Monday, November 22, 2004

In preparation for our drive to Long Beach tomorrow and in acquiescence to Brighton's expressed "need" of a personal music device (discman, thank god he's not asking for an iPod), I purchased the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Soundtrack for him to listen to on my discman in the car. Brighton is almost 6 and somehow he's already one of the most sophisticated indie rockers I know. "Hey Dad, put on some rock 'n' roll." "Who do you want to hear?" "ummm...Modest Mouse (I only let him hear the clean songs) or D.C. For Cutie (I leave out the "Death Cab" part)." He wants to have a band when he's grown up, like 7.

Saturday, November 06, 2004

So now that I've gotten DSL again, found the sunshine amidst the most depressing wednesday and days following, and decided to forego giving up on this here blog, I might as well write something. I just moved back into San Francisco (YaY!) but in order to do so, must find a new home for my cats Palace & Radio aka The Brutal Kittens (Boo.) I've had three good prospects for taking them but each one backed out last minute. Any of you in the Bay Area want two awesome cats? Boo.

On another note, I'm reading this thursday with Joseph Lease in the innaugural reading of the Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series.

That's Thursday, Nov. 11th @ 7:30pm. StartSoma 672 South Van Ness at 18 th in San Francisco. $5-$10sliding scale suggested donation plus free alcoholic beverages such as wine and beer and a DJ spinning your favorite indie/new wave/electro so you can dance.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Once again, I find myself searching for a place to live. My heart's in San Francisco but my person is in Oakland...I'm hoping to go where the heart is.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Amick has started a blog! I Don't Believe In Bodiless. Be nice or you'll have to deal with me.

Sunday night at Glenn Todd's beautiful

"Lower Pac Heights" home with Peter, looking at many of Arion Press' stunning books, some of which, Glenn had a hand in. One of which, John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror", printed on circular sheets of handmade paper, the poem's lines radiating out from a center as spokes and contained in a large film cannister. A series of 8 Diebenkorn etchings on one wall, Bruce Conner photograveures on another, I think I counted three Jess collages. Really just an amazing place. Peter's new book from Salt Periplum & Other Poems, a reprinting of his first book, Periplum or I the Blaze, which includes early chapbooks; "Hours of the Book" and "Music for Films".

So many readings this week. Brandon Brown and Larry Kearney this evening, Aaron Kiely and Suzanne Stein tomorrow, and Peter with Beverly Dahlen on Thursday. How to hear so much poetry!

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Cat Stevens deported from U.S. because he's on a Terror Alert watch list. What a "Wild World" indeed.