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Party Pics

2012-01-09T22:01:00.009-06:00

Other News:

* I featured Justin Clifford Rhody's photography and Samantha Rehark's artwork on Beautiful/Decay.
* Razorcake reviewed Austerity Pleasures.
* Download Delay's Rushing Ceremony, read Wes Flexner's article re: Delay.
* Slave Labia's released its first communique/zine.
* Jack Ramunni released One Hour Publication 02 with Dan Olsen and One Hour Publication 03 with Alex Ross.
* Aaron Miller and Ryan Starinsky started a podcast called Safe Passages. Listen to it here.
* Aidan Koch started a new blog, Field Studies, of drawings done during/for traveling.
* Jordan Castro video-interviewed Megan Boyle.

Security Envelope Interiors

2012-01-09T21:07:00.002-06:00

I like the patterned interiors of security envelopes. That doesn't make me a bad person, or weird at all. Okay? It doesn't. It just doesn't - I'm fine. Fine, thank you.

A collection of envelope interiors is after the jump.

2011's Reading & Viewing

2011-12-30T07:41:00.008-06:00

Yikes, this year was the worst. After the jump is what I read and watched during it.

Other News:

* On Beautiful/Decay I profiled Elijah Funk and Mei Yan Jane Lee's artwork.

* You can pre-order Delay's Rushing Ceremony here.

* Watch Heat Space TV's Late Lunch Live with Slave Labia; and video of their 15th House show.

BOOKS I READ IN 2011
(Particularly good ones marked with asterisks.)

1/08: Stephane Hessel – Indignez-Vous!
1/13: Slavoj Zizek – First As Tragedy, Then As Farce*
1/15: John Berger – And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos*
1/18: Cassandra Troyan – The Things We Embody Are The Things We Destroy
1/22: Sara Drake – Small Advices
1/25: Simon Critchley – The Book of Dead Philosophers
1/27: Anne Elizabeth Moore – The Manifesti of Radical Literature
2/02: Donna Haraway – The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
2/09: Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
2/10: Wendy Lee Spacek – Oscines
2/11: Terry Eagleton – How To Read A Poem*
2/12: Julia Wertz – Drinking at the Movies
2/13: Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons
2/14: Claudia Nashon – The Art of William Steig
2/15: William Steig – Ruminations
2/16: Mark Strand – Hopper
2/16: Anders Nilsen – Ballad of the Two-Headed Boy
2/16: C.F. – Powr Mastrs 3*
2/17: Brecht Evens – The Wrong Place
2/20: John Kenneth Galbraith – The Economics of Innocent Fraud
2/23: Philip Roth – The Breast
2/24: William Steig – Drawings
2/26: Wiliam Steig – Sick of Each Other
2/26: Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
2/26: Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea
2/28: Nina Kaiden – Artist and Advocate: An Essay on Corporate Personage
2/28: Emma N. Young – So Soon We Shall See
3/01: Nicholas Rombes – A Cultural Dictionary of Punk
3/03: Paul Strathern – Plato in 90 Minutes
3/04: Wendy Lee Spacek – Hypnagogia
3/06: Matt Furie – Boy’s Club 4
3/07: Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound*
3/07: Tom Stoppard – After Magritte
3/12: Steve Roggenbuck – DOWNLOAD HELVETICA FOR FREE.COM
3/13: Eugene Ionesco – Foursome
3/15: Philip Hofer – Los Caprichos
3/15: Philip Hofer – The Disasters of War
3/15: Joseph Risel – Goya: Another Look
3/18: Dwight Garner – Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements
3/19: Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree
3/22: Simon Blackburn – Plato’s Republic: A Biography
3/27: Aaron Miller – Party Life #1
3/27: James Payne – Austerity Pleasures
3/28: John Baker – Arguing for Equality
3/30: Clifford Ross – The World of Edward Gorey
4/04: Karen Wilkins – Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey*
4/07: Jack Murnighan – Beowulf on the Beach
4/10: Adrian Tomine – Scenes from an Impending Marriage
4/10: C.F. – The Core of Caligula
4/12: Ariel Schrag – Stuck in the Middle
4/13: Jacques Prevert – Paroles (French and English)*
4/16: Andrew Brighton – Introducing Picasso
4/19: Ed Choy Moorman – Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden
4/23: Jordan Castro and Mallory Whitten – Cute
4/25: Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters
5/03: Adam Gopnik – Paris to the Moon
5/04: Michael Garland – Dinner at Magritte’s
5/14: James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room*
5/15: Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One*
5/25: Edward Gorey – Amphigorey Also
6/03: Sappho – Poems
6/13: Charles Baudelaire – Paris Spleen
6/21: Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley*
6/22: Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
6/23: James Sutton – Signs in Action
6/30: Ana C. & Richard Chiem – Oh No, Everything is Wet Now
7/16: James Baldwin – Nobody Knows My Name
7/20: Julian Barnes – Before She Met Me
7/20: K8 Hardy – Fashion, Fashion
7/24: The Invisible Committee – The Coming Insurrection*
7/25: Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost
7/30: Emma N. Young – Colored Letters
8/01: Sarah Glidden – How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
8/01: Andrea Boudreau – Short Stories Zine
8/02: Lucy Shelton Caswell & James Thurber - Ireland of the Dispatch
8/07: Matthew Thurber – 1-800-Mice Issues #5, #6*
8/13: Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
8/13: Werner Herzog – Of Walking in Ice
8/16: Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
8/18: Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet
8/25: A.E. Taylor – Socrates: The Man and His Thought
8/30: Bret Easton Ellis – The Rules of Attraction
9/07: Joan Didion – The White Album*
9/12: Edward Lear – A Book of Nonsense
9/13: Mark Gonzales – High Tech Poetry
9/14: Cassandra and Cody Troyan – Places to Go to Die
9/21: Seth – Vernacular Drawings
9/22: Joan Didion – After Henry
10/04: Jason – The Left Bank Gang*
10/05: Patti Smith – Just Kids
10/17: Tim Hensley – Wally Gropius*
10/17: John Malta – An Asteroid Descends on Mount Moldy
10/17: Tony Judt – The Memory Chalet
10/23: Alice Walker – Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
10/23: Anne Elizabeth Moore – Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh
10/25: Daniel Clowes – The Death-Ray
10/25: Diana Salier – Wikipedia Says it Will Pass*
10/28: Jen Angel: Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
11/04: Brooke Gladstone – Influencing the Media: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
11/08: Wallace Shawn – Essays
11/14: Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays*
11/16: James Payne and Jack Ramunni: One Hour Publication
11/20: Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Memories of my Melancholy Whores
12/07: Richard Minsky – The Art of American Book Covers: 1875-1930
12/08: C.F. – City Hunter
12/12: Paul Strathern – Berkeley in 90 Minutes
12/12: Elijah Funk – Sometimes When I am Feeling Sad
12/13: Joan Didion – Blue Nights*
12/17: Laura Szumowski – Tip of the Iceberg
12/24: Paul Buckley - Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentaries
12/26: Ben Shahn – The Shape of Content
12/26: Matthew Thurber - 1-800-Mice*
12/30: Robert Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism

FILMS I WATCHED IN 2011
(Particularly good ones marked with asterisks.)

1/01: The Joy Of Statistics (Hans Rosling)
1/06: London Moods (Ken Russell)*
1/11: American Visions (Robert Hughes)

1/23: Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny
1/24: Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)*
1/25: Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
1/27: The Cool School
1/28: A Bigger Splash (David Hockney)
1/30: To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die (Simon Critchley)
2/02: Burroughs

2/10: Dreams of Obama (Frontline)
2/19: Basic Brown, Basic Blue (Homer Groening)
2/23: Collapse
2/23: Wild Man Blues (Woody Allen)*
3/03: Tell Them Anything You Want (Spike Jonze / Maurice Sendak)
3/07: La Jetee (Chris Marker)
3/12: Goya: Crazy like a Genius (Robert Hughes)
3/15: Gently Down The Stream (Su Friedrich)
3/15: Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich)
3/20: Plato: The Republic
3/29: I Was a Male Yvonne de Carlo (Jack Smith)
3/29: Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs)
3/29: Scotch Tape (Jack Smith)
3/29: Chumlum (Ron Rice)
3/31: Human, All Too Human (Heidegger)
4/02: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
4/03: Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum

4/04: Visite a Picasso
4/06: Man on Wire
4/06: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis)
4/09: Condo Painting*
4/09: My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski (Werner Herzog)*
4/13: Bored to Death: Season 1 (Jonathan Ames)
4/14: Human, All Too Human (Jean-Paul Sartre)
4/14: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
4/15: Two in the Wave
4/16: Human, All Too Human (Nietzche)
4/20: 30 Rock: Season 1
4/24: 30 Rock: Season 2
4/25: The Mystery of Picasso (Henri Clouzot)
4/28: Ms. Parker and the Vicious Circle
4/29: One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin
5/03: Howl
5/05: Pulling: Seasons 1 & 2
5/06: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)*
5/09: Italian Fascism in Color
5/10: Monty Python: Almost the Truth
5/11: Ken Burn’s America: Thomas Hart Benton
5/12: Waiting for Godot
5/13: The End of the Affair
5/19: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)*
5/31: Operation Peter Pan (Estela Bravo, Chris Awards)
6/01: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
6/07: Transcendent Man (Ray Kurzweil)
6/07: Political Animals (Chris Awards)
6/10: A Poet on the Lower East Side
6/19: Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
6/21: The Mirror of Maya Deren
6/21: Max Ernst (Peter Schamoni)
6/25: Fran Lebowitz: Public Speaking (Martin Scorsese)*
6/29: The French Revolution
7/05: Grizzly Man (Herzog)
7/06: Chisholm 72: Unbought and Unbossed
7/09: All the Memory in the World (Mike Olenick)*
7/12: Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog)
7/13: John Adams Miniseries
7/20: The Trip (Michael Winterbottom)
7/29: Rabid (Mike Olenick)
7/29: For a Blonde… (Mike Olenick)
8/06: Page One: Inside the New York Times
8/12: Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
8/16: Stripmall (Roger Beebe)
8/17: Africa on the Move: The Power of Song (Chris Awards)
8/17: The Bonus March as told by Walter Waters (Chris Awards)
8/17: Apocalypse 2012 (Chris Awards)
8/17: AIDS Turns 30 (Chris Awards)
8/17: Flirting or Hurting (Chris Awards)
8/18: Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
8/18: Party Girl*
8/18: Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
8/19: Cultures of Resistance (Chris Awards)
8/19: Stonewall Uprising (Chris Awards)
8/19: The Team (Chris Awards)
8/24: Daisies*
8/27: The Panic in Needle Park (Didion/Dunne)*
8/29: Dominick Dunne: After the Party
8/29: Hype!
9/03: The Dinner Party
9/11: Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)*
9/15: Rope (Hitchcock)
9/18: Made in the U.S.A. (Godard)
9/24: Bruce McClure at Skylab*
10/04: Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
10/07: American Experience: Jimmy Carter
10/10: Black Power Mixtape*
10/14: Films for 1 to 8 Projectors (Roger Beebe)
10/19: Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
10/21: Man on Wire
10/21: Metropolitan*
10/22: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu*
10/23: Hockney at the Tate
10/29: Big Chill
10/30: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
10/31: Place de la Republique (Louis Malle)
10/31: Vive le Tour (Louis Malle)*
11/05: Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
11/05: The Killing Fields
11/07: Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
11/13: These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)*
11/13: The General Returns From One Place To Another (Michael Robinson)
11/16: Selection of David Gatten’s Films
11/22: American Experience: Woody Allen: A Documentary*
11/24: Take The Money And Run (Woody Allen)
11/25: Manda Bala*
11/27: Married to the Eiffel Tower*
11/29: If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front*
12/03: Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)*
12/08: Bonnie and Clyde
12/08: Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)*
12/17: Reds (Warren Beatty)
12/20: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
12/25: The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg)*
12/29: Portlandia: Season 1
12/29: A Musical is Gone (Stacie Sells)
12/30: Remains of the Day (Mike Nichols)

Slave Labia

2011-12-27T16:29:00.001-06:00

Other News:

* What Gives puts tape on Bandcamp.

* New Max Levine Ensemble music video.

* Mallory Whitten story on Muumuu House.

* The Ohioans music video on Punknews.org.

* Harvey Wasserman, leftist writer from Columbus, writes re: George Whitman's death at Counterpunch.

Party Pics

2011-12-24T12:13:00.001-06:00

Jack Boy Big Get Present

2011-12-22T04:48:00.004-06:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More birthday

These Things Are Hip: 2011, a book of drawings I made for Jack Ramunni's 22nd birthday, is above.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style's Tatyana Kagamas frees a season's greetings viral video from the confines of Secular Village.
* Black Cloud posted soon-to-be iconic Slave Labia photos from their recent 15th House show.
* Alex Ross has an artist's site now; it includes photo documentation of Max Caldwell's recent Blitz Minded/Blitzed Mind show at CCAD.
* Aaron Lake Smith published an essay in the Utne Reader; it's illustrated with an Edward Gorey envelope.
* Some site, "The Hot 17," wrote about Carabar, the black hole at the center of my social universe.

Button Interview

2011-12-16T19:17:00.006-06:00

Alex Ross interviewed me about making one-inch buttons for a project at CCAD.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style featured a small selection of my winter 2012 looks.
* There is a fashion label named "James Payne."
* Un Uccellino Mi Ha Detto posted a collage of mine.
* Wes Flexner wrote an article about William Berry's record label Amethyst Sunset.
* A video has surfaced of Hannah Stephenson reading poetry at Skylab on 11/27/11.
* Skylab Gallery just received a Franklin County Neighborhood Arts grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to help support an artist-in-residency program - very exciting.

Party Pics

2011-12-11T22:24:00.004-06:00

Other News:

* Beautiful/Decay's John Malta profiled my artwork on their blog.

* The Nervous Breakdown's Jordan Castro interviewed me about my poetry chapbook Austerity Pleasures.

* Elijah Funk posted the c over of his new zine Sometimes When I am Feeling Sad.

* Tin Armor has a music video for their song "Strange and Estranging."

New Buttons

2011-12-03T20:37:00.002-06:00

Other News:

* Tatyana Kagamas reads her short story "The New Piscina" at the OSU Urban Arts Space as part of Paging Columbus.

* Delay's album trailer for Rushing Ceremony; their bandcamp for the same.

* That "alternative" weekly blurbs the "Book as Art Object" panel I was on.
* Everything is Terrible is coming to Skylab on April 6th.

Skylab 11/27/11

2011-11-27T16:45:00.003-06:00

Tonight (11/27) at Skylab Gallery (57 E. Gay St. 5th Floor): Angel One, Ben Bennett, Patrick Elkins, Ryan Jewell, Justin Clifford Rhody, and Hannah Stephenson.

Party Pics

2011-11-24T20:18:00.001-06:00

Rushing Ceremony Cover

2011-11-22T02:26:00.004-06:00

These are the front and back covers and labels for Delay's new album Rushing Ceremony. I designed them with the indispensable/incomparable aid of Jack Ramunni, a former runner-up in Ohio's Photoshop Context Contest who deserved first.

Rushing Ceremony comes out in December on Shout Out Loud Records. The album will also be available on Bandcamp at what I'm told will be a "politically-progressive" rate. Purchase Rushing Ceremony at a record-release show in the very near-future; for more definite information, watch Delay's Tumblr.

One Hour Publication

2011-11-21T16:35:00.019-06:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More heatspace

One Hour Publications is a zine series exploring collaborative situations, artist publications, and self-publishing. Each book's content is made within one hour by Jack Ramunni and one collaborator in Heat Space at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

For the first One Hour Publication, I extemporaneously wrote a suite of twelve poems about the city of Columbus, memory, and decay. Jack then drew a companion illustration for each poem as it came off the typewriter.

The next One Hour Publication features Alex Ross and it is funny.

The One Hour Publication on Goodreads.

Other News:

* Ben Bennett, Patrick Elkins, Ryan Jewell, Justin Clifford Rhody, and Hannah Stephenson will be performing at Skylab on November 27th.
* New art history blog for lonelies, fun.
* I "signed" this letter in support of the Occupy movement.
* Peterbd sent me another email. This site collects emails that Peterbd has sent to internet literature types. Reminds me of Ray Johnson. Here it is:

all the leaves are brown and the lit is bleak
this lit is just so bad, very ununique
i'd be very blessed if all lit was by payne. james payne prose i'm dreamin, there's not much else to say
walked into a store because i love to read. well the books were just so bad, i got down on my knees. and prayed to god to stop this prose, so i'll see brighter days
james payne prose i'm dreamin, cause every book is lame

all the kids are sad and so down on luck
they just want something good to read. somethings that doesn't suck
our savior is in payne, he must write everything. james payne prose i'm dreamin, on his every word we cling

- Peterbd

Street Speech Poem

2011-11-16T17:13:00.001-06:00

Street Speech just published my poem "Some Answers to Certain Inexhaustible Anxieties" in its November 4th-17th issue under my curiously similar nom de plume "Jason Payne."

Street Speech carries great content regarding homelessness, economic inequality, mental illness, and other political issues facing the Columbus community. It's actually way better than the Columbus Alive, if you can believe that, and well worth supporting.

New Work

2011-11-16T16:19:00.002-06:00

Other News:

* Jack Ramunni and Alex Ross on the streets of post-apocalyptic Columbus, Ohio.

* My piece in the Heat Space Art Collection.

* I'm on a panel December 1st discussing the art of the book at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

Warm Hands Buttons

2011-11-15T18:17:00.001-06:00

I recently made buttons for my friend Conrad's band Warm Hands. Get them from him in Portland, Oregon, and wear them and be warm.

Other news:

* Steve Roggenbuck lectures at Duke University re: internet pums.

* Cassandra Troyan is driving traffic to my blog.

Skylab Flyer Archive

2011-11-12T13:24:00.005-06:00

The flyer archive at Skylab Gallery is a new project started to preserve paper ephemera produced by the DIY music scene in Columbus, Ohio. The archive is housed in two flat files that Michelle Maguire generously earmarked for Skylab during the Ohio State University’s History of Art Department’s summer reorganization.

The flat files currently hold more than 500 flyers that were taken from my personal collection. We’ve organized these flyers according to venue, giving long-running spaces like the Legion of Doom, the 15^th House, or Skylab their own sections, and categorizing fly-by-night spaces by the type of venue they represent – whether it’s a house, an art gallery, or a record store. If possible, we’ve written the designer’s name and the year the flyer was made in pencil on the back of each flyer.

As a community archive we’re eager to expand the collection through donations from people involved in the Columbus DIY scene. We’re interested in any and all flyers that represent DIY events in Columbus from any time period. If you wish to donate but you’re unsure about giving your flyers away, please consider making a temporary loan to the flyer archive.

In addition to serving as a historical record, we envision the flyer archive being used for research purposes, design inspiration, and, most of all, entertainment. The archive is open by appointment to all. Make an appointment or schedule a donation by emailing Skylabartspace@gmail.com or by calling 614.323.9306.

Other News:

* I'm in the Ohio Arts Council's creative writer listing.
* Jack Ramunni reads one of my poems in this episode of Late Lunch Live.
* Addie Cheges assigns and illustrates an epitaph for the Monster House, which is scheduled to die in June of 2012. It's a saying I wrote in chalk on an overhang in the basement, "No Encores in Punk Rock."
* Aaron Miller updates a list I made of every band that's played at the Monster House in honor of its 200th show.
* My aunt Britta's son Erik Kish, who was in the band Hi-Fi and the Roadburners, recently passed away. A number of newspapers in Chicago published obituaries in remembrance of his life: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Time-Out Chicago, Huffington Post. I only met Erik once, but I feel that having his presence in my family (and his mother's - an artist herself) is one of the reasons that I felt, from a young age, that making a life out of creative endeavors is not just possible, but actually desirable. I also think that the first descriptions of "punk" I heard in my life was due to people explaining to me what he did. So, obviously, a big deal.

Party Pics

2011-11-09T19:46:00.000-06:00

Dan Tarnowski Reviews Austerity Pleasures

2011-10-23T19:36:00.007-05:00

And that review can be read on Drawn Curtains.

Other News:

* Monster House Press signals that its next release (MHP 03) will be Ryan J. Eilbeck's classic children's story The Hugmonster Lives Under my Bed!.

* Lose the Tude's 7-inch reviewed on Thwart.

* HEAT SPACE is collecting any and all artwork; drop it off at HEAT SPACE on CCAD's campus.

* Arty Party mentioned in this Time Out Chicago profile of Sara Drake's project in Cambodia.

Summer/Fall Recordings

2011-10-19T23:57:00.003-05:00

Go here to download recordings of Slave Labia, Bruce McClure, Tatyana Kagamas, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Cassandra and Cody Troyan, John M. Bennett, and Tiger Hatchery at Skylab; White Walls at Carabar; Slutever and Drug Money at Bat Chapters; John M. Bennett at the OSU Urban Arts Space; Slave Labia at The Shelf; and Envelope at Spoonful Records.

Also, go here for a download of Unholy Two at Bat Chapters.

Other News:

Austin & Ryan Eilbeck, Columbus Poet Laureate, turn 27. Here's Ryan reading at the OSU Urban Arts Space as part of the Paging Columbus reading series. And here is a synopsis of a stand-up routine Austin once gave at The Screamer House:

Austin approaches the performance area. In the performance area is a cup of water resting on a stool. Austin tells a "joke" then goes to drink water out of the cup. But the cup has been attached to the stool, so Austin has to pick up the whole thing to take his drink. The end.

Skyblab Episode #1

2011-10-19T02:15:00.002-05:00

Skylab Gallery has a new podcast, Skyblab, that aims to keep "the public" abreast of our goings-on.

Download it here.

The first episode features an interview with University of Florida Professor of Film and Media Studies Roger Beebe about his "Films for One to Eight Projectors" performance; a reading by SAIC Professor and Fulbright scholar Anne Elizabeth Moore from her new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-publishing in Phnom Penh, and a performance by poet and curator of The Ohio State University libraries' Avant Writing Collection John M. Bennett.

It's all topped off with a drunken review of Jeffrey Eugenides's new book The Marriage Plot by Tatyana Kagamas and music by Angels in America, Envelope featuring Nikki Portman, and Jack Ramunni & Alex Ross.

And Donewaiting.com posted it here.

Party Pics

2011-10-16T22:33:00.000-05:00

New Buttons

2011-10-16T21:41:00.001-05:00

Now at Rag-O-Rama in Columbus, OH, and Indianapolis, IN; Wolfbait and B-Girls in Chicago, IL; and all 3 Buffalo Exchanges in NYC.

Literary Chicago Reviews Austerity Pleasures

2011-10-16T21:19:00.008-05:00

Mason Johnson reviewed my chapbook Austerity Pleasures at Literary Chicago.

Other News:

* I broke this episode of HEAT SPACE TV with Midori.
* John Malta publishes An Asteroid Descends on Mount Moldy.
* An "alternative" weekly covers Matt Schuermann's band American War.
* The Space of the Encounter, a show at DoVA Temporary co-curated by Cassandra Troyan and Zachary Cahill, is on view at DoVA Temporary in Chicago, Illinois. A review of the show at The Chicago Weekly.
* Bureau for Open Culture curator Jim Voorhies was interviewed by Bad at Sports.
* The Max Levine Ensemble has a new Bloomington-centric video for their song "Big Problems USA."
* Ginger Alford, Jake Alexander, and Alan Crenshaw started a new band called Traveling.
* Toby Foster, Ryan Woods, and Nick Romy started a new band called High Dive. They have an album on No Idea Records.

Columbus Alive Notes My Pins

2011-09-18T19:51:00.010-05:00

The Columbus Alive's Jackie Mantey blurbed regarding my pins in the Wexner Center for the Arts 's store in a piece called "Shopping: Gift Shop Top Sellers." The pins were compared favorably to potato chips. If you would like pins that are similar in certain respects to a popular snack food, email here: james.payne.cc@gmail.com.

Other News:

* The Bitch blog mentioned Women's Comics Anthology in the context of Anne Elizabeth Moore's larger Ladydrawers project and its semimonthly Truthout column.
* Fantagraphics linked to a recording I took of a Paul Hornschemeier reading in its press round-u p for Hornschemeier's All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009.
* Jack Ramunni opened "HEAT SPACE" in his studio at CCAD. HEAT SPACE is "a year-long experiment" in the form of "an open project space where a variety of small events, group projects, experiments, lectures, and other creatively engaging activities will occur."
* Tavish is weirdly in this WNYC segment about Brion Gysin's Dream Machine. "Patterns. Moving."
* Tatyana Kagamas unleashes Columbus Street Style.
* Download A.J.Fusco's mix for the 9/11 End Life rave here.
* Andrew Duncan Worthington is looking for a publication to carry his review of Austerity Pleasures.
* Bruce McClure is performing at Skylab Gallery on September 24th. The Columbus Alive blurbed it here.
* I don't know who or what Peterbd is but he/she/it sent me an email and it is after the jump.

"j.p.: has the world in the palm of his hand
other people: wish they had the world in the palm of their hands and even if they got their wish they wouldn't know what the fuck to do with it

j.p.: is seriously talented in a major way
other people: are not as talented

j.p.: can be anything he wants to be
other people: should not quit their day jobs

j.p.: inspired a generation
other people: are part of the generation j.p. inspired

j.p.: doesn't back down in a fist fight
other people: welcome a fist to their face like a long lost friend

j.p.: has a kickass life that millions of people could only dream of living
other people: think life is about following the rules and obeying authority which is the complete opposite of j.p.'s inherent kickassness

j.p.: is cooler than cool
other people: are weird

j.p.: appreciates the little things in life
other people: appreciate the little things in life because there's nothing else to appreciate

j.p.: has original dance moves
other people: have the moves of george w. bush

j.p.: is the chosen one
other people: choose to be lame

j.p.: dines on only the finest food
other people: feed into american stereotypes by dining at mcdonalds

j.p.: brings joy to those around him
other people: are fucking unapproachable before their morning coffee & cig

j.p.: his a trendsetter
other people: follow j.p.'s trends like their live depended on it

j.p.: has admirable drive and detection to his craft and is a hero to us all
other people: are content with living in their mother's basement

j.p.: is good
other people: are good whether or not j.p. sets that trend"

I responded:

"j.p.: can be nothing he wants to be
other people: have jobs"

Party Pics

2011-09-09T20:17:00.000-05:00

Reading at the OSU Urban Arts Space

2011-09-09T18:40:00.008-05:00

I recently read poems at the OSU Urban Arts Space as part of the ongoing Paging Columbus reading series curated by Hannah Stephenson. This is a recording of that.

Nikkita Cohoon, Wendy McVicker, and CCAD Liberal Arts Professor Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis also read.

Other News:

* Richard Wehrenberg Jr. recounts our spring poetry tour.
* Vice mentions Bat Chapters and Monster House and Weakness sounding like Hickey.
* Vice interviews Aaron Hibbs of Rage Against the Cage.
* Cassandra and Cody Troyan release Big Bill and the Lonely Nation, Part II: Places to go to Die.
* Naked man video-reviews Assuming Size.

New Buttons

2011-07-16T15:26:00.000-05:00

Also, Hook and Line Magazine made mention of Austerity Pleasures.

Anobium #1 Available for Pre-Orders

2011-07-11T19:23:00.005-05:00

ANOBIUM: VOLUME 1 is available for pre-orders. It's a Chicago-based publication instigated by Benjamin van Loon. Anobium contains two poems of mine along with writing by Rich Ives, Stephanie Plenner, Joe Meno and many more.

In other news:

* Jason Behrends reviews Austerity Pleasures on the Chicago Subtext blog.
* I have some poems forthcoming on My Name is Mud.
* I am reading poems at Kafe Kerouac in Columbus, Ohio, on July 16th with Philip Kim and Jason Dutton.
* The Boy Who Could Fly on If You Make It. Gush.
* Frank Hinton pens an ode to Cassandra Troyan.
* Pop Serial #2 is online now.
* John Also Bennett responds to Osama bin Laden's death.
* Word Wild Records released a split 10-inch by Snarlas and Pink Houses.
* Download DJ Power Smoke's set from E-Hole.
* Download Tin Armor's Life of Abundance here and their tribute to The Modern Lovers here.
* A video of Lightning Yin Yang playing the Monster House.
* Dina Sherman's show Nothing is Very Complicated just opened at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
* Berea Fest is happening on July 16th in Berea, Ohio.
* Alexis Bhagat is delivering a lecture entitled 'The Cinema as a Concert Hall for the 21st Century' on July 14th at Skylab.
* Help the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* Help Spooktober release their 10-inch album.

Books I Read in the First Half of 2011

2011-06-28T03:13:00.006-05:00

After the jump is a list of books I read in the first six months of 2011.

Stephane Hessel – Indignez-Vous! – 1/8/11

Slavoj Zizek – First As Tragedy, Then As Farce – 1/13/11

John Berger – And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos – 1/15/11

Cassandra Troyan – The Things We Embody Are The Things We Destroy – 1/18/11

Sara Drake – Small Advices – 1/22/11

Simon Critchley – The Book of Dead Philosophers – 1/25/11

Anne Elizabeth Moore – The Manifesti of Radical Literature – 1/27/11

Donna Haraway – The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness – 2/2/11

Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway – 2/9/11

Wendy Lee Spacek – Oscines – 2/10/11

Terry Eagleton – How To Read A Poem – 2/11/11

Julia Wertz – Drinking at the Movies – 2/12/11

Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons – 2/13/11

Claudia Nashon – The Art of William Steig – 2/14/11

William Steig – Ruminations – 2/15/11

Mark Strand – Hopper – 2/16/11

C.F. – Powr Mastrs 3 – 2/16/11

Brecht Evens – The Wrong Place – 2/17/11

John Kenneth Galbraith – The Economics of Innocent Fraud – 2/20/11

Philip Roth – The Breast – 2/23/11

William Steig – Drawings – 2/24/11

Wiliam Steig – Sick of Each Other – 2/26/11

Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons – 2/26/11

Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea – 2/26/11

Nina Kaiden – Artist and Advocate: An Essay on Corporate Personage – 2/28/11

Emma N. Young – So Soon We Shall See – 2/28/11

Nicholas Rombes – A Cultural Dictionary of Punk – 3/1/11

Paul Strathern – Plato in 90 Minutes – 3/3/11

Wendy Spacek – Hypnagogia – 3/4/11

Matt Furie – Boy’s Club 4 – 3/6/11

Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound – 3/7/11

Tom Stoppard – After Magritte – 3/7/11

Steve Roggenbuck – DOWNLOAD HELVETICA FOR FREE.COM – 3/12/11

Eugene Ionesco – Foursome – 3/13/11

Philip Hofer – Los Caprichos – 3/15/11

Philip Hofer – The Disasters of War – 3/15/11

Joseph Risel – Goya: Another Look – 3/15/11

Dwight Garner – Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements – 3/18/11

Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree – 3/19/11

Simon Blackburn – Plato’s Republic: A Biography – 3/22/11

Aaron Miller – Party Life #1 – 3/27/11

John Baker – Arguing for Equality – 3/28/11

Clifford Ross – The World of Edward Gorey – 3/30/11

Karen Wilkins – Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey – 4/4/11

Jack Murnighan – Beowulf on the Beach – 4/7/11

Adrian Tomine – Scenes from an Impending Marriage – 4/10/11

C.F. – The Core of Caligula – 4/10/11

Ariel Schrag – Stuck in the Middle – 4/12/11

Jacques Prevert – Paroles – 4/13/11 (French and English)

Andrew Brighton – Introducing Picasso – 4/16/11

Ed Choy Moorman – Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden – 4/19/11

Jordan Castro & Mallory Whitten – Cute – 4/23/11

Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters – 4/25/11

Adam Gopnik – Paris to the Moon – 5/3/11

Michael Garland – Dinner at Magritte’s – 5/4/11

James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room – 5/14/11

Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One – 5/15/11

Edward Gorey – Amphigorey Also – 5/25/11

Sappho – Poems – 6/3/11

Charles Baudelaire – Paris Spleen – 6/13/11

Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley – 6/21/11

Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull – 6/22/11

James Sutton – Signs in Action – 6/23/11

James Baldwin - Nobody Knows My Name - 6/28/11
Ana C. & Richard Chiem - Oh No, Everything is Wet Now - 6/28/11

Party Pics

2011-06-16T23:14:00.001-05:00

Assuming Size is Sold Out

2011-06-13T20:49:00.004-05:00

Assuming Size has sold out. (Though the Wexner Center Store may beg to differ.)

In other news, this interview with Chicago friendsie Leslie Perrine by Elizabeth Gilmore at Design Bureau.

Recordings of Wolfs, Psychedelic Horseshit, Seabat

2011-06-13T02:12:00.006-05:00

The constituent parts of Wolfs. Wolfs just released its demo "MMXI."

The Wolfs* recording is from the 6/12/11 show at Bat Chapters in Columbus, Ohio.

The Seabat and Psychedelic Horseshit recordings are from the 6/8/11 show at Skylab, my new abode in Columbus, Ohio.

Scroll through tracks on the above player to listen to each band. The playlist goes as follows:

(1) Psychedelic Horseshit
(2) Seabat
(3) Wolfs

Or download.

* Spelling intentional.

New Buttons

2011-06-10T02:52:00.000-05:00