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...
Novel As Performance Part V of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
VI. BRAUTIGAN
Novel As Performance Part VI of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
VII. SAMPSELLIANA
Novel As Performance Part VII of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
JOCELYNN'S WATCHING SOMETHING
VIII. OH FOR FOOK'S SAKE!
Novel As Performance Part VIII of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
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).
Mike Daily, Rasmussen Village apartment, SW Portland, 2004. Manuscript for ALARM masking-taped on the wall. Stills from the RIBS video.
---- 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.
ALSO AVAILABLE: $12 ORDER STOVEPIPER: BOOK ONE,
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It would be remiss not to mention that fact that the book also comes with two CDs. The CDs are very well produced. The spoken word section contains large swaths of book performed by Mike Daily that while are spoken word are also a lot more musical than your typical person performing their poetry or prose of the microphone. Many of the pieces are outright songs and several parts of the book come out as pretty good songs. The entire book comes as a bundle of postcards, stickers, two CDs, and the book itself.
GAGAKU MEAT (2009): $6 ORDER GAGAKU MEAT,
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FIRST NOVEL: $15 ORDER VALLEY NOVEL
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I. ORDINARY CONCERNS
Novel As Performance Part I of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
II. SHAKE IT BUMP IT SNIFF IT
Novel As Performance Part II of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
III. WAR
Novel As Performance Part III of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
IV. DRUM MACHINES
Novel As Performance Part IV of VIII: O'GRADY at Ash Street on January 6, 2007.
Nora Robertson appeared with O'GRADY as "Jocelynn" at Someday Lounge for Phase One: Words + Music on June 20, 2007. 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.
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.
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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.
[please leave a message after the...beep] Daily- It's Jocelyn. I'm in school, without Stone Temple Pilots. People tend to think of me when hearing them though.
Mike Daily's Note: I recently wrote "Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story," a 19,000-word journalism piece about poet Steve Richmond for Buk Scene #1, a new Charles Bukowski-based magazine edited by Jan Hallers in The Netherlands. I interviewed 25 poets, writers and publishers including Gerald Locklin, FrancEyE (Frances Smith, mother of Bukowski's daughter, Marina), Al Berlinski, John Martin, A.D. Winans, Linda King, Ron Androla, S.A. Griffin, Alan Kaufman, Mat Gleason, Billy Childish, many others. Buk Scene is a 100+ page, 8-1/2" x 11" format, limited edition (200 copies) magazine available by Feb. '09. Mr. Viced Honest (Luke Strahota, Chutz Ponderosa, Adam Hungate, Whitney Woolf, MD) recorded "Mad Poet's Garden" on 10/8/08 in Portland, OR.
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