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malone & savoca week at htmlgiant

all week last week was malone & savoca week at htmlgiant.com. they posted interviews and reviews of our poetry books (Everything is Quiet, long love poem with descriptive title) that were just released from scrambler books. here is a clickable list:

1) kicking off the week with a short sweet bit about kendra's book Everything is Quiet

2) a conversation with matthew savoca, conducted by adam robinson

3) kenda and matthew answer the same six questions posed by blake butler

4) mike young reviews kendra's Everything is Quiet

5) wrapping up: matthew and kendra interview each other

video from the book release party

book release party in brooklyn

tonight i am taking a bus to nyc. on friday night there is a book release party for kendra and me and our books. it is at pete's candy store in williamsburg at 7 pm. the reading series is called the multifarious array and it is curated by dorothea lasky who seems really great and, of course, wrote black life. here are the details about the reading, with nice little pictures and bios and everything: click for details

i am told that i will get two free drinks and a sandwich. like bonnie prince billy. that's what he gets when he goes there and plays. he's played there twice. i wish i knew what sandwiches he got.

i will have books for sale.

this has been a news update.

vincent gallo loves the color brown

i watched the brown bunny by vincent gallo the other night after not watching it for a really long time because many people told me it was stupid and ultimately pointless, but i finally realized that stupid and ultimately pointless is exactly what i'm into so i watched it and it wasn't at all stupid or ultimately pointless except in the way that absolutely everything at all is.

the faces vincent gallo makes in the first hour of the film while he drives across the country from new england to los angeles are entirely worth watching it.

as far as the famous scene at the end, well it makes plenty of sense if you actually watch the movie, what an idea!

i am such a fan of vincent gallo. i think i probably act 70% like myself and 30% of how i don't act is a repressed version of how 70% of vincent gallo acts in public. i think 30% of how vincent gallo doesn't act is probably 100% of how i do act in real life.

i really like this quote by vincent, even though it is pretty much 100% the opposite of my own personal approach to 'art':

"I told you, I'm an extremist. Even in art, if my work wasn't 50 times more interesting than me and my petty life, it would be useless."

here's another one:

"...But I like the color brown. Oh, and I don't eat dairy. And I sure do like the color brown. And pink. Pink and brown. If I had to choose, pink would lose."

and this:

"I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be."

here is the movie trailer