What is Happening?
on seeing the work of Daniel AnselmiIt is a picture of your life.
It is in this room.
It is not the heart of the wind in sweetest May;
It is not the old light of merry Vienna;
You are not the hero.It is lace, manufactured in Boston.
Their account book had pages like that.
Moss paint from the bridge you see Thursday afternoons.
“If found, please read,” says each installment.
That’s the big crux in 2013, isn’t it? Not the work, and not the availability of the work, but the availability of all the other work, the barrage of information all the time on our multiple screens. So much information follows the law of…
Our foes are in our midst and all about us.
—Henry David ThoreauSomeone was found dead after someone in a turban stepped out of an alley.
Someone knew someone recited the Qu’ran in her basement at night.
Someone knew someone borrowed sugar from a Muslim.
Someone told someone to mind her own…
August
My cousin on Facebook
today posted a picture:
Our grandmother, now 85,
on her couch with her six great-grandkids.
Her face was the same
color as her hair, the same
color as her nails,
same color as my front window,
through which I just now saw
a woman the color
of coffee and…
Molly 1997-2013. “Cabildo” when she was bad.
The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries is a rock band, created by Elisha Wiesner (Kahoots), Bob Weston…A nice surprise on WMBR’s Breakfast of Champions this morning.
Good stuff – I heard ‘em through the EA messageboard.
Nurses Who Love English by Paula Marie Coomer
Paula Marie Coomer is a nurse and writer who uses poems as balm. Her latest collection of poetry Nurses Who Love English gives a diverse coalescence of lyric story and song: a soundtrack to a personal history that traces American landscapes of…
I’m on this podcast by Jughead of Screeching Weasel/Even in Blackouts fame talking about the Mr. T Experience’s “Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba.” Check it out!
So, by all means, let’s talk DIY. The impulse to make a zine can come from a number of corners these days: to collaborate with someone else on a specific project; to release something different int…A review of Mike’s zine “Kayfabe” here. Thanks to Tobias Caroll. Hit me up if you’d like a copy.
In the latest edition of The Out Door, we asked many of Loren Connors’ collaborators for their impressions of the legendary guitarist. One whom we were extremely honored to talk to was Jandek. The representative from Corwood Industries has only granted a handful of interviews over his four decade career. The following is our full conversation. —Marc Masters
I’ve been looking at the names on the bottom of paper bags since January 2012. Here’s a list of all the names I’ve collected, as well as the date of each bag’s manufacture:
Keith Baisden May 25 12
Michael Byrd Feb 02 12
Gisela Cardoza Aug 28 12
Tanya Cheeks Sept 26 12
Rudy Cruz May 04 12
Eleazer May 24 12
Jerome Fenulus Jan 14 13
Ana Flores May 23 12
Ignacio Garcia Jun 07 12
Godoi Aug 23 12
Evangelina Gomez Jun 27 13
Christian Gonzalez Sept 04 13
Hechevarria Jan 06 12
Rogelio Hernandez Mar 07 12
Andrer Hughes Jun 19 12
Mary Joseph Apr 06 12
Kleber May 23 13
Mili Lara Apr 22 13
Jean Lauredent Oct 13 11
Benjamin Lu Apr 10 13
Iris McNeil Jan 25 12
Maritza Molejon Jan 19 12
Dany Montenegro Jan 03 13
Lonnie Newsome Mar 13 12
Ingrid Nieves Aug 31 12
Jose Nopo Jan 08 13
Crisya Pineda Jan 08 13
Nadya R Mar 20 12
Junel Revulus Jun 06 12
Blanca Salazar Oct 06 10
Wigberto Serpa Nov 23 11
Martina Sifuentes Jan 24 12
Terreke Smith Jan 25 12
Fransesca Townes Dec 14 11
Tony Tran Mar 02 12
Orlanda Weir Apr 03 12
Fabio Zapata Feb 06 13
Andres Zegarra Feb 24 12
Thanks for making lunch for me!
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(This is the second installment of a two-part interview on Rodan I conducted with Jason Noble in 2009. The first part is here.)
Jason Noble interview #2
2-9-09
J: There’s always been a skronky sideline to bands in Louisville. There’s a few bands right now that are like straight, old…
In a world of electronic cover versions and genres that are out of date immediately upon their inception, there is something refreshing about a band that revels in its own musical heritage. Dead Trend and their debut album False Positive do just that with 21 tracks of pure 80s Reagan-hating bile.
UP ON THE ROOF
1.
I like to think
I looked like jasmine petals in
a regular rain, but them jasmines,
the dewberry, even all the
butterfly weed down in the garden
was drowning just like me.
Nothing regular about this rain.
You don’t know me, except for that heartbeat
of a minute when I was all over the news.
(In 2009 I started working on a book about albums by the last generation of pre-internet punk/indie groups – the intent was to focus on bands and the stories of their albums in a similar manner as both my book on the Minutemen’s “Double Nickels On the Dime” and Brian Coleman’s “Check the…
Getting The Mail.
I have seen see her at the Post Officewaiting to sign for a package,buying a page of stamps,or hunched down in the lobbystruggling with her box key.Once when I offered my help to wrestthe tangle of flyers and bills from her box,she said,…
Monsters of Talk 2013 zine tour, with Mike Faloon & Steve Reynolds, and Duncan Wilder Johnson.
