There is no pink in this post.

[jackshoegazer]

It is official: I have the cover of the premiere issue of Clavicle! They decided to go with my second design, which although is the less visually appealing to me, it is technically a better design, and a bit more eye-catching.

Hopefully this will lead to more work for them and they can eventually pay me. I'm also finally starting to get some recognition for my flyer work for Ecstatic Productions and now I'm routinely doing the flyers for Outlawed Productions and have had a couple others approach me for price quotes. Why? Because, and let me quote, "Whoever does Ecstatic's flyers is fucking dope."

I've also been editing my ass off the past 24 hours. I should be able to have it finished by tomorrow sometime. There are less than 100 pages left to edit before it goes for its final check to my co-author, and then it's submission-time for the first five publishers we've chosen. (And thank you choogy, I will talk to you about your contacts as well. I almost think you should read some of the book or talk to Jacquelyn about it before you commit to helping. It's an odd-duck of a book.)

I gave my very straight-edge roommate, who suffers from chronic migraines, a Klonopin, which is an anti-anxiety pill, basically, a mild sedative. He said, "I feel weird and fuzzy around the edges." He's also going to the Nine Inch Nails show on Thursday, so I made him a shirt for the event, which looks like this.

Once when I was young, oh around age 12 or so, a friend and I lit matches and put them in the hole of the handlebars of his bicycle where the grips had worn away. Then we inhaled the smoke. It tasted a bit like hotdogs. Which draws into question the ingredients of hotdogs. Also, a note to vegetarians and vegans, if you want to know what hotdogs taste like without putting meat to your lips, smoke a bicycle.

This has been the most diverse post ever. No connective thread, no rich blend of metaphor linking disparate topics. Nothing. Just an update and a conclusion, leaving the reader to wonder, what did I miss? Is he fucking with me? What is the point? And like a Jim Jarmusch film, there probably isn't one, but there's just enough there to make you think there might be. And that's enough that you're looking.

Or I'm fucking with you.

Comments

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the cover! Thats awesome!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks lady! I'm very excited about it :)

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

As you should be!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i think this is my most favoritest post ever. i like the jumping around... makes me feel like less of a scatterbrain : )

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I *like* your all-over posts. I feel silly sometimes just writing on one or two topics. And sometimes I worry that it comes across as contrived if I have linked themes and all that :P Clever, but contrived.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i'm not a thematic girl. i'm all over.

it makes me happy, so whatever.

i like your posts, they make you seem deep because you stay on the topic and think about it in more depth.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Deep like the ocean, baby!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

deepage like a good swimmin pool

deeper than weird al's voice!

[choogy.livejournal.com]

my email is laurenscotto@yahoo.com and i'm happy to read to get a better idea to market or i can get together a variety of contacts to submit manuscripts to- whatever you'd like! i'm totally on your cheering squad here. [and ps congrats on the clavicle cover! it really does look neat]

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I should finish the edit today and I'll send it to you and you can peruse it at your leisure. It's sort of fantasy-ish, or as we'v taken to describing it.. an apocalyptic scavenger-hunt in the fault-lines of the soul. It's in a world justlike our own, only about a half of a dimension over. It's a deep book hidden under a ton of surrealism and comedy.

I like it. :P

Thanks for the congrats, I really appreciate it. Someone said to me, "That's funny, you get struck by lightning and now youre getting published and get the cover as well, your book is about done and ready for publication. Wierd."

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

cover looks awesome congrats!

and the NIN tshirt looks even better, i wish i was going with my friend amelia to the show in cleveland tonight... i hate being poor ;)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like how the NIN thing turned out as well. I really didn't do much, but hey, it's nice. Don't feel bad, I can't afford to go either. But then, I don't really want to go anyway. Back in 1994, I would have loved to see NIN, but now, eh, not such a big deal.

anarch_king

[anarch-king.livejournal.com]

Bang bang bang cans like concepts, ducks in row. Monkeys off backs perhaps?

Re: anarch_king

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Those monkey have sharp talons.

[nthsholyreality.livejournal.com]

Never have I heard someone say "smoke a bicycle" and have legitimate backup support for saying it. Good job! :)

And that NIN shirt owns.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I love being able to pull of honest surrealism. I could say, I saw an elephant riding a skateboard on the back of a midget, but that would be a lie. However, to say I smoked a bicycle that tasted like hotdogs and have that be true is awesome!

And thanks, I like the NIN shirt too, and more importantly, my roommate likes it. I aim to please!