June 13th, 2009 / 3:16 pm
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Bay Area Reading Tour: A Report from Pirate Cat Radio
[Photo Essay after the break.]
Mike Young with MC Oroville’s Answering Machine (Transmission Press), wearing a Native American themed t-shirt which works to his favor whether taken ironically or earnestly. (Notice the asian lady behind his left shoulder.)
Brandon Scott Gorrell and Chelsea Martin patiently wait during a hippie inspirational song (mp3 link to entire broadcast at end of post). Chelsea’s cell phone is ghetto (c. 2001), inserting exclamation points in the middle of words in her text messages, like “fu!cked.” Brandon wore a tie, which I always thought was like a human tail.
Brandon looks unusually happy here — might be the hippie inspirational song. I’m reading Mike Young’s limited chap Okay Now. I don’t know much about poetry, but I liked the line breaks, like where they took place made me read it differently.
That asian lady came over and asked Brandon for an autograph. She said she was a big fan, that his work was “romantic.” Brandon was drinking a weird purple drink.
Afterwards we walked to Dolores Park and sat down, making efforts to be equidistant to the hipster and homosexual area (we wound up in the ‘where dogs like the crap’ area). En route some got “tall boys,” which is the ‘burrito of beers,’ both in shape, volume, and caloric density. Recent guest poster Reynard Seifert and Brandon are pictured here. (There were a lot of other nice folks, both readers of HTMLGIANT and Mike’s and Chelsea’s friends, and their respective roommates, partners, etc.)
We eventually went to Jenna Humphrey’s house (sorry I can’t link; something is off with the new version of Safari — but Jenna is in the current Robot Melon). She played “sad core” (Nick Drake, Cat Power) from her ghetto Dell (c. 2001) whose screen kept on morphing matrix-like into hyper plaid. Brandon seemed deeply consumed by this and kept on aggressively touching (as if trying to grab its heart) the screen.
This is the last photo I took before I went home. Brandon has never been to Malta, Italy despite the shirt. Mike Young is not Native American despite the shirt. Chelsea is not Minnie Mouse despite the shirt. My name is not Mervyn’s despite my shirt. Voices of truth in an age of lies? Probably not.
Here’s an mp3 of the entire broadcast, drag the cursor to about 40% of the way for us. (Again, sorry I can’t link): http://www.nerdnetworks.org/pcr/DiamondDave-20090612.mp3
I hope this post has been somewhat comprehensive and informative. Brandon, Mike and Chelsea read at Pegasus Books in Berkeley tonight at 7PST.
Tags: Brandon Scott Gorrell, Chelsea Martin, Mike Young, pirate cat radio
Mike Young is super fucking cool-looking. He reminds me of IGGY POP when he reads!
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I like this for several reasons:
Afterwards we walked to Dolores Park and sat down, making efforts to be equidistant to the hipster and homosexual area (we wound up in the ‘where dogs like the crap’ area). En route some got “tall boys,” which is the ‘burrito of beers,’ both in shape, volume, and caloric density.
Mostly cuz you used ‘dog crap’ and ‘burrito’ almost in the same sentence.
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well done jimmy
this post made me feel excited, expensive and far away
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when does the party train come to Fargo?
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You are all unnervingly good-looking.
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last night chelsea, brandon, and mike moshed like mad poets at a house called quarter century michael jordan in oakland, chelsea literally knocked me to ground
it is upsetting that there was no video of the event, it was almost as magical as jimmy chen’s card tricks
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June 14th, 2009 / 1:41 amreynard seifert—
apparently this way of thinking makes chelsea ‘feel weird’
so i’m going to make her feel ‘even more weird’
by replying to myself
now i feel weird
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June 14th, 2009 / 3:38 amchelsea martin—
maybe this is what paypal feels like when everyone’s at one of those facebook-photo-taking parties
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June 14th, 2009 / 3:55 amreynard seifert—
we should have one of those, just to weird each other out to an unreasonable extent, and then paypal each other money, back and forth, forever
))((
June 14th, 2009 / 3:56 amreynard seifert—
what the hell, htmlgiant? there was supposed to be a shit between those buns. do you guys hate miranda july or something?
haircut?
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i like the way drew stopped to explain what a tall boy was. like such a thing is so absurd that everyone needs to be told what it is because otherwise they wouldnt know.
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June 14th, 2009 / 1:13 pmJimmy Chen—
nah man, drew was just quoting me. i’m the douche who was explaining what a tall boy was, because i didn’t know.
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June 15th, 2009 / 8:21 ambarry—
im just fucking around jimmy.
you guys should come to the east coast.
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i have love for these people
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The bland leading the bland.
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June 14th, 2009 / 3:18 pmJimmy Chen—
awesome comment bro. it’s like you are an ‘independent thinker,’ really special.
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I don’t know how these party photos could have been “EXCITING”, really. Maybe your expectations are too high. Hard to portray “interest”, “sincerity” and “genius” in impromptu photographs posted to a blog.
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June 14th, 2009 / 4:47 pmJimmy Chen—
brandon, mike and chelsea were not trying to be exciting or impressive. they just were them, which i liked. no body is trying to impress anyone. this is just a report.
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June 14th, 2009 / 5:24 pmAndre—
Oops! My above comment was meant to be a response to CCC. I clicked the wrong button. Didn’t see that until now.
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wish i saw more of this seems fun and exciting maybe
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I accidentally listened to too much of the podcast. Now I believe that “Jah will provide” through the recession.
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June 15th, 2009 / 6:16 pmMatthew Simmons—
Also, I want to let my freak flag fly.
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June 15th, 2009 / 6:37 pmjimmy hendrix—
haha
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June 15th, 2009 / 8:30 pmjah—
you can have a sandwich or something
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