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About Me

i can cook a kick-ass pot of black beans. i write about music & art for a living and am stuck inside of the internet too much. i like to listen to one song over and over and over again, it's weird. for kicks i edit & publish YETI and RUGBURN magazines, ask me about my 30 other projects. i make metal sculptures when i have the time--gotta give it up for the oxy-acetylene torch, a perfect invention. i did a 'zine called "chemical imbalance" way back in the 1980s -- o.g. fanboys? represent!

My Interests

scrabble, wfmu.org, coffee, fancy cheese, "golden age" gospel music, uriah heep album covers, FEATURE gallery nyc, books with covers by joe brainard, snap buttons on my cowboy shirts, plus for some reason I'm totally drawn to any movie that takes place in an apocalyptic setting.

I'd like to meet:

zooey deschanel, louise brooks, naomi klein, ana mendieta, etta james, chloe, isabelle eberhardt, missy elliott, unica zurn, joan nestle, maria bethania, penelope houston, molly ringwald, laure, meret oppenheim, gal costa, tigra, bell hooks, rita lee, susan sontag, exene, my 8th grade spanish teacher, barbara ehrenreich, '20s film starlets, insanely cute girls from eugene named lily who happen to live in my house and be the awesomest girlfriend everrrrrrrr (aw, and stuff).

Music:

c86 FEELIES necros GEECHIE WILEY rev. louis overstreet DESTROYER isolee ANGLIN BROS taj mahal travellers CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND thirty-nine clocks ELDER CHARLES BECK fairport NIC JONES june tabor STEVE REICH alpaca bros. CHILLS jpse GREAT UNWASHED yellow swans SUN RA wolf eyes YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS low THE MOVE vetiver GILBERTO GIL the faces THE WHO aretha SWAN SILVERTONES mission of burma SLITS mingus DREAM SYNDICATE lamonte young SUICIDE lightning bolt PATTY WATERS neutral milk hotel R KELLY aceyalone NEKO CASE electric light orchestra THE CLEAN mbv P-FUNK akufen AYLER kinks LOUVIN BROS stanley bros MONROE BROS charlie pickett & the eggs INCREDIBLE STRING BAND charlie patton HUSKER DU prince E*ROCK caetano veloso MISS. FRED McDOWELL superpitcher JOLIE HOLLAND minutemen TERRY RILEY wire WILEY mad villain MONKS dutch outsiders SUN CITY GIRLS iron & wine CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS don cherry INA SIMONE rev. utah smith ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE brion gysin LOMAX "dial a poet" lps ETC

Movies:

elf, pee wee's big adventure, medium cool, kids are alright, zero for conduct, stalker, 400 blows, cannonball run, babe: pig in the city!

Television:

the wire!!!, project runway, deadwood, lost, my favorite martian.

Books:

authors, rather: cookie mueller, paul auster, joe brainard, amy gerstler, italo calvino, ingeborg bachmann, w.s. burroughs, g. bataille, octavia butler, nick tosches, carlo ginzburg, robert walser, charles portis, rene daumal, john fahey, opal nations

Heroes:

ohh my god i feel fucking dorky writing this but okay: george kuchar, john peel, skip spence, jean dubuffet, nancy spero, h.c. spier, jim shaw, ian mackaye, pete townshend, andy kaufman, daniil kharms, bruno schulz, alfred jarry, ahmet ertegun, hudson, julien levy, opal nations, my moms.

My Blog

YETI book release party/ reading: Luc Sante & Jana Martin: Knitting Factory, Tues. Sept. 18 6PM

WHAT: Yeti Publications Release Party/ Book Signing/ Author Reading: Luc Sante's 'Kill All Your Darlings' & Jana Martin's 'Russian Lover' WHERE: Knitting Factory Tap Bar WHEN: Tues., Sept. 18th,...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:52:00 PST

Halleluwah Fest 2 -- next weekend!!!

HALLELUWAH TWO: A FESTIVAL OF ENTHUSED ARTSPresented by Blackbird, Yeti & PSU's Popular Music BoardThree days at Holocene, Portland, OR: Aug. 31-Sep. 2 (1001 SE Morrison, Portland OR 97214)The mus...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:38:00 PST

My soul got happy so I stayed there all day.

Straight Street Group (featuring Rev. Milton Phelps) "Angels Keep Watching Over Me"Gospel Keynotes "Jesus Will See You Through"The first song is a latter day sanctifi...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:59:00 PST

Reading in Seattle with Sean Nelson Thurs. Night

'Sup? I'm deep in a review-writing crunch and getting back taxes sorted so this is more news-based than, well, interesting, sorry!I'm reading at the new Sonic Boom General Store in the Fremont section...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST

YETI PUBLICATIONS is like a real thing yay

As the first two titles from YETI Publications near completion, the first one's now up on Amazon and ready for pre-order: Russian Lover by Jana Martin. It's a collection of short stories from the upst...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:38:00 PST

Loveless book is really out!

I have a handful of copies that I need to send to people who helped with transcribing those massive interviews. And all of those people helped off of MySpace so I hope you can just reply to me here aw...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:43:00 PST

Help with my book on sanctified blues/ guitar evangelists/ gritty gospel music?

Dudes! I apologize in advance for this entry being so fricking long. I'm super curious if anyone here is a fan of this sort of sanctified blues? Slowly over the past ten years I've been digging this m...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:58:00 PST

pdx: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES films showing Wed. only!

Rejoice Portlanders, for it is not fucking pouring today!So, SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is one of my favorite labels that's started up in the last decade -- they do brilliant CDs and DVDs of neglected world ...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:32:00 PST

i am not here

but i am here: http://buked.blogspot.com/
Posted by Mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST