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El cielo estaba oscuro y pesaba la atmosfera. Llovía, and the man looked up, feeling sad as he saw el cielo, triste y hambriente con recuerdos de vidas pasadas, las vidas que persigen a uno con pesos y sufrimientos, como castigos por haberlas abandonadas. Una niña que antes era feliz, ahora esta jukía a drogas y es controlada por una mierda de hombre que la usa porque ella le consgiue chavos para su vicío, y ella no quiere estar sola. What the fuck, thought the man. He had to work; he had to get to the other side of town on his bike. The bike, a small thing, was triste como el cielo, como la lluvia que caía on him. He got on his bike and pedalled; he pedalled harder and harder to get to where he needed to be as soon as possible: a la obligacíon donde híba en la lluvia and he got wet and his clothes tragaban mas y mas lluvia, and he weighed more, como el cielo. He came up to oncoming cars and they weren't stopping; they didn't see him; they didn’t care; and the man pedalled harder and the bikechain of the sad thing he had bought off a crackhead on Main St. for twenty dollars close to sunrise (the crackhead, hungry for his fix wanted thirty dollars but accepted twenty and went on his way) broke and the man could not break, and he screamed at the cars, "I have no breaks! I have no breaks!" swerving himself into a close-by parking lot. And in the parking, solitario, mojado por la lluvía todavía cayendo, en torrientes ahora, como si decir que ya que estas en el piso te vamos a dar mas duro, vamos a escupirte la cara, vamos a mearte encima pa que sepas que es desgracía, que es pena, que es sufrimiento, he rode the bike in circles for five-minutes as it slowed down enough so that he could get off and flip it over, en la lluvia, and fix it, en la lluvia, to get on his way to work, still en la lluvia, and start the routine, el aburriento, las mierdas de todos los días, las cosas que uno aguanta para decir que es feliz, como si nadie te pudiera dar algo que te podriera bastar el hambre que tienes, again. No puedes dormir. No puedes comer.


Sam Pink interviewed the Riverbed on HTMLGiant. Check that out HERE.

***UPDATE***

Afternoon Drinking is Okay, the Andy Riverbed ebook has been published at EveryDayYeah. Check that out HERE.

***UPDATE NUMERO DOS***

Afternoon Drinking is Okay, was linked at the Jargon blog and haters are hating. Check that out HERE.

***UPDATE NUMERO TRES***

Damaged on sale in Puerto Rico


Pictures of Juni's PIRATESCO event are available to check out HERE. Also pictures of dirty spic punk rockers having fun.

***UPDATE NUMERO CUATRO***

More PIRATESCO pics HERE. And more HERE.

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.



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

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

ANDY RIVERBED SAYS, ONE MUST PRAISE THE HOMEBOYS

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: