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Would you like to be in Skybald’s next heavy metal music video?

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Of course you would.  I don’t even need to ask that.

It’s actually quite easy, given an especially creative project that the United Kingdom’s progressive alt-metal band has underway.  Skybald is assembling a montage music video for their newest song, “Kamikaze Pilots,” and are inviting people to submit video clips that can be edited into it.  (The song is really, truly damned great, by the way; it’s my favorite of theirs so far.)

All you need to do, if you’re interested, is query Skybald via their Facebook page right here, and they’ll send you a link to the song where you can play it for free online.  Then just make a video of yourself rocking out to it and send the video to them via the same Facebook page.

“Kamikaze Pilots” is a slight departure from Skybald’s usual style.  It has more of a classic rock/heavy metal feel to it than the band’s past work.  It’s probably more reminiscent of metal in the 1970’s or 80’s.  (Maybe it’s why this old man likes it so much.)  If you happen to like it, then do check out Skybald on Spotify.

 

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Vote for me. No … seriously, this time.

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Hey, guys — I was notified yesterday that I’ve received a really nice honor from Spillwords Press.  I’ve been nominated for the online magazine’s Author of the Month for June 2020.  (The editors were kind enough to recently select three of my poems for publication: “This Windy Morning,” “Lie To Me, But Brightly”and “Blue Wolves Move In An Indigo Wood.”)

There is a voting process, and it’s quick and easy; if you are feeling so inclined, you can cast your vote for me or any other nominee by clicking the link below.  (Voting will be held from today through Monday.)

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If you do vote for me, thanks a bunch.  🙂

 

 

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(We’d have a hell of a good time.)

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I realized just last night that there are actually people walking around with the surname “Faust.”

I sooooo want a friend with that name so I can repeatedly ask them every weekend if they want to go bargain hunting with me.

We’d have a great deal of fun, is what I’m saying.

I’d challenge every opinion they express, on any subject — even the weather. When they got fed up, I’d wink and tell them I’m just playing devil’s advocate.

 

 

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Ludwig Devrient als Faust 1873, Holzstich nach F. Th. Hildebrandt

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Poetry Pacific will publish “The Writer”

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I got some great news today — Poetry Pacific will publish my poem “The Writer” in its next annual edition.  The poem will be published online in May 2021; I’ll post a link here when it appears.

Poetry Pacific is is “a literary e.zine committed to promoting and publishing the very ‘best’ contemporary poetry in English it can find.”  It really is a terrific place to peruse the latest in indie short poetry, as well as artwork from around the world.  I really encourage you to give the site a visit, and consider submitting your own creative work.

You can find it right here.

 

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What a day it was for sci-fi 38 years ago today.

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If you see an abundance of “The Thing” or “Blade Runner” posts today, it’s because both films opened in theaters 38 years ago today.

We … need a holiday or something. But “Thing/Blade Day” sounds too much like “Sling Blade Day.”

Anyway, both films resonate just fine in 2020 America. “The Thing” is predicated on paranoia about those around you. “Blade Runner” is technically about cruelty to illegal immigrants — and how “human” we all are depending on our reaction to that.

Hey … let’s not even get started on (the overrated) fan favorite “Tron,” also released in 1982. If you want to talk about a movie about a guy trapped in a virtual world and its parallels to the social media age, then I’m gonna need some more coffee.

 

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Throwback Thursday: “Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell” (1978)!

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“Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell” (1978) was yet another made-for-television movie that rocked my world when I saw it in early grade school.  But it didn’t age well — not even by a narrow margin.  When I saw it on TV again a few years down the line, like maybe when I was in junior high, I realized it was … truly a third-rate horror movie.  (It was every bit s campy as the trailer below suggests.)

It wasn’t all bad, I guess.  It stars Richard Crenna.  And whatever special effects they used to show the titular monster after its demonic transformation were surprisingly decent for a 70’s TV movie.  (I actually wonder if they used the same rotoscope process that Ralph Bakshi used in the same year’s animated “The Lord of the Rings.”)

 

 

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“Ode to a New Black BallPoint Pen,” by Eric Robert Nolan

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Black liquid silk, bleed out
from onyx talon-tip:

Like spilled obsidian liquor
indelibly defacing lace,
like a gleaming needle leaves
glissading sable scars of curling script,
let slip the sliding
black racer snakes to trace the page.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2020

 

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Photo credit: By George Shuklin – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2209695

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(He never tweets back to me. I’m hurt by that.)

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So dudes, I am published in six countries now.

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Given the state of our country, I feel certain that means I’ll wind up on some sort of watch list.

Update: I SWEAR to you something just started beeping and I don’t know what it is.

Update 2: Nah, it’s totally cool. It’s this little Altec speaker I got for Christmas. Not sure why it beeps, though.

 

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BUK THE SYSTEM!

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Now’s the time to order your copy of Buk 100: My Old Man, A Birthday Greeting.  Click right here for Newington Blue Press’ limited edition chapbook.  Only 100 copies will be printed in this initial run, which celebrates what would have been Charles Bukowski’s 100th birthday.

When you read it, be sure take a gander at two poems of mine: “First Smoke” and “Guerrilla Poet.”  (The latter piece is an homage to my good friend and colleague in the writing world, poet Dennis Villelmi.)

I hope you guys are looking forward to a great weekend!  No matter what you’ve got planned, remember Buk’s advice — “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

 

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