Tuesday, April 21, 2015

i was gonna write something else






















i found this place by my house that lets you rent computers for a dollar twenty-five an hour
Their shit is way faster than the public library computers (although dang I haven't seen a "Gateway" logo in a million.

I was gonna work on my photo website and write a thing today, but just after I logged in to everything my friend g-chatted me up; apparently her fiance just beat the hell out of her and now the wedding is off and i oughtta get going because we're supposed to meet up and have drinks pretty soon now, get drunk and talk about all that and hopefully some more pleasant stuff?

anyway here's all of the pictures that I have on my phone right now + a list that I copied and pasted from my email: ALL OF THE BOOKS I"VE READ SO FAR 2015.
just posting it all so i don't feel like i wasted my quarters.

The Voyeur - Alain Robbe-Grillet (trans. Richard Howard)
Death Tourism: Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape - Brigitte Sion (edited)
Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies - Blaise Cendrars
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning - Maggie Nelson
McGlue - Ottessa Moshfegh
Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children - Michael Newton*
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Houston Rap - Johan Kugelberg (edited)
Signs Preceding the End of the World - Yuri Herrera
Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia - Steve Finbow
The Man in the Holoscene - Max Frisch
Inner Tube - Hob Broun
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent - Douglas Coupland
Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism - Catalin Avramescu (trans. Alistair Ian Blyth)
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Satin Island - Tom McCarthy










*reread 

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

PUBLIC WORKSHEET



- A story about a timid young boy out of high school who, due to stacking circumstances accidentally dresses too feminine when interviewing for an internship at the local paper and is mistaken for a woman.

- A memoir by a Cyclops whose wife is lost due to a freak accident that occurs on a sightseeing trip in New Zealand. The Cyclops, who has mated for life and is physically charged with blinking in tandem with his spouse (it takes two eyes to blink, get it?), is now slowly going blind due to this handicap. A churlish misanthrope, he shakily accepts the death of his known world.


- A series of paintings vaguely detailing a silent war between mail carriers and cops. The cops are depicted as pigs and the mail carriers have long hair and wear capes.

- A fake diary chronicling a young man's subconscious attraction to his younger sister's pubescent awakening.

- Collect enough fake movie ideas from my twitter (@rentkontroll) to make three small zines, release them separately in small print runs, then eventually combine them in a larger run, adding a forward about ergodic literature to make the whole compendium seem like a way smarter thing than it is.

- Build a cardboard replica of a metroPCS storefront, paint it properly, tag it with graffiti, then find a home for it outside. Photograph it.

- A short zine about the housing project I live in + Disneyland. This concept is based off of a "poem" I wrote in 2006 that compared federal value of the labor it takes to clean a messy public restroom vs the cost of a 20oz plastic bottle of Coca-Cola from a vending machine at a movie theater.


- Dress a ham in baby clothes and put it in a crib. Photograph it.

JUST KIDDING I'LL NEVER GET AROUND TO THIS STUFF