Stay Awhile If You Can is a long story about relationships, murals, punks, and community radio

Monday, 3 August 2009

You can read it in Hobart #10 alongside sweet stories by Alicia Gifford, B.J. Hollars, Blake Butler, Claire Vaye Watkins, Amy Clark, Daniel Nester, JoeAnn Hart, Curtis Dawkins, Brad Gayman, Colleen Hollister, and Lori Ostlund, plus comics by Lydia Conklin and John Dermot Woods.

The bonus materials website is up. I am sixteen years old in the picture of me next to the mural. Other facts about the story: the punks in Ashland, OR really did drive an auctioned police car. Rain really rains like that in Oregon. Blueberries do help your memory. The community radio station in Oroville really does have carseats for couches. Oroville really does have a crazy mural guy. His name is Fred. He painted the Eiffel Tower below our swamp cooler. His nephew and I were friends. We rode go-karts. Disney did fire him. In the park is a mural of Ishi, who had to live in a jail for a little while. Sometimes I raced my sister around the park by running on the park wall, which is three feet high and the color of adobe. People steal computer monitors and wooden Indians from the stores downtown. There's a well in the park that doesn't work. There's an alley called Miner's Alley where no one ever parks because they're all at the casino. One day my mother bought me a cowboy shirt, but it didn't fit, so I exchanged it for an authentic Toby Keith hat. What makes me nostalgic are levies, abandoned shopping carts, dogs that swim for no reason, green bridges, bottles of peppermint schnapps broken on trestles, and the California foothill sunset, which is a blind horse with a yellow tongue.

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sorry, no, jensen actually has the cutest kids

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

My friend Jensen's new post reminds me that I've been lax on posting about a few new things that I have work in. So here we go:

QUICK FICTION 15: A whole bunch of crazy good short shorts in this lovely munchkin, including stories by exactly all of these people (omg I'm getting so many Google Alerts hits off this, yo): Jami Brandli, Andrew Brininstool, Randall Brown, Kenneth Calhoun, Elizabeth Ellen, Scott Garson, Lydia Copeland, Stefan Kiesbye, Andrea Kneeland, Charles Lennox (who's got good stuff in the new FRiGG too), Sean Lovelace, Jen Marquardt, Lee Martin, Michael Meyerhofer, Taylur Thu Hien Ngo, Dylan Nice, G. C. Perry, Andrew Michael Roberts, Helen Klein Ross, Joanna Ruocco, James Scott, Don Strange, Jensen Whelan, Daniel E. Wickett, Blythe Winslow, Spencer Wise, me, and Mabel Yu.

ROBOT MELON 9: It's online, plus a color wheel and a lot of linguistic crunch on top of a high dose of what, what's it called, a sort of silk mumble? Good stuff. I have a poem in it and these sweet things are doing their sweet rings: Ani Smith, Jenna Humphrey, Sean Lovelace, Lisa Ciccarello, Heather Momyer, James Iredell, Peter Berghoef, Justin Hyde, Michelle Reale, Maria Anderson, Justin Dobbs, Arelene Ang, Duncan Cheshire, Andrew Rihn, Audri Sousa, Andrew Lundwall, Sonny Traylor, and Donald Dunbar.

LETTERBOX #4: Haven't seen it yet, but I'm excited for the gawk. My poem in this is dedicated to somebody, but you have to figure out who. It's like poetry meets the Knights Templar or whatever. Seems like a good shoulder to shoulder: Ed Baker, Jennifer Cooper, Melissa Eleftherion, Raymond Farr, Marco Giovenale, Vincent Katz, Richard Kostelanetz, Pablo Lopez, Charlie Malone, Richard Meier, Christopher Mulrooney, K. Silem Mohammed, Sara Mumolo, Sophie Pucill, Stephen Ratcliffe, Francis Raven, and Kit Robinson.

Plus I have a story in the new print issue of Hobart, but I am waiting for the DVD style website to post that. But I am super excited. The issue is good, and my story is illustrated by a trailer home hidden in the woods--or, I mean, I like to think it's hidden, brewing mint soda and so on.

Thanks y'all! Hope your summer is going well!

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The king with my face

Monday, 27 July 2009

Movie Info:
Director: Hoh Mung-Wa
Cast: Li Ching, Shin Young-Kyun, Shen Yi, Gam Sing Giu, Wong Chung Shun
Original Title: Tit Tau Wong Dai
Production Country: Hong Kong 1967

Review:
This elaborate period piece crafted by versatile young director Ho Meng Hua is a Chinese variation of the famous 'The Man Behind the Iron Mask' legend based on the rule of French King Louis XIV and immortalized through the writings of Dumas and Voltaire only this time the story is supplanted into the environs of ancient dynastic China during the time of the Warring States. In this grand Shaw Brothers/Korean co-production, Korean movie idol Shin Yeong-gyun headlines to play a despotic and decadent Chinese emperor who cruelly imprisons the King's righteous and humble identical twin brother (also played by Shin) forced to wear a hideous forged steel mask shielding his face to suppress his rightful place on the throne. With the help of small a band of patriotic rebels, a beautiful young princess sojourning from a neighboring kingdom and betrothed to the king played by 'Asian Movie Queen' Li Ching employs her charm and finesse to uncover the King's plot and rescue the condemned brother. This Shaw Brothers film delivers palace intrigue and adventure in a grand spectacle tradition of Hong Kong cinema's Golden Age. Also cast are the impressive medieval fortress sets that double for the stone crypts and walls of the notorious Bastille Saint-Antoine.
LANGUAGE: Mandarin
SUBTITLE: English
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Bau lit do see

Also known as: Bau lit do see
Language: Chinese (Cantonese)
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Release Date: 2004
Genre: Action

Synopsis:

A young Japanese woman has been trained to become a professional killer since childhood. Two cops pursue the girl, who has assassinated a Hong Kong official.

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Code:

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part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=19H3YSYR
part 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7W1G72M
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part 8: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BDOP3LV0

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Lady General Hua Mu-Lan

Movie Info:
Director: Griffin Yueh Feng
Cast: Ivy Ling Po, Chin Han, Chen Yan-Yan, Cheung Kwong-Chiu, Yeung Chi Hing
Original Title: Hua Mu Lan
Production Country: Hong Kong 1964

Review:
This version of MuLan was produced at least 30 years before Disney's MuLan, and tells a more PG-13 story than Disney's. The story addresses many identity exploration issues, including proper soldier etiquette (possibly as a commentary for perceived fallacies in military conduct of ancient/old China).
This excellent version is also presented like a Traditional Chinese Opera, complete with traditional kung fu-dancing and singing, however, it has multiple unique sets like a regular movie. Thank goodness for English Subtitles! The subtitle dialog is definitely Chinese in flavor, and it is not American English.
But regardless it is a exquisite creation for its time. This version might be considered even cheesy by American tastes, for people expecting a transliteration like Mel Gibson's Hamlet or something similar. I definitely recommend this if you'd like to explore more traditional Chinese art. There's nothing wrong with the Disney version for its own sake, but this is a slightly grittier, absolutely more serious version of MuLan. This has none of the extrapolation and weirdness that is Disney's MuLan 2.

LANGUAGE: Mandarin
SUBTITLE: English
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