Matrimony in San Francisco pt 2

Matrimony in San Francisco

Here's another little poem-film to get you ready for Scary, No Scary.

You Must Choose Between Floating Eternally in a Buoyant Cage of Hummingbird Bones Down a River of Lava or a River of Blood from Zachary Schomburg on Vimeo.

What I've been listening to: 

The Antlers Hospice

The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe

Apples in Stereo Science Faire

Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle

Built to Spill Perfect from Now On

Cactus Cooler The Farmboy EP

Cass McCombs Not the Way

Dirty Projectors Rise Above

Galaxie 500 Today

Son, Ambulance Euphemystic

Sunn O))) The Black One

I've been watching hysteria films for 3 weeks straight now for my film class. I'm a little paranoid. I'm surrounded by coffee shop patrons at the moment and I find myself looking for signs of soul-lessness. I'm convinced one guy is a communist zombie. I'm pretty sure he just called the barista his comrade. I'm going to call the president.

EKF and I have a collaborative poem in Volume 2 of the poetry journal, Matchbook, published by Small Fires Press. It's hot. 

In honor of Independence Day, I am taking over Inknode for a fortnight starting this weekend. I am the new government (guest-editor) and I am calling all the shots. I've lined up five poets. So check in when you can. And be careful, I'm going to take over your online magazine next, so protect your passwords. 

Upon walking to the Bill Callahan show.

If you're going to be in Seattle anytime soon, and if you love the same kind of stuff I love, you should visit this new bookstore owned by Summer Robinson called Pilot Books. Small press and poetry books. I'll be reading there this fall. And if you watch this video you can see some Octopus Books (Eric's and Julie's) on the display wall.

O Portland Bike Fest

(last photo courtesy of EKF)

Pre-Order is the New Order

Scary, No Scary (hardcover limited edition)

I'm teaching a summer film class at Portland State called Cold War Hysteria Films that I designed after a class I took at once from Dr. Gwen Foster at the University of Nebraska. Here is the list of films we're going to watch: 

The Red Menace (1949)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Whip Hand (1952)

My Son, John (1952)

War of the Worlds (1953)

I Led Three Lives (1953-56, TV Series)

Them! (1954)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

A Day Called X (1957)

No Down Payment (1957)

Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)

North by Northwest (1959)

Red Nightmare (1962)

Panic in Year Zero (1962)

Last Man on Earth (1964)

Fail-Safe (1964)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Any suggestions?

 

Have you been following PressPressPress? There are some pretty good summer chapbook sales going on at Cannibal Books and Greying Ghost. 

I have some translations of Andrei Sen-Senkov's poems over in the new Harp & Altar.