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Anthony B

I construct strange, new houses of reality, using words as bricks, punctuations for mortar. website:

About Me

The MICHAEL A. BERNSTEIN Electronic Gallery of Photography (Michael is late brother of Anthony)...Contact Tables...^Click play-butten above to hear me spit my warm/fuzzy poem "Phantasm Nightfalls"...
Get Code | Create Your Own! ............Call this site if you like at the following phone # 1(641)715-0101 Code: *3808286.....Say what you like as loud as you want - & thanx for your words: good, bad and/or ugly.

My Interests


Get Code | Create Your Own!writing/reading strange words, listing/creating strange music, astronomy, Time Travilling, Black-Hole Surfing, playing "magic--the gathering".

I'd like to meet:

~~~MYSELF, SO I CAN KICK HIS ASS!!!~~~Bernstein's an active member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association who's been writing freelance since 04. He's contributed several strange tales, over 30 poems, and a few book reviews to dozens of publications."Realityfoil", his speculative poetry collection will be out late Summer 2008.His dark fiction collection "Bone Vision" will be out Winter 2009.In addition to writing, Bernstein's a sesoned songwriter and musician who's responsible not only for creating several loud altrock groups, but for composing many of their songs in the role of band guitarist.Bernstein shares his home with 3 housecats.

Music:

Nick Cave ~ Hawkwind ~ Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill ~ Eno ~ Gary Numan ~ Sisters of Mercy (pre-Vision Thing) ~ Sioux and the Banshees ~ Bauhaus/Peter Murphy ~ Gabrial (pre-So) ~ Einsturzende Neubauten ~ King Crimson/Fripp ~ Bowie ~ Sonic Youth ~ Pink Floyd (pre-The Wall) ~ Stravinsky ~ Wagner ~ All Classical that is dark, ominous, & intense.

Movies:

Bladerunner ~ Susperia ~ The Matrex ~ Saw ~ A Clockwork Orange ~ THX-1138 ~ The Shining ~ Blue Velvet ~ Forbidden Planet ~ The Sixth Sense ~ The Brood ~ Videodrome ~ Scanners ~ Lord of Illusion ~ The Omen (1 & 2) ~ Serpent & the Rainbow ~ Nadia (what can I say, I'm a Lowensohn fan) ~ The Tenant ~ Obsession ~ Rosemary's Baby ~ Macbeth (both Orson Wells and Roman Polanski versions) ~ Aguirre Wrath of God (& all other Klaus Kinski films).

Television:

Some History Channel ~ Babalon 5 ~ Twin Peaks ~ Twilight Zone ~ Night Gallery ~ X-Files ~ The new Battlestar Galactica (Edward J. Olmos cast as 'Captin Adama' stands as the smartest roll casting decision of the new millennium - sombody deserves a raise).

Books:

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (& everything else): by Phillip K Dick ~ Illiad: by Homer ~ Solaris: by Lem ~ Cowl: by Asher ~ The Kabalian: by Three Initiates ~ Weaveworld: by Clive Barker ~ The Book: by Allen Watts ~ The Book of Thoth: by The Master Therion ~ Johnny Got His Gun: by Dalton Trumbo ~ I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: by Harlan Ellison ~ Neuromancer (& everything else): by William Gibson ~ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (& everything else): by H. P. Lovecraft ~ All Poe ~ TODAYS POETS/WRITERS I LOVE THE BEST: Sanja Taffee ~ Bruce Boston (also awesome novelist) ~ Mike Allen ~ Gene Van Troyer ~ Kendall Evans ~ Kristine Ong Muslim ~ Others, the list grows.

Heroes:

The great Marten Luther King is my idea of a hero; also, my ancestor, Admiral Uriah Levi, the 1st Jewish Admiral to serve in the US Navy (1830s or so). Admiral Uriah Levi successfully fought to have corporal punishment abolished in the US navy. Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Also, my friend Steve Bass for saving my $3.000 computer from a particularly vicious multi-pronged virus attack.

My Blog

May SCIFAIKUEST MAGAZINE has 3 poems of mine within its pages

HI ALL! May 2008 SCIFAIKUEST MAGAZINE (issue 20) is now out for $6 with three scifaiku (science fiction haiku) of mine within its pages.  One place you can order a copy would be HERE&nb...
Posted by Anthony B on Mon, 05 May 2008 03:56:00 PST

Taking Pratfalls into the Abyss: essay on comic dark poetry.

Taking Pratfalls into the Abyss By Anthony Bernstein   Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.   One selection from a numerous array of morbid nurs...
Posted by Anthony B on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:31:00 PST

Spring `08 ILLUMEN MAGAZINE has my poem "Bruno’s Judge" in it

Spring ..08 ILLUMEN MAGAZINE is now out: $8 Along with work from writers such as Bruce Boston, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Lee Clark Zumpe, Sara Jezik, and so many other masters of the craft, Illumen has my ...
Posted by Anthony B on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:22:00 PST

Spring Tales of the Talisman is out with book reviews and poem of mine

The spring issue of Tales of the Talisman is out.This issue is running two book reviews of mine: Bruce Boston’s latest sci-fi novel "The Guardener’s Tale", which has been nominated fo...
Posted by Anthony B on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:14:00 PST

Horror tale of mine now live in Static Movement, April issue

~Hi~ A revision of my cosmic horror tale Down Corridors of Life Purloined is being run in the April issue of Static Movement.  Thanx for tuning in~~~> Tony B*  ...
Posted by Anthony B on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:57:00 PST

Poesy Magazine 35 is out with photos by Micheal Bernstein

Thanks for tuning in-----------> Poesy Magazine issue 35 is now out with photography by my late brother Micheal A. Bernstein: Five Photos in all. Also included within this issue is a poem I wrote: Hai...
Posted by Anthony B on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:33:00 PST

Words with Power - My review of poetry anthology Collaborations

"Words with Power"   A Review of the poetry anthology "Collaborations"   "Collaborations" $14.95 Gene Van Troyer, Editor   Ravenna Press, 128 pages, © 2007     Collaboration...
Posted by Anthony B on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:04:00 PST

New poem Raging the Primal Flame is live in STATIC MOVEMENT*

Hello All ---> My poem Raging the Primal Flame  is live in the latest issue of STATIC MOVEMENT - March `08* I hope you don't find it lousy... Cheers; Tony B~*...
Posted by Anthony B on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:37:00 PST

"Haiku of Damocles" is now live in NIGHTBLADE

Hi All - My poem "Haiku of Damocles" is now live in Nightblade issue 3 - March `08. Thank you for looking in... Tony B*...
Posted by Anthony B on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:04:00 PST

New poem of mine now live in Zygote in my coffee!

Hi all - A new poem of mine called "Piece of Mind" is now live in the edgy publication Zygote In My Coffee, issue 102!  Thank you for tuning in ---> Tony B*...
Posted by Anthony B on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:01:00 PST