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Proof of O'GRADY CD Sleeve for the new BAGAZINE.
ALARM Book/Double CD Release Show: O'GRADY (Mike Daily, jDUB, A.L. Hungate, Chutz Ponderosa w/ Nora Robertson as "Jocelynn") at Phase One: Words + Music at Someday Lounge on June 20, 2007. A film by Kurt Eisenlohr . Produced by Chutz Ponderosa at The Enginehouse.
youtube.com/watch?v=k_p_SVE5vKs
A happy aspect of all this is Daily’s uncompromising originality. His art isn’t very much like any other, except in a transferred sense, because if you regard him thus, you could say he sports the exuberance of Jack Kerouac and the venomous wit of Blonde on Blonde Dylan, or what have you (and at two times he sounds like Elvis Costello and Lou Reed!)--but he is so strong in himself that those roundabouts only serve to catch the possible interest of the culture-starvers that yet don’t have his ALARM release, and I don’t believe it’s just a coincidence--I am a firm believer in synchronicity, anyways!--that the upper-case letters of ALARM might instigate analogies to the upper-case letters of HOWL!
Ingvar Loco Nordin, SONOLOCO , Sweden
October 2007
[FULL REVIEW HERE ]
BREAKING NEWS: MP3 downloadstore PayPlay.fm is now selling all 36 MP3s that come with ALARM! PayPlay.fm is an easy-to-use website that is a great no-nonsense place to buy MP3s. No software to install. And since they're regular MP3 files, they'll work in every computer, and any portable player. Here is the link to PayPlay.fm for ALARM:
http://payplay.fm/mikedaily .
BREAKING NEWS: : All 36 tracks from the two CDs that come with ALARM can now be purchased as MP3s from tradebit at:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1843561
From the Foreword to Mike Daily's New Novel/Double CD Set, ALARM :
Some of the most exciting work in the world is being done in the interface zones (the "interzone") between arts. What started with Patchen and Rexroth when they combined reading with jazz music, and what continued on through Kerouac and Ginsberg, through Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, through Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, and Genesis P-Orridge, continues with renewed vigor and a fresh voice through the work of Mike Daily and his band, O'GRADY.
—Eckhard Gerdes, Editor, Journal of Experimental Fiction
www.myspace.com/alarmdailynovel
www.overheardpublicity.com
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BREAKING NEWS: O'GRADY (performing as a drums/fiction duo: jDUB and Mike Daily ) opened for Tygers of Wrath on July 26th at Ash Street Saloon. Nora Robertson appeared as "Jocelynn". Chutz Ponderosa filmed it. Clips (including the new excerpt "You Can't Be A Stuntman For Your Fiction") coming soon.
Mike Daily presents "O For Fook's Sake!" with jDUB on July 26, 2007, at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon. Featuring Nora Robertson as "Jocelynn". Part 3 of 4. Filmed and Produced by Chutz Ponderosa.
From: Tygers of Wrath
Date: May 15, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: observations
Dear Mike,
Your words are too kind, Sir.
We look forward to the show.
It's not often we play with interesting bands, and when we do it's always alot of fun.
I watched some of the videos on your page, they are totally rad.
I'm also very interested in the Book, and hope to pick one up at the show.
Talk to you soon.
-Ahmad
Epilogue of the Ostrich: Ahmad picked one up. We traded.
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New Video Part III of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
Watch it HERE in [ALARM][DAILY][NOVEL] VIDEOS .
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New Video Part VI of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
Watch it HERE in [ALARM][DAILY][NOVEL] VIDEOS .
Photo: Linda Kay
O'GRADY is like a seizure--of music, of language. Mike Daily has created his own kind of conniption fit lit-rock, in which everything that occurs, even the smallest detail, takes on the texture of rapturous epiphany. It's nothing less than a thrill to watch.
--GARETT STRICKLAND, host of Portland's Phase One: Words + Music series

Projective, post-jazz, post-rock prose. Freedom only true bloggers have mastered and old experimental fogies can barely dream of. What this means is that literature, like life, should be enjoyed and not taken seriously.
-- YURIY TARNAWSKY

Your CD sounds fan fucking tastiic. Thanks for being the only friend of mine who actually gets shit done. It gives me some semblance of hope. Keep doing it.
-- JOHNNY WOCKENFUSS ( CAC )

Mind jazz.
-- ROSE MILLER

Mike Daily's second small press novel / double CD, ALARM is available now from Stovepiper Books Media.
BREAKING NEWS: Rebecca Abernathy is doing PRESS for ALARM. See http://www.overheardpublicity.com/ .
TRACK LISTING FOR DISC I [STUDIO FULL-LENGTH]: 01. ALARM [1:33]; 02. Anthrax [0:51], 03. God Is My Friend [1:39]; 04. War [8:45]; 05. Made in Burma [2:44]; 06. Oh for Fook’s Sake! [6:16]; 07. Van Nuys Blvd. [2:55]; 08. Follow Your Heart [2:28]; 09. Cut to a Commercial [1:59]; 10. Brautigan [5:18]; 11. Drum Machines [4:30]; 12. Kevin Sampselliana Pt. I [8:03]; 13. Kevin Sampselliana Pt. II [9:30]; 14. You [2:13]; 15. Major Fiction [7:13]; 16. Way Too Tight [0:16].
TRACK LISTING FOR DISC II [LIVE PERFORMANCES FULL-LENGTH]: 01. O'GRADY [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 02. Ordinary Concerns [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 03. Shake It, Bump It, Sniff It [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 04. War [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 05. Anthrax [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 06. Los Angeles [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 07. Drum Machines [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 08. Any Questions? [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 09. Only Girls Can Smoke in Here (Pt. I) [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 10. Only Girls Can Smoke in Here (Pt. II) [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 11. Major Fiction [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 12. ALARM [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 13. Archivalism [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 14. Cut to a Commercial [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 15. Francis O'Plague [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 16. Brautigan [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 17. God Is My Friend [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 18. Follow Your Heart [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 19. End of Reality [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 20. You [fidge]
O'GRADY performed at Ash Street on Saturday, January 6, 2007.
O'GRADY is freestyle. Fiction. Experimental.
Novelist experimental.
VIDEOS: O'GRADY PERFORMANCES AT PHASE TWO/ FC2 WRITER'S EDGE (JULY 29, 2006)
As part of the Writer's Edge Innovative Fiction Workshops, here's a reading by the highly respected R. M. Berry (Leonardo's Horse), and music from Mike Daily/O'GRADY. Plus: an open mic from workshop participants. ASH STREET SALOON, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430, 10 pm. --Portland Mercury
VIDEO: Click HERE to Watch Set II of III at Phase Two/ FC2 Writer's Edge on July 29, 2006. We did "Only Girls Can Smoke in Here" and "Major Fiction". Runtime: 10:08.
VIDEOS: O'GRADY FILMED AT DISJECTA ON JULY 20, 2006:
VIDEO: Click HERE to Watch : O'GRADY (Brian Crowl, Mike Daily, jDUB, Francis Plague) do "Archivalism" and "Major Fiction" on 07.20.06 for the Northwest Edge III: The End of Reality Anthology/DVD ( Chiasmus Press ) Publication Party at Disjecta Gallery in Portland, OR. Filmed by RM.CLR . Runtime: 6:32.
VIDEO: Click HERE to watch the second half of our Disjecta performance on YouTube. Runtime: 8:02.
photo: linda kay
ONLY GIRLS CAN SMOKE IN HERE...
Phase One: Words and Music brings together writers and musicians in hopes of birthing some new, beautiful, mutant art.--The Portland Mercury
VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "The Life & Times of Major Fiction" Pt. I from the Phase One: Words and Music show at Towne Lounge on June 18, 2006.
VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "The Life & Times of Major Fiction" Pt. II on 06.18.06.
The band at this show was:
Mike Daily /Fiction
A. L. Hungate /Guitar God
Chutz Ponderosa /Bass
Jason Waugaman/Drums
Influences:
Ronald Sukenick , author of 98.6 and many other works of innovative fiction, interviewed by Robert Carl Cohen. Rocky Mountain Writers series, 1997.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2005
Band Website: mickogrady.blogspot.com
Band Members:

ORDER ALARM from http://cdbaby.com/cd/mikedaily
MIKE DAILY: ALARM

ALARM by Portland author/recording artist Mike Daily is a 212-page lyrical novel (and accompanying double CD) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.

[10.02.07] 2 GYRLZ QUARTERLY , A LITERARY JOURNAL OF SIDEWAYS ARTS AND CULTURE, HAS PUBLISHED A REVIEW OF ALARM AT:

www.2gq.org/2007/10/now-is-the-time.html

Our June 20, 2007, O'GRADY show at Phase One: Words + Music hosted by Garett Strickland is now archived for free viewing/listening at http://somedaylounge.com/virtual_stage/archives/2007/0620.ph p .

Our 20-minute set is about halfway on the file. If you can't watch it as a video, you can hear it. The band that night was: jDUB /Drums; A.L. Hungate/Guitar God; Chutz Ponderosa /Bass; Nora Robertson/"Jocelynn"...

Nora, you were truly awesome. Thank you.

Source it up at http://somedaylounge.com/virtual_stage/archives/2007/0620.ph p .
Good Regards,
M D

BREAKING NEWS: O'GRADY Played As A Drums / Fiction Duo At Ash Street In Portland, Oregon, On July 26th.

Any questions?

"HARLAN PIERCE" [06:05] BY O'GRADY

NEW! Mike Daily presents "Harlan Pierce" with jDUB on July 26, 2007, at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon. Filmed and Produced by Chutz Ponderosa at The Enginehouse . "Harlan Pierce" is a chapter from the novel/double CD set, ALARM.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YxMKIjhvmcw

[OH FOR FOOK'S SAKE!][O'GRADY]

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MAIL ORDER: Mike Daily's new novel / double CD ALARM is IN STOCK NOW at POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS [click HERE ]

Francis O'Plague , jO'DUB , Mike Daily performed as O'GRADY at Ash Street Saloon on Saturday, January 6, 2007. Photos by Ryan Schierling .

Check out pages FIVE and SIX in our Pics . . .

Click "Drum Machines Live" by O'GRADY on the MP3 player. The track was recorded live at Ash Street on July 6, 2006. Mastered by Antreo Pukay at Tell Tale Recording. Watch a live performance video of it HERE on YouTube.

NEW VIDEOS: O'GRADY opened for The Plants and Wooden Wand at Someday Lounge on October 17, 2006. Hosted by Noah Mickens. Filmed by Kurt Eisenlohr.

1) YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to Watch Part I of IV: "A Man and a Woman in Southern California's San Fernando Valley Wrangle with Relationship Concerns in the Immediate Aftermath of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks"
O'GRADY
10.17.06
Runtime: 00:07:59

Mike Daily / Fiction

A. L. Hungate / Electric Guitar

jDUB / Drums

Francis Plague / Bass, Drum Pad, Sampler

HERE is O'GRADY's "Performer" profile on the Someday Lounge homepage.

O'GRADY PLAYED AT THE ASH STREET SALOON ON JULY 6, 2006 : WATCH IT

O'GRADY played a show at Ash Street Saloon on July 6, 2006. We opened for Hello Lobster and Portland hip-hop sweethearts CAC . Here's our set in four video clips . . .

VIDEO: PART I of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Only Girls Can Smoke in Here" in O'GRADY's Videos. O'GRADY: Brian Crowl (Sub-Sic), Mike Daily, jDUB, Francis Plague. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.

VIDEO: PART II of IV: Click HERE to Watch "The Life and Times of Major Fiction", "Alarm" and "Anthrax" in O'GRADY's Videos. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.

VIDEO: PART III of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Los Angeles" in O'GRADY's Videos. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.

VIDEO: PART IV of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Drum Machines" in O'GRADY's Videos. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore. O'Grady: Crowl, Daily, jDUB, Francis Plague.

[O'Grady's Note: My goal with this "lyrical narrative" was to incorporate every title of every book Fiction Collective / FC2 / Black Ice Books has published since its inception in 1974. Collage.]

Fiction Collective Song by Daily, Moscovich & Strahota: "THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION" MP3 [7:11]-- Mike Daily : Words/Vocals; David Noel Moscovich : Keys/Live Digital Sampling; Luke Strahota : Drums/Drum Machine/Talking Shit at the Beginning; Mia: The Diva. Chutz Ponderosa: Engineer. Recorded October 5, 2005.

Lyrics: "it was Jonathan Baumbach , I believe, who said a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always, an act of aggression toward the world at large... high drama in fabulous Toledo the bird is gone: a manifesto mosaic man saw stolen stories mourning Crazy Horse in the middle of nowhere holy smoke ! soul resin the death of the novel and other stories hearsay ! the cares of the day straight razor nature studies the broad back of the angel spectator revelation countdown statements 1 ! statements 2 ! F/32 shootout with father an illuminated history of the future northwest passage between the flags holy smoke ! to whom it may concern girl imagined by chance mermaids for Attila music for a broken piano moving parts the talking room long talking bad conditions blues the Kafka chronicles why I dont write like Franz Kafka Dahlia's iris the end of free love coming close rope dances the Ethiopian exhibition Napoleon's mare Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage: secret histories

babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble

American made comatose kids degenerative prose modern romances heroes and villains everyday psychokillers: a history for girls punk blood 1-2-3-4 I smell Esther Williams damned right ! encores for a dilettante Eve's longing: the infinite possibilities in all things in the box called pleasure Mabel in her twenties my father more or less Valentino's hair Leonardo's horse d-tours aviary slag disability meningitis emergency exit a spell for the fulfillment of desire the collected short fiction of Marianne Hauser chick-lit 1 ! chick-lit 2 ! angry nights in heaven everything is fine close your eyes and think of Dublin: portrait of a girl public works Aunt Rachel's fur remembering to say mouth or face chez Charlotte and Emily 1998.6 double or nothing trouble the water from the district file four roses in three acts Latino heretics transiT ! city in love ! the doggy bag dirtmouth straight outta Compton temporary sanity not a chance trigger dance the last man standing matinee the lost scrapbook crash-landing last fall ! the Aztec love god last fall ! art does (not!) exist! last fall ! false positive sexual blood the fast red road a plainsong the blue guide to Indiana Michael Martone ? the second story man reflex and bone structure searching for survivors

Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya

Griever: an American [monkey] king in China find him! little sisters of the apocalypse memory wax fat people blood of mugwump heretical song[s] the endless short story former virgin when things get back to Normal sex for the millennium S&M forgetfulness liberty's excess life of death dictionary of modern anguish the wilderness common wilderness null set museum elements distorture Agnes & Sally Althea the Winnebago mysteries & other stories

Fiction Collective (FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press...it was Robert Coover , I believe, who said in the babble of American publishing, FC2 is one of the few coherent voices QUOTE! make serious novels and story collections available UNQUOTE! QUOTE! keep them in print permanently UNQUOTE! it was Ronald Sukenick , I believe, who said that . . . seventies / eighties / nineties / two thousands // seventies / eighties / nineties / two thousands // Fiction Collective (FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press..."don't forget Black Ice Books... "

the alphabet man animal acts the noctambulists new noir ! what begins with bird reruns the book of Lazarus real to reel the complete tales of Ketzia Gold Hogg anarcho-Hindu broadway melody of 1999 the blond box gone Avant Pop: fiction for a daydream nation three blondes and death plane geometry and other affairs of the heart relavir a history of the imagination things in place ! twiddledum twaddledum Mexico trilogy wakenight emporium take it or leave it faithful Rebecca the charnel-imp is it sexual harassment yet? the body parts shop Uncle Ovid's exercise book the mind crime of August Saint the hermetic whore in the slipstream: an FC2 reader the beginning of the East fifth season amateur people the wavering knife seven wives five days of bleeding the great taste of straight people moles pity the garden in which I walk 98.6 girl beside him sewing shut my eyes my amputations ! the secret table separate hours my amputations !

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the life and times of Major Fiction " --MD

David Moscovich
Luke the Duke

I SEEM TO SEE SUNLIGHT

ALARM is now available on Apple iTunes!
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ORDER ALARM IN STOCK NOW at ATOMIC BOOKS in Baltimore, MD
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Influences:
Baby daughter born in August 2006.

CAC

Raymond Federman

Kevin Sampsell

Future Tense Books

Portland, Ore.

The bunny and Daily, Seattle, Feb. 2007. Photo by Mum.

ALARM is IN STOCK NOW at READING FRENZY
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8316 N. Lombard PMB 292
Portland, OR 97203

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Record Label: Stovepiper Books Media
Type of Label: Indie

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[06.02.08] ALARM: Powells Staff Picks Video! (1:52)

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Posted by OGRADY on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:54:00 PST

[01.17.08] Ingvar Loco Nordine (Sweden) Presents "ALARM: On 2nd Thought..."

MySpace Comment From: Ingvar Loco NordinDate: Jan 14, 2008 10:25 AMMike, I've written a second text on ALARM, and probably not the last:home.swipnet.se/sonoloco25/daily/daily2.htmlLocogmail.c om Messag...
Posted by OGRADY on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:13:00 PST

[01.13.08] Matt Briggs Reviewed ALARM on Seed Cake (Seattle)!

CLICK TO MATT BRIGGS' REVIEW OF ALARM:http://www.seedcake.com/mattbriggs/archives/000607.htm l O'Grady's Note: On September 20, 2007, at 10:13 AM, I wrote (via MySpace message) to Matt Briggs. Ma...
Posted by OGRADY on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:48:00 PST

[11.01.07] Nicholas M. Zdon Reviewed ALARM on ACMESIREN.COM (Minneapolis)!

The Acme Siren is an online journal dedicated to finding and featuring new, independent and experimental music.The Acme Siren is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It is created and maintained by Nichola...
Posted by OGRADY on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:27:00 PST

[10.23.07] O’GRADY CD x 2 + Novel Review in Vital Weekly (Netherlands)!

Frans de Waard from The Netherlands reviewed ALARM on Vital Weekly! Click to: http://vitalweekly.net/598.htmlMIKE DAILY - ALARM (2CD + novel by Stovepiper Books Media) Of course I am highly flattered ...
Posted by OGRADY on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:34:00 PST

[10.11.07] Tobias Carroll Reviewed ALARM for PAPER THIN WALLS (Brooklyn)!

BREAKING NEWS [10.11.07]: Brooklyn, New York's Paper Thin Walls, A.K.A. The Paper Thin Walls Audiopathic Apothecary Shoppe and Cybershack, is currently running a front-page feature article on ALARM!He...
Posted by OGRADY on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:23:00 PST

[10.04.07] OGRADY in Sweden? Ingvar Loco Nordin Reviewed ALARM!

Click http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco5/daily/alarm.html!  From: Mike DailyTo: Ingvar Loco NordinDate: Sep 26, 2007 9:53 AMDear Ingvar Loco Nordin,Eckhard Gerdes, Editor of Journal of Experimental...
Posted by OGRADY on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:12:00 PST

[10.02.07] 2GQ.ORG REVIEWED ALARM BY MIKE DAILY/O’GRADY...

[10.02.07] 2 GYRLZ QUARTERLY, A LITERARY JOURNAL OF SIDEWAYS ARTS AND CULTURE, HAS PUBLISHED A REVIEW OF ALARM AT: www.2gq.org/2007/10/now-is-the-time.html  www.cdbaby.com/cd/mikedaily http://w...
Posted by OGRADY on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:50:00 PST

[09.22.07] "Reality is always more interesting to me than silly stories."

Photo by Geneva L. FetterO'GRADY's Note: On Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 10:28 AM, I sent greetings from Portland, Oregon, to Geneva L. Fetter of Port Trevorton, PA. I think the L stands for Lynne...
Posted by OGRADY on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:51:00 PST

[08.28.07] OGRADY CD x 2 [ALARM] Review in POETIX: POETRY FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...

POETIX: POETRY FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA recently ran a review of ALARM.The review was written by G. Murray Thomas.G. Murray Thomas has been writing and performing poetry all over Southern California (a...
Posted by OGRADY on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST