No Sexy Regrets: Learns the Hard Way!
Fans of the project will remember M. Amy’s drum machine in the first, eponymously titled No Sexy Regrets recording. Namely, me learning how to play it, butchering a few choice tracks in the process. If you held on after that, you might fondly recall the shaker next to the mic recordings in No Sexy Regrets: [...]
Read MoreArt News: Anticipating Desire
by Mark Fullmer Anyone know where my installation’s supposed to go?” “Seth might.” “Which one’s Seth? Hi. Are you Seth? Are you Seth?” “Seth’s in the bathtub.” “Installing his piece.” “It’s about Dylan Thomas.” “Who used to live here.” This is three o’clock on a Friday afternoon in Suite 1024 of the Hotel Chelsea which [...]
Read MoreFilm: Just One Thing (A Brooklyn Short)
I first saw Mark perform this piece as a one-off at Penny’s – a hurdy-gurdy holy roller that literally had the crowd holding their breath until he erupted, at the final blue-faced moment, into a trumpeted “Saints Go Marching In”. Seeing it again now, stripped of the stage and without redemption, “Just One Thing” reminds [...]
Read MoreIt’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best
My buddy Joe Yoga introduced me to Karen Dalton a few years ago and her trumpet voice hooked me hard. I’ve been looking for her on vinyl ever since, finally found a reissue this past Sunday courtesy of Light in the Attic Records, who did a real nice job with it – even packaged with [...]
Read MoreGroup Show w/ Courage @ Chelsea Hotel
About a month from today I will be part of a massively collaborative pop-up art show at the Chelsea Hotel – where Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Robert Mapplethorpe, and (briefly) Tom Waits &c. lived! – and will be using the opportunity to finally show [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #28 – Zombie Contingency Plan
In This Podcast: Talking Out Romper Stomper in the Principal’s Office, An Elevator Pitch for A Boy and His Dog, Weaponizing Your Bodies with Victorian Calisthenics, Feelin’ Good About The Rapture, SoHo to The Cloisters: A Speculative Scenario, Curry in a Hurry, Fornication/Formication, Pre-Planning, Shin Guards from the Sporting Goods Store, Hygiene and Multi-Use Machetes, [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #27 – “I’m Obsessed With My Own Hair”
In This Podcast: The Double Mohawk – A Hard Lesson Learned in Bone Structure, How to Sleep in Liberty Spikes, Eschewing the Daily Shower, Following Grey-Haired Girls, Bat’s Stylist Origin Myth, Salon Culture, Crazy Hair Cuts, & etc. Click here to listen to AMR Podcast #27 – “I’m Obsessed With My Own Hair”
Read MoreAMR Podcast #26 – The Short Fiction Issue
In This Podcast: Some Pretty Stunning Short Burst Writing, Bat at a Party, Bat at a Bookstore, Two and a Half Cats, Bachelorette Party Fonts, The Kinks’ Only Good Album, A Drunken Run-on Sentence, Ambivalence About the Girls at the Bar, Blogging about Mishima, & etc. Click here to listen to AMR Podcast #26: The [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #25 – Introducing Bat Matthews
In This Podcast: Bat and his Place in the World, The Amputees Origin Myth, Opening for Against Me! in 1998, Playing Guitar vs. Being a Musician, Preparation vs. Execution, Being Chased by a Duck, A Very Thorough Account of How Bat Met Courage, Two Ugly Whales Making Love, Eggs & Ice Cream & The Perfect [...]
Read MoreAMR on Facebook [Update]
A lot of you may have joined the AMR Facebook group a while ago, which was deleted to make way for the page. Well, we’re planning a general redesign and decided not to ignore our Facebook page anymore; are hoping to do most of our updating through there once it reaches critical mass. So! Come [...]
Read MoreFrom the Archives: “Reception Anxiety”
I put my “moving to New York” story up here last October, but not all of it… just from first landfall. The rest – the context – is also written, but in a now out-of-print novella called My Life as an Aerophyte, which is still my most popular book, actually. Every once in a while [...]
Read MoreFrom the Archives: “wake up winking, comrade laughter!”
I had at least three strikes against me when I was first looking for work in publishing four or so years ago. The first was that I’d just gotten off an internship at a BDSM sci-fi/feminist erotica press. The second was that – for some reason – I decided to carry a book of British [...]
Read MoreTight Pantsy Drew Snoop Scoop: The Folk Underground
The folk underground takes your loft party, raises you a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and flips over a members-only rod and gun club! by Tight Pantsy Drew (In case no one wants to read all the way to the end, let me state the important fact that tonight, Friday April 9th, I will be [...]
Read MoreAgainst Me!: I Was a Teenage Anarchist (EP)
New this week, for your consideration. First impressions after the jump: I Was A Teenage Anarchist EP -…
Read MoreMalcolm McLaren: “Sexy Eiffel Towers”
In 1984, John Cryer – who most of you will choose to remember as Ducky from Pretty in Pink – starred in his first movie (opposite a pre-St. Elmo’s Fire Demi Moore). She’s a struggling rock and roller, he’s a put-upon photographer maneuvering John Hughes Knockoff High. Long story short: she ruins his shot of [...]
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