"Silence is the best soundtrack. Minutiae makes me laugh. Is it storytelling or story-showing? Memorization leads to broadcasting. Honing. Forming bands and performing texts. Safety net or hammock? The audience is an inanimate object. Conglomeration facing speakers. Words may elicit mirth. It's like a recital. Long as I stick to the script."--Mike Daily, Paul Ash drums, Graham Payne bass, Whitney Woolf electronics. Recorded on November 23, 2009 at The Enginehouse. Portland, Oregon.
Matthew Simmons: "I should warn you that the book is in second person. Which means that it refers to a person doing things as you. It's not actually you. [Laughter.] None of this actually happened to you. As far as I know. It's just me. But, you know, it's fiction though, so it's not even me really. It's, uh...who knows who it is."
Matthew Simmons is the author of the novella A Jello Horse from Publishing Genius Press. He is the interviews editor for Hobart, the publisher of Happy Cobra Books, and The Man Who Couldn’t Blog at themanwhocouldntblog.blogspot.com. Matthew Simmons reads pages 21-26 from A Jello Horse at Ampersand in Portland, Oregon, on November 22, 2009. Filmed by Mike Daily.
Matthew Simmons is the author of the novella A Jello Horse from Publishing Genius Press. He is the interviews editor for Hobart, the publisher of Happy Cobra Books, and The Man Who Couldn’t Blog at themanwhocouldntblog.blogspot.com. Matthew Simmons reads pages 60-65 from A Jello Horse at Ampersand in Portland, Oregon, on November 22, 2009. Filmed by Mike Daily.
EVERYBODY'S SCENE BOOK RELEASE PARTY: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 3-5PM, CHANNEL 1, 220 STATE ST., NEW HAVEN, CT, FREE ENTRY, ALL AGES, DOOR PRIZES, MUSICAL GUEST MALCOLM TENT
EVERYBODY'S SCENE BOOK RELEASE PARTY: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 8PM, CAFE 9, NEW HAVEN, CT, 21+, $5, GIVEAWAYS, DOOR PRIZES, FREE VEGAN FOOD, LIVE BANDS LOST GENERATION AND POWERSURGE + DJ LEACH
O'Grady's Note: Click to arthurmag.com for free PDF downloads of Vanessa Veselka's excellent novel ZAZEN. I filmed Vanessa reading Chapter 15, "Head of John the Baptist," Monday night. Arthur posted the two videos this morning. Vanessa Veselka is my new favorite writer. Only a musician could have written a book like this. Zazen.
Vanessa Veselka reads Chapter 15 ("Head of John the Baptist") from her novel ZAZEN. Arthur Magazine is publishing ZAZEN online at arthurmag.com Click for free PDF downloads of the novel. Chapter 15 was posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. There are 30 chapters in all. Vanessa Veselka is a writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress and a mother. Her work has appeared in Bust, Bitch, Maximum Rock n Roll, Yeti Magazine and Tin House. ZAZEN is her first novel. She is online at vanessaveselka.wordpress.com Filmed by Mike Daily.
"Celebrate Ash St Saloon 15th bday all day and night, at 6 see Mike Daily perform a piece of literary astral projection as i kabuki." -- Reuben Nisenfeld Saturday at 3:25 PM via Selective Twitter Status (Portland, OR) Mike Daily performed "Mr. Viced Honest: These are the Facts" in memory of gagaku poet Steve Richmond (1941-2009) with Reuben Nisenfeld kabuki improv on October 31, 2009, at Ash Street Saloon for the club's 15th Year Anniversary Halloween Party.
Main Stage 9:30 Frank Furter and the HotDogs 10:15 Hillstomp 11:55 Pierced Arrows
2nd Stage 8pm to 9:30pm Dj's Miss Carriage & His Terectomy
1st Stage(BBQ'ing on back Patio 4 to 8) 4:00pm Elvis - Party Kick off performance! 4:15pm Kate Mann 5:00pm Westward, The Wagons 6:00pm Mike Daily 7:00pm Chris Newman Undead Acoustic
Cover Charge 1st Stage:$2 (wristbands for all event access on sale at 3:30pm at Ash St door)
Cover Charge @ 8:00pm:$10 (day of advance wristbands $10)
Raffle sponsors include: Music Millennium, Imperial Tattoo, Toadhouse (Recording), Bart's Barbershop, Barberama, Voodoo Doughnut, and PBR. Over a $1000 in Prizes (over 20 prizes in all). Raffle announced after Hillstomp's set.
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Mr. Viced Honest played "Charmian Kittredge" and "Listen" at "Music, Words & Glitch" at The Tonic Lounge in Portland, OR, on July 9, 2009. Mr. Viced Honest was Adam Hungate, Luke Strahota, Chutz Ponderosa, Whitney Woolf and Mike Daily. Filmed by Gabe Barber.
Mr. Viced Honest is playing its debut show on Thursday, July 9, 2009, at The Tonic Lounge (3100 NE Sandy) in Portland, OR. We will be one of seven bands/performers on the bill for "An Evening of Music, Words & Glitch."
"Listen" features Luke Strahota on drums, Adam Hungate on guitar, Whitney Woolf on electronics, Chutz Ponderosa on bass, Mike Daily reciting "listen" by Steve Richmond ("listen we sacrifice the fame / stick to poetry / make a move into prose / and somehow we've lost / that certain touch / that shoe in my face / it's the novelist's fame / that short story writer / is only a short / story writer / listen we stick to poetry / we didn't want all that / false publicity / all that crap to build a / legend / listen we had a few hobbies / we had a t.v. / we had a record player / we had / a dozen healthy plants" / "listen" by Steve Richmond [1976, Red Work, Black Widow], with additional lyrics by Daily: "Mr. Viced Honest / Mr. Viced Honest / Mr. Viced Honest / superb! / he wrote / he fed birds wild seed / when his washer broke he filled it with dirt / and planted a fern / he bet on boxing: / Hagler over Hearns / Marvelous! / he wrote / he yearned for two paid weeks in Europe / but / why go anywhere? / his personal credo? / have no living heroes"
"Get one musician to perform and you have a concert. Get seven together, add elements of spoken word and sound experimentation, and you get ART. So goes the formula for this unique night of overlapping performances." --The Portland Mercury An Evening of Music, Words & Glitch, 9 p.m., Thursday July 9, The Tonic Lounge, 3100 N. Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR 97232; 21+, $5, www.myspace.com/thetoniclounge
Mr. Viced Honest is a psychedelic rock show featuring novelist Mike Daily, writer of Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story. "MR VICED HONEST" is an anagram for "STEVE RICHMOND." www.myspace.com/mrvicedhonest
Onemachine creates sound sculptures from tape loops, analog effects, vintage hi-fi equipment, multiple sound-making gadgets and electronic inventions. No computers, digital instruments, recorders or samplers are used. www.myspace.com/1machine
Mike Daily performs "Mr. Viced Honest" at Portland Aggressive: An Evening of Tough Love at Ella Street Social Club in Portland, Oregon, on May 28, 2009. Filmed by Whitney Woolf. www.myspace.com/mrvicedhonest
ALARM . . .
Click HERE to check out the MySpace profile for more info (news, reviews, excerpts, MP3s, videos) concerning my novel and double-CD release, ALARM (Stovepiper Books Media, July 2007).
I write for readers and for listeners. The only meditation I practice is lyrics. Silence is the best soundtrack. Minutiae makes me laugh. Is it storytelling or story-showing? Memorization leads to broadcasting. Honing. Forming bands and performing texts. Safety net or hammock? The audience is an inanimate object. Conglomeration facing speakers. Words may elicit mirth. It's like a recital. Long as I stick to the script.
I'm trying to work on my rapport. Smile. Have fun onstage for a change. It doesn't always have to be so serious. Is it public address or spectacle? Keep it simple, tell the truth. Tell it simply, keep it true. True to what? Real life. Fictionalization inevitably becomes necessary. The old thin veil and stitching. Spruce it up as needed and prune it down for flow. Self-publishing isn't the bane it used to be. D.I.Y. Did it yourself? Do it again.
Notebooks are kept as coffers of sketches, snippets, perspectives. Fodder. Mechanical pencils require more clicks than mouses. I prefer lead to ink. It's easier to erase.
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "The Life and Times of Major Fiction", "Alarm" and "Anthrax" by O'GRADY (Brian Crowl, M D, jDUB, Francis Plague) at Ash Street Saloon on July 6, 2006. We opened for CAC.
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "Los Angeles" by O'GRADY on 07.06.06.
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "Drum Machines" by O'GRADY on 07.06.06.
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "Alarm", "Anthrax", bits of "Los Angeles" and "Oh for Fook's Sake!" by O'GRADY at Disjecta Gallery on July 20, 2006.
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "Only Girls Can Smoke in Here" and "The Life and Times of Major Fiction" by O'GRADY at Ash Street on July 29, 2006.
MYSPACE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "Archivalism" and "Major Fiction" by O'GRADY on July 20, 2006 for the Northwest Edge III: The End of Reality Anthology/DVD (Chiasmus Press) Publication Party at Disjecta.
MYSPACE VIDEO: Click HERE to Watch "Only Girls Can Smoke in Here" by O'GRADY filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street.
MYSPACE VIDEO: Click HERE to watch "The Life & Times of Major Fiction" Pt. I by O'GRADY at Towne Lounge on June 18, 2006.
