SPILLING FORTH THE JUICES PECULIAR TO THE UNION OF DIAMOND MOUTH SURPRISE AND UNICORN EVIL RECORDS!!!!!
WITH:
ALEX PHILLIPS & BILL GILLIM poetry/music
MICHAEL BARRON, JAMES COPELAND
& WILLIAM RAHILLY poetry/music
SARA JAFFE fictionLUCY IVES poetry
CASIMIR KRUPINKSY photographs
And a DJ set by Pendu Disco/Fingered Media’s HARRISON OWEN
And thus the angel of spring risen dry and gleaming and bejeweled from the cold river that flowed from the dark heart of the holy mountain handed to Diamond Mouth Surprise her secret spring prayer. She told Diamond Mouth Surprise to revere the loud chant as the quintessence of the essences.
“The essence of things is the earth. The essence of the earth is the water. The essence of the water is the plant. The essence of the plant is the animal and person. The essence of the person is breath and speech. The essence of the speech breath is the hymn. The essence of the hymn is the chant. The essence of the chant is the loud chant. The loud chant underlies the earth the water the plants the animal. It is all that is inhaled. It underlies every exhalation.”
On Friday May 20th join yourself as Diamond Mouth Surprise and chant with you in honor of the angel of spring and her prayer. There will be music to chant over. There will be words to chant with. There will be beautiful pictures to provoke your own loud chant. And there will be extra microphones turned loud enough to get your voice to the heart of the holiest mountain. There the angel of spring waits and listens with her infinite ears.
THIS SPECIAL DIAMOND MOUTH SURPRISE DOUBLES AS THE NYC
RELEASE PARTY FOR THE FIRST OFFERINGS OF UNICORN EVIL RECORDS, AN IMPRINT OF THE WESTERN MASS INSTITUTION (AND DMS BUDDIES) FLYING OBJECT!!!!!!!!!!
FREE
Doors at 8pm, starting promptly at 8:30
$2 beer
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ALEX PHILLIPS is an Assistant Professor and Director of Assessment and Curriculum Development at Commonwealth College, the honors college at the University of Massachusetts. His book-length poem, CRASH DOME, was recently named one of the strongest books of poetry of 2010 by readers of The Believer.
BILL GILLIM sings in the band Tigercity and records and performs solo work as Megafortress. Many years ago he played in the band Bears with Alex Phillips. He lives, records, and prays in the Shy Girlz Doritos Dome.
Hot Face is a new collaborative work by MICHAEL BARRON, JAMES COPELAND, and WILLIAM RAHILLY. Michael is an editor at New Directions and a member of Supermachine (reading series & journal) and Holy Spirits (the band). James is Managing Director of Ugly Duckling Presse and the creator of miscellaneous print objects, most recently Fax II. William is an artist and musician and has made numerous videos, including the feature-length Blastulacon in 2010. This group of people has done performances like this before at different places in NYC and Baltimore, and collaborated on a 7” for Unicorn Evil records.SARA JAFFE is a writer, musician, and teacher currently living in Brooklyn. She plays guitar in the present-perfect-tense band Realia, and is an editor at New Herring Press, a brand new purveyor of prose chapbooks. She will miss you when she moves to Portland this summer.
CASIMIR KRUPINKSY was born on an outer ring of Saturn sometime during the 1980’s. Once, as a small boy, he put his head to the surface of the ring and watched a caravan of cowboys cross the horizon on horseback. He has followed them from a distance ever since. Casimir also enjoys taking photos.
LUCY IVES is the author of Anamnesis (Slope Editions 2009). She lives in NY and is a contributing editor at Triple Canopy.
HARRISON OWEN is the resident DJ at Pendu Disco, a regular Brooklyn party he helped start in the beginning of 2010 that features new electronic bands making music at the darker end of the dance spectrum. Harrison also makes videos for some of these bands, including Excepter, Indian Jewelry, and Psychic Ills. His video zine, FINGERED, has documented the art and music scenes in Montreal, Mexico City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. A little radiation won’t stop him from going to Japan.
