August 14th, 2014 / 11:21 am
 Contests

THOUGHT CONTEST: Which artists do you suddenly randomly care about?

On the way back from buying an overpriced kombucha drink because I was concerned about my daily green intake, I did two things:

1) thought of and executed the tweet “I put a bottle of kombucha next to a tree and the tree got very offended.”

2) thought “I wonder what Charlie Kaufman is working on,” then thought “Hmm, there’s a very short list of artists/filmmakers/poets/writers whose current projects I randomly get curious about out of the blue. It doesn’t mean they’re my favorites. Actually I don’t know what it means.”

CONTEST: Which artists/filmmakers/poets/writers/musicians/c’monyouknowit’s
allthesamething do you get randomly curious about?

Like you think out of nowhere, “Hmm, I wonder what ______ ______ is working on.”

Tell us in the comments. A winner will be selected at random and will win any book they want under $25 from Small Press Distribution.

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17 Comments

  1. August 14th, 2014 / 11:29 am Quincy Rhoads—

      I was listening to Pelican’s City of Echoes yesterday and thought, man, I wonder what these bros are doing now.

  2. August 14th, 2014 / 11:57 am Rauan Klassnik—

      I often wonder about and yearn for what the lead singer of Big Country’s up to. but, he was found hanging in a closet in Hawaii quite a few years ago.

  3. August 14th, 2014 / 12:04 pm Juliahjackson—

      Miranda July.

  4. August 14th, 2014 / 1:40 pm deadgod—

      Occasionally wonder if Cormac McCarthy is at that moment writing his rumored Cordoban translator of Aristotle from Arabic to Latin / gender re-assignment / Mayan seafarer whodunit. GET CRACKIN BRO

  5. August 14th, 2014 / 3:02 pm M. Kitchell—

      Yesterday this happened to me with Carla Bozulich, whom I was pleased to discover had returned to recording under the name Evangelista & had put out a new album. I feel like this happens more for me with bands/musicians because I don’t keep up with them in the same way that I do with Writers/Filmmakers/Fine Artists. Though, realistically, this also happened a couple months ago when I had the thought, “I wonder if that French dude that directed Martyrs has made a new movie yet.” He has, it was good.

  6. August 14th, 2014 / 3:52 pm Sarah—

      David Bowie. Laura from Family Matters.

  7. August 14th, 2014 / 3:58 pm Bobby Dixon—

      His papers inventory an eleventh, unpublished novel

  8. August 14th, 2014 / 4:00 pm Bobby Dixon—

      lately:
      -ginuwine
      -onyx
      -neil smith, who seemed to have a second book on the horizon, but this horizon never showed

  9. August 14th, 2014 / 5:24 pm Jeremy Hopkins—

      I wonder what Virgil is doing, now that he’s back in the fires of Hell.

  10. August 15th, 2014 / 11:55 am Quincy Rhoads—

      Prob. hanging with the other virtuous pagans and unbaptized babies. Y’know, the uze.

  11. August 15th, 2014 / 1:22 pm JosephYoung—

      Hmm, I wonder what my neighbor is working on. His front yard is a beautiful flower bed. His inside-house is like a hotel room. He’s a probate lawyer. But I wonder what he’s *working* on.

  12. August 15th, 2014 / 2:40 pm E.A. Beeson—

      Rodrigo Fresan

  13. August 15th, 2014 / 10:17 pm mimi—

      better than the “what deadgod’s next comment’s gonna be” that i came up with

      BRO

  14. August 15th, 2014 / 10:19 pm mimi—

      creepily timely

      : (

  15. August 17th, 2014 / 5:49 am krysbeau—

      I’m not properly prepared to outlive Willie Nelson.

  16. August 18th, 2014 / 8:54 pm Don't Call Me Here—

      Vanessa Veselka. Keep waiting to hear about a follow up novel to Zazen.

  17. August 21st, 2014 / 2:05 am Mike Young—

      congratulations E.A. Beeson!! you have won this random contest!! and in so winning, you have caused me to look up Rodrigo Fresan, whom i did not know!! pretty sweet!! lemme know which book from Small Press Distribution (spdbooks.org) under $25 you would like =D

      also you should lemme know by emailing me at mikeayoung – at – gmail – dot – com because you should also tell me where to send it!