Authenticity Is No Longer an Option

Mixtape, Hip-Hop-Was-My-First-Love Edition

Side A

“Check the Rhyme,” Tribe Called Quest

“Positive Contact,” Deltron 3030

“Metaphysical,” Handsome Boy Modeling School

“Peach Fuzz,” KMD

“Trains, Planes, and Automobiles,” Leaders of the New School

“Weapon World,” Prince Paul feat. Kool Keith

Side B

“Gimme Some More,” Busta Rhymes

“Step into a World,” KRS-One

“Ain’t Cha,” Clipse

“Cold Lampin,” Public Enemy

“Do This My Way,” Blackalicious feat. Lyrics Born

“Bounce,” Black Milk

“In the Sun,” Large Professor feat. Q-Tip

Mixtape, Stuff-I-Found-at-the-Library Edition

Side A

“Like Dylan in the Movies,” Belle & Sebastian (BBC Sessions version)

“All My Little Words,” Magnetic Fields

“Minor Swing,” Django Reinhardt

“Heretics,” Andrew Bird

“Chapel Hill,” Sonic Youth

“Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha,” Sam Cooke

Side B

“Fin De Semana,” Estopa

“Kookies,” MF DOOM

“Against Pollution,” The Mountain Goats

“Your Honor,” Regina Spektor

“You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby,” The Smiths

“My Life Is in Storage,” Frank Black

Don't Be Weird, It's Platonic

I’m reading on Sunday at the Sunday Night Sex Show, a monthly nonfiction reading series focused on, duh, sex.  Which is of course one of the great topics of literature, the others being death, bureaucracy, adventure, pirates, magical creatures, small objects that you do not expect to explode, and organic gardening.  There may be others.  Anyhow, I tried to get special dispensation from Robyn Pennacchia, one of the SNSS hosts, to read fiction, but it was a no-go.  So I’m going to be reading, for the first and maybe only time, a work of nonfiction.  Mostly nonfiction.  Pretty much entirely nonfiction, more-or-less.  I just finished writing the piece, like, yesterday.  The working title is “James Tadd Adcox Once Had Sex with Death, Bureaucracy, Adventure, Pirates, et al, but It Didn’t Go So Well, and Now When They Ask Him about Another Go-Round, He Says He Has a Headache.”  Take that, Great Literature.

Oh, also the proceeds from this Sunday’s reading go to Doctors without Borders.

Further News

I’ve got some pieces coming out in the next issue of Smokelong Quarterly.  Plus a couple of pieces up now at n+1.

You have not seen the last of me, internet.

Busy Busy

Work forthcoming in:

The Literary Review

Bateau

Barrelhouse

PANK

Keyhole Digest

Decameron

Another Chicago Magazine

Also, have I mentioned that the literary magazine I edit is coming out in February?  Cause it is.

Current Version of the Novel

NSL scene
Robert considering
Robert retrieves pills from the garbage
Chris and Cindy [use this scene for Viola’s self-questioning, etc]
Witness murder
Police station
Viola discusses the murder with the agent
Black Box
Scratches on Viola’s arm?
Trip to camp

Revised Version of the Novel?

NSL scene
Robert considering
Robert retrieves pills from the garbage
Chris and Cindy
robert & trey drug party
“this is grief”
viola & agent indian restaurant/viola & robert bad sex
viola attempting to raise awareness (expo)/standoffish (scene)/strange seduction (expo)*
robert & trey trey’s apartment [?]
viola’s dream

* i think of this as an expo/scene/expo sandwich

It might be about time

to actually do something with this site.