Adam Robinson
http://www.publishinggenius.com
Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore, where he operates Publishing Genius Press. His book of poems, Adam Robison and other poems, will be published by Narrow House Books this year.
Cream Pies
In Meeting People is Easy, that boring-as-hell documentary about Radiohead from back when Radiohead was an important rock band, Thom Yorke goes to a fancy restaurant but can’t get in. (A maitre’ d with taste!) As he’s walking away, one of the meatheads in line goes, “Hey Radiohead, write a song about it!”
I love heckling, and I love getting heckled. Probably the funniest jab at me came when I was playing an Elvis Costello song at an open-mic when a soggy guy at the back of the bar yelled, “Hey, do you know any Elvis Costello?”
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[Via Christopher Newgent] Here’s a call for submissions from Booth, a handsome looking journal made by the MFA program at Butler University. (more…)
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Jonathan Burks, my friend and former Milwaukee roommate, just put out an album of boozey rock songs that you can download free at http://jonathanburks.bandcamp.com. It might be the sort of thing where liking the person affects the way I come to the music, but I don’t feel like I’m overstating it by saying that this is some of the most honest-sounding, unmediated rock/folk/country music I’ve ever heard. And his last record, Brown Paper Bag, may be even better.
Comments Off on Jonathan Burks’s Loudmout Soup
This is such a blog post
I forgot that when I get really tired and I’m at work it’s good to write a long blog post that doesn’t make any sense and doesn’t really say anything. READ MORE >
Another Something Happening for You City Folk
I know there’s never anything going on in NYC, but tomorrow night it looks like there’s an exception. Certainly it’s something I would attend if I wasn’t four hours away: the release party for Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch’s book, 10 Walks/2 Talks, now published by Ugly Duckling Presse.
At McNally Jackson Booksellers in Soho — 52 Prince St
7pm
Here is the Time Out NY write-up.
This book looks to be fantastic. Definitely a great cover of 2009 (my post on this is forthcoming, late). The concept for the writing is that Jon and Andy walked around Manhattan and talked about stuff. I had the privilege of running one of their talks in Everyday Genius (read it).
They seem like pretty cool guys.
Wack Bible Stories, by Ben White
After my last Wack Bible Stories post, Nanoism editor Ben White left some interesting comments. I got the sense that he knew more cool stuff about the Bible as it pertains to writing and asked him to contribute a guest post. He quickly obliged, with this great, gross story:
Lifestyle and Writing Advice from the Bible.
Watch Fox News long enough and you’ll hear that somewhere in the Bible something happens, something about “spilling seed,” and for that reason both masturbation and all forms of contraception are wrong. Your gut instinct might tell you that the story involves a mother surprising her son in his section of the tent when he’s home “sick” from Torah study, but it’s actually the story of Onan (Genesis 38:9-10):
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Some Thrilled Thoughts on Mark Cunningham’s eBook, Georgics, With Eclogues for Interrogators
I like it a lot.
other countries **Updated**
what the hell is this?
I like it.
**Update**
Oops, I drunk posted. Watching the video again this morning, I just realized that if it was in English it would be the sort of “Adult Swim” crap that I really hate. Since I don’t understand it, though, I am more inclined to like it.
Which is a thought that I think can be extended to writing this way: sometimes I get the feeling that bad poets are taking a marginal idea and, unable to make it better with vivid language (or a better idea), they make do with making it unintelligible.
Unlike that video, though, I don’t like poetry to be unintelligible. Why not? I guess the difference is that it’s a lot of work to read a poem, and I don’t trust poets. (That said, sometimes I want a poem to be oblique and abstruse, ridiculous, meaningless, unintelligible, even.) (Ha.) **End Update**
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well i’m not going to pay $4.50 for shipping on a book from the publisher’s website