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Saturday, April 11, 2009

How to See the Light

Kid in Crowd - What can you say about the revolutionary struggle in America today? For Americans, what do you as French men not a part of America's culture see that we can do to further the revolution?

Godard - I can only answer to very specific question. You have been asked to go free Bobby Seal. So free Bobby Seal.

KiC - There's always the question of modality. How do you free Bobby Seal? The army is trying to keep him.

Godard - That is your problem. You have been told this afternoon about it. That's your problem: you are student here. I don't know if you have to pay to live here or if you are here through scholarship. But you have to examine what is your own situation, and then to learn from it. Do you want to change it? Do you think it's marvelous? Do you enjoy the light? So don't change it and support Nixon. If you think you don't enjoy it enough, so free Bobby Seal.


(The Believer - The 2009 Film Issue)


New Riverbed poem, "How a tree attacked me" and somewhat recent piece of flashfiction has been published at the Brandi Wells Review. Check that out HERE.

Three Riverbed flashfictions were published in the new issue of LitChaos. Check out, "Vertun," "Tom and Michael," and "The Man Alone in his Auroras," HERE.

A new review of Damaged, the debut Riverbed collection, by Michael Fisher is available to read HERE.

Damaged is now available to purchase at the Wayward Council. It will also be available in Puerto Rico next week.

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Let's let Juni do the talking:

Comienza oficialmente el 17 de abril. El evento se titula CIRCA LABS. Nuestro proyecto se titula PIRATESCOS. Este sera en el parking de Plaza las Americas, frente al Banco Popular y First Bank.

Nuestro contenedor mide 30 pies de largo y 7 pies de alto. La idea es crear una tienda D.I.Y. frente al mall mas grande del Caribe. Vamos a ser un barco de piratas (el contenedor va tener su propia bandera homemade) y estaremos frente a Plaza con nuestra propia tienda.

Estaremos vendiendo CDs de musica, mix-tapes, camisas de ediciones limitadas, pines, parchos, zines, entre otras cosas.

El 18 estara tocando en vivo Carie y Diente Perro de 4 a 7 PM.

Saludos,

Juni


It officially starts the 17th of April. The event’s called CIRCA LABS. Our project is called PIRATESCOS. It’ll happen inside the Plaza las Americas parking lot, in front of Banco Popular and First Bank.

Our booth measures 30 ft. of length and 7 ft. of height. The idea is to create a D.I.Y. store in front of the biggest mall of the Caribbean. We’ll be a pirate boat (the booth will have its own homemade flag) in front of Plaza with our own store.

We’ll be selling CDs, mix-tapes, limited edition shirts, pins, patches, zines, and more.

The 18th, Carie and Diente Pierro will be playing between 4 and 7 PM.

Take care,

Juni


(Letter translated from Spanish by Andy Riverbed)



Deltones Recordings exists and is tremendous. They are about to pick up distribution by some company that does K Records, and SubPop, and more.

Circus Circus has a show tonight at Matty D.'s house. Who's is Circus Circus?

They will be playing with the Platitudes, Baby Teeth, Cave Rave, and more.

The Riverbed has an ebook coming up on EveryDayYeah soon. Read a preview HERE. Check out what J.D. Nelson had to say about it:

Wow, just finished “Afternoon Drinking is Okay” in one gulp. Very
cool. It's easy to read—not that it's simple—it just
flows. It's not simple at all—very complex, actually, with many
layers and streams branching out only to reconnect with the main
river. I like the style—very stream-of-consciousness, remembering
memories, but also very tight—excellent visuals—orange night, the
shroom trip. All the darkness in the beauty of P.R. and how
Riverbed, the poet, finds the beauty in the darkness—this is what
struck me after reading Damaged, as well. Very cool read—like I
said, had me from the beginning—I could have read more. For me,
the mark of a great story or movie is that I don't want it to end—
such was the case here.


- J.D. Nelson

Friday, January 16, 2009

How to Save your Country

Disobey.

tile to resist


Robert Downy Jr. made an appearance in claymation media-form.



Circus Circus played the Wayward with their drummer Rilly, Moral Sects, The Genuine Imitations, and The Riverwinds.

Circus Circus



Moral Sects


The Genuine Imitations


The Riverwinds



New Translations!


me sorprendo a mi mismo sentado en mi cuarto


tarde en la noche me siento en mi cama solo
typiando oraciones en gmail chat
me sonrío en lo que me veo las piernas o algo así
limpío mi piso con papel de culo mojado
me gusta vivir en un entorno limpío
a veces pienso en los demas
y pienso que el enfoque principal de mi vida podría ser otra cosa
pero luego no se me occuren otras cosas

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed & Alfredo "Cofre" Perezjurado

i sit in my room feeling really amused at myself


late at night i sit alone on my bed
typing sentences into gmail chat
i grin while looking at my legs or something
i clean my floor with wet toilet paper
i like to live in a clean environment
sometimes i think about people
and i think that my main focus in life might be on something else
but then i can't really think of other things

- Tao Lin


big macs

abro la kombucha está
y me supó a big mac
nunca me había occurido una jodienda así
pense en como me sentía
pienso que me sentía como mierda

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed & Alfredo "Cofre" Perezjurado

big macs

i opened my kombucha
it tasted like big macs
that hasn't happened before
i thought about how i felt
i think i felt really bad

- Tao Lin



sin rumbo

caminé debajo lluvia
en ruta a la biblioteca.

imaginé que el aire era agua y la lluvia era bulbujas
y estaba en algún lugar debajo del oceano atlantíco

y los carros eran almejas flotantes
y la gente eran calamares pequeños.

me reí de una persona corriendo una bici:

un calamar en una bici.
alguien debería hacer eso en un comíc.

y luego pensé en ella.
lo mas probable que se siente insegura,
o a lo mejor no entiende porque me río.
uno no ve cosas así todo los días.

¿como le podría explicar mis procesos mentales
y como podría saber que estaba pensando ella?

a lo mejor debería hacerme el loco o que estoy endrogao o algo así.
es divertido hacerme de cosas así.

cuando tenía catorce años,
mi amiga se hizo la muerta,
acostada con sus brazos inánimadas en el aire
en una carreta roja.
yo la empujaba por las calles del suburbío
actuando como si estuviese abiertamente matando gente
y transportandolos por el día.

no me importaba si la gente aprobaban de mi comportamiento destructivo.

es difícil explicar porque eso me daba gracía,
especialmente ahora,
cuando los edifcíos que paso son arrecifes de coral gigantes.

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed


aimless

i walked through the rain
on my way to the library.

i imagined the air was water and the rain was bubbles
and i was somewhere under the atlantic ocean

and the cars were floating clams
and the people were small squids.

i laughed out loud at a lady riding a bicycle:

a squid on a bicycle.
someone should make that into a comic.

and then i thought about her.
she probably feels insecure,
or maybe she doesn't understand why i'm laughing.
it's not everyday that you see these things.

how could i explain my thought process to her,
and how could i possibly know what she was thinking?

maybe i should pretend i'm crazy and on drugs or something.
it's fun to pretend like that.

when i was fourteen,
my friend pretended she was dead,
lying down
with her arms lifeless in the air,
in a red wagon
while i pushed her through suburban streets
acting like i was openly murdering people
and moving them around in the daylight.

i didn't care if people would approve of my unusually destructive behavior.

it is hard to explain why that was funny to me,
and especially now,
when the buildings i walk by are giant coral reefs.

- Rilly Fink


*Important News*

By the way, Andy Riverbed will be reading at Wayward's Open Mic this upcoming Sunday the 18th. Anybody else in the area of Gainesville that wants to fuck shit up at the open mic, feel free to show up.

And the Wayward is still looking for art donations to sell and benefit the store in the University of Florida's Art Walk which will occur January 30th. Don't think about it, just do it!

art fundraiser flyer

For details, email andy.riverbed (at) yahoo.com

The Mystery Books

Rilly of the Mystery Books was interviewed by Jason Jordan at What to Wear During an Orange Alert. Check that out HERE.


Other than that, buy my book, or something.

Friday, January 9, 2009

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

How to Gain Respect

Before Obama ever was President-elect, he was just a simple teacher in an inner-city school. The day he first got hired, after spending eighty dollars on detox drinks and self-piss-tests to make sure he’d pass the screening, he scoped out the scene. He tried to be incognito, but it didn’t work; the pearl necklace he wore that day called him out; he was a separate class than the students. The students saw Obama walk above their heads. But despite this setback, of not being able to blend in, Obama did not allow himself to miss an opportunity. “We need change,” he told himself that day, floating above the crowd. He took mental pictures of the students, and went home to make a plan. The next morning, Obama arrived, dropped off by a two-story limo that had illegally tinted windows. The door of it was opened, and Obama back-flipped out, landing with a bounce he set up with his knees. He turned around and opened his lips the way Mick Jagger does when he’s done too much coke (the way Obama thinks it’s permanently stuck because of too much of it), and gave full-view to his new platinum grills. The students, children of ethnic groups—poor, poor, poor—could finally see him for what he was: one of them. Obama had their respect. He swaggered down the halls, through metal detectors (letting them ring annoying songs, but allowed to continue because he was faculty), through gang beat-downs, through aggressive and sexual stares. Obama stood in front of the board and wrote, “OBAMA!” and turned around, bent at his knees and leaned back. He said, “I fucking listen to hip-hop! I’m fucking street! My life’s laughable but I’m fucking doing what I want! I’m fucking the shit! I’m a piece of shit! When you’ve been through what I’ve been through, when you’ve been fucked by life though all the consequences are your own breeding, and you’re still being a piece of shit, then I’ll respect you.”

*DISCLAIMER*

Andy Riverbed does not support the formation of suburban ska-punk bands. When questioned as to why he would represent himself with such crap on his blog, he answered, “It exists. It must be documented. Shitty-suburban-ska-punk-bands are an anthropological enigma that must be looked into to prevent in the future. Ska-punk sucks!”

Circus Circus played their second show without, Rilly, their drummer on December 13 along with LARF, TBH, Amish Electric Chair, and the Roaring Twenties. Props to AEC, the RTs, Greg, Matt, Spence, Brian, Brett (for showing up), and anyone else that my mind might have slipped, for representing and staying to watch Circus Circus. Fuck little kids that got to be home by 12 AM.

Circus Circus


The Roaring Twenties


Amish Electric Chair


LARF


TBH



ART BENEFIT

The Wayward Council will be participating in the University of Florida’s January ’09 Art Walk. Last year’s at the Wayward was a success; artists from all over the country donated pieces. If interested in donating art to be sold at a gallery-type-thingy at Wayward, followed by a band show, feel free.

Check out the flyer here.

If you need details such as a contact address, send an email to andy.riverbed@yahoo.com


Zachary C. Bush is getting shit done.

Zachary C. Bush, a good poet-friend of mine, has a collection of his available through Lulu press. You can check that out here. He is a great poet who really likes to push shit. He also has two other books coming out next year from some pretty cool publishers.

They are:
1) AT SWAN DECAPITATION (Vox Press: Spring/Fall ’09)
--concrete/graphic/language-experimental poetry
2) ANGLES OF DISORER (BlazeVOX books: Summer ’09)
--surrealist/fabulist/futurist odd blend of prose poetry

ZCB also founded a new lit journal named KORA, check it out here.


Not everyone hates Andy Riverbed.

People are appreciating the social work that the Riverbed partakes in. Check the praise here.

There's also another interview with the Riverbed at What to Wear During an Orange Alert? Check that out here.

Don't forget you can pre-order the debut Andy Riverbed collection throughout the month of December here.


New Translations

Knowing his Country had a Weak Legal System

Some half-wit
Asian
dude tried to save face
once
so he murdered
his girlfriend
cause she accepted
his
ding-a-ling
wouldn't work right.

- Ra Gabriel

Sabiendo que su país tenia una mierda de sistema legal

Un asiático
medio
moron trato de dar cara
una vez
asique mató
su novía
porque ella aceptó
que su
bichito
no funcionaba.

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed


Easier Than Betty Crocker's Chocolate Cake

my fingers smell like pussy (mine)
my husband is in bed (snoring)
life has become a painting by an
auto mechanic who inherited his mama's trailer
and can't keep a woman
cause he listens to Mahler instead of George Strait
and he'd rather eat garlic mashed potatoes than pussy

the painting is of a duck
the duck looks puzzled
and out of place
in the IHOP parking lot

- Misti Rainwater

Mas facíl que un bizcocho de chocolate Betty Crocker

mis dedos huelen a chocha (la mía)
mi esposo esta en la cama (roncando)
la vida se ha vuelto una pintura por un
mecaníco quien heredó el tráiler de su maí
y no puede quedarse con una mujer
porque escucha a Mahler envede de a George Strait
y prefiere comer papas majadas con ajo envede de chocha

la obra es de un pato
el pato se ve confundido
y fuera de lugar
en el estacionamineto de IHOP

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed

Friday, December 5, 2008

How to Find the Truth

That's something you need to do alone.

There's a new band out around town called Circus Circus.

Check them out.

They're playing the Wayward Council the 16th of December.


Damaged, the debut Andy Riverbed collection is available to pre-order for just seven dollars. Check that shit out here!

Don't know if you want to drop billetes on this piece? Check out fabulous reviews here and here.

You can read some blurbs here.

Andy Riverbed will be reading at the Wayward Council the 17th of December.

*UPDATE*

Andy Riverbed will NOT be reading at the Wayward the 17th, but everyone who can go should still go, because some awesome bands will play, including, Scum of the Earth and la Cara Oculta (del rock n rol). Andy Riverbed will be in Puerto Rico from the 17th till the the 2nd of January. Hit him up if you wanna and are on the island at andy.riverbed@yahoo.com

Monday, October 20, 2008

CIRCUS CIRCUS

Gainesville's newest punk rock band, Circus Circus, will be playing the Wayward Council Thursday night. The set will include the hit single in New York, "Masturbating in Public." Be ready.