ALARM Book/Double CD Release Show: O’GRADY (Mike Daily, jDUB, A.L. Hungate, Chutz Ponderosa w/ Nora Robertson as "Jocelynn") at Phase One: Words + Music at Someday Lounge on June 20, 2007. A film by Kurt Eisenlohr. Produced by Chutz Ponderosa at The Enginehouse.
Mike Daily presents "O For Fook’s Sake!" with jDUB on July 26, 2007, at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon. Featuring Nora Robertson as "Jocelynn". Part 3 of 4. Filmed and Produced by Chutz Ponderosa.
NEW!Mike Daily presents "Harlan Pierce" with jDUB on July 26, 2007, at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon. Filmed and Produced by Chutz Ponderosa at The Enginehouse. "Harlan Pierce" is a chapter from the novel/double CD set, ALARM.
Influences
A happy aspect of all this is Daily’s uncompromising originality. His art isn’t very much like any other, except in a transferred sense, because if you regard him thus, you could say he sports the exuberance of Jack Kerouac and the venomous wit of Blonde on Blonde Dylan, or what have you (and at two times he sounds like Elvis Costello and Lou Reed!)--but he is so strong in himself that those roundabouts only serve to catch the possible interest of the culture-starvers that yet don’t have his ALARM release, and I don’t believe it’s just a coincidence--I am a firm believer in synchronicity, anyways!--that the upper-case letters of ALARM might instigate analogies to the upper-case letters of HOWL!
Our June 20, 2007, O'GRADY show at Phase One: Words + Music is now archived for free viewing/listening at http://somedaylounge.com/virtual_stage/archives/2007/0620.php.
Our 20-minute set is about halfway on the file. If you can't watch it as a video, you can hear it.
The band that night was:jDUB/Drums; A.L. Hungate/Guitar God; Chutz Ponderosa/Bass; Nora Robertson/"Jocelynn".
BREAKING NEWS: O'GRADY Played As A Drums/Fiction Duo At Ash Street In Portland, Oregon, On July 26th. Any questions?
JOCELYNN'S WATCHING SOMETHING NEW! Added 5/3/07: Video 8 of 8: [OH FOR FOOK'S SAKE!][O'GRADY]
ALARM is Mike Daily's long-awaited second novel issued July 2007 by Stovepiper Books Media.
This 212-page book includes two CDs: a live performances full-length on the inside front cover and a studio full-length on the inside back cover (36 total tracks featuring the author's spoken words excerpted from ALARM).
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Daily is vocalist for the experimental fiction rock band O'GRADY. Stovepiper Books Media has compiled three-dozen tracks (professionally mastered at Tell Tale Recording in NE Portland) for this unique small press release. Stay tuned for exclusive MP3s, new videos, novel excerpts and more...
Mike Daily, Rasmussen Village apartment, SW Portland, 2004. Manuscript for ALARM masking-taped on the wall. Stills from the RIBS video with Kurt Eisenlohr.
Daily's fridge, 2004.
It was Kurt Eisenlohr, we believe, who said, "Open my fridge and take a look at your future."
---- NOTE:ALARM is a book about a man and a woman wrangling with relationship concerns in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The setting is Southern California's San Fernando Valley. The female character is named Jocelynn.
Some of the most exciting work in the world is being done in the interface zones (the "interzone") between arts. What started with Patchen and Rexroth when they combined reading with jazz music, and what continued on through Kerouac and Ginsberg, through Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, through Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, and Genesis P-Orridge, continues with renewed vigor and a fresh voice through the work of Mike Daily and his band, O'GRADY.
—Eckhard Gerdes, Editor, Journal of Experimental Fiction
Geneva, Illinois January 21, 2007
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MIKE DAILY: ALARM
ALARM by Portland author/recording artist Mike Daily is a 212-page lyrical novel (and accompanying double CD) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.
"Los Angeles" by O'GRADY (Mike Daily, jDUB, Francis O'Plague, Sub-Sic) at Ash Street on 07.06.06.
"Drum Machines" by O'GRADY (Mike Daily, jDUB, Francis O'Plague, Sub-Sic) at Ash Street on 07.06.06.
I WISH THERE WAS A RADIO STATION THAT JUST PLAYED jDUB BEATS
[YOUTUBE VIDEO OF TRACK 12 FROM THE LIVE PERFORMANCES CD]"ALARM" LIVE - Brian Crowl/Guitar, jDUB/Drums, Francis O'Plague/Sampler & Bass, Mike Daily/Fiction
BREAKING NEWS: MP3 downloadstore PayPlay.fm is now selling all 36 MP3s that come with ALARM! PayPlay.fm is an easy-to-use website that is a great fooking place to buy MP3s. No software to install. And since they're regular MP3 files, they'll work in every computer, and any portable player. Here is the link to PayPlay.fm for ALARM: http://payplay.fm/mikedaily.
BREAKING NEWS:: All 36 tracks from the two CDs that come with ALARM can now be purchased as MP3s from tradebit at: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1843561
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BREAKING NEWS:O'GRADY (performing as a drums/fiction duo: jDUB and Mike Daily) opened for Tygers of Wrath on July 26th at Ash Street Saloon. Guest artist Nora Robertson appeared as "Jocelynn". Chutz Ponderosa filmed it. Clips (including the new excerpt "You Can't Be A Stuntman For Your Fiction") coming soon.
From:Tygers of Wrath Date: May 15, 2007 6:54 PM Subject: RE: observations
Dear Mike,
Your words are too kind, Sir.
We look forward to the show.
It's not often we play with interesting bands, and when we do it's always alot of fun.
I watched some of the videos on your page, they are totally rad.
I'm also very interested in the Book, and hope to pick one up at the show.
Talk to you soon.
-Ahmad
Epilogue of the Ostrich: Ahmad picked one up at the show. We traded.
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HOT DAMN:Nora Robertson appeared with O'GRADY as "Jocelynn" at Someday Lounge for Phase One: Words + Music on Wednesday, June 20th. Hot damn. It was a lot of fun and Someday now has the videotaped show archived for free viewing. Bonus: Listen to a 23-minute MP3 of our first practice session with Nora at The Enginehouse on June 7, 2007: jDUB/drums, A. L. Hungate/Guitar God, Chutz Ponderosa/bass, Daily/ALARM.
Alternately, you can link to gpayne.net/20070607.m3u. This will force streaming rather than downloading the whole thing.
PREVIOUSLY BREAKING NEWS: Portland Hip Hop / Garage / IDM impresario Sticks Downey played beats and read dialogue from ALARM with Mike Daily at Powell's City of Books at 7:30pm on Monday, June 25th! [FREE].
ALARM carries on the humorously visual narratives of fictional character Mick O'Grady, introduced in Daily's first published novel, Valley (Bend Press, 1998). Of that novel, RAY GUN MAGAZINE wrote, "Mike Daily packs so many stylish smash cuts into Valley, MTV dulls by comparison."
ALARM finds O'Grady "settling into unsettlement" in the weeks after the hit on the World Trade Center. He's jobless, watching the news, shaky in his relationship, cautious with friends, curious with strangers. He's lost. But as the story progresses, his movements become more purposeful. He needs to eat. He gets a job. He gets two jobs. [WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?]
ALARM is a stripped-down novel (and accompanying audio artifact) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.
anyone will tell you how hard i've been looking for a man with a pleasant reading voice.
and i'm the only person i know to pronounce my name with 3 syllables , despite my constant protestations against jozlin. so thanks for the fastidious pronunciation.
