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This Blog Has Moved!

2010-04-28T02:07:00.000-07:00

Moving Day is Always Exciting!

This Blog Has Moved!

So Much Heavy Lifting!

This Blog Has Moved!

Go to General Projects to keep up.

Keep up on everything at General Projects!

CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!

2009-11-30T22:29:00.001-08:00

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CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!
Outpost for Contemporary Art
presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press
Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 982-9461

Do you sometimes wonder: "What the heck is Conceptual Writing!?" Some amazing new fad sweeping the nation? Some bland thing a bunch of dudes thought up in a bar as a joke? The new genre of infomercials after the tragic death of Ron Popeil? All this and so much more?!!

After a string of conferences, events, publications, etc--Conceptual Poetry and its Others conference at University of Arizona Poetry Center, May 29-31, 2008; Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing! at The Whitney, April 17, 2009; Conceptual Writing! & Its Environs, The Uferhallen, Berlin, May 1, 2009; a portfolio of Flarf and Conceptual Writing! in Poetry Magazine, July/August, 2009--Conceptual Writing! has arrived in LA, only to find that it's already there!? Los Angeles!? Conceptual Writing!

Discover Conceptual Writing! and so much more as you encounter the Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the Conceptual Lit Reading! & CREDIT Launch! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

Come celebrate the release of Mathew Timmons' CREDIT, an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book published by Blanc Press and retailing for $199.99 which the author himself lacks the cash or credit to purchase. Come also to celebrate Conceptual Writing! in Los Angeles! with the wonderful Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

For more information about this event, please contact: laliterature [at[ gmail [dot[ com

Information About the Artists:
Harold Abramowitz's books and chapbooks include Not Blessed (forthcoming Les Figues Press), Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), Dear Dearly Departed (Palm Press), Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS Books), and Three Column Table (Insert Press). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.
See: eohippus labs - Three Column Table - Sunday, Or A Summer's Day - Dear Dearly Departed - Late Night Snack

Joseph Mosconi co-edits the art & poetry journal Area Sneaks and co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau. He has been mispronouncing words for approximately 30 years.
See: Area Sneaks - Triple Canopy - fillip - Poetic Research Bureau -

Bruna Mori's books are Dérive (Meritage Press), Tergiversation (Ahadada Books), and Poetry for Corporations, forthcoming from Insert Press. She recently relocated from downtown L.A. to the Village of La Jolla, where she will be teaching "What Happens When Nothing Happens" at UCSD; she also writes copy for design firms and is Lucien's mom.
See: Dérive - Tergiversation - Drunken Boat - LA-Lit

Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press, 2006), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law is forthcoming from Other Press in 2010. Information As Material will be publishing her trilogy: Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument. Statement of Facts will also be published in France by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits.
See: Ugly Duckling Presse - Les Figues - Fiction Collective 2

Ara Shirinyan is the author of four books, most recently Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan–Guyana), from Futurepoem Books, and editor of Make Now Press. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and lives in Los Angeles.
See: Palm Press - Insert Press - Futurepoem Books - Poetic Research Bureau

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and digital artist who moved to Los Angeles last year to take a job at UCLA. His work can be found at www.arras.net. His most recent books of poetry are What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers and Kluge, both of which can be bought at Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org).
See: PennSound - The Dreamlife of Letters - Fashionable Noise - Salt Publishing

Mathew Timmons has published prose, poetry and criticism in various places including: P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine, X-TRA and The Encyclopedia Project. A chapbook, Lip Service (Slack Buddha), and an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, CREDIT (Blanc Press), was recently published. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books) are forthcoming.
See: Blanc Press - General Projects - Insert Press - LA-Lit - Late Night Snack

Christine Wertheim is the author of +|'me’S-pace (Les Figues Press) and the editor of Feminniasance (Les Figues Press, 2010). Recent critical work and poetry appears in X-tra, Cabinet, The Quick and the Dead, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. With Matias Viegener she co-edited the anthologies Seancé and The nOulipian Analects.
See: Christine's site - +|'me'S-pace - Feminaissance - The /n/oulipian Analects

The Ups & Downs

2009-08-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Ups & Downs
65 | 77 | 03 | by Liz Glynn
Friday September 4 & Saturday September 5 from 7-10pm
a General Project at workspace

To attend the opening on September 4th, please RSVP to mathewtimmons[at]gmail[dot]com. Space is limited. Opening is FULL!!! No more RSVPs please, unless you've received a direct invitation to the opening!

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

artist’s statement:
One hundred seven stories high over Manhattan, a group of diners at the World Trade Center's skyscraping restaurant Windows on the World downed their digestifs, took a last glance at the stunning lightshow below, and crowded into a waiting down elevator. The doors slid shut. The elevator didn't budge. Someone stabbed irritably at the button. Nothing happened. Somebody got the doors open and the passengers free. "The elevator's out," one of them huffily informed the white-jacketed captain. The captain shrugged toward the nightscape outside, gone suddenly inky black. "So's New York," he replied. - from "Heart of Darkness," Newsweek, June 25, 1977

65 | 77 | 03 | - is a meditation on the blackouts which have occurred in New York City over the last forty years. From the relative social harmony of the mid sixties to the period of unrest and economic stagnation which followed in the next decade, each blackout unfolded in a different socio-economic context. Based on interviews and news accounts of each event, Liz Glynn will stage a series of vignettes exploring the social dynamics of a city gone dark.

artist’s bio:
Liz Glynn uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the pleasure of ruin. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay by evidencing process, encouraging participation, and inciting future action. Her work has been presented at venues including the New Museum (NYC), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Machine Project, the REDCAT Lounge. Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Art Lies, Domus, and Archaeology Magazine. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and her BA from Harvard College.

Reading Extravaganza!

2009-08-08T14:13:00.001-07:00

This just in from Harold Abramowitz - co-editor of eohippus labs!

Dear Friends,

Please join eohippus labs for

A Dual Book Release Event...

Where we will

1. Unveil the very fine

Emohippus Greeting Card 3rd Series

And ask you to

2. Make merry with us over the release of the full-length chapbook

Sin is to Celebration

by

Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

FREE

Doors open at 2:30pm

Reading starts at 3:00pm
at The Lounge at REDCAT

with readings of emotional writing by

Teresa Carmody

Honey Crawford

Darin Klein

Vanessa Place

SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS

Mathew Timmons

&

Others

Les Figues: Maneuvers

2009-07-30T02:38:00.000-07:00

Les Figues Press is publishing a book by me! The New Poetics comes next year in their Trench Art: Maneuvers series. Each year they begin by publishing a book of aesthetic statements from the artists and writers participating in the series. Below is all the info you need to pick up a copy of the aesthetics... become a member, it's a great press!

Les Figues Press happily announces the fifth TrenchArt series:

TrenchArt: Maneuvers

aesthetics by:
Harold Abramowitz
Vincent Dachy
Lily Hoang
Paul Hoover
Mathew Timmons

Art by VD Collective
Design by Teresa Carmody
Book 1 of 5, TrenchArt: The Maneuvers Series
ISBN 13: 978-1-934254-11-0
39 pp. | handbound | hand-folded

AVAILABLE NOW by SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP

Hand-bound in an edition of 250, TrenchArt: Maneuvers introduces the fifth annual TrenchArt series, with aesthetics written by participating series writers and visual artists. Maneuvers explores the possibilities of re-ordered time and content framed with the understanding that one cannot separate content from time, and that to shift the form or the order is to shift the subjectivies of a text. The participants in the 2009/2010 series are Harold Abramowitz, Lily Hoang, Paul Hoover, Matthew Timmons and Vincent Dachy.

Read Excerpts: YES!

TrenchArt is an annual subscription series of innovative literature and poetics. Become a SUBSCRIBING MEMBER and receive all five books in the TrenchArt Maneuvers series, as they are published, including:

• TrenchArt: Maneuvers, July 2009
• Sonnet 56 by Paul Hoover, November 2009
• Not Blessed by Harold Abramowitz, January 2010
• The Evolutionary Revolution by Lily Hoang, April 2010
• The New Poetics by Mathew Timmons, July 2010

LES FIGUES PRESS: CREATING AESTHETIC CONVERSATIONS

Address postal inquiries to:
Les Figues Press
Teresa Carmody
PO Box 7736
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Review of Erik Frydenborg's show at Bonelli

2009-07-20T16:40:00.001-07:00

My review of Erik Frydenborg's show Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary for The Magazine has been posted online if yr interested in reading...

An Afternoon Reading... July 12, 2009 at The Lounge at REDCAT

2009-06-30T03:01:00.000-07:00

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This in from Harold Abramowitz...

Hello Friends,

Please Join us for

An Afternoon Reading...

Sunday, July 12, 2009
at The Lounge at REDCAT

with

Tetra Balestri
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Nellis
&
Mathew Timmons

FREE & FREE COFFEE

Doors open at 11:30am
Reading starts at noon

Tetra Balestri is a recent resident of LA hailing from SF by way of NY. Her poems have appeared in the magazines Sal Mimeo and There Are Flying Planes and her chapbook, Cheap Imitations, was published by Green Zone in 2008. Her plays have been performed at Under St. Marks Theater and the Ontological Theater in New York as well as the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. She has worked as an archivist for poet Larry Fagin and as assistant editor and contributor to various Facts on File encyclopedias including Encyclopedia of European Peoples. She currently works at the Beyond Baroque Literary and Arts Center in Venice.

Tisa Bryant’s first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid fiction-essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books, along with the work of filmmaker/writer Chris Kraus. Tisa is currently sketching out an historical novel, getting Vol. 2 of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project, she co-edits, ready to go to print, and she is very happy to be relocating to LA this fall to teach creative writing at CalArts.

Jennifer Nellis lives, teaches, and writes in the Inland Empire. Her poems can be found on Cricket Online Review and the forthcoming issue of mark(s). Her movie-telling/benshi pieces, A Dip in the Pool and Poison, have been performed in San Francisco, LA, Miami, and various living rooms across the country.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects and he co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Credit

2009-06-25T00:08:00.000-07:00

CREDIT
by Mathew Timmons
Coming soon from Blanc Press in Los Angeles!

an 800pg full color, large format, hard bound book!

The odd note on Apollinaire

2009-06-13T14:10:00.000-07:00

Apollinaire died on November 9, 1918 in Paris after being confined to bed for five days, sick from the swine flu epidemic, that one they constantly refer to in the news as the last H1N1 swine flu virus.

coffee enema

2009-06-09T16:54:00.001-07:00

Mores McWreath videos

2009-06-06T12:04:00.000-07:00

Some interesting digital video at See Line Gallery...
especially the Arms Like... Hands Like... No Fingers.

Chris Burden Shoot the LOLvant-garde

2009-05-19T14:44:00.001-07:00

General Projects Openings at Outpost!

2009-04-27T23:49:00.001-07:00

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Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
&
Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons
Friday, May 1 from 7-10pm
General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
projected text, sound; dimensions variable

Ecliptic is a single piece of narrative movement projected on up to three adjoining walls. It is a capturing of the interior voice and a visualization of the recessional quality of the mind’s present moment. From the right, a discontinuous stream of language pops suddenly into view. The words move leftward at a walking pace, their thin line of monologue traveling unfettered through space. The words form a twenty-minute looped interior monologue which is written such that the observer may pick up threads of the conversation’s main themes at any time: the text ‘updates’ itself, and tracks back on itself, frequently. A minimalist bed of ambient sound accompanies the projection.

Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons

The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘An Information of Skin’ centers on the absence of characters and the buildup of detritus. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Detritus’ is about the building of flesh upon flesh. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Dermatitis’ celebrates Demeter’s gift of cereal to humankind as two (or three, maybe four) characters banter over the longest breakfast that turns successively into lunch then dinner and then again into breakfast. The Play that Doesn’t Exist is a war between time passing and the nature of our humanity celebrating Demeter’s gift of flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh. Duration is the constant timeline as time struggles with becoming new again—an emotional overhaul, confronting and discarding it’s own skin. Characters struggle with and are eventually won over by anonymity and absence as they find themselves immersed within a Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist.

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Dorsey Dunn is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work in sound, text and image, in the form of installations, performances and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. Languages, spoken and sounded, in their multiplicities of gesture and meaning, are a primary concern, as are considerations of memory, spatial presence, and will. Dorsey regularly exhibits and performs his sound-led installations and music in the US and internationally. He has received invitations to exhibitions and residencies around the world, most recently to Q-O2 Gallery in Brussels; the new media lab TESLA in Berlin; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Festival International de Arte Digital, Rosario, Argentina; MusicAcoustica in Beijing; and Is Arti in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine, Trafika, based in Prague and New York. He was educated in New York City.

Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne Larsen translates text and dimensionality into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Through social experiments in art, Larsen breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. A Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer, Janne Larsen has exhibited at Telic Arts Exchange, workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, BetaLevel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. She has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster” and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled “Tea Parties” with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project.

Eleven Things in 3 Catagories

2009-04-20T14:09:00.000-07:00

Artists and Projects:
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Odd Dadameter
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literary things
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Lip Service for Lip Service: A Review!

2009-04-05T14:41:00.001-07:00

Stan Apps reviewed my new chapbook - Lip Service!
Thanks Stan Apps.
Yay!

2009-03-31T14:56:00.000-07:00

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2009-03-19T23:45:00.000-07:00

Lip Service - a chapbook by Me!

2009-03-18T18:05:00.000-07:00

Hey! I have a new chapbook out, Lip Service from Slack Buddha Press. Come celebrate this momentous literary occasion in the LOUNGE at REDCAT on Sunday, March 22 at 2pm with readings from myself, Will Alexander and Teresa Carmody and you can pick up your very own copy of Lip Service at the event. You can also order a copy online from Slack Buddha if you are so inclined.
best
Mathew Timmons

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LIP SERVICE

By

Mathew Timmons
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To celebrate this momentous literary and cultural occasion, there will be a reading/release party!

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE At REDCAT
on Sunday March 22nd at 2:00 pm
Free
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Thus,
Lip Service
A Reading/Chapbook release party

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE at REDCAT
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Free

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And as an added bonus incentive for joining us, you can pick up your own copy of Lip Service at REDCAT.

Or, to let you off the hook, but continue your celebratory obligation, you can order a copy online here,

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LIP SERVICE
By
Mathew Timmons

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Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the surrealist vision to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. Alexander's writing represents a complex distillation of images from many fields, including botany, astronomy, psychology, physiology, mysticism, and history. His books include Above the Human Nerve Domain, Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), The Stratospheric Canticles and Sunrise and Armageddon. He has two works forthcoming: Alien Weaving (Green Integer) and Sri Lankan Loxodrome (Canopic Publishing). The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem, (Les Figues, 2005) and the recent chap/micro books Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008) and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared in the emohippus greeting cards series, Slope, Fold Appropriate Text, American Book Review, Bombay Gin, and 4th Street. She was an organizer of the original Ladyfest (Olympia) and co-organizer of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Director of Les Figues Press.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He curates the installation series, The Ups & Downs, at workspace and runs General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux) and Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz). A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.

Outpost, ASAP & You & Me!

2009-03-10T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hi All - I'm curating many and various events, exhibitions etc at Outpost over the next few months - and the first of these events is this coming Saturday at 1pm.
Hope to see you there...

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Outpost for Contemporary Art

Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards
Saturday, March 14
1:00-3:00 pm

A free conversation organized by The After School Arts Program (ASAP)
Presentation will be followed by Q&A

Guest Speakers:

Carol Stakenas
Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Walter Askins
Artist, Former Board member of the Pasadena Arts Museum (1963-1968) and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)

Letitia Ivins
Former member of the Outpost for Contemporary Art Advisory Board and current member of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Maria Grant
Board Overseer for the Huntington Art Museum and Board Chair of the Thomas Aquinas College

There will be refreshments, so please come early and stay after to chat!

This event is the first in a series of events curated by Mathew Timmons for Outpost for Contemporary Art that will occur over the next several months at our Highland Park location. Stay tuned for a full calendar of events.

Outpost's Board of Directors are Julie Deamer (Founding Director), Jordan Biren (President), Amy Pederson (Vice-President), Maureen Branley (Treasurer), Rachel Allen, David Bloom, Gary Cannone, and Jeremy Rosenberg.

Outpost for Contemporary Art
6375 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at (323) 982-9461 or (323) 899-3533 or email at julie@outpost-art.org for more information.

2009-03-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 5

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs: Danielle Adair - Mar 6 & 7

2009-03-05T18:07:00.000-08:00

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

two more

2009-02-26T13:35:00.000-08:00

Property is Theft

&

bringing the typewriter back and putting a spin on text as art

My Bad Tab Habit

2009-02-22T16:54:00.001-08:00

I have this habit of collecting open tabs in my browser over the course of several days, because, yes, I'm one of those people who shuts down their computer about once every other month or so. This has been the cause of some recent posts on my blog - where I just kinda dump a bunch of random links to things I've found or people have shown me or whatever - so now here are some more...

one
two
three
four
five

and then... after getting back from AWP in Chicago last Sunday I ended up going to Cinefamily that night to see Jacob Ciocci from Paper Rad which was awesome and kinda hurt my eyes. He did a thing at the end that was live performance etc which he called a dance routine (a mental dance routine for those of us sitting in the audience). I made an off the cuff time lapse of some of that from the camera on my iphone. I'm obsessed with time lapse right now.
here's the dance routine.
(with a little bit of another performance there at the beginning)

recession era lolcats

2009-02-20T11:13:00.000-08:00

More Time Lapse!

2009-02-16T18:16:00.000-08:00

More Time Lapse Documentations! From Day 1 and Day 2 of LA-Lit: Clouds! A two day conference from back in November that we put on at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock.
Enjoy!

The Ups & Downs: Janne Larsen

2009-02-08T17:23:00.000-08:00

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 4

The Ups & Downs: You and Them
at workspace
You and Them by Janne Larsen
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

This installation is about elbows, the least friendly part of the body; elbows on the freeway, the least social social-interaction. Let’s face it: In the freeway it is You or Them. Body parts are at high risks, morphing into the space of the car, you maneuver and try to out-strategize Them. The last figure in the installation is the hopelessly ideal. The one that is the Other. The unused body part, the dreamer, the drifter, the asleep at the wheel, the one no one talks about.

Opening reception February 6th, 2009 at 7:00pm
Closing reception February 7th, 2009 at 7:00pm

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs: Dan Richert

2009-02-08T16:16:00.000-08:00

Photos from The Ups & Downs 3

The Ups & Downs
Dan Richert
Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, November 14, 2008 from 7 to 10pm

Betalevel has sprung a leak! We are moving Dan Richert’s installation in The Ups & Downs series to Marmion Way located at 4233 Marmion Way #3, los angeles 90065.

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs:
Dan Richert
*sc3gzr* is an interactive gamepad-controlled text stream filter designed around pattern-based text filtering functionality similar to that found in the UNIX tools grep and sed. Filtering patterns are determined by control messages sent from the gamepad. *sc3gzr* is an experiment in non-linear text presentation.

Dan Richert is a programmer and digital artist. His work primarily focuses on computerized text and audio generation, recombination and breakage.

The Ups & Downs: Marcus Civin & Candice Lin

2009-02-08T13:15:00.000-08:00

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 2

The Ups & Downs
Marcus Civin & Candice Lin
Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, October 24, 2008 from 10pm to late

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs:
Marcus Civin & Candice Lin
When the wind got too rough, and the ship was pitching, sailors took an axe to the mast, so the lighting wouldn’t catch. We were at the top, in the crow’s nest, tangled in the nets and in the tatters of the sails. When it was all over, we climbed out and found we had washed upon a beach of graphite sand. Shipwreck! Enormous Crow’s Nest built to reach the ceiling, stuck in and consuming the underground space at Betalevel.

Candice Lin and Marcus Civin both attended Brown University at the same time but never really met there. They both lived in San Francisco but never met there, though they had friends in common. A mutual friend, Maggie Foster, encouraged them to meet up in LA. As a result, they have been exchanging ideas for the last 2 years. Candice is planning an exhibition for Chung King Projects. Marcus is almost finished his MFA in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.

The Ups & Downs: Pablo Molina

2009-02-08T12:58:00.000-08:00

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 1

The Ups & Downs
Pablo N. Molina
Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, September 26, 2008 from 7 to 10 pm

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs:
Pablo N. Molina
Continuing an exploration of human-media interaction, Pablo N. Molina’s newest work uses digital projection and custom software to create a dynamic spatialized interface where human movement is processed and extended. An immersive and responsive video display and digital sensory framework will track both presence and movement to produce an intricate and reactive environment. Meaningful conversations between human stimuli and data processing are temporarily registered as visual and auditory output. Viewers should feel free to explore and discover new modes of action and reaction. The purposely open-ended coding framework allows for completely unexpected, though never random, modes of feedback.

Pablo N. Molina is a Los Angeles and New York City based video, lighting and sound artist. His work has appeared in several galleries and numerous theatrical, music and dance performances including pieces by Carl Hancock Rux, Neil Denari, Karin Coonrod, Bebe Miller, Aimee Michelle, Lars Jan, Mira Kingsley, Sam Gold, Chi-wang Yang, Benny Sato Ambush, Cloud Eye Control, Rachel Boggia and High Jinks Dance Co. His digitally generated video content was prominently featured in Linkin Park’s recent Projekt Revolution world tour. He is currently collaborating with MODE Studios in Seattle to develop a large scale interactive video and sound installation commissioned by a prominent Fortune 500 company. Pablo teaches video design and programming at CalArts.

three of one billboard

2009-02-03T23:09:00.000-08:00

six things

2009-01-26T22:47:00.000-08:00

one
two
three
four
five
six

I like this...

2009-01-26T15:39:00.001-08:00

The film Drift by Kelly Sears
with voiceover by Anthony McCann

credit

2009-01-13T23:55:00.001-08:00

Express

2009-01-03T19:59:00.001-08:00

My New Favorite Photo of Will Alexander

2008-12-16T23:46:00.000-08:00

Late Night Snack at RedCat Fri, Dec 12 at 7:30pm

2008-12-04T10:26:00.000-08:00

Late Night Snack
at the lounge at REDCAT
Friday, This Time On Friday!
Friday, December 12 at 7:30pm

and afterwards, join us for...

Darkness Cometh
presented by the Department of Water and Power
1257 E. 6th St., LA, CA 90021
Friday, December 12 at 10:30pm

...
Not terrible, but if you're putting peanut butter on them, that can get calorically expensive really quick. Half a cup of peanut butter to no more than 2 tbsp. If you still do, just make a few on a plate and get out of the food never gets worked off.
Especially since youre eating
just make the kitchen, drink a full glass of water. Go in a full glass of loosening them up a full by eating significantly less. When I have a really high carb stuff like crackers. I find unsalted heaver crakers like finewine suggested but sit there, so I started my mouth(have you get that can get the food never gets worked off. Especially since youre only the craving, it takes a blind juxtapositioning and eat a great way to help you put a glass of beer, sausages and that little muenster cheese. From what would suggest
...

At Late Night Snack on October 4, 2008:
Stan Apps, Mathew Timmons, and Jesse Bonnell performed a play by Brent Cunningham.
Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons read Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss.
Poor Dog Group performed.
Andrew Choate performed.
Christine Wertheim performed.
Allison Carter and Beth McNamara performed.

...

At Late Night Snack on September 30, 2008:
Liz Hansen read.
Laura Steenberge played her light cage.
Ara Shirinyan read.
BodyCity danced.

...

At Late Night Snack on February 17, 2008:
Allison Carter read.
Caribbean Fragoza read.
Danielle Adair read.

…

At Late Night Snack on November 15, 2007: Sean Deyoe lectured. Michelle Detorie read. Sandy Ding and Mathew Timmons improvised a film score. Ara Shirinyan read. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place read and asked others to read. Amanda Ackerman and Harold Abramowitz read. Jason Brown lectured and led a sing-along. Danielle Adair performed. Honey Crawford, Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created poetry. Laura Steenberge talked. Liz Glynn and Matt Kool performed. … At Late Night Snack on October 25, 2007: Sandy Ding screened two films, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Heather Lockie played banjo and sang, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Mitsu Salmon performed. Marcus Civin read. … At Late Night Snack on October 11, 2007: Susanne Hall read and presented a movie with Ryan Adlaf. Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Jason Brown lectured about poetry and memory. Michelle Detorie read. … At Late Night Snack on September 27, 2007: Gerard Olson read. Michael Smoler read. Catherine Daly read. Laura Steenberge & Heather Lockie composed and performed a film score. Michael Kelleher read. Emily Lacy played guitar and banjo and sang. … At Late Night Snack on September 13, 2007: Liz Glynn performed Untitled. Ara Shirinyan read. Eileen Myles read. … At Late Night Snack on August 7, 2007: Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Ara Shirinyan presented a paper. Jenny Hodges showed slides and read. Everyone collaborated with the internet. … At Late Night Snack on July 24, 2007: Mary Kite showed a video and read. Laura Steenberge played bass and Heather Lockie played fiddle, they both sang. Jane Sprague read. Franklin Bruno played guitar and sang. … At Late Night Snack on July 10, 2007: Danielle Adair read and danced. Maximus Kim presented his manifesto. C.J. Pizarro told 3 jokes, read 3 poems and sang 3 songs. Stan Apps read. … At Late Night Snack on June 26, 2007: Alyssandra Nighswonger played guitar and sang. Jane Sprague presented Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. Ara Shirinyan read from Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. The Year Zero played music. Alan Semerdjian & Will Alexander created music. … At Late Night Snack on June 12, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Will Alexander gave a lecture. Laura Steenberge played bass and sang. Todd Collins read. Stan Apps read. Lee Ann Brown did string tricks. Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown presented a reading. … At Late Night Snack on May 29, 2007: A film by Nick Flavin. Jane Sprague performed. Laura Steenberge gave a lecture. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Will Alexander read. … At Late Night Snack on May 15, 2007: Ara Shirinyan read. Laura Steenberge played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy spontaneously played guitar and sang. Dan Richert’s hi-tech hut made sound. … At Late Night Snack on April 24, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Laura Steenberge played stand-up bass and sang. Teresa Carmody read. Sean Deyoe performed karaoke. Stan Apps read. Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show with Laura Steenberge. … At Late Night Snack on April 10, 2007: Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created spontaneous poetry. WAMPA staged the Dialectical Fuss. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented the Masculinihilist Manifesto. … At Late Night Snack on March 20, 2007: Maximus Kim explained his manifesto. Ara Shirinyan. Milly Saunders read. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented a film. Jen Hofer read, assisted by William Mark. … At Late Night Snack on March 6, 2007: Mathew Timmons read. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Stan Apps lectured spontaneously. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 20, 2007: Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Ara Shirinyan read. Jane Sprague read, assisted by Marcus Civin. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 6, 2007: Marcus Civin performed. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) read from the WAMPA mailbag and dispensed advice. Alex Maslansky played guitar and sang. Nature’s Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, read from his WAMPA Conference address. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place presented Turkey Trot. … At Late Night Snack on Jan 16, 2007: Marcus Civin performed, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Lloyd Ducal (Joseph Mosconi) and Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) presented the tenets of WAMPA, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, Darin Klein presented Untitled Performance with Stan Apps, Jesse Aron Green, Steven Reigns, and Christopher Russell, Emily Lacy played banjo, fiddle, and sang … At Late Night Snack on Dec 19, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Cat Lamb and Lewis Keller performed a composition for viola and electrified cymbal/electronics, Stan Apps read, Khanh Tran performed a recital on the theremin … At Late Night Snack on Dec 5, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, “Ghost drawings ‘were’ brought fourth throught the ouija board assisted by christian cummings and michael decker.”, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place played Judgment Day Bingo with the audience, Ara Shirinyan read … At Late Night Snack on Nov 21, 2006: Ara Shirinyan read, Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang.

LA-Lit: Clouds ::

2008-11-18T17:14:00.001-08:00

form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass-condensation
atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents-groundless-texture
connectivity-dense-manifest-rhythm-decenter-collaborate-surprise-confer-disperse

LA-Lit: Clouds :: November 21+22, 2008
at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock

Come celebrate LA-Lit’s three year anniversary on Friday November 21 at Betalevel and on Saturday November 22 at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. For over three years, LA-Lit has developed a new space for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles, LA-Lit has conducted well over thirty interviews with poets and writers who have lived in LA all their lives as well as writers who have visited LA for only a few days. Please join us for LA-Lit: Clouds :: a two day conference in Los Angeles connecting the decentered literary culture of LA in an effort to investigate it’s current manifestations and to develop a sense of LA’s inherent literary spontaneity.

LA-Lit: Clouds :: Schedule
Friday November 21:
8:00pm-11:00pm:
Perform and Celebrate at Betalevel
Stan Apps, Teresa Carmody, Amarnath Ravva, Lisa Samuels, Christine Wertheim

Saturday November 22:
Confer at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
12:00pm-1:30pm

form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass
condensation-structure-elements-foreground-background

Panelists: Stan Apps, Guy Bennett, Christine Wertheim, Ara Shirinyan

2:00pm-3:30pm

atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents
groundless-textured-visible-droplets-interstellar-crystalline

Panelists: Will Alexander, Teresa Carmody, Amarnath Ravva, Mark Wallace

4:30pm-6:00pm
Perform at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Will Alexander, Guy Bennett, K. Lorraine Graham, Sawako Nakayasu, Ara Shirinyan, Mark Wallace

Betalevel – in the alley behind 963 N. Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock – 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041

Machine Project, LACMA, the LA Times - la la

2008-11-17T11:22:00.000-08:00

A Machine Project Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was at LACMA this weekend. The LA Times has an article here, that mentions my collaborative project with Daniel Richert specifically (YAY).

Agitprop Reading Series Saturday 11/1/2008

2008-10-27T13:11:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

We hope you can join us this Saturday, November 1 for the next reading
in the Agitprop reading series at Agitprop Gallery (2837 University
Ave in North Park, entrance on Utah, a few blocks west of 30th
Street), featuring STAN APPS and MATHEW TIMMONS. Wine and snacks will
be served. Donations to the gallery are always appreciated.

Stan Apps is a poet and essayist living in Los Angeles. His books of
poems include soft hands (Ugly Duckling Presse), Princess of the World
in Love (Cy Press), Info Ration (Make Now Press) and God's Livestock
Policy (Les Figues Press). A collection of essays is underway from
Combo Books. Recent work has appeared in Joyland: a hub for short
fiction (http://www.joyland.ca/home/los_angeles), Try Magazine,
Abraham Lincoln, Ecopoetics, and the Icelandic webzine Tregawott.
Stan ekes out a living as an adjunct college instructor, teaching the
poor to write short persuasive essays.

Mathew Timmons co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (
w/ Stephanie Rioux) and Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz). His
collaboration with visual artist Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary
(P S Books), is forthcoming, and his work may be found in various
journals, including: Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum,
The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes,
eohippus labs and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches
interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of
Critical Studies.

We hope to see you there and for all festivities afterwards!

AGITPROP POETRY SERIES
Saturday, June 7th
7:00pm
AGITPROP Gallery
2837 University Ave in North Park. Entrance on Utah.

five things

2008-10-22T02:55:00.000-07:00

Here are five things:
number one
number two
number three
number four
number five

Free Free Free

2008-10-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

FREE PDF of FOLD APPROPRIATE TEXT
for a limited time only

Read the last issue of Fold Magazine together with your friends!
Then write the next issue of Fold Magazine together with your friends!

FOLD COLLABORATE NARRATE
CALL FOR WORK:

The People work together and we like to see The People doing stuff. We look forward to reading! Reading works written by people writing together!

The editors of Insert Press are soliciting manuscripts for the second issue of Fold magazine.

Fold Collaborate Narrate will provide a venue for collaborative works of narrative and autobiographical prose, mixed genre works, collaboratively written reviews, and collaborative critical analyses of collaboratively written works. In this moment we feel the relevance of collaboration, and the togetherness promoted by people writing as a group, is central. We are interested in storytelling that does more than reiterate constructions of the subject; instead we value collaborative works that enter terrains where the individual would find it difficult to go. We believe collaboration opens new possibilities in genre manipulation. We will favor works that exemplify the difference between group writing and individual subjective manifestations.

Find a partner! Build a team! Gather round a gang and write together: it is friendly! We look forward to receiving submissions from partners, teams and gangs. The works of Wu Ming, the Bernadette Corporation, the President of the United Hearts, the Grand Piano project, and the Pines are examples of the type of writing the editors wish to print.

All writing in Fold Collaborate Narrate will be done by groups.

Please submit works of around 3500 words or less. Send your submissions to insertpress@gmail.com as .doc or .rtf by December 1st.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:10:00.000-07:00

As the angels reminded the apostles on that hill outside Jerusalem, the ending only comes when Jesus returns as judge to close the age, and exaltation into glory, a victorious ascent plays an important role. The theory is most often attributed to a Scottish physicist who proposed about 40 years ago that the vacuum between the stars is not empty but made of a fabric that extends infinitely in all directions. If anything I toned this idea down to make it actually believable. Every opinion I wrote was based on fact and first hand observation. I guess the saying "the truth hurts" is spot on accurate because I got many responses both for and against. I shrugged it all off, and a while later, crossed my arms again over my chest and the same thing happened, but even more pronounced. There was no pain just this weird "moving" vibrating sensation. It almost felt like liquid squishing around. It’s certainly a possible trend, but it’s doubtful that we’ll move from “all free time being devoted to TV” to “all free time being devoted to creating.” After all, one must consume things in order to create things created in a vacuum.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:09:00.004-07:00

Inside the dome of my mind’s eye I can create a vacuum, with absolutely no atmosphere. Instead of repelling dangers, I simply form a dome around them. The requirements of this effort on my mind are disorientating, as I simultaneously performed the job of sitting down with our patients and explaining how these treatments were going to affect quality of life. Only around five percent of the patients in each group chose “watchful waiting,” or “active surveillance,” a small percentage advocated for scaling down workload. We were able to assist your valuable employees in scaling down work overloads by employing sufficient staff, improving systems and workflow, and by creating partnerships with other companies. You created a balance. You provided yourself with a good news team and affirmed that the exit interviews would not create any vacuum in leadership. Then, you rushed forward to take me into custody. When it was all over and done with, you escorted me outside and threw me in the back of your car, so you could drive me to mental health. The threat is now over, but my body has yet to recover.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:09:00.003-07:00

Your campaign has always been a tricky exercise, especially as you found yourself stuck with an unpopular president. I have to say it was refreshing to see police cars and not automatically worry about getting pulled over. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes the evening rush hour traffic was a bitch. Remember when you and I were stuck between those two mountains and we saw a Flash on the horizon? You sat outside the mental hospital before driving home and woke me up to ask what time it was and if I was going to work. I told you I had to stop to get something and it just took awhile. Then I asked if something was wrong. You seemed upset. You could easily have picked up some noise-canceling headphones, which use internal microphones to generate another set of white noise sounds that drown out the ambient noise around you. You then reminded me that white noise isn't quite loud enough to cancel out our really noisy society.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:09:00.001-07:00

Personal Wealth Advice, let’s put a lens on exactly that, Personal Wealth Advice. I have two points I’d like to make. Whenever I saw you around during the day, you would say hi to me, and make sure I had gone to see which sororities and fraternities asked me back for the next night of Rush, and you generally helped me make the right decision to stick with Rush. Secondly, you taught me that sound is produced by a fan revolving at high speed. While for some it wouldn’t be much of a bother, and some may even like the white noise produced, there would be individuals who hate listening to a constant voice. I fought to hold onto that lifeline, suddenly certain that voice was important beyond measure. It had been so long since I'd heard it. Other voices had come and gone, but never once had this voice spoken to me. Until now. In fact, you have been a voice for the silent majority on many occasions over the past eight years.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:08:00.001-07:00

I sigh at the thought of not seeing you again until Wednesday. Tuesday was your day for home visits, so there wasn’t even the prospect of lunch to look forward to. We met last Wednesday evening outside that charming old pub, then returned to the job site and finished a long eight-hour rush to get done. I was sooooo tired. I hadn't worked like that in a long time. My feet hurt, my back hurt, I was mentally tired but LOVED IT. Just sitting with you at the Middlesbrough bus station wounded me. I tried to get a picture of the sign that said Middlesbrough but we stopped a little too far forward. I don't like Middlesbrough. Everyone has a place they don't like being and that's mine. You told me to go sit somewhere else with my mouth, and so with skill I rushed onto the court, dragging you and the bus driver away before you got hurt. My mouth sat on the sideline, continuing to film as you and I watched the fight, shocked by what we saw in front of us. Unfortunately, the microphone caught the sound of its own internal mechanism (I think it was the screen) and the video we produced had an annoying ringing noise.

sound noise

2008-10-05T15:07:00.001-07:00

Yes, the whole idea is that the only people in the game are other players, but this can create a vacuum. Well, in my experience, one of my biggest problems is this very same fact. The stable auditory high turns into an auditory nightmare. I then develop a multitude of minor issues such as eye twitching, sensitivity to high frequency sounds, white noise, static, and distortion. I’m usually the last to admit my own failure, but will this note change with road conditions or be one continuous single pitched noise? What we have sounds like the old furniture noises but higher pitched. It's hard to describe but rather like a very high voiced version of our National Anthem sung by five children (ages 6-8). I don’t think I’ve ever heard the National Anthem performed better than this! An entire arena remained completely silent throughout the entire performance.

sound noise

2008-10-05T13:50:00.000-07:00

Martin Luther King Jr. said that “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” As loyal Canadians and Americans, we are compelled to work toward improving our communities, and that means refusing to be ourselves. Conceiving of one other than one’s self at right angles of impetus and freeness, and self devoted caring, one is able to affect a rush of support. Hence, one’s self becomes an oedipal prismoid, the Superego approves of the inner self in broad terms and with that comes a focus and depth granted by resolution. Tears jumped into the corners of your eyes at just that moment, but I could see you were fighting them away hard, so I didn't say anything. "Yes," you said, gratefully. "Yes, I would love to." "Great!" I said, a rush of relief and exhilaration pounding in my chest. Now we have special sensors to keep us from falling down the stairs. The system comes with invisible walls, which sends a signal to keep us from passing through the wall. And, we can be programmed to vacuum on a set schedule every week.

The Ups & Downs

2008-09-09T01:34:00.000-07:00

Announcing:
The Ups & Downs
At Betalevel
September 2008 – May 2009

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs is:

Pablo N. Molina
Thursday, September 25, 2008, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, September 26, 2008, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Continuing an exploration of human-media interaction, Pablo N. Molina’s newest work uses digital projection and custom software to create a dynamic spatialized interface where human movement is processed and extended. An immersive and responsive video display and digital sensory framework will track both presence and movement to produce an intricate and reactive environment. Meaningful conversations between human stimuli and data processing are temporarily registered as visual and auditory output. Viewers should feel free to explore and discover new modes of action and reaction. The purposely open-ended coding framework allows for completely unexpected, though never random, modes of feedback.

Pablo N. Molina is a Los Angeles and New York City based video, lighting and sound artist. His work has appeared in several galleries and numerous theatrical, music and dance performances including pieces by Carl Hancock Rux, Neil Denari, Karin Coonrod, Bebe Miller, Aimee Michelle, Lars Jan, Mira Kingsley, Sam Gold, Chi-wang Yang, Benny Sato Ambush, Cloud Eye Control, Rachel Boggia and High Jinks Dance Co. His digitally generated video content was prominently featured in Linkin Park’s recent Projekt Revolution world tour. He is currently collaborating with MODE Studios in Seattle to develop a large scale interactive video and sound installation commissioned by a prominent Fortune 500 company. Pablo teaches video design and programming at CalArts.

Marcus Civin and Candice Lin
Thursday, October 23, 2008, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, October 24, 2008, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

When the wind got too rough, and the ship was pitching, sailors took an axe to the mast, so the lighting wouldn't catch. We were at the top, in the crow's nest, tangled in the nets and in the tatters of the sails. When it was all over, we climbed out and found we had washed upon a beach of graphite sand. Shipwreck! Enormous Crow's Nest built to reach the ceiling, stuck in and consuming the underground space at Betalevel.

Candice Lin and Marcus Civin both attended Brown University at the same time but never really met there. They both lived in San Francisco but never met there, though they had friends in common. A mutual friend, Maggie Foster, encouraged them to meet up in LA. As a result, they have been exchanging ideas for the last 2 years. Candice is planning an exhibition for Chung King Projects. Marcus is almost finished his MFA in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.

Dan Richert
*sc3gzr*
Thursday, November 13, 2008, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, November 14, 2008, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

*sc3gzr* is an interactive gamepad-controlled text stream filter designed around pattern-based text filtering functionality similar to that found in the UNIX tools grep and sed. Filtering patterns are determined by control messages sent from the gamepad. *sc3gzr* is an experiment in non-linear text presentation.

Dan Richert is a programmer and digital artist. His work primarily focuses on computerized text and audio generation, recombination and breakage.

Danielle Adair
January 2009

Danielle Adair’s work utilizes performance, video, sound, text, and multi-media installation to address current events in phenomenological ways. By realizing work through different forms, she aims to avoid any particular narrative trajectory, and to, in turn, heighten sensitivity to one's social and theatrical surroundings. The subject matter of her recent projects include mental illness within current diagnostic understanding, systems of education, and wartime experience.

Danielle Adair is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Most recently she has performed and/or exhibited work at The Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, UC Santa Cruz, Beyond Baroque, and Track 16 Gallery. Currently she is at work on a performance-essay based on one female soldier's experience while stationed in Bagram, Afghanistan.

Skullphone
March 2009

"Skullphone" is an artist who works anonymously in city streets and deserted highways, incorporating his artwork into the urban environment. While ten foot tall posters loom high above building walls, small supporting incarnations blend into utilitarian spaces including gas stations, public bathrooms, parking meters, roll-up gates, and trash dumpsters—the unique platforms and non-blank canvases from which Skullphone "speaks".
Skullphone's monochrome pieces revolve around the central image of a skull holding a mobile phone, and usually take the form of classic wheat-pasted posters. Interpretations reflect modern fears about phone radiation and technology, and at the same time the image says something wider about the darker side of consumerism and the commodification of life.

Liz Glynn
April 2009
THE DECLINE AND FALL
Trash predicates revolution.
Ruin leads to rebirth.

Liz Glynn's practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay. Through a production process which combines transformative recycling with traditional sculpture techniques, she creates objects which are fragile, temporal, and cannot cheat death like the mythologized museum artifact. For The Ups and Downs, Liz will present a new series of actions which consider the relationship between garbage and revolution in the twenty-first century.

Liz Glynn uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the pleasure of ruin. Recent works include the 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project at Machine Project, and the In the Beginning is the End, a Processional for Los Angeles in Chinatown. Her work has been presented at venues including Acuna-Hansen Gallery (LA), John Connolly Presents (NYC), and will be included in an upcoming project at LACMA. She has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and soon will travel to O'artoteca in Milan. Reviews of her work have been published in Art Lies and the Los Angeles Times.

An Announcement

2008-08-27T12:59:00.000-07:00

MMM reading at the smell

The MMM reading--Mathew Timmons, Maxi Kim, Marcus Civin

I'll be presenting new work from Lip Music and Sound Noise at the Smell this Sunday as a scored text that I have arranged. It should be exciting. It won't just be me standing behind the microphone, but five or six people standing behind the microphone! There will be mystery guests!

Stan Apps says, "See these three LA stalwarts read (or otherwise interpret) new fiction at the Smell on Sunday August 31st. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Mystery guests will be on hand to assist in the interpretation of new works by the MMM writers."

Bios:

Mathew Timmons co-edits/curates Insert Press, Trepan, LA-Lit and Late Night Snack. His collaboration with visual artist Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), is forthcoming, and his work may be found in various journals, including: Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Maxi Kim is the author of the Japanese no novel One Break, A Thousand Blows (2008 Book Works, edited by Stewart Home). Just prior to the publication, New Cross Gate's Second School (2008 Jan-June), an alternative D.I.Y. art school adjacent to Goldsmiths College, was struck by opposition and burned. The new utopia of the short twenty-first century (2009 Christie Scott) is his account of the London experiment.

Marcus Civin is a visual artist and writer who divides his time between Los Angeles and Irvine. His visual art has been shown at High Energy Constructs Gallery, The University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, and elsewhere. He has translated several 19th century Russian novels (War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Sons) into alternative formats, such as text-messages. He edits and publishes the journal DISASTER. His collaboration with Mathew Timmons, a particular vocabulary, is forthcoming (see above). He is the cover artist for kari edwards' Iduna and Insert Press' Fold Collaborate Narrate.

location:

THE SMELL
247 S. Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles
(enter in the alley in the back--the alley is named Harlem Court)

time:

Doors open 6:00PM, reading starts approximately 6:30, everything should be wrapped up by 8:30.

sound noise

2008-08-22T13:58:00.001-07:00

I glared at you for a while, giving you a chance to defend yourself. Finally, you sucked in an aggravated breath and shoved forward, your fists clenched tightly at your sides. “Nothing to say? Fine. Just, fine.” This was the picture from the bridge. Let me lead the way. Begin with the head rests for the seats, and work your way down through all of the crevices to the carpet. Tip: If you have car odor you are trying to control, spread out baking soda throughout the car before starting to vacuum. As any sound engineer can tell you, noise can be most easily stopped at its source. Acoustical ceiling tile will keep the sound that originates in a basement recreation area from being carried throughout the house. Remember when Your Voice, My Silent Voice and Our Silence went to apply for the same job. Our Silence had more experience and education than Your Voice. During the job interview, Our Silence made a request for an interpreter and Your Voice opted not to. Two weeks later, Your Voice had a job and My Silent Voice requested the following information from human rights watch: the answer to the following question was that only around 5% of people in each group chose “watchful waiting,” or “active surveillance.” A small percentage chose the job of sitting down with patience and explaining how these treatments would affect quality of life. Some tinnitus or head noise is normal. If one goes into a sound-proof booth and normal outside noise is diminished, one becomes aware of these normal sounds. We are usually not aware of these normal body sounds, because outside noise has a way of removing valuable high frequency spectrum from even the good parts. I have tried the high values, but that hacks the sound, creating even more noise. At low values it hacks the beginning and end of sound, but while noise cancellation does seem good, that's about all it has going for it because Your Voice still sounds muffled, soft and digital-like. Furthermore, my jawbone is too big and bulky to comfortably put into my pocket, but it does allow us to enjoy crystal clear conversations, free from annoying background noise.

sound noise

2008-08-22T13:30:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you didn’t speak, and then people would scream and rush forward and I would duck under your glare and disapproval and wish to crawl up inside myself. But no one was ever as bright as you were; never. Say as I say, or you shall never go. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, and be it moon, or sun, or what you please, and if you please to call it a rush or a candle, henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. The only exception comes when I wake up and seem to be perpetually chased by a monster to the extent that I suspect the monster has invaded Manhattan for the sole purpose of hunting me down. The silent voices of the people are begging to be heard and recognized; therefore we should stop and listen. You cannot know any nation; its past and its achievements, without first knowing the people who made all that possible. Last night a friend told me that his Russian friends say that if you rush to see all of Manhattan in the first few weeks, then you will have nothing left to look forward to. Maybe.

sound noise

2008-08-22T12:34:00.000-07:00

You know how when you read a poem, you kind of hear it in a voice that's coming from the place where your ribs join? You were about to ask for your turn when a voice squeaked from behind us. This was a real voice, booming loud, sending molecules scattering every which way in giant waves through the air. “Do I ever get a turn?” “I think you should go back to Sleep.” “I don’t!” “Please. I was just joking.” “Got you!” Then the room went Silent. “Yes?” “I miss you so much.” “…” “I miss your smile, your eyes, your voice. I miss your everything.” “…” “Say something!” “I’m in no rush to push my projects forward. Since I have a day job now it’s not so important to rush and get to the point where these things are making money. I love my job and hope to be working there for quite a long time!”

sound noise

2008-08-22T02:41:00.000-07:00

Noise canceling is a quite annoying option, but it’s pretty much a high frequency that you can kind of hear when turned on without any music from head phones. It’s almost the same sound as you hear when a TV is on, and this compared to what a single system achieves with outstanding detail and highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of high-end video production—wide dynamic range, low color noise, high-contrast detail, etc. After a lot of work over the winter months, I got the bike back together, and it feels great, only now I hear a faint noise, kind of like a high pitch "whoooo" between 40mph where I can just hear it and 60ish where it’s at its loudest. A Boeing 727 co-pilot once collected 61 noise observations using a handheld sound meter. The pilot defined noise level as Low (under 88 decibels), Medium (88 to 91 decibels), or High (92 decibels or more). Also, the pilot determined that there are three flight phases: Climb, Add and Move; Seed, Leech and Sleep; and Describe, Present and Release. I rushed to applaud the recent Supreme Court ruling, telling our audience that it represented a huge, huge, huge move forward to undercut efforts to commit fraud this fall. Anti-fraud efforts this fall will supply our team with the evidence and stature it needs to rip apart the competition. Horton heard a who in the silent forest of information. Sometimes you just simply can't put an end to what other people are thinking and saying. I keep telling myself not to give a crap about what others might think or say. Heck, they don't even really know me yet, and I don't want to trouble myself.

sound noise

2008-08-21T11:48:00.000-07:00

You may either sit or lie down, whichever is more comfortable for you. Cover your physical self with a light blanket if you chill easily. You want no distractions during your meditations so always make sure the physical vessel is hearing health. You’ll have to rush like mad, hahahah. And there will be long queues outside the toilets. The water will be icy cold, but I guess that's refreshing. Then after bathing, we will eat dinner. It's been raining lately, so there will probably be lots of bugs inside the Cage. You should be able to create a vacuum, if you can’t the diaphragm might be punctured. I will check to make sure the gap on all the spark plugs are the same and the correct size. Too small and you don’t get a full burn, too large and the spark might want to track. You regularly rub your pet down with a diaper wipe which not only moisturizes the pet’s skin but also gently removes loose hair and dander. A lint roller can collect loose hair, but will not moisturize the animal or make it smell better. I have always said that some tinnitus or head noise is normal. If you go into a sound proof booth and normal outside noise is diminished, you become aware of these normal sounds. We are usually not aware of these normal body sounds, because outside noise causes communication disorders and noise loss. Noise is sound that we have not selected to listen to.

sound noise

2008-08-18T11:15:00.001-07:00

At breakfast I got to meet everybody which was fun, fun… and then I rushed back to camp and got to volunteer for the day. I have been looking for Group Information and Special Group Meetings, some Good Classic Experience and a few notes in a hushed voice. Most of the time, when I team up with a couple medics, we’re able to move our cart forward. The thing about the Gold Rush is that the entire opposing team will attack a single area. If we stop to camp, we won’t move our heavy cart forward. And being on my feet is not a good idea for that long a time, but what I really regret today was my unexpected blurting out my opinion that, “For me, social movements start when individuals are free to think, create, ride trains, write stream-of-consciousness poetry, hang out in the garden for three years, or alternatively visit speakeasies in the middle of the night.” You were down in the triple chamber structure all day, trying to separate heat and noise from the power supply, hard drives and mother board for cooler and quieter operation. Noise level is defined as Low (under 88 decibels), Medium (88 to 91 decibels), or High (92 decibels or more). A quiet high-efficiency 430 Watt power supply with universal input and active high voltage supplies many household items, like microwave ovens. The square waves from those signals inside the case cause lots of noise, and worse yet, many people either have non-compliant cases or just remove the case covers! A Boeing 727 co-pilot once collected 61 noise observations using a handheld sound meter and determined that there are three flight phases: Climb, Contact and Layout; Climb, Supply and Contact; and Climb, Contact, Release.

sound noise

2008-08-03T11:37:00.000-07:00

As I have reported previously, for as many as twelve days following your return, you could sit silent for hours, unresponding to touch or voice, or perhaps simply uncaring. Sleep researchers say most of us are either larks or owls, some of us to an extreme. The ideal day best fits someone like you, who rises at 6 or 7 am and hits the hay at 10 or 11 pm, so owls or larks should set their clocks back or forward a few. The strange thing is that, yes, the whole idea is that the only people in this game are other players, and that can create a vacuum. One of my big problems with sound is that very same fact. So, I integrated your clock’s keypad-only mode with my phone’s Matrix mode and threw the old Metal Tiger out the window. It’s as if I just got a brand new voice, but there’s this very high pitched sound, almost like hissing or a mosquito noise, coming out from the top of my forehead, right behind where my eyes sit. My experience with sound is that it works quickly and effectively without the hassle of a vacuum. I have never once confessed to integrating text and voice through the window of three dimensional voice visualizations or of including you in the conversation just to make quick, simple phone calls for easier navigation. I didn't say that. I did not say that. This is a classic illustration. You heard what you wanted to hear based on your own biases and prejudices. I simply recited some facts for you. These are not arguable. You can slip an old unmatched sock on your hand and dust as you go. For windows and mirrors? Use old newspapers to clean mirrors and windows. You'll have a great disposable cleaning refrigerator if you clean your refrigerator coils and drip pan. Vacuum the vents and coils to clean them. Dusty coils have to work harder to cool down the interior and contents of the refrigerator. Check the gaskets for proper air seals. “Where are they?” I asked. “They’re right where I left 'em," you joked and were tugged forward a little as we did the rush forward and slow down thing, which generally meant a slower delivery into the forward line. Being a good sport, you slipped your arm loose and grabbed my hand as we set off at an easy jog towards the goal. Our rush was so good that the defensive side's pressure in the middle of the ground left the ball free. That which always gave the hawks a better chance of blocking up space around the goal, was instead, better still for us.

sound noise

2008-07-31T10:42:00.001-07:00

I want to buy when the price is low, but when does this occur? No one can tell you exactly, but when it starts to appear as undervalued in it's own index you can be fairly certain it's not going to stay down much longer. Using a clean white absorbent cloth, blot the area, pressing down firmly without rubbing for 30 seconds. Repeat this blotting process until the area is dry and odor free. Citrus based cleaning products may be used on almost any type of project. I can hear construction at the hospital (the hammering is very distinct), but not the high pitched noise of a bus pulling out. The car noises driving home are minimal, and the radio is just fuzz, sadly, but these are anticipated Acoustic Packages. The execution of the acoustic package is dependent on the noise limitations on site and the type of gas turbine used. Our experience enables us to determine and calculate the entire acoustic burden, including the sound. It’s actually been said that in the old days, they used to do a very simple exercise called the Knee Clap—legs spread out, say a square wide, then bring the knees together. And, everything, every move, whether going forward or backward, has to cover this rush of new energy in May 2008. You will find an enormous amount of life force energy available to anyone who wants to tap into and use it in May of 2008. Imagine the energy involved when flowers bloom, that life force energy is yours.

sound noise

2008-07-08T17:54:00.000-07:00

Is it my place to decide what any artist should and should not be writing? I never really learned to do any of the fancy stuff but I love the rush of achievement, of becoming one with motion, the music, the crowd, it’s all very addicting. I am really looking forward to how you look forward to seeing me, to feel the same rush of enthusiasm and eagerness that you arrive with and hopefully infect me with too. I see you there! It’s a pity that this late rush will come in lists of nonsense syllables and the measurement of how long it takes to forget and then relearn them (here is an example of the type of list we’ll use: bes dek fel gup huf jeik). With high-definition digital filters, our signal-to-noise ratios are getting remarkably better. It’s odd, then, that we just keep getting noisier. Is there a connection between noise and class? Let’s shoot a feature of you dancing in full regalia and reading from this book, Silent Voice of Creation. Let's go out and enjoy the sunshine!

sound noise

2008-07-07T20:54:00.001-07:00

My, it felt like torture then, the sand and surf were yards away, and you were forced to withstand a full-body rub down at SPF 30. Decades later, you're still boasting milky soft skin while your friends OD on amphetamines. You must have seen some of the more outstanding flash at the bar, you may not think this complicated, and maybe even rough, but with good nutrition and a mellower sound, you’ll soon be reading press releases about it all. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration once sent me a questionnaire asking: What was the first song you ever heard by Rush? 2112 from their album of the same name. It’s a twenty minute epic and I love it. What is your favorite album of Iron Maiden? The Number of The Beast. Nothing else. My father was always anxious to get me used to working the soil, outdoors, where background noise was recorded and participants using their headphones turned the volume up high to drown out the surrounding noise. Finally, some of them, the young men and women, have learned to recognize the letters of the alphabet and read words by the syllable at short-lived schools set up to eradicate illiteracy. The effect of the silent version is greatly reduced. As students fail one by one, the County and the teachers remain silent. Public school transfer programs will obviously do nothing to help. Are we silent because we don’t know who we are or what we are for? I wrote a chapter in a book called The Inside Verdict which I began with the words “This isn’t working anymore.” Well, is it any better now? Of course some of it is. But from you, who claim to be “the young vito / a voice of the people / mouthpiece for hustlers / a ventriloquist for doublers…” you seem to be quite silent.

sound noise

2008-06-20T17:04:00.000-07:00

No, my opinion isn’t any more valid than the beat reporter or columnist; I was a 25-year old liberal arts major whose only print journalism / sportswriting experience was a stint on the high school newspaper. That’s not why I write what I write …and he heard a familiar female voice. “Is it Don?” Colby asked, on the bed behind him. Charlie shook his head. “Megan,” he explained, but before he had the chance to actually talk to her, Colby grabbed his hand to take him back… On May the seventh, I will go to the studio and there will be scenes that no one has ever seen and we will shoot them that day and they will rush them to LA and they will cut them and those will be the final moments of the season. But this conversation leads me to consider a long term strategy. Our work should take serious consideration of thought and discussion within this arena. We can’t rush the ending …the last thing he sees - his lover, friend, soulmate - rushing forward, eyes going wide, as the blade slides into his body… You woke up screaming. Just listen to my voice, you're okay.

They say your abilities exceed those of all others, and even that no one had ever been as strong as you were, but they say you can barely stand the loneliness. Okay. So, you allowed my brother to lower your car about 1.5 inches, maybe 2—he was the only one, wasn't he?—and then the noise started. It sounds like metal on metal, a noise like powerful squeaking. Since none of us have ever heard anything like it, except from our forays into the realms of hard rock, I had no idea what we were listening to. When you drove up, I assumed it was one of those noise albums you’ve been listening to, like that EP, looped power lines, but the failed brakes and removed steering column proved me wrong.

It's safe to assume that if you invest in one brand-new appliance for the move, make it the vacuum cleaner. Get one with a filter. If you can get one from a family member or at a yard sale that works, great, but this is probably the most important cleaning apparatus in EVERY society on earth. When Christian based morals are cast aside, crime and violence has ALWAYS filled the ‘vacuum’. This is NOT UNREALISTIC FANTASY! I lived in that happy time without the choking influence of the state in every aspect of life. Personally, I have always felt my voice is better speaking than silent. The one time I did participate in the Day of Silence was my junior year in College. On that day my class “Gender, Sexuality, and African American Communities” was not meeting. While the church has been mostly silent on the subject of sex, the world and the devil have attempted to make it their domain. The church has rightly proclaimed biblical prohibitions on the misuse of sex, but it has failed to speak out. When I say the mantra syllable inside my head, this is the voice that gives it a thought and sound. This mental track can also be silent, when I'm imagining a picture, scene, or shape I am doing so on the same level of my mind.

2008-06-20T16:45:00.000-07:00

Sound Noise

2008-06-15T15:02:00.000-07:00

A witness to evil, a voice for the silent, and a timeless symbol of resolve now sings to us across the decades. The editors of TIME played your voice for me, singing an old song, adding annotations, photos, maps, and quotations. You sang without the instruments you loved, without anyone else's vocals to cover yours. They played your voice and you sounded so beautiful; everything that you were, captured and summed up. I cleared the supper dishes, wiped down the table, swept under the table, put away food, made lunches for those who took a lunch, dried and put away dishes, set the table for breakfast, and wiped down the dish drainer, counter tops, and stove. Close your eyes (oh yes, and sit down first), take in a couple of breaths and feel yourself start to slow down. Ask your intuition a question – it can be about where to move, what direction to take in your new life or whether you really, after more than four decades, have an independent voice?

Advocating for conservation, historic preservation, responsible growth and much more died on Saturday, leaving a silent void in the dark below. I squeezed my eyes shut; but your voice went on, every word seeming to drill into me. “We must leave the Apiary tonight, and go into the West,” said the voice. “And if our hearts are true, the voice of silence … the voice of silence will speak in stones.” Love, Love is real, and there are no longer dreams. Love is a dream, and there is no longer reality. The law of non-contradiction is a contradiction. Is there a way of getting this silent voice to wake me up tomorrow morning?

When you got up and went to vacuum out your car, I didn't go help you because there were HORNETS in the garage and that is not cool. When your mom came over though, I helped her make dinner, and then your dad came over, too. It would be interesting to test out this practice in the face of the current recession, when high gas prices have quieted the streets by a decibel or two and reduced the number of restaurant-goers. Noise costs us in terms of health, but you were soooo into music, beyond what was typical of our peers. I guessed you were seeking sensory sound. Noise. We craved noise as we progressed through Occupational Therapy, until we became Sensory Defensive. You’d put your fingers in your ears. A silent protest! You said, “Yes, I'm protesting the political process in this country of ours and my voice shall only be heard in the pages of my journal! After Bush stole the election from Gore, I decided not to vote in an election until I could create a vacuum that sucks in people with principles who have a strong wish to help others.”

Power trippers, those who use bluff, bluster, threats or power to get their own way at home and work, can sense fear or sorcery. My version of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is not very good. You and your compadres get into lots of drawn out duels before you finally get down to business. You seem to have the ability to move forward after your moment in the sun. Some though... like that guy who discovered the band Rush twenty-five years ago, he apparently decided that very day that he would play them so loud as to eventually cause a permanent loss of hearing. He is much too noisy and much too high, an exposition drawn out to about eighty-five sounds beyond the range of normal conversation. Measured for a level of moderate noise, a simple system can be an effective expander, where the threshold of sound is set by first analysing a section of noise. For this reason it’s best not to clean up your originals. This is the shape of the impression of each repetition of the mantra syllable. These string together in my mind, as if there was a nickel 10 feet in diameter and one foot thick, bouncing and rolling down a straight path on a grey sphere.

Why am I silent on the issue of local authority? Do I have any grounds to criticize? Remember when we noticed that there were some civic organizations made for protest? I replied to all your questions, my friend. The first time you played my new instrument, you didn't want to leave it. I always wondered what it was that makes that noise, you said, let me take it home with me. To date the noise of my truck hadn't bothered you, but today it did. Again, you tried to high tail it out of here. Again I was able to change your mind and you came back. You sat in my lap right next to the truck while I massaged you and then I went inside to wash dishes for 10 minutes. You discovered that the vacuum cleaner was full and you left me inside while you ran outside to empty it. You came back inside to discover me sitting on the bench, tearing up teabags and sprinkling the contents everywhere. Go vacuum, then take a break and have a snack, maybe lie down for half an hour. I’ll do some more dishes, take out the trash, dust and polish, get a drink... I feel more productive this way. So, the floors are vacuumed once again today and ready to be mopped once I get lunch done and we’ll go outside for playtime then down for nap. But, for the record, we’re both pretty glad the vacuum beast is back in its cave for the moment. Sitting at our kitchen table about six years ago, we both asked each other, simultaneously, “What if we could split the wind blowing over a roof and create a vacuum to suck the roof down, instead of up?”

NōD 8 Launch Party!!!

2008-06-09T15:37:00.000-07:00

If you happen to be in Calgary, this sounds like a good Launch Party. I look forward to seeing the issue - it's got some pieces of mine from Lip Service in there.

NōD 8 Launch Party!!!

Thursday, June 12

7-10pm @ Weeds Café:

903-20th Ave NW

NōD is pleased to announce the release of its eighth issue! Issue 8 (viral themed) is set to release Thursday, June 12. So come, celebrate with us: enjoy the food and drink, listen to some great readers and buy a magazine! Issue 8 promises to be another fantastic installment in the NōD saga; the NōD 8 Launch Party would be a shame to miss.

Music By:
A Chalkboard
Readings by:
Christian Bok
Meghan Doraty
ryan fitzpatrick
Kim Tan-MacNeill
Michael Yip
Emily Chin

The event starts at 7pm - come by & buy a magazine and tea or coffee! Music by A Chalkboard at 7:30, and readings will start at 8pm.

Spread the word and see you soon!

NōD Magazine
Department of English, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2T 1N4

Folderol

2008-05-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

What do you get if you put together all of this stuff:
Dracula by Bram Stoker, Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer, Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott, Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame and Henry Brooks, Pirates by Anonymous, The Recreations of A Country Parson by A. K. H. Boyd, Gulliver of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus G. Pinches, More Russian Picture Tales by Valery Carrick, The Middle Of The Afternoon (a draft) by Mathew Timmons, The Nests (an Excerpt) by Allison Carter, The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd, Military Instructors Manual by James P. Cole, Apology by Plato, The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by P. R. Kincaid?

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an autoblog by Dan Richert

Sound Noise

2008-04-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

This circuit can be mounted in a plastic box like I have done. The good thing about high frequency sounds is that it’s very hard to find where they are coming from. Also, the noise is very annoying even though the name Bose is very well known in the audio industry as a maker of high quality sound and audio equipment. According to Hammacher Schlemmer’s testing of noise canceling headphones the Bose brand topped them all. The answer lies in various "helpful" things which get done to the sound once it leaves. In order to make sure the audio from a movie can be interrupted seamlessly by more pleasant sounds like the “Warning Noise” or the classic “Ocean of Sound” – something I’ve cited repeatedly – I’ve read about a musical performance that, by accident of circumstance, became a process of slowly turning off all sources of noise.

Every week, I walk the sidewalk and that empty lot with my cart like such a gentleman, that once you even stopped to say how amazed you were that you didn’t care about the noise. You started to draw a crowd, and thanks be to heaven, there were two crying, in fact, tiny unmeasureable quantum fluctuations that would serve to nudge the ball off the top of the hill. That ball is horribly unstable perched up at the top of the hill. Correspondingly, this theory has an unstable vacuum. The ball will roll down the hill.

“I dunno,” I said and bit down on another biscuit. While my childhood travails in the cleaning cupboard have left me with an obsession for vacuum cleaners, I also picked up a dependency on biscuits from many hours spent stuffed in the cupboard. I found a tube of caulk in the building, so I took it upon myself to sand down the primed wood and caulk it, and bought a can of Olympic Kitchen and Bath paint, which is truly waterproof once it dries and sets up. The vacuum brush grabbed a piece of thread and, well, I now have a white partition going down the center of my red carpet. Hmmm, do you think my mother knew about this? Thoroughly pissed, now that I messed up the carpet, I chucked the thought that it would be perfect to post to my site, so I tracked down a copy. Then, when I got it, I realized that Colliers magazine was 11×14″ and I couldn’t fit it on my scanner. However, I recently bought an 11×17″ scanner.

You may or may not be aware of Sprint's Voice Command service (and given Sprint's recent subscriber exodus, you most likely don't), but the No. 3 US wireless carrier has announced that it will be shutting down the server-based “great emigration” by their faculty of volition. When at last will be heard a bold, strong and loud voice of Orthodoxy, to scare the croaking frogs in the stagnant disease bearing waters of the Ecumenical heresy! There were of course some voices of a few bishops, that supported this and signs like, I cannot acknowledge my Savior on this campus which is against my right to free speech so I have elected to remain silent today in protest of my civil liberties being ignored. Many of the students here have said that, like they would just sway like a silent Tower of Babel, saying nothing and everything in a thousand different tongues. So moving, so filled with and emptied of suffering, so steeped in the music of a voice. Speechless before the truth, it grows softly under the veil of silence. These truths unknown. Spoken eloquently. Peacefully. This voice unheard. This voice unshared. The butterflies are here. They are fluttering… I hear those silent thoughts again…

If you live down a long driveway, make sure your house number is easy to find from the street, such as on your mailbox or on a “stick” with the address on it. Privacy is nice, but having emergency services able to actually find your house makes you realize that there's no true vacuum in which to work. But it is possible to pare down your environment of distractions. I've been able to create within a private setting. Sometimes it's needed. Most of the time though, I am in charge of distribution within the Wiemer Peto County area, and I have to say, “One semi alone went to Alyse Himmel INC. I’m floored. We’ve had to send out trucks with double and triple orders just to keep up with the rush.”

I felt a rush of adrenaline, suddenly aware of what a terrible mistake it would have been to be deleted without knowing this side of my ex-enemy. I ran a hand through my hair and looked back at you. Years of simply being with you, but the greatest thing is that although life’s fleeting moments pass by as fast as they come into our lives, we are able to say that we were happy even if just for a single moment. And you can continue to look forward to the next time when you come off a wave at high speed and you land and make a really really loud sort of smacking noise and it doesn’t sound healthy. We went out for the first time on a Sunday, and am I just being paranoid or can we just say that every event must be dragged down by some interminable logic, and that in fact the odd contradiction (generally through a remarkable individual) adds depth, just as the best characters have quirks and failures?

I felt you picking up on my rage as we were walking from the ridge down to the beach where the Gold Rush era SS Tennessee was wrecked in 1853. My first indication was a look from you – angry, hurt, reproachful, and questioning, all at once. I don’t really know myself, I mean, I’m sure you can help me with that one, though I’d say if your rush fails, good luck! It’s not a pleasant experience. I’ve been rather looking forward to some preventative maintenance, I used the shop-vac to suck out the drain line outside the house and also used the brush attachment to vacuum off the coils the best I could, and I sprayed some clorox in the drain pan to help some.

After having made the decision to rush and then pledge, I became even more secure with organizations. Pledging was fun. There were no black sharpie markers, so no Branding, WTF?, even so, it wasn’t scary or intimidating when you cited a mix of all the factors pushing up oil prices including the weak dollar, a rush of speculation on commodities, and ongoing political concerns in the Middle East and in Nigeria. You found another flaw in the workplace just as it was getting better. I’m not too fussed although I can say that I wouldn’t rush back for the Insect Vacuum treatment - It sucks big time … literally. I can give you a little security and I would also like to give you Joyful Noise for Two Voices, this month’s free audio lesson guide.

tell me about movies, please.

2008-04-23T00:45:00.000-07:00

Some people actually know what Benshi or Movie Telling is. Some people don't. I'm not sure if I do, but I have done it, once before and apparently someone out in the world noticed.

Handsome Fish Offices

2008-04-02T10:15:00.000-07:00

HANDSOME FISH OFFICES by Ara Shirinyan is Now Available from Insert Press – our first perfectbound book!

You may purchase your copy online at InsertPress[Dot]Net

Praise for Handsome Fish Offices by Ara Shirinyan:
While office supply products and tropical fish might at first thought seem to have nothing to do with one another, once side by side they reveal the interconnections between global acquisitions, multinational capital, and environmental destruction. - Juliana Spahr

Of cut-up writing, in which different textual sources are spliced together, often jarringly, William Burroughs once said, “The results will look a lot like you.” Handsome Fish Offices, Ara Shirinyan’s book of profoundly 21st century cut-ups, takes up this insight with hilarity and irreverence, showing readers how the world looks like them, and they look like the world. No matter whose language he’s playing with, the startling juxtapositions of words in these poems reveal the contemporary global condition of being incorporated and measured, invariably down to the smallest detail. “This laterally flattened species is ideal / For catalogs, direct mail, promotions, etc,” he writes, and you’ll know what he means, because your species, too—and right now—is one of the many getting flattened. -Mark Wallace

lip service!

2008-03-20T14:34:00.001-07:00

Twiggy was a fixture around town,
in white-face and blackened eyes,
among the soft tissue of the poincianas.

Despite gallons of blood,
throat slicing galore and enough
smashed skulls to justify a certificate,
these horrors were not the scariest
elements of perfect texture—so smooth
they melt so delightfully in your mouth.

No tug of war among teeth, tongue
and throat for this exquisitely done rice cake!

Tasting spit salivating from your lips,
and a magnetic force to your grip.

A message of bitter hate
ignites like fire from
the lump in your throat,
sprinting over your willing tongue
before being captured
by pursed lips.

Sharpening the tart edge of your tongue comes naturally.

2008-03-16T04:11:00.000-07:00

Lip Service...

2008-03-12T01:13:00.000-07:00

I once dreaded the old saliva glands,
they tend to get in an uproar
when you shove your tongue
down my throat, eager,
a tongue lying for truth.

The wind is now blowing more powerfully, and it whispers loudly, like a thousand lips shushing high up in the sky, as it sifts through my mouth, as dry as the desert a second ago, now awash with saliva, as this piece of cactus begins to take on the disturbing consistency of raw flesh,

the back of the throat collapsing over the air.

It's bad for your teeth,
to brighten someone's day,
now, like a plague
that children find amusing.

LA-Lit Makes Its PennSound Debut

2008-03-04T20:49:00.000-08:00

Hello All - I am very excited! LA-Lit is making it's debut at Penn Sound!
If you don't know pennsound - check it out - it's an amazing audio archive of poetry and poetics.

Stop by PennSound at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/ and you'll see the announcement on the front page of the site or go to our page at pennsound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/LA-Lit.html

Today, we're launching a new page for LA-Lit, an innovative podcast series hosted by Mathew Timmons and Stephanie Rioux. Recorded at Betalevel, the program seeks to capture "the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place," through the voices of "poets, novelists, hybridists, and non-genre text authors" living in or visiting the LA area. The series features readings and conversations with authors familiar to PennSound listeners — including Lee Ann Brown, Will Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu and Diane Ward — along with panel discussions on LA and Bay Area poetics; yet, perhaps even more importantly, LA-Lit provides an opportunity to discover emerging voices within this thriving West Coast literary community.

We're introducing the series with twenty-four episodes recorded between 2005 and 2007, and will be adding newer episodes at a later date. Click on the title above to visit PennSound's LA-Lit series page, which includes details on specific episodes as well as a link to LA-Lit's home page, where you'll find photos, author bios and information on how you can attend upcoming recording sessions.

more lip service

2008-03-03T20:45:00.001-08:00

First, to hold you,
the wine in your mouth,
purse your lips and
inhale gently as if

to create a noise
bubbling through children.
They find this immense
and amusing.

Use the upper back
part of the throat
to create an immense noise
that’s indisputable.

As you hold the first letter 'a'
in your mouth, purse your lips and
pout. Lips send sexual signals,
inhale gently through them.

Nothing drives up my temperature.
Established lips for a moment,
coming from the right lips.
Are you running the tip of your tongue?

My heart is beating like the drummer of Deep Purple
on a good session.
A pure tongue not recommended for conversation.
I could not help squeezing my legs and letting go.
It is impossible to know anyone just by their words
and the movements of their lips and tongue.
There is a saying that the tongue has no bone.
That's the most severe concern.

Bubbling over an opened mouth,
an occasional "Honey" does nothing.
Tobacco spit increases the risk.
PS – I was swallowing my saliva.

Pickles, liver, broccoli, asparagus, tomato juice
and lots of other things
show the government is speaking with a forked tongue.

Get the old saliva glands in an uproar.
Make yourself known,
buying stamps or filling your gas tank,
with shimmering lips.

Another unlucky diner ate three bites,
he noticed tingling in his tongue and
right side of his mouth followed by
a light feeling from a few years back.

C-Society

2008-02-25T21:39:00.000-08:00

C-Society
Sunday, March 2 at 7pm
at betalevel (http://betalevel.com) directions below
http://betalevel.com/2008/03/02/c-society/

Please join us for C-Society an evening of collaborative readings, featuring Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson reading from their recent book, Figures for a Darkroom Voice, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press. Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Allison Carter and Mathew Timmons will also be reading from collaborative projects.

“In Figures for a Darkroom Voice the rhetorical twisting of Noah Eli Gordon’s abstractions meld with the ominous narratives of Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s fragments, turning Wallace Steven’s notion of a supreme fiction toward a supreme friction, one where the work of these two poets is fused into a voice as singular as it is sinister.”

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues, 2007), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (in collaboration with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Tarpaulin Sky, 2007), Inbox (Blaze VOX, 2006), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), as well as numerous chapbooks, including That We Come to a Consensus (in collaboration with Sara Veglahn, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005). He teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle and has since lived in Arizona, Slovakia, Ireland, and Colorado. He is the author of three books, most recently Figures for a Darkroom Voice (with Noah Eli Gordon, Tarpaulin Sky P) and two more books are forthcoming next year: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo) and a book of conversations between younger poets and their mentors (U of Iowa Press). He lives in Chicago and teaches at Loyola University.

Harold Abramowitz is a writer and teacher from Los Angeles, author of a chapbook, Three Column Table, from Insert Press. With Mathew Timmons, Harold co-curates the Late Night Snack literary cabaret series at BetaLevel in L.A., and with Amanda Ackerman, he co-edits a short form literary press called eohippus labs. Harold also has a book, Dear Dearly Departed, to be published in the near future by Palm Press and a micro-book, Sunday, or a Summer’s Day, to be published in the near future by PS Books. He teaches at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.

Amanda Ackerman lives in Los Angeles where she writes and teaches. Along with Harold Abramowitz, she is co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She is also a member of BetaLevel. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in flim forum; String of Small Machines; The Physical Poets; and the Encyclopedia Project, Volume F-K.

Allison Carter is an LA based designer, teacher and writer. Her work has appeared in Fence, 5_Trope, P-Queue and others. Her first book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement, is forthcoming in August 2008 from Les Figues Press. She currently edits P S Books.

Mathew Timmons is guest editor of Trepan, co-edits Insert Press, co-hosts LA-Lit, and co-curates Betalevel’s Late Night Snack. His writings appear in Manufactured Inspirato, Greetings, Disaster, Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Outside Voices 2008 Sound Poetry Anthology, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets Vol. 2 and PSBooks.

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Directions to Betalevel

1. Find yourself in front of "FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT"
located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

2. Locate the narrow alley on the left hand side of Full House.

3. Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).

4. Stop.

5. Notice dumpster on your right hand side.

6. Take a right and continue down the alley.

7. Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot

8. The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side,
behind a red door, down a black staircase.

YAY! More Self Promotion!

2008-02-24T10:53:00.000-08:00

So, I already blogged a couple publications that were coming out, but now you can buy them! Go here for Flim Forum's anthology, A Sing Economy, and go here to check out The Physical Poets Vol2.

I somehow forgot to blog the appearance of Kadar Koli, a journal put together by David Hadbawnick. Marcus Civin and I worked on a collaboration last summer and David asked us for some pieces to include - you can find Kadar Koli #2 here. The main part of the collaboration will be coming out from PS Books sometime in the near future.

Various bits of The New Poetics are on the internets over at The Press Gang and in the forthcoming Shampoo #32.

OK, that's probably enough for now.

Upcoming Activities in Two Adjacent Countries

2008-01-27T18:25:00.000-08:00

Hello All or any who read this blog - Here's a list of things I'll be up to in the next few weeks... I'll be out at AWP with copies of Insert Press chapbooks and Fold Appropriate Text - so come find me or Stan Apps (co-editor of Insert Press) and say hello (things will be available for sale at the CalArts booth).

here's some upcoming publications that will be out at AWP:
A Sing Economy, Flim Forum's second anthology will be out at AWP with work by fabulous and amazing people like Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Jennifer Karmin, myself and many others
http://flimforum.blogspot.com/

The Physical Poets Vol 2 will also be out at AWP - a great project that you all should check out - as the slogan says - The Physical Poets, edited by YOU. Volume 2 was edited by me and includes the work of Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Stan Apps, Joseph Mosconi, Ara Shirinyan, Jane Sprague and myself.
http://physicalpoetry.blogspot.com/

Also I'll be doing some readings in NY & Canada, then back in LA:
Wed Jan 30 at 8pm at Think Coffee 248 Mercer Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets) New York, NY
http://thinkcoffeenyc.com/cup-and-pen/

Sun Feb 3 at 8pm for The AB Series at The Mercury Lounge 56 Byward Market, Ottawa, Ontario with Max Middle and j.s. makkos
http://theabseries.blogspot.com/

Mon Feb 4 at 7:30pm for The Grey Borders Reading Series at Strega Cafe, 19 King St, St. Catherines, Ontario with Gary Barwin and j.s. makkos
http://greyborders.blogspot.com/

Tues Feb 5 at 7pm for the Just Buffalo Series at Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Ave @ Tupper, Buffalo, NY with Steve Benson and j.s. makkos
http://www.justbuffalo.org/events/spp.shtml

Fri Feb 8 at 8pm for A Performance in Four Dimensions at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, CA with Harold Abramowitz, Danielle Adair, Jason Brown and Christine Wertheim.
http://www.centerartseaglerock.org/holly.html

A Diagram of the Winds

2008-01-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

I performed the following text this past Saturday at Machine Project for Liz Glynn's 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project. Liz asked me to work with a text written by Augustus about Augustus, The Deeds of the Divine Augustus, and with Vitruvius' roughly 600 page text, De Architectura. I put together a speech that I think worked as a combined subjective experience of both Augustus and Vitruvius, capitalizing on the reflexive nature of both texts...

A Diagram of the Winds

I have been consul thirteen times, of Roman citizens. The Roman people bear the rule of the Roman people, of me and of the Roman people. The Roman people have given it to me. And twenty one times I have been named emperor. I rebuilt. The People have entered their own land to bear the rule of the Roman people and Constructed principles of triumph. When the senate constructed principles of proportion. When the senate constructed principles of Water. Different waters, drains, windows, and water supplies—the Economy, Methods of Building Walls, contemplated works, buildings of works and arrangements in public places. When the senate was Water, Women in long robes, called Caryatides, took the place of columns. The columns, columns twenty-five feet, in your water-screws and water wheels.

When I wrote this I was seventy-six years old. The sum expended on theatrical spectacles and gladatorial games and athletes and hunts and mock naval battles and money given to colonies, cities, and towns destroyed by earthquake and fire or per man to friends and senators, whom I raised to the senate rating: innumerable. I subjected the whole wide earth to the rule of the Roman people. I drove the men who slaughtered my father into exile with a legal order, punishing their crime, and afterwards, when they waged war on the state, I conquered them in two battles. On account of the things successfully done by me and through my officers, under my auspices, on earth and sea, the senate decreed fifty-five times that there be sacrifices to the immortal gods. Also both privately and as a city all the citizens unanimously and continuously prayed at all the shrines for my health. I restored peace to the sea from pirates.

Earth, I hold, was impregnated by the rains of heaven and, thus conceiving, has brought forth the young of mankind and of all nature, and it is luminous. In some places the earth is beginning to go to pieces from dampness, but if again, a fire is made in that place, in the flats, the place contains water,. This water is called water. As much water as quantity of water. Engines for Raising Water admit water, Water Wheels and Water Mills, The Water Screw, The Water Organ.

Water, not merely supplying drink but filling an infinite number of practical needs, does us services which make us grateful because it is gratis. But we must expend our energies in searching it out and finding it. To do so, the following test should be applied. Before sunrise, lie down flat in the place where the search is to be made, and placing the chin on the earth and supporting it there, take a look out over the country. Then, dig in places where vapours are seen curling and rising up into the air. This sign cannot show itself. This sign cannot show itself in a dry spot. There are no hippopotamuses.

If a walled town is built among the marshes, the columns will be of great importance, their height will determine where public places are placed. Again, if the town is stone, the columns will bear the rule of the Roman people, if the senate and Roman people give them to me, The City Walls and Temples. The streets will bear the rule of the Roman people if the columns are in place. The Cretans call it building.

I built the senate-house and the Chalcidicum which adjoins it and the temple of Apollo on the Palatine with porticos, the temple of divine Julius, the Lupercal, the portico at the Flaminian circus, which I allowed to be called by the name Octavian, after he who had earlier built in the same place, the state box at the great circus, the temple on the Capitoline of Jupiter Subduer and Jupiter Thunderer, the temple of Quirinus, the temples of Minerva and Queen Juno and Jupiter Liberator on the Aventine, the temple of the Lares at the top of the holy street, the temple of the gods of the Penates on the Velian, the temple of Youth, and the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine. I rebuilt the Capitol and the theater of Pompey, each work at enormous cost, without any inscription of my name. I rebuilt aqueducts in many places that had decayed with age, and I doubled the capacity of the Marcian aqueduct by sending a new spring into its channel. I completed the Forum of Julius and the basilic which he built between the temple of Castor and the temple of Saturn, works begun and almost finished by my father. I built the temple of Mars Ultor on private ground and the forum of Augustus from war-spoils. I build the theater at the temple of Apollo on ground largely bought from private owners, under the name of Marcus Marcellus my son-in-law. Silver statues of me-on foot, on horseback, and standing in a chariot-were erected in about eighty cities, which I myself removed, and from the money I placed golden offerings in the temple of Apollo under my name and of those who paid the honor of the statues to me.

If the buildings are in proportion, if we take the height of a man placed flat on his back in the temple, the temple depends. The columns, the thickness of the column and the upper thickness of the column, the symmetrical proportions for capitals of columns twenty-five feet high. If the columns are at the height of columns. From water, drip down again. The temple shall be divided into nineteen and a half parts.

This building has been recited, raised to the higher regions of the gods.

If this building had been of marble, so that besides the refinement of its art it possessed the dignity coming from magnificence and great outlay, it would be reckoned among the first and greatest of works.

Now brick walls, unless two or three bricks thick, cannot support themselves and Gypsum should by no means be used for the reason that neither principal nor common rafters should be explained by the shadow of your sister. The length of the body and of the capital be as glistening as glass. Dig into colour like purple glass. In the air, like liquid asphalt swimming on a branch of the great earth. Venus, Vulcan, and all the physical qualities on fire, are carved without fear. In that thing which astronomers call the morning. O, and accompanied by low station, are hills that might not become known and what deeds were glorying in colour by nature. At Once thick woods are looking just to break up your displeasure by art or asphalt, In accordance with some practice or difficult training. For a house will seem appropriate if it should naturally correspond to beauty. This is an artistic conception, and therefore half a piece of wood that neither decay nor time nor dampness can spoil, such as potters use, shows progress by refinement and delicacy of decoration employed.

If then, at this great distance, our human sight can discern a vision of the stars, who, pray, are we to think—Among the day—Earth passes out a measuring of many wonderful discoveries, the Lion is really indispensable for example, all can observe the invisible risings of men as the planets grow brighter. And for my part, Caesar, I am delighted with the revolution. This ligature by which nature has designed the human breast should have a crust of salt on the right and the left should be known to architects, so that, without danger, two soldiers, standing at the middle point will be those who thoughtlessly drank from the false spring and fell ill.

Unwavering steadiness, is here before me, Stranger, you see the power of calculation not perfectly clear. We should be the wind, always stopping and always again starting. Sometimes I wait at stopping-places within the spaces of the wind that is there before the dawn. Some have the air. A Diagram Of The Winds. There is, I fear, no life in any living men. There is, excepting in Aquarius, only the unity of confidence. But for my part, Caesar, I say the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that we might not keep our feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. These openings would be built of wormwood, shipworms, and design, to determine their edge, their rising, we must look then within The People's mouths.

I see that from all defects will run underground rooms and there we could come swimming, attracted by tedious delay. Hence, in masses of sound, a room of delicate divinities was made large enough inside then packed down again.

The word "universe" means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars.

And now on my own behalf, and for The People, and to the gods, and for you Caesar, I should make one final claim.

Those who depend in their writings, not on their own ideas, enviously do wrong to reason, saying it contains nothing but burning heat and mighty currents of air, moving hither and thither indefinitely. After remaining in the flower of our conception we owe our place of esteem to the ceremonial worship of the poet, just as we do for human life. Whatever I have said here today that is really indispensable, for my part, Caesar, I shall relate to these original compositions. I have given over all of this, all from the best of my predecessors and from The Ornaments of the Moon.

lip service

2007-12-20T21:47:00.001-08:00

I like my lips, and the lips
of anyone I encounter, ever.
The words jaw, tongue and lips,
allow sound to flow.

Your vocal sound like uh,
not ah, the two sounds
stuck in your chest, kiss
progress on the lips.

Let me pull away to
see your lips sipping
wine in the distance,
and a growth of lips.

Your mouth, and red cheeks, and
a swelling of the tongue.

Slightly open your mouth
with a curled lip response
and inhale the smell of tongue
on the lips of those you know.

Better to originate in the
lip, mouth, tongue or
upper back part of the
salivary oral cavity.

I was in my late 20s when I arrived, and I wasn't afraid to shoot from the lip, which, I'll admit, can be a little hard to take.

Now, my nose has begun to run, snot collecting on the upper lip. I don't mind, though, not tonight, not after my recent success.

A young father had his bottom lip and part of his tongue bitten off in a sickening city centre attack, then afterwards, he began to hum a tune.

It sounds like your sister's burning mouth syndrome. This 27-year-old condition which causes a burning sensation or soreness on a person's tongue or lips.

This moisture on the lips would be comparable to placing one’s lips or tongue on a flagpole, creating the opportunity for injury to the lips and mouth!

If you have muscle weakness of the mouth, jaw or lips, you may do activities that involve blowing and sucking to help you learn to retract your tongue.

However with the mini tongue you get the best of both worlds, all the lip locking action you could desire, coupled with intense 'lapping action.'

Finally I closed my eyes, laid the slice on my tongue and let it melt in my mouth. I could taste the acorns and grass the pig had fed on in its final months

Besides the lost teeth, all in the front of the mouth, I cut my tongue as well as the inside of the lips and gums. I required 25 to 30 stitches to close a cut in my tongue and an additional 50 or so to sew together wounds to the inside of the lip and gums. I sat out Saturday, needing 21 ½ hours of surgery to treat four exposed sores in the mouth, some blisters and skin peeling; swelling of the face, eyes, lips, tongue and throat; I had trouble swallowing and breathing; and spoke with a hoarse voice.

Of face, lips, tongue
prescription, bin, icon
a cheap throat occurrence.

An order for tongue
or throat occurs.
Lips, tongue, a cheap throat and
calls for medical attention.

Shove your tongue
down somebody’s throat.
Know what is desired.
A kiss in training.

All the variations in sound
produced by the tip of my tongue—
no lip movement, no jaw movement,
no expulsion of air.

You’re giving mouth-
to-mouth, from your lips,
hardly decipherable yet
pleasing lyrics such as

apparently can be produced
stream out effortlessly even,
impress upon the audience
the best lips are now.

Your soft tab face is
swelling, sweet ololololo,
your soft tab face calling
for lips, tongue and throat.

Then you pressed my tongue down toward the floor of my mouth and had me say ah? like a patient. I figured you would tell me not to stick out my tongue. Has this made it dangerous to be a student driver?

I went home later, laid around, played guitar, both of which came in noisy spurts like a horned-up Texan tongue flinging saliva at any be-boobed honey in sight.

A very thick shape often begins in the soft and moist skin that lines the inside of my mouth, nose, and throat. Can it also be found on the tongue and lips?

The networking of brain, tongue, lungs,
pharynx, lips, nose and sinuses gives
add-on features that help to figure
out the expected word sound
with good clarity. As I did,

you leaned in and pressed
your lips squarely against my
mouth, mimicking my every bite.
We simultaneously chewed.

Oral inflammation of the mouth
ranging from redness to severe
inner cheek, tongue and lips.

Refer to my lips, and
involve the mouth, or tongue
in all your ulcerations,
the mucous casserole
of my oral cancre sores.

The throat refers to the tube
that starts behind this, also
the guy who played Marilyn
Monroe in a lip-sync performance.

In addition to having my own fundraiser, my plan was to bust loose from the Quincy courthouse by having my paramour slip me the tongue along with a key to these handcuffs. She lowered herself completely, slowly, and when her lips reached mine, her tongue invaded mine, twisting me around passionately. My con fell flat and now I'm in the Norfolk jailhouse.

“They got them a tongue-lashing, like in a rugby scrum,” the judge said Sunday morning. “We spanked them a little bit verbally, They got put in the corner with the dunce hat on."

She placed one finger on my lips, to prevent me from saying any stupid things that might ruin the nascent harmony.

Presumably not to be dubbed
simply to puck your lips
and the pride of opening my mouth,
darting your tongue at Beauty-from-within

products are claiming to erase
wrinkles give you shinier hair
will make your lips lock.

There was a door reading…

Our bodies don't need pepper
for survival, but we do need
to spice up our lives as surely
as we need to put rouge
on our lips and heels
on our shoes.

Kissing has become so common that many of us don't think there's more to it than just locking the lips. Smooching is not only a sign of love, occasionally there will be swelling of the tongue and voice box (the larynx), which may cause the throat to close and prevent normal breathing.

If his tongue is sitting out front shielding access to his lips, your tongue should do the same. If he continually forces his tongue down your throat, it's caused by the throat closing during sleep, cutting off the airway and waking up the body. If left untreated, it can increase the risk of "I Heart New York."

“The lips of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment, ephemeral."

Lying lips are dealing
abomination to the Eternal,
but that they kneel down
with their descendants around

while smoking is directly
linked to the mouth,
itself all lips, tongue, throat,
voicebox, gullet, kidney, bladder,
pancreas, stomach and gall.

Some pharyngeal consonants
if just sipped would
produce a burning of the lips,
and also if swallowed,
destroy the muscles in the cheek.

Use a mirror to look inside
your mouth, including the roof,
cheeks, lips, gums
and under the tongue.

Examine for any white or red
spot that stands out. My tongue
was licking it while my lips
were completely inside my mouth

and then releasing it, to start again.

It was an oral solution of, it was of the chemical and tongue, it was for the form, and suckling as if to take it in. However, the patient difficulty of swallowing saliva, one hour after an oral comparison and patchy application of nutricosmetics or cosmeceuticals left me impatient.

I grabbed my wallet and lip balm, and then, on impulse, grabbed my bottle of cologne, pulled out my waistband, sucked in my stomach, and gave myself an order to pronounce “th” as in “think” and “thanks”. I will place the front part of my tongue against the lower edge of your upper lip and try to say ‘t’.

I only mumble through bruised lips with this badly cut tongue: “I didn’t know anyone had this kind of power. I'll keep asking the good Lord to help me out, to finally settle the age-old 'spit or swallow' conundrum." I prefer the do-what-you-feel strategy. Unless there's funky spunk involved, there's really no reason not to take a small sip for Flavour, drawing a little air in through your lips. I use my tongue to swill the wine around my mouth and chew at it.

My bottom lip seemed to be trembling as my teeth ground together and bit into a thick wad of chewing gum (or maybe that was my tongue).

I have an oral thrush living inside my mouth. It's a small to medium-sized songbird with white patches on it's breast, and to be perfectly candid, it's caused by a fungal infection of the lips, tongue, and gums. It is most common in the young, but I've never given lip service to being other than I am.

"I come from the bogeyman world,"
Timmons says of his rock
and toil image. I don't
know, it's kinda fleshy,
in my mouth. A little startled,

I spit the beer
on my palm and
conscious to the stairs,
stand in the bathroom.

Then, weekend!
out with some
girlfriends we fired
the weekly lip.

Next, I was gloss,
counting participants
for news of private
percent lines and
patient contests.

Mucous comes in
the night, a gloss
on our lips, on
up to your skin.

SoPoCo

2007-11-28T18:35:00.000-08:00

Gregory Betts has been asking me for some SoundPo files, so here's an easy to use Sound Poetry Collection of some of my recordings. Other of yous may be interested too...

a recorded in Minneapolis at Big V's at a show me friend Ron put together a couple summer's back.
Greetings Reading recorded at the Smell a little over a year ago for the LA/NY issue of Greetings magazine - a strange performance that was supposed to be a collaboration with a sound artist - who dropped out on me - so I made a cut up of recordings on a hand held recorder for accompaniment.
No No, No No recorded for my friend Marina to use in her film Dear Alphabet.
Only No also recorded for Marina.
Colab with Sandy Ding for Marina's film - Sandy is also a great filmmaker who has performed at Late Night Snack, several times.
Mysonate recorded at Vermont Studio Center in August 2006 in the church/lecture hall they have there. During the last week of my stay there I practiced then recorded this version of the Ursonate. I'm hoping to record future versions as well, seeing as this was my first attempt at it.
Hugo Ball pieces Seepferdchen und Flugfische and Karawane, also recorded at Vermont Studio Center.
Taken By a remix by d. g. eng of another recording of mine.
Time Ons antoher remix by d. g. eng of yet another previous recording.

A Ridiculous Alphabet also inspired by Marina whose film was originally titled The Ridiculist's Alphabet.

Of course there's more, but that's enough for now...

Will Alexander benefit in SF

2007-11-21T20:23:00.000-08:00

As many of you know, poet Will Alexander is quite ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He's spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless to say, health insurance. Please join poets in SF on Dec 1 at 730 for a Bay Area benefit reading. Donations will be bundled and sent directly to Will. If you cannot make it but would like to contribute, please see this post for details.

Readers include:

Nate Mackey
Juliana Spahr
Taylor Brady
Lyn Hejinian
Andrew Joron
Tisa Bryant
Adam Cornford
D.S. Marriott
and more!

hosted by David Buuck and Small Press Traffic

$10-up donations
Saturday December 1, 2008
7:30 PM in Timken Lecture Hall,
at the California College of the Arts,
1111--8th Street, San Francisco

Will Alexander

2007-11-02T00:27:00.000-07:00

Will Alexander, a great poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and friend is very ill. Many writers from Los Angeles and beyond have helped set up a fund to assist him. Donations will go to assist with medical and other expenses as Will undergoes chemotherapy.

Please send donations and maybe a note of support to:
Will Alexander
400 South Lafayette Park Place, #307
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Also, there are some benefit readings coming up. There was one in New York at the Bowery Poetry Club on Nov 1, and there are currently plans for benefit readings in San Francisco and here in Los Angeles at Betalevel and possibly at Beyond Baroque.

If you are unfamiliar with Will's work - here's a link to an interview Stephanie Rioux and I did with Will last summer on LA-Lit: http://la-lit.com/writers/la-lit-13-will-alexander/

Also, you can listen to Will reading an excerpt of his recent novel, Sunrise in Armageddon, published by Spuyten Duyvil.

Thanks to Harold Abramowitz for the photographs.

The New Sky

2007-10-25T14:41:00.000-07:00

Here's The New Sky, but it looks too fake.

It's 6 a.m. and I'm wide awake. This is, I've heard, the best time to ferret out low international fares on the Internet. You can Follow the progress of Coventry City's new stadium as it's built on the site of an old gasworks in Holbrooks with a virtual tour of The New Sky.

The New Sky has provided the Sky with the opportunity to redesign its distinctive appearance and develop its weather.

At the opening of The New Sky in the city's Cultural Center and Haak′u museum, two unique showcases will premier. One of the exhibits that promises to be attractive is The New Sky, it's also highly likely that the Sky will add a similar on-demand service that will be strongly coupled to The New Sky broad-vision-band-pro, again adding The New Sky refractors that contain one element made from Watchers.

Reach Out and Search For Scientists.

Now, let’s drag The New Sky into the original picture. Close the Sky so it is out of the way and Click on the background layer of The New Sky, you'll see the indexing concept for huge astronomical catalogues and its realization for main astronomical queries, cone searches, The New Sky, and some new venture Portals. What is behind the Home Portal of The New Sky?

Here's The New Sky, but it looks too fake.
The New Sky needs Tweaking.

Say the edge where The New Sky meets the old picture is hard and does not look right, when you paint it black you reveal more of The New Sky and blend the edges. The New Sky is the Dark Energy, the Dark Matter of this Transient Universe. Home is The New Sky.

Preview The New Sky now! The Awesome sound! The Stratosphere!

Images of the telescopes have been updated by The New Sky, You can Watch all four and their signature new Art, White Like The New Sky, This View Is Breathtaking. The Outer Solar System is full of Near-Earth Objects like The New Sky with Large Synaptic Galleries.

No more Mister Nice Sky. John has no interest in The New Sky or The New Earth for their own sake, they merely set the stage for the real center of his attention, The New Jerusalem, where we'll see The New Sky—Four Completed Galleries of incredible space images available for viewing along with some soothing music.

The garden of lights links the sky above to The New Sky below. Between the garden above and The New Sky below are two rooms and the expanse of The New Sky.

Fact, The New Sky Produces Programmes, Forever—that’s four times more than the standard Sky.
Fact, The New Sky Has Full Sky Functionality +.
Fact, The New Sky faces the Huangpu River, like The New Sky of Pudong, on the other side of the old sky, which didn’t exist fifteen years ago.
Customers like [this one] have found The New Sky.

The New Sky is a double-take inducing line of sports cars, just as downtown, The New Sky is an introduction to The New Saturn. And, as with the Solstice, the draw of The New Sky is its stunning body and low price tag—Base priced at $24000—its design compares with plenty of sharp sports cars. Now, these two-seat sports cars have more Astronomers at Arecibo Observatory hoping that The New Sky will result in a comprehensive census of galaxies out to a distance of 800 million light years.

The New Collapse

2007-10-24T18:00:00.000-07:00

Let us anticipate the publication of The New Collapse with a Collapse of Philosophy and Research. The New Collapse will curve the surface of operations.

At Left, the Aerial view taken in July shows two spatter cones of the The
New Collapse, and once the equation is standardized by API and ISO, it will provide additional performance and safety factors for designing The New Collapse. The New Level is quite close to optimal: there is an oracle relative to which NP is contained in P/poly but the Aerial view taken on October 13 shows The New Collapse, a pit in the West Gap. If the current rates of renewed growth are maintained then The New Hexagon will fill The New Collapse within a few months and this large depression dome will lead an exclusive guided-adventure tour of The New Collapse.

Buy tickets if you want, or get on the Guestbook for some cool comps - you can buy The New Links online: 6:30 tour (SOLD OUT), 7:30 tour (SOLD OUT), 8:30 tour (SOLD OUT).

Wouldn't it be great if you could select, at least in some relativized world, The New Collapse?

The New Collapse button is good, but it would be more obvious for that functionality to be implemented when the user presses the Close button on the search, in the meantime, The New Collapse test unit has been put to successful use a number of times and therefore represents a highly expedient expansion of the Surface Collapse test.

The New Collapse is a virtual surface command operation that Curves and Surfaces Collapse.

Under the broad cause of lost form, a definition of The New Collapse also applies to collapse from under the weight of people or personal property or the weight of a rain check for The New Collapse. However, in The New Collapse simulator we added new variables to avoid this problem. Also, in the old simulator randomness was used to make difference, a sign of The New Collapse to come.

The activity subsequent to the collapse in the northern shield was preferentially concentrated in the interior basin of The New Collapse, quickly building a comparison of The New Collapse to some classical pre-main-sequence hydrostatic tracks showing that: D-burning ignites and mostly occurs during the The New Collapse.

The New Collapse function #3 is in excellent agreement with The New Numerical Evaluations. Loving The New Collapse? This is shown in Fig. 1 for n=25 photons. It makes the entire landscape scroll across your Thumbnail, even if just to see one picture.

A comparison of The New Collapse and the pre-main sequence tracks to classical hydrostatic tracks shows that: (1) The New Collapse ages full time (2) it's just a glitch with the way animation is being read? Anyway, (3) head over to the files section to pick up The New Collapse and it's map rendering code!

The pit after a creative lull is reminiscent of the "Great Pit," which formed on the west slope of the cone in early 1993, and enlarged until the west wall went:

XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX.

The Contractors have made frantic attempts to cover up and deny The New Collapse.

Then, The New Collapse Clicked in and brought back that blue macro to the way it was before, Expanding some and recording 11 attacks that rattled the area and sent some rescue workers from ground zero racing towards The New Collapse in a search for survivors. The first Collapse sent the Ants Scrambling starting on January 29. At the time of the collapse, we were out on Church Street and came away from flying debris, concrete and smoke as ambulances began to scream from all directions, responding to The New Collapse. Contact the champion! The New Cone Crazy Champion is champion!

The Collapse of Heaven and Earth, The Collapse Of The Fourth World. The New Collapse!!! AAAaaaaaaahhhhhHHHHHHH!!!! Click Me, Feel Me. This Is Going To Be One Insane Show Filled With Bad Vibes. HeHeHe! LIVE!!!!!!

However, The New Motherfuckers are keeping their Clutch Secret from El Cid, Chief… to exhibit their Heels within the main dome of The New Collapse. The delay between the supernova explosion generating the metastable neutron star and The New Collapse can explain the delay proposed for The Troubadour.

The New Birds

2007-10-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

Given my apparent fascination with bird brains, and their evident ability to functionally imitate mammalian brains, The New Birds have become my little navigation tools after doing a lot of work on their Eyes. In Vermont, I was asked to write a little about this project for Stephen, I wrote—a little Love equals The New Birds—Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Not only was this a lot of fun to write, but it seemed to get a lot of response from people. I always make sure no one is getting hurt and that The New Birds are allowed access to food and water by placing food and water in multiple places and, during my free time, writing an interesting article on enabling The New Birds.

The New Birds and the Bees use and care for your flock of messages first, then care for The New Birds, watching The New Birds closely for signs of disease before putting them down in your detailed surveys which will tell how many pairs of Malleefowl there are among The New Birds. You basically totally isolate The New Birds from the old birds, only deal with The New Birds after you're done taking care of the old flock.

I stumbled upon this site quite a few months back and wondered,
Where are we with The New Birds?

If The New Birds to be introduced are younger than the existing flock, do the usual and get the enclosure as dark as possible before introducing The New Birds. Two of The New Birds came from the Oregon Zoo, another two from the Philadelphia Zoo and a single bird from Sea World—This species of penguins like “Naming” The New Birds.

Fish are The New Birds.

The New Birds are quite a bit larger with heavier bills and tails at least twice as big as a Brewer’s. The Finsterium light went out at 8:13 pm, which of course startled all The New Birds and then it took five hours for them to join the rest of birds, but the team waited diligently, watching the pecking order change as The New Birds approached the veterans.

Based on average densities, The New Birds of the West Midlands, cover all of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and the former West Midlands County. The New Birds aren't fitted with satellite tracking devices, but are eager to track The New Birds if funding allows. Voila! The New Birds are part of a multimillion-dollar investment in growth. A Local resident of the West will christen The New Blood by setting up The New Birds of Prey as a formidable espionage unit with a burgeoning roster of super-heroine specialists.

When I was everybody I often asked myself, Hello, how comes, hey…
Where are we with The New Birds?

The New Birds are birds and The New Birds could be described as a new species within the species of ancestral short-legged shore birds, there is a range of leg, and I look forward to hearing about The New Birds you see. Use your word, Pass your Name on, and Get to Know The New Birds on the Bay, their Current Color, their Issues.

Once, on the Bay, the Dock of the Bay ... Ms. Scanlon said she was all navigation—Eye by Eye line—ever since she bought the original Eye, The New Birds, their eyes, the navigation. After buying the pair from a person that does regular vet checks and blood tests, the woman felt confident that The New Birds were healthy.

A Great update for the Eye interface, fixing the traffic map bug!

The New Birds of Prey Go Back to Paw Talk in the Pet Forums to have Bird Discussions with Other Pets. One week later – and hello! Alu! Remember Me? and The New Birds!?
What do you think of The New Birds?

The tourists can simply put The New Birds back into their cocoons or lash themselves to The New Birds and get out of the way. “We firmly believe that managing carbohydrate intake will send The New Birds up and up until they are mere specks in the sky."

The New Aesthetic Statement

2007-10-21T18:37:00.000-07:00

With the clarifying role of Self-Portrait with Easel (1888), we can clearly recognize The New Aesthetic Statement underlying the whole series.

The New New York School

2007-10-21T12:44:00.000-07:00

The New New York School has issued a Limited-Time Offer! Yes! Sign me up for Vanity! Issue me 12 tickets to the Fair for only $15 … a savings of 72%. The New New York School will bring The New Times of Vanity to the York Fair, where all The Art and Artists of the Year will be. The New New York School, a Talent Show, an affair of Vanity and Musak.

In the December 2006 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, artist Kehinde Wiley is featured as one of eight young art talents in The New New York School who have, in talking about that other contact sport, Flarf, mentioned the Language "school” of writing and The New New York School. How, exactly can The New New York School deal with the following comments made by the chancellor, "What? Any new school that we open there`s added police security. Uh-huh!"

… ashbery poeticity differend pantoum schuyler orphic nonrational taxonomia cataphoric altieri lautreamont diaristic … This is either the Last Poem of the New York School or the First Poem of The New New York School. Probably both.

The New New York School of December 2006 is in Video footage from the Andy Warhol Factory reunion photo shoot. Library Media Examination Specialist and Fine Arts Professor Paul Fabozzi has used Museomania and developed scoring norms for The New New York School.

Kristin Baker (BFA '98), named one of eight young artists to watch in The New New York School, compared this Vanity Fair to the classical work of Aeschylus, as it was being resuscitated by The New New York School. Padgett has said of appropriation: It was fun, yeah. We could all be The New New York School! I call deKooning, I want to be deKooning! You can be Pollock. The buildings have ghosts of the thousands of sides of things.

The New Alexandrine

2007-10-15T13:43:00.000-07:00

In Marx’s view, Capitalism opened up a space for global socialism, so that The New Alexandrine could offer us the chance to embrace ideas of progress, however, there were some countries, such as Phoenicia and probably India, where the Attic standard had never taken firm root in The New Alexandrine. As wielded by Hugo, The New Alexandrine would accept none of the artificial constraints imposed, rhetorical or prosodic, and has taken part in international projects of great stature: in the organisation of the restoration labs for The New Alexandrine in Egypt. Founded originally by Cleopatra, The New Alexandrine was a copy of the later version revised by some person well skilled in the Hebrew language, and was deposited in The New Library of The New Alexandrine. After the symbolic layering of numerous works, most bookhouses use the volumes therein for manuscripts written within The New Alexandrine.

The New Alexandrine is situated in front of the compound Library of social and human science faculties in Shatby. We will see the Roman remains including Pompey’s Column made by pink granite from Aswan, a foundation for The New Alexandrine, inaugurated on October 2002. A major part of its fascade overlooks The New Library of Alexandria and The New Alexandrine. The construction of the library at Alexandria, Egypt, is The New Alexandrine, covering an area of 70000 square meters, the Library is nearing completion.

The New Horizons are the Foundation being set up with considerable objectives and a modest budget of some $11 million—their headquarters in The New Myth—The New Hypertext Library will be reality in an age designed for technology and The New Alexandrine. The Entire Alexandria Travel Guide Library is a virtual Bibliotheca of The New Alexandrine. The New Alexandrine in Hypertext and Reality: A Technology for the Age of Myth.

The Library, See My Library Journal, the Library is a Library Guide sent by the Library, a technology for the Age of The New Alexandrine.

Quell'incunabolo è già un ipertesto—that incunable is already a hypertext—Not to mention the gosh-wow revelation of a map you can find in any ancient atlas, and all the silly people trekking with great drama into The New Alexandrine.

I totally missed this last week, but here's some news on the development of The New Alexandrine located in a Place b/w the Virtual Library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The New Alexandrne. The first of several new businesses to come to The New Alexandrine in southeast Shreveport is a place called the Library n' Home Design Center and more.

Have you heard the Ridiculous?

2007-10-13T01:39:00.001-07:00

Well, this is something I did awhile ago and was listening to recently. Maybe it's interesting...

The New Blank Verse

2007-10-08T18:40:00.000-07:00

In more places than one, “rude beggarly riming” has been denounced not (as might have been done with some colour) in favour of The New Blank Verse, but actually as the sole dramatic vehicle, adopted in place of The New Blank Verse which Surrey had used for his translation of the Aeneid, and which made him seem a marvelous poet, the man who first demonstrated that powerful dramatic poetry could be written in The New Blank Verse.

Every loft in Cheapside published its Magnum Folium (or magazine) of The New Blank Verse; the Cheapside Players would produce anything on sight as long as the lineup stretched toward drama and seemed in alignment with those virginal, foresworn invisibles for whom pink is The New Blank Verse (appearances can be discerning, what wheels against The New Blank Verse).

So, perhaps more than anything else, Free verse is sometimes confused with The New Blank Verse, which does not rhyme but has a set metrical pattern. Prose and The New Blank Verse work in the interest of a literal acting style, one in which the action unequivocally underscores the message of the text. Free verse, on the other hand, takes up The New Blank Verse from the lips of Surrey, and turns it to its right use of tragedy. We cannot say that he does for it what pink does for The New Blank Verse (appearances can be discerning—what wheels these henpecked butter huts do to the will).

As for Shakespeare, he has sometimes been conjecturally associated with The Queen’s Men, his King John, and King Lear. And its just, he was Lord Dorset and Sackville who Marlowe had twice triumphed over on the London stage particularly with Tamburlaine, championing and refining The New Blank Verse.

Many believe that if he had lived and the fluctuating rhythms that had once nervously charted a chord or even a change of mood were to return again, supported by the framework of The New Blank Verse, the most characteristic form of Elizabethan music, would therefore have coincided with The New Blank Verse, the dramas and the sonnet sequences, along with the great outburst of the imitation of non-University scribblers (whether as imitators of The New Blank Verse, or as 'translators' of Seneca and the Italians).

Every loft in Cheapside publishes its Magnum Folium (or magazine) of The New Blank Verse; the Cheapside Players will produce anything on sight as long as it discards the rhymed metre which has hitherto been the sole dramatic vehicle, and adopts in its place The New Blank Verse which Surrey had used.

A sample of The New Blank Verse, based on the stress-rhythm theory in—the mountain of the gods, the unappeasable gods. Are such lines metrical? These words seem to express the apprehensions of a jealous rival who warns his associates that Shakespeare has copied The New Blank Verse which Every loft in Cheapside publishes in its Magnum Folium (or magazine) of The New Blank Verse; the Cheapside Players would produce anything on sight as long as it had style.

The New Elegiac

2007-10-08T18:09:00.000-07:00

By the last ten or fifteen years of the sixteenth century, the time at which The New Elegiac couplet was to burst into English poetry, the English heroic passed into The New Elegiac. In fact, none of The New Elegiac can be assigned definitively to a separate poem of either battle. It can be shown, however, that the evidence «Die Brautwahl», when it was first performed in 1912, proved to be an orchestral embarras de richesse with elements of The New Elegiac, a style gracing and in keeping with the poetic project of diversification.

This is a that.

The New Elegiac, in addition to being linguistic, is a configuration of Shelley's re-enacting and re-writing the story of his subject—Keats, also proposes to host "a bag of ash" which indirectly reflects The New Elegiac in a sense of continuing responsibility to the dead. Deianira knows very well, just as she clearly knows the opening distich of her very own letter, written in The New Elegiac, a work of verse in three parts: The first two parts contain advice for the predatory male, and the third devotes itself to the opposite sex. When that eclogue became long enough for two, she switched calendars, made The New Elegiac, pairing November and December, then wrote or adapted The New February.

Ramazani describes The New Elegiac form Plath employs in the three poems listed above, and how they become increasingly directed at her father (c. mid-seventh century) turning away from the martial elegy and patriotic discourse to explore the flexible possibilities of The New Elegiac. The New Elegiac narrator Arethusa does not even speak as a mistress but as a wife.

The New Elegiac has gone on to form Novel fragments in Canada and to compose a Keynote Address. But more significant in our appreciation of Propertius' expansion of the range of possible meanings of arms in The New Elegiac is the world of cities and books Simonides and his Thessalian clients traffic and somewhat miss. Grief insists, like naming, carries sexual connotations, and has again, in The New Elegiac, become a world.

This mediating function places The New Elegiac between the real fighter Ovid, even in his old age, and the theme of the poet grown old embodied in the prince, a position devoted entirely to The New Elegiac and the fragments of Simonides, but in a ritual act that appeared too late to be taken into account here.

We now know, from The New Elegiac, that Theocritus looked back to the Plataea poem: he quoted fragments to us.

The New Septenary

2007-09-29T19:10:00.000-07:00

Founded on the intellect and the crystal truth about The New Septenary, the earth and the whole mass of these statements are free to buff the intermezzo of the four angels and the other angel; and The New Septenary will introduce a group of trumpets to loosen the seventh seal.

LA-Lit: Christine Wertheim

2007-09-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

LA-Lit interviews Christine Wertheim
Sunday, September 23 at 5pm
At Betalevel

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Sunday, September 23 at 5 p.m. at Betalevel in Chinatown. Christine Wertheim will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. The show (& hence the recording) lasts a little over an hour and will be about 30 minutes of reading & about 30 minutes of questions & answers/further questions—alternating between the two modes in hopes of creating a space for dynamic conversation.

Christine Wertheim writes poetics and aesthetic criticism. Her book "+|'me'S-pace," was published in 2007 by Les Figues Press. Other work has appeared in La Petite Zine, Five Fingers Review, Cabinet, Open Letter, Art History vs Aesthetics, and X-TRA. She co-organizes an annual writing conference whose publications are Séance (2006), and The Noulipian Analects (2007), and co-directs The Institute For Figuring. She teaches writing, literature and feminisms in the school of Critical Studies at CalArts.

LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit is sponsored by Superbunker and recorded at Betalevel. You can subscribe to the LA-Lit podcast by visiting our website and dragging the Subscribe link from the sidebar to your podcast folder in iTunes, or download past shows by visiting the writer’s page on the website.

Ideally we will have an audience made up of people who are inclined to jot down a thought, query, doubt, or other incitement. During the second half of the show the floor will be opened for questions from the audience.

Please do your best not to arrive late, so as to minimize the sounds of shuffling & stair-creaking while the show is being recorded.

Feel free to forward this invitation on to your friends and neighbors. For more information, visit http://LA-Lit.com.

We will be delighted to see you there,
Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux

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Directions to Betalevel

1. Find yourself in front of "FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT"
located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

2. Locate the narrow alley on the left hand side of Full House.

3. Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).

4. Stop.

5. Notice dumpster on your right hand side.

6. Take a right and continue down the alley.

7. Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot

8. The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side,
behind a red door, down a black staircase.

_______________________________

Insert Review

2007-09-22T20:07:00.001-07:00

There's a new review of Julien Poirier's Absurd Good News over at Jack Morgan's Trainwreck Blog. I don't know Jack Morgan, but I think he's very nice.

The New Writing on the Wall

2007-09-15T00:42:00.000-07:00

Mark your calendar, dazzle your friends! see the Magic of Global inequality rising as it's accepted that Forgiveness is The New Writing on The Wall.

The Question of Time entered the Discussion of Post-Graffiti Art in the Exhibition at the Swiss Embassy, concluding that Forgiveness is The New Writing on the Wall. Nearly all the once-notorious names in Philadelphia graffiti were there, cleverly saying, "this Now, is The New Writing on the Wall."

Now, The New Writing on the Wall starts with an Author, a Topic and a Quote.

Now, The New Writing on the Wall has been Read 5 times.

The New Writing on the Wall will Magically generate its own Lexicon.

Singing The New Song to The Web Console Bathroom Vanity, an excellent piece of furniture, can be interpreted as The New Writing on the Wall for bathroom ambience. “1000 songs in your pocket” is The New Writing on the Wall instead of a clueless Quantum Note.

The New Writing on the Wall is Graffiti: But is it better on Concrete or Wallpaper? The students at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, remove graffiti from The New Writing on the Wall. Go inside and look at The New Writing on the Wall. Oh my! Who would write this?? Go east on Sanders St. and on the south corner are 2 boxes of shotguns.

Forgiveness is The New Writing on the Wall, even as Global inequality is rising.

Hate Factories are reveling in The New Writing on the Wall, we shouldn’t let a bunch of has-beens sabotage a long-delayed future. Now and then, the surviving partners can see The New Writing on the Wall: another way of saying electronic games are here to stay.

Forgiveness is The New Writing on the Wall, the smart way to move through the World.

The New Writing on the Wall is The New Slogan and it's far more infomative than it was before, that skeleton will lie in chamber forever.

The New Writing on the Wall says: Collaborators Wanted. Labor woes continue.

The New Author Function

2007-09-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

And in the hopes of a larger and increasingly literate audience paradoxically inseparable from The New Author Function and from reception, elements of The New Author Function in narrative seem quite incompatible with tradition.

The New Author Function constitutes itself as figuring forth. Is it The New Author Function making itself felt, or the mark of a re-appraisal of Horatian modality throughout what, ironically, the images (and illusions) of procreation actually obscure.

Is this the presumed autonomy of The New Author Function as presupposed? The connotations that “author” brings to the text are often less than helpful for innovative writing, yet they are making The New Author Function.

Creating an Author creates The New Record in the Authors' table and returns the ID assigned to The New Author Function.

Create an Author. Create an Author's Name. Create a String As String And the two As a String are.

The New Aesthetic

2007-09-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

In these four lectures, we track the chronology of Beethoven's fourth, fifth, and sixth symphonies and study The New Art that had the power to revive and prolong the city's established architectural traditions.

From this web of paradox, The New Aesthetic has emerged.

Here, a parallel can usefully be drawn with The New Aesthetic of Bulgarian choral music represented by the various state ensembles with their repertoire of Forms. Taken first from a sense of rejecting the past of modernity, The New Aesthetic encountered foreignness on the streets, a foreignness formed out of Form, taken first from a sense of rejecting the past along with modernity. The New Aesthetic encountered foreignness on the streets, a foreignness formed out of the Digital aesthetics: The New Labels and The New Aesthetic. Modern American Indian photographers working in The New Aesthetic, don't attempt to hide the atrocities of contemporary reservation life.

Now, having considered specific art practices such as digital photography, net art and music, we will move on to The New Aesthetic, emphasizing the potential of technology to make force more precise. Yes, and War is very much related to The New Aesthetic. A glamorous and especially virtuous activity, War has taken firm hold in the American consciousness and has Consolidated The New Aesthetic. A controversial exhibit was scheduled for The New Aesthetic that reinforced this heightened predilection of War for arms that have caused the appearance of The New Aesthetic in the recent years of war.

You’ve heard this story before, becoming unravelled in Europe or assaulted in some roadhouse, but bold as nipples and booted. The New Aesthetic is a band based out of Winnipeg. They're a hard working group that have booked there own tours. They have also recently recorded an EP Desecrating Christ: The New Aesthetic of Terror?

The New Aesthetic: did it work?

The Most popular tricks of The New Aesthetic. Minutes To Midnight. Minutes To Midnight. Not Too Late. Not Too Late for The New Aesthetic: The New Aesthetic revels in the common murky topics.

Look Smart, Healthy and Fit in comparison with The New Aesthetic brought on by Andy Warhol. Flexible form is provided free by approaching The New Art Form, which raises questions in the very Home of The New Aesthetic. The New Aesthetic formed in february of 2004 as the result of previous originals which did not work out for drummers of The New Aesthetic.

The New Aesthetic of Internet hybrids and worldwide interactive events has come from the Source, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques of Erosion Control, a professional magazine supporting the erosion control industry, published by Forester Communications, INC., But poets still fight for the simple right to set their rhythms on paper.

Notes on The New Aesthetic of Poetry and Music have pushed 269 of The New Readers toward The New Aesthetic. "We can hardly put too much stress on the influence which at all times the past of art exerts on the future of art, what we could call The New Aesthetic."

City Lofts. City Lofts. City Lofts. City Lofts. The neighborhood floor plans tours and projects status. The New Aesthetic Supports Carriers of One Edge Now! The Most popular tricks. Minutes To Midnight. Minutes To Midnight.

Besides reflecting on the conditions that made possible this recent boom, this book elaborates on The New Aesthetic and the tendencies of recent productions, this is a polemic against both, and distinctly agrees with Schiller that critics of The New Aesthetic misunderstood the idea of beauty when they said, "The New Aesthetic is not everyone's cup of herbal tea."

Critics and listeners raised on punk's supposed anti-hippie credo can be suspicious, while others remember the '60s. As Guattari acknowledges, much of The New Aesthetic is a paradigm consonant with Marcel Duchamp's observation many years ago that "art is a road which leads."

Fold Review

2007-09-10T00:23:00.000-07:00

This looks like a review of Fold Magazine - I can't understand it.
Maybe you can?

a list

2007-08-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

Found this weird old list while packing up boxes and moving. I think it's a very ancient spanish vocab quiz.

Stan Apps is now non-provocative

2007-08-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

Stan Apps has changed his blog address to a nonprovocativeurl and has been writing new posts about Power and Corruption and Pound in a totally non provocative way. It's truly a big change for him.
Go check out all Stan has to say at his newly nonprovocativeurl.

Fold Appropriate Release Party!

2007-08-09T00:26:00.000-07:00

Fold Appropriate Release Party
Friday August 17 at 7:30pm
at Betalevel (directions below)
http://betalevel.com/2007/08/17/fold-appropriate-release/

Come celebrate the release of the first issue of FOLD MAGAZINE, Fold Appropriate Text, published by Insert Press. Featuring readings by Harold Abramowitz, Guy Bennett, Franklin Bruno, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Jen Hofer, Vanessa Place, Michael Smoler and more. Plus you can buy yourself a copy of this gorgeous literary journal at a discount (very exciting)!

The emphasis of this issue is on the use of borrowed, stolen, plundered, reused, retooled and/or sampled texts to create literature and includes essays by Mark Wallace and Guy Bennett that discuss these methods. Our intent is to present the work of writers who use text which they did not originate and do not own or own only by virtue of appropriation.

Contributors to Fold Appropriate Text are: Harold Abramowitz, Guy Bennett, Franklin Bruno, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Jen Hofer, Mark Hoover, Mike Magee, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, William Moor, Bruna Mori, JeffreyJoe Nelson, Vanessa Place, Dan Richert, Rod Smith, Michael Smoler, Mark Wallace

Insert Press is edited by Stan Apps and Mathew Timmons. Insert Press has published chapbooks THREE COLUMN TABLE by Harold Abramowitz and ABSURD GOOD NEWS by Julien Poirier. HANDSOME FISH OFFICES by Ara Shirinyan, the first perfectbound book published by Insert Press is forthcoming.

Visit InsertPress[dot]Net for more information and to purchase fine literature.

If you’re going to be in San Francisco on Saturday, August 18 at 7:30pm, join us for another launch party at Pegasus Books in downtown Berkeley and hear readings by Franklin Bruno, K. Lorraine Graham, William Moor, Mathew Timmons, and Mark Wallace.

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Directions to Betalevel

1. Find yourself in front of "FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT"
located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

2. Locate the narrow alley on the left hand side of Full House.

3. Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).

4. Stop.

5. Notice dumpster on your right hand side.

6. Take a right and continue down the alley.

7. Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot

8. The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side,
behind a red door, down a black staircase.

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