I wish I were the fun kind of self-absorbed.
A little kid walked by me on the street and turned to his mom and say, “Who is THAT man?”
I immediately called up my publicist and yelled at him for an hour.
I thought the homeless man by the off-ramp
had thrown his change cup at me.
But then the cup started flying, like, with wings
and I realized he hadn’t thrown anything,
it was a pigeon all along.
Crappy miracles birthed by bad cognition.
I’m gonna tell about my first girlfriend and how for a long time while we were doing boyfriendly-girlfriendly stuff behind closed doors, she was still somebody else’s girlfriend. Do come, won’t you?
SECRETS SECRETS ARE NO FUN
SECRETS SECRETS
THEY HURT EVERY ONE.
Learn how to hurt on May 8th with Steve Agee, Jake Fogelnest, Shelby Fero, Lisa Beth Johnson, Todd Levin, DC Pierson, and Megan Soule. Hosted by the insouciant Stephen Falk. It’s Public School!
Something in the future (a show or an audition or a meeting or a dreaded cup of coffee or scary doctor’s appointment) is causing me some amount of anxiety.
I think: THIS THING (whatever it is) IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND THEN IT WILL BE OVER.
I try not to focus on the outcome of the thing. The reassurance comes not from the guttering candle-flame of conviction that “it will be fine,” but just from the fact that one way or the other, it will happen, and after that, it won’t be happening.
And that’s not to say, “Just grit your teeth and get through it and you will be so relieved afterward,” that’s just to say, “There will be a period of time in which it is happening, followed by a period of time in which it has happened.”
This thing is going to happen.
And then it will be over.
And you will probably go get lunch afterwards.
Just finished copy-edits on BOOK 2 (title yet to be revealed). Coming early 2013 from Penguin and the good folks at Viking Press. This one’s for the young adults but medium adults and old adults will enjoy it as well.
Wish I smoked weed so I could post an image of weed all broken up on a mixing board like I was a rapper in the studio, but this will have to do. IT’S YA BOY YOUNG WORD COUNT.
Oh, and if you don’t have BOOK 1 (“The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Never Had To”) it’s easily fixed, just click here.
Band: “Hey, we got a few fuzzed-out guitars and a synthesizer and a girl who’s more excited about singing than she is talented, but she’s also shy, y’know? And the whole thing sounds like it was recorded inside the one sock that was left in the corner of an apartment after the tenants moved out in kind of a rush.”
(*DC clicks button reading BUY IT NOW AT ANY PRICE*)
This week - Sunday April 22nd, 8pm - on Magic Bag:
Beth Stelling (pictured)
Hosted by DC Pierson and Eliza Skinner.
Come check us out! 9:30 Little Modern Theater 6476 Santa Monica Blvd $5
This Saturday - 3/31/12 - on Magic Bag:
Jerrod Carmichael (pictured)
Hosted by DC Pierson & Eliza Skinner.
This Saturday - 3/24/12 - on Magic Bag:
Steve Hernandez
and Dan Cronin (pictured)
Hosted by Eliza Skinner & DC Pierson.