Sterioge.
I take time.
THE PRE-ORDERS are signed with notes inside- plus extra mini book inside-
just an f.y.i.
i will be sure and try and leave you fun stuff in your pre-ordered books. I spend the holidays, and the winter months alone usually (not this year) but regardless, i spend them out of country (always if possible) and I can think of nothing sweeter than making sure if you spent the money, which i understand you are ALL WORKING YOUR ASS OFF FOR with VERY LITTLE IN RETURN IN PUBLIC SERVICES RETURNED that I will try and pass along as much figurative sunshine in there as I can.
It’s a long heavy book and I recommend people having a hard time sticking to the first and last chapters as 2, 3 and 4 are, how do I say this, from the trenches, from the moments where if I hadn’t had that type-writer I would have had to have gone into someplace where they take care of people who have broken souls.
we all have them.
I learned to forgive that and see that as an indication that everybody can still feel so much and forgive that same thing. It is very human to be so upset and so in love and then so lost.
and the moment, it is infinity. we are here forever in our lives, if for only slowing that second down, and feeling the million tiny years a breath would take if you could make yourself so small as to be a speck of dust on a comet’s tail. and i was.
anyway,
i know things are starting to look scary on t.v. ( i got to stay at a luxury Holiday Inn last night and I saw those people, those people who want to run the country (they don’t- the corporations who fund them do, because they answer to that campaign money) and I saw all that talk ( it’s all talk- nobody can FIX “good” or “evil” as in, nobody can build a lamp and light up the dark space of the universe, or slow down a black hole- which, is probably responsible for our relative time/space being so close- and our “local group” moving in patterns which revolve in a circle and do not destroy us.
the balance. light and dark, night and day, these are immovable.
trust.
go with the kindness, even if it means exposing an awful thing. it too is a lesson and does not have to be repeated if observed. like trying to date me (ha)…. srsly
be brave- my grandparents lived through the Great Depression and this is not that and they managed and MY WORD they were so in love. They ate love for lunch. They had enough left-overs that I go to that refrigerator in my mind and it nourishes me even now at 33, enough so that I can manage to do things like write a book or some days just keep the faith. faith meaning- this means something that I do not understand yet and I should stay quiet and listen and look and create what I can about what I find out. its rather innocent and I am not out-sourcing.
But this fallout/ scare-tactic madness- This is fallout from people getting rich- realizing that if they could separate us all by thinking there were TWO options when voting, and that we were “safe” at home and at the chain-market’s where they buy all the goods from other countries that we would all become CONSUMERS- (zombies) and we would be idle.
fuck that.
i am not going to stop anything i am doing. i hope you don’t either.
keep the faith.
and keep moving.
darkness follows light-
light follows always
times infinity
“INFINITY BLUES” by Ryan Adams; Pre-Order Update;
as of today, my publisher informs me, they have taken orders for more than 750 copies of the hard bound edition which comes with a smaller book inside the book (never to be re-published) and these editions are signed and numbered by moi ( me, in french). It includes one of my favorite pieces I have written called “A to Z” which is a long as fuck poem about hating the alphabet and loving things thats begin with each letter too much. i am half asleep. fuck you.
anyway, we are only taking 999 pre-orders (the 1,000 copy is going to Dave Letterman. I wanted him to have that one so he knew I did good and wasn’t a chump. The first one is going to Steve King. He really was my inspiration, and his persistent great works, in your face- like Franz Schubert’s work, was my invisable cheerleader (as was a postacrd of WH AUDEN and a Glass Jar of Marbles (to remind myself not to lose anymore- as was “On Writing” by S.King- as I wrote- Some folks just can’t help it- they love making things. This whole country was like that once. what happened? I dunno. But look around, we’re still getting up, still going to work, still giving a fuck. That is what it is all about. Listening and Learning and Experimenting. What a life we live, all of us, weak and strong, beautiful in our expressive meaninglessness and full of eternal hope. We carry that love.
There was a dedication page in my book. But I took it out. The book is the dedication.
men go crazy when they are forced to grow up. I did that by writing this. It’s undoable now and my eyes are open. Once I wrote it down I could see “me” and who i was without thinking. then i could see “it” and well, let’s just say Brad had to help do the final copy editing as I could not cry anymore over it, and I did. And I don’t mind how that sounds. It hurt. It hurt like hell to write this. But I did it. And this book is like the pilot episode for Hill Street Blues. More action than a saturday night bum bar urinal. More horses flying through the air with lazer capabilities than, well, I don’t have a reference point for that.
So Sales will probably cease today or tomorrow. just a heads up- not an advert. I am damn proud I wrote that pile of madness.
Here is a little something from S King on the book- and the url for the few remaining pre orders, that is if you have been unaffected by the economy ( or unaffected by television scare tactics- i think you are all being controlled and if yopu ignore them they will just find someone else’s souls to play chess with. what kind of bastards want to run countries…..yuck-o ) just my opinion. keep making things. keep your head up. fuck em……
INFINITY BLUES (Special Hardbound Edition)- by Ryan Adams
www.akashicbooks.com/ryanadamspreorder.htm
“Ryan Adams, one of America’s most consistently interesting singer-songwriters, has written a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse. Fans are going to love it, and newcomers will be pleased and startled by his intensity and originality. The images are vivid and the voice is honest and powerful.”
—Stephen King(my publisher/editor actually just edited this because i typo-ed even here ha hahahahahaha) not funny.
i am so proud.
I am currenntly working on a new book of prose called WHALESHIPS for 2010 as well as a Novel called “Revelations (Sort-Of)”
Akashic are scared, and excited and deal with me very well as I am not the craziest egg in the basket at my publishing house but I am rather neon i bet.)
Check Out “Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics” edited by Lawrence Block with pieces by Joyce Oates, Irving Shaw, Edith Wharton, Damon Runyon, O’Henry and our old pal Edgar Allen Poe ( deceased)- we miss you at weekend goth dance parties Ed- xx
www.akashicbooks.com “Punk as a PineApple on a Pizza on the Moon.”
this is what i see when i am playing because i have to concentrate very hard because i always mess up, then i think about albert and i feel silly inside thinking about how funny his laugh must have been, and just how much i like his thoughts, and then i probably mess with one of those pedals which ever and …… like that……i forgot i was struggling. still, i do. such is life.
B and O stand for “boost and Overdrive i think but Robie prob knows with me it means Body and Odor ha
OHIO
it’s the day off (not for R2) (moi) i always stay busy. it fights depression and i find it a good thing to make stuff. it keeps me healthy and happy.
i have a stomach ulcer i think. i was in so much pain the last 48 hrs and i thought it was a pulled muscle because i have had those from playing metal and from yoga too, (or even just a belated poop- but no, pooped twice) ……sheesh.
anyway/ hi foggy.
it’s sunday. football is on probably i dunno. i don’t do television. i am my own show.
i am making the finished tracks for a secret project for a pal and also doing some stuff for foggy.
foggy does not seem to allow moi to just upload movies anymore at my leisure. which is lame. but i am a slightly art-crazy person and perhaps this is better for everyone.
anyway. tons of love.
R2
time to get on the damn bus. i couldn’t sleep last night- or not that well, but i stayed busy and then got some zzzzz’s that counted. i’m learning how to steer this insomnia thing on my own. my squeeze i think makes me remember that it’s ok to be excited or tired sometimes. not to panic. dream team= Jam/ talk about stuff- laugh- read Vogue- laugh at weird shoes- Jam/ (repeat). dream team.
CARDSLIVETONIGHT. movie one for a friday night hotel warrior. i hope the guy’s get bored and text me (they won’t…..) whatev. i’m no fun actually cause i talk about physics and i know how annoying it get’s i mean, i don’t even know why i get so heated over Leonard Susskind. I mean, war with Stephen Hawking all you want, really, and I won’t not be able to look. why do I like this stuff. this book The Black Hole War has been totally rocking my brain in the nastiest way. still, it seems plausible.
i dont care if it sounds nerdy or if i am totally comfortable not being a macho idiot (yes i read re-blogs), i am just as likely to listen to a Celtic Frost record as I am to be open minded enough to discuss “sex and the city”. god forbid men actually spend any time getting to know how modern women feel ( i am responding to you, yes you, so fragile in your suggestive re-blogs that my open-mindedness somehow instigated you to question me sexuality- you know, in talk therapy, you would immediately qualify for having some repression issues. and you would find that out if you read New Scientist or Vogue even- and yes, that is perfectly punk as in “i do what i like and could only pity those who felt they could not-” it must be a pain spending all that time fitting in sir or mam.
Terminator5/Sex and the City Robots
now, like if Carrie works out some lazer esp thing device- Miranda goes wild and get’s like armor and falls in with the badguys- then like- the terminators come through becaue somehow, Sarah (i think that is the name of the character in the first movie, Sarah Connor (he goes through the phone book like in the movie in an ACTUAL WORKING PHONE BOOTH (we don’t see many of those anymore) anyway…..she like somehow figures out that Carrie’s writing on a laptop- gave way to bloggin and the terminators were invented on a blog and they have to stop the guy from mentioning it. oh shit……who’s at my door………..
ha jst jking. srsly- i’d see that movie. prob twice even. once in the past and once in the future……..woah
K.O. Computer (goodnight internet)
Foggy,
I am so fucking alone. I hate this. And me, with my one thousand distractions, what do they mean. They mean I am alone. Lonely. Insufferable to even myself. It feels awful. But I know who I am and what I am and what I like. And I dislike even thinking about things I dislike for I like things so much I feel like the weight of my own fucking nagging inspiration sometimes feel more like madness. And this is just a place to dump that. What kind of a life is that. And this, this makes it worse. panic attacks, insomnia, needless worry. I can’t handle this machine. Nor can I handle my own heart, it’s dimensions, and what ideas it leads me to. They all dead end. So I am breaking up with the internet. Like Cable before it. Like….well like everything that is not work. Because at least in the work I can disappear and at least feel like something, if only for that moment. I am so serious I bought a ring for myself that I would wear to remember to not ever ever come into this place, where if you are like me, and beyond BEYOND alone not matter how much company or how little, then you would know that this is just a sad relationship. sad. why why do i follow that notion always. it never rains enough in any movie or on any perfect night. when you just say “fuck this” and you give up. give up without walking away. i love the band i am in and music and reading and work and writing and even painting. this is enough. i will learn to take my stupid rat faced romantic guts and remember, i am alone because i chose to be, chose, when it was too late anyway. and i will love. i am taking my computer (foggy) after this posts and fucking smashing it into a thousand pieces for a day never suffered again, telling the world what it should know by now. that i am not ok. and i accept this now. i accept and i quit. i give up. nothing is sadder than a grown man who only lives to dream, then having to listen to him talk about it. that is how i imagine it. and i have enough of that to last a lifetime and i don’t care anymore i am happy and will be grateful to grow old next to a stack of comic books. forever. I hate this computer and must go now. Be smart- Be funny- Make noise- Dream Hard- BE YOURSELF and fuck em if they can’t see the joke.
R