Surfers, drugdealers, & artists live together in a rowdy Topanga neighborhood. A companion volume to Tool's Snake Pit by Tool and Rohloff's Snake Pit by Chris Rohloff.
"[McDowell] takes an interest in how low people can sink. Everyday he watches the drug addicts, the prostitutes, the crazies, the bums, the sick, the filth, the rats, the criminals... and [tries] to wrestle
meaning from all this."
(Mephisto 97.6 FM / Leipzig, Germany)
30 days of art and memoir inspired by living on seedy Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Little Nuts is our 1st paperback book, and it epitomizes much of the best work published by Brass Tacks Press in general.
...i.e. Little Nuts is written in a distinctly SoCal voice, it challenges definitions of poetry, it's fun to read, and it "gets down to brass tacks" (the expression usually means clearing out confusing details and finding out the real facts about something). Its short direct poems are almost the genesis of a new form:
LSD Insight
I once saw through a
man's head while on
LSD at a town fair; for a
moment he became
completely transparent
and it was so scary I
went and hid in my room.
thanks pablo! its cool you brought new friends to the girlhouse show please come out to that pehrspace show when i get back from tour if you can id seriously be looking forward to seeing you -jon <3
Pablo!!! I will do a Freestyle medley for one of my shows just for you and I'll tell you before hand when I perform it. Probably November 20 at Malo House - aka Magik Orchid's house.
Astral Dick is a "whodunit" involving a police psychic, Cap'n, and his "paranormal guinea pig," Lieutenant Leo Fleck. Together they are investigating a string of brutal killings centered around the temple of a rogue religious cult and an artsy-fartsy, open-mic, poetry café.
I thoroughly enjoyed Herzog's pig. It's one of the book that focuses on things other than that whole cliche "end the wars, eat your veggies, and save the environment stuff." it instead tells me the the actual thoughts inside of a persons mind which is actually more interesting to me. I got to read more of your guy's stuff.
diggin that andy comess book lots. sorta reminds me of bob flanagan. slave sonnets. but way less aggressive, which is nice. its juvenile and filthy but it has this nice world weary quality to it. good stuff.
Thank you for sending that Paul Roessler book super fast!! Of course, I've already read the whole thing... front to back. I've chosen my top three fave poems. (Hmmm, maybe, I will blog that.)
I like the production on the book--its clean and simple look, how it's easy to read (good fonts and spacing), and how it feels in my hands!! (Online publishing is cool, however, there's still something about holding a good book, and seeing words printed on the page.)
Thanks, too, for the cool catalogue. I will buy more books!!
. Los Angeles, CA, USA
