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Sleepingfish

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About Me


Sleepingfish is a print magazine of experimental short fiction, art and other odditites, now on its fifth (#0.9375 issue). Visit on the web at: www.Sleepingfish.net .

Sleepingfish is published by Calamari Press: www.CalamariPress.com .

There's more to say, but not in these spaces where Rupert Murdoch owns your words.

I also keep a blog, if you can call it that, at: 5cense Reviews .

Chapbook trailer for J'Lyn Chapman's forthcoming Bear Stories. You might recognize some of the pieces from the last Sleepingfish

My Interests

Art: literary, textual, visual, musical, edible, conceptual, or otherwise.

I'd like to meet:

Potential contributors and readers.

Music:

Radiohead, Fela Kuti, U2, Bob Marley, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Rage Against the Machine, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, The Cars, Wall of Voodoo, Violent Femmes, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Jeff Buckley, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Supertramp, Sublime, The Strokes, The Smiths, Sigur Ros, Santana, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Red House Painters, Ramones, R.E.M., Poem Rocket, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Arcade Fire, The Pyschedelic Furs, Muse, Matmos, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Interpol, Jimi Hendrix, Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Gang of Four, Death From Above 1979, The Clash, Blood Brothers, Baaba Maal, Ali Farka Toure, Minor Threat, The Rapture, The Eraser

Movies:

The Wizard of Oz, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Godfather I and II, Fargo, Short Cuts, Deer Hunger, Apocalypse Now!, Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, The Shining, Touch of Evil, Forrest Gump, Donnie Darko, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Exorcist, Barton Fink, Wallace & Gromit, March of the Penguins, Mullholland Drive, Beauty and the Beast (original), King Kong (original)

Television:

Meerkat Manor.

Books:

The Singing Fish by Peter Markus, Land of the Snow Men by George Belden (Norman Lock), Trilce by James Wagner, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola, Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz, Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford, Canto General by Pablo Neruda, Silence by John Cage, Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Cathedral by Raymond Carver, Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung, Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Motorman by David Ohle, Ficciones by Jorge Borges, Popol Vuh, The Emperors New Mind by Roger Penrose, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, Peru by Gordon Lish, Et Tu Bebe by Mark Leyner, Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Garden State by Rick Moody, The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus, Dreams of Robot Dancing Bee by James Tate, On Growth and Form by D'arcy Thompson, Excitability by Diane Williams, White Noise by Don Delillo, Grimms Fairy Tales, The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Blindness by Jose Saramago, Humument by Tom Phillips,

Heroes:

be your own

My Blog

Recently on 5cense...

The Economy of WordsPeregrinating response to Deb Olin Unferth...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:26:00 PST

Submission Call

We are now considering submissions for the next issue. Guidelines here:http://www.sleepingfish.net/submit.htm Please familiarize yourself with what we do before submitting.
Posted by Sleepingfish on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:57:00 PST

On Safari

Off to Africa tomorrow to find writers for the next issue of Sleepingfish. Follow our adventure on 5cense.
Posted by Sleepingfish on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:09:00 PST

Recently on 5cense.com

¢ Odd Images from The Hour Sets by Michael Boyko ¢ U2's Natural Logarhythm : Exponential Decay in the Delay of The Edge's Guitar ¢ Emissions from the Cosmogonic Ether } Cove...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:57:00 PST

Make new friends but keep the old ...

... one is silver (myspace) and the other is gold (facebook). Though calling myspace silver is generous. This is where you can virtually find me more and more these days. http://www.facebook.com/prof...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:30:00 PST

Launch Party in Denver this Saturday...

This saturday 5/26, tomorrow actually, there will be a Sleepingfish 0.9375 Launch/ Reading in Denver at a vintage furniture store called Fancy Tiger. Reading at the event: Joshua Marie Wilki...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:16:00 PST

what's black and white and red all over?

The new issue of Sleepingfish is packed with works of text and art by Irana Douer, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons, Minju Pak, Girija Tropp, Deb Olin Unferth, Amira Hanafi, Annie Clarkson, Salvatore Dif...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:58:00 PST

5¢ interview with Noy Holland

http://5cense.com/Noy_Holland.htm
Posted by Sleepingfish on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

999th friend gets a free copy

at 990 friends now, if you are the 999th I'll send you a free copy of the latest issue 0.875
Posted by Sleepingfish on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:19:00 PST

Review of Danielle Dutton's Attempt at a Life

Ok, so I got kind of self-absorbed and it ended up being more of a review of my living predicament, but still, the book really is something. http://www.5cense.com/Dutton_Attempt.htm...
Posted by Sleepingfish on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST