Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
I feel obliged to blog this because Jamie and I met Alyce Santoro at the (very small) farmer's market in Marfa, TX. Uncrate.com just found her. Beautiful work, both conceptually and aesthetically; I wish I were more of a tie guy.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
on Warhol
I like you because you understand the difference between:
Take my picture, Andy.
and
Andy, take my picture.
Take my picture, Andy.
and
Andy, take my picture.
Weekend Report
Bubble cursive and trapped overnight on your 14th birthday at a house you don't want to sleep in (this scene sums up so much loneliness so simply that it makes me actually think it happened to me), Los Solos, Grande Spectator card which gets me into the Lof/t for free for life, your boss is Dan Gutstein? Marshall McLuhan – hot & cold media (we get it!), Thai flavored salad and assholes Florentine, fire (pit?) in the Weber, flakes in your dark hair, oh Adam, Medium Cool, writing marathon, why oh why did I got o Long John Silvers? burning witches with Mina in which we lanced almost dry leaves with the fire poker and roasted them while screaming, eeeeee! bought some bourbon, i.e. Reading series, Ric Royer is wearing my L.L. Bean sweater, dipped out, ragging with ole Jamie – Talisker, big eyes, Baltimore wasn’t always this beautiful, no sir, late waking, no fire, expensive evening doing irresponsible things, and now that presentation that got rescheduled for today just got rescheduled for next week.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
OSIHWSEON
boys in baggy shirts
run the world
they’ve counted every bubble
in our soda
they’ve bought a lap dance
before we even offered
run the world
they’ve counted every bubble
in our soda
they’ve bought a lap dance
before we even offered
rude, right?
you live in my shirt
but it’s a small shirt
I know it
from the tag on there
Eugene Lim and Justin Sirois at the Poetry Project
December 14, 2009
8:00 pm
Monday
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Eugene Lim is the author of the novel Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008). He is the fiction editor for Harp & Altar and the managing editor of Ellipsis Press. He works as a librarian in a high school and lives in Jackson Heights.
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Excited and honored are the words. I'm probably not going to read a full set of poetry; this is a good opportunity to switch it up a bit. Maybe a few pages from MLKNG SCKLS and then a few older poems that I sent to the Maryland State Art Council which are still in my head. I hope all my NY people can come out.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
from Furtherest From (working title)
Beasts and beasts and what lives in the wood pile out back by the shed with the broken door? Pink eye. Our lost cat. Spiders as big as your cheeks. Chic has a broken nose. The Joy of Sex. The Joy of Drawing. The Joy of Drawing the Joy of Sex. Devon and his constant drumming out. Walt Disney's alluring playground. Running over your cousin's legs with a sled. Devon tranforms. We will move. St. Benedict walks in between our desks at CCD casting prayers against our poisoned brains. Silly little Dumbers with the invisible infection - little Dumbers hidden inside garages reciting combustion. A house should be anything but a symbol of wealth. Survive it and suffer the shame. Admire cruelty's shield. Will we move? Will the World Health Organization finally give up? Will President Clinton see a second term or be impeached for his handling of The Dumbness of us all?
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Torchlight in the woods. Torchlight in the freezing.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
there is goodness in the world
Preorers keep coming in for Adam's book - just hit #23 and it's only been up for 6 days. Order yours now and help keep Narrow House on the up and up.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Weekend Report
Over 300 people showed up for Fan Letter at MICA, Charm City Cakes delivers a giant E, girl Jamie - I wish you would have come to the after party, Furtherest From is getting bazaar (severed heads, more CCD creepiness), LOF/t scariness that I want no part of, alligator hat, Greg’s getting taxed (sucks), more writing and that’s about it, Salts is being so good – no more peeing on my couch, made dinner for Lauren and Jay, 3 trick or treaters, 20 most extreme disasters where people only manage to get maimed, Rosie the Riveter - two Max's - Bender (the robot), human koosh ball, I managed to ram my face into a screen door AND step in dog poop at a party, Uparna wants to organize a date for me, Fell’s Point is full of half naked women and shivering shirtless dudes, Jamie moves out of the Narrow House, confessions over mac & beers, some of the weirdest dreams ever (me and Vanessa when we were 19, tears, love, Vanessa turns an infant into a kitten, I shoot this family with a shotgun because they are coming at me with kitchen knives) and now that presentation I thought I had to give has been rescheduled for next Monday.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
oh, indeed
"The president [likes] the HBO drama 'The Wire.' His favorite character is Omar, a gay stickup artist who steals from drug pushers to give to the poor. ('That's not an endorsement. He's not my favorite person, but he's a fascinating character,' Obama said last year.)"
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lettering & Type book release and after party tonight
See you there.
Get a copy of my mini flash fiction book
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SYSYGY
the port town where vowels ain't allowed
.
for free
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Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center
Thursday, October 29
6:30–8:30 PM.
Reception, book signing, and collaborative alphabet from 6:30 to 7:30. Fan Letter from 7:30 to 8:30. This event is free and open to the public.
Falvey Hall in the Brown Center
Thursday, October 29
6:30–8:30 PM.
Reception, book signing, and collaborative alphabet from 6:30 to 7:30. Fan Letter from 7:30 to 8:30. This event is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Matthew Cook
Artist Matthew Cook is a serving soldier in the Territorial Army. His work from a recent tour of Afghanistan is the subject of a new exhibition at the Ministry of Defence in London.
Levi's and Walt Whitman
Blame Mad Men?
Is a brilliant series about a 60's ad agency actually influencing contemporary ad agencies? I want to see Barney Stinson quoting Ted Berrigan in a bar to pick up some hipster girl, episode titled New York School... last drunken words of the episode, "...my vocabulary did this to me."
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Slate:
In December 2008, Levi's ditched its old ad agency and signed on with Wieden + Kennedy (the talented ad makers responsible for creating many of Nike's epic, stirring, one-minute anthems). The spots that W+K came up with—this new campaign is labeled "Go Forth"—have been running since the summer in movie theaters and, increasingly, on television. From the moment we see that "America" sign half-sunk in inky water, we know we're watching something new. The campaign inhabits a different universe from the one depicted in "Live Unbuttoned."
For one thing, it's a universe in which the ever-present soundtrack is Walt Whitman poetry. This spot uses a wax cylinder recording believed to be audio of Whitman himself reading from his poem "America." The second spot in the campaign employs a recording of an actor reading Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Slate:
In December 2008, Levi's ditched its old ad agency and signed on with Wieden + Kennedy (the talented ad makers responsible for creating many of Nike's epic, stirring, one-minute anthems). The spots that W+K came up with—this new campaign is labeled "Go Forth"—have been running since the summer in movie theaters and, increasingly, on television. From the moment we see that "America" sign half-sunk in inky water, we know we're watching something new. The campaign inhabits a different universe from the one depicted in "Live Unbuttoned."
For one thing, it's a universe in which the ever-present soundtrack is Walt Whitman poetry. This spot uses a wax cylinder recording believed to be audio of Whitman himself reading from his poem "America." The second spot in the campaign employs a recording of an actor reading Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Weekend Report
ie Reading series, two nights of Ric Royer, AR and MH try to find Poe’s grave, giant TV and NFL figurines and saltwater fish tanks, good talks with beautiful people, bombed hosts, bullies try to smash a lighter by Torchlight’s head, Performance Thanatology - The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen is/was brilliant, Sweatpants at Dio, bourbon for the band, facebook stalked Robinson, she actually remembers North Pole Nasties, there’s a business card in my pocket from someone I don’t remember, grilled pork chops with chipotle apple sauce and cheesy grits for brunch by the fire pit on a lovely afternoon with amazing friends, (watching Jamie play) Prototype, Taco Bell and Toll Academy.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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