Tuesday, January 31, 2012
☣ poem4 poem of no commaz (long poem)
everybody wants their taco bell children
to throw up in cold wilderness
bless dark chocolate
with solvent eyelids blue
sweep under rugs rogue archers
rants a mile a minute
dojos the color of despair
clipped measles the size of wal-marts
dark and mischievous
drunk janitors feasting on the homeless hearts
of unheard rodents
brie and dirt bikes galore
wrestling elvis quipped
why beneath em did it seem
somebody's clavicle wore a monocle
so shin splints see
sim city nightmares played inside
the whore's music video
volunteers shrieked
at the sight of the sullen
unfed kids wedded webfooted to
the naked night
the seeing eye collapsed onto itself
and the bookshelf collided
with a traffic jam
in hell
minus four felt agony
shirt curdled shit out in the wind
westerly the jets strapped nimble
linked in to nexuses next to diamond
metaphoric climates
for change
treatment festered in texas
away from the wings
flapping furiously
fueling cities upon cities of fools
the ice age moreover wilted when it
pondered wildly
suggestive interpretative dance
born of drool
and then the cable came back quickly
with a flash and network news
the anchorman banned insects
metric inklings
lasers of therapeutic remorse
how does it work out
how does it work
how does it work out in the end
Monday, January 30, 2012
gibberjabber dic poem #51: "55 People"
This daily feature involves me spitting gibberish (like 'speaking in tongues') into a simple iPhone 4 dictation app and taking a screencap of the results. See the process here.
Wally Harvey's 21st album: Come Inside Awhile
Wally Harvey is a brilliant Brazilian-born world famous folk singer-songwriter. I've been collecting his vinyl for years (he's made over 1,000 albums and counting!). The cover art is wonderful and I'd love to share it with you.
☣ MP3: M.I.A. - "Bad Girls"
MP3: M.I.A. - "Bad Girls"
The official jam drops tomorrow, via Interscope, which is a record label. Get some. Hot-ass album art taboot. Damn.
Music History: The Advantage
I have over 52,000 songs in my iTunes library (~300gb, ~130 days)--jealous much? But as digital capacity inches toward infinity, I hope to one day own EVERY song ever recorded. This daily feature (Music History™) attempts to chronicle the music I currently have in alphabetical order.
ARTIST: The Advantage
ALBUM(s) and/or MP3s: s/t (2004)
NOTES: Novelty outfit that specializes in groove-based, full-band rock versions of theme music from old Nintendo games.
WIKIPEDIA | MORE: Music History
Alternate Confederate Flag Design #21: Romantic Parking
"Alternate Confederate Flag Designs" is a daily blog art feature by Vernon Howl about racism, The South and taking back what's ours in the night. #ERACISM
ART: "STOP" [Print] by Vernon Howl
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Bet of the Day: Magic @ 76ers - Under 179 (-110)
2012 Bet of the Day Results: 7-13
The "Bet of the Day™" is nightly feature at vernonhowl.com (M-F) where Vernon Howl share a guarantee sport winner with big payout! 
P4KMP, Vol. XX: Lana Del Ray, Porcelain Raft, Shlohmo, The 2 Bears,
This project is my attempt to chronicle every P4K review of 2012: every reference, score, and critic; whether or not the album can be (easily) downloaded illegally (DL: YES or NO); and [some final objective TBD].
DL: YES. REFERENCES:Emile Haynie, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Mike Daly, Plain White Ts, Whiskeytown, Rick Nowels, Belinda Carlisle, Fiona Apple, Paris Hilton, Lily Allen, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Bette Midler (16)
DL: YES. REFERENCES: Porcelain Raft/Mauro Remiddi, Marc Bolan, John Lennon, David Bowie, Beach House, Neon Indian, Pink Floyd (7)
DL: NO. REFERENCES:Shlohmo/Henry Laufer, Mount Kimble (2)
DL: NO. REFERENCES: Raf Rundell/DJ Raf Daddy, Hot Chip, Joe Goddard, Kraftwerk, Wiley, Hot City, Steely Dan, Digital Underground (9)
DL: YES. REFERENCES: Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Akon (4)
Fake Album #60: Familiar Blur
1. Dire Dad and Me
2. The House Fire
3. Headache Clouds
4. Kid Combat
5. Innocent Mob Trance
6. Yule Zoom
7. Tapestry Quack (Boredom)
8. 55 Alive
9. Post-Magnificent Bloom Wake
10. Long Wilts the Grime of Our Love
11. It's Each Day a New Song
12. Devil Lake
13. Sappy Lateral
14. Requested Survival
15. This is the Command
16. Bedroom
17. Sill-Sitter, Shitty Drinker
18. Wrong Cum Bubble
19. Easterly Revisions
20. In the Night Sweet Air Revisiting
21. Earth.0
22. Tiger to Rile Up the Nothingness
23. Advertising (23)
24. Polka Coda Toadstool
This fake album sounds like a bunch of jumpy punk songs that are about a very average suburban family. Fake Pitchfork rating: 7.0
If you would like to own a print of this beautiful fake album cover go here
VIDEO ART: "Dinoio" by Vernon Howl
Click here for the ever-growing list of Vernon Howl experimental video art shorts available on the internet
Guided by Voices Ringtone of the Day™ - "Old Battery"
M4R: "Old Battery"
From the album Devil Between My Toes (1987)
-more GBV ringtones-
The Guided by Voices Ringtone of the Day™ is a special daily feature at vernonhowl.com attempting to create a 30-second ringtone out of every song in the entire Guided by Voices and extended Robert Pollard discography (1,000s of songs). If you enjoy these, please support the artists by purchasing the albums or buying merch from The Factory of Raw Essentials.
From the album Devil Between My Toes (1987)
-more GBV ringtones-
The Guided by Voices Ringtone of the Day™ is a special daily feature at vernonhowl.com attempting to create a 30-second ringtone out of every song in the entire Guided by Voices and extended Robert Pollard discography (1,000s of songs). If you enjoy these, please support the artists by purchasing the albums or buying merch from The Factory of Raw Essentials.
☣ VERSION 3.3 of ME
am hobbled
all hand s on deck
all hand s on deck
NCA
New Church of the Absurd
tm
time running out
RANDOM PHRASE: broadcast tick
"broadcast tick" (FLARF POEM) by Vernon Howl
we can satisfy multiple requests
there is no significant
heterogeneous deadline
attack dogs, but cats are rarely infested
random phrase created via watchout4snakes.com.
we can satisfy multiple requests
there is no significant
heterogeneous deadline
attack dogs, but cats are rarely infested
random phrase created via watchout4snakes.com.
☣ literal visuals work
i'm hungry
& so tired w/ the dealing w/ the dealing w/ death
just want to sleep inside a work of art
a constant state of nausea
only on bravo
VOL. XXII: Uttoxeter railway station
Uttoxeter railway station "serves the town of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It is served by trains on the Crewe-Derby Line which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line." I imagine there is a hotel & restaurant like the above across the street from every train station in England.
☣ D'Angelo covers David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in Paris
I'm a big fan of the fan-filmed concert youtube (duh). I like that D'Angelo is a little glowing pink and blue bug. I like seeing that bug through the screen of another camera at 0:38. I like.
The Tarantula
The boy trimmed his pet tarantula in the red house. Its black and yellow fur had grown long for the winter but, now that spring was in the air, it needed to be trimmed.
The boy's father had purchased the red house with a large sack of money he found in a water fountain. It was a reverse wishing well. People woud take sacks of money out of it instead of throwing change in. The father thought this was a much better use of public funds and was grateful for the sack of money. The money took longer to dry than he expected, though. The whole family was living in a cave at the time and there was very little sunlight. They watched the many hundred dollar bills dry on the cold cave floor for close to six months. The mother and sister caught crickets and boiled them for food. The father and son were in charge of the watching and could not for one second stop looking at the money. The red house was the first one they looked after the cash was dry and the producers of House Hunters picked them up in a van.
There was some leftover money and the son asked his dad if he could buy a pet and the father said why not. So that is how the tarantula came to live in the red house. It was difficult to trim the giant spider and the boy wondered if it was really even necessary. Maybe it will shed, the boy thought. He stopped and put the tarantula back in the cage.
Later that night the tarantula escaped and found the father asleep at the computer in the den having passed out onto the keyboard from masturbation fatigue. The tarantula's hair was long and in his eyes, like a hippie. But he was just a spider. He bit the father and the father died. The boy tried to explain it later. He was just a stupid hippie spider and he couldn't see what he was doing. He probably thought dad was a doughnut.
The boy's father had purchased the red house with a large sack of money he found in a water fountain. It was a reverse wishing well. People woud take sacks of money out of it instead of throwing change in. The father thought this was a much better use of public funds and was grateful for the sack of money. The money took longer to dry than he expected, though. The whole family was living in a cave at the time and there was very little sunlight. They watched the many hundred dollar bills dry on the cold cave floor for close to six months. The mother and sister caught crickets and boiled them for food. The father and son were in charge of the watching and could not for one second stop looking at the money. The red house was the first one they looked after the cash was dry and the producers of House Hunters picked them up in a van.
There was some leftover money and the son asked his dad if he could buy a pet and the father said why not. So that is how the tarantula came to live in the red house. It was difficult to trim the giant spider and the boy wondered if it was really even necessary. Maybe it will shed, the boy thought. He stopped and put the tarantula back in the cage.
Later that night the tarantula escaped and found the father asleep at the computer in the den having passed out onto the keyboard from masturbation fatigue. The tarantula's hair was long and in his eyes, like a hippie. But he was just a spider. He bit the father and the father died. The boy tried to explain it later. He was just a stupid hippie spider and he couldn't see what he was doing. He probably thought dad was a doughnut.
☣ ZOMBIES are RARELY naked
It seems like zombies are rarely naked, as depicted on film and television
And this seems unrealistic to me
First of all, let's not forget about people who became zombies
while doing naked things, or things that require very light clothing
Like sleeping, fucking, pooping, showering, etc.
Secondly, you would think that slogging through a nightmare landscape
twenty-four hours a day for x number of days
one would lose their cloths to general wear and tear
pretty fast
Are we still so sexually repressed
as a society
that our zombies must wear clothes?
And this seems unrealistic to me
First of all, let's not forget about people who became zombies
while doing naked things, or things that require very light clothing
Like sleeping, fucking, pooping, showering, etc.
Secondly, you would think that slogging through a nightmare landscape
twenty-four hours a day for x number of days
one would lose their cloths to general wear and tear
pretty fast
Are we still so sexually repressed
as a society
that our zombies must wear clothes?
MUSIC VIDEO: "The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Bridge Song" by The Vernon Howl Group
The video for this song was actually recorded before the song. I used the audio track and built the instrumental from there. It's called "The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Bridge Song" because, on this particular (famous?) stretch of road, there is a bridge and a tunnel then a bride then another tunnel, then bridge again, then you have passed over the water entirely, hence the name "Bridge-Tunnel," but since I only filmed a portion of the first bridge segment that is the name I gave this song. Logic :)
FITNESS + ♫
LISTENED TO: Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
LISTENED TO: Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F Revisited; Julia Holter - Tragedy
LISTENED TO: Tin Man - Vienna Blued;
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