7/10/08

6x news item

burning babies (the legend of burning babies) and the insurgent by noah cicero are available, the first half of 'the insurgent' is really emo, 'the sunny day real estate of noah cicero novels'

kelly ginger (poetry) made movies of coconut water dancing and something else

a professor at a college is using cognitive-behavioral therapy for a clinical psychology class and a personality class

adbusters is publishing room night

chris killen organized people to describe their blogs

brandon scott gorrell published hair care tips

21 Comments:

Blogger ryan manning said...

journalists click here

8:08 PM  
Blogger Conn Tomas O'Brien said...

adbusters is funny.

9:07 PM  
Blogger rollerskatejamms said...

thanks tao.

http://nycaspy.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/black-white-rainbow/

10:41 PM  
Blogger chris said...

i like adbusters

10:57 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

you're welcome 'rollerskatejams'

1:07 AM  
Blogger Ignacio said...

you probably have a good sense from doing readings what are 'crowd-pleasers' and what are not. 'crowd-pleasers' usually include comedy.

i read your piece in 'this recording' and now i know why you haven't been including amy hempel.

i never took lish's class but he published me 3 times without editing (out of the distant slush-pile) and when we spoke on the phone a few times i felt like he loved literature and i think being an egomaniac doesn't totally preclude that but maybe it sort of hurts the 'cause.'

(j. robison on way as of yesterday.)

i think where ann beattie went wrong was when she agreed to show all her stories to william shawn editor of the new yorker first and so wrote to please him which was like trying to please someone's prim grandma in a way.

i met her once and i don't think she liked me. i don't blame her though

do you know about frederick barthelme's 1st novel 'war and war'? it's very very different from what he did after

7:29 AM  
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7:51 AM  
Blogger Kendra Grant Malone said...

'prim grandma' i like that

'the oriental'

12:01 PM  
Blogger Maya said...

hi tao,
i was in NYC and saw a lot of britney spears stickers around greenwich village.
pretty rad.
-maya

2:41 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

good post.

good job.

all hail tao

2:47 PM  
Blogger Daniel Bailey said...

you should do the muxtape. i've thought about doing things like that but just never did it. i think it's a good idea.

i kind of want to start something similar to rabbit light movies http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/
for people to record videos of readings. i think it could make people more excited about online literature to hear voices and see faces.

2:50 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

thanks for the book ignacio

i 'heard' that frederick barthelme's first two books are very postmodern and have pictures in them or something, then he had an epiphany while eating chicken out of a bucket or something and decided that was what he wanted to write about, that is what i read somewhere

i looked in 'distortions' and most of the stories i like most from there were published in the new yorker

i think ann beattie probably just changed over time, people change or something, for example i won't write a lot more poems like those in 'you are a little bit happier than i am' partly because i already did or something

i am going to do the muxtape daniel

good job maya

they are in the financial district also now

4:57 PM  
Blogger BLAKE BUTLER said...

oh yes, this should happen, there should be a literary muxtape equivalent, i began thinking similiar things at the same time i think,


daniel yes you should do that, it could be like rabbit light movies but without language poems

5:02 PM  
Blogger Mandy said...

omg i love muxtape, muxtape is like, my thing.
http://jellobomb.muxtape.com/

5:06 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

cucumber.muxtape.com

dinner.muxtape.com

someone took taolin.muxtape.com

5:08 PM  
Blogger brandon said...

good post

2:54 AM  
Blogger andy.riverbed said...

i wanna get in. i record all my readings, when i remember. i got my last reading, the part where i don't fuck up cause i start laughing on my blog.

9:31 AM  
Blogger raffi! said...

thank you tao for the link to gorrell's hair tips. those were indispensable. and they made me laugh, in a good way.

4:35 AM  
Blogger jereme said...

fuck noah cicero!

2:34 AM  
Blogger Zachary German said...

you're in las vegas

i feel really bored

6:13 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

more money has been lost

4:03 AM  

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