Litfest

okay like buses, these don’t come along very often and then two in one day …

but I just answered a phone enquiry for strippers – apparently we’re listed under entertainment and strippers in the Lancaster area in yell.com. ha ha.

Jonathan will be getting some good pics up soon

I saw this on the way to the office this morning.

It reminded me of the remix EP – title now confirmed: Elevator Poetry – that we’re due to publish in the next week or so. In particular, it got me thinking in response to a review the Digital Remix event at the festival: “the remix aspect of the show was overshadowed and the digital overlooked”. I take this on board – there were only three pieces that were remixed in the entire hour long show – but like this van (with only 6 letters missing) those three pieces (and a fourth on the EP) did alter the original compostions entirely, just by the addition of a different voice. I am only sorry that the original pieces weren’t also read at the event to bear the comparison.

Absence or addition, it doesn’t take much to tweak our language into new meaning, to send the reader/listener off into new interpretations and tangents. How would it be if we used one poem and made twelve different versions / riffs from it? dance remix – walk remix – mash up – soup up – sampling – extended play – well, you get the idea. We’re just launching our new publishing plans for 2009, and there’s a plan for another album. I look forward to other people’s ideas

Oh happy blogs .. or perhaps not so happy … after all not everyone can be happy all of the time … Someone pays for someone else’s happiness … The new unfolding fiction from flax is online now here and here and boy I’m loving it/them

It’s such fun – the whole caboodle – the story and quality of writing (of course), but also the frilly bits around the edges – the graphics, the links the red font on black background – how [not] cool is that? Poor Desiderus he’s been wronged and it’s bled into his vision of style. I mean, you’re safe with pink, aren’t you? It worked for Barbara Cartland; Barbie’s not doing too badly from it … I can just feel the imbalance of ability between these two guys (not Babs and Babs) and just hope I’ll be supersonically surprised … I don’t know how it’s going to turn out either.