Monday, August 25, 2008

Obama needs Eazy-E! 

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About

• Hello. I'm a fiction writer, editor and music journalist living in New York. I'm working on some short stories and a novel. Weirdo bands and DJ's is what I write about in my XLR8R column each month. I used to live in Austin, work for The World Almanac and wear more Geto Boys T-shirts. Contact me via e-mail here.

Articles & Other Writings

• "El Vampiro"
• (as-yet-unpublished)
• "1986"
• (Block Magazine)
• Bang! Bang! Justice does New York
• (The New York Press)
• Alice Smith's For Lovers...
• (Vibe Magazine)
• Canadians Die, Too
• (The New York Press)
• South By So What
• (Austin Music Magazine)
• Tomorrow Rap: Saul Williams, Rob Sonic and Busdriver
• (Signal to Noise)
• "After Silence" monthly column
• (XLR8R)

Freelance Hustle!

• I do band bios, press releases, editing, Spanish translation, copywriting, music and film reviews. Business writing services are also available. Contact me for rates.

Works

• A chapbook of five short stories + mix CD called The Window Fingers of Professor Carlos. I'll be publishing it later this year (hopefully) with illustrations by Andres Vera Martinez, whose had stuff in the New York Times and I'll be offering it as a free Creative Commons PDF download. Hopefully, it will also be at reputable indie bookstores around NY & elsewhere. With fingers crossed, there will also be a DJ mix with some strange sounds, too.

• I'm also working on a novel tentatively called Dr. Cerebro. Houston-2 is filled with rappers-as-sorcerers, a 31 year old Mexican-American 21st century guy named Diego who has to move home when his grandma named Martha La Princesa dies. Metaphysical immigrants are a problem as is a mysterious red Cadillac when cars are illegal. A heartfelt thriller meets UGK? I like to use science-fiction, the fantastic and realism to construct worlds. It will come out in 2025.

Reading!

• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
• Fantasma Press is an indie publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. Genre stories, weird stories, avant-garde/experimental fiction, Spanish-language fiction and dope drawings and essays are forthcoming in the future. I also use it to publish tiny chapbooks of shit I know would never sell anywhere else. Give me your $$$.

Best of 2008

Mutant Blogs

• L Boogie
• Rah!
• Andrés Vera Martínez
• Justino aka Hurricane Earl
• Philip Sherburne, micro like Yao Ming
• Your Ill-Fitting Overcoat
• Hua Hsulu Nation
• Nalo Hopkinson
• Nah Right
• Small Beer Press Empire
• HoustonsoReal
• S/FJ
• 20 Jazz Funk Greats
• DJ /rupture
• TV on the Radio
• Javier Marias
• Simon Reynolds
• Poplicks
• Walton Muyumba's Digi Snacks
• Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
• We Make Money Not Art
• Blog of a Bookslut
• Xiu Xiu
• Dalek
• Shynola
• Manuel De Landa
• Samuel R. Delany
MIT Media Lab
• Bidoun Magazine
• Jackson C. Frank
• Naomi Klein
• UGK
• Georges Perec
• Os Mutantes
• Kobo Abé
• Jorge Luis Borges lecture @ Harvard

Heart Pop

• Indymedia
• Greenpeace
• Habitat
• One Laptop per Child
• Heifer
• Ali Forney Center
• Amnesty International

archives

• 01/01/2004- 01/31/2004
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