Wild Slices, Or, Buffering Process

a great spot

what a nice apartment building

east and south of belltown, 4th and blanchard

Up in Seattle...

I'm going to walk from down town to my apartment, come along!

another picture from my etrip to portland

motorcycle cyclone

streetview

hey party people, im back from my like 4th long blogging hiatus and here's what ive been working on this week!

Damn!

i was just re-reading this a little bit, and saw that i said BSG interview a long ass time ago, when i should have said Brandon Scott Gorrell

he was like a mumu house writer living in seattle, now he runs thought catalog

and i had an interview with him, as coresponded through someone else's email and mistakenly sent (back?) to me.

if i had written his whole name out in the header of that post. i might have like,
a couple more strangers following this and maybe a couple more strangers following dude york blog


i would like that, especially on this blog with its "personalized content" because all strangers I imagine are myself. so i just post things at me,

when it comes to strangers.

speaking of strangers, and strange things:

(chilling)

this girl looks like my sister

but if my sister were hip.

scary alt universe.






iris, nadim, u both have older sisters like me, (massive three way internet fist bump)

yeeeeahh

hungry!

im so hungry, this is a great shot of eating in a hotel room. this one is for all u guys who r still hungry right now.

Goth Zombies

With andrew gone this week, friends, i've been spending a lot of time with shaun. its been sick

last night i was chiiiiilllllliiiin with shaun, right? and then we saw the movie rubber

we made a film on extranormal the other day too (andrew was there actually before he left for idaho to sort records)

its called google tranny

so youtube google tranny
(lol)

shaun and joe made a film the other day, they have made like a ton of movies on their own, its crazy. iris sent two of her dude york covers she designed for us, the first is an incredible painting of isabel
and the second is really chill, you will see these soon anyway because u guys are "into dude york" aka have to listen to it because i will ask you about it. or will want to hear it because you made a cover, secret comix: im looking at you (kinda, through the internet tubes)

watched the anime series Trigun this week...

gabe berenson, a freind of mine from middle school who went to mercer island high and played drums and guitar and stuff and had bands in highschool probably but i lost touch with him, used to watch that show all the time.

i always thought the main character was a doof, and now i understand he is kinda sick, but just looks like a doof.

you can disagree, im not bothered if you like the way that "Vash the Stampede" is drawn. he looks like a '90s goober.

i wish toby alden followed this blog. that guy is tight.

the pics on this post are also song art for the record. the one with the spray paint was done by bryan sonderman

the other was taken by isabel of boner mountain post florida.

hey isabel, ur blog is going really well, it looks great going to it. cool job, good work!

hey guys bye okay?



u guys going to be okay>?

I dont know what happened, but i have way more followers than i used to. Nadim, sam, bryan, etc. who were here since the beginning of people following this blog: no longer will this be exclusively tailored to you. now i have to also address the needs of @secret comics, @isabel blue, @thedubloon, etc.


anyways

right now i guess it is "spring break"

dude york concert happened last night, it was a crazy venue kinda.
we got bumped around the line up when we got there and for some reason ended up playing third, and it was really fun. i went kinda crazy. but in a good way. ive been working on a heavy metal adaptation of moby dick. Iris, you read that a couple months ago didnt you? do you have any ideas on the book? any tight advice/insights? lemme know. same for anyone else who has an opinion on it. i want the play to look like aliens 3, with a bunch of like red pipes and hexagonal walls that have pipes all over them. that would be tight
still need to come up with a name. i found this really sick comic at fantagraphics the other day, i had bought 2 groupons to there and i went to redeem them but the place was picked. so i spent like a really long time deciding

i eventually found this book called leviathan, and idk if its a canadian comic, or a european comic, but the only text in it is translated in 5 different languages, and there is only text in between chapters, really tight.

ive been reading osamu tezuka's the budha and it is also really great.

bye 4 now buddies!

@Bryan,@Sam@andrew@nadim

I was on the internet researching porn, and I found this image as an add.
the girl making "the face" in the black lingerie is (i think a girl i went to school with until college.
from kindergarten to senior year, and she is on a porn site now. i feel useless, like i havent done anything.



Joe Waine posted something about women with beards on facebook. it was awesome. for everyone else, Bryan an d i kno w Joe Waine (a cornish student)

Joe Waine seems to know and be friends with everyone maybe.

u guys should get to know him becauase he is pretty cool/tight.

nadim sent me a link also to download the album "stuck on nothing" by the band free energy
dream city is a dope ass song

thanks for the link @nadim!

hey dudes

this is a picture i fffound
im pretty into it
i think its a pretty nice picture mostly because i like eating:

Bryan

Bryan!

when i made the last post i didnt notice that you follow this too. that is sweet. hey dude its really nice to have you on the "short list" which is how im going to refer to the three of you or anyone one else following this blog.

Dude York

Andrew and my band Dude York just got hooked up with an internet presence via Andrew + Blogspot. Nadim, Sam, you guys might be interested in this, because we recorded an EP that we scraped and planned to re-record tomorrow. we are going to have it for free download @ dudeyork.blogspot.com

Nadim, you came and saw us playing our new new song yesterday. i hope you liked it, because we (andrew and i) think it's one of our better songs. the track list of our EP is probably going to look like this (although this list is in no particular order as andrew and i havnt sequenced it yet):

and andrew too
favorite one
lilith fair
my life (?jj?)
heartaches (our latest)
rivers

frame:time

when i awoke
you were no
bigger than
my palm
all day long
over and over
I lost you
until, exhausted,
later that night
while we slept
you crawled down
between my teeth
past my tongue
and spelunked into
the caves of
my body, i
went for weeks
believing i had
lost you forever
swallowed you
in my sleep
and for weeks
i considered you
consumed in
a dream, only
to have you
climb back out
from the dark
deep inside me
weeks later
as if nothing
were different
and all I
could think was
"how could you?"




this is a rough draft of the first in a new series i'm working on. It is about framing relationships with various constant things. seeing relationships through these specific and unchanging lenses. I am pretty satisfied with this first one, time. Sam! thanks for following my blogspot. you are going to start getting similar personalized content like Nadim was. welcome to the team.

fear and trembling

hey nadim,
i'm writing after a long hiatus. the kompakt pop ambient 2010 seems like it's come out. i'm stoked on that like hell. i wish i could read more contemporary novels for school/i feel pretty indifferent to old lit. new lost episode in 3 days.

BSG Interview

Brandon Scott Gorrell accidentally sent me an email of an interview meant for someone else. I know it is not my property, and I know that it was meant for some place else on the internet. So without the permission of the involved parties, I am going to post the interview on my blog too. I think that it is a funny situation because it involves mix-ups and high jinks. I know that no one reads this blog. I am pretty sure this will accomplish two goals.

a: allow for there to be a greater variety of posts for the unlikely visitor to read.

b: have there be more things on ther internet with his name on it, in one sense helping him to 'get his name out there.' I don't know who the blog that interviewed Brandon is. I also am going to post my response to his emails and his response to my response.

Here is some more back story to me and him. I submitted a short story to a short story contest that he hosted on his blog. Maybe next post I will put that story on this blog. regardless of the outcome of that decision, I did not win said contest, Toa Lin won through a surrogate, but i was not mad. Nadim Damluji let me use his paypal account and paid for two dollars of the entry fee. I still owe him the two dollars i believe, but i digress, later I 'facebook friended' Brandon Scott Gorrell. I also friended Noah Cisero, they all three were in that article on 'cool bloggers' in nylon, also have presence on html giant, and also on muumuu house. I facebook chatted with Brandon Scott Gorrell a couple times. He is a very personalbe guy.


"the person's name was 'peter richter'

i kept sending it to peter richards

i was confused

i hope to see you at the reading, that sounds cool

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Brandon Gorrell <brandongorrell@gmail.com> wrote:
jesus, totally sent interview to the wrong person, i am sorry

jesus

no don't proofread it

sorry

damn, cant believe it

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM, <richarpw@whitman.edu> wrote:
Brandon,
Thank you very much for sending me this interview, the several times you have, I think it reflects your experience as a writer from a different perspective than your blog, but maintains the 'vibe' and 'spirit' of it. Do you want me to proof read it or something? Because i don't remember 'interviewing' you. Also, I don't feel 'qualified to'/'comfortable with' proof read(ing) it for you. Did you mean to send this to another person? If this is in reference to our 'facebook chats,' then I intended that to have been for the purpose of creating a friendship with you rather than a 'business relationship.' I hope you are well, and am excited to see your reading in Seattle.

All the best,
Peter



Quoting Brandon Gorrell <brandongorrell@gmail.com>:

i'm confused by google docs

i'm copy and pasting it to avoid loss

sorry for double email

*What do you consider 'During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to have a
Biographer Present' to be about?*


A 24-year old male in Seattle, Washington exploring a specific range of
emotions while he works as a copywriter in an office environment, develops
relationships over the internet, walks on the sidewalk, involuntarily wakes
at 4 AM and can't get back to sleep, fantasizes about things like love, sex,
death, 'the apocalypse', and aliens, and other situations.



*Your poems often have a distinct attitude. Is this an attitude that
reflects your own personal emotions or an attitude that is developed for the
purpose of your poetry?*


I think the attitude in the poems I have written reflect how I wanted the
poem to 'feel' when they're read, as if the 'attitude of the poem' was
another tool I could use to influence how the poem is perceived. A lot of
the time I don't feel the way that my poems 'feel'. Some of the time I do.




*How long did it take you to write 'during my nervous breakdown I want to
have a biographer present'?*


8 or 9 months.

* *

*How long does it take you to create a poem? How long have you been working
on During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to have a Biographer Present?*


It takes between 15 minutes and 3 months for me to create a poem. I worked
on DURING MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN for 8 or 9 months.



*A lot of your work has been published online. How valid do you feel online
publications have become with the diminishing emphasis on print
publications? *


It seems, in the sense that you ask, that the validity of any publication is
measured by how much 'literary street cred' (a general consensus of
'respect', typically attained through certain powerful actions or behaviors,
such as publishing the most unique, highly relevant literature on a regular
basis or publishing the newest literature by the 'up and coming' writers
with the most 'reach' (i.e NOON)), how much 'literary street cred' its
editor has, how much 'literary street cred', generally, the contributors
have, how 'good' the publication looks, the publication's 'reach', and
whether or not it's associated with a university or non-profit. It also
seems to me that the 'mainstream', for the most part, associates
'literature' with 'books/print', rather than 'e-books' or websites.



*How did you actually get to know Tao? How did that help with getting your
poetry book published?*


Two years ago, maybe, I found Tao’s blog. A couple weeks later, I had a very
short thing published at 3:AM Magazine. I emailed Tao saying that I got the
thing published. Then I think we started emailing each other and eventually
Gmail chatting and 'became friends.' Our friendship probably helped get my
poetry book published because, I think, Tao prefers to publish his friends.




*Have you ever written a title and thought “that is too long” and shorten
it?*


I can't remember ever doing that.



*Often writers feel as though they get more feedback through online
publications as opposed to print, how do you feel this influences your work?
Do you feel you get to know your readers on a different level than most
because of your online availability? *


Feedback on the internet is generally negative, lately, and sometimes it
upsets me. I think it influences my 'work' in such a way that I get more
critical of it, because I start feeling, when I'm writing, that I don't want
to give people 'shit to talk shit on' anymore. Concurrently, I sometimes
know that certain things will piss certain people off (i.e. NERVOUS ASSFACE,
or the short story contest I held on my blog), and feel okay about it,
because I generally assume that that type of attention (intense negative
shit talking) helps to further define and reinforce my internet/literary
persona, provides 'angles' for journalists, influences people to think about
me at a higher frequency than they had before, and increases my 'reach'.
Whether negaitve feedback upsets me or not is usually situational; if I'm
happy and feeling validated by success or attention I'm getting on the
internet or in physical realty, or feeling, maybe, 'zen' about things, I
usually don't care. If I feel depressed, or see other people 'doing better'
than me, there's a higher chance I'll feel upset by negative feedback. I
generally feel good about receiving positive feedback.


I feel that I know my readers on the same level as other writers that use
the internet the way I use it. I don't know how my relationship with my
readers compares with writers that don't use the internet the way I do.


*What was your favorite part about the book publishing process?*


Creating and editing THE BRANDON BOOK CRISIS.


*If you could change anything about the publishing process, what would it
be?*


I wouldn't change anything about Muumuu House's book publishing process.


*How is the book tour? What's the wildest or most interesting thing that has
happened so far?\*


The book tour is good. I'm almost finished. I felt very interested in almost
every person I met in San Francisco; my interest level was higher than it
had been 'in years', in terms of people, I think. These people included, but
are not limited to, Mike Young, Chelsea Martin, some of Chelsea's friends,
Reynard Siefert, Jimmy Chen, 'Emily Hendrix', her friends, Clayton Banes,
Josh Klienberg, and some other people.


*What are your future plans on furthering your writing career?*


I'm not sure right now. My novella, MY HAIR WILL DEFEAT YOU, was rejected by
Melville House. I feel like there's a 70% chance I'll 'end up' editing that
some more, then trying to get it published elsewhere.


*What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say the word 'blog'?*


Jeffrey Brown's drawing of a line in my book."



That was the interview between peter richter and Brandon Scott Gorrell. I feel that his correction is a very appropriate correction. I am also sorry for the interference in his literary carreer that my name has caused.

hi,

The Zombie musical happened many moths ago. I have to say: "I feel proud of the end result." I have started to read some James M. Cain books (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity). I really enjoy reading them at work. I am almost done with the music for a 'Ballet' I am writing. It is in one respect the follow up to the Zombie musical. I am an 'intern' at this time. I will hold off on judging the summer because I am right in the middle of it, and I cannot really gauge the mass of it appropriately.

I am making a zombie musical

if your reading this before april 30, 2009 then come to walla walla on the aforementioned date and come see the musical that i wrote with my friend finn and enjoy the spectacle of zombies that will envelope you into several different kinds of performance. it will be sick no doubt/.

Sent from my iPhone:

Hacking it out like a wolf at dinner
Like the last moment of light
Like the history we haven’t had
And in the future we won’t
Trying hard to hide the knot
In context, and in food courts everywhere,
Until there is nothing left of me
But my celibate wife