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[05 Jul 2009|03:24pm] |
SALE
Can You Haunt Me?
Edition of 33
25 pages, 11 poems
$3
Exquisite Fucking Desire
Edition of 20 (17 Normal Covers, 3 Alternates)
120 Pages, 12 pieces of writing.
Handbound.
$18
Hymnal
Edition of 35 hand-bound collections of poetry.
$3
A Beautiful Imprisonment
Artist Book
40 Pages / Coptic Binding / Edition of Three
$30
The Truth is Out There
Series of ten 13x19 prints
Entire Set of 10 Prints, $275
One Print, $30
Please click on titles for further information. Shipping will depend on what is purchased. I'll throw in random free shit with each order.
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| Estomago no bueno |
[05 Jul 2009|02:11am] |
I saw that festive box pictured above at Town Talk (the grocery salvage place) for 99 cents and thought I would have a fine snack to have on the way to the real grocery store. I got in the car, put one in my mouth and discovered they tasted like cardboard and burnt hair.
I gagged a bit and ate another one. The next one also tasted like a box the cast of Street Trash slept on. I for some reason couldn't stop myself from eating Jack'snak until I got to the next grocery store. I kept eating them. They tasted terrible but looked very appetizing.
For the rest of the night I really didn't want to move and no food look appetizing. Later I got really bad stomach pains.
Had the Jack'snak's gone bad? Or were they always bad? I'm gonna go with the first one seeing as how it was on the shelves at Town Talk. I'll probably puke if I ever see another box of these. Looking at the box in the picture makes me kinda queezy.
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[03 Jul 2009|09:10pm] |
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My computer has been singing Morrissey's "You Have Killed Me" to me all day. I'm not sure how much longer this stupid laptop is going to last. I had a desktop PC for 5 years that I had to reformat a single time; this laptop I've had since last May (a little over a year) and I've had to reformat it five times, and now I keep getting messages that pretty much say "You're harddrive's fucked up you better back shit up son" and I'm like oh god oh god oh god. I have nowhere near as much money as I used to have, so if this dies it's going to be a prolonged computer vacation that I'm not looking forward to. I can still do menial things at the computers at work and on Roommate's computers, but I won't be able to do any actual work on anything, which is highly alarming.
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[03 Jul 2009|01:09am] |
this is new and really kind of describes how i feel all the time now
WRONG
I. Work
Your body completely destroys me
finds me buried in your basement
under floor boards covered in
abandoned refuse.
My body stands still
static, boring
in contrast to your
dynamicism.
I can't fucking deal
with beautiful people lately.
I can't fucking
II. Writing
Mimetic
describing the body, the face
the aura, the voice
the sensibility of a body
moving, walking, fucking
Figurative
sublimate the image
the immanence of the figure
geometry; making a shape
III. Unconscious
distance
ignore
feeling "kind of blue"
perhaps loneliness is not--
oh
wow
IV. History
Kenneth Anger basement screening
volcano, fire, blow job
Concert, single bed
(we barely fit, together)
Weekend trip to a city
a clean, crisp apartment
Everything.
V. Trace
Your fingers down the side of my body
My fingers in your hair, over your chest
An indentation, an outline left on a worn mattress.
VI. Production
Doesn't even matter what
you look like under your clothes
Forget about
VII. Scene
I met you somewhere that wasn't embarrassing, but I still wouldn't tell my
friends anything about it, and probably won't go back there. I think you told
me that you were an ______. I was excited by your jaw-line and long face. Told
me about something that I wanted to hear about, and I listened, really listened.
Couldn't forget your name if I tried.
Spent the night in my bed. The next morning I turned on a record and we laid in
the sunlight. Your body was perfect to mine.
VIII. Text
A note, you tore up.
My body, you destroyed it.
The title of the poem: Wrong
The body: blank
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[03 Jul 2009|01:37am] |
Jerome's Dream "Seeing Means More Than Safety"
"a second grade art project"
it's repetitious.
i can't figure out how to let go.
it's repetitious.
i tried to find a way to say goodbye, but you weren't there.
off on cloud nine. off on cloud nine.
i cut off my arm, but it still didn't compare to the shock of losing you.
then i woke up.
"and just like that, the year is gone"
i look in the mirror and i can't recognize the reflection.
this can't be me.
i hate this person, but the mirror doesn't lie.
i've lost sight of who i am and who you are.
who we are is not the same.
two sad, blank eyes staring back at me, begging for some understanding.
the only thing that i can see is that i still love who i thought you were.
"exit 29 collapsed as i drove by"
this ride home has created a new found passion for life.
rubbing elbows with a dead kid
and trying to remember what five hours of heaven is like.
i'll never forget that day when you felt what it was like to be alive again,
and that smile....
"the monologue of the century"
a thought came over me.
it was one of those "what the fuck am i doing?" thoughts.
honestly? i can't answer.
just imagine doing nothing with yourself.
i keep opening my mouth but nothing comes out.
to think this was all made possible by a stupid puppet.
"life is what you make of it"
a willing participant in a game of cat and mouse. i'm the mouse. bon appetit.
"the teacher says to his pupil"
the hippest of hip is as good as dead.
he thinks he's got it all figured out.
wandering eyes disregard trusting eyes.
the hippest of hip fell into the trap of self-indulgence.
fuck your myriad of followers.
the hippest of hip is complete shit.
"just down the hall from room 526"
i miss you when you say goodbye. i miss you more when you don't.
the stare is on my back. i'm getting smaller or larger.
it all depends on where you stand.
"they're always so quick to judge"
fuck your fashion show. fuck what they all think.
i saw your dreams for a second. just one.
i was scared, but seeing meant more than safety.
and to follow me?
that wasn't part of the dream.
"it's more like a message to you"
and these sleepless nights. tossing and turning.
the second most important part of me is untouchable.
we had one night and not enough time.
we all make mistakes. there's nothing i can do.
it's just a part of life. welcome to my life. this is me.
"a present for those who are present"
presenting pretense.
in this age of bedside woes, we're presenting pretense.
their lack of vision is your lack of life.
if you look into you, you'll see into me.
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| Holy fuck. |
[01 Jul 2009|09:01pm] |
Just in case you don't live in Fort Worth or you do and didn't know about the Rainbow Lounge being raided Sunday night by police who beat the shit out of everybody and sent a guy to the hospital, you can read about it here.
What kind of person would actually believe somebody would walk up to a cop and grope them?
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[01 Jul 2009|01:35am] |
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lots has happened. broke up with her. learned a thing or two.
NO MATTER HOW CLOSE YOU EVER GET TO SOMEONE ELSE EVER IN YOUR LIFE, YOU COME FIRST. NO MATTER WHAT.
anyways, who needs girls when i have priorites and skateboarding.
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[30 Jun 2009|08:08pm] |
i;m so unhappy
i miss her so much right now
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| It's a real cool club and your not a part of it. |
[29 Jun 2009|06:09pm] |
The other night there was an Opioneers and Teenage Cool kids show at 1919. I was horribly depressed because only eight people had showed up when forty people should have. Daniel of Teenage Cool Kids handed me their new record "Foreign Lands" and said it was free because I helped them in court. I then told them that I was at the deposition, but wasn't really much help...
Awhile back Teenage Cool Kids received a cease and desist letter from the people representing the hip hop duo The Cool Kids. It basically said that their names were too similar and The Cool Kids were around first. Teenage Cool Kids were told they had to destroy all merchandise and change their name...or else!
We all know that nobody with more than four working braincells could never get those two bands confused. So Teenage Cool Kids got ahold of everyone's favorite punk Lawyer Steve Just and they counter sued. I'm not to sure what that entails, but they did it. Teenage Cool Kids were about to have a new record come out and had to put that on hold to see how the trial works out. If they had to change their name, they would have to change the artwork on the record and that would be costly.
Steve called me a couple of weeks before the deposition was supposed to happen and asked if I would be the "expert witness". I've worked at a record store, I buy records and I've been booking (Eric Solomon is going to love that I just used that word) shows since 2000. I kinda know my shit. I told Steve I would think about it and totally forgot about to give him an answer. A week later he calls and asks me again and I say yes. Because I've never been to a trial before and I thought it would be exciting.
Now, during the next couple of days Steve called and said they might settle on Teenage Cool Kids changing their name after two years. I told him that sucks and to give me a call if they end up doing the trial.
Steve finally calls me up and says that they are doing the trial and the deposition was in two days! So I had to work, see Propaghandi, pick Steve up from the airport and research my shit in two days!
Alright, In the defense of Steve, he had actually sent me some files to look over and some records with similar names to research a week before the deposition. I just wasn't taking it too seriously because I didn't have a definite answer. I'm a dummy.
My testamony was supposed to be me pointing out that there are a million similar band names that the consumer will never get confused with its similar counterpart. IE The Fat Boys, Fat Boy Slim, Rude Boy Slim, White Flag, Black Flag, Big Black, Blackbox, The Black Keys, The Black Crowes, The Counting Crows, The Tape Beatles..
Also to point out the bands that already have "Cool Kids" in their name IE: The Cool Kids of Death, Daddy Cool Kids, The Cooler Kids, Kool Kid, The Kids...
And bands that had the same name, had disputes and changed their name slightly to prevent confusion IE: Dinosaur/Dinosaur Jr., the Black Crowes/The Black Crows, Blink/Blink 182, Mojave/Mojave 3, Eve/Eve 6..not to mention the thousands of "UK" Bands: Cher UK, Charletons UK, The Mission UK, Chameleons UK, etc.
What's funny is that the bands that had to change their name are usually more popular than the original band with the same name.
Cool huh? I wouldn't be so much of an expert since most people have this common knowledge. So the night before the deposition I picked Steve from the airport and we had some fake Q&A of what the deposition would be like. I think I frustrated Steve because it was hard for me to work my answers like a normal person. I get really nervous sometimes.
We woke up that morning at 7:am and got ready to go. Steve had a nice suit and I was wearing this over sized collared shirt with baggy pants. I looked like a guy that really likes Korn and Lil Wayne and has a seventeen year old pregnant girlfriend. It also didn't help that my shower broke that morning and I wasn't able to shave.
The deposition was held in the law office of a lawyer friend of a lawyer friend that Steve had. His name was Chris and he wore cowboy boots, wrangler pants and a black muscle shirt with a blazer over it. He was the Texas James Dean of lawyers. He was a badass and always doodled hieroglyphics on paper.
The Cool Kids lawyer showed up with his musical expert witness and we all met and then got down to business. The Cool Kids lawyer was asking me questions first. He asked me if I've ever been arrested and asked about every place I've been employed at since I could ever work. Very useless questions but it still made me nervous as hell. I even think I answered some questions stupidly. Actually, I'm pretty sure I did. I could see Steve was getting frustrated with me and they called for a break and took me to a closed off room. Steve and Chris told me I should be sitting with my feet on the floor and my hands on the table to keep me from being so nervous. Turns out that actually works. I told the Cool Kids lawyer my testimony about the other band names which I probably worded very wrong. At one point I stopped being nervous and started to get very kooky. There was a court reporter in the room to take note of everything we said. At one point I answered a question with a simple "No". I saw her take that down. I got curious and said "No" several more times just to see if she would take it down. She totally did! She didn't think it was very funny.
I also told the Cool Kids lawyer how he and I would go at picking a band name. I told him that our band would be called "Pickletown" and we would do a google search to see if that was taken yet. I also told him that www.Allmusic.com is they best way to research a song or a band. I told him you could find out what song certain lyrics are from just by typing the lyrics in the search thingy. I actually sang the line "Hey buddy, can I use your comb..." as an example. Which is just something I made up, just to see if the court reporter would take it down. She did.
I got the my point across but but very badly. I realized that day that I no longer have the ability to pretend to be serious. I will forever be a silly man.
Andrew Savage of the Teenage Cool Kids was the next witness. As soon as he was being questioned he was just as nervous. His hands were shaking like crazy. Much like mine. Except for Andrew was inadvertently sticking his middle finger out, flipping the Cool Kids lawyer the ol' bird.
Andrews testimony went by very quickly. He just talked about why he doesn't want to change his bands name and how he picked the band name. He was also asked about his tours and how much money he made as a band. I think the lawyer was trying to make it seem that if Teenage Cool Kids were ever to play the same town The Cool Kids were playing there would be confusion. Probably not.
We were all kind of scared of The Cool Kids expert witness because she was a paid expert witness. But it turns out she didn't know shit! She was also nervous as hell, so I didn't feel so bad about being a shaky daddy. Steve showed her a picture of the Cool Kids and she thought it was Run DMC! She was getting paid $250 an hour and didn't know who she was defending?! Later Steve showed her a picture of the Run DMC logo and a T-shirt the Cool Kids had made. She said she couldn't tell if it was a rip off of the RUN DMC logo.
At one point the cowboy lawyer Chris jumped in and wanted to ask her questions. He was getting really excited about "tearing her up". That's another thing. Every time there was a break Steve and Chris would say stuff like "We are handing her ass to her!" or "We are kicking her in the teeth!" or "We are peeling the skin off her face and feeding it to sharks!". Who would have known that lawyers talk like football players!?
Steve had the Cool Kids expert witness do google, myspace and various other music websites on "The Cool Kids" too see if Teenage Cool Kids ever came up. Sometimes it did, but on the fourth or fifth results page. Basically, nobody could ever accidentally purchase an album or download songs by Teenage Cool Kids expecting a Cool Kids album or song. And vice versa.
At 8:pm, eleven hours after we arrived, way after Chris's law office was closed, the deposition ended. Steve was scolded for questioning the Cool Kids expert witness for too long. She was really speechless at alot of the things Steve pointed out to her. The goal was to have The Cool Kids people so stumped that it wouldn't go to trial. No dice. The Cool Kids people still wanted a trial. The Cool Kids even scheduled a show at the House Of Blues the day after the trial would happen. Chris was all about defending Teenage Cool Kids along with Steve pro bono due to how ridiculous the whole situation was.
The Cool Kids people ended up settling and the Teenage Cool Kids were allowed to put out their record. The details are confidential.
Steve said this was the closest to a movie trial he will probably ever be in due to how silly it was. I was glad to be a part of it.
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[28 Jun 2009|04:24pm] |
Selections from Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Francesca Valente
SEX, CONSOLATION FOR MISERY
Sex, consolation for misery!
The whore is queen, her throne a ruin,
her land a piece of shity field,
her sceptre a purse of red patent leather:
she barks in the night,
dirty and ferocious as an ancient mother:
she defends her possessions and her life.
The pimps swarming around
bloated and beat
with their Brindisi or Slavic moustaches
are leaders, rulers:
in the dark they make their hundred lire deals,
winking in silence, exchanging passwords:
the world, excluded, remains silent
about those who have excluded themselves,
silent carcasses of predators.
But from the world's trash
a new world is born,
new laws are born
in which honor is dishonor,
a ferocious nobility and power is born
in the piles of hovels
in the open spaces
where one thinks the city ends
and where instead it begins again, hostile,
begins again a thousand times,
with bridges and labyrinths,
foundations and diggins,
behind a surge of skyscrapers
covering whole horizons.
In the ease of love
the wretch feels himself a man,
builds up faith in life,
and ends despising all who have a different life.
The sons throw themselves into adventure
secure in a world which fears them and their sex.
Their piety is in being pitiless,
their strength in their lightness,
their hope in having no hope.
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[27 Jun 2009|11:18pm] |
currently eating dango
om nom nom nom
we got in so many adorable/delicious things this week and i couldn't resist buying this
there goes my diet :(
although by "diet" i mean "during the week i am too busy to eat more than one meal a day"
ps my body destroyed the cancer cells. finally, my immune system does something useful!
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[26 Jun 2009|01:43am] |
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I hate everyone. Why are people so mean and terrible? I'm starting to give up and just turn into a total cat lady. I need more cats.
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| Remember these Vandals lyrics? |
[25 Jun 2009|06:17pm] |
birds in the air
never chirped the same
slobs in bowling alleys
never burped the same
they came to cry
shocked with disbelief
a broken mass of millions
all drowning in their grief
she was just an innocent
how could you lord?
they cried the day
that farrah fawcett died
Throughout the globe
every chinese man and turk
their unifying symbol
they really liked her work
but who's to blame?
no one made a move
until i find out who did this
nobody leaves the room
they say the road was icy
but that just don't add up
a bushy-haired intruder
another government cover up!
a drug-related overdose
a hunting accident
death at the hands of another,
i'll bet!
first JFK
and then we lost the king
thank god it must be over now
they say they come in threes
but still i ache
the world has lost a friend
i'll trade all
of my viewmaster reels
to see her once again
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| Big Train for Baggins |
[25 Jun 2009|04:25pm] |
At work I always wanna tell little Mitt Matt Baggo about sketches from the show Big Train. Well Mitty, here they are!
Evil Hypnotist!
Mom Meets Son Sweet Romance!
Tom Henderson!
Chairman Mao's death bed. This one really doesn't make sense but it's awesome.
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| emo |
[23 Jun 2009|03:38pm] |
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cheers to knowing who your real friends are!
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| Hey everybody I forgot to thank King Tyler Tons for pitching in for the Xbox 360! |
[23 Jun 2009|12:10am] |
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Tons, Druids On Parade, Collick, Koji Kondo, Flight 77, The Pinheads |
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I also got some belated birthday presents. Burned copies of Trekkies, Trekkies 2, the complete first season of Star Trek the Animated Series and Something Wicked This Way Comes and some Almond Butter from Crystal. And the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from Baby Heather.
Thanks guys.
The Ghostbusters game was probably one of the greatest things I have ever played.
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| mail dvd rentals |
[22 Jun 2009|11:56am] |
id love some opinions on selection & service of online rental sites.
(mostly mail ones since my connection is too shitty to watch full movies online or download)
WOW!
every single rec was for netflix!
i was going to get rid of some premium cable stuff
but when i called to cancel, they just GAVE us the
dvr svc FREE for a year & knocked $10 a month off!!
i signed up for netflix (the highest limit dvd plan for my trial run, thanx venialblur!!!!)
& am adding movies like a madwoman!
thanx!
:)
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