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Poigod

Poigod Issue One

Here's some reading material for you this winter. It's the digital version of the first issue of Emily's literary magazine. It's got writing, pictures, a comic, etc. It includes some stuff from people who post on here (and I helped lay it out). Definitely worthwhile.

For the last four years I have kept track of every book I read. Here is a picture of a pond with swans near my aunt's house and then all the books I read in twenty ten.

“This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey” – Steve Almond

“Indiana” – George Sand

“Darkness at Noon” Arthur Koestler

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” – Milan Kundera

“Madame Bovary” – Gustav Flaubert

“The Genesis of Gaudian Architecture” – Juan-Eduardo Cirlot

“White Oleander” – Janet Fitch

“Christ In Concrete” – Pietro Di Donato

“No Exit” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Waiting for Godot” – Samuel Beckett

“The Maids” – Jean Genet

“Chess Story” – Stefan Zweig

“Epitaph of A Small Winner” – Machado De Assis

“Here I Stand” – Paul Robeson

“Philosophy in the Boudoir” – Marquis De Sade

“Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” – John Boswell

“Tales of Love and Loss” – Knut Hamsun

“Housekeeping” – Marilynne Robinson

“Where the Money Went” – Kevin Canty

“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisoyvich” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Tinkers” – Paul Harding

“The Wreath” – Sigrid Undset

“Beowulf”- Unknown (Translated by Seamus Heaney)

“The Country Wife” – William Wycherley

“Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” – Unknown

“The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers” – Aphra Behn

“The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger, Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion” – John Vanbrugh

“Walden” – Henry David Thoreau

“Desert Solitaire” – Edward Abbey

“The Way of the World” – William Congreve

“Beaux Stratagem” – George Farquhar

“Roxana” – Daniel Defoe

“Refuge” – Terry Tempest Williams

“My Year of Meats” – Ruth Ozeki

“The Beggar’s Opera” – John Gay

“White Noise” – Don Delillo

“Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councilor R. Von D.” – Stefan Zweig

37 in total: 13 American, 5 French, 11 British, 2 Swiss, 2 Norwegian, 1 Russian, 1 Czech, 1 Brazilian and 1 Spanish.

The best in no particular order:

"The Wreath" - Sigrid Undset

"Housekeeping" - Marilynne Robinson

"Epitaph of a Small Winner" - Machado De Assis

"Beowulf"

Sybok - Gorelactic Possessed Martiangels

The heavily anticipated Ghosts of Mars-themed death metal masterpiece from Sybok is now available for download. Hag (keith) did the shreddin', tight production, and goregeous cover art. Dogboss (ryan) herded his horned flock of programmed drum brutality into each song and contributed some spooky vocals unheard since his crime doctor days. Rot (clay) was the Big Daddy Mars who conceptualized Gorelactic Possessed Martiangels and nearly pulverized it with his guttural aggression.

Trax include audio samples entirely from Ghosts of Mars and improvised lyrics, including one that S.O.A.D. actually wrote down (Is there anything more provocative than shouting "Angels deserve to die"?).

Sybok - Gorelactic Possessed Martiangels

1.) The Angeldevouring Cadaverdactyl Takes Flight Over Mars

2.) Gorelactic Martiangel Possession

3.) Martian Carcasstrophe

4.) Fleshtents Colonize My Gorelaxy

5.) Blood for Big Daddy Mars

6.) Alien Huntress

7.) Guts Taste Good

8.) Gorelactic Martiangel Decapitation

9.) Ripped-Apart Angel Constellation

10.) Meat for the Angelphagist

11.) Desolation Williams(Lithopedion Christ)

12.) Gorelactic Martiangel Insurrection

If you haven't heard crappy high school death metal before, prepare to be laid out like that bar scene from Out for Justice, except twinklin' supernova because this has a space theme.

One Week!!!

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Future Plans: What to expect from 2011

Hey guys and guyettes,

2011 has a lot in store for you from the ctrl force.

Tim Blood and the Gut Panthers new 6 (or 7 or 8) song CDR, and also Tim Blood patches and T-shirts.

We'll also be gracing the public with a few sock hops.

January 17th: Tim Blood and Rhythm Memory at Mikeys in Moscow, Idaho

February 4th: Tim Blood, Finn Riggins, and Worlds Greatest Ghosts at The Belltower in Pullman, Washington

Come hang.

Herb(ian)

never forget to

Jonathan Franzen's Ten Rules of Writing

1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

2 Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

3 Never use the word "then" as a ­conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose. Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.

4 Write in the third person unless a ­really distinctive first-person voice ­offers itself irresistibly.

5 When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.

6 The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

7 You see more sitting still than chasing after.

8 It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

9 Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

10 You have to love before you can be relentless.

ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL!

A beautiful interior perspective shot created by my last project partner; I hope we get an "A"!

Big Fucking Deal

Big Deal Zine

Get Herb(ian)'s zeeen for free. Print it out for totally worthwhile toilet reading. Recommended!

SUN MANTRA AND TIM BLOOD WINTER BASH

Sun Mantra (download Sun Mantra here)
Tim Blood
Friday December 17th @ The Yellow House in Moscow.

ctrlforce@gmail.com if you need the address.