Nobody in the rain

Things To Do In New York City (Cool Upright Remix)

2009-07-12T07:28:00.004-04:00

Been noodling around with GarageBand. Here's the first result: Things To Do In New York City (Cool Upright Remix).

Ingredients:
1. Ted Berrigan recorded in 1973 reading his poem “Things To Do In New York (City).”
2. The “Cool Upright 02” bass loop in GarageBand.
3. Various clips from dobroide's City Noise audio pack.
4. A modest little drum track I laid down.

Fail better

2009-06-02T07:43:00.000-04:00

Four poems just posted for the spring issue of failbetter.com.

Drunken Boat - Home

2009-05-10T00:14:00.000-04:00

My first attempt at a music vid.

Bennett fonts

2009-05-09T22:10:00.001-04:00

In 2000, I think it was, I made a couple of fonts in collaboration with experimental poet John M. Bennett. There's a text/novelty font (Bennetian Standard) as well as a dingbat font (Bennetian Dingbats) based on handwriting samples and drawings supplied by Bennett (though I added a couple of my own drawings to the dingbat font).

These are PostScript fonts that will work on a Mac, not sure about on a PC, and can now be downloaded from Mediafire at: http://www.mediafire.com/?j5ky1jzynqy.

Mediafire's great, but it sometimes puts out a pop-up ad or two, not too many, but if you're annoyed by even one pop-up ad, then make sure you have pop-up blocking enabled in your browser. (FWIW, I don't use pop-up blocking when visiting their site.)

The fonts are not quite finished as I had envisioned them, but they are usable. I had intended to finish them off, and to convert them to OpenType, but I haven't kept up too well with font software.

These fonts are provided free here for personal and/or non-profit use. If someone out there gets the mad idea to use this for a commercial project, contact me. Also, the fonts should not be recreated or modified in any form without permission.

Epiphany

2009-04-16T07:23:00.001-04:00

Hold on.

Richard and the Young Lions - You Can Make It

2009-04-16T07:22:00.000-04:00

From 1967, the last of the three singles released by Richard and the Young Lions.

Downloads:
Open Up Your Door
Once Upon a Smile (B side to Open Up Your Door)
Nasty

Alice Donut - Medication

2009-04-15T08:03:00.000-04:00

Was looking to post Tiny Ugly World but there's no video for it, and the audio has a few blips, so.

Crystal Antlers - Andrew

2009-04-14T07:26:00.001-04:00

Not sure that this song is as good as it could have been, but it definitely has its moments.

Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Shampoo (Gold Room Session)

2009-04-13T07:52:00.001-04:00

Song of the year contender.

The Leather Nun - Jesus Came Driving Along

2009-04-12T07:19:00.002-04:00

I prefer the studio version, but this is still a fine tune for Easter. Happy Sunday.

Beirut - Scenic World (live)

2009-04-11T06:34:00.001-04:00

—•—

The lights go on. The cat sneaks out.
You walk in and the rain on the roof
feels about right. The answering
machine hurls 1 after 1 your way
as if you cared about the truth
as much as the purely breathtaking.

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Swimming Pools

2009-04-10T07:39:00.003-04:00

Who couldn’t enjoy the exquisite sounds of Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down? Hat tip to Todd Colby’s Glee Farm, where this was posted last Friday along with the bouncy good fun “Bag of Hammers.”

New Bloods - Doubles

2009-04-09T06:55:00.002-04:00

Out from the soggy underground of Portland, Oregon: the New Bloods. “All we are is what we were before we were colonized!”

The Primates - She

2009-04-08T06:53:00.002-04:00

A rare nugget from 1965, “She” is one of only four songs recorded by Queens garage band The Primates. Garage Hangover has a bit more info as well as downloads of all four tracks.

Drunken Boat - Rabbit

2009-04-07T06:53:00.001-04:00

—•—

Black Mountain - Angels

2009-04-06T07:36:00.001-04:00

—•—

If I had a halo, I would lay it
at your feet and offer it in exchange
for your smile, but all I have’s these horns.

A First Loose Tooth

2009-04-06T06:37:00.004-04:00

Standing on the step stool to look in the bathroom mirror while she wiggled her tooth, Vaughn announced, “My tooth is a rocking chair.”

—•—

Later last night, I tried to explain to Vaughn, who had been bothered by talk of starting again to look for a new house, that it didn't matter what house we lived in, the important thing was that we are all together, to which she replied, “We won't be together when we’re gone,” and then proceeded to cry.

—•—

My tooth is a rocking chair.
We won't be together when we’re gone.

Beat Happening - Indian Summer

2009-04-05T07:36:00.001-04:00

Too good to only have 4,227 views on YouTube.

—•—

When I come back for Indian Summer
there will be more cars on the road,
less hair on my head, and the ghost
of my old golden lab / bassethound mix
will run sideways like he always did.

The Ropes - Be My Gun

2009-04-04T08:43:00.000-04:00

The first video from the new EP, Be My Gun, by NYC duo The Ropes. Thanks to emailer Natalie for the tip.

—•—

Wanted to ask you to
let me be your gun
but was afraid you might
take it the wrong way.

You're Going To Die

2009-02-05T20:49:00.002-05:00

Words by Timothy Furstnau
Narration by Vito Acconci
Direction by Dennis Palazzolo

Hat tip: Pallimed Arts & Humanities

Issue 2

2008-11-21T20:25:00.000-05:00

FWIW: My posts on For Godot's Issue 1 are now “anthologized” in Issue 2 [pdf].

Hat tip: Charles Bernstein

The Duke Spirit - Lassoo

2008-11-14T21:32:00.001-05:00

Survival: Infantry

2008-11-11T06:00:00.002-05:00

by George Oppen

And the world changed.
There had been trees and people,
Sidewalks and roads

There were fish in the sea.

Where did all the rocks come from?
And the smell of explosives
Iron standing in mud
We crawled everywhere on the ground without seeing the earth again

We were ashamed of our half life and our misery; we saw that
everything had died.

And the letters came. People who addressed us thru our lives
They left us gasping. And in tears
In the same mud in the terrible ground

If poetry journal

2008-11-11T05:46:00.001-05:00

If now has an online component to its print journal. It is seeking poems to publish, two or three a week, along with reviews of poetry collections and interviews with writers. To submit, please send 3-5 poems (in the e-mail, no attachments) to the editor Don Illich at ifpoetryjournaleditor [at] gmail [dirt] com. Specify in the email that your work is for the online journal.

Feels good to finally vote for a winner

2008-11-04T23:15:00.004-05:00

And in related good news: New England's representation in the House is now Republican-free.