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Project & Site Updates

Events | Posted by jmoore
Apr 09 2012

Water, In the Dry Land is finished and will be out from Auroe Press On April 21st. Chuck Byrd’s story “The Misadventures of Jack Jeaopardy: Defective Detective” is included in this book. Both hearken back to the glory days of pulp! This will be available on Amazon, and of course at the Comet for our launch. Live music will be provided by Liminal People, Hobilly, and The Mudlarks and Chuck and I will give readings from our books.

The Mnemosyne Transmissions project was announced year. I am still working on recordings and written material for these brodcasts. The Mnemosyne episode and the Calliope episode are all underway. Which brings me to my next announcement.

I have purchased a domain for On the Way to the Peak of Normal. The site is not up yet at peakofnormal.org, but once it is built this will be the home for On the Way to the Peak of Norma radio showss. I have a number of interviews lined up next month, and as always great music. I feel the radio show is deserving of its own site, and this will also be a place where Brian “Thriftstore Leather” can post his shows.  

This site is in need of an overhaul and it will get it. Henceforward it will be dedicated to my writing projects: fiction, non-fiction and poetry.  I’m busy in all of these areas and want to blog some of my ongoing work, as well as book reviews and portions from my dream journal, and updates on my work in the occult and the permaculture projects I have going on at the homefront.

I’ll be getting to work, with some help from my friends, on the renewed version of this site soon and the peakofnormal.org site as well, with the goal of having them up and running by May.  

Thanks for staying tuned.

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LST: Lyrical Synaesthesia Two

Events, Poetry | Posted by jmoore
Mar 01 2012

Presented by the Cincinnati Council for the Bardic Arts.

Tuesday, March 13 from 6 to 8PM at the Northside Library, 4219 Hamilton Ave. (In the Basement!)

The second in a series of poetry and short story readings, this round features Matt Hart, Nick Barrows, Abiyah and Betsy Young.

matt_hartMatt Hart is the author of several books of poetry: Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS, 2010), LIGHT-HEADED (BlazeVOX, 2011), and Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), as well as several chapbooks. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in The Awl, Big Bell, Coldfront, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, and The Lumberyard, among many others. Hart is a recipient of fellowships from both the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. A longtime musician, he currently also plays in the poetry/noise band Travel. Music from his previous musical projects has appeared on MTV and in major motion pictures, including Kevin Smith’s Mallrats. In 2011, he co-edited the reissue of the late Paul Violi’s first major collection of poems, In Baltic Circles, for the H_NGM_N BKS Reissue Series. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

nick_barrowsNICK BARROWS comes from the hills of the Westside of Cincinnati, Ohio where he began his first days behind the bar of his father’s tavern down by the river Ohio. His works have appeared in Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, Trained Monkey Press, Aurore Press, and the website Semantikon. He was also the music editor for The Citizen. Music escapades include The 4 Track All-Stars, Eagle To Squirrel, and Jack Burton Overdrive. In 2007 Barrows released his chapbook Rockets on Bibles and in the past few years he has been seething in the concrete and playing concertina.

abiyahABIYAH has an edge that you rarely find in contemporary women singers—White-bred and pre-packaged, ol’ girl isn’t. As a writer, she’s passionate and onstage she sings, rebel-yells, dub-chants or raps about empowerment like she’s this cunning linguist who studies different languages and stirs …them up in her own little dutchie. Abiyah skirts convention, and there are obviously some influences from a wicked orgy of pop-culture pacesetters. Seven years ago, Abiyah began performing at spoken word venues, and wasted no time moving into pairing her words with music. Abiyah is electronic/world/pop anchored by Hip Hop roots and a rock diva with a Hip Hop soul, skipping across genres with ease, and hanging her rhymes on guitar hooks nailed to the wall with electronic beats. She smudges the line of class, race and music genre under her thumb, flipping the script of what people expect from a Midwestern white rocker chick. Just let her do her thing, ‘cause whatever it is, it’s more global than it is local.

betsy_youngBETSY YOUNG dreams of the finer things while spending most of her energy working for others. She divides whatever remaining time she has on earth pursuing more meaningful endeavors like Aurore Press, reading books, listening to old punk on her iPod and not wasting a single moment with her daughter. Editor, writer and curator of Aurore Press titles such as Stories for Shorty about the famed Jockey Club, and every other title in the catalog to date, come to think of it. The hope is 2012 is the year she starts finally going places.

The Cincinnati Council of the Bardic Arts is an independent body of illuminated adepts and poets who seek to foster the reemergence of magical poetry in the Miami Valley Watershed. A free monograph of What You Should Know To Be A Bard, an occult examination of Gary Snyder’s seminal poem What You Should Know To Be A Poet will be available from the concession table.  A Lyrical Synaesthesia 2 Chapbook will also be available in limited quantities produced by our friends at Aurore Press and featuring work from the readers.

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The Art of Free Cooperation

Events | Posted by jmoore
Nov 15 2011

collectivateDear friends and fellow Anarcho-Americans,

It has been a week since election day. That means it is time to stop waiting for those in office, or those in the corporate office, to get a start on the projects we’d like to see remake and re-enchant this world. It is time to get the ball rolling on making changes for ourselves, our families and our communities. It is within our power to do so. Often times these types of projects and community initiatives that aim at being in it for the long haul have an initial burst of steam that kicks things in to gear, but like carbon based fuels, energy and resources are quickly depleted. With the vast external pressures and seemingly endless distractions of our techno-consumerist culture it is also easy to feel pulled in many different directions at once. So after an initiative is started, say a community radio station, a bicycle co-op, community garden, hacker space, local small press, or non-profit dedicated to noise music and the avant-garde, what strategies exist to help these groups reach a level of sustainability that also allows them to have a continuing beneficial effect in our culture? And how can these collaborative efforts be made more resilient in face of the eroding power of capital?

Enter The Art of Free Cooperation. Many of us were told as kids, as kindergärtners, to cooperate with adults, with teachers, and with other kids. To get along and behave. Cooperation however, should only be given freely, otherwise it becomes co-option. If there are things we don’t like in life we have the choice to not cooperate with those things. So it is that free cooperation is intimately tied to free association. But these free associations and cooperatives don’t always go easy. As with any other part of life conflicts turn up. There are skill sets and tools that can help groups to prepare for the challenges of collaboration.

The DVD I’ll be showing came with the book, The Art of Free Coopeartion. The book is a collection of papers that grew out of the Free Cooperation Conference held by the State University of New York. The book examines the politics, technologies, and semiotics of Free Cooperation. This film explores the ideas and principles through the language of science fiction films, edited into a humorous collage. This collage is narrated in part by Tony Conrad. Tony is an experimental video artist and filmmaker and musician among many other things. In the realm of music, as an improviser collaborating with the likes of Faust (as Outside the Dream Syndicate) Charlemagne Palestine and many others he has put into practice many of the themes running through the Art of Free Coopeation.

This film will be screened today, November 15, at 6PM in the basement of the Northside Library (4219 Hamilton Ave.).

For more along these lines check out:

The Institute of Network Cultures

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Film Screening: The Art of Free Cooperation

Events | Posted by jmoore
Nov 08 2011

artoffreecooperationMy Fellow Anarcho-Americans,
 
Forget about election day and mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 15, for the screening of feature length film collage “The Art of Free Cooperation” starting at 6PM at the Northside Branch Library. The film, a collage old scifi movies, is narrated by Tony Conrad (Theatre of Eternal Music, Outside the Dream Syndicate, collaborations with Charlegmagne Palestine & many others…). It illustrates the principles of free cooperation: “buisness has a mad crush on collaboration – witness the billions spent on social networking sites, or all the hype around ‘collaboration studies’. But beneath all the flirtation, buisness needs to remain the boss. As long as the process of collaboration is controlled and monetized, the relationship will always be one of forced cooperation. This film argues for Free Cooperation -an alternative way of doing things together, from parenting and the workplace to event organization and cultural prdocution.”
 
Check it out! Meet the others and share with your collective! Starts 6PM Tuesday Nov 15 @ the Northside Library 4219 Hamilton Ave.

Ciao,

Justin

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Lyrical Synaesthesia 1

Events | Posted by jmoore
Sep 21 2011

synesthesiaLovers of literature and language, please join us for the inauguration of Lyrical Synaesthesia, a series of poetry and short story readings hosted by the Cincinnati Council for the Bardic Arts, and MC’d by Justin Patrick Moore at the Northside Branch Library. The hope is that this will be the beginning of a long tradition of quarterly readings, in the fall, winter, spring and summer, showcasing the breadth of talent in Cincinnati and to help foster a strong living literary tradition in the Queen City. The event is from 6 to 8 PM on Tuesday, October 18th. If you are interested in reading at a future edition of Lyrical Synaesthesia please contact Justin at: Justinpatrickdreamer@gmail.com

 

The following authors will be reading on October 18…

 

Steven Paul Lansky is the author of Main St. (2002) and Eleven Word Title for Confessional Political Poetry Originally Composed for Radio (2009), two chapbooks published by Seaweed Sideshow Circus.  His audionovel Jack Acid (2004) is available in a limited edition six cd box set on Squidmusic.  Mr. Lansky also has written a novel: the citizen, which has had excerpts published in The Brooklyn Rail (2005), ArtSpike, CityBeat (online), and Streetvibes.  His somewhat animated videos: Bratwurst (with Leigh Waltz), Exit Strategy (with Leigh Waltz), Harvest, and The Broken Finger Episode A-8 or the Cigarette Break can be viewed on YouTube.  He teaches creative writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and lives in Clifton.  Please be gentle with him.

 

Mark Flanigan is still happily entertaining the same 100 people he always has.  His “Exiled” series has been in print and online for over a decade now—first in X-Ray Cincinnati, then at semantikon.com—and currently can be found in CityBeat, Cincinnati’s alternative weekly.  His e-book of verse, Minute Poems, can also be found on the web.

 

Chuck Byrd , along with his tag team partner Betsy Young, are the force behind Northside’s own Aurore Press.  In his 45 years on this earth Chuck has lived in Cincinnati Ohio, San Francisco California, Phoenix, Arizona and again in Cincinnati Ohio. He has   the distinction of being part owner of an independent professional wrestling company called Queen City Wrestling and his wrestling alter-ego Charles E. Brown still gets into the ring every now and then. In the spring of 2012 he, along with his co-conspirator   Justin Patrick Moore will be releasing a chapbook of new material.

 

Bryan Burke is a lifelong Cincinnati native that has been published mainly for his sports writing.  He has written many unpublished fictional works including short stories, novellas, plays and screen plays in addition to his journalism.  He lives in Cincinnati with his fiancee and dog.

 

Justin Patrick Moore is a writer and broadcaster. His essays have been featured in a number of themed anthologies from Aurore Press, the most recent appearing in Living In the Lap of Labor. He is a contributor to the independent music website Brainwashed.com where he has written on the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the essay Music from Sirius and interviewed Nigel Ayers, the man behind the experimental music project Nocturnal Emissions. A long time library employee, in September 2011 he gave a talk at the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle on the subject of The Libray Angel and It’s Oracle. His most recent short story, Gertrude and Ludwig Spin A Web, appeared in Flurb #12, a webzine of astonishing tales, edited by Rudy Rucker.

 

 

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Three Readings on the Horizon

Events | Posted by jmoore
Aug 22 2011

bookwingsA lot has been going on. Over labor day weekend I’m pleased to be part of another reading for another wonderful anthology from Aurore Press (and their last themed anthology for awhile as Chuck and Betsy move on to other publishing and  literary projects).

This one is all ”on the subject of LABOR. You know, the daily drudgery, grind, sweat, slog, moil, slavery, travail, chore, duty, treadmill…look it up yourself!  LIVING IN THE LAP OF LABOR includes over 20 writers expanding on the topic of WORK but ironically, this chapbook has been such donkeywork that we’re hanging up the anthologies for a while and moving on to greener pastures in the next year so don’t miss it, this last AP anthology for who-knows-how-long!”

The reading and release party is at the Comet, on September 3rd, and starts promptly at 9PM. I’ll be alongside luminaries,

Nathan Singer
Mark Flanigan
Nick Barrows
Uncle Dave Lewis
Neil Aquino
Mark Messerly
Jughead
Chuck Byrd
Yvette Nepper
Luke Radkey
Betsy Young

With music by Uncle Dave Lewis & William Gilmore Weber III, Dixie Trash & SS-20 to follow.

I’ve been spending most of my time preparing in various ways for the talk I’ll be giving on September 11, at the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be at the conference all weekend, so if you are in the area or plan on coming, seek me out if you are so inclined and introduce yourself. The whole trip is shaping up to be one of bibliomaniac frenzy. I’m very excited to be meeting everyone, including friends from the Hermaphroditic ChaOrder of the Silver Dusk, and Horus-Maat Lodge. It will be excellent to all be together in real time for a change.

My talk itself is on “The Library Angel and It’s Oracle” and is a vast expansion of the essay I originally wrote in the spring of 2010.   An abstract of the talk follows:

It is my belief that books are telepathic. As records of peoples thoughts and feelings, they act as intermediaries between people spread out across vast distances of time and space. Ideas mix, mingle, and often bear new children among humans who are avid readers. This is how books have learned to communicate with each other. For scholars, researchers, and writers, new ideas often arrive synchronistically when the right book appears to them at the right time. Information needed to pursue a given idea, or to help bridge ideas together is brought to writers who follow the helpful play of coincidence. Arthur Koestler described such occurrences as being the action of an Agency he dubbed the Library Angel, whom he said is ”in charge of providing cross references.” The Library Angel is at work when books fall off the shelf to help a person learn something they need to know, or when a discovery is made by finding a book shelved in the wrong place. The Library Angel provides the ultimate form of bibliomancy.

In the Qabalah there is an Angel known as Harahel (also Herochiel or Herachiel) one of the 72 names of the Shemhamphorae. This Angel is associated with archives, libraries, cabinets containing rarities, and publishing. Harahel is thus the name of the Library Angel, a being available to help writers, editors, and others involved in the book trade and the business of books. These themes are explored through history, personal and shared anecdotal evidence of Harahel in action, and dreams. The Library as a divine entity in its own right is also discussed. Consciously working with Harahel has interesting implications for Libraries, small and specialty presses and the Esoteric Book Community in general. The Library Angel is also a Literary Agent who can further invigorate the plethora of magicians, writers and  presses working in the esoteric field.

And on Tuesday October 18, I’ve organized, with the help of the Cincinnati Council for the Bardic Arts, and the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, a poetry/literary reading, Lyrical Synaesthesia, that will take place at the Northside Branch Library.  This will feature my friends and fellow writers,

Steven Paul Lansky
Mark Flannigan
Chuck Byrd
Bryan Burke
and myself.

This starts at 6PM promptly and lasts till 8′o’clock after which time the Council for the Bardic Arts will adjourn to the Northside Tavern or other nearby watering hole for a much earned pint of ale.

*The image Book with Wings is a sculpture by Anselm Kiefer. I was lucky enough to see it this past July at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Further Back and Forward

Events | Posted by jmoore
Apr 18 2011

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2011 has so far been a very blessed year, and April is proving to be a very productive month.  I have had the pleasure of participating in some very fun events. On April 2nd, I participated in a reading  and launch for a chapbook put out by Don’t Forget to Flush Productions, the bathroom child of Chuck Byrd, who also read at the event. The book Holy Shit! It’s Tales from the Crapper #2 contains my piece, “The Alchemy of Shit” in which I wax poetic on territory originally mined by Coil on their album, Scatology, delving into the interior of Earth, claiming the muddy nigredo of the soul, and transforming all that shite into gold. Other great readers that night included Luke Radkey, and the marvelous Mark Flanigan.

This event was followed by a blast of a Neato Torpedo gig at Mayday last Thursday. We played alongside our comrades Hearts of Palm, and newcomers to the Cincinnati experimental music scene, Fractal Fractal, and Bad People.  It was all the more enjoyable as Andrew Hissett, was able to join us on the drum kit (the last few gigs he wasn’t able to play with us, though he is a member).  Brave Dave had made an excellent video, mostly of rocket ship space footage, and his step-daughter dancing, to go along with our astral domine. Thanks to the good folks at Art Damage, John Rich & John Lorenz for organizing the show.

Much of the year had also been spent getting some beuracratic paperwork done with regards to my radio show, On the Way to the Peak of Normal. Finally things are squared away. Much kudos go out to Brian “Thriftstore Leather” Riley for his infinite patience, and for being the best damn partner in radio crime one could ask for. (By- the-way tune in this Thursday 10PM to Midnight EST to WAIF 88.3 FM Cincinnati, for the second in our ongoing series exploring the Seven Deadly Sins. Our last sin was Gluttony, broadcast on Thanksgiving Day, now we are moving into the apocryphal realm of Vanity. Brian and I will be joined by Professor Nutbudder & Monster Syd.) Brian and I also recorded a special ultra-space-lounge-thrifty mix, this past winter, that will only be available to those who call in and pledge to our show in the upcoming spring memberthon. We have some other treats in store as well.

This week I’ll also be heading over to some secret studios in my neighborhood of Northside to add some electronic treatments to the second album of The Hela Cell, a boisterous avant-punk outfit I have been privileged to work with, headed by Dave Glasser and Dan Hall.  

Looking further forward, and faster, I was nudged by net friend, and fellow Silver Dusker, Dharma Buford to submit a proposal to the Esoteric Book Conference, which takes place in Seattle every fall. I wrote and submitted my proposal on the last possible day, the deadline.  I am delighted to announce, a little belatedly here on this blog anyway, that I will be speaking at this years Con, held on September 10th & 11th. My subject will be The Library Angel and It’s Oracle, and will be a further expansion and reinvigoration of the original paper I wrote.  I am very excited about this opportunity to meet so many people from the Occult and Pagan communities, some of whom I have been online friends with for years (especially those in the Hermaphroditic Order of the Silver Dusk & Horus Maat Lodge) but most of whom I’ve never met in person. I can feel the magick sizzling in the air already.

I have a number of other writing, radio, & recording projects in the works. Chuck and I are at work on a flip-book featuring a detective story from each of us, that will be a split from Aurore Press and Sothis Medias. Horus-Maat Lodge brother, and psychedelic rocker Adam Smietana and his band The New Captains are due to play a live set on the next edition of Silver Star Radio, on May 5th. Brian Riley is also working to bring some more live music to the air. We also have plans for Brian Burke to come to the studio and read his Anti-Car Manifesto, originally published in Streetvibes, and an appearance of Neato Torpedo on the air this June. Thanks for staying tuned to further developments in Astral Weather.

As usual none of this could have been possible without the support of my family and all my creative friends and allies!

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1st Hand Stories from 2nd Hand Stores

Events | Posted by jmoore
Aug 31 2010

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This just in from Chuck:

Yer pals at Aurore Press are once again in the house!
The Comet, actually. In Northside. You know, the OFFICIAL AP venue (thanks, Dave!).
We’ll be coming to you Saturday, September 4 beginning at 9PM with the release of our *new* chapbook–featuring 26 works in all–about everything gloriously used called 1st Hand Stories from 2nd Hand Stores.
Aurore Press Book Release
Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 9:00PM sharp | The Comet, Northside, 4579 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223
PERFORMANCES:
>”Incredibly Strange Thriftstore Music” by “On the Way to the Peak of Normal” (WAIF 88.3 FM) hosts Justin Patrick Moore and Brian “Thriftstore Leather” Riley
> Spoken word by Shawn Abnoxious, Mark Messerly, Jughead, Mark Flanigan, Justin Patrick Moore, Carolyn M. Rutter, Aurore Press editors Chuck Byrd and Betsy Young and more
> Music by Messerly & Ewing, SS-20 and Los Amigos del Jimmy D.!

FREE MUSIC!
For the first 50 people who purchase 1st Hand Stories from 2nd Hand Stores, you will receive a FREE copy of “A Jockey Club Reunion Live at the Southgate House” CD AND a SS-20 ep featuring their new song written specifically for this project, “Thrift Store!”

Aurore Press on the Radio
Aurore Press will be spending the evening at 88.3′s WAIF on the “On the Way to the Peak of Normal” program on Thursday, September 2 @ 10:00PM spinning some incredibly strange thriftstore music and talking about the new book. You can stream it live here

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