Jan 18, 2010, 1:03pm
3hive

Alisa and I read differently. She reads for plot. I for sentences. Sleepingfish publishes writers whose first concern is the sound of their sentences. Music without notes. Just tone and rhythm. Rhythm and mood. Consider this sentence from this issue: She is unaware of the little bits of fabric he would sew into her palms: in private she squelches her poise and it is awful to hear silence exist in such a perfect American accent. [Julie Doxsee excerpt] Sleepingfish not-so-regularly publishes such work from some my favorite writers: Peter Markus , Dawn Raffel, Diane [...]

NYC's Poem Rocket are one of my favourite unheralded noise/art rock bands. They released a number of singles in the mid-90s (see their site for a full discography ) that were compiled on 1995's Felix Culpa (on PCP Entertainment ). They've also released three albums to date, 1997's Infinite Retry on Parallel Time-out , 2000's Psychogeography , and, according to their new website , a double CD in 2007 called Invasion! that I plan to download from eMusic very soon. Poem Rocket create a lovely din, at times recalling Nation of [...]

So I guess you could say things have been a little quiet round these parts. Both in my number of appearances and in some of my musical postings. Well, the first I can only explain by saying that I've not had a great deal to say of late. Which isn't to say I've been short on inspiration. Rather, I've been catching up on a lot of music that has either passed me by or that i haven't been able to devote enough time to listen to. Both of which have resulted in my mind being so [...]