I found a video with a close friend, Alfredo, aka, Cofre, and another whom I was recently introduced in my latest visit to Puerto Rico, Hermes. There's also a video of Hermes reading one of his classics, Chicky Star es mi lider espiritual.
I think you need to be Puerto Rican to get this. Chicky Star is a Puerto Rican wrestler, if that helps context in anyway.
Hermes is some hot shit. Their stuff is a much different style than mine. More like slam poetry. Hopefully someone who reads this knows Spanish and can actually understand what they're saying, because what they're saying, I feel, is important.
Check 'em out:
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“Eeeee Eee Eeee Reeeeevieeeweeeed”
by Michael Jahng
Somebody is never going to adapt the novel Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin into a movie and nobody ever should. Somebody explain how this overrated monotone voiced Asian got so famous? How did this happen? Just because someone self-promotes themselves into a literary star by name does not automatically make them a genius with a book contract and legions of internet fans.
His prose is juvenile even to juvenile standards. “See Dick run. Run, dick, run” has more literary panache, brilliance and heartfelt emotion in one sentence than all of Tao Lin’s entire writing archive put together.
I am not saying this to be mean. It is an honest observation of facts. Another wonder is how he got a superstar in the hipster world, the waifish Miranda July to give him a glowing blurb for his books. Did he hold her captive after daterape-drugging her and forcing her to talk into his tape recorder like in that movie about that guy who ate those guys? Is the gender role reversal a mark of brilliance on Tao Lin’s part? I am not jealous. This is a serious critique. Would Miranda July look hotter with breast implants made of organic soy protein and could they put in an IV bag inside to save materials, since she is open to innovative experimentation?
Why hasn’t Elijah Wood sued yet? Surely he does not appreciate being the semifictional subject to a mess of words glued together by Taco Bell and Kinko’s paper and Officemax staples.
The anooyingly precious “I’m so cute in my selfish emo dribble, wink wink, I am existential” Tao Lin fails to evoke even a genuine emotion in any part of the novel, and even a strung-together hack filmmaker like Georgia Lee cannot save this mess of a novel in any form of screenplay as it fails so utterly as a book. The only saving quality is that Tao Lin’s use of talking animals and the blandness of his style to disguise the lack of literary skill and talent and things of substance to write about is no doubt misinterpreted as intentional on his part, thus making him a genius in their eyes.
Even the title of the novel is pretentious and failing at trying to be cute. Yes, trying counts even as failing when it’s done at this level. I would quote excerpts of exceptionally bad sentences to let you see for yourself how exceptionally bad the sentences are which the reader will find all throughout the book but I don’t have the patience to type exceptionally bad sentences – at least when they are this bad. Maybe if Tao Lin would be kind enough to provide a digital copy of his original Microsoft Word .doc file to his reviewers it would result in better reviews and in excerpts as they can just copy and paste the selections. Please take this hint.
I do not dislike the author as a person. In fact, I also am a vegan and Asian. But wow, Tao Lin. I bought your book because even I was swept up in the hype you created for yourself in the literary scene. You owe me time from my life back, Tao Lin. You owe me $14.95 plus tax, Tao Lin. You owe me a free book you promised for my writing this, Tao Lin. You owe another free book because the book I paid for that you wrote has so robbed me of time and money and life, Tao Lin.
PS: Tao Lin told me to do this. Sorry. Intern #21
Northsiiiide. Represent yall.
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Michael Jahng
the asian norman cook
Yes!! I am acknowledged as existing!!!!
I am the asian normon cookings.
I will dominate the chefs everywhere. Do you hear me, Shawn Denellen? Emeril, I will kick your ass with spatula! I will become understudy of Wolf Gangfuck.
Thank you for your comment, Mr. Men.
btw: who is normon cook? what does he cook? I am vegan when I eat Jim Bean-soaked cereal. So soggy, so good.
though i appreciate comments on my blog, i think it'd be cool if they were about this actual blog.
i would like to visit puerto rico and speak spanish and pick up chicas although i am a straight female
thank you for the birthday comment, as well
I would like a toothbrush with razorblades instead of bristles to shove through my ears and scrape out my brain cavity...
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