Photographed some of the feral cats that live in old San Juan, Puerto Rico. There's a huge population of them and they're fearless -those will be up soon. Recently finished putting together my first collection of poems. 49 pages of long and short poems hand pressed in collaboration with KittyCat Press. Considering a move to New York in the Fall or Winter if I can secure a job and living situation.
January 17th, 2010
My poems have been published in a split zine with Toronto based multimedia artist Dimitri Karakostas. This first edition is being put out through http://bloodoftheyoung.com and is a run of 10: five exist in Toronto, five in Baltimore.
A link to Dimitri & the Zine: http://exteenagers.blogspot.com/
November 29th, 2009
Vote for me in the 2010 Baker Artist Awards, it's easy and would help a whole lot.
New updates, work, poems -I've added a link to a piece called Untitled (collaboration with internet friends), this piece involves your participation so if you have 5-10 minutes of free time and some markers you can collaborate on this piece. The first 20 to complete the directions have their drawings posted on the site. Thanks -L
October 29th, 2009
Just a few days before Wham City's first international exhibition in Toronto. I'm in the middle of designing the poster and t-shirt for the exhibition. Also, a reminder to buy this next month's issue of Esopus. I've got a song on the compilation entitled Unseen Silver, it's a brand new one.
If you're familiar with the way iTunes handles the media you purchase, how itunes veils the exact location of your files on your hard drive behind an interface, and how even though you have an account and history of purchases you're still forced to repurchase your files if they're lost etc..and If you've been keeping up with the trend of corporations collaborating on services ie. AT&T & iPhone, and the growing interconnectivity (interdependency) of technology via the iphone etc.. then it's not so difficult to imagine a future where issues are alot more pressing than just "most people have iphones, some do not". The western world is becoming increasingly intangible and regimented by how a product or products share data. Ownership is diminishing at the same rate that manufacturing quality is diminishing. I Imagine iPhone Apps are quite useful, but I'll be churning butter out in the woods before long.
October 3d, 2009
Smell aweful bedtime coming karaoke sweat on stank new poems for reading ttyl
August 22nd, 2009
I'm getting a mailing list together to send out information on updates to the site, new writing, new music, photos, drawings, etc. If you're interested in signing up send me your Name and Email Address and I'll sign you in.
August 22nd, 2009
Finished a track for the forthcoming Esopus magazine compilation (Fall 2009) This issue's theme was Nostradamus and his quatrains. Each musician chose a quatrain and wrote a song inspired by it. The song is called Unseen Silver, and this is the quatrain I chose:
Le bon vieillart tout vif ensevely, Pres du grand fleuve par faulse souspecon Le nouveau vieulx de richesse ennobly, Prins à chemin tout l'or de sa rancon.
The good old man buried quite alive, Near the great river through false suspicion: The new old man ennobled by riches, Captured on the road all his gold for ransom.
Here's a link to the song: http://www.myspace.com/lessergonzalezalvarez
to the magazine: http://www.esopusmag.com
July 19th, 2009
Posted 11 Poems in Central Park, and other location-neutral poems
July 9th, 2009
Whartscape begins tomorrow, I'll be playing on Sunday afternoon, about 3:30.
Designed a poster for this year's Whartscape, here's a link to last year's poster. Some new poems on the way.
Last night I wrote a stream of one line poems, and other things, I've posted those to the recent writing section
June 3d, 2009
Posted a new poem and a couple of new haikus and short fragments in the recent writing blog. Heading back to florida in the morning to hang with my high school graduate brother. Congrats.
May 15th, 2009
I've updated the 35mm photo section with new photos.
May 10th, 2009
I made a new section under other work for recent writing, it contains new haikus, prose, and single line poems. It's essentially my writing notebook on the web and will be updated frequently with new work.
May 9th, 2009
Fixed an issue with the writing of new entries to the site. I've got a new roll of film to develop and I've been doing some writing as well that may eventually end up having it's own section (with the haikus etc.) It'll probably work something like this blog with a new poem posted as its finished. For now here's a newish one.
Gene Hackman
I am dreaming I'm an actor Using descriptors from the real world to mask with what my teeth and tongue know to be total tripe, the hunter gatherer truth of not quite putting(laying) my finger on just your lips-like-a-sexualized-life-preserver body of an old street lamp fancy hard and electric (weathered subtly and in a nice way) and hair long like a spanish mare's and long, so long I want to fit it all in my mouth or kiss the usual way by multiplying my weight by a thousand and just staring
You're standing at a counter buying bottled water Serene as the picture on the bottle some non-existant river with cartoon mountains The picture on mine is just so debaucherous This was supposed to be a nice trip to made up rivers and movie set mountains but you're sprawled out naked on mine whistling (what is this?) I must've grabbed Dasani not looking When I was reaching for "Spring Creek Whatever" brand Harmless and cheap and brushed against your hip with so many snakes in my stomach my body a temple of doom Since when do I consort with the Arch of the Covenant? I am Doubtfire Tootsie Gene Hackman dressed as a woman
New 49 page book of long and short poems. Hand pressed in an edition of about 150 in
collaboration with Kittycat Press, Baltimore. MD
