hi, w/o a doubt the craziest party i ever went to was back in 2002, just before the another earthquake tour was abt to start. it was a birthday party for aaron’s road mgr. i took this picture right before he injected linds w/ heroin for the 1st time. i watched her squirm in ecstasy & sang sea shanties to her as the drug swam thru her veins. we saw the sun rise before the smack wore off. avril lavigne’s “complicated” came on the radio & it was perfect.
The key to happiness
Every second fight
the urge to do nothing,
You know the thing,
to watch nothing TV—
yea River Monsters is cool
but
cool for a hospital bed*
so be thankful:
You are lucky
You aren’t there—
fight fight fight fight FIGHT!
Once you have fought
and find Yourself not doing the thing,
then the rest will come naturally.
The door will swing open
as if just pushed by a gentle breeze.
*a followup poem titled, “Does the hospital cable have Animal Planet?”
(editor’s note: hi, “The key to happiness” is a poem from the poetry/art book & personal journal LEVEL, forthcoming fall 2012)
hi, this is has been quite the week for me making new music vids! here’s another. this song is from an album called the 2008 ny yankees & it is about a pitcher named chris britton. it’s part 4 because i wrote a song for every nyy player’s uniform #. in 2008, since he was up & down btwn the minors & majors A LOT, i wrote 4 separate songs for cb. life is funny sometimes, right? :)
hi, i have a new internet talkshow! it’s called the drive time show with vernon howl & it airs via youtube.com + my website daily. i’m currently in the process of booking guests. email vernonhowl-at-gmail if interested (note: u must live in central nj & be able to meet me outside where i work then drive home w/ me & talk to me for 7-12 minutes & u have to have a friend meet me you my home—u can’t come in & use my bathroom sorry! ur a talkshow guest not my best friend!!)
hi, i left my pants on the pants farm so if u go to the pants farm could u find my pants & bring them back to me thx.
hi, it’s music video time again. this 1 is from album 12, born of monster, which seems abt a 100yrs old. this song has more of a lo-fi death metal feel than just abt 96% of my other work. the video features two things i hate—birds of prey & pizza—and 1 thing i don’t: pink eye.
hi, i wanted real bad to take a picture of a bird today & i did. here are my results. i ran today. it felt good. i ran like 6 miles. i saw some birds but they were acting weird. woulda gotten better shots if they weren’t acting so weird!
hi, here is my latest music video. big shout out to philip seymour hoffman for agreeing to appear. the sampled part is from psm’s great movie ‘synecdoche, new york’. this cut is from my 24th album.
hi, i think it’s pretty cool they’re finally making facebook open to the public. just signed up. heard so so many things about this website. friend me if you want. i currently have a big fat 0 friends & it feels pretty embarrassing. :(
hi, here’s 2 new looks (for summer) for my ‘to-do list thing’—i think i’m leaning towards look #2, which i’m calling “INverted-not-OUTdated.”
hi, here are the last 4 covers for the albums in my daily ep series. i like them & i like making their covers but i am getting sick and tired of putting together the music. very boring. after #100 (i’m on 55) i will mix up the process & start recording distorted punk rock keyboard ep’s with juvenile lyrics every (week)day before work.
hi, introducing yet another new serial project @ vernonhowl.com: poems for seo. i like the idea of people seeking out totally vapid information on celebrities and finding totally vapid poetry (maybe) instead. the process: every post on perezhilton.com (omg there are so many!) that has a stupid embedded pink perez hilton video, i take a screenshot of and make a lil bit of art like the image above (that’s #2 in the series, tom cruise). then i write a lil free association / stream of consciousness shit-poem to go along with it. so far i’ve done 7 of these things. idk. my original plan was to make a poem for every single perez blog post from now until infinity but that seems impossible cuz dude posts like 9 a minute. but the pink vidz approach seems like it will work + it lends a uniformity to the look of the accompanying images.
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want my tombstone to read: "he always wanted to be a busker but didn't know how to play guitar. and keyboards aren't really a good 'busking instrument' for logistical reasons. tough shit, i guess. what did you say?"
