Prime and Crunishment

[Frunobulax]

Relthyoulpsbyr [Rellth-yule-cyber]
Yr. going to be sad,
Yr. gonna be sorry.
Oh how you'll be mad,
Stone me in a quarry.
Yr. itching and scratching,
You've got the mange.
Yr. teeth are now latching
With incredibly strange range.
Yr. gonna be sorry.
Yr. gonna be mad.
I've gone to the quarry.
Gone and left you sad.
Yr. gonna be sorry.
Yr. gonna be sorry.
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[Frunobulax]

27 Vignettes for 19 Performers
is the name of a new play I am in the process of writing. I have drafted the first two vignettes and will be typing them out tomorrow in their final form. I also have listed all 27 along with their genres. They include monologues, dramatic scenes, absurdist looks on life, and the typical comedy. Titles include Mixtapes, Electrick Shock [sic], and Evil Guides Me, which is also the title of a forthcoming suite of noise music I have created.

[Frunobulax]

700 posts.
Comment on my works, people. Please.

[Jean]

Soon.

You know I can't comment while I have no teeth.

(I know it sounds ominous, but - )

(you know how much I love your writings anyway)

[Frunobulax]

27 for 19 has been halted as a set of three drafts. I have time tomorrow to write, though.

I've written a song.

Face The Hook
I face the hook.
I face the hook.
I face the hook
From a precipice.

I see the hook.
I see that hook.
Oh I see the hook
From a precipice, a turret.

A precipice, precipice, precipice
TURRET.

[repeat]

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This song is the first in a series of orchestral and vocal works all named after chapters in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

[Steve]

Matt, you are the bard of Palaver. Keep it up.

[Frunobulax]

27 For 19 has been on indefinite pause for now. Tuesday will see some scenes being written, though. And if you like my music, go to:
This Page where you can find new stuff.

[Frunobulax]

I am now officially putting 27 For 19 to rest until I move into my own place.

My new writing project is: My Life In Burma and Other Short Fiction, a collection of short stories I'll be writing sporadically. If anybody wants to publish this book, let me know.

[Frunobulax]

A failed scene
[ENTER two men, one (TOM) about 21 in casual clothes, the other (NOT TOM) about 50 with a beard in a suit.]
TOM: So, why are we even here?
NOT TOM: I dunno. Isn't that what everybody wants to know?
TOM: I guess.
NOT TOM: I know.
TOM: Know what?
NOT TOM: That everybody wants to know why we are here.
[Repeat this dialogue between five and thirty times.]

[Frunobulax]

Phoooooooooom
Rev up the motorik.
Come on let me see it,
Let me be it.
Let it go now.
What have you discovered to replace that franticism?
Devotionals all crowd the room,
Worshiping a paganicon.
The tenuous connections fading,
Destroying.
Tenterhooks enter their necks
And pull out their throats.
Leaves fall now somberly.
Ending.

[Frunobulax]

For anybody who wonders what influences my writings, here is a partial list:
-Bukowski
-Kerouac
-Chaucer
-Eliot
-Hughes
-French chansons
-Songs from chamber choir
-Lyrics from bands I like.

The one set of lyrics that have inspired me the most recently have hands down been the bizarre yet lucid musings of Dave Longstreth (leader of Dirty Projectors). I suggest anybody and everybody go to Their MySpace Page and listen to Finches' Song and Fucked For Life. Dave removed the stellar Jolly Jolly Jolly Ego, but that song has had a lasting impact. Here are the lyrics:

Jolly jolly jolly ego,
You fit in.
You fit in, jolly jolly jolly.
Let the water bead
off you naked shoulders.

"Clung to obstinate--
like an old love letter
boxed in her back pocket,
lacking love, or living saliva:
dried blood--like a
wax seal, scabbing regal."

The set of lyrics have a place in the storyline of the album The Getty Address, which is copied here verbatim:
Henley's ecstasy swells. His thoughts, flitting like electrons in excited state, are splinters or all he has ever thought. In a fever of revelation, he writes a bad poem and begins to get nauseous. Henley and Sacagawea embrace, darkly.
The overall plot of the album is Don Henley (no relation to the member of the Eagles) traveling to the fields of the Getty war site in an attempt to find the shape of Love as his mental chorus (represented by brown finches) guide him. Bizarre? Yes, but the CD booklet and lyrics form a defined structure.

[Jean]

can you specify the French chansons?

[Frunobulax]

Mainly the ones used by composers like Debussy, Jean, and a handful of chansons I learned in chamber choir but have since forgotten the titles of as well as the bulk of the lyrics.

[Steve]

Hey Matt, what do you think of Nick Cave?

[Frunobulax]

I enjoy his music and think he's an okay lyricist.

[Frunobulax]

NEW ARTWORK SOOOOOOOOON
I am starting work on a new mixed media collage, currently untitled. Pictures will we up as soon as it's completed and dried.

MATERIALS:
-Entertainment Weekly words + pictures
-Old Apple power cord
-Paper clip structure/Vicious Cycle(?) #1
-Post-It Matisse Style #1
-Puzzle, white, and hot glues
-Staples
-Tape
-Scissors for cutting up mercifully (S.C.U.M.)
-Straight razor for intricate cuts and occasional random cutting
-Hat or plastic bag for
-Random words from any and all EW reviews for
-Tzara style poems
-Poster board, any size
-Cubomania

[Frunobulax]

Any comments?

[Frunobulax]

Don't all rush in.

[Frunobulax]

My Portfolio
As some know, I'm applying to an art school (CalArts), specifically for the Composition Specialization in Experimental Sound Practices MFA. So I need to get together a portfolio of any size for the school to review.
THINGS TO BE INCLUDED:
-Graphic scores, any and all. This includes photocopies of many many pages from both my own autograph scores on stave paper, a home made score from computer paper and ink, three pages from my Moleskine journal (the Aleatron series), and three Map Project scores
-Drafts for home made instruments/experimental acoustic structures
-Instructions for prepared string piano, see Open Piano entry
-Scores for orchestral works: Nolo Contendere, Clown Tits (sketch, three measures), 3 & 4 Pianos, Pitched Percussion Phase, Crapshoot (draft), Polyrhythm Experiments 1 & 2 (from autograph scores), instructions for Music For A Theremin and Film
-Recordings of material: DD 2-14 and self titled electronic works, selected Soundscaped For Your Dinner Parties (including the newly recorded dronology-based Bassoon Sample/Bsnsmple), various tape manipulations/SoundForge manips. (A Whole New New Attitude, The Fucking Beast, etc.), ChaosSynth granular works (Flying Over The Khyber, Cloacal Kiss, Biofeedbacking, Music For Noise Vol. 2 disc II excerpts), Bitcrush Drums backing for improvised instruments, selections from the forthcoming Works For Guitar EP showcasing third bridge techniques, and the like.

So we're looking at about 20-30 pages of music, about 5 diagrams, maybe 2 CDs, and about 5 pages of text in various formats.
Jeezus.

[Steve]

Sorry for not getting back to you on the collage project -- I was just waiting for more info. It sounds really bad-fucking-ass right now, Matt. How much will a copy of this cost?

[Frunobulax]

Each collage in the EW series is independent of others--one made to order collage would be about $30-$70 depending on the desired size, shipping included.

[Steve]

Good stuff, Matt. I will certainly be awaiting a chance for one.

[Steve]

Hey Matt, how's 27 for 19 comin'?

[Frunobulax]

27 For 19 is on current indefinite hiatus due to a lack of time and inspiration.

[Jon]

Translation: laziness!