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 [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month – “My Love”
Previously: AMR Music Month (Introduction) AMR Music Month – Track 1 This one’s a laffer for all you pre-Valentine’s day <3 birds, lyrics after the jump: Click to hear “My love,” by Mark Fullmer Quick Housekeeping: All you folks participating in AMR music month, send me your mp3s! I just remedied my own recording situation [...]
Read MoreAMR Music Month, Track 1
Click here to listen to “Vespers” (cover), by Mark Fullmer The first installment of AMR Music Month, an updated version of the cover song you may remember resonating so profoundly with me in a previous post. Without repeating myself, this version – this version is darker and more hopeful, which seems like an impossibility, but [...]
Read More“The Right Shadow Spoke”: A Facebook App Novel Shout-Out
So the novel is called 1337: A Videogame Novel About Videogames and it’s an honest to goodness facebook app by Friend of a Friend Mark Fullmer, drawing on your friend-base for characters and fully interactive in a post-modern but also old school text adventure sort of way. Points for Ennui and Whimsey! A refreshable Lustiness [...]
Read Morefor brooklyn II (sonic intent)
Bat is moving back to Brooklyn and wrote a song about it (click to listen). Know anyone looking for a roommate in Williamsburg/Greenpoint starting late February/March?
Read MoreThat 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 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 Morethis green or that green?
this green or that green.mp3 (No Sexy Regrets version). Actually, don’t choose – I like them both. But, I was going through my mp3s yesterday for the player and realized I’d never recorded a clean version of “green,” my song on SORRY ABOUT THE SOUNDS (the colors album). You gotta have a clean version. click [...]
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 MoreAMR Podcast #21: The one about the sharks
Click for AMR Podcast #21! In this podcast: the one about the sharks, getting dumb comme d’habitude, a mild case of being inarticulate (i.e. ummm, like), edmund white’s City Boy, too-soon nostalgia, dirty water, neustonic plastics, destabilized oceanic ecosystems, and the encroaching food apocalypse & what you can do about it. Click here to read [...]
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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