3:AM

I've got a few new poems based on Lincoln speeches over at 3:AM

Avi Avital plays some Bach in a bar

We've got a new episode of Geocachers this week with mandolinist Avi Avital playing a Bach Cello Suite on mandola.



I love this guy.

Geocaching with Mandolinist Avi Avital

This week's episode of Geocachers features Grammy-winning mandolinist Avi Avital. Avi was awesome. He played some Bach for us in Red Hook Bait & Tackle. We'll post that video next week.

Geocachers w/ Dave Hill and John & Molly Knefel

We got to do an episode of Geocachers with some of the folks I like the most in New York. Dave Hill, who made a couple appearances on Radio Happy Hour, took Sam to Hamlet's Vintage (next to LPR and has some really cool stuff) and dressed him like a madman. Then we went geocaching with John and Molly Knefel in Washington Square Park. If you don't listen to their show The Radio Dispatch you should. They do it live once a month at The Gallery at LPR too. Ok. That's all.

Geocachers!

Set the Dial to Implode

This was the best photo I could find, without trying very hard, of the world exploding. If you Google "world explodes" all of the images are much more serious than you might expect. In retrospect, of course they are, but I expected Google to have the same point of view I do about the world exploding: what can you do?

Google is very serious about the world exploding.

All that's for nothing because all I really wanted to say is I have two poems up in the new issue of Out of Nothing, one of which is called "Turn the Dial to Implode and Enter the World." I wanted to have a picture of the world exploding because of that poem, but that doesn't really make much sense. If the world explodes then it did the opposite of what would happen if you set the dial to implode. Unless the machine that the dial was attached to was broken and did the opposite of what it was told. And then again I think implode and explode, as it pertains to the world, may only be opposite grammatically or theoretically. In both cases I think the world ends, so maybe the opposite of exploding is "everything stay put." Also, I don't think you can enter the world once it explodes. I'm not even sure you can "enter the world" at all, since you're already in it. Unless you're a spaceman. Then you could. Because you would have exited the world. You have to exit the world before you can enter it, if you're born in it.

Just one man's opinion.

Anyhow, new issue of Out of Nothing is up, and it's very beautifully designed.

Get Behind the Wheel Annie

I've got a new poem over at Pismire Poetry (where I read the poem into an answering machine). It's from a series of poems about the movie Speed that I wrote on a plane, all while watching Speed. It's also about pacing and speed of life, but it's mostly about Speed the movie and this android guy in the picture.

Poem Videos / Video Poems

I've got a couple of video poems or poem videos or pomes or a film video up at SCUD.

SCUD is menacing and terrifying and damn good.

Sophie Madeleine on Geocachers

Geocachers, Geocachers, Geocachers!

It's like Beetlejuice, if you say it three times it becomes real. Or in the case of the movie, it becomes not miniature? I remember Beetlejuice differently than that video tells me is true.

Anyhow, there are two new Geocachers videos up. One is a performance from School of Seven Bells and one is a little geocaching in the East Village with Meghan McCain. Sam and McCain make sweet buns with Jane from Jane's Sweet Buns too. [Insert joke between the buns here.]

Rumors about a movie trailer for an underground classic being remade

I have another poem up in Evergreen Review about movies and rumors and movies and rumors.

Abraham Lincoln

I've got another Abraham Lincoln poem up this week. This one in PROØF Magazine, a magazine from the Prove Gallery in Duluth, MN.

Geocaching with School of Seven Bells

It's been a little while, but we have a new episode of Geocachers up now with Sam and School of Seven Bells going geocaching in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Making It In The Movies

A short deal that I put together using a Lomokino Super 35mm and a poem of mine for the InDigest event the Last Reading on Earth, Ever: a Marathon of Apocalyptic Writing.

"Making It In the Movies" from Dustin Luke Nelson on Vimeo.

Age of Quarrel

I've got a new poem up at the Evergreen Review that shares a title with the Cro-Mags tune "Age of Quarrel."

Court Dogs

I've got a longer poem up over at Tarpaulin Sky called "Court Dogs" that uses Pussy Riot's punk prayer to move between a few different structures.

I love Tarpaulin Sky. They're great.

The Last Reading on Earth, Ever

How many whiskeys would a whiskeychuck whiskey if a whiskeychuck could chuck whiskey? Find out Friday!

New Issue of InDigest Up Now! It's Our Five-Year Anniversary!

Yes, it's been five years since the very first issue of InDigest hit internet shelves worldwide. It seems both longer and shorter than that (that's what she said), and we're endlessly appreciative of everyone who has been reading us, supporting us, listening to podcasts, buying books, coming to readings, and giving us high fives along the way. You're wonderful. Thanks for supporting us.

Two points of interest:
1. We have a new issue.
2. We have a 5-Year Anniversary Celebration happening in New York this Friday.

1. Issue #25 is out now. It includes all the beautiful people listed above. Of particular note: Lech Harris was in issue #1 of InDigest, and is making an appearance in an issue #25, five years later. That's pretty great. There's a nice circularity to that. He's also reading at our anniversary event (more below). We also have an essay by Harry Houdini in this issue. No, it's not a joke. A real, really hilarious, issue by the real Harry Houdini. For real. This issue is also our first issue with our new gallery editor Zan Emerson. We're glad to have her with us. She's got a couple of interviews with some very unique artists in this issue, including the artist behind the painting above of a president (bonus points if you know who that is) with a breast on his head. I'll stop before I write a sentence on every contributor and why they are great, and why we are happy to have them in this issue. They're all great. That's why we're publishing them. We hope you like them as much as we do.

2. On Friday (December 14th) we're having a reading in celebration of our five-year anniversary. There will be readers from all over our fair nation coming to partake in a scotch and some good times. If you come you will see readings from Andrew Durbin, Jennifer H. Fortin, Lech Harris, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Steven Karl, Nate Pritts, Kathleen Rooney, and Wendy Xu. Awesome, right? High five. See you there.

(RSVP on Facebook.) The reading is at 7pm at the Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge.

Again, thanks to everyone who has read the magazine, who has sent us work, who has contributed to the blog, or who has edited with us over the years. I'd (Dustin here, hi) like to offer a special thanks to the folks who have made this possible over the last five years through a ton of time, effort, and love on their part: David Doody, Ashleigh Lambert, Brad Liening, Chris Koza, Kate Casanova, Catherine Orchard, Zan Emerson, Joe Owens, Jess Grover, and Reina Podell. Those are the folks that have made all of this possible. Thanks.

Pauly Shore is Dead

...should have been a great movie. But it wasn't. But I wish it was. It was a good idea.

There's a new poem, titled "Pauly Shore," up at The Bakery. I don't really remember now, but I believe at different points the working title of this poem was both "Pauly Shore is Dead" and "Keynote Speaker: Pauly Shore."

There's an audio version in there too, and the background music to that is the opening music from Encino Man after I played with the audio for a while. Then I had to watch about ten minutes of Encino Man. It's no Tommy Boy. Did you know that Rudy aka Samwise Gamgee is in Encino Man? It's true. I saw him.

Oh, and audio is also up here.

it happens when you remark on the shape of the only cloud in the sky

That's me, maybe, in the picture, and the jellyfish is Jellyfish, and we're just swimming along, taking pictures hanging out...by which I mean I've got a poem in the new issue of Jellyfish, which was just launched and has lots of good poems in it that are not mine.