Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Sack of Lithuanian women eating lettuce & squishing ass

DIAGRAM 8.3 All Fiction issue is launched now. Read my little story. It has Tom Waits in it a little, kind of. I am seeing him play at the Fox on Saturday. Fuck.

Read Amelia Gray's story. It is incredible. Read the others.

Here's a nice interview @ Hobart with YANNICK MURPHY, whose new Dzanc book I have professed love for.

I am moving back into my loft this weekend now for sure. Four months of displacement over. Energy shift. Krusherz.

Here is the only passage I underlined in AS I LAY DYING when I read it the first time in 11th grade:

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not.

BILL FUCKIN FAULKNER

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18 comments:

  1. Josh MadayJuly 1, 2008 at 4:55 PM

    nice work, blake. DIAGRAM is killer. faulkner, too.

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  2. Keith MontesanoJuly 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM

    i think i tried to tackle that in 9th grade. but i cheated and had the cliff's notes. still, it was a wild read. i may have to break out billy again soon.

    my mother is a fish.

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  3. Maurice BurfordJuly 1, 2008 at 5:03 PM

    your stories are fucking amazing.

    great job!

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  4. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM

    thank you josh and alex

    we should all group reread faulkner

    faulkner is probably the one thing i was made to read in high school i should have paid more attention to. they hoist so much shit at you it's hard to take it seriously

    i want to form the 'read barry hannah and gary lutz in schools' lobby

    we will storm the bastille with sprayguns and abstruse adverbs tattooed on our foreheads

    then kids will grow up scared more and wont't fuck so much or maybe will fuck more and better




    vardman

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  5. Maurice BurfordJuly 1, 2008 at 5:12 PM

    i'm in.

    i've never read any of his books but always wanted to. i started reading GO DOWN MOSES. i stopped for a reason i can't remember.

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  6. Josh MadayJuly 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM

    yes. group faulkner orgy reread. in.

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  7. Ken BaumannJuly 1, 2008 at 7:15 PM

    faulkner: in

    fuck yes for loft, here it comes, cocoon

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  8. KathrynJuly 1, 2008 at 10:36 PM

    godbloggit that book is good. i mean, he is the most genius that has ever lived in human form.

    BILL BLOGGIN' FAULKNER.

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  9. jeremeJuly 2, 2008 at 5:03 AM

    i love tom waits. i am jealous

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  10. AnonymousJuly 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM

    My mother is a fish.

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  11. AnonymousJuly 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM

    I thought I was Vardaman Bundren.

    My all-time favorite hyphenated phrase:

    "not-fish"

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  12. Michael KimballJuly 2, 2008 at 1:09 PM

    I've reread As I Lay Dying so many times that I eventually underlined every line.

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  13. Josh MadayJuly 2, 2008 at 1:55 PM

    no kidding. i think that that eventually happens with almost any faulkner you read over and over. i would be settle for just a touch of whatever linguistic madness inhabited his brain.

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  14. Adam RJuly 2, 2008 at 4:02 PM

    "geese like disco balls"

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  15. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 2, 2008 at 8:25 PM

    yoinkssssssssss

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  16. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 2, 2008 at 8:25 PM

    adam :()

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  17. BrandonJuly 3, 2008 at 10:08 PM

    Faulkner is great
    Tom Waits is great
    Yannick Murphy is great
    Story is great


    so so great.

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  18. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 4, 2008 at 12:22 AM

    great jumping joseph

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