LMFAO production

A wonderful video demonstration of OMG putting together my recent chapbook LMFAO here. Thank you, OMG! 

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Memory for Forgetfulness

Rest in peace, o great poet of Troy.

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Hey Hey Glossalalia (Before): Exhibiting the Voice

Many thanks to guest editor Adam Pendleton for including an excerpt of "Gigilation", a longish poem-in-progress from Amanah, a new manuscript-in-progress, in the green folio of the first volume of Hey Hey Glossalalia (Before): Exhibiting the Voice. Said piece appears alongside work by Matias Faldbakken, William Pope.L, and Sun Ra, to name a few. I just got my copy of the book today, whose pages are in newsprint, and am loving my encounters. Click here for deets.

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post launch

A few shouts: to Brandon Brown, for assembling a terrific launch on Friday night at the LMCC Gallery; to Dana Ward, Stacy S., and Erica Kauffman, for the honor of reading alongside your talented selves; to Tim Peterson and Ann Tardos, for joining in the fun; and to the jam-packed house that came out in support of OMG! Books.  One of the best readings I've been a part of, and certainly a night that Ill look back on soon as NYC withdrawal pangs take over in Miami.

For Brandon's breathless version of events, check it here.

For those who couldn't make it, and are still interested in a copy of my or the other OMG books, click here.  

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word from OMG! Press

from Brandon Brown, OMG! Publisher, with blurbs and a terrific deal:

"I am very pleased to announce a new OMG! book. Paolo Javier's LMFAO is a visual collage, comic book, poetry text, conceptual work, and more. This book is full color, hand-sewn, pink card covers, and in a strictly limited edition of 100 copies. For the low price of $10.

Fred Wah writes, "Narrativity on the edge. Even the picture/frame has an accent. Collage collapsed. The trans- in transition. Bumper-sticker po-etry: decals at the heart of thinking. "LMFAO" read as a concrete serial poem; definitely not fiction. But diction, condensare. Concentrations for the cloud of unknowing."

and Kevin Killian writes, "The best magicians narrate what they're doing and speak so beautifully they can pull off their tricks right before your eyes, candor as gambit. Paolo Javier gives away his plans to "combine & recombine handwritten & printed jokes/ song lyrics/ news articles/ advertising copy/ with graphic snippets of appro[priated] cartoons" to "reduce comic images to visual shorthand," and thus he gets away with murder. As a bakla fan of Paolo's for example, I should be offended at the way he mis-spells Barbra Streisand's sacred name, inducing visual violence, raining fire on hell's vanquished angel, but instead I'm well, LMFAO, proving once again Houdini's first axiom: the tarugo's quicker than the eye."

Attention New York City chums! On Friday July 25th OMG! and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will present a reading for OMG! press! Hurrah! The reading will feature Paolo, Stacy S, Erica Kaufman, and Dana Ward. Cheap wine. Snacks. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane is between Pearl and Water Streets. Take any of the following: 2/3/4/5/A/C/J/M/Z to Fulton Street/Broadway Nassau. LMFAO and all other OMG! books will be available for purchase, so you can restrain yourselves from that BUY NOW button!

And finally, please note the stellar deal to the right: for $18 you can get your paws on LMFAO, Stacy S's Autoportraits, and Erica Kaufman's Censory Impulse. For such a deal, the only conceivable response should be, well, OMG!"

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LMFAO Launch, 7/25

You are invited to a very special OMG press event in Manhattan as we celebrate the release of my brand new and very limited edition book LMFAO, and less new but just as thrilling works by Stacy S., Erica Kaufman, and Dana Ward (visiting from Cincinnati!). All the books will be on hand and for sale at the reading.

The reading will happen in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's project space, located at 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor (directions below), Friday, July 25, 6:00 - 8:00PM.

For a sneak peek of LMFAO, please click on the pdf file available on this link.

We all truly hope you can join us for this special event!

Directions: 125 Maiden Lane is between Pearl and Water Streets. Take any of the following: 2/3/4/5/A/C/J/M/Z to Fulton Street/Broadway Nassau. (http://lmcc.net/us/contact.html)

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New Voices, 7/23

So I jumped the gun--I still have a couple more readings, including my launch on the 25th of this month, before I jet for the great climes of Miami in August. & this new reading will be taking place two days before LMFAO's launch. Thank you to Jeremy Thompson for the honorable invitation, & I do hope you can join us for the inaugural event at the CBA on July 23rd. Deets, as ever, below.

New Voices is multi genre reading series sponsored by and located at The New York Center for Book Arts. Readers are selected from among the alumni of the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Seminar, as well as from among artists in the community who incorporate & innovate with elements of Fine Press Printing. Curated by Jeremy James Thompson

 

July 23rd will be the inaugural reading. 

The reading includes performances by Jen Bervin, Bronwyn Carlton, Marie Carter, Paolo Javier, Evan Kennedy, Ryan Murphy and Kyle Schlesinger. Reception to follow. $10 Suggested Donation, $5 CBA Members

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LMFAO launch

Please mark Friday, July 25th, on your calendars, folks. It's the night I launch LMFAO, my new work, to be published by San Francisco's OMG! Press. Ill be reading in support of LMFAO--an assemblagist poem--with two other fabulous new OMG! authors, Stacy S. & Erica Kauffman. For more deets on the books, do check out the OMG! website. & stay tuned!

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Texte und Tone

Many thanks to Sukhdev Sandhu for including my essay, "State of the Nation: New Romantic Manila Online", in Texte und Tone: Zeitschrift zum Kopfschutteln. You'll find it among others penned by the likes of film critic Tim Robey, documentarian Vivek Bald, and music scholar David Beard, to name a few.  Sukhdev presides over Texte und Tone, a group of artists and critics that curates events and commisions publications devoted to the subcultural and obscure. The new anthology is quite the minimalist artifact--digest-sized with black covers and a title in red font, swaddled in a wrap that holsters a disc of shimmering, obscure pop tunes. Sukhdev selected the tunes in the cd, called "Misty Pop" (currently on rotation in my iTunes player), and it gives credence to his mad, impeccable, obscurantist palette. If you're interested in a copy of Texte und Tone, drop me a line, and I can put you in touch with Sukhdev.  

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Surreal Naivete show

My boy Ernest has a group show tomorrow night. Check it.

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"Surreal Naiveté" The Eye of an Emerging Collector
June 19 – July 26, 2008; reception Thursday June 19, 6-8PM

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