“I want a trouble-maker for a lover:
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame,
Who quarrels with the sky, and fights with fate,
Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
Vonnegut: “We are what we pretend to be” at Burning Man
This is a page from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. If I could put my hands on my copy, I’d look the page up. Maybe you know which page it is.
Anyway, on Facebook, people connect this image with the following quote which they attribute to Vonnegut:
Everything is nothing with a twist.
Right now everything seems pretty twisted in my world. We only had one slippery ticket to Burning Man, and we needed two, and a friend just scored two and will sell me one.
UPDATE 8.10.14 10:14pm Ticket slipped through our fingers again!
UPDATE 8.15.14 We’ve got tickets! Now just need to get the vehicle pass in hand!
But when we had only one ticket, Read more…
You Want To See “A Most Wanted Man”
Few writers can match the insightful and spellbinding complexities of being a spy like John le Carre (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), for not only does he understand the methodical realities of spying, he also knows all too well the politics behind the spy operations. In A Most Wanted Man, he has once again given us a book that has been masterfully translated by director Anton Corbijn and screenwriter Andrew Bovell into a fast-moving peek into the maze that is counter intelligence as it looks into possible terrorism after the 9/11 attack on America.
Time To Get On That Burning Man Bike!
the perfect caravansary Burning Man bicycle–it’s handmade from wood
10 To Dos for your bike BEFORE you leave for Burning Man.
Are you heading out to Burning Man 2014? If so, don’t wait until you get to BRC to ride your bike! Bicycles are the primary means of transportation in Black Rock City, so now’s the time to get on your bicycle! Over the years, I’ve written a number of posts about bikes and Burning Man, and so here’s 10 reasons why you need to start riding NOW: Read more…
Burning Man 2014: In the News, Be the News
As we get closer to Burning Man each year, there is an annual media feeding frenzy.
Here’s a quick news round up of three articles I read today about Burning Man that I think may be worth your time:
First:
An interview with @SusanSarandon that starts with #BurningMan and psychedelics http://ln.is/shar.es/NkpJw via @marlownyc Read more…
So you’re going to Burning Man?
Do you know your address yet?
If you want people to be able to find you, or you want to get snail mail via the Black Rock City Post Office,
you need an address:
Your Name (playa and photo id name)
Contact Phone Number (recommended)
Camp Name
Camp Address
C/O BRCPO
Gerlach, NV 89412
Join the 3:15 Experiment TONIGHT!
It’s July 31! That means it’s time to set your clocks for 3:15am and participate in the 3:15 Experiment, a writing experiment for poets/people who want to experience writing in a different non-drug induced state on consciousness, in this case, a between sleeps or hypnopompic/hypnogogic state of consciousness, where you are neither quite asleep or wide awake.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2014 3:15 EXPERIMENT:
- Begin at 3:15 AM on August 1. THAT’S TONIGHT. Continue each day until August 31.
- You may write any length, style, form, content, voice, rhythm, etc.
- DO NOT EDIT your work. This is raw stuff, baby. That’s part of the experiment. You are welcome to edit, collage, break apart the poems later for whatever purpose you choose, but please SHARE THE RAW STUFF with us on the website after the experiment.
- (Optional) Do not read what you have written until the month is over, except to skim the work to make sure everything is legible.
- TIP: do not use a felt tip pen unless you don’t care about ink stains on your bed. Many a poet has fallen asleep in the middle of writing.
- If you can help it, don’t even get out of bed! The point is to ride that dream state, that precarious point between sleeping and waking and sleeping.
Read more about the 20+ year history of the 3:15 Experiment here.
Learn more about how to participate in the 3:15 Experiment here–whether you are at Burning Man or traveling or at home!
Read a few 3:15 experiment poems here and here and here. Or read reviews about my 3:15 Experiment poetry collection here.
Print Writers Accuse Bloggers of #WordCrimes at #WBC14
I’ve been busy blogging about the Wine Bloggers Conference over at Wine Predator. More to come, but in the meantime, I’ve got this one plus posts about the speed dating er blogging er tasting and tweeting sessions.
Wherein I somehow manage to weave together wine blogging, wine bloggers, and print wine journalists with Weird Al Yankovic, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Christopher Walken…
“I may be mistaken, but it does seem to me that “Deerslayer” is not a work of art in any sense; it does seem to me that it is destitute of every detail that goes to the making of a work of art; in truth, it seems to me that “Deerslayer” is just simply a literary delirium tremens.
“A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is…
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Phil Alvin is back from the dead. Literally.
After 30 years, he and his brother Dave have decided to find some “common ground,” and make music together again. And the music world is all the better for it.
For those who might not have heard, Phil was on tour in Spain a few years ago when he suddenly had to be taken to a hospital where he underwent treatment for an abscessed tooth which caused his throat to swell and almost close. His heart stopped and he flatlined twice. Only through the work of Dr. Mariella Anaya-Sifuentes—who is thanked in the liner notes to the new album—was his life saved.
As I wrote about yesterday here and at Wine Predator here, as the weather shifts from spring to summer, festival season seriously kicks in–music, food, wine, beer, name it–there’s a festival near you celebrating it!
In Ventura, Music Week 2014 is in full swing with acts performing all over town since Thursday’s kickoff with a full schedule of acts this past weekend and plenty to come.
Here are a few highlights:
Tomorrow Monday June 9 at 7pm, the Ventura Film Society along with Ventura Music Week hosts 20 Feet from Stardom at the Century Downtown (555 E. Main, 93001) with an after party across the street at Amigos.
Read the rest of Ron Wells’ review of the 2014 Academy Award Winning Best Feature Documentary here. Tickets are $10.
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