Mr. Tong Bliss' Journal [entries|friends|calendar] Mr. Tong Bliss [ website | My new chapbook: OUT OF LIGHT ] [ userinfo | livejournal userinfo ] [ calendar | livejournal calendar ]

I've fallen and I can't get up. [14 May 2008|12:42pm] Say something positive. Fluff me, please, fluff me. 12 comments|post comment

[12 May 2008|05:46pm] I can barely contain my pleasure: Paul Blackburn on PennSound. The recordings are from the last year of his life. 1 comment|post comment

Within Hours [12 May 2008|11:59am] Fine poet and publisher of fine books, Ryan Murphy, found some extra letterpress-printed covers for my chapbook Within Hours. He made ten extra copies and sent them to me last week. I'm willing to part with a few of them if you're willing to part with 11 dollars (that includes S&H). I will include a new poem, typed up on a manual typewriter, as a bonus. Requests will be considered. All proceeds go toward my iced Americano habit, which goes toward my sanity -- a good deal for us all. The book is totally out of print and quite a lovely object, if I do say so myself. E-mail me: tongbliss(AT)sbcglobal(DOT)net. 2 comments|post comment

[10 May 2008|09:14pm] Earlier this evening in the comfort of my dimly lit bunker, while watching the fog roll in as the sun nosedived into the horizon, I totally enjoyed Charles Bernstein's interview with Peter Gizzi. post comment

Charles Manson - "Look At Your Game Girl" (Alternate Version) [08 May 2008|09:32am] 1 comment|post comment

Milton Resnick: [07 May 2008|02:32pm] "What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That’s the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There’s no other direction at all. There’s no other space in art. There’s no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss — and sometimes hit. And this contact you make when you hit is all-important. If that contact holds, and you hold, then you are washed by that and all the technological shit that’s in your mind gets thrown out. You have a chance. And it takes everything — every pore — every molecule within you to hold — and you don’t know if you’re going to live or die; I mean things happen to you then. And you must refrain from trying to grasp for the outcome of it. Certainly not who’s going to review you or something. It’s got to be out of your mind; you’ve got to refuse it. That’s quite something to do." post comment

Richard Serra: [07 May 2008|02:08pm] “It’s about apprehension, how you apprehend the space and the piece,” he said. “It’s part of the experience of walking around the space in which the art appears — you implicate yourself in the space, and the experience is in you, not in the frame or on the wall.” 1 comment|post comment

"MUST HAVE BEEN SOME POT BROWNIE!" [05 May 2008|02:37pm] Good friend and terrific poet, CA Conrad, is celebrating my freedom over at the Philly Sound blog. I celebrated all weekend, and I think it's entirely out of my system now; but, by all means, feel free to take up my slack, and rejoice. I plan on writing about the experience -- the absolute horror of it -- in detail after everything is completely over with, which should be this Thursday. 3 comments|post comment

[04 May 2008|09:49pm] Tonight I am full of this, overflowing and sick with it. 5 comments|post comment

I have two epic-length poems in this issue: [03 May 2008|09:57am] kadar koli 3 Spring 2008 $5 Cover by Clifton Riley, saddle-stitched 45pp Featuring work by Valerie Coulton, Brooks Johnson, Stephen Vincent, Noah Eli Gordon, Arielle Guy, Sotere Torregian, Michelle Detorie, David A. Kirschenbaum, Susan Gevirtz, Chuck Stebelton, Stephen Berry, Roger Snell, Rusty Morrison, Erin Pringle, Joseph Massey, Dale Smith. Get it here. post comment

I want a time machine. [02 May 2008|07:55pm] 8 comments|post comment

[02 May 2008|10:36am] Today I am full of joy and relief. I want to hump a tree. I want to hump you. I want to hump the air. I am humping the air.  4 comments|post comment

I can't get this song out of my head. At least it's a good song. [01 May 2008|01:03pm] 3 comments|post comment

[30 Apr 2008|10:47am] Tell me a joke. 26 comments|post comment

[29 Apr 2008|10:56am] Any requests? 4 comments|post comment

This and that. [25 Apr 2008|01:00pm] Today is the birthday of one of my favorite poets and best friends, Jess Mynes. Celebrate his existence by gawking at him in lingerie, (above, as if you could miss it), and then cleanse your palate by reading his poetry and buying a few of the beautiful books published through his Fewer & Further Press. *** Thomas Nozkowski is my new favorite painter. Why? Well, see for yourself. If they don't make you want to rub your brain all over your computer monitor, and then run to NYC to mind-meld with them in real life, I don't know how to help you. *** For once in my life, I am a winner! And what a generous prize. I requested the following books: A Semblance by Laura Moriarty, Lyric & Spirit by Hank Lazer, and The Fatalist by Lyn Hejinian. *** Steve Dickison's Disposed is an incredible book of poems. I've been reading it before bed every night since I received a copy two weeks ago. Lullabies from beyond. *** Word is: there are not many copies of Effing Magazine # 6 left. The issue, hand-picked by yours truly, includes poems by Zach Barocas, Christopher Rizzo, Mairéad Byrne, Andrew Mister, Rae Armantrout, Shannon Tharp, Aaron Tieger, Thomas Devaney, Julie Doxsee, Sandra Simonds, Jess Mynes, and John Phillips. All top-notch work, if I do say so myself. *** Lastly, I hope you all have a glorious weekend. Any plans? 7 comments|post comment

[24 Apr 2008|09:20pm] I'm having dinner with Henry Miller. 2 comments|post comment

[23 Apr 2008|03:00pm] Lou Reed really is a genius. I am only now, in my old age, beginning to realize this. 11 comments|post comment

[22 Apr 2008|01:51pm] Today I am totally joyless. 12 comments|post comment

[22 Apr 2008|12:15pm] Andy Grace on William Bronk. post comment

navigation [ viewing | most recent entries ] [ go | earlier ]