Solo on that ass

3:AM has published Friend Helmet, list of 50 #43, which is a monologue made up of lines jacked from conversations in gmail with a variety of wondrous people, including maybe you? Biggest props to H, who is the majority, and the good. It should be read as 1 mind.




My write up of the 13th story in Brian Evenson's Fugue State, for 'Bauer in the Tyrol' is posted at Writers Bloc.





This photo probably very well encompasses the general mindstate of the 2nd half of the Dollar Store Tour as well as anything could ever (there with our rapist van behind us, bless its black heart):





Swore to myself I'd be inside my head today, trying really hard to get back in the swing of this mess, I am going there now.

New York Tyrant 5 / 50 Lists / EVER

New York Tyrant 5 is out, available for sale on their brand new website, which is quite a thing to behold.

The new issue is a mindfuck w/o even touching, including some crazy brilliance, among them: Alex Balk, Eugene Marten, Jason Schwartz, Eva Talmadge, Gordon Lish, Atticus Lish, Sam Michel, Brad Gayman, John Haskell, Cooper Renner, Michael Scott Ryan, Oscar Williams, Ryan Call, Blake Butler, Julian Zadorozny, Ronald Hobbs, M. Thomas Gammarino, Conor Madigan, R.E. Bowse, Justin Taylor, Julian Kudritzki, Pasquino, Greg Mulcahy, M Sarki, S.G. Miller, Joshua Furst, David Nutt, Sarah Manguso, Patrick Leonard, Jeffrey Lewis, Thomas a Kempis, Jody Barton.

Atticus Lish. Hmm, that is intriguing.

And featuring an unbeatable cover:



These always sell out instantly, so check out the website and pick up a copy before they are gone.




My story 'Want for Wish for Nowhere' in the issue is I think the last one I wrote for SCORCH ATLAS, and also maybe my favorite in the collection. I am stoked to have it in such an incredible venue.





I don't know how anyone has time to do anything.







I am reading STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Yannick Murphy and THE EXTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE by Michael Ives. Both are insanely good in insanely different ways.







I finished the 50th list in my set of lists 50 finally the other day. After about 2 years working on them, it is weird to know I will not be continuing in that form, though it also a huge relief in a way. I just realized it's been 2 year since I started as I typed that. Really bizarre.

Here, for sentiment's sake, is the first one I did, before I realized it would be a series, published on Juked. I like how that one is so vastly different in process and method from how the 50th list ended up, and the array in between. Here is the second one, written the day after the first. I have no idea who I could send such a thing to for consideration of publication, but we'll see.

A complete list of the lists as they stand now has been updated here.

I still have a lot of work going back to fix the lists that sucked by completely replacing a couple and getting rid of the excess lines, then trying to get back into the mindset of the time I wrote it (as each list for the most part was written in one sitting). Hopefully by the end of the year I will have that project completely finished and can start a series of 100 lists of 100 or something mentally fucked as such.

I am not going to do that.







EVER is in final stages. Derek sent a mock up of cover and final PDF version for me to read one last time. Weird of that. One more blurb forthcoming and finalizing of shits, and it is on.

I am making a webpage for the book, I did some and then stopped, but here is a preview of the page: EVER. It's just a mock up really but I feel like putting it out there so I'll actually work on it. A lot more to come there.







I have 3 novels sitting on my hard drive that I should be sending out but I am tired. All written this year. Life of paper.

THINGS ABOUT TODAY BECAUSE TODAY I'M VERY HERE

OUTDATED BLOG OF THE DAY: creepy, abandoned Chi-Chis

ALBUM OF THE DAY: David Byrne's THE CATHERINE WHEEL soundtrack

BONUS YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED TO ALBUM OF THE DAY IN WHICH ARTIST INTERVIEWS HIMSELF:



THING I STILL WANT TO KILL OF THE DAY: neighbor's smaller dog, who I am now convinced might be capable of invoking a hole in the solar system that will eventually become a spigot of sludge and hence our ending

MESSAGE I GOT ON FACEBOOK FROM SOMEONE WHO IS EITHER PRETENDING TO KNOW ME OR IS GENUINELY CONFUSED OF THE DAY: man ive missed you so much like u have no idea. its so boring, jake just like stopped coming and theres been ppl around town that look like you but its not and i just really want you to come back. wether you believe it or not u had an impact on me and everyone else in the youth group. u talked to me a couple of days after i meet you and i tried to call u that night on new years just to say that i hope u have a safe trip back and that you can come back as soon as possible. u really are the greatest person thats ever impacted me like that before. u gave me trust, granted you didnt reveal everything up front but u did tell me some stuff and i thank u for that. my # is 706-767-5641 call me some time but after 1 because i have school till then. u better call me and tell me when ur coming back. thanks for trusting me. and i cant wait to see u again? did u grow ur hair out? or didnt u rethink that. Happy Hippy! lol im slowly growing my hair back out, u should come and watch it,

Tyler

DIANE WILLIAMS STORY I FOUND THAT YOU CAN READ ONLINE AND MAKES ME FEEL SIMULTANEOUSLY READY TO STAND UP FROM MY CHAIR AND READY TO CONTINUE SITTING IN IT FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, A FEELING I CAN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN: Aggressive Glass and Mirrors

THING I DISLIKE MORE THAN MY NEIGHBOR'S DOG OF THE DAY: my neighbor

THING I NEVER WANT TO THINK ABOUT AGAIN OF THE DAY: my neighbor

VIDEO OF THE DAY OF A PERSON ASCENDING PLACE, WHICH I GENUINELY ENJOY FOR NOT ENTIRELY PORNOGRAPHIC REASONS:




THING I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND TELL MY FAT TEENAGE SELF OF WHICH I REMINDED AFTER SEARCHING SEVERAL ITEMS ON EBAY OF THE DAY: stop buying the goddamn Marvel trading cards. you don't even want to look at them. you're only buying them to try to collect them all and you don't even read the backs or look at the pictures besides when you flip through them in their protective cases. they will never be worth anything. they will sit in your closet forever. you can get the whole set on ebay right now for $4. and no you won't miss them, they do not add anything to your young life despite being useless, because you get just as much mental satisfaction out of eating breakfast cereal. nothing will be 'damaged' if you never collect marvel universe trading cards, but you will have a lot more room in that closet at your parents' house that is filling up with more and more and more crap. relax.

VERY LARGE IMAGE OF A PERSON WHO SHOULD LIVE FOREVER OF THE DAY, FOUND BY GOOGLING THE WORD 'BYE,' BUT WHICH I HAD TO SHRINK TO FIT INTO THIS BROWSER: