That Thing With All The Drowned Authors: An Apology
That thing with all the drowned authors – I’ve been feeling seriously bad in a way I don‘t expect anyone to really get or empathize with even though you all seem like the kind of people that should, you know – if you‘re being honest with yourselves given previous stances re: humanism and global circumstances [...]
Read Moreonline books to read and share
It’s raining and I’m at Verb Cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn looking out onto Bedford Avenue. I just bonded with two grizzled regulars next to me over watching a mom help her kid pee in the rain (tic-tac peen between her thumb and ring finger and pointing upward for maximum arc). And afterward, in response to [...]
Read Morea day in the life (1991)
A new decade, a different direction; experiments with cursive and “British humor”. Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:
Read MoreRace Car Magic (1990)
The thrilling follow-up to The Monsters (1988) Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:
Read MoreTriangulating Happiness (2007)
front cover / back cover front matter epigraph 1. triangulating happiness (page 1, page 2) 2. hello hominid (page 1, page 2) 3. birthday psalm (page 1, page 2) 4. the salad days (page 1, page 2) 5. perfecting dissolution 6. elaborate penetration 7. thrift store banjo 8. victorian sensibilities 9. karma conscious 10. tingsha [...]
Read Moremr. feathers flies again (2006)
front cover / back cover 1. and then i saw blue 2. lagniappe (to a landlord) 3. a valediction forbidding morning – part two: the early years 4. experiential living – for frank o’hara 5. one last love note 6. circling the square 7. theory with praxis 8. grasping for air 9. bomb this book [...]
Read Morethe monsters (1988)
By a young Nick Courage, working under the first of many surnames. Hit play and then click somewhere outside of the slideshow to read sans buttons etc:
Read Moresynesthesia (writing)
These past four months or so I’ve been preparing myself for the novel I promised myself I’d write before my 28th birthday [update: not my first, but the long overdue second attempt]. My problem has never been with words, more with plot and accessibility – that’s where the poetry business comes in – so basically [...]
Read Morethe week i got stolen
I knew, as it was happening, that a pre-dawn livery cab ride across state lines was bad news. Those drivers aren’t used to 3 AM straight-aways, they go too fast. Then, approaching Newark Int’l Airport, the whole freighted gestalt of a fluorescent Anheuser-Busch billboard behind an honest-to-god smokestack looking like an industrial fire. And finally, [...]
Read Morecinderblock rock (redux)
home waiting for a couch to be delivered (funnily, the same couch my mom apparently has in her living room!) and decided to get an AMR mp3 player up. This one is less exhaustive than the last one – only 25 compared to over 100 songs – but should load fast and will remain conveniently [...]
Read Moresouls’ day breviary
1. Oremus I’d met everyone earlier that night, picked up a few substantive facts because that’s what you do at that kind of party. He was drinking sour apple schnapps from Bavaria out of nostalgia, her landlord was a little too controlling. The inflatable pig – clean shaved – expressed continual disappointment with the vagaries [...]
Read Moresea chantey (pastiche)
An ancient one-track/one-take favorite (talked about in AMR Podcast #8 alongside “Fierce Love”, if you’re hungry for context, and played on that old, broken junior guitar Bat and me used to have). Lyrics also included @ that link. And as long as this is a thing, I’m cobbling together these YouTube videos from the extreme [...]
Read MoreCivil Disobedience: J-B. Lamarck & the Aspirational Self
Previously: Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 1 Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 2 Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 3 Achieving Humanity: Theoretical Background ‘The folk process is as old as music, and depends on the ability of musicians to adapt [...]
Read Moreprocess: everything fake is real (found video)
One thing i love is: mounting context. like this song i recorded – one take, ten minute deal after one of those long days everyone’s been having… (more after the jump)
Read Moreecowarrior at the feminist bookstore
previously: finning sharks on garbage island there’s something about a man with one-armed reading glasses reciting the wrong chapter of a biography he mostly didn’t write, the one about
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