Murdoch Lamarche

LiLO GLITCH

beachsloth:

The Beachies

Are y’all ready for this – Austin Islam

You should be this is huge. 2012 was the year of alt lit. Sure haters are going to hate. But the maters, well they are going to mate. With lust in the air around alt lit through hookups and whatnot, there are going to be many more alt lit children raised in alt lit families.  

 

New Category ‘Best Ohio’ – last year Ohio was brutally overlooked causing a great deal of pain and sadness. To rectify that I’d like to nominate the best Ohio ‘Male’ and best Ohio ‘Female’

Best Ohio Male – Noah Cicero – this guy seems more intense than me. I’m a sloth. Noah’s work sort of ‘wows’ me every time I read it. Usually I need to take a breath. 

Best Ohio Female – Sarah Swan – Sarah Swan is one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the absolute pleasure of interacting with online. 

Best Real Tao Lin – Jordan Castro from ‘Shoplifting from American Apparel: THE MOVIE’ 

Best Moustache – Willis Plummer 

Best Bag Kept Away from Children – Keep This Bag Away From Children – this comes out and looks beautiful all the time. Everyone who works on this spends a huge amount of time making it look ideal. 

Best Alt Lit Chapbook (Male) SFLISTW7.dat by Theo Thimo – when I first read his work I had no idea what to think. I read it several times until it was around 4 am in the morning. Then I wrote the review and worried it wasn’t funny enough. Sometimes things move me. This is one of those things. I really 

Best Alt Lit Chapbook (Female) I imagine you in your house, cleaning your chest by Sarah Jean Alexander – This is probably the nicest thing to ever come out about Baltimore. She gets the feel down solid. The amount of time to come out with something this good is impressive. 

Best Alt Lit ‘Cry’ of ‘Joy’ – Steve Roggenbuck in the New York Times Style Magazine – I think I cried I was so happy. Steve Roggenbuck worked hard this year. He even hung out with me in my apartment despite my lack of heat. Sure Steve might have gotten pneumonia from my apartment but he did get to live-tweet me sleeping so I think we’re even. 

Alt Lit Prom King & Queen – Jackson Nieuwland and Carolyn DeCarlo – this is so obvious it doesn’t even need to be explained. I love both of them very much and wish the best for the two of them. 

Best use of a snack pack as shampoo – Daniel Alexander stole my heart and my soul because he’s into that sort of thing. Seeing him shampoo his hair was a definite highlight. He also wrote a book. He also ate a book. 

Breakout Alt Lit Writer (Male) – Stephen Michael McDowell is amazing. I love this guy. He runs Habitat. Habitat is good. 

Breakout Alt Lit Writer (Female) – Lucy K Shaw is amazing. I love this girl. She runs Shabby Doll House. Shabby Doll House is good. 

Best guy to get cut in line at a Chinese Restaurant – Marshall Mallicoat got cut in line by a five year old kid. He ended up being pissed off but that was pretty funny. This is the best cutting in line I’ve witnessed all year. Nothing can compare. Guess Marshall should have gotten Chinese food to go instead of Chinese food to stay.

Best New Whale – Have U Seen My Whale? – Whenever this comes out I need to reserve most of the week to review it. Reviewing it is hard because there is so much good stuff in it.

Best New Meat Confetti – Meat Confetti has a great mix of material from all over the world. The fact that they will have critical essays about alt lit makes me enormously excited. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited. 

Best Alt Lit Villain – Murdoch LaMarche and I had a ‘trade-off’ series that was the closest thing I’ve ever had to an actual collaboration. He’s going to run the world somebody. I might as well get into his good graces. 

Best Initials in Alt Lit – Maybe Stephen Tully Dierks writes stuff occasionally, has beautiful pieces in HTML Giant and Shabby Doll House, but I remember him the best for his crazy-ass initials. Hopefully there will be a meeting between STD and myself at some point. Truly show me the STD! 

Best use of a dude’s butt - Karen Peltier works hard on the internet, supporting Steve Roggenbuck, supporting Spreecasts everywhere from Asheville, NC. I greatly care about Karen’s persona. Plus she’s a fan of Harry Pussy so she’s cool with me. 

Best use of James Franco in a Debut Novel - Mastodon Farm by Mike Kleine – I’ll be honest. I don’t know much about Mike Kleine. Mastodon Farm was incredible though. Name-dropping takes up much of the book. 

Best misattribution of quotes – Austin Islam rocks this game. He has screenshot poetry books too. Is Austin Islam the ultimate screen shot? His skills are impressive. His voice fills any Spreecast with hope. 

Best Nice Guy – Dennis Cooper is a force to be a-reckoned with. His output is incredible. He loves supporting others. In a world where people forget the importance of others, whether they be sloths or cats or dogs or rats or even the occasional Chairsly, Dennis stands alone ready to help out others. 

This isn’t about me. This is about you. Did this help to change the way you view the world? For those I did not nominate, do not fret. I had over 800 blog posts this year. Trying to cover everyone is close to impossible. I try my best. That’s all I can do.

I GOT A BEACHY

brainmouth:

cuttyspot:

[MY FAVORITE THINGS OF 2012]

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(I’m entirely certain that I left out some stuff & that I didn’t get a chance to hear // see // read everything notable this year – if you have any recommendations based on my lists, please let me know)

THESE ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

IF YOU’RE BORED BY A PARTICULAR SECTION, KEEP GOING – THERE’S A LOT HERE

BTW I WORKED ON THIS FOR HOURS

SRY

I also worked & schooled a lot in 2012 so I didn’t get a chance to check everything out :(

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MUSIC

Grimes – Visions

Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes

Crystal Castles – III

Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance

How to Dress Well – Total Loss

Purity Ring – Shrines

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes

Burial – Kindred EP

Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend

Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d eity

Grizzly Bear – Shields

Beach House – Bloom

Tame Impala – Lonerism

Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar // Clear Moon

Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

Passion Pit – Gossamer

Hot Chip – In Our Heads

TNGHT – TNGHT EP

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengres – Icon Give Thank

Holy Other - Held

Twin Shadow – Confess

Young Family – You Ruined It EP

The Caretaker - Patience

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EXPERIENCES:

• putting together & finishing my MFA thesis

• all the interviews / video responses I curated & received (thank you everyone who participated & watched!!!)

• when Steve Roggenbuck stayed on my couch for 2 nights in San Francisco

• creating the online lit mag GESTURE & soliciting writers like Lydia Davis, Franz Wright, Rosemarie Waldrop, Edward Mullany, Ben Mirov, Daniel Alexander, Steve Roggenbuck

• discovering Ted Berrigan’s interview w/ Jack Keroauc

• discovering Abner Jay

• reading at 851

• reading at QUIET LIGHTNING 

• when Dennis Cooper sent me a msg back on FB saying he was a ‘total devoted regular’ to Cutty Spot

• when I started writing some ‘reviews’ for I AM ALT LIT 

• all the reblogs I got from Tao Lin

• receiving this story from PETER BD

• being asked to read at the SHOPLIFTING AT AMERICAN APPAREL premiere in San Francisco

• listening to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch constantly

• when Annie Paradis wrote me a poem

FACEBOOK:

• Zachery Wood’s Facebook posts

• Diane Marie’s Facebook posts

• Writer’s Bloc 

• ALT LIT GOSSIP

• Heiko Julien 

• Michael Potter

• Murdoch LaMarche

• Janey Smith

• Steve Roggenbuck

• Austin Asia 

VIDEOS ETC:

• ‘Shitty Youth’ by Adam Humphreys

• How Hunter Makes It 

• Steve Roggenbuck on Let’s Paint TV

• Chris Dankland’s video poems

• Steve Roggenbuck’s 

• discovering the BBC David Foster Wallace Documentary

• discovering Terence McKenna’s ‘Evolving Times’

• DW Lichtenberg’s video of a Diana Salier poem

• Daniel Alexander’s’ Selected Tweets from May – June’

• Daniel Alexander’s’ EXPLORE, CREATE, LIVE’

• NEW ANIMAL – ‘FALLING UP’

• NARDWUAR

• ‘Conversations’ on Chart Attack 

• discovering possibly my favorite video ever – battle between Lions & Buffalo

• Paige Elizabeth’s documentary EVERYTHING HERE NOW

• Gabby Gabby’s’ i will write a nature poem about feeling grateful for my mouth’ 

• Ben Mirov’s trailer (directed by DW Lichtenberg) for HIDER ROSER 

• BABY BABY promotional video by Fontez Brooks 

• promo video for Mira Gonzalez’s book 

• my music video for Tedo Stone’s BEST IS YET

BLOGS ETC:

• Chris Dankland 

• Ashley Obscura 

• John Rogers 

• Michael Inscoe

• Kelly Schirmann

• Steve Roggenbuck 

• INTERNET POETRY 

• Pop Serial 

• HUNTER PAYNE 

• BANANGO LIT 

• THOUGHT CATALOG 

• HOLLER PRESENTS 

• HTMLGIANT 

• PITCHFORK 

• BEACH SLOTH 

• JACKSON NIEUWLAND 

• TAO LIN

• STEPHEN MICHAEL MCDOWELL 

• DENNIS COOPER

• EDWARD MULLANY 

• BRAD LISTI 

TWITTER:

Tao Lin

Kersey Chase

lil furny

nobdy

SANTINO DELA

V

body ghost

Reynard Seifert

the entire universe

sophie

Lexi Roberts

Zen Proverbs

J 

Hunter Payne

MOUNT ENNUI

Steve Roggenbuck

i am alt lit 

Crispin Best

Jackson Nieuwland

Edward Mullany

Jimmy Chen

BEACH SLOTH

Melissa Broder

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BOOKS // EBOOKS // E-MAGS:

Letters From Robots by Diana Salier

No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can by Sam Pink

The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan by Scott McClanahan

I AM READY TO DIE A VIOLENT DEATH by Heiko Julien

CITYSCAPES

ILLUMINATI GIRL GANG 

NAP

HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE

SADCORE DADWAVE

THENEWERYORK

CONGRATULATIONS YOU’VE BEEN SELECTED TO WIN ANOTHER DAY ON PLANET EARTH by Hunter Payne

UP

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL ALTERNATIVE LITERATURE 

Metazen

GESTURE

Crush Dream by Lonely Christopher 

Raddddd by Daniel Alexander

Crunk Juice by Steve Roggenbuck 

UNTITLED by Chuck Young 

STEALING THINGSby Keegan Crawford

JAMES GANAS WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND I’M SORRY HE DIED SO YOUNG OF CANCER by James Ganas 

GOODBYE DRINKS by Sarah Jean Alexander 

I’M GOING TO FUCK AND THAT’S A PLACE YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE, NOT A VERB by Pancho Espinosa 

HIDER ROSER by Ben Mirov

SHABBY DOLL HOUSE

THINGS IN MY TO-READ PILE THAT I THINK WILL BE FAVORITES 

Snow Poems by Janey Smith

Airplane Food by Gabby Gabby 

I AM MY OWN BETRAYAL by Guillaume Morissette

YOU PRIVATE PERSON by Richard Chiem 

Spending my day with Matthew Sherling’s favorite things of 2012. I suggest you take a peek around as well. Am I tickled as shit that my name is on here, sharing space with some serious talent? Yes. Yes, I am.

LiT GAME ‘i’M ON A LiST OF MATTHEW SHERLiNG’S FAVORiTE THiNGS FROM 2012 BECAUSE OF MY FACEBOOKiNG’

Woo!