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 [...]
Read MoreAMR Podcast #30 – Be Your Own Tony Robbins
In This Podcast: Mark as cocktail/messiah; love feasts; slightly problematic songs from childhood maybe-cults; parsing mankind; being your own Tony Robbins; the cult of Nick Courage; red carpets on Christmas; hanging out in the ladies room; world traveling; vibrations of blue in Taos, New Mexico; green flesh/orange toe nails color blindness; &etc. Click here to [...]
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 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 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 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
Read Morefinning sharks on garbage island
1. “the ceremony of innocence is drowned” so many sad people on prozac in NYC that the municipal water supply tests positive for the drug, meanwhile we’re
Read Morechapbook re-stock sale!
For the first time in three years of publishing, I’m all out of chapbooks! I’ll be doing a reorder soon, and am even thinking about resuscitating my life as an aerophyte (which has been pretty much unavailable for the past two years – so big news!). To help me gauge interest: if you’re interested in [...]
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