Earshot NYC Reading 4/18

   On April 18th, I'll be reading at the Earshot reading series alongside Rauan Klassnik (The Moon's Jaw, Holy Land), Amy Lawless (My Dead, Noctis Licentia), Katie Longofono, and Dennis L. Barnes Jr. The show starts shaking around 7:30pm, at the literarily named Lolita Bar in L.E.S. $5 gets you through the door with a drink in your hand. More info thisaways. 

EARSHOT April 18th, 7:30pm at Lolita Bar.

Featuring:
RAUAN KLASSNIK (The Moon's Jaw, Holy Land)
AMY LAWLESS (My Dead, Noctis Licentia)
Katie Longofono (Sarah Lawrence)
Matthew Thompson (NYU)
Dennis L. Barnes, Jr. (City College)

EARSHOT is bringing some mid-April payback that the tax man can't touch, so come out and join us for some drinks and ridiculously good readers on a hopefully warmer night.

$5 admission, which gets you a drink. Hopefully you drink.

Hosted by Peter Bogart Johnson

Periodicaled : Ninth Letter

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   Embarrassingly late in reporting, but...the fine folks at Ninth Letter have published my story "Illustration of a Stove" in their winter issue. You can read that thisaway.

   Many thanks to Jodee Stanley and the 9L editorial team. Quite a privilege to be involved with such a stellar magazine.

Way Gone with Brothers Quay

   Rung in the new year with MoMA and their dive-down-the-rabbit-hole retrospective of the Brothers Quay. On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets assembles a massive sampling of the twin siblings' work -- from their phantasmagorical stop-motion films and obsessively assembled, puppet-inhabited curiosity cabinets, to black inked book jacket designs and corporate TV commercials. It also pays considerable attention to what inspired the Quay Brothers in the first place, including a wonderful and weird corner devoted entirely to surrealist Polish poster art.

Roman Cieslewicz - Katastrofa

Bronislaw Zelek - Sult

Franciszek Starowieyski - Therese

Wojciech Fangor - Ballad of a Soldier

Jan Lenica - Laventura

Wojciech Zamecznik - Shadow Cien

   Despite a rather unfortunate connection my mind immediately makes between their visual style and, err, Tool, I find the Quay Brothers to be producers of some supremely strange and stunning work. Their fine attention to detail and otherworldly world-building abilities are worthy of praise in their own right, not to mention the transfixing experience of viewing those worlds from the other side of the glass. Also, they dreamed up this bonkers French commercial for Badoit fizzy water, which earns them a bigtime a-ok sign from me.

*Thanks to Adrian Curry, whose original blog post I politely used as source material.

Reading Friday, December 7th with CA Conrad

   This Friday (12/7), I'll be reading alongside CA Conrad at the KGB Bar in the East Village. Show starts at 7pm. More info thisaway. Yessir, feeling rather Frankenthaler-y.

Faking It

   The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting a mesmerizing exhibition of photographic manipulation from the 19th and 20th centuries entitled, "Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop." The showcase, sponsored by Adobe and featuring photos from as far back as 1857, draws both parallels and distinctions between Photoshopped media and studio concoctions, digital images and gelatin prints, a cut/copy wiz kid and his stoop-backed great-grandfather tinkering in a darkroom outside Berlin.

   Once again I'm dumbfounded by the restless ingenuity of our creative minds. "Strawberry Fields" was recorded on a four track, fer chrissakes! and this is itself a kind of miraculous invention. Also, the conspicuous amount decapitation photos is absolutely hilarious.