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Janaka

trapped inside a night but I'm a day

About Me

I like my whiskey neat and my music dirty.
How I work: www.blackocean.org
How I play: www.blackcatburlesque.com
The word is that I also bury people. That I am an undertaker. That's just
a word--you know:
a corpse.

My Interests

zombies, rock n' roll, death rituals, silence, aesthetics, saints and martyrs, poetic terrorism

I'd like to meet:

Someone with wings, horns, tails, fins, claws, reversed feet, head, hands. Anyone with additional arms, legs, eyes, breasts, genitals, ears, nose, lips, head. Anyone without a face. Pinheads, dwarfs, giants, Satyrs. A woman with one breast (center); a woman with breasts so large as to require Daliesque supports; women whose faces are covered with hair or large skin lesions and willing to pose in evening gowns. Men with two or more penises. Men with enormous penises. Active and retired sideshow performers, contortionists (erotic), anyone with a parasitic twin, people who live as comic book heroes. Boot, corset and bondage fetishists, a beautiful woman with functional appendages in place of arms, anorexics (preferably bald), the romantic and criminally insane (nude only). All manner of extreme visual perversions, A young blonde girl with two faces. Hermaphrodites and taratoids (alive and dead). Beings from other planets. Anyone bearing the wounds of Christ. Anyone claiming to be God. God.

Music:

hard psych, heavy psych, wyld psych, prog, peace punk, 60s punk, glam punk, gypsy flamenco, garage, stoner metal, doom metal, black metal, electro, hip-hop, "noise", opera

Movies:

Bladerunner, Santa Sangre, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Ruling Class, zombies, spaghetti westerns, insane kung fu, silent films

Books:

Still Life With Woodpecker, The Little Prince, Elle, Jesus' Son, The Crying of Lot 49, Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, The Singing Knives, T.A.Z., Corpse and Beans: The Naomi Poems, The Great Fires, The Lice, My Loose Thread, Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett

My Blog

Rare opportunities this week!

I will be reading from my own work on two separate occasions this coming week. However, the *real* reason you should come to one/both of these readings is because I will also be reading with two of ou...
Posted by Janaka on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:26:00 PST

Holy Land: now available from Black Ocean

Buy from our website and get FREE SHIPPING Also available from Amazon  and Small Press Distribution      Holy Land by Rauan Klassnik Paperback / 86p. / Poetry / $12.95 ISBN 97...
Posted by Janaka on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:30:00 PST

April 19th: J. Cannibal’s Feast of Flesh VI!

Real-life undertaker and long time zombie fanatic J. Cannibaldubbed the King of Horror Burlesquepresents a gruesome banquet of midnight mayhem! Free gory goodie bags will be handed out to all, and ...
Posted by Janaka on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:04:00 PST

Pre-Order "Holy Land" Now!

Buy from our website and get FREE SHIPPING Also available from Amazon and Small Press Distribution     Holy Land by Rauan Klassnik Paperback / 86p. / Poetry / $12.95 ISBN 978-0-9777709-...
Posted by Janaka on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:32:00 PST

NYC Bookfair on February 2nd

Hey NYC Friends,   For those of you that don't know, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) is having their annual conference in NYC this week: from January 30th to February 2nd. A...
Posted by Janaka on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:16:00 PST

12/20 - Ghouls in the Garage!

Click here for the event page GHOULS IN THE GARAGE crashes TT's in Central Square on the Third Thursday of every month, digging up an orgy of mind-blowing tracks from rock's rawest cemetery! DJs Ma...
Posted by Janaka on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:56:00 PST

Sept 29th: Feast of Flesh V

  Black Ocean PresentsJ. CANNIBAL'S FEAST OF FLESHfeaturing the legendary classic EVIL DEADplus special guests BLACK CAT BURLESQUEwith live music by BAD ASHSaturday September 29 / Midnight / $10...
Posted by Janaka on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:15:00 PST

9/23: DRINK 4 FREE (and see me read)

Do you like free pizza and beer? Door prizes? Poets and fictioneers reading mad-libs? Then join us this Sunday, September 23rd, for "Keggers and Cliffs Notes," a back-to-school-themed reading hosted b...
Posted by Janaka on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:14:00 PST

Boston Zine Fair 2007

The Boston Zine Fair is a weekend-long event with the aim of bringing together zinesters, artists, small presses and other producers of independent media. The conference includes two full days of tab...
Posted by Janaka on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:48:00 PST

Sept 22: Feast of Flesh, Take Two

Black Ocean presentsJ. CANNIBAL'S FEAST OF FLESH featuring creepy cult classic SHOCK WAVES (aka Nazi Zombies aka Almost Human)plus a THRILLER DANCE PARTY!!! with live music by HUMANWINE Friday Sept.22...
Posted by Janaka on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:15:00 PST