I know this is all trendy and what-not, and most people on here are boring... especially the famous ones, who slide by on the cult of personality they have developed. I mean, who cares about the mundane aspects of anothers existence? Fiction writers learn pretty quick that merely writing about themselves is not interesting enough. OFten, they learn this after finishing their coming of age novel and not getting published. I taped prof. at columbia college one year for a video project that I wanted to put together -- in the entire year, only one was cool -- the guy who wrote Paco's Story, which won a national book award... he promptly quit teaching to be a drunken writer, though now, after a few books that don't have the backdrop of excitement like Vietnam, he is back teaching.
I kind of specialize in writing voices other than my own now, though until I was probably 28, I was staring at my navel and writing poetry about it. Mostly I wrote about a guy who was just like me and a woman who was just like my girlfreind. Then, after attending Columbia, where they really do teach you to write a short story by a method that makes you actually see the action taking place in your head. Basically we sat around in circles talking about some thing we imagined in the room, then let the image organically become a story. I could go on about it... if you want to try the method, all you need is the book and a couple writer buddies and the book Short Story Workshop. I took a lot of writing classes at different universities, but only after going here did I find stories naturally pop out of my head with all the classic elements. This is why people laugh at my work. My more serious stories are fairly hit and miss, at least in the blogs, because the ones I published in the print media are gone over for literally years... but on here, you get the first draft.
So... In the blogs, you always get the unfinished product with me. I take the best of the words and make them into books. I do this with a passion now that the government sent someone out to tell me TO JUST THINK BOOKS UP IN MY HEAD AND NEVER WRITE THEM DOWN, OR WRITE CHILDRENS BOOKS. I was stunned when this happened, as I always am a little bit when Big Brother sends someone out to mess with me. I basically told him that I would write whatever the hell I want. This was a big guy, who came up to me saying he was a professor in something... then basically launched into this crap. Oddly enough, I had said the same things out loud, while being bugged, once when I was just so freaked out by being investigated, drugged, and attacked with Quasars (for the entire first week of the radio show, I was puking my guts out... you can buy a machine to do this to your neighbors over the internet... and right wing fucks are using them against leftists. You'll find out if you ever seem like a threat to the status quo. And I am, with my work, not just threatening the status quo, I am cutting off its head and fucking its throat hole.
In fact, not to scare you off, but just coming to this site surely is recorded. Some groups print off my work from one place, then just hand it around. I can't go into that here...
Anyways, since I am thinking about going ont he Alex Jones show... I am trying to decide what to say. I think this guy may be a little over the top in some of his opinions, but after what I have been through, it is hard for me to just dismiss all the conspiracies like I once did. Maybe it was just my ill luck to have a large following on the web that they knew would just get bigger with the radio show and Bush hated me. I wrote a lot of short stories where he was a drunken baffoon, but in a way I was also polite to him. I could have had him getting ass fucked by camels for the pleasure of an audience of Sheiks... but I just parodied him. My distaste for the entire Bush clan stems not just from their giving all the middle classes money to their buddies through higher oil prices and basically , with the patriarch of the family being a guy who backed Hitler right up to WWII, has only grown over the years.
The tweets... it is better to start at the bottom and work up. If you want to get jokes from me and ragings, you can pull up tweeter and look for JohnnyPain. Must have that spelling.
I just noticed that some of the words are cut off in this.. oh, well... got to twitter... by hitting on any of the purple mugs below....
Am I listening to Tom Waits?
ReplyDeleteI'm on Twitter, and I find the famous people boring. I follow several average people that are interesting, but then, most of them are writers and readers of fiction, maybe that's why?
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ReplyDeletethere is a jukebox on here... and yes,that is Tom Waits...sorry, about saying woody gutherie, that is my other blog... this is the man,from the Blue Valentine albem -- one of my favorites.
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