Showing posts with label Sam Pink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Pink. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

How to Catch the Fishes of the Sea

***UPDATE***

After being accessed by David Leavitt on the legalities of publishing translations of deceased authors without permission, and out of fear of legal retributions, I have decided to temporarily (hopefully) delete all translations of José María Lima's work on the Instruction Manual until I have official permission to do so.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

- AR 4/26/10


José María Lima was a poet, mathematics professor, and painter born in Ceiba (1934-2009), a place he speaks of as, “What impacted me the most was that my ancestors owned the lands of Roosevelt Roads and those lands were taken away from me." He was raised in an evangelical family but considered himself an atheist.

The journal, Universidad, edited by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published María Lima’s first poems in 1954. Ramón Jiménez wrote as the heading of María Lima’s first poetry collection, “José María Lima, you are a true poet and I am pleasured to have come to this realization for myself.”


José María Lima, poeta, profesor de matemáticas y pintór, nació en Ceiba (1934-2009), lugar sobre el cual comenta: “Lo que más me marcó es que mis antepasados eran dueños de los terrenos de Roosevelt Roads, y me los quitaron.” Crece en el núcleo de una familia evangélica, pero se considera ateo.

En el 1954, publica sus primeros poemas en la revista Universidad, a cargo de Juan Ramón Jiménez, quien le escribe las líneas que luego fungen como epígrafe al poemario: “José María Lima, es usted un verdadero poeta, y me alegro de haberlo sabido por mí mismo.”



Joseph Moore

CircoCirco’s drummer got a poem published. He is a man of many names, so to avoid confusion, you decide who he is. Check out his poem at Muumuu House HERE.


Damaged Review

New review of the Andy Riverbed poetry collection by J.A. Tyler published on Mudluscious. Check that out HERE.


La Cara Oculta

New Cara Oculta tape, Dee Dee Ramone, is out. Contact them HERE for details.

Check out “Señor Eaglebauer”



Amoricide

New blog documenting the interaction between Rey Andújar and Andy Riverbed as they little by little get Andújar’s latest story collection published in the Riverbed’s English translation. Check out that site, Amoricide, HERE.


Radiation Newsletter Issue #2

Coming Soon!

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Copies of Issue #1 still available featuring coverage on Wall-Attacks 1 through 2, an interview with the Culprits, 1-800-RAMONES, How to Wheat Paste, and French Poets attacking the walls back in the day.

Check it out HERE.


New Translations!


Siete versions de la misma cosa

1

Ayer en el autobus estuve sentado al lado de un viejo. Nuestras piernas se tocaban. Por millas nos mantuvimos quietos sin hablar. En una parada, una muchacha nos pasó por el lado. El viejo la observo y me hizo gestos para que yo la mirara también.
“¿Diablo, que jevota, ah?” dijo y me viró la cara y me sonrió vivazmente.
Traté de pensar en algo que decirle.
“Sí,” le dije. “Me encantaría mordele las cejas y pegármelas sobre los labíos. Siempre he querido un bigote.”
El viejo se reacomodó en su asiento y nos mantuvimos con las mirada hacia delante por lo que nos quedaba del camino.

2


La muchacha pasó y el viejo me dió un codazo, invitándome a mirarla.
“¿Y eso, nene? ¿Qué piensas?” dijo.
Le sonreí y le asentí con la cabeza. Después le dije en alta voz, “Sí, estoy de acuerdo contigo y con lo que estás sugiriendo. Quisiera tener sexo con esa muchacha. No sé quién es pero creo que los dos podemos acordar que deberíamos pensar en su cuerpo y en chingarla. Estoy bien bellaco. ¿Y usted, está bellaco? Vamos a juntarnos y pensar en qué le haríamos.”

3

La muchacha nos pasó por el lado y el hombre se aguantó la cabeza con las manos. Su cabeza rebotaba de su falda con cada curva posterior que tomó el autobus durante el viaje.

4

La muchacha nos pasó por el lado. En lo que que ella nos pasaba, temporeramente me bloqueó la vista de la ventana y ya no podia ver el campo que había afuera. Me molesté porque recordé que estaba en un autobus rumbo a algún lugar y ese lugar probablemente requeriría algo de mí que yo podría saber o no saber qué hacer con ese algo, y quien estuviera ahi, aunque solo fuera yo mismo, me juzagaría capaz o incapaz.

5

La muchacha me pasa y se desmonta del autobus y baja por la carretera y nunca la veo de nuevo. Ella nunca pensará en mi en lo que camina millones de caminos en los cuales nunca coincidimos.

6


Estoy casi dormido cuando el autobus hace una curva y la luz del sol se dispara por la ventana. El hombre sentado al lado mio se vuelve rígido. Apunta con el dedo a la luz de forma cúbica sobre mi camiseta.
“¡Mierda! ¡Que jodienda! ¡Quítatelo! ¡Rápido!” me grita y se inclina hacia atrás apuntando. La luz sobre mi camiseta crece. “¡Quítatelo! ¡Está encima de ti! ¡Que hostia!”
Retrocedo para evitar la luz del sol. Pierdo vista de él porque la luz del sol cúbico me cubre la cara.
“¡Te tiene cubierto! ¡Muévete, por favor!”
Sus gritos se vuelven más como quejas patéticas y sus quejas se vuelven mojadas entre los tartamudos de los músculos de su garganta.

La muchacha pasando es solo una parte de un sinnúmero de cosas.

7

Ignoro al viejo y a la muchacha. Siento un timbre, un rintintín, comenzar dentro de mis oídos. Estoy conciente de este timbre. Es lo único que siento y percibo. Este sonido hace que no pueda escuchar mis pasos cuando me desmonto del autobus. De alguna manera sé que he llegado a mi parada. Camino hacia mi casa. De alguna manera conozco el camino. Alguien me persige a treinta pies de distancia. Tengo miedo, pero no debería. Nadie me quiere asesinar. Trato de abrir la puerta rápidamente. Mi apartamento esta oscuro. Me siento en mi sofa y me preocupo de cosas que no están presentes. Dejo que todos mis deberes giren por dentro de mi cabeza, pero en fin no hago nada. Me siento cansado y por fin listo para dormir. Voy a mi cuarto y cierro la puerta. A mitad de la noche me despierto. No me vuelvo a dormir. En vez, observo con ojos entre abiertos como la ventana en mi cuarto se aclara. Ya es casi tiempo de volver a montarme en el autobús.

- Translated by Andy Riverbed with proofs done by Marina Reyes Franco


Seven versions of the same version

1

I sat next to an old man on the bus yesterday. Our legs touched. We sat still and silent for miles. A girl walked by us at a stop. The old man watched her pass and then nudged me. He motioned for me to look too.

"Whew! Huh?" he turned and smiled at me, face alive.

I tried to think of something to say.

"Yeah I know," I replied. "I'd sure love to bite off one her eyebrows and glue it to my upper-lip. I've always wanted a moustache."

He readjusted himself in his seat and we sat staring forward for the remainder of the ride.

2

The girl passed by and the old man elbowed me hard. Entreating me to look.

"Man, how bout it huh?" he said.

I smiled and nodded. Then I spoke loudly. "Yes I agree with what I think you are suggesting. I would love to have sex with that girl. I don't know who she is but I think we can both agree that we should think about her body and having sex with it. I am aroused. How about you? Are you aroused sir? Let's think about what we'd do. Let's think together."

3

The girl passed us and the man put his head in his hands. His head bounced in his lap with each subsequent turn and bump in the road.

4

The girl passed us. As she passed, she temporarily blocked the window I was looking at, and the field outside. I became angry because I remembered that I was on a bus going somewhere and that somewhere would probably require something of me and I would either know or not know how to do that something and whoever was there if even just me would judge me capable or incapable.

5

The girl passes and leaves the bus and walks down the street and I never see her again. She will not think about me as she walks down the street into the millions of paths we never choose in accord.

6

I am almost asleep when the bus rounds a corner and sunlight shoots through the window. The man next to me becomes rigid. He points to the cube-shaped piece of light on my shirt.

"Shit. Oh shit. Get it off. Quick!" he screams and leans back, pointing. The cube on my shirt grows. "Get it off--it's on you--get it off. Oh shit!"

He crawls backwards to avoid the sunlight. I lose sight of him as the cube covers my face.

"It's all over you--move! Please!"

His yells become more like pathetic whining and the whining gets wet between the stuttering muscles of his throat.

The girl walking by is just one part of an endless number of things.

7


I ignore the old man and the girl. I feel a steady ringing begin in my ears. I am conscious of the ringing. It is all I can sense. It quiets my steps as I get off the bus. Somehow I know it is my stop. I walk home. Somehow I know the steps. Someone is walking thirty feet behind me. I am afraid. But I shouldn't be. No one would want to kill me. I try to put the keys in my door quickly. The apartment is dark. I sit on my couch and worry about things that are not present. I let revolve in my head all the things I have to do, ultimately doing none of them until I begin to feel sleepy. I go to my room and lock the door. Halfway through the night I wake up. I do not fall back asleep. Instead, I watch with eyes half-closed as the window in my room becomes lighter. It is almost time to get back on the bus.

- Sam Pink

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Como enamorar a las chicas

Mi cara es desechable y
se aguanta con imánes.
Tengo una parecida a la tristeza.
Tengo una de un baquero rígido e imperturbable (cual
tiene un cígarro puesto entre sus labíos y esta sin afeitar hace tres días).
Tengo una hecha de hojas y ramitas cual uso cuando estoy escondido
por tu casa velandote en lo que te bañas.
Tengo una que hace ver como si me importara lo que me estubieses diciendo.
Y tengo una con espejos puestos como ojos que cuando estamos frente a frente,
tu me dices, “Tienes ojos bellísimos. Cuando me encuentro dentro
dellos me siento protegida.”
Pero detrás de cada una desas caras hay solo un cráneo sin expresión.

- Translated from English by Andy Riverbed


My face is held on by magnets.
I can take my face off.
I have one face that is my sad face.
I have one face that is my stern, imperturbable face (that
one has some stubble and a cigar pinched between the lips).
I have one face that has leaves and twigs glued to it so I can hide
out in front of your house and watch you shower.
I have one face that looks intrigued about what you’re saying.
And I have one that has mirror-eyes so when you look into them
you say, “You have the most beautiful eyes. When I look into
them I feel safe.”
But behind every face is an expressionless skull.


- Sam Pink


D Holidey

Holidey
sent the Riverbed his new shit. The Riverbed thinks that Holidey is bringing it. The Riverbed thinks the masses should get with it. Check out Holidey’s Noise-Hop.

Wall Attacks

Wall Attack #3 has long been over. The Riverbed was sidelined by academic obligations, but now Wall Attack #4 is ready and will be destroying the streets and making the walls sing much farther than Gainesville.

New fashion models for American Apparel special spring series: DIY, the Culprits in their Fatboy McPopcorn as Mr. Riverbed shirts which will soon be on sell just like the Riverbed’s Damaged is on sale at the Wayward Council and maybe soon from his own hands for ten dollars ($10!). Hit him up at andy.riverbed (at) yahoo.com for details. The book costs ten dollars, the shirts cost seven.

Fatboy McPopcorn
fatboymcpopconrinriverbedshirt

Matty D’Angelo
mattyinriverbedshirt

Rily Fink
rilyinriverbedshirt

Andy Riverbed
riverbedinriverbedshirt

Check out where Wall-Attack #3 got to:


The Sky
becauseisnotareason,tracrivepoems,farriginous-gainesville-wa3
deadthing-gainesville-wa3

Gainesville

farringous-gainesville-wa3

St. Augustine
deadthings-staugustine-wa3

Miami
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Check out all of the Wall-Attack #3 pics HERE.


Riverbed's Summer Tour


Andy Riverbed will be on tour this summer, with Circus Circus and the Mystery Books, hitting up portions of South Florida, and Puerto Rico.

Riverbed poems have been published at Libelo Weekly #3. Check out “Last Night on the Way to My Apartment” and “I Touch a Button” HERE.

And a poem at decomP. Check out “Tasted like peanut-butter and guava-jelly.”

**UPDATE**

In a post DiGangi made about spilling coffee on his laptop and that the Jargon would be interrupted for a bit, haters are hating on "Tasted like peanut-butter and jelly." Check that out HERE.

**UPDATE NUMERO DOS**

Not everyone hates "Tasted like peanut-butter and guava jelly." Some people claim to actually be reading it. Check that out HERE.

AND MORE IN THIS NUMERO DOS UPDATED

Tao Lin is Blacklisted

And just because the Riverbed loves it when people piss other people off by really doing nothing wrong, this picture, that was taken by an unnamed compatriot of the Riverbed's from what is rumored to be the old office room of the Florida Review at UCF, is available for all to see.

The Riverbed's initial intention was to see if señor Lin would post up an email chat between the Riverbed and the omnipotent being, Titular, about the Riverbed's and Lin's excursions through Gainesville during the Fest last Halloween. In this conversation the Riverbed told Titular of Lin getting followed and solicited by college sluts and how the Riverbed and Lin took them up to the Riverbed's apartment, leaving the girls with bloody faces.

Lin will not post this email, but here is the photo of Tao Lin being blacklisted at the Florida review at UCF.

tao lin blacklisted

**UPDATE NUMERO TRES**

The Riverbed's EveryDayYeah e-book, Afternoon Drinking is Okay, was promoed as something cool by Disproductions. Check that out HERE.

Radiation Newsletter is looking for submissions of anything you might desire.

Odradek

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How to Win Employee of the Month Every Month

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
Damaged on sale in PR

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.