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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: [...]

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Posted on 8th August 2010No Comments
Art 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 [...]

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Posted on 26th July 2010No Comments
Film: 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 [...]

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Posted on 25th July 2010No Comments
It’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 [...]

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Posted on 29th April 20101 Comment
Group 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 [...]

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Posted on 24th April 20101 Comment
AMR 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, [...]

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Posted on 23rd April 20101 Comment
AMR 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”

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Posted on 22nd April 2010No Comments
AMR 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 [...]

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Posted on 21st April 2010No Comments
AMR 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 [...]

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Posted on 19th April 2010No Comments
AMR 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 [...]

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Posted on 16th April 2010No Comments
From 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 [...]

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Posted on 13th April 20103 Comments
From 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 [...]

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Posted on 12th April 2010No Comments
Tight 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 [...]

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Posted on 9th April 20102 Comments
Against Me!: I Was a Teenage Anarchist (EP)

New this week, for your consideration. First impressions after the jump: I Was A Teenage Anarchist EP -…

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Posted on 9th April 20102 Comments
Malcolm 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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Posted on 9th April 20101 Comment