The Green, Green Heart

My short film "The Green, Green Heart" will be premiering at The 2009 Sarasota Fringe Film Festival. The short is based on the story "Love For Sale" in Cool Thing. Hope you all get a chance to see it. xxoo

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Submit for this if you want

BEST GAY EROTICA 2010

Short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, narrative artwork, erotic
essays - original or reprint - are now being accepted for Best Gay
Erotica 2010 (the 15th edition), to be published by Cleis Press in
November 2009. Maximum length preferred: 6,000 words; no minimum.
Reprints must have appeared in print or online, or been scheduled to
appear, between July 2008 and July 2009. BGE is not a "theme"
anthology, so anything goes - any fantasy, all flesh, any kink, every
genre - as long as the work is intensely erotic, lusciously literary,
and quite, quite queer. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2009;
35-40 stories will be selected by series editor Richard Labonte from
among the submissions. Winners will be selected from the finalists by
this year's judge, Blair Mastbaum, author of two novels - the Lambda
Literary Award-winner Clay's Way and Us Ones In Between - and editor
(with Will Fabro) of the writers-under-30 anthology, Cool Thing.
Queries and submissions to: bge2010 at gmail.com, in .doc format.

Got the THING

Hey Gang:

Got Cool Thing in the mail last night. Enjoying the stories thus far. What a wonderfully weird batch we've hatched! Quite eye-opening, and an awesome glimpse into the future of queer writing. Kudos!

new website

So I have been sick for awhile and in my sickness I have managed to pull myself together and finally get my site off the ground.


Check it out:

http://minorprogression.com/







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lets buy tickets and get out of this country!!

If you live in California please vote NO on prop 8.

Prop 8: ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

It violates both the CA State and US Constitutions.

Amendment 14 from the US Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The way the prop is worded also makes it so that CA would not have to recognize marriages preformed in other states which violates Article IV of the US Constitution: "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."

It also violates the CA state Constitution as the CA state Constitution prohibits discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. Which is why the state Supreme courted ruled that prop 22 was unconstitutional.

Please vote no!

http://www.noonprop8.com

Queer Horror Anthology - Book Trailer

Unspeakable Horror, which will feature my story "Bluff," has come out with a trailer for the anthology. It's pretty cool:

Oblivion

This whole David Foster Wallace killing himself thing really bothers me. I truly hated "Oblivion,"with a passion... I can't recall any book that I have despised as much as that one and yet his death has me reeling. Maybe it's because his writing did have such a profound affect on me (albeit a negative one, but profound nonetheless) that this has shaken me up so much.

Geyser!: and the fabulous Kevin Killian

So the fabulous Kevin Killian recently asked me to perform in his new play, Geyser! The play was co-written with Wayne Smith.

Here is a write up:

Geyser!, a new play by Kevin Killian & Wayne Smith

with
Stephen Boyer
Taylor Brady
David Brazil
Gerald Corbin
Craig Goodman
Glen Helfand
Cliff Hengst
Scott Hewicker
Tanya Hollis
Colter Jacobsen
Kevin Killian
Mac McGinnes
Anne McGuire
Karla Milosevich
Rex Ray
Laurie Reid
Jocelyn Saidenberg
Wayne Smith
Suzanne Stein
Margaret Tedesco


The small town of Geyser, Oregon was once the setting for a television series that attempted to combine elements of family drama and science education. The show was in its second season in 1978 when a tragedy on set caused it to shut down midseason, and now that it’s been released on DVD, Geyser! has found new fans to join the tiny cult audience it’s known since its untimely cancellation—and they’re all flocking to Oregon this summer, as the brave little town welcomes back members of the original cast and the worldwide fan club at a Geyser! festival. But the town has secrets. Mayor Constance Strode, struggling with her own family drama, tries to promote tourism while fending off the attentions of Bobo, leader of a radical clown collective on the outskirts of town. Screen actor Dennis Quaid, who first sprang to national attention as the young hero of Geyser! returns to the scene of the series with the bewildering knowledge that all of his female recent co-stars, from Reese Witherspoon to Ellen Barkin, have been swept away to sea. Rival TV talk show hosts Rick Penny and Kitty Potter return to wring every scrap of drama and nostalgia to the airwaves, while Marjorie Cantrell, the first lady of the American theater and star of the lamented TV show, Geyser!, emerges from a 30 year retirement in grand Sunset Boulevard fashion with her loyal butler, Crimmins. As excited fans gather from round the world, the hot water coursing through the deep underground caverns below them gurgles, groans and steams to the surface. It’s all in a town—and a show—called Geyser!



Kevin Killian is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright whose recent work includes “Kiki: The Proof Is in the Pudding,” a retrospective exhibition at Ratio 3, a book of reviews Selected Amazon Reviews (2006), a collection of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001). He has also edited a collection of short stories by the late Sam D’Allesandro, The Wild Creatures (2005). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written over thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino) and Often (2001, with Barbara Guest).

Wayne Smith is a visual and sound artist who lives and works in San Francisco. He collaborated with Berlin-based artist D-L Alvarez on a sound and video installation shown at the Derek Eller Gallery, New York, in April 2007. New work will be shown at 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, in November 2008. Recording as Aero Mic’d, he has released four CDS, the latest being “I Think You’re Great.” In August 2008, joined by Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker, Aero Mic’d performed at the Schindler House in Los Angeles as part of the “sound.” series, organized by SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound).

And here are some pictures:

Philly Knows Cool

As far as I can tell, our first review is in.

The Green Green Heart Short Film

I recently completed shooting the film "The Green Green Heart" which is loosely based on the short story "Love For Sale" which will be published in Cool Thing. These are pics of Mama and Caleb, two of the main characters. I adapted the short story into a screenplay about the hidden abuse in loving relationships. All in all, it took nearly a week (12 hours each day) in order to shoot 15 minutes of film. It was the most draining, awesome, and surreal experience of my life. When you see words on paper breath life, it's humbling and magnificent all in the same moment. We plan to submit the film to several festivals this year, including Sundance and SXSW. The process was amazing, and I hope to begin work on another screenplay, upon finishing my next novel. I hope some of you get a chance to see it!

funereal

So there was a lunar eclipse or something the other day and for some reason it reminded me of Coil. I never got to see Coil live. Jhonn Balance died, it sucks. I've seen Current 93 4 times, Death in June like 5 times and I even saw fucking Nurse With Wound twice. But, I never got to see Coil. I really wish I had been able to see Coil.



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"An Unearthly Red"

HEY BABES

Hey Babes,

Is this blog still alive or is everyone overly busy with summer?? Anyway, hope all is well.... I've been writing for this website as popejohnpaul12:

FANTASTIC WEAPON

and I just got some tickets to go to:

If you're going, let me know and lets party together!! I got to work backstage a bit for the website but the majority of it will hopefully be spent dancing.

Besides that I've been spending a lot of time on nude beaches reading; favorite books of the summer are "The End of the World Book", "Barf Manifest0", "Swann's Way", and "Unwelcomeness".

When does the anthology come out??
xoxo

Cat Got Your Tongue

I have written a short film that will begin shooting at the end of July. It's based on one of my short stories, which I've twisted enough to form a new tale. This is a picture of one of the props that I found at Goodwill. Their prices have really skyrocketed, by the way. $13 for this cat. Still, it's a cool enough cat. It can find your eyes from anywhere in the room.

what i did today (abridged, estimated)

7am - woke up
830am - drank water with lemon
11am - got on bus in chinatown, nyc
115pm - got off bus in chinatown, philadelphia
2pm - ate banana
215pm - looked at lydia davis's 'the end of the story;' thought 'i hate this book'
3pm - bought shirt
4pm - ate shawarma
5pm- bought shirt
545pm - swam in the fountain at logan square
830pm - bought chinese medicine
10pm - ate soft-shell crabs
12am - got turned away at night club because i had chinese medicine in my bag
1230am - sold my wristband from said nightclub to someone for $10
1am - began waiting for bus
3am - got on bus
330am - got to travis's house