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Monday, October 29, 2007Earth Still Riddler (Draft)
"Reach out and touch faith." --Depeche Mode
 Earth Still RiddlerFill in blanks. Looking for that have none sanctum dry. Absolution Cum Sweet Boy Exploding. Earth still. Riddler asking. They found the body. (Extra.) In my Lifetime Movie (TM) true life story. Gort: "Now, now, Honey child. You got your Mamma's EYE, metal carcass, and her Death Ray." Warm up for Work ahead. 
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Thursday, October 25, 2007Jim Benz Interview
Jim Benz who has been a featured artist in Calliope Nerve is interviewed here at What to Wear During an Orange Alert.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007Desired to Be Wanted
And this is why I read Warren Ellis as he talks about magazines being an object of desire. As for my own magazine Calliope Nerve I have something very special in mind for issue fifteen.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007Amazon Petition
From Outsider Writers:
Dear Everyone: We have started a petition of interest to all independent authors and publishers. Please read on! Outsider Writers, and the people signing this petition, urge Amazon.com to add an "Alternative" literature listing under its "Books" pull-down menu. Alternative Literature needs a room of its own. I have spent close to a year trying to get Amazon to make a decision on this issue without a response, so now it is time to see if people who buy and sell books on Amazon want to see Amazon.com have an "Alternative Literature" listing. Amazon is an extremely important online sales tool for independent publishers and authors. Bookstore shelf space is more limited than ever, and it can be impossible to find new poetry or fiction from independent publishers. That is why independent publishers increasingly use online sites such as Amazon.com to market their books. There are thousands and thousands of products listed on Amazon, but Amazon has made it easy to browse through products until you find what you want. Its site has pull down menus for main product categories. Click on "Books" and you will find extensive listings for everything from Graphic Novels to Performing Arts to SF and Fantasy. There is even a Poetry category. There is not such a Literature category, though. The Amazon system works well if you want to browse through mainstream publications, or if you already know the author and/or title. But if you are looking for "Alternative" you have a problem. There is no Alternative category. The Alternative literature is there, but it is crowded out by the mainstream books. If you don't know exactly what Alternative writing you are looking for, you won't find it--but if you want to browse you will find plenty o' pages listing books, but the Alternative writing is buried among the mainstream products. It is time for Amazon to create an Alternative listing in its Books section, dedicated to alternative/underground poetry, fiction and prose. Amazon can start by simply listing books from small, independent publishers, and then can create subsections under Alternative, for poetry, flash fiction, political writing, and other subgroups. This would be great for publishers, authors, readers--and Amazon itself. Victor Schwartzman Outsider Writers You can find the petition at this link.
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Friday, October 19, 2007Living Paycheck to Pacheck gest Harder
No shit?
Living Paycheck to Paycheck gets harder. You don't say? My favorite part is that poorer Americans *may* skimp on health care spending. *May*? What kind of denial is this nation in? Hey, if it weren't for the clinic I'd have run out of meds six months ago. My eye check up is two years past due. And the dentist... sh*t I haven't seen a denist in over a decade. At least I'm not alone. But don't expect tax relief from the government this time, they've got a war to pay for you know.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007Sur-Sh*t
"Take every rule you come accross and bend it." --Seether
Preview Seether's new studio album for free. And a new Surrealist blog. This is the direction of my new work. Think it was weird before? You ain't seen sh*t yet.
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Monday, October 15, 2007How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures
"She said, 'Tell me are you a Christian child.' And I said, ' Mam, I am tonight...'" --Marc Cohn
How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures1) Your troubled air empty ink infatuate Me. Jackie Paper. page soul Calligraphy/ Could be a mess. 2) THiS iS hOW: -I- Learn to love (Our Bomb) Strange Candy Holocaust Between Us. L O V E dynamite Complex light balanced In a nugget center Mmmhhhmmm... good pill push commercial world. 3) POeT & previously released p*rn star remixed FROM THE DAY I sued God the soul vibrates like angels wayward flapping. 4) Apparently, the Maker responds to law suits when poems are written with long over bloated titles by long over bloated authors. Delicate Ego. The Nobius Formula: Evaporate. 5) Assume identity makes *TONGUE* telling Well spoken Poe corpse. Not even the magic marker-- Universal Hippie Can smoke OPUS. 6) Arrhythmia desire. Don't know a f*u**ing thing about goodbyes... So let me love/leave Exit brain left With some-elusively sought Forgiveness Dignity this nite.
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Sixx A.M.: Pray for Me
"Cross your heart and hope that I wont die before the best day of my life." --Sixx A.M
Damn, I gotta get The Heroin Diaries CD  . Pray for Me is a kickin' track with punk roots and similiar to the music I imagine in my head. And like my own imagining, all true. I think it's time to re-read Watchmen I got some ideas brewin' (like beer), when I should be sleepin'.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007Trowel Destiny
"Because the drugs never work... Another cog in the murder machine. They said, 'All teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me.' They could care less as long as someone'll bleed..." --My Chemical Romance
"White Trash Beautiful. I swear to God it's true. I'm coming home to you girl." --Everlast "And she drags me to church but I'm scared to commit." --Sixx A.M. Gabcast! White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE* #9  Trowel DestinyRooted Panic Soil LiFE flowers grow Upside Frowns, Crying Clowns, Not quite nature intended. (Man is involved.) Old Gods wear New Masks You, Gardener digging Hardly take notice Yet rooting for that something more Tell me, "No big deal. I'm looking for Where that damn Icarus landed And all of my lost days." One tear. a Trowel of Destiny! Formerly known as Spear. This the last time I go Blind dating With that cat with the sandals, That dude Named Jesus.
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Orange Alert
Calliope Nerve makes it to the Watch List at What to Wear During an Orange Alert.
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Duotrope
Calliope Nerve is now listed at Duotrope. I'm still looking at launching a website for the magazine but I don't know enough about HTML to be able to host back issues there. I was thinking of using freewebs. Can anyone help?
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More Mix Tape
Check out the tunnage before the lawyers take it away. Then let me know what you think. Poetry out, rock on.
Pray for Me Sixx A.M. Wolverine Blues Entombed As I Slither Katakylsm Queen The Melvins Sweet Dreams Probot with King Diamond O.G. Big Business When All Is Said And Done Napalm Death Face Down In the Dirt Naplam Death Rock Superstar Cypress Hill Why I'm Here Oleander Everlong (Acoustic) Foo Fighters Time of the Season The Zombies Life Is Beautiful Sixx A.M. The Prince (Live) Metallica Crazy Gnarls Barkley Life Is a Highway Tom Cochrane Living Dead Girl Rob Zombie Insurrection (Live) Halford Walking in Memphis Marc Cohn Eye of the Tornado (Live) Megadeth
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Which Doctor Who Are You?
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Friday, October 12, 2007Stuff and Stuff
The new season of Ultimate Fighter is great to work out by. God bless TIVO. I replay the shows when no one's home and exercise while I watch. Nice ninety plus minute practice for me this morning.
Watch Rolling Stone's slide show on the Great Iraq Swindle. Thought provoking. What are we really protecting there? As if I have to ask. I'm going to try out Comic Collector Live's software. As organized and anal as I am, other than being in alphabetical order, I no longer have a grip on the value of my collection or what I really have in it. If the platform is good enough I may sell through it. Umbrella Academy Issue One (though not as good as the Free Comic Book Day Preview) was fun and sets the scene for a fascinating story. Looks like tomorrow's heroes are here today. Learn more about them at Wikipedia. After reading the book, got a few ideas for my own book I'm loosely putting together now including a speed dating scene that... well it's just not right. I should have my head examined.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007Saturday, October 06, 2007Calliope Nerve XIV: THE Queen
"My wealth is words. And I invested wisely in poetry." --Nobius Black
Calliope Nerve XIV: THE Queen is available now and free of charge. In grand Calliope tradition this issue features a wide range of styles and pieces by both seasoned and new creators including Melissa Lebruin, Billy Jno Hope, Zachary C. Bush, Jim Benz, Joe Nolan, and me, I'm Nobius Black. This issue's featured artist is the incomparable Jim Benz. A Cup of Coffee arrhythmia could it be another morning? ungodly perhaps I’m dead oh for the climate of dreams found lacking, found casting aspersion on daybreak full of songbirds full of meaningless ennui or conflict, snarling eggs be damned, give me coffee --Jim Benz Due to a limited print run, this issue is being distributied by email only to the general public. Send your email address to nobius at gmail dot com. Submission info is located here. (We are always looking for talent.) Internet link trades, advertising, back issues, and flier swaps available. To support Calliope order your Amazon products via my web log: White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE*. Name your muse! Calliope Nerve.
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Thursday, October 04, 2007Books I want to read
"...he examines a post-pretty world in which fame, not beauty, is all consuming--where lives are lived publicly and status is measured by how you're perceived." --Border's News Letter
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007Tuesday, October 02, 2007Def Who?
"DEF f**king who?' There's a f**king rock band for you to f**king have diarrhea with." --Ronnie James Dio talking about his love of Def Leppard. :)
I couldn't agree more. What happened to the once mighty band that wrote Pyromania.
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Monday, October 01, 2007The Best Part
The best part about Calliope Nerve is the emails that I receive behind the scenes. Here's another one I got the other day from the editor of Over the Transom. Seems everyone loves Sheila work!
"...looking forward to more 'calliope nerve.' i have the sheila murphy poem from the interview issue up on the fridge in the break room at borders." Below is pictured her book The Stuttering of Wings which is next on my wish list. More Calliope soon and more to tell you. The Melvin's Saturday night was phenomenal. Simply phenomenal.
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