winners

Make Tirade Fair & Brux Callison and the Entangled Photons both won my The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge song contest. Go check out the other entries. My sincere thanks to all the people who participated. I'm touched you put your time and effort into creating something for my little book.

So there's that then. I think that's it. I am pretty sure I have nothing else to say about the book. I sure this will be a relief to the rest of us.

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VOTE!

All right. Here it is. Time to vote.

First, go HERE and listen to the songs that were inspired by The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge. (Scroll down a bit.)

Then vote. You have until noon, Pacific Standard Time, November 23, 2010.

UPDATE: Fire in My Bag is my own personal one-man black metal project. The song contest winner will receive one of the very small number of hardcover copies of The Moon Tonight I am printing up. As I will be printing one for myself anyway, the Fire in My Bag song on the page is not eligible.

shoes

Let's make shoes. Let's us all make shoes. You make shoes. Me make shoes. Us make shoes. And let's not be ashamed of the shoes we've made. Let's us be okay with our us made shoes.

Let's make shoes out of leather.

Let's make shoes out of burlap.

Let's make shoes out of hemp.

Let's make shoes out of grease.

Let's make shoes out of rubber.

Let's make shoes out of, I don't know, leaves maybe.

Let's make shoes out of cocaine.

Cocaine shoes! Let's make and walk in cocaine shoes. Let's bark and dance in cocaine shoes. Let's take off and put on cocaine shoes!

Everyday shoes=cocaine shoes

Yes.

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As I type this, copies of my book The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge are being mailed out to people who ordered them over the last few months. Enjoy!

As I mentioned, I'm going to have a very small number of hardcover copies of the book made. They will not be for sale. One person will get one, though, if they win my Moon Tonight song contest. The deadline for entries was going to be this week, but I think maybe I'll give it another couple of weeks because I've had some late interest from folks who like to make music.

Right now there are six entries here at the book's contest bandcamp page. (Fire in My Bag is me and I am not eligible to win.) If you would like to write a song about the book, about one of the stories in the book, or simply a song inspired by the title, cover, or black metal-ish aesthetic of the book, do so and contact me about where to send the file and song "cover art," etc.

I'm at

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Check out some of the entries, too. We have an electro-dance number, a metal roots rocker about heavy metal show violence, a noise-y sample-y drone, a punk bleakrock rant, a piano banjo duet, and a slightly medieval ballad.

They are all lovely.

(If you have not purchased a copy of the book and want some inspiration, song writers who want a pdf of the book can have one for free. Write me.)

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Three bands I am listening to:

Barn Owl - Light from the Mesa from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

BARN OWL

Wolvserpent | NYC @ The Acheron | 05 Oct 2010 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

WOLVSERPENT

Death Drive Trailer from Flingco Sound System on Vimeo.

WRNLRD

the book

Important stuff below. First, though, some images.



Spinal Tap, Spy Kids, Spy Magazine, Spina Bifida, Spiral Stairs, Spider Bites



I made a galley of the book Happy Rock. I made these galleys on an Espresso Book Machine at the bookstore where I work. I made the galleys—five in all—to give to the people who have consented to take a look at the book and consider offering a blurb for it. There are four people who have said yes. I made an extra, which I will probably just keep for myself.



Winter Soldier, Win Some Lose Some, Wind in the Willows, Winn Dixie, Window Washer



Oh Fever One Day, Famishing the Next



The world of galley creation is cutthroat, but equally it is sublime. The world of blurbing, though, is not so. It is hard and cruel and always the strong win out.




I think I would like to arm wrestle a monkey. Not a small one, though. One of the midsized ones. I've been working out a little at home.



Free Essay Topics—Go Ahead and Use It, Folks

On Suffering in Silence, and Then Interrupting Said Silence with a Really Loud, "Ouch!"



I think this all looks pretty good, this series of images of my galley as it is being made by the Espresso Book Machine.

I think I'm happy with this post.



Don't forget, though, that The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge, my minibook of stories and stories about one-man black metal bands, is available. It will be real and physical probably by SAMHAIN!

There is a song contest for the book. Write a song and send me the file, and I will have a contest, and the winner will get a free hardcover copy of The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge. This contest has a bandcamp page. If you need inspiration, I will give you a digital copy of the book. Only serious requests need ask for a free digital copy. Because if you want one and are not musical, you can actually get a digital copy of the book for free by paying with a tweet at the Keyhole Press website.

Song contest

When will the new book "drop"? Samhain!

Okay, so here's what I'm thinking. You could, if you are so inclined, write a song for my book THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE. I will start a bandcamp page on which I will collect songs that have been written for THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE. We will, at the end of November, vote for the very best song dedicated to THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE. The winner will receive one of the five special hardcover copies I will have printed of THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE. You may enter one or two songs, if you are so inclined.

My one-man black metal band, Fire in My Bag, is not eligible.

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Museum of Me

The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge.

New book can now be pre-ordered.

The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge: Stories and One-Man Black Metal Bands includes three short stories (one of which appeared in Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens; the other two have never been published anywhere) and a series of short pieces about one-man black metal bands.

The bands in question are: Xasthur, Striborg, Wrath of the Weak, ad Burzum.

The book has a blurb from Lance, the King of Black Metal. Lance said: "My only problem with this book is that it was printed with ink instead of being scrawled in goat's blood. It was a pussy move if you ask me. Other than that, I deem the Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge completely Taint-worthy. Read it by torchlight or I will fucking crush you."

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Influences on book:











Matthew Beard:



Lotte Kestner:







Joe Biel:



This list will continue to grow. Check back.

keyhole

I am pleased to announce that soon Keyhole Press will release a small book of mine called The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge. It contains three stories—only one of which was previously published—and some short pieces about one-man black metal bands.

This is exciting.

This is even more exciting: next year, Keyhole Press will be publishing Happy Rock, my collection of short stories about Upper Michigan.

Please enjoy these celebratory photos of an old pinball machine that has been turned into a booth at Shorty's.