PROBLEMAS

I have been having serious problems posting. Any suggestions?

BUNNY

“Pop Art, the most significant "unknown artist," post-war period, "collagist extraordinaire’: Elvis Presley, James Dean, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe; "moticos" panels; "tesserrae work; and Zen Buddhism. In his mailings, he introduced chance by inviting a recipient of his mailings to send the material to another person: active "mail art.” He began to write "Please send to..." Soon called the "New York Correspondance (sic) School," Johnson was attacked in lower Manhattan. Moved. Locust Valley, Long Island, reclusiveness in what he called a "small white farmhouse with a Joseph Cornell attic." While maintaining his profile by communicating via mail art and the telephone... In 1961 he initiated his "Nothings," and continued to stage them throughout his life. carefully wrought suicide on Friday the 13th, 1995 – “

I have enjoyed the work of Ray Johnson for years. My knuckles are itchy.

EMPHASIS

For Ten days or so, I vacationed in the Southwest. Here is the audio diary.

SOAP DISH

AXLE FOR THE PAXIL have broken up! We apologize to our fans.

The remaining members of A.F.T.P. have formed a new supergroup from the wet beer bottle rings of the former. The new group will be called COLOSSAL CHEEK.

If anyone would like to join (we need drums, turntables, samplers, artwork etc) please contact LESTER SHUE.

Vacation

Tonight I leave for the desert. I am hoping that the time apart from Brooklyn will be a commercially successful female group. Like the Go-Go's.

"Can't seem to get my mind off of you Back here at home there's nothin' to do Now that I'm awayI wish I'd stayed Tomorrow's a day of mine that you won't be in When you looked at me I should've run But I thought it was just for fun I see I was wrong And I'm not so strong I should've known all along that time would tell A week without you Thought I'd forget Two weeks without you and I Still haven't gotten over you yet

Vacation All I ever wanted

Vacation

Had to get away

Vacation

Meant to be spent alone

A week without you Thought I'd forget

Two weeks without you and I

Still haven't gotten over you yet"

BIll Knott

Question: "Who is the worst “bad guy” in all poetry?"
Answer : "Me. (Huh!)"

Bill Knott

William Kilborn Knott or "Saint Geraud"

(a pseudonym taken from the name of the director of a sex-riddled orphanage, lecherous title-character of an obscure 18th century French pornographic novel called Le Tartuffe Libertin The Lascivious Hypocrite) is a poet. He is also an associate professor at the Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty of Emerson College in Boston.

I am certain most people who are interested in poetry and in the work of this particular poet know of this blog, but I am always the last person to board the train.....just how it is....

Knott has posted his entire catalog of poems to a blog, citing dissatisfaction with the print world and considering his poetry "failed" as "none of [it] achieved any popularity or significant critical acclaim".

Bill, it has not (sorry about the pun). The work holds up.

It is romantic, surreal, funny, metaphysical, witty, sad, and tender.

TAKING DRUG TO MAKE MUSIC TO TAKE DRUGS TO

Possibly one of the most honest album titles ever.

The Spacmen 3: english, pre-shoegazer, minimal, droning, soft or thunderous, spoken (almost sung) vocals psychedlic rock band.

Think Velvet Underground sleeping with Sun Ra who in turn invites Muddy Waters for further yesyes and having only the voice of Bob Mould to describe the experience.

I recently borrowed this album from the public library. What a “gravelly” plunge of deep nod. I can remember more than I thought I could.

LINES BORROWED FOR YOUR USE # 3

"Shiitake mushroom emotional milkshake.": BUCK Downs

"Refuse ephemerally": Jesse Seldess

"I have a pile of logs and nothing to compare its shape to": Julie Doxsee

"Sometimes metaphors seem lazy": Chris Tonelli

"It's important to remember we left paradise on purpose because the soil was dirty and the actual was vague": Jane Gregory

"Amusing how the river begins with me and ends at you" Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare

"When nervous, I eat things and want the fault to be Connecticut": Samuel Amadon

"I want no paradise only to be drenched in the down pour of words": Charles Bernstein

"Or did we toast the militant roses": John Yau

"Awakening is the parachute jump from the dream": Tomas Transtromer

Yes, Robert Mitchum.

I watched the original Cape Fear (black and white), (film noir), (1962), on TV the other night, and I was very much moved by Mitchum’s performance.

Mitchum plays the character Max Cady. Max Cady is a criminal who serves 8 years in the penitentiary, jail, slammer, pen, big house, cooler, joint, can, hoosegow for attacking a young woman. He spends those eight years (presumably) thinking about the testimony that convicted him, and the man who testified against him. Revenge, baby, revenge.

Director J. Lee Thompson whose directorial career included such cinematic gems like Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), and some Charles Bronson flicks: 10 to Midnight (1983), and The Evil That Men Do (1984), among many films in four decades or so of some of the most critically-derided filmmaking. Cape Fear was his magnum opus.

The original Cape fear is beautifully infatuated with its own obsessiveness. From the characters, to the atmosphere, and even the musical score, but Mitchum's Cady stands out.

Looming, sassy, muscular, prowling, seductive, Mitchum gives a much more nuanced performance than the Henry Rollinsesque performance by Robert Deniro in the 1992 (?) Scorsese remake.

(In spite of yourself) He made you like the bad guy.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

In celebration of our nation's "assumption"

of independent

"statehood", let us find ways to

get AM FINE back to writing

her blog, EPISTLE WHIPPED

Reasons for her to Continue Blogging:

1) Your profile views might reach the triple digits.

2) All the joy explaining the title of your blog.

3) The only one to respond to LESTER SHUE'S hypnotic posts.

4) Sonic Youth will be available at your local Starbucks

5) You emit light we sometimes have trouble generating ourselves

6) Akinesia

7) The color of Thistle

8) "Is there no one who feels like a pair of pants?”: Kenneth Koch

CORPORATION IS SEX

Sonic Youth will soon release a compilation via Starbucks. In addition to presumed input from Beck, Jeff Tweedy, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi, and Michelle Williams the limited edition Hits Are for Squares will also include choice Sonic Youth cuts selected by the likes of Eddie Vedder, Dave Eggers, DAVID Cross, and Chloe Sevigny. Peruse the liner notes and you will also find quotes from these curators regarding their selections. Technically a joint effort between Starbucks Entertainment and Universal Special Markets, Hits will be available for squares at Starbucks locations in select cities-- NYC, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, and DC-- and online at the Starbucks label website, Hear Music.

ASK AND YOU SHALL.....

Robert Hass's first book in ten years, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, will go on sale this October.

Here's one of the shorter poems near the beginning of the collection:

"Winged and Acid Dark"

A sentence with "dappled shadow" in it. Something not sayable spurting from the morning silence, secret as a thrush. The other man, the officer, who brought onions and wine and sacks of flour, the major with the swollen knee, wanted intelligent conversation afterward. Having no choice, she provided that, too. Potsdamerplatz, May 1945. When the first one was through he pried her mouth open. Bashō told Rensetsu to avoid sensational materials. If the horror of the world were the truth of the world, he said, there would be no one to say it and no one to say it to. I think he recommended describing the slightly frenzied swarming of insects near a waterfall. Pried her mouth open and spit in it.We pass these things on, probably, because we are what we can imagine. Something not sayable in the morning silence. The mind hungering after likenesses. "Tender sky," etc., curves the swallows trace in air.

WHEN THE SUN CAME IN THROUGH THE WINDOW

"Pain is nailed to the landscape in time." Susan Howe

SOO SQUEEZEY

"OF RON SILLIMAN'S THOUSAND-AND-ONE DICTA TJANTING, ONE I FIND IRKSOME IS (AND I ADMIRE MANY OF HIS DICTA) IS THAT THE MOST POLITICAL THING YOU CAN DO IS FACE THE LANGUAGE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I APPRECIATE THE RETURN OF REFLEXIVITY TO THE WRITER'S LINGUISTIC PROVINCE, BUT DOES THAT MEAN, THE PROVINCE OF THE WRITER IS LANGUAGE PERIOD? WHAT OF WHAT AGEE NAMED "THE SORROW, THE EFFORT AND THE UGLINESS OF THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD"? IF I ROLFED MY OWN LANGUAGE, IF I TUENED ON IT WITH A VENGEANCE, I DOUBT IT WOULD EVER WALK AGAIN, EVER HOPE TO CROSS THE COUNTRY AGAIN BEARING SOME NEW WORD TO THE OLD WORLD. OR OLD WORLD TO THE NEW WORLD. BUT MY REAL DIFFERENCE WITH THIS ONE CLAIM IS THAT IT IS STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC. IT IS ENGROSSED SOLELY WITH TECHNIQUE." C.D. WRIGHT