Sunday, April 29, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Das Leben Der Anderen
If you haven't seen The Lives of Others yet, then you're missing out on the best film of the last 1 1/2 years... so run don't walk to your local theatres, it's that good.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
B-Boy Documentary
If anyone is interested, there's a really good documentary on B-Boy culture, with amazing shots of them in action, it's called The Freshest Kids.
I had the pleasure of seeing it, kind of, one night when I was spinning in the woods and they had a screen stretched between two tress and playing it in the background... unbelievable gravity defying manuevers and an interesting perspective on a kind of urban sub-history, or anthropological insights into a certain subculture...
I had the pleasure of seeing it, kind of, one night when I was spinning in the woods and they had a screen stretched between two tress and playing it in the background... unbelievable gravity defying manuevers and an interesting perspective on a kind of urban sub-history, or anthropological insights into a certain subculture...
Monday, April 23, 2007
The circle of 3's
In the celebrity world, death happens in threes. So Kurt V. was 1st, Yeltsin today... who is next? Then again, shall we count political leaders as celebrities? He did drink as much or more than Slash. Taking bets now...
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Achiotte Press
Sunday April 29th at 3PM
Canessa Park Poetry
Help us welcome Achiote Press into the world
with two new chapbooks:
"the immaculate autopsy" by Todd Melicker &
the chap-journal "Achiote Seeds" featuring work
by Barbara Jane Reyes, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
& Rich Villar.
& readings from:
Oscar Bermeo
Todd Melicker
Barbara Jane Reyes
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
& Alfred Arteaga
and possibly echoes of Antonin Artaud
DISCOUNTED chapbooks will be available!!
$3-5 suggested donation at the door
curated by Tiff Dressen
Can you Canessa? Come to 708 Montgomery Street (X-Street Columbus)
tucked among the inner organs of North Beach
***************************************
Achiote Press was founded by Craig Perez, Jennifer Reimer, and Len Shneyder in 2006.
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, educator, literary events coordinator who now makes his home in Oakland, Califas, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party Magazine.
When not writing, Oscar devotes his time and energy towards new culinary experiments, working admin at a local charter school
and enjoying the bliss of married life with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
***
Todd Melicker is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Switchback, Five Fingers Review, Volt, and the Colorado Review. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California.
***
Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Pacific American Journal, Chain, Interlope, New American Writing, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Parthenon West Review, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Mills College, and she lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA.
***
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor received her MA degree in English with honors from Western Washington University in 2003 for her thesis “Notes from the Margins,” a mixed work of memoir and fiction. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in the Katipunan Literary Magazine and the online magazine Haruah. In addition, she has served as a freelance writer and editor for several trade journals. Currently she is working on her first novel, tentatively titled Maganda’s Comb, and she performs regularly as a storyteller in her local area. Her blog Binding Wor(l)ds Together can be found at http://wordbinder.blogspot.com.
Canessa Park Poetry
Help us welcome Achiote Press into the world
with two new chapbooks:
"the immaculate autopsy" by Todd Melicker &
the chap-journal "Achiote Seeds" featuring work
by Barbara Jane Reyes, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
& Rich Villar.
& readings from:
Oscar Bermeo
Todd Melicker
Barbara Jane Reyes
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
& Alfred Arteaga
and possibly echoes of Antonin Artaud
DISCOUNTED chapbooks will be available!!
$3-5 suggested donation at the door
curated by Tiff Dressen
Can you Canessa? Come to 708 Montgomery Street (X-Street Columbus)
tucked among the inner organs of North Beach
***************************************
Achiote Press was founded by Craig Perez, Jennifer Reimer, and Len Shneyder in 2006.
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, educator, literary events coordinator who now makes his home in Oakland, Califas, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party Magazine.
When not writing, Oscar devotes his time and energy towards new culinary experiments, working admin at a local charter school
and enjoying the bliss of married life with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
***
Todd Melicker is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Switchback, Five Fingers Review, Volt, and the Colorado Review. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California.
***
Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Pacific American Journal, Chain, Interlope, New American Writing, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Parthenon West Review, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Mills College, and she lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA.
***
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor received her MA degree in English with honors from Western Washington University in 2003 for her thesis “Notes from the Margins,” a mixed work of memoir and fiction. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in the Katipunan Literary Magazine and the online magazine Haruah. In addition, she has served as a freelance writer and editor for several trade journals. Currently she is working on her first novel, tentatively titled Maganda’s Comb, and she performs regularly as a storyteller in her local area. Her blog Binding Wor(l)ds Together can be found at http://wordbinder.blogspot.com.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Daisy Buchanan's
As the crow flies, somewhere, in a movie, I remember someone saying no politics and no religion in a bar room conversations. So what does that leave us really? Chicks and sports? Last bar room frolic featured conversations about all of the above, that's when you know you've reached a golden moment, or one of clarity, in vino veritas est. Or then again, these are those lies that make familiars out of strangers.
We got to talking about history. Someone proposed that marketing was simply the history of human desire. I think there's some truth in that. Thinking back on it now, what makes a good historian? What is history to you? At one time I thought it was about narrative; the best history was a good narrative that rendered the facts into a kind of story. Today I'm not so sure. When I think of historians like Raul Hilberg and his epic treatise: "The Destruction of the European Jews", that's a kind of history that is so far outside of narrative that you can't breathe because every word and every insight is a kind of climax. When you listen to him speak, in Lanzma'ns Shoah, about documents and artifacts of the war years from 39-45 you realize that artifact isn't necessarily unearthed in a 2000 year old tomb. The materiality of the modern age, it's documentary artifacts can be realized as equally important as the Rosetta Stone, or the clay objects found on an ancient strata of Babylon that were interpreted as the beginning of abstract counting systems.
So all of this leads to a question: what makes a good history? What is history? Do you differentiate between personal history and a more global history? Having heard/read about revisionist history, is there such a thing as an objective history?
night night
We got to talking about history. Someone proposed that marketing was simply the history of human desire. I think there's some truth in that. Thinking back on it now, what makes a good historian? What is history to you? At one time I thought it was about narrative; the best history was a good narrative that rendered the facts into a kind of story. Today I'm not so sure. When I think of historians like Raul Hilberg and his epic treatise: "The Destruction of the European Jews", that's a kind of history that is so far outside of narrative that you can't breathe because every word and every insight is a kind of climax. When you listen to him speak, in Lanzma'ns Shoah, about documents and artifacts of the war years from 39-45 you realize that artifact isn't necessarily unearthed in a 2000 year old tomb. The materiality of the modern age, it's documentary artifacts can be realized as equally important as the Rosetta Stone, or the clay objects found on an ancient strata of Babylon that were interpreted as the beginning of abstract counting systems.
So all of this leads to a question: what makes a good history? What is history? Do you differentiate between personal history and a more global history? Having heard/read about revisionist history, is there such a thing as an objective history?
night night
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Mosh Pit for dinner anyone?
One of the best concerts I have been to in a LONG time... Edgefest is the brain child of one of our oldest alternative stations (KDGE) in the local Dallas area. I've been to all but one (1) - 16 all in total after today.
Who was heard?
The Killers - My Chemical Romance - A.F.I. - Muse - Blue October - Jet - Papa Roach - Bowling for Soup - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Kaiser Chiefs - Sparta - Saosin - Bullet for My Valentine - Say Anything - Placebo - Finger 11 - Ataris - Miser - The Vanished - Madina Lake - Howling Bells - Forever the Sickest Kids - Dropping Daylight - Fair to Midland - The Barrons - The Almost - and ODIS
There was also an Edgefest Pre-Party at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas the night before that we attended as well... BuckCherry - Saliva - Exies - Smile Empty Soul - Autovane - Dropping Daylight - The Vanished - Miser.
I feel young again!, but once I recover from my deafness, I will post pics and sound bytes.
-thenose (my shoulder hurts from moshing)
Friday, April 13, 2007
For my road warrior friends
If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or train follow these instructions:
1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start up.
4. Make su re the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.
7. Then hit this link: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start up.
4. Make su re the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.
7. Then hit this link: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
ok dammit, a poem
Want Year
This spring’s will ebbs
can’t last the thin run
euphoria’s high altitude
crabs along the branches
and blues
in pools
a long day’s hot bored dismissal archives
perspective into parchment
and fall’s
awaiting some lung’s thirsty
exhalation
so long later
a whole winter’s being’s
still
awaiting.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
A serial?
Is anyone up for a serial story, in prose and verse... first the epilogue, how about a story about people trying to write a story online and the distractions that come between them and a work of polyphonous (________) << [insert favorite genre here]... or is that just so passé? Yeah... that...
on another note... Kaiser Chiefs, very British, very cool... very RUBY!
on another note... Kaiser Chiefs, very British, very cool... very RUBY!
Rondellus - Sabattum
It came in the mail, I've been waiting for some time to get my mits on this CD, it was out of print for a while... but here it is... imagine you're in the 14th century and you're hangin' out in court, chillin' bein' all courtly n' shit and then you hear Magus, and it's sir Ozzbourne that's performing it with his minstrels known as black sabbath... yeah... that's right... this is a classical interpretation of black sabbath a la 14 century latin and instrumentation, it's bloody brilliant... go check it ...
listen to me ==>WAR PIGS
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Anticipating.... the grind
Ok so two credits here, first goes to ilya for finding this damn quote, which cracked us up to no end... and the second goes to it's author: Neil Cumpston
"This one was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who’s been an actor in stuff like RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION (he’s also in PLANET OF TERROR and DEATH PROOF). This is his first directing job and the dude KICKS ALL SPECTRUM OF ASS. He kicks ass that isn’t even in the ass area. Like, his director skills are so stripper-with-chainsaw good they make you grow asses on other parts of your body that he then kicks. I hope he directs more movies. I would see them, burn down the theater, and then call the fire department so I could tell all the fireman about what a kick-ass movie it was. When they started to attack me with axes, I’d fly away because Quentin’s movie would have given me ninja flight."
"This one was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who’s been an actor in stuff like RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION (he’s also in PLANET OF TERROR and DEATH PROOF). This is his first directing job and the dude KICKS ALL SPECTRUM OF ASS. He kicks ass that isn’t even in the ass area. Like, his director skills are so stripper-with-chainsaw good they make you grow asses on other parts of your body that he then kicks. I hope he directs more movies. I would see them, burn down the theater, and then call the fire department so I could tell all the fireman about what a kick-ass movie it was. When they started to attack me with axes, I’d fly away because Quentin’s movie would have given me ninja flight."
First thing's first
Top 5 date films that appeal to both genders (andy why??):
The English Patient (love story +war)
High Fidelity (great music + cusak quirkiness)
The Lover (Well its just downright sexy, but I don't know if that'll work on a 1st date)
Magnolia (a family affair with falling frogs, what could be better?)
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (uuuummmm... )
NEXT?!
The English Patient (love story +war)
High Fidelity (great music + cusak quirkiness)
The Lover (Well its just downright sexy, but I don't know if that'll work on a 1st date)
Magnolia (a family affair with falling frogs, what could be better?)
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (uuuummmm... )
NEXT?!
The Classic
1 1/2 ounces (1 jigger) vodka
1/2 cup tomato juice
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Worcestershire sauce to taste
Tabasco to taste
1 celery stick for garnish
1 lemon wedge for garnish
Combine the vodka, the tomato juice, the lemon juice, the Worcestershire sauce, the Tabasco, 1 cup ice cubes, and salt and pepper to taste, shake the mixture well, and strain it into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish the Bloody Mary with the celery stick and the lemon wedge.
1/2 cup tomato juice
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Worcestershire sauce to taste
Tabasco to taste
1 celery stick for garnish
1 lemon wedge for garnish
Combine the vodka, the tomato juice, the lemon juice, the Worcestershire sauce, the Tabasco, 1 cup ice cubes, and salt and pepper to taste, shake the mixture well, and strain it into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish the Bloody Mary with the celery stick and the lemon wedge.
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