This is the site where you can stay notified on the filming of The Human War.
They started filming today.
It is really exciting.
The people making the movie Pirooz Kalayeh and Thomas Henwood have rented a large apartment in Youngstown where like a hundred people are staying.
They have a good actor named James from LA playing Mark. James Roehl is really cool.
The filming is going to take 18 days.
I'm not involved with any of the filming.
I don't think it is any of my business.
I'm not a movie person.
I don't know what should be done.
But I go over and bring James to Dennys so he can eat slamburgers.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Returning
People have a lot of comments on Best Behavior
I'll respond now:
"Good God! What the hell is with you people and your obsessive description of facial expressions"
I like facial expressions.
I like people who can show a lot of emotions with their faces.
"i would buy all of your books if i had any money."
I would more books if I had money.
"i still live in youngstown and the government supports me because i am a crazy person"
The meek shall inherit the earth.
"good good."
Thank you Alyssa
"noah i read it in one sitting. i've always loved your books. i felt really moved by this."
Kendra, thank you for providing the best scene in the book.
"If you want me to be a bit meaner, this could probably do with being proofread closely, as there's two chapter sixes."
When things are free, they don't get proofread.
"You should come to Canada"
That sounds like a good idea. Can I get a talent visa?
"i guess, but that my come from a bias towards print over internet. owell."
Andrew, I like print books. But you can read this in the bathroom on your phone.
"I'm about three quarters through this and it's the best thing I've read all year. I couldn't put it down but I had to go to work."
I just took my dick out and rubbed one off to that comment.
"you fingered an older woman on a bus, funny, weird"
The meek shall inherit the earth.
"I saved it to my flash drive and also backed it up by sending it to my gmail account. Now, I will always have the first draft of Best Behavior, even if you take it down again, like you did with the Insurgent."
The first draft of the insurgent only like three people have, tao lin, antosca, and chapman. The first draft is forty pages longer. The first draft of Best Behavior is like fifty pages longer. Tao and chapman only have the first drafts of it. I have the gmail chats that correspond with the writing of EEEE EEE EEEE, for 20,000 dollars I will sell them to you. If you want the actual first draft of best behavior i'll send it to you.
"Great story. This is the most devastating criticism yet of the vapidity, immaturity, stupidity and general idiocy of the literary crowd around Tao Lin - the degenerates Gorrell, German, and Malone; the psychotic Kennedy; the pushy and obnoxious Taylor and Antosca; etc."
I don't know if it shows the idiocy. All of them are college educated or are going or will be going. I think they are just young. I have no doubt when you encounter
any of those people when they are 35 years old they will have their lives together and be highly functioning people. Even with most of the people in Youngstown who were young and behaving badly. You could read The Sun Also Rises and assume the same things about them. You could read On the Road and assume those things. But most of the people in those novels had their shit together when they got older. And most of them had jobs and were doing things to stay alive. But it would have been boring to describe Nick Antosca at work all day sitting in his office doing mundane shit. Or Justin Taylor teaching at a local college, then going home and grading papers. "Justin Taylor gives Judy Greyhouse a B."
"You are a really great writer. I hope that you can use that gift to continue to spread love and peace in this world rather than more violence and hate. Seems like you're doing a great job so far."
Thank you, I'll keep trying that.
"Please write more about the childfree. I'm sick of being told that I'm purportedly selfish because I haven't spawned especially when this sort of remark comes from certain dopes who didn't exactly put much thought into becoming parents."
I will end up writing about that forever because everyday that passes I keep not getting anyone pregnant.
"sometimes while at the register at work,"
That sounds really cool.
I'll respond now:
"Good God! What the hell is with you people and your obsessive description of facial expressions"
I like facial expressions.
I like people who can show a lot of emotions with their faces.
"i would buy all of your books if i had any money."
I would more books if I had money.
"i still live in youngstown and the government supports me because i am a crazy person"
The meek shall inherit the earth.
"good good."
Thank you Alyssa
"noah i read it in one sitting. i've always loved your books. i felt really moved by this."
Kendra, thank you for providing the best scene in the book.
"If you want me to be a bit meaner, this could probably do with being proofread closely, as there's two chapter sixes."
When things are free, they don't get proofread.
"You should come to Canada"
That sounds like a good idea. Can I get a talent visa?
"i guess, but that my come from a bias towards print over internet. owell."
Andrew, I like print books. But you can read this in the bathroom on your phone.
"I'm about three quarters through this and it's the best thing I've read all year. I couldn't put it down but I had to go to work."
I just took my dick out and rubbed one off to that comment.
"you fingered an older woman on a bus, funny, weird"
The meek shall inherit the earth.
"I saved it to my flash drive and also backed it up by sending it to my gmail account. Now, I will always have the first draft of Best Behavior, even if you take it down again, like you did with the Insurgent."
The first draft of the insurgent only like three people have, tao lin, antosca, and chapman. The first draft is forty pages longer. The first draft of Best Behavior is like fifty pages longer. Tao and chapman only have the first drafts of it. I have the gmail chats that correspond with the writing of EEEE EEE EEEE, for 20,000 dollars I will sell them to you. If you want the actual first draft of best behavior i'll send it to you.
"Great story. This is the most devastating criticism yet of the vapidity, immaturity, stupidity and general idiocy of the literary crowd around Tao Lin - the degenerates Gorrell, German, and Malone; the psychotic Kennedy; the pushy and obnoxious Taylor and Antosca; etc."
I don't know if it shows the idiocy. All of them are college educated or are going or will be going. I think they are just young. I have no doubt when you encounter
any of those people when they are 35 years old they will have their lives together and be highly functioning people. Even with most of the people in Youngstown who were young and behaving badly. You could read The Sun Also Rises and assume the same things about them. You could read On the Road and assume those things. But most of the people in those novels had their shit together when they got older. And most of them had jobs and were doing things to stay alive. But it would have been boring to describe Nick Antosca at work all day sitting in his office doing mundane shit. Or Justin Taylor teaching at a local college, then going home and grading papers. "Justin Taylor gives Judy Greyhouse a B."
"You are a really great writer. I hope that you can use that gift to continue to spread love and peace in this world rather than more violence and hate. Seems like you're doing a great job so far."
Thank you, I'll keep trying that.
"Please write more about the childfree. I'm sick of being told that I'm purportedly selfish because I haven't spawned especially when this sort of remark comes from certain dopes who didn't exactly put much thought into becoming parents."
I will end up writing about that forever because everyday that passes I keep not getting anyone pregnant.
"sometimes while at the register at work,"
That sounds really cool.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
posting best behavior
does anyone want to read best behavior
i might post it
if ten people want to read I'll post it
i didn't try very hard on the book
i would kind of drink this coffee called 'shock' from a local gas station and write for two hours randomly as fast as possible.
i don't think i'll publish it unless someone pays me, because i don't care. If i put on here, more people would read than if i actually got it published on a small press and forced my fellow humans to buy it for 15 dollars.
i might post it
if ten people want to read I'll post it
i didn't try very hard on the book
i would kind of drink this coffee called 'shock' from a local gas station and write for two hours randomly as fast as possible.
i don't think i'll publish it unless someone pays me, because i don't care. If i put on here, more people would read than if i actually got it published on a small press and forced my fellow humans to buy it for 15 dollars.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Human War Movie
The Human War is being made into a movie for real.
The movie will start filming at the beginning of December.
It is pretty exciting.
Since this has been going on, I started to think about the people that were around me when the iraq war started.
They seem pretty fucked up in the book.
Everyone seems chaotic and like they will die for unknown reasons.
But I started to think about like the ten of us that all hung out together.
Except for two people, one who recently killed herself, and one who became a schizophrenic crack head.
Everyone pretty much got their shit together and became an adult.
Became like managers, went to tech schools, moved up at work or graduated college and became white collar. Some have moved away and done normal American things like pay their bills and have new cars.
I think if the movie or if the book did anything, it shows that period a lot of Americans have in their early twenties. That period where nothing matters, like 19 to 23 where you are physically healthy, sexually charged, and your parents are still giving you money. You aren't thinking about doing anything with your life, you might be in college, but you aren't thinking about health insurance or mortgage payments, or if your kid needs new shirts and shoes for school.
It never occurred to me when I was 21 that everyone for the most part would grow up to be normal people.
It seemed like the chaos would last forever.
It doesn't though: one day you see your old friend and he says he's an engineer, another a quality control inspector, both making like 40,000 a year. They start talking about their 401ks and you realize that time has passed.
I think, for people my age, around 28 to 32, we were in our chaotic stage when 9-11, the afghan war, and the iraq war started. If you were younger, you were in school concerned with pepper rallies and football or playing the guitar, if you were older you were concerned with making something of or maintaining the life you had. But we were sitting there, without any responsibility, able to really get sucked in and fucked by it.
The movie will start filming at the beginning of December.
It is pretty exciting.
Since this has been going on, I started to think about the people that were around me when the iraq war started.
They seem pretty fucked up in the book.
Everyone seems chaotic and like they will die for unknown reasons.
But I started to think about like the ten of us that all hung out together.
Except for two people, one who recently killed herself, and one who became a schizophrenic crack head.
Everyone pretty much got their shit together and became an adult.
Became like managers, went to tech schools, moved up at work or graduated college and became white collar. Some have moved away and done normal American things like pay their bills and have new cars.
I think if the movie or if the book did anything, it shows that period a lot of Americans have in their early twenties. That period where nothing matters, like 19 to 23 where you are physically healthy, sexually charged, and your parents are still giving you money. You aren't thinking about doing anything with your life, you might be in college, but you aren't thinking about health insurance or mortgage payments, or if your kid needs new shirts and shoes for school.
It never occurred to me when I was 21 that everyone for the most part would grow up to be normal people.
It seemed like the chaos would last forever.
It doesn't though: one day you see your old friend and he says he's an engineer, another a quality control inspector, both making like 40,000 a year. They start talking about their 401ks and you realize that time has passed.
I think, for people my age, around 28 to 32, we were in our chaotic stage when 9-11, the afghan war, and the iraq war started. If you were younger, you were in school concerned with pepper rallies and football or playing the guitar, if you were older you were concerned with making something of or maintaining the life you had. But we were sitting there, without any responsibility, able to really get sucked in and fucked by it.
Monday, November 02, 2009
ten sentences about routine
The spanish tests at ysu are giant monsters that take forever. They give me hives. I am learning a lot though
I had to write ten sentences about my daily routine.
Here it is goes:
Mi rutina es aburrido. Me lavanto y tengo que mierda. Miro a mi pene. Me ducho y Me lavo los pelotas y pelo. Estoy triste y deprimido todos dias. No tengo novia y mucho amigos tristes. No tengo razen a vivo. Mi sala es sucio. Mi madre no quiero me. Mi casa es poco. Mi computadora es mi solo amigo. Estoy muy cansado, me acuesto a sueno de mejor dias.
Everyone should write ten depressing sentences with the language they learned in college.
Don't use translators.
Just try to remember it.
I had to write ten sentences about my daily routine.
Here it is goes:
Mi rutina es aburrido. Me lavanto y tengo que mierda. Miro a mi pene. Me ducho y Me lavo los pelotas y pelo. Estoy triste y deprimido todos dias. No tengo novia y mucho amigos tristes. No tengo razen a vivo. Mi sala es sucio. Mi madre no quiero me. Mi casa es poco. Mi computadora es mi solo amigo. Estoy muy cansado, me acuesto a sueno de mejor dias.
Everyone should write ten depressing sentences with the language they learned in college.
Don't use translators.
Just try to remember it.
I need to get married by I'm 30
I turned 29 a month ago.
I have no kids and no wife.
One time I was watching Bonanza and this woman showed up to town to marry one of the town's drunks or something.
The town drunk disappeared or something.
He wasn't around.
So the woman was standing there with her kid.
And they were trapped out west and seriously in the middle of nowhere.
So this guy whose wife just died walked up to her and said, "Will you marry me, I have a house and some land and I'm a good worker."
And she was like, "Okay."
Because they were the only two single people around the same age within 100 miles.
There is a girl at work, one girl to be exact, that doesn't have a boyfriend, tells me all the time she needs to get married by she's 30. She is italian and has a criminal justice major, which is close to a political science major in quality of learning. We both know how courts work, local politics, and that there are three branches of government. I feel like standing there with a cowboy hat on and saying like that guy, "I promise to be a worker and mow the grass and fix the sink when it breaks and provide you with good strong children."
But that would never happen.
Instead we would have to go on a series of dates.
And she would have to meet my friends
And I would have to meet her friends.
I would have to get a cell phone so we could text message.
She probably wants a really nice house with new things.
My idea of a nice house has old things in it.
Like I really like old country houses that might be haunted with the ghosts of a dead farmer's wife and it has one of those bathtubs with legs.
Is anybody else around 30 or has lived through this stage of human development in modern society and can help me through it.
My Aging and Society teacher keeps telling us that we need to get married and have children, not because of anything spiritual, but because we need to a spouse to comfort us in our old, double incomes, and if we our nice to our children than someone will help us in old age instead of us being thrown into a nursing home.
I have no kids and no wife.
One time I was watching Bonanza and this woman showed up to town to marry one of the town's drunks or something.
The town drunk disappeared or something.
He wasn't around.
So the woman was standing there with her kid.
And they were trapped out west and seriously in the middle of nowhere.
So this guy whose wife just died walked up to her and said, "Will you marry me, I have a house and some land and I'm a good worker."
And she was like, "Okay."
Because they were the only two single people around the same age within 100 miles.
There is a girl at work, one girl to be exact, that doesn't have a boyfriend, tells me all the time she needs to get married by she's 30. She is italian and has a criminal justice major, which is close to a political science major in quality of learning. We both know how courts work, local politics, and that there are three branches of government. I feel like standing there with a cowboy hat on and saying like that guy, "I promise to be a worker and mow the grass and fix the sink when it breaks and provide you with good strong children."
But that would never happen.
Instead we would have to go on a series of dates.
And she would have to meet my friends
And I would have to meet her friends.
I would have to get a cell phone so we could text message.
She probably wants a really nice house with new things.
My idea of a nice house has old things in it.
Like I really like old country houses that might be haunted with the ghosts of a dead farmer's wife and it has one of those bathtubs with legs.
Is anybody else around 30 or has lived through this stage of human development in modern society and can help me through it.
My Aging and Society teacher keeps telling us that we need to get married and have children, not because of anything spiritual, but because we need to a spouse to comfort us in our old, double incomes, and if we our nice to our children than someone will help us in old age instead of us being thrown into a nursing home.
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