One hour soak and sauna

21 Mar

Some things I’ve been up to:

Published a thing (story?) in the new > kill author. Rachel Springer, Diana Salier, and Kira Clark do too. My thing is called “The word you picked for me“.

Wrote up a thing on Fortunato Salazar’s piece in the new > kill author. It is a blog post.

Published a poem in The Oregonian. It is called “The Inaccurate Echo“.

Wrote a piece for Airplane Reading called “The kind of fun I hate”. Airplane Reading is an ongoing collection of air travel stories.

Published a poem at HOUSEFIRE. It’s called “THE SOFT FACE OF A RABBIT“.

Published some collaborations with Joseph Mains at Anomalous Press. They’re from a lil’ thing called Jorge: Sangre del Mar. Also, recorded a really trippy reading of them with Rachel Springer and Jon Brownhill.

Participated in Readings of Writings by Other People, organized by budding visionary Jason King.

Had a scene in a rap video by Portland emcee Theory Hazit:

Had a lot of facetime in a video by Wolf in the Dreamcatcher:

Won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series book prize (!). There’s going to be a book called Eyelid Lick in the fall that I totally recommend you buy…

2011 mixtape: Never Forget

2 Jan

Don't!

Tracklist:

Twin Sister – Space Babe

jj – We Can’t Stop (ft. Ne-yo)

Starfucker – Gucci Mane (Runningback) / Skeletron (Dragon Monkey)

Gang Gang Dance – Chinese High

The Weeknd – The Morning

Galactic – Boe Money (ft. The Rebirth Brass Band)

Lykke Li – Get Some

Korallreven – Comin’ Closer

James Blake – Unluck

Games – Strawberry Skies

St. Vincent – Cruel

Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room

Spank Rock – Nasty (ft. Big Freedia)

Purity Ring – Ungirthed

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If I had a castle I’d decorate it with chains

16 Dec

Unrelated:

I’m famous in France. Was famous in Italy. Now, France.

Mixtape – You Fetishize the Archetype

30 Jun

communism is good communism is good give up give up

 

Do you like music? I thought you did! Here’s a mix you can download!

 

journalism or sensationalism?

 

Also, if you need something to read during your listening experience, check out my new piece in > kill author! It’s called “for a letter to be any good” and it will teach you how to write a good letter.

“this song gives my life meaning”

8 Jun

RJDYDLDYRJS

4 Mar

love bomb love bomb – kill ur sinful nature – stop eating meat
00:25:38 <#493> “i will teach lectures on barack obama and my mama / will be important”
00:25:39 <#241> love bomb love bomb
00:25:46 <#493> “my mom saved myself from having paid taxes”
00:25:48 <#236> eggo
00:25:53 <#241> isnt the new you so much freer?
00:25:58 <#493> “she sewed my underwear from yakskin” Continue reading 

disait la tortue au tatou,

28 Feb

This week I am obsessed with French tongue twisters. This one is my favorite:

Un ange qui songeait à changer de visage se trouva soudain si changé que jamais plus ange ne songea à se change.

An angel who dreamed of changing its face suddenly found itself so changed that never again did an angel dream of changing itself.

My goal is to acquire a library of sayings, so I can trot my tongue out on them. Tongue to list, to unbrushed forest, icecap.

I’ve been practicing daily, consulting youtube when I need help swimming the murkier vowel-waters. Here, this one sounds like skiing!

Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.

A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his hunting dog.

With all this talk of hunting, I got hungry. What would be the best poem to recite while jumping on a trampoline? To shout over the edge of the cliff?

Let’s Ask Donald Dunbar!

R: Trampoline?

D: Something by Rumi

R: Over cliff?

D: Galway Kinnell?

R: Mouthing off to tropical fish?

D: Fuck the Astronauts by James Tate

R: Petting a cat, while upside down?

D: A Shakespeare sonnet (deliberately mispronouncing most of the words)

R: To wake up from a bad dream?

D: The Snowman by Wallace Stevens

R: Waiting for the last leaf to fall?

D: The Wasteland

R: Before a 6 day vow of silence.

D: John Ashbery’s Flow Chart

R: When you’re bored and thirsty:

D: The A section from Christian Bok’s Eunoia.

R: When you want to kill a tourist:

D: My Cat Geoffrey, by Christopher Smart.

R: Tell me when you want it to stop.

D: Sharon Olds, Satan Says.

R: Ok, I’m going to publish.

D: Anything by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

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