Shiver

I was riding
my bike back
from a party in West Oakland.
The sky looked like the future -
gray green and shivering with secured WiFi signals.

I swear I saw a guy with two dogs
and the dogs were pulling
a shopping cart full of empty cans
and crack dreams.

There was a kind of lazy sexuality
to the whole bike ride.
I felt like everyone would find love
after the next trip to the liquor store.
But if they failed to
another night alone would be easier,
than trying to get home from some new lover's house
in El Cerito or Albany or Fruitvale.

Two Slightly Interesting Developments

1) My supervisor ("backstock-coordinator") at American Apparel is an Ethiopian Marxist who smokes American Spirits. This makes me feel really good.

2) Met Chelsea Martin at a party last weekend. It was pretty fun. She seemed 10-15% cooler than I expected. And I did 'expect' to meet her, weirdly enough. Her sense of humor is very appealing to me. Smoked some pot with her friend (with equally appealing sense of humor), who I randomly met a week ago. Moderately stoned, left party feeling giddy due to personal matters which are just not blog material.

I 'worship satan' ironically for the pupose of promoting my personal brand

Tao Lin writes some type of innovative Erik Stinson fan fiction in email

"Dear Erik Stinson,

Thank you for your professional, polite email about your manuscript. Muumuu House's list is "full" for the next ~5-7 years, after which things seem "too uncertain, at this point" to "do anything," but if you want to email the manuscript to the Muumuu House email address I would like to "peruse" it at some point in the future, for purposes of personal enjoyment/curiousity.

Sincerely,
Tao Lin"

- From an email which passed silently between Tao Lin and Erik Stinson's gmail accounts.

Class notes

DDB Daniel and Chris recap at Beast.

Carl @ Beast seemed cool.

Look through directors links. Ad guys choose directors reels. Narrow down pool 200>7>3.

Ex: Clorox pitch. Very lame copy on PDF.

Clorox spot filmed in South Africa b/c creatives wanted to travel and save money.

Viewing of PSA and sound design.

Smoke break.

To do:
Young Guns + Print
Sensual Self-Promotion Delicious AV, Sill Images That Sell Mainstream Lifestyles

'yeah bro'

Tao Lin Fan Fiction

"Hello Tao Lin,

I have a manuscript that is ninety-five percent ready to go to a printer. It has been read through by me several times. It contains stories and a few poems, not too many. It is eighty-six pages on 5.5"x8.5" paper with one inch vertical and half inch horizontal margins, fourteen pt. Arial font. It is titled I Am Happy That You Are Grappling With My Lifechoices. Themes include class, drinking, sexuality, music, and advertising. The book stylistically or explicitly references your, Brandon Gorrell's, and Miranda July's work at various points.

If you would like to read all or any part of it please let me know. If you express no interest I will probably send it to a printer in the next one to three months.

If you express interest, I am comfortable waiting 'any length of time' to have it published by Muumuu house, meaning you could time its release to coincide with any sort of lull in activity surrounding your personal brand that might occur in the next six months to five years.

Thank you and best of luck on your book tours,
Erik Stinson
Oakland, CA
mentholuniversitypress.blogspot.com"

-from an email that was actually sent to Tao Lin

The History of Seattle Punk

“Animal Collective really phoned it in this time.”

“Total shit show.”

“Never going to Sasquatch again.”

“Oh shit you just ate all the mushrooms.”

tom waits update

MYTHIC TIME TRANCE

MYTHIC TIME TRANCE from Erik Stinson on Vimeo.

"Ghost Bitches and Sexual Cowards"

Slater would have called them diligent bitches. He was really into degrading women in subtle, interesting ways. Once he called his mom an adorable, feral Cindy Lauper. Girls just want to have fun.

We were drinking at a bar in Oakland called Ruby Room. I was having late night feelings. I was feeling heterosexual. Not really ambitious - just receptive, socially erect.

There were these two women in the bar. From across the room I saw the casual shimmer of their bangs. When they lit cigarettes, I saw bright, beautiful faces, a bit ghostly against the blackness at the back of the bar.

Damn, I thought, it's like they rose out of the deep end of an empty swimming cool. In the 1970s. All while the DJ played black metal and I had hedonistic urges: sex, greasy food, crafting pentagrams made of little sticks.

"Should we try to talk to them?" asked Slater.

"No" I said, black fires burning behind me eyes. "I'm scared of them."

"You're scared of them?"

"Yes. They terrify me profoundly."

"The two cute ones at the table?" He peered at them cheerily.

"Yes. They remind me of Edger Allen Poe and cyberspace guillotines."

"They seem normal to me," said Slater. When he said normal it sounded like down to party.

"I'm afraid of what they might make me do," I said.

"OK, well I'm going to ask them if they want to join us."

"Do people even do that?" My eyes were still on the women. My voice was flat.

"Don't be a sexual coward."

"Don't be a sexual predator," but I was totally sure that they would be eager to join us. They would probably even sleep with us if we could get through a few drinks. It was a great bar, full of promise for a bright future.

Cheerrrss

Candian PSA from Rigel Bowen on Vimeo.

chill

sometimes men are really stupid and 'fucking' pathetic

apparently this is some kind of internet community

Haiku

This beer tastes like pine
I hate fruity beers so like
this one is perfect

Do I drink too much
this bar is so fucking dark
wish this beer was dark

I like it when they
play hair metal at the bar
sounds like three cold beers

It's so stupid that
I care so much about hot
women in darkness

Sensual Canopy

Sensual Canopy from Erik Stinson on Vimeo.

WAVVVVES

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