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Chan Marshall, of Cat Power, & Loren Connors - Live @ Tonic, NY (1999)
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Chan Marshall, of Cat Power, & Loren Connors - Live @ Tonic, NY (1999)

For a while all you could find were two recordings of tracks from this set uploaded separately. You can still find Troubled Waters, but the Leopard and the Lamb recording disappeared. Here you can you enjoy their entire performance together. The video description breaks everything down nicely, so give that a read if you wanna see the full set-list and learn about the context of the show. It’ll definitely be of interest to some noise/indie music nerds out there.

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u/SilverDraconus — 22 hours ago
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Eric Walker: Selected Poems, a lesser known disciple of Bob Kaufman and the San Francisco beat scene

Eric Walker popped into the San Francisco beat scene back in 1980 at the age of 15 and grew close with many of the influential beat figures in that scene, but in particular, Bob Kaufman.

I’m going to let this article by Raymond Foye do most of the explaining, as he includes a brief introduction by himself detailing Eric’s life, along with some of his most striking poems, plus a brief n’ beautiful memoir dedicated to and written about Bob Kaufman by Eric.

My main motivation for making this post is to inform any interested parties of the fact that you can reach out to Raymond Foye via his email (raymondfoye@gmail.com) to obtain a copy Eric’s selected work, if you so desire. Copies cost 25$ each, shipping included in that total.
*Shipping in the U.S. only

I am not being paid to do this nor am I associated with Mr. Foye in any meaningful capacity. But I reached out to Raymond a few days ago asking if any copies of Eric’s work might still be available. To my surprise and glee, he revealed he has a box or two of the books out in his garage which he was unable to get any booksellers to distribute. He gave me the green light to make a post about it, so here I am.

Article should be linked at the top of the post, for any one interested in learning about Eric and his connections to beat literature.

I’ll be cross posting this a few different places to make sure the word hits the right eyes. Figured this was the best place to start from though

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u/SilverDraconus — 3 months ago
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A few favorites (authors & covers) part 2, with a friend 🐈‍⬛

Stopped at my folks today to grab a few things and take some pics after our day out. Our cat, Neo, was hanging out in and around my room. He decided to pop in to say hello at one point 😆 included a few more pics this time around for the sake of detail.

Meant to include the Everson collection in my last post, as I already had that one with me, but alas, it was stored away in my back-pack at the time. Really like the extra step they went to include a photo of Everson as a young man, in contrast to a photo of him as Brother Antonius on the back. It seems the back cover photo was taken a bit after the time period of work included in the book (publication date for that photo appears to be 1967, from what I can find), but I’m unsure of this.

Only thing I really forgot I think is my Bibelot collecting some of Delmore Schwartz’s work. The design is pretty much identical to the Lorca one posted a little while back, so we’re not missing anything really. Just think they are cute lil volumes.

u/SilverDraconus — 3 months ago
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A few of favorites (authors & covers), part 1

Here is a small selection of some of my favorite covers, along with a few authors regularly published by ND whom I truly admire. Haven’t read most of the books featured here quite yet, but I’ve perused each, at least. Did recently finish ‘The Bones of the Earth’ by Carol Jane Bangs. It was a fairly quick read but each poem packed a knock-out punch imo. Went right up there with Actual Air by DCB as one of my favorite books of poetry.

Made an attempt at Sleepers Awake about 2 years back at this point, but ended up having to put it down about half-way through because of how thoroughly lost I got.

The covers by Patchen and Ferlighetti might be favorites, in terms of their art and design. Love to see the authors personal artworks featured. Their sketchy, not-so-immediately pleasing styles really appeal to me. Patchen’s art in particular has a sort of cartoonish/goofy aspect at times that can catch you off guard because of his often dead serious tone (especially the cover for Sleepers Awake)

Excited to share some more of my favorites when I can get back to my parent’s place and survey the books stored over there!

u/SilverDraconus — 3 months ago
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Who learns my bookshelves complete?

Posted here about a year back with some stacks of books I had read, and a bunch I was planning to read. Have recently come into a new living situation and can now conform to the rules of the sub a bit more and actually show you guys some shelves.

Wanted to hear some new thoughts now that I’ve updated my rotation a bit and taken some of the advice I got on my last post. Not my many people guessed at my age or what kind of person I was last time. Know it’s probably pretty easy to figure out 😆 but hopefully a few more folks take a shot at that this time around. My tastes are still very much in the same vein, but I think there’s at least bit more variety in terms of the authors and their backgrounds.

Know my shelf is almost entirely fiction, poetry, and generally whimsical fare. Would love to hear any non-fiction recommendations folks may have, even if they don’t necessarily fit with what I have featured.

A few notes on obscured or non-visible books -

Top shelf:
Allen Ginsberg collected poems, 1947-1980 + Cosmopolitan Greetings

Behind the State Capitol, or Cincinnati Pike is by John Wieners

Two Stories by Alex Graham is placed in front of The Bluest Eye

100 Demons by Lynda Barry, Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes, and Leviathan by Peter Blegvad are all placed behind Simon Hanselmann’s Seeds & Stems

Middle shelf:
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander

The Walking Away World by Kenneth Patchen

Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector

If on a winters night traveler by Italo Calvino

Dr. Sax & On the Road by Jack Kerouac

A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda

Foundation by Issac Asimov

Bottom shelf:
Frank Stanford collection/ Hidden Water, What about this: Collected poems, The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, Two editions of the battlefield where the moon says I love you (published by Lost Roads & Arkansas)

One with the Others & Rising, Falling, Hovering by C.D. Wright

Bonus Shelf:
Issues 1-3 of Harlan Ellison dream corridor

Issues 2 & 5 of Bondage Fairies

2 full runs of Concrete, The Human Dilemma & Fragile Creature + The Earth Day issue

Sacred and Profane by Justin Green

Fall 2020 Los Angeles Times featuring various cartoonists, edited by Sammy Harkham

Full Moon Funnies by Nate Garcia & M. Yaxam

u/SilverDraconus — 3 months ago