Featherstonehaugh: I’LL SAY FIRST OFF THAT THE ADVANCE READER’S COPY CAME IN
A BOX FILLED WITH WHAT I THINK IS HUMAN HAIR
Cholmondeley: BOLD CHOICES AND VERTICAL ARTISTIC INTEGRATION BY HARPER
PERENNIAL. YOU GET A SENSE OF THIS BOOK BEFORE YOUR FINGERS HAVE EVEN
PENETRATED IT.
Featherstonehaugh: FAIR PLAY TO BLAKE BUTLER AND HIS GOOD BUDDY CALVERT MORGAN FOR MARKETING THIS THING TO THE UTMOST AND IN THE AVANT-GARDIEST
WAY POSSIBLE.
Cholmondeley: I THOUGHT THAT BALKE’S PROMISE TO EAT A BABY EVERY DAY FOR
EVERY DAY THE BOOK REMAINS IN AMAZON’S TOP SELLERS LIST WAS A LITTLE OVER
THE TOP BUT MAYBE THAT’S ME BEING SQUEAMISH AND OVERLY PRO-BABY.
Featherstonehaugh: IT SEEMED IN CHARACTER FOR HIM THOUGH IN ALL TRUTH YOU
CAN’T SAY YOU DIDN’T SEE IT COMING.
Cholmondeley: SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE BOOK. SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT WHAT
WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 300,000,000. CARVER REFERENCE DID YOU
NOTICE I MADE IT PERHAPS TOO EXPLICIT.
Featherstonehaugh: CARVER HAS NO PLACE HERE FRIEND. WE’RE TALKING BUTLER
BOLANO COOPER DELEUZE GUATTARI KORESH AND THE EVERLASTING PROMISE OF
THE SOUND ENGINE THAT IS SILENT PROSE PRINTED SILENTLY ON THE PAGE AND
READ SILENTLY BY MOST IF NOT ALL HUMANS.
Cholmondeley: WE’LL COME TO THE SOUNDSPORTS AT PLAY IN THIS BOOK LATER
BUT FOR NOW LET’S FOCUS ON THE REPUDIATION SOME MIGHT SAY ANNIHILATION ?
OF BOLANO BY THIS BOOK. BALKE HAS GONE ON RECORD IN MULTIPLE BLOG
POSTS AND IN CONCATENATED INFINITIES OF COMMENT CHAINS THAT BOLANO IS
A TALENTLESS ARTISAN WHO WRITES BLOCKS OF WORD-OFFAL THAT NOT ONLY
BORE BUTLER TO SLEEP WHICH IS REMARKABLE SINCE BUTLER WROTE SEVEN BOOKS ABOUT HOW HE ONLY SLEEPS ONE HEAVILY MEDICATED HOUR PER WEEK
BUT BOLANO’S WRITING ALSO MAKES HIM WANT TO SET HIMSELF ON FIRE LIKE THE
MONK AND THEN COME BACK TO LIFE AS A GHOST ARSONIST SO HE CAN SET HIS
OWN ASHES ON FIRE AGAIN. WHICH IS A STRONGLY NEGATIVE REVIEW OF BOLANO
WHO WE SHOULD SAY IS DEAD AND CANNOT DEFEND HIMSELF.
Featherstonehaugh: 300,000,000 OBLITERATES BOLANO SO IT’S PROBABLY FOR
THE BEST THAT HE’S DEAD BECAUSE I CAN IMAGINE HIM GETTING THIS ADVANCE
READER’S COPY AND BEING LIKE IN SPANISH WELL THIS AMERICAN JUST OWNED
ME AT MY OWN GAME SO HANDILY AND WITH SUCH BRUTALLY FUCKED LANGUAGE
THAT I MIGHT AS WELL FORFEIT MY LIFE BECAUSE BALKE HAS TRIUMPHED OVER
ME LIKE BARCELONA OVER LOWLY OSASUNA 12,000 GOALS TO NIL AND IT’S NOT
EVEN HALFTIME YET AND THE COACH IS SWEATING BLOOD AND AT LEAST 80% OF
THE OSASUNA FANS HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE WITH THEIR PROGRAMS BY PAPER-
CUTTING THEIR WRISTS TO THE BONE, FUCK. BOLANO WOULD THEN ASSUREDLY
SIGN OVER HIS LIFETIME ROYALTIES TO BUTLER IN A SORT OF WEAK MOVE TO
APPEASE BUTLER AND EXPIATE HIMSELF FROM THE SHITTINESS OF HIS OWN WORK
AS IF TO SAY FORGIVE ME WORLD.
Cholmondeley: AND THE WORLD WOULD NOT FORGIVE HIM.
Featherstonehaugh: NO WAY.
Cholmondeley: SO NOW THAT WE’VE SET THINGS UP SO TO SPEAK WHAT WERE YOUR
FAVORITE PARTS OF THE BOOK
Featherstonehaugh: I LIKED ALL THE MEAT HAMMERS IN THE BOOK. IN FACT ALL THE
MEAT TOOLS AND BALLOONS WERE REALLY COOL AND FUNNY. AND THE 100 PAGES
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK WITH A SINGLE WORD EACH WERE ALSO A FAVORITE.
AND THE SEEMINGLY BUT NOT REALLY RANDOM REFERENCES TO DAVID FOSTER WALLACE EVEN IN PASSAGES THAT WERE SUPERFICIALLY CONCERNED WITH THE GELATINIZATION OF MUTANT BABY’S BONES YOU KNOW THE SCENE I’M TALKING
ABOUT.
Cholmondeley: OH MAN THAT KILLED ME SO ROMANTIC TOO. IF THERE’S ONE THING
BALKE IS REALLY GOOD AT IT’S BLOWING MY MIND AND MY MIND’S INNER EAR WITH
SWEET NOTHINGS ABOUT DISSOLVING BONES AND EVIL MOTHERS WISTFULLY
JERKING OFF THEIR DOWGS WHO QUOTE FROM DFW’S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH
WHEN THEY CLIMAX LIKE THIS IS WATER BABE FEEL IT. I CRIED.
Featherstonehaugh: ME TOO. AND THE POETRY OF IT ALL.
Cholmondeley: DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED.
Featherstonehaugh: DO YOU THINK THIS BOOK IS LIKE IF TUPAC AND BIGGIE SPENT
1000 YEARS TOGETHER FREESTYLING ON THE SUBJECTS OF VIOLENCE DEATH
MEAT MOTHERS FATHERS KIDS BLOOD SLEEPING DREAMS CULTS RELIGION GOD
AND MURDER AND THEN TRANSCRIBED THOSE FREESTYLES INTO PROSE WITH
APPROPRIATELY DEVASTATING LINE BREAKS AND THEN WERE MADE TO LEARN
ABOUT THE RHIZOME
Cholmondeley: THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT BUT THEN WHEN I GOT DEEPER INTO
THE SOUNDSCAPE OF THE SENTENCES I DECIDED THAT YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND
THIS BOOK WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ITS MUSIC AND THE UNDERHUM OF SONG
FOUND THROUGHOUT EVEN THE PUNCTUATION VIBRATES IN MY HEAD EACH PERIOD
HIT LIKE A GONG EACH COMMA’S TAIL LIKE A VIOLIN’S FILIGREED VIBRATO
Featherstonehaugh: EXPLAIN BECAUSE I THOUGHT MY THING ABOUT BIGGIE AND
TUPAC WAS ON THE MONEY AND ALMOST LIKE A BLURB’S DREAM OF A BLURB.
Cholmondeley: WELL CAN I BREAK IT DOWN FOR YOU LIKE THIS ALMOST EVERYONE’S
PROSE HAS NO MUSIC TO IT OR IF THERE IS MUSIC IT’S LIKE THE MUSIC MADE BY A
HARMONICALLY UNINTERESTING REFRIGERATOR I.E. FLAT COLD AND DRONING.
Featherstonehaugh: I’M WITH YOU I THINK
Cholmondeley: THE MUSIC OF BALKE’S PROSE IS BOTH PROFOUND AND UNSETTLING
AND IF YOU WERE TO TRANSCRIBE THE NOTES THAT HE HITS AND THE RHYTHM OF
THESE PARAGRAPHS YOU WOULD FIND YOURSELF SHAKEN AND TIRED BUT HOLDING
THE SCORE TO THE LONGEST ANGELO BADALAMENTI SYMPHONY EVER PRODUCED
IF ANGELO WERE ALSO IN POSSESSION OF GOD’S COURAGE AND KNOWLEDGE.
Featherstonehaugh: WHEW.
Cholmondeley: I MEAN LIKE WE SAID BEFORE MOST PEOPLE ARE DUMB ANIMALS WHO
READ BOOKS BECAUSE THEY WANT STORIES THAT SHOW THEM A DIFFERENT WAY
OF LIFE OR GIVE THEM AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE OR SOME KIND OF CATHARSIS
BUT THOSE PEOPLE ALSO READ FICTION WITHOUT BEING ATTUNED TO THE NATURAL
SOUND-EMITTING PROPERTIES OF PRINTED WORDS
Featherstonehaugh: WHICH I THINK WE CAN AGREE IS SOMETHING A PROPER OR TRUE
READER MUST BE AWARE OF OR THEY’RE MISSING THE WHOLE POINT OF FICTION.
JUST LIKE IF YOU DIDN’T PAY ATTENTION TO THE COLORS MADE BY CERTAIN WINDS
OR THE SMELLS INHERENT IN SOME MUSIC. IT’S LIKE GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN
IF YOU CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT OR UNDERSTAND ITS SWEET KEENING SONG AND
VELVETY TEXTURE.
Cholmondeley: RIGHT. I GO TO FICTION IN GENERAL FOR THE SOUND OF IT ALL
SO WHAT I’M SAYING IS DON’T COME AT ME WITH YOUR HALF-ASSED LULLABIES
JONATHAN FRANZEN AND DON’T COME AT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHMICALLY IGNORANT
JINGLES ZADIE SMITH AND DON’T COME AT ME WITH YOUR CLOYING AUDIOCIDES
BEN LERNER POET TURNED NOVELIST IMPOSTER!
Featherstonehaugh: OKAY CALM DOWN WE’RE BOTH PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS
Cholmondeley: WHAT BALKE DOES IS RECOGNIZE THE SONG IN EVERY SYLLABLE
AND ARRANGE THOSE SONGS INTO WORDS AND THOSE WORDS INTO DELICATELY
BALANCED AND MELLIFLUOUS OR CACOPHONOUS SENTENCES BY DESIGN ALWAYS
AND THOSE SENTENCES INTO BOOKS. MOST AUTHORS IGNORE THE 100% PATENT
ADVANTAGE THAT PROSE HOLDS OVER OTHER MEDIA LIKE TELEVISION AND FILM
AND THAT IS THAT THE INNER VOICE OF EVERY READER SCREAM-SINGS EACH WORD
IN THE READER’S HEAD AS IT READS AND WHAT YOU WANT PLAYING UP THERE
IS AN INDELIBLE AND EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX MUSIC. THAT IS WHAT STAYS WITH
READERS THE ECHO OF THE INNER SONG OF A BOOK. NOT THE CHARACTERS OR
THE THEMES OR THE MEANING OR THE DESCRIPTIONS OR THE EMOTIONS OR THE
PLOT. I CAN STILL HUM THE ENTIRETY OF DENNIS COOPER’S MARBLED SWARM AND I
HAVE GOTTEN LAID THREE TIMES BECAUSE OF THAT.
Featherstonehaugh: BRAGGING. THOUGH I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN. IT’S LIKE BALKE IS
THE TOM HULCE MOZART IN AMADEUS AND BOLANO IS THE F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
SALIERI AND BUTLER’S MOZART SHOWS UP TO SON BOLANO’S SALIERI INTO THE
GRAVE BECAUSE HE GRASPS AND MANIPULATES AND GUIDES THE NATURAL MUSIC
OF PROSE TO ITS APOTHEOSIS WHEREAS BOLANO FIDDLES WITH PROSE LIKE A
FOURTEEN YEAR-OLD TRYING TO JERK OFF IN A HALLWAY CLOSET AND MERELY
INDUCING A BLOOD BLISTER ON THE SHAFT OF HIS VERY SMALL PENIS.
Cholmondeley: THIS BRINGS UP A GOOD QUESTION WHO WILL STAR IN THE MOVIE OF
300,000,000?
Featherstonehaugh: THERE CAN’T BE A MOVIE. HAVEN’T YOU PAID ATTENTION TO
ANYTHING WE’VE SAID. IT’S ALREADY A MUSICAL. VISUAL IMAGES WOULD ONLY
TAINT BUTLER’S WORLDCRAFT. 300,000,000 IS A MOVIE, AN ALBUM, A PAINTING, A
SONG, A POEM, A NOVEL, AND A LANDSCAPE. DON’T GET GREEDY.
Cholmondeley: THANK YOU.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Sunday, March 13, 2011
RICHARD YATES TAO LIN MDMA FILMS MUUMUUHOUSE REVIEW
RICHARD YATES
Featherstonehaugh: AN EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET APPARENTLY
Cholmondeley: ON WHAT WAS IT—ORGANIC FOOD SHOPPING
Featherstonehaugh: WRONG THAT WAS NOT IT AT ALL. YOU KNOW BETTER.
Cholmondeley: ON STALKING VULNERABLE YOUNG WOMEN?
Featherstonehaugh: THROUGH INTERNET CHAT
Cholmondeley: AND ESTABLISHING A TIGHT PSYCHOLOGICAL GRIP ON THOSE YOU PLAN OR HOPE TO STATUATORILY RAPE CORRECT?
Featherstonehaugh: ON THE NOSE FRIEND
Cholmondeley: I SUPPOSE IF I WERE INTO PUBESCENT GIRLS I WOULD TAKE THIS BOOK AS BOON INTO MY LIFE
Featherstonehaugh: INTO YOUR BOSOM YOU MEAN
Cholmondeley: NO I WOULD USE IT TO GAIN ACCESS TO CERTAIN PUBESCENT GIRLS’ BOSOMS
Featherstonehaugh: PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND SO FORTH
Cholmondeley: I’M NOT INTO THEORY THOUGH I UNDERSTAND THAT IS A BIG PART OF THE BOOK’S APPEAL HADN’T YOU HEARD?
Featherstonehaugh: SOME BREATHLESS REVIEWS BY THE AUTHOR’S SCHOOLCHUMS AND ACOLYTES SUGGESTED THIS WAS A NEW ASSUALT IN THE WAR ON REALISM STORY NOVELS, FICTION ITSELF, LIFE ITSELF, LOVE MASQUERADING AS LUST ITSELF, EMOTION, HUMAN CONCEPTIONS OF GOD AND BUDDHA HIMSELF, AND LUST MASQUERADING AS A LUST FOR LIFE ITSELF. ALSO A GUIDE TO THE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AND PREDATORY SEXUAL HABITS OF TWENTYSOMETHINGS IN NEW YORK CITY
Cholmondeley: THIS IS SOME REAL SHIT SO TO SPEAK MAYBE THE REALEST
Featherstonehaugh: I AGREE IT IS REAL TO THE MAX ALMOST TOO REAL TO BEAR
Cholmondeley: LETS GET AWAY FROM THE DEAD-ENDEDNESS OF THIS INQUIRY AND TALK ABOUT THE PROSE STYLE
Featherstonehaugh: IT FELT LIKE I WAS SPYING ON MY FRIENDS
Cholmondeley: WHAT FRIENDS SPECIFICALLY I WANT DETAILS SINCE YOU AND I KNOW ALL THE SAME PEOPLE
Featherstonehaugh: FRIENDS WHO ARE EXCITED BY THE POSSIBILITIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND WHO LIKE THE SOUND OF THE WORD BROWSER AND LIKE TO THINK OR PHILOSOPHIZE WITH THE HELP OF DRUGS ABOUT THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL CURRENCY GENERATED BY HITS AND MENTIONS AND HOW TO USE THAT SOCIAL CURRENCY MOST JUDICIOUSLY
Cholmondeley: TO GET MONEY AND GENITAL ENCOUNTERS CORRECT
Featherstonehaugh: SO YOU DO KNOW WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT
Cholmondeley: OH YES THESE ARE ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE BECOME AROUSED AT THEIR OWN FACILITY WITH TABS AND BROWSING AND WHO DRIFT INTO FUGUES OF PROPHECY AND AGGRANDIZEMENT DUE TO THE PNEUMA WAFTING FROM THEIR OVERHEATED CPUs
Featherstonehaugh: SOMETHING LIKE THAT
Cholmondeley: DID YOU GET THE FEELING THAT THIS BOOK WAS MADE BY A BRAVE PERSON MAKING BRAVE CHOICES TOO
Featherstonehaugh: I WAS FRIGHTENED THROUGHOUT THAT THIS WAS THE NOVELIZATION OF AN EPISODE OF TO CATCH A PREDATOR AND THE BOOK WOULD END WITH THE NARRATOR AUTHOR’S ARREST AND INCARCERATION AND INEVITABLE SODOMIZATION SO YES IT WAS COURAGE I SAW IN THE MARGINS
Cholmondeley: OH ME TOO ME TOO. I USUALLY THINK WHEN SOMEONE SAYS A WRITER IS BRAVE THAT THEY MEAN THE BOOK IS SO EMBARRASSING THAT THE WRITER IS BRAVE FOR EVEN SHOWING IT TO OTHER HUMANS
Featherstonehaugh: BUT NOT WITH THIS WORK AM I RIGHT
Cholmondeley: SO RIGHT. THIS BOOK IS BRAVE LIKE OVID’S METAMORPHOSES. I BET SOME DUDES ON THE FRONT LINE IN AFGHANISTAN, WAIT, I MEAN SOME DUDES ON BOTH FRONT LINES THE AFGHANI AND THE AMERICAN SIDES READ THIS BOOK AND WERE LIKE FUCK MAN I’M GLAD I’M NOT THAT GUY BATTLING THE MOM WHO DOESN’T WANT HER DAUGHTER’S BARELY FORMED VAGINA PUNCTURED BY ME, THE BRAVE GUY.
Featherstonehaugh: I LIKE YOUR OVID COMPARISON BECAUSE THERE’S A LOT OF FEAR AND DITHERING OVER NONCONSENSUAL INTERCOURSE IN THE METAMORPHOSES JUST LIKE IN THIS BOOK
Cholmondeley: ONE MIGHT SAY TAO LIN IS THE NEW OVID AND THIS IS HIS METAMETAMORPHOSES
Featherstonehaugh: DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY THERE
Cholmondeley: ONE MIGHT SAY TAO LIN IS THE NEW SHAKESPEARE AND THIS IS THE NEW ROMEO AND JULIET
Featherstonehaugh: OR TAO LIN IS THE NEW RAY CARVER FOR THE NEW ME GENERATION AND NEW KMART REALISM
Cholmondeley: I THOUGHT IT WAS GCHAT REALISM THAT’S THE GENRE I ALWAYS SEE ASSOCIATED WITH PAPA LIN
Featherstonehaugh: THE NEW LOLITA FOR THE HUMBLE HUMBLE CREEPERS OF THE WORLD BUT MORE EMOTIONAL AND MORE ELEGANT AND MORE NOW
Cholmondeley: I NEED MORE NOW IN MY LIFE AND MORE STARTLING INTERIORITY
Featherstonehaugh: THAT’S NOT THIS BOOK YOU’RE THINKING OF THE OTHER ONE
Cholmondeley: OH I NEED MORE NOW IN MY LIFE AND MORE NOISE COILED AT THE NOISE OF THE COIL’S POISE VIA THE LINTERNET
Featherstonehaugh: CLOSE ENOUGH AT LEAST YOU USED SOME CONSECUTION
Featherstonehaugh: AN EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET APPARENTLY
Cholmondeley: ON WHAT WAS IT—ORGANIC FOOD SHOPPING
Featherstonehaugh: WRONG THAT WAS NOT IT AT ALL. YOU KNOW BETTER.
Cholmondeley: ON STALKING VULNERABLE YOUNG WOMEN?
Featherstonehaugh: THROUGH INTERNET CHAT
Cholmondeley: AND ESTABLISHING A TIGHT PSYCHOLOGICAL GRIP ON THOSE YOU PLAN OR HOPE TO STATUATORILY RAPE CORRECT?
Featherstonehaugh: ON THE NOSE FRIEND
Cholmondeley: I SUPPOSE IF I WERE INTO PUBESCENT GIRLS I WOULD TAKE THIS BOOK AS BOON INTO MY LIFE
Featherstonehaugh: INTO YOUR BOSOM YOU MEAN
Cholmondeley: NO I WOULD USE IT TO GAIN ACCESS TO CERTAIN PUBESCENT GIRLS’ BOSOMS
Featherstonehaugh: PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND SO FORTH
Cholmondeley: I’M NOT INTO THEORY THOUGH I UNDERSTAND THAT IS A BIG PART OF THE BOOK’S APPEAL HADN’T YOU HEARD?
Featherstonehaugh: SOME BREATHLESS REVIEWS BY THE AUTHOR’S SCHOOLCHUMS AND ACOLYTES SUGGESTED THIS WAS A NEW ASSUALT IN THE WAR ON REALISM STORY NOVELS, FICTION ITSELF, LIFE ITSELF, LOVE MASQUERADING AS LUST ITSELF, EMOTION, HUMAN CONCEPTIONS OF GOD AND BUDDHA HIMSELF, AND LUST MASQUERADING AS A LUST FOR LIFE ITSELF. ALSO A GUIDE TO THE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AND PREDATORY SEXUAL HABITS OF TWENTYSOMETHINGS IN NEW YORK CITY
Cholmondeley: THIS IS SOME REAL SHIT SO TO SPEAK MAYBE THE REALEST
Featherstonehaugh: I AGREE IT IS REAL TO THE MAX ALMOST TOO REAL TO BEAR
Cholmondeley: LETS GET AWAY FROM THE DEAD-ENDEDNESS OF THIS INQUIRY AND TALK ABOUT THE PROSE STYLE
Featherstonehaugh: IT FELT LIKE I WAS SPYING ON MY FRIENDS
Cholmondeley: WHAT FRIENDS SPECIFICALLY I WANT DETAILS SINCE YOU AND I KNOW ALL THE SAME PEOPLE
Featherstonehaugh: FRIENDS WHO ARE EXCITED BY THE POSSIBILITIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND WHO LIKE THE SOUND OF THE WORD BROWSER AND LIKE TO THINK OR PHILOSOPHIZE WITH THE HELP OF DRUGS ABOUT THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL CURRENCY GENERATED BY HITS AND MENTIONS AND HOW TO USE THAT SOCIAL CURRENCY MOST JUDICIOUSLY
Cholmondeley: TO GET MONEY AND GENITAL ENCOUNTERS CORRECT
Featherstonehaugh: SO YOU DO KNOW WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT
Cholmondeley: OH YES THESE ARE ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE BECOME AROUSED AT THEIR OWN FACILITY WITH TABS AND BROWSING AND WHO DRIFT INTO FUGUES OF PROPHECY AND AGGRANDIZEMENT DUE TO THE PNEUMA WAFTING FROM THEIR OVERHEATED CPUs
Featherstonehaugh: SOMETHING LIKE THAT
Cholmondeley: DID YOU GET THE FEELING THAT THIS BOOK WAS MADE BY A BRAVE PERSON MAKING BRAVE CHOICES TOO
Featherstonehaugh: I WAS FRIGHTENED THROUGHOUT THAT THIS WAS THE NOVELIZATION OF AN EPISODE OF TO CATCH A PREDATOR AND THE BOOK WOULD END WITH THE NARRATOR AUTHOR’S ARREST AND INCARCERATION AND INEVITABLE SODOMIZATION SO YES IT WAS COURAGE I SAW IN THE MARGINS
Cholmondeley: OH ME TOO ME TOO. I USUALLY THINK WHEN SOMEONE SAYS A WRITER IS BRAVE THAT THEY MEAN THE BOOK IS SO EMBARRASSING THAT THE WRITER IS BRAVE FOR EVEN SHOWING IT TO OTHER HUMANS
Featherstonehaugh: BUT NOT WITH THIS WORK AM I RIGHT
Cholmondeley: SO RIGHT. THIS BOOK IS BRAVE LIKE OVID’S METAMORPHOSES. I BET SOME DUDES ON THE FRONT LINE IN AFGHANISTAN, WAIT, I MEAN SOME DUDES ON BOTH FRONT LINES THE AFGHANI AND THE AMERICAN SIDES READ THIS BOOK AND WERE LIKE FUCK MAN I’M GLAD I’M NOT THAT GUY BATTLING THE MOM WHO DOESN’T WANT HER DAUGHTER’S BARELY FORMED VAGINA PUNCTURED BY ME, THE BRAVE GUY.
Featherstonehaugh: I LIKE YOUR OVID COMPARISON BECAUSE THERE’S A LOT OF FEAR AND DITHERING OVER NONCONSENSUAL INTERCOURSE IN THE METAMORPHOSES JUST LIKE IN THIS BOOK
Cholmondeley: ONE MIGHT SAY TAO LIN IS THE NEW OVID AND THIS IS HIS METAMETAMORPHOSES
Featherstonehaugh: DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY THERE
Cholmondeley: ONE MIGHT SAY TAO LIN IS THE NEW SHAKESPEARE AND THIS IS THE NEW ROMEO AND JULIET
Featherstonehaugh: OR TAO LIN IS THE NEW RAY CARVER FOR THE NEW ME GENERATION AND NEW KMART REALISM
Cholmondeley: I THOUGHT IT WAS GCHAT REALISM THAT’S THE GENRE I ALWAYS SEE ASSOCIATED WITH PAPA LIN
Featherstonehaugh: THE NEW LOLITA FOR THE HUMBLE HUMBLE CREEPERS OF THE WORLD BUT MORE EMOTIONAL AND MORE ELEGANT AND MORE NOW
Cholmondeley: I NEED MORE NOW IN MY LIFE AND MORE STARTLING INTERIORITY
Featherstonehaugh: THAT’S NOT THIS BOOK YOU’RE THINKING OF THE OTHER ONE
Cholmondeley: OH I NEED MORE NOW IN MY LIFE AND MORE NOISE COILED AT THE NOISE OF THE COIL’S POISE VIA THE LINTERNET
Featherstonehaugh: CLOSE ENOUGH AT LEAST YOU USED SOME CONSECUTION
Friday, February 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
ZACHARY GERMAN WAVVES ROBERT EAT WHEN YOU FEEL SAD REVIEW INTERROGATION
Eat When You Feel Sad
Gilders: SO THE DUDE FROM WAVVES RELEASED A BOOK I GUESS?
Pluck: IN BETWEEN ALBUMS
Gilders: IN BETWEEN BREAKDOWNS
Pluck: HIS PEN NAME IS ZACHARY GERMAN THAT SEEMS LIKE A WEIRD CHOICE FOR THE DUDE FROM WAVVES TO MAKE NAME-WISE
Gilders: BUT IT IS MORE OF A WRITER’S NAME
Pluck: TRULY LIKE I CAN SEE THAT NAME MORE CLEARLY STAMPED ON THE SIDE OF A HARDBACK THAN NATHAN WILLIAMS
Gilders: THERE ARE ALREADY TOO MANY NATHANS IN LITERATURE
Pluck: NOT ENOUGH ZACHS
Gilders: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THIS BOOK? AND IS IT A BOOK FOR PEOPLE? OR A BOOK FOR ANIMALS OR ALIENS?
Pluck: NOT MUCH FUN TO READ
Gilders: ZERO FUN
Pluck: HAD TO DRAG MY EYES ACROSS THE WORDS
Gilders: LIKE DRAGGING A TODDLER THROUGH THE MALL
Pluck: VERY MUCH LIKE THAT WHERE MY EYES ARE THE TODDLER AND THE BOOK IS THE MALL
Gilders: DID YOU ALSO GET THE FEELING THAT THE AUTHOR HATED YOU THE READER? I DID
Pluck: I ALSO DID GET THAT FEELING. I PICTURED ZACAHRY GERMAN FROM WAVVES WRITING EACH WORD OF THIS BOOK AND GIVING THE MIDDLE FINGER TO ME THROUGH HIS MOLESKINE NOTEBOOK OR MOLESKINE LAPTOP
Gilders: BUT HE’S PRETTY YOUNG TOO I GUESS YOUNG PEOPLE HATE READERS ACCORDING TO YAHOO NEWS
Pluck: AND THE STRESS OF RECORDING AS WAVVES AND KEEPING UP WITH HIS DRUG INTAKE PROBABLY TOOK A TOLL AS WELL
Gilders: I THINK THE POINT WAS TO WRITE ABOUT EVERYDAY THINGS LIKE DRINKING FUCKING AND EATING AND INTERNET INVOLVEMENT IN THE MOST OBJECTIVE POSSIBLE STYLE RIGHT?
Pluck: THATS DEFINITELY WHY I READ BOOKS BECAUSE SOMETIMES MY REAL LIFE GETS TOO INTERESTING OR THE INTERNET GETS TOO INTENSE AND I LONG FOR A SIMPLER LIFE LIKE ZACHARY WAVVES LIFE WHICH IS MADE OF HARD FACTS
Gilders: IT SMACKED ME OF THIRD GRADE ENGLISH CLASS
Pluck: SENTENCES?
Gilders: ENGLISH CLASS TAUGHT BY AN AUTIST OR A MONSTER MAYBE LIKE BEAKER FROM THE MUPPETS
Pluck: I THINK IT’S OUR DUTY TO BE MORE OBJECTIVE ABOUT AN OBJECTIVE BOOK THAT MIGHT BE JOURNALISM CALLED THE NEW NEW JOURNALISM?
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF BROOKLYN WHERE LIFE IS YOUNG AND CRAZY
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ART I THINK YOU MEANT
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF LONELINESS ISOLATION AND BOREDOM
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF FINDING MEANING IN THE CITY WITHOUT MEANING
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF PARSIMONY AND RESTRAINT
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ROBERTS IN THE WILD
Gilders: I ACTUALLY DO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ROBERTS GERMAN FROM WAVVES
Pluck: HES GOT A NEW ALBUM OUT RIGHT NOW ON TAO HOUSE RECORDS ITS ADVERTISED ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK
Gilders: THE BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY FSG PUBLISHING HOUSE THOUGH IS IT?
Pluck: NO I THINK ZACH WAVVES WITHDREW THE BOOK FROM FSG HOUSE BECAUSE HE WANTED IT TO FEEL MORE LIKE THE STREET LIKE A REPORT FROM THE HEART OF THE STREETS HEART
Gilders: FSG BOOKS ARE MORE LIKE REAL BOOKS FOR PEOPLE AND THIS BOOK BY WAVVES IS NOT FOR PEOPLE I THINK WE AGREED
Pluck: SOME ACTUAL HUMANS LIKE IT OR PROFESS TO LIKE IT I WOULD SAY IN TOUCHE
Gilders: THOSE HUMANS MUST BE INVOLVED IN A MARKETING EXPERIMENT CONCERNING PEOPLE BORN WITHOUT SYSTEMS OF PLEASURE
Pluck: NO REALLY THERE ARE ACTUAL HUMANS WHO COMMENTED THEIR SOULS TO THIS BOOK
Gilders: IS ZACHARY GERMAN THE HOLY GHOST OF THE LINTERNET?
Pluck: NO HE’S THE RUNOFF
Gilders: THE RUNOFF OF THE RUNOFF
Gilders: SO THE DUDE FROM WAVVES RELEASED A BOOK I GUESS?
Pluck: IN BETWEEN ALBUMS
Gilders: IN BETWEEN BREAKDOWNS
Pluck: HIS PEN NAME IS ZACHARY GERMAN THAT SEEMS LIKE A WEIRD CHOICE FOR THE DUDE FROM WAVVES TO MAKE NAME-WISE
Gilders: BUT IT IS MORE OF A WRITER’S NAME
Pluck: TRULY LIKE I CAN SEE THAT NAME MORE CLEARLY STAMPED ON THE SIDE OF A HARDBACK THAN NATHAN WILLIAMS
Gilders: THERE ARE ALREADY TOO MANY NATHANS IN LITERATURE
Pluck: NOT ENOUGH ZACHS
Gilders: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THIS BOOK? AND IS IT A BOOK FOR PEOPLE? OR A BOOK FOR ANIMALS OR ALIENS?
Pluck: NOT MUCH FUN TO READ
Gilders: ZERO FUN
Pluck: HAD TO DRAG MY EYES ACROSS THE WORDS
Gilders: LIKE DRAGGING A TODDLER THROUGH THE MALL
Pluck: VERY MUCH LIKE THAT WHERE MY EYES ARE THE TODDLER AND THE BOOK IS THE MALL
Gilders: DID YOU ALSO GET THE FEELING THAT THE AUTHOR HATED YOU THE READER? I DID
Pluck: I ALSO DID GET THAT FEELING. I PICTURED ZACAHRY GERMAN FROM WAVVES WRITING EACH WORD OF THIS BOOK AND GIVING THE MIDDLE FINGER TO ME THROUGH HIS MOLESKINE NOTEBOOK OR MOLESKINE LAPTOP
Gilders: BUT HE’S PRETTY YOUNG TOO I GUESS YOUNG PEOPLE HATE READERS ACCORDING TO YAHOO NEWS
Pluck: AND THE STRESS OF RECORDING AS WAVVES AND KEEPING UP WITH HIS DRUG INTAKE PROBABLY TOOK A TOLL AS WELL
Gilders: I THINK THE POINT WAS TO WRITE ABOUT EVERYDAY THINGS LIKE DRINKING FUCKING AND EATING AND INTERNET INVOLVEMENT IN THE MOST OBJECTIVE POSSIBLE STYLE RIGHT?
Pluck: THATS DEFINITELY WHY I READ BOOKS BECAUSE SOMETIMES MY REAL LIFE GETS TOO INTERESTING OR THE INTERNET GETS TOO INTENSE AND I LONG FOR A SIMPLER LIFE LIKE ZACHARY WAVVES LIFE WHICH IS MADE OF HARD FACTS
Gilders: IT SMACKED ME OF THIRD GRADE ENGLISH CLASS
Pluck: SENTENCES?
Gilders: ENGLISH CLASS TAUGHT BY AN AUTIST OR A MONSTER MAYBE LIKE BEAKER FROM THE MUPPETS
Pluck: I THINK IT’S OUR DUTY TO BE MORE OBJECTIVE ABOUT AN OBJECTIVE BOOK THAT MIGHT BE JOURNALISM CALLED THE NEW NEW JOURNALISM?
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF BROOKLYN WHERE LIFE IS YOUNG AND CRAZY
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ART I THINK YOU MEANT
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF LONELINESS ISOLATION AND BOREDOM
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF FINDING MEANING IN THE CITY WITHOUT MEANING
Gilders: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF PARSIMONY AND RESTRAINT
Pluck: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ROBERTS IN THE WILD
Gilders: I ACTUALLY DO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ROBERTS GERMAN FROM WAVVES
Pluck: HES GOT A NEW ALBUM OUT RIGHT NOW ON TAO HOUSE RECORDS ITS ADVERTISED ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK
Gilders: THE BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY FSG PUBLISHING HOUSE THOUGH IS IT?
Pluck: NO I THINK ZACH WAVVES WITHDREW THE BOOK FROM FSG HOUSE BECAUSE HE WANTED IT TO FEEL MORE LIKE THE STREET LIKE A REPORT FROM THE HEART OF THE STREETS HEART
Gilders: FSG BOOKS ARE MORE LIKE REAL BOOKS FOR PEOPLE AND THIS BOOK BY WAVVES IS NOT FOR PEOPLE I THINK WE AGREED
Pluck: SOME ACTUAL HUMANS LIKE IT OR PROFESS TO LIKE IT I WOULD SAY IN TOUCHE
Gilders: THOSE HUMANS MUST BE INVOLVED IN A MARKETING EXPERIMENT CONCERNING PEOPLE BORN WITHOUT SYSTEMS OF PLEASURE
Pluck: NO REALLY THERE ARE ACTUAL HUMANS WHO COMMENTED THEIR SOULS TO THIS BOOK
Gilders: IS ZACHARY GERMAN THE HOLY GHOST OF THE LINTERNET?
Pluck: NO HE’S THE RUNOFF
Gilders: THE RUNOFF OF THE RUNOFF
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