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Random Scribbles
2008-07-17 08:11:00 * I am currently putting the final polish on a series of pieces for a new chapbook. The working title is "Apocalypse Generation". Brian Fugett at Zygote In My Coffee has read thru 10 of the poems and has expressed interest to publish. I will be getting him a final draft in the next few days.* Sometimes I get the feeling I have been writing the same poem over and over for the last 15 or so years. It remains imperfect and flawed. Now that I have been reasonably clean for a nice stretch, it may be time for some deep soul searching that will bring about not only a complete style change, but subject matter change as well.* Summer has always been a very unproductive time for me as far as writing is concerned. Seems I'd rather be spending my time involved in things instead of just thinking about things I have done in the past.* I recently finished watching a documentary on Dee Dee Ramone. Seems he still feels cheated that Johnny Thunders stole "Chinese Rock" from him and only gave him par... More About: Random
Vinerepylenoma
2008-07-11 02:54:00 Vinerepylenoma is a feature length documentary currently in production which revisits the underground music scene of Los Angeles during the 1980's. The documentary primarily focuses on the music and features never before seen live concerts of bands like X, Tex & the Horseheads, Concrete Blonde, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Beat Farmers, Fishbone, Black Flag, Violent Femmes and many more. It celebrates the raw energy of an era often forgotten and very poorly documented.I am not sure what happened to this project. I first heard about it a couple of years ago. Aside from this trailer and the archived website no other information is available. Anyway here is a taste of history:RC Edrington More About: Music
She Never Said Goodbye
2008-06-16 04:41:00 fingerprints smearedon a dusty window sillcobwebs absent of fliescling in muted candlelightto a gray stucco ceilingbooksstacks of bookssome writtensome readtossed absently& ignoredon a cigaretteburnt deskwhere a wine bottleonce fulllays empty& exposedlike her bedroom closetRC Edrington More About: Poetry , Goodbye
June 2008 Updates
2008-06-13 03:50:00 * Instant Pussy: Misti Rainwater-Lites has revived her small press journal in book form on her ebullience press label. I have 2 poems and a piece of my photography included. It is chock full of great poetry and cool artwork. Imagine a literary fuckfest starring Charles Bukowski and Bettie Page. I strongly suggest you support her press and purchase a copy. However if you're a cheap motherfucker she does offer a .pdf file version for a free download. Let's hope Misti continues this journal as it blends my two favorite things: poetry and pin-up style porno.* Underground Voices: The June issue of UV is available for your viewing pleasure. It includes 3 poems by yours truly and 3 pretty damn good poems by one of my fave small press writers William Taylor Jr. So go give this great collection of poetry and short fiction a read. UV is also currently accepting submissions for their third print volume. Check it out.* Zygote In My Coffee: Issue 107 of Zygote is out, and includes a piece by m... More About: News , Updates , June 2008 , 2008
UFO Hits Romanian Jet?
2008-06-13 01:45:00 A UFO had a mid-air collision with a fighter jet over central Europe, a leaked report has revealed. Defense chiefs are investigating claims that the Romanian MIG 21 fighter plane was struck by 'strange objects'. The official report says the cockpit of the jet was shattered. Romanian defense ministry officials have ruled out all normal types of collision such as bird strikes, ice or small meteorites. Chief investigator Commander Nicolae Grigorie said in the report: 'We can definitely say what this thing was not, but we cannot say what it was.' The impact on a training flight above Transylvania took only 67 milliseconds and was recorded on an in-flight video camera. Pilot Marin Mitrica was slightly injured but managed to land the plane safely after the incident last year.Baffled defense chiefs have now passed the UFO incident on to the Security Committee of European Air Forces for investigation.Source re-print from Metro UKRC Edrington More About: News , Hits
Cocaine Jesus
2008-05-31 22:20:00 Federal agents last week arrested a Mexican national for allegedly paying a woman to smuggle into the U.S. a statue that was made of a dried cocaine paste. The carefully painted religious icon weighed about six pounds and would have had a street value of about $30,000. The statue was confiscated at a Texas border crossing after a drug-sniffing dog alerted to it during an inspection of a vehicle driven by a Mexican woman. The woman later told agents that she was paid $80 by a man who wanted the statue delivered to him at a Laredo bus station.RC Edrington More About: News , Jesus , Cocaine
The Vatican: Alien Life May Exist
2008-05-16 04:11:00 Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Alien s Are My Brother'. Funes went on to state: "Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin."Interesting, I think. The Catholic church rarely makes a public statement on a topic unless it has a reason. Could it be the Church has some type of proof of aliens locked away in the Vatican library? Or perhaps they have seen something in the skies? Stay tuned...the apocalypse is upon us.RC Edrington More About: News , Life , Exist
Skull Bong
2008-05-09 19:35:00 Willie Simms, a child who died in the 1920s, has been resurrected. Kind of. It seems three teenagers in Houston, Texas dug up the body...severed its head...and used the skull as a bong. You can't make this stuff up.Source: The Smoking Gun.RC Edrington More About: News , Skull
A Change In Focus: Charles Fort
2008-05-09 18:49:00 Those of you who were into the weird and the bizarre prior to the internet revolution should be quite familiar with Charles Fort and his infamous book, The Book of the Damned penned in 1919. This book was basically a collection of weird phenomena that had been reported world wide yet could not be explained by scientist. A typical example of this phenomena would be UFO sightings. The validity of the reported phenomena can be debated. However, whether these strange things actually occurred or not misses the point. Fort was more concerned with what these strange tales reflected upon the sociological make-up of humanity. After all, what is reality? If 100 people claim to see something, is it real or not?A few months ago I subtitled this blog, Notes From The Apocalypse. On a personal level my poetry can be viewed as the apocalypse of the individual. It has nothing to do with the biblical concept. Basically an apocalyptic time is a period when things are revealed that were previously hid... More About: Change , Essays , Focus
Chupacabra Kills Dog
2008-05-08 13:29:00 It seems my favorite cryptoid...the part vampire, part alien chupacabra has struck again. In Rosario Argentina a dog was discovered completely drained of blood with a tiny puncture wound in its throat. As usual, the chupacabra left no signs of a struggle, nor were bloodstains found in the immediate area.While an autopsy has yet to be performed to determine the actual cause of death, the town folk are already laying the blame on the chupacabra. The name literally means "goat sucker" and this cryptoid earned this name when a few goats were found in Puerto Rico also drained of blood and having tiny puncture wounds on their throat. The chupacabra is mainly a South American legendary creature, but he seems to also found his way into the Southwestern United States where he has a thirst for farm animals.While the chupacabra appears to be a mythological creature, used mainly to scare rural children into not wandering to far off at night, there are some researchers who believe the chupacabra... More About: Chupacabra
Live Without A Net: Self Loathing
2008-05-06 21:18:00 In absence of windows, I find only mirrors. As shards of fluorescent, fake sunlight slices the darkness and reflects back the emptiness of syringes shattered against a red bricked school yard wall. Perhaps this absence has always been here, yet I failed or chose not to see it thru the thin gauze of these tired heroin eyes. Perhaps this emptiness is but another disease I stumbled upon in some unlit alley like a worn $20 bill...and now it burns a hole in my pocket as I await the cold, sweaty dreams of the next fix. The fix I pray to some frail, unknown god will never find its way into my limp veins.I am not high. I am not numb. Yet I pop 10 pills a day to keep this body sucking air. Diabetes. Heart disease. Mood swings. Depression. They have all taken up residence in this poor excuse of a man who dreams of tomorrows that never come locked inside the four white walls of this "rehab" facility. In the past few years, I buried my contemporary heroes and friends: Joe Strummer. Dee Dee Ramo... More About: Prose , Live
Old Art Pictures
2008-05-06 08:17:00 Recently, I was digging thru some boxes of old pictures and scribblings to see what I had on my hands, and I came across this series of photos I had taken with the intent to do something creative. For one reason or another I never got around to do anything with this photo-shoot, but I felt the photos were worthy of seeing the light of day in some form. Regardless, I think they turned out pretty damn good. So I figured I would post one since it does represent a certain art period in my life. Enjoy. Used by permission by the model.RC Edrington More About: Pictures
Suicidal Heart Transplant
2008-05-06 08:00:00 A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor's widow died the same way the donor did: a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Investigators stated they suspect no "foul play" in the suicide of 69 year old Sonny Grahams death at his Georgia home. Graham was found with a single shotgun blast to the throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.The tell-tale heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself. Grateful for his new heart, Graham began writing letters to the donor's family to thank them. In January 1997, Graham met his donor's widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston.Seven years later Cottle married Graham after he retired from his job as a plant manager for Hargray Communications in Hilton Head.The apocalypse is upon us...RC Edrington More About: News , Heart , Suicidal
Whimper
2008-05-04 23:21:00 While a truck stop whoreswallows amphetamine truck driver cock,a box fan sucksdead desert heat & spits itinto my drunken face.Ice sweats quicklythrough the thin glassof a chipped mayonnaise jar,my gin & gin no longer cold.So these are the dog dayswhen the caved vein husk of a manmust flip his finalpanhandled dimeagainst a brick & pissgraffiti stained wall,& decided to chase his flimsy paperback dreamsacross the dusty back roadsof Whitman's Americaor rot in line for a jobhe'll waste his life chained toin hate of each moment& the only poems writtenraped by computer terminals...strict little programsthat suck in information& spit out neat spreadsheets. Such is life.A constant sucking.A massive trash compactorthat chews upour individually packaged dreamsthen coughs uphermetically sealed gray blocksin the form of wordsall uniform to Federal RegulationsAnd the well greased machinejust hums along, & who the fuck am Ito try & change it?Ginsberg & Kerouac triedwith little impact.All I can ... More About: Poetry
Cynco De Mayo Party
2008-05-04 04:50:00 Forgo the bar scene and stay out of the pathway of amateur drunks! Come party with my buddy Code 33 at 6pm Eastern time on May 5th. Lots of heavy metal, some special guests, and the live music tossed into the total chaos will make this the party of the year. Come meet old and new friends and chat in a party atmosphere the police most defiantly will not crash. Bring your own Tequila or booze of choice and join fun in the shot games.Be there! Go to www.syndicate.tv The same internet radio that brings you the likes of Gary The Retard, Tabitha Stevens, and the Hook Nose Mike Show.RC Edrington More About: News , Party
Chocolate Beer In Ancient Honduras
2008-04-30 20:13:00 Not only were the first chocoholics tinkering with cacao around 1100 B.C. - 500 years earlier than previously thought - but they might have been doing so to get a tipsy buzz. A recent chemical analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards in northern Honduras turned up traces of theobromine (its name means "food of the gods"), a chemical that is found in cacao. The discovery is the oldest evidence of cacao manipulation.The analyzed vessel had a narrow spout, and the researchers speculate that the locals were imbibing a wine-like drink made by fermenting the pulp that surrounds the seeds of the cacao plant. In contrast, the nonalcoholic concoction favored by Aztecs some 2,000 years later was prepared in wide-lipped jugs, and the liquid was poured back and forth to create froth.Beer enthusiasts can look forward to a loose re-creation of the ancient brew sometime this year. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware is producing a drink based on the original recipe, with the help of biomolecul... More About: News , Chocolate , Ancient
Ativan
2008-04-30 04:16:00 Blessed be the medical profession willing to replace illegal addictions for legal ones. While Ativan lacks the initial rush of heroin, the after effect of 5mg is about the same as a mellow dime shot. I can live like this. No more scrounging for syringes. No more trying to cop dope at 3 a.m. and getting ripped off with Mexican Tar cut steeply with sugar. Life isn't so bad being "clean". My addiction is now legal and somewhat accepted by society. Makes me want to rush out and work an 80 hour work week and consume. Well not really. It isn't too difficult coming up with a $5 monthly insurance co-pay. Hell all I have to do is steal a CD a month instead of complete stereo systems on a daily basis. The world is now a much safer place. Gotta run...the pharmacy just called.RC Edrington
Polluto Issue 1 Review
2008-04-28 19:27:00 "What happens when you take the online component of 3AM Magazine, the speculative works and wonder of Zahir, the artistic equivalent of Juxtapoz Magazine, and throw in something new, fresh, dark, gritty, hip, surreal, poetic, and themed? You get Polluto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal." - Lawerence R Dagtine publisher of The Literary Bone.To read more of the review on Polluto magazines first issue, please go here: Read Review .To check out Lawerence R. Dagtine's work, please visit The Literary Bone.To purchase, subscribe or submit to: Polluto.RC Edrington More About: Issue
Coming In May
2008-04-18 23:37:00 I will have a few pieces in Underground Voices and Zygote In My Coffee coming up in their May issues. Next month will also mark my long awaited return to one of my long time fave zines, Unlikely Stories 2.0 The gap between submissions to Unlikely can as always be blamed on my laziness about actualy getting my stuff out there for publication.Oh well, I have often said, I am a writer, not a secratary. So publications are often forced to take second seat to my scribblings. Across the literary pond over in the UK, Adam Lowe of Polluto magazine is gearing up for the second release of this fine art journal. So don't miss out on my quarterly column "Live without A Net", and a few select poems. So far, Polluto is proving to be one of the better small press magazines out there: from content, to artwork, to high gloss layout. A must read for any one who likes to pretend they are anyone. You can reach this journals by using the links in the JOURNAL section of this blog.RC Edrington
Cutter
2008-04-18 17:40:00 my beauty is onlyskin deepmy daddy told me soshe whispersbetween sobsas she slowly carvesa long-stem roseinto the smmoothpale fleshof her lightly freckled forearmwith my freshly honedItalian stilettoher bloodblooms into tinyred petalsin the dark agesshe whispersdoctors bledthe sickso the illnessseeped out butmillions still diedof God's Black Plague how deeply do youthink I must carveuntil this diseasethat corrodes my heartoozes to the surfaceand youlike all thosesilly men beforerun from the madnessdaddy injected intohis 13 year oldbaby girlRC Edrington More About: Poetry
After Hollywood (part 1)
2008-04-18 17:38:00 She was a rich wanna-be hip bitch from NY Cityand came with an art degree,a flare for the Orientand an ass that till this day leaves medreaming of peaches and plums.She thought it cool that I wrote,shot too much dopeand lived in a renovated garagewith no bathroomin the middle of an arts districtI never cared existed.It was Summer.But it is always Summerin Tucson, Arizona.The heat hung in the airlike sheets of cellophaneready to smother us in our own juices,while June and July fired their roundsof endless days at me one by one.But I ignored their flesh wounds of boredomand restless anticipationby keeping my mind and nerves shelteredwith the bullet proof effectivenessof cheap whiskey, marijuanaand various other chemicalsdesigned to numb the soul.It was the days that haunted me.Time itself.Not the faceless college summer school idiotswho roamed the downtown coffee houseswith their anal retentive textbooksand girlfriends.They left me alone, slumpedagainst an alley wallin the shadow of a... More About: Hollywood , Poetry , Part
After Hollywood
2008-04-16 19:50:00 She was a rich wanna-be hip bitchfrom NY Cityand came with an art degree,a flare for the Orientand an ass that till this day leaves medreaming of peaches and plums.She thought it cool that I wrote,shot too much dopeand lived in a renovated garagewith no bathroomin the middle of an arts districtI never cared existed.It was Summer.But it is always Summerin Tucson, Arizona.The heat hung in the airlike sheets of cellophaneready to smother us in our own juices,while June and July fired their roundsof endless days at me one by one.But I ignored their flesh wounds of boredomand restless anticipationby keeping my mind and nerves shelteredwith the bullet proof effectivenessof cheap whiskey, marijuanaand various other chemicalsdesigned to numb the soul.It was the days that haunted me.Time itself.Not the faceless college summer school idiotswho roamed the downtown coffee houseswith their anal retentive textbooksand girlfriends.They left me alone, slumpedagainst an alley wallin the shadow of a ... More About: Hollywood , Poetry
After Hollywood (part 2)
2008-04-16 17:33:00 she was always ordering with a spoon.Granted I had no culture,but who really needed culturewhen I had plenty of storiestucked inside my notebooks...like the death rock goth chick from Tempe, Arizonawho begged I rape her in a graveyardso she could fantasize my sperm were maggotsand she was a corpse,which is why she wore black lipstickand fingernail polish...white pancake makeupand a 1920s wedding gown, sayingshe loved heroin for the uncertaintyof not knowing which dosewould be her last dose,She was 19, and in all her miseryshe seemed much more happier than I.We spent a few weeks togetherfaking suicidal tendenciesand planning our gothic deathslike punk rock Romeo and Juliet...questioning my sanityand trying to convince herthe only thing I kill is time.I left Sasha.I guess it was Augustwhen Shane finally surfacedasking where I had been the past few months,updating me on rumors of my deathand telling me about this New York artisthe was fucking...who bought him a new guitar,and then he f... More About: Hollywood , Poetry , Part
Crack for Senior Citizens
2008-04-12 17:22:00 According to the Smoking Gun a Florida man was arrested yesterday for attempting to sell crack at a Senior citizen's Home. Problem was, dude was trying to pass off small pieces of bread as crack for $5 a pop. Mr Crack Dealer claimed he always sold crack on the 10th of the month because that is when the residents received their Social Security checks. Proof we are living in the Apocalypse? A good as one as any...RC Edrington More About: News
Sponsor A CBGB Kid
2008-04-11 09:21:00 12-year-old Savannah is the daughter of a former CBGB employee of 18 years, and spent much of her childhood as a part of CBGB.Savannah also suffers from a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Every year The Arthritis Foundation holds an Arthritis Walk to raise money and awareness for their cause.CBGB's own Savannah has been chosen as one of the honorees in this year's walk.Please join us in donating to this worthy cause.The link below will take you to the Arthritis Walk page for donations in Savannah's name.For further information on the Walk and on the Foundation click the links on that page.If you choose to join us in donating, we ask that you donate on Savannah's page to show the Foundation what one little girl and a bunch of old rockers can do to help.Team SavannahThe walk is Sunday, April 27th in Battery ParkAll are welcome, but you don't have to walk to donate.RC Edrington More About: News , Music , Sponsor
Unfaithful
2008-04-10 17:15:00 we licked bluecotton candyfrom our fingersas the Ferris Wheel spunin slowfreeze frame motionthe carnival handw/ prison green tattoosstared at your ass& snorted bumps of methoff a rusty truck keyas each empty seatpassed bythe moon silent wordsthat bouncedlike tumbleweedsthru the dustif there were tearsI never felt themas you had no more cheeksleft to turnRC Edrington More About: Poetry
Pills
2008-04-10 08:30:00 She took them to escapethe hallowed bone of moonlight,the skeletons of treesrattling keysagainst her bedroom window,but mainly Rickshe took them for you.Laying in the coldnessof her closet floor,I felt her slowly drift into deathas I listenedto the soft strokes of her blood beat.If her chest were an ocean...which it isn't,it would be waveless..which it is.Two lovers layingin sleeping rowboatdream of anchors,and she dreamed of you...Rick.Your desire to hurt herwas only your fisttrying to push thru the skinof a red balloon,but now she drifts from your graspinto blue sky.Rick.Rick the rapist.Rick you low life motherfucker.Her pill bottle may now be emptybut I am still here,clutching a sliverof your foul drunken tongueready to carve justiceinto your pale, empty chest.And regardlessof what your god may say...regardless of whatyour lawyer may say...& regardless of whatthe cops may say...there is no forgivenessor a saviorin this alley of broken shadows,and you will diefor your own sin... More About: Poetry , Pills
Syndicate Radio
More articles from this author:2008-04-10 03:03:00 SyndicateRadio .tvPunk Radio8-10pm Eastern on WednesdayBe there and fart some dust... RC Edrington More About: News , Music , Syndicate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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