. Czech it out.

I like this. Check out her other videos too.

NARWHAL!!!!

Hello all!

My chapbook from Cannibal Books is ready to terrorize you, in a nice way!

Along with my chapbook, The House, you will find six others.

Four Cities by Kazim Ali
Luminal Equation by Maureen Alsop
Into the Eyes of Lost Storms by Karla Kelsey
Sycorax's Retinue by Laura Goode
You do damage by Kate Schapira
Yellowcake by Jared White

It is 180 pages, has hand-sewn in signatures, and is published in a limited edition of 100.

Order it here.

Thank you mk.

YES! I fucking care about children.

I now sponsor a child.



Chalk one up for the annoying, pestering ever-present blue vested Children International spokespeople.

That fellow isn't the person I spoke too, but he was the only picture of one of these people I could find. Which is strange since I see them every fucking day of my life.

The girl that signed me up said she typically signs up 3-5 people per 8 hour shift.

I'll let you know how it's going.

Out Now With Flying Guillotine!

Ana Božičević's new chapbook God, Sebastian, Amy!

Order it here.



Get It Before Rupert Does!

It's AWP, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

They should be in two places.

1. At the Narwhal & Projective Industries split Reading

THIS Wednesday, February 11, 6-9 pm @ Sonotheque

I will be reading first, followed by the astounding

Kazim Ali
Maureen Alsop
Thomas Hummel
Thibault Raoult
Jared White

& there is music!


DA SO DO DA
&
The Goddamn Shame will play!

Here's the address:
1444 W. Chicago Ave.
$5 suggested donation



2. At the Flying Guillotine Press table at the AWP Bookfair.

We will have Ana Božičević's new chapbook with us.

It is shiny and comforting, like the moon to the bat.

And we will have copies of Melissa Koosmann's Endings, Michael Rerick's X-Ray and Brett Price's Trouble With Mapping.

When's the Last Time You Listened to Band of Gypsys?

It's been too long for me.

Everybody! Send me your best drawings of genitalia!

I’m serious.

Here: sommerbrowning@hotmail.com


I read last week's New York Times Magazine article called "What Do Women Want?" today. These are the most interesting points made in the article:

1. Women will get aroused by watching apes fornicate.
2. No one gets aroused by watching a naked, flaccid man stroll down the beach.


I’m wondering how I feel about being mysterious.

I’m wriggling over that wording, “What do women want?” First of all, the fucking w’s. Secondly, it sounds like asking a crying kid what they want so you can shut them up. “What do men want?” “What do Asian-Americans want?” “What do people under 5 feet tall want?” Those questions are weird, aren’t they? Women are wanting. We are dissatisfied. Unfulfilled. The same old lines, same old tired sentiment, same tired poopoo, if you ask me.

Lindstrom Tonight

At Studio B



The prospect of tonight makes me feel like this young boy:

Sportsman's Paradise Friday!

A six-guitar-one-drummer army of freak-out visionary mayhem

and revelatory explorations in dream enchantment!





We'll play one 40 minute piece and an all new short piece
(that I will be "learning" in a few hours.)


I'm going to wear my shirt that I squirted hamburger juice on at the last show.




I am overjoyed to say we'll be sharing the evening with the remarkable

**Honne Wells**



whose music will baffle and astound you.


This Friday, January 23, at the Issue Project Room, in Brooklyn.

The evening starts at 8pm and costs $10.

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street,
3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Click here for more info.

Why Does it Seem that All Rich People With Political Aspirations Cheat On Their Taxes?

Noroviruses

These are some pictures I took at the Campus Eatery near my job. It is a gross place, but somehow, at times, I find it necessary to go there, usually, out of laziness or convenience.



They must want you to protect your hand, while you pull a bagel out of these:



Like a game of Operation.

I've lived in New York for nearly five years now and I've only been seriously poisoned by food once--and I'll eat most anywhere. I'm thinking that's a pretty good record.

Thanks and Thanks and Thanks

A couple of months ago Alan Bigelow contacted me about a piece of collaborative work I did with Fluorescent Hill, years ago, for Born Magazine.

He wanted to include it in an exhibition he was curating for Austin Peay State University called Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature. Here's a description of the exhibition I lifted from the website:

"Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature is an exhibition of twelve multimedia works that offer readers representative examples of the newest digital poetry and fiction on the web."



The exhibition can be seen at Austin Peay State University’s Gallery 108 and here it is online!


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Thank you everyone who came to my party last night. I feel like frozen dog shit today and that is a testament to how wonderful and loved I was feeling last night! You are all very sweet and I have incriminating pictures that I will show you soon.

Your Eyes Are Two Blind Eagles That Kill What They Can't See.

I just want to post about Art Ensemble of Chicago.

I wish this video wasn't so skinny. I wish it didn't cut the song off at 5:37. But that didn't prevent me from listening to it six times today.



I'm interested in seeing the film that used the AEOC's album, Les Stances A Sophie, for a soundtrack, if only because they make an appearance in the movie. Here's an overly covered song from that album (it is also the source of the title of this post):



The film's another story about an uptight man set free from squaredom by a spirited, life affirming woman.

Remember these other ones?





Something Wild--Demme is coming up a lot lately.




Bringing Up Baby




Annie Hall



Crazy/Beautiful (Jules, this one's like something we'd see in the theater--which I did.)



My Fair Lady




Along Came Polly


Thanks for the tips, Lisa!

What is Jamie Hardy Reading?

Why, Jamie's reading the new Portable Boog Reader 3!

It's juicy! It's an anthology of New York City poetry!

Tuck it under your arm! It's free!

I drew that frog on the cover and I have a poem in there.


Pick it up now at Bowery Poetry Club & St. Mark's Bookshop. And all over Greenpoint, Williamsburg & Lower Manhattan Sunday evening.

Or download the whole pdf here.



I'm excited to be published near these poets:


Ammiel Alcalay * Betsy Andrews * Ari Banias * Jennifer Bartlett * Martine Bellen * Edmund Berrigan * Kate Broad * Julian Brolaski * Donna Brook * Matthew Burgess * David Cameron * Mike Coffey * Jen Coleman * John Coletti * Matt Cozart * Elaine Equi * Jessica Fiorini * Jennifer Firestone * Ed Friedman * Ethan Fugate * Rigoberto González * Nada Gordon * Stephanie Gray * Shafer Hall * Diana Hamilton * Hayley Heaton * Cathy Park Hong * Vanessa Hope * Dan Hoy * Lauren Ireland * Adeena Karasick * Basil King * Martha King * Noelle Kocot-Tomblin * Dorothea Lasky * Jeff Laughlin * Amy Lawless * Walter K. Lew * Tan Lin * Tao Lin * Filip Marinovich * Justin Marks * Chris Martin * Tracey McTague * Stephen Paul Miller * Feliz L. Molina * Ryan Murphy * Elinor Nauen * Uche Nduka * Urayoán Noel * Akilah Oliver * Geoffrey Olsen * Jean-Paul Pecqueur * Greg Purcell * Elizabeth Reddin * Jerome Sala * Tom Savage * David Sewell * David Shapiro * Kimberly Ann Southwick * Eleni Stecopoulos * Christina Strong * Mathias Svalina * Jeremy James Thompson * Susie Timmons * Rodrigo Toscano * Nicole Wallace * Damian Weber * Max Winter * Sara Wintz * Erica Wright

DANG!

Shelved @ NYC

Alex Crosier has started a library blog that is wonderful, timely and blooming.

Shelved @ NYC gathers news about New York City libraries, librarians, and library-related stuff. It is not a blog aimed specifically at metadata specialists or children’s librarians or LIS students; it’s a blog for ALL librarians working in this culturally rich—but frequently disjointed and overwhelming—city.

I stole that from the site. It is a very good place to visit.

Top Albums of My 2008 subject to change

Harvey Milk -- Life...the Best Game in Town



Electric Wizard -- Dopethrone



Steeley Dan -- Aja



Art Ensemble of Chicago -- Les Stances a Sophie



Manuel Göttsching -- E2-E4





Emerson, Lake & Palmer -- Tarkus



Gui Boratto -- Chromophobia

Super Synesthetic Freakout.

Hello Friends!

I am playing music this Sunday with Sportsman's Paradise!

A seven-man-and-woman-strong army of guitarists will generate a
forty-minute-long blast of psychedelic blissout mash-up with Tibetan
bell interludes.

There will also be four screens of hypnotic and luminescent video
accompaniment.

How does that sound?


It's free (except it's not. You have to buy $10 in food/drink. They
have good burgers.)

It will be loud.

Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Sunday, December 14, 8pm

http://monkeytownhq.com/monkeytownhome.html

Please come!