I had a dream that I saved "Little Superstar" from a sinking boat during the apocalypse, only to find out we were doomed anyway. We weren't on the list of saved souls who were allowed access to the ships that rescued humanity. If you're interested ask about that one. (5/20/07):
Don't get us started, but here it goes anyway....(Vincent, you get it started, and I'll add to it). The Count of Monte Cristo Try this book search, it rocks!
Heroes
The first poet--Caedmon, Vincent Fedeli, Zachary White, Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, Orson Wells, John Fante, Knut Hamson, H.L. Mencken, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Dante Alighiere, Voltaire, Equiano Olaudah, Hunter S. Thompson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Tobias Wolff, Jack Kerouac, Alexandre Dumas, Toni Morrison, Alexander Pope, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hermann Hesse, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman , Neil Cassidy, Di Prima, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Einstein, Hubert Selby Jr., John Wilmot, Ernest Hemingway, Stein, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Jack London, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, Aphra Behn, John Milton, Albert Camus, D.A. Levy, Frank O'Hara, Gregory Corso, Li Po, Jonathan Swift, Homer, All the Dadaist, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo, Giovanni Verga, Emily Dickinson, Ann Sexton, S.Plath, Jean Cocteau, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, H.D., Pound, W.C.W., Keats, Huey P. Newton, Bunchy, Slick Willy P., Sapho.
Co-founders Vincent Fedeli and Zachary White had a dream that writers voices could be heard, and they could help to make it happen. Brown Paper Magazine publishes various styles of writing in order to share quality writing, art, and photography with the masses. The concept was born under the heavy strain of free weights, sweat and steroids. With the help of a little friend named, "Stain", the original concept of Brown Paper Nut Bag was conceived. After years apart on opposite sides of the United States, and sometimes the earth, these two deviants decided it was time to put the dream into action. This MySpace page is only the beginning. Expect big things from these big men with Napoleon complexes. They plan on conquering the world through literature. Join them or get out of the way. And that goes for the left-most passing lane on the highway as well. Please just get out of the way. I'm tailing you because you my schmuck friend are driving under the speed limit in the passing lane. Move!
Who I'd like to meet: Writers and Artists Wanted!
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE!!!!! We are looking for writers, artists and photographers who are willing to take a chance on a couple of ambitious writers trying to create their own independent literary magazine. Using desktop publishing software and professional printers, "Brown Paper Magazine" will have its first issue, a half-sized magazine with full-color glossy pages, out by the end of the summer 2007. It is up to you and your submissions to determine it's length and quality.
The problem is we have not received many submissions. We are going to make this magazine happen, and would love assistance from all of you. Fiction writers, Poets, Travelogues, Artists, Photographers, or mixed media, we are looking for you and we want to publish you. We would like the magazine to be as diverse as the writing we will include. Please submit!
your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved... Such is Love, The Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite dress, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
I am in acapulco with a stomach ache wishing for maple syrup to begin the master cleanse fast. The pipe to bring acapulco its water is out of service for the time being so we drained the pool for water reserves. Now I brush my teeth with chlorine water...a great whitening program. I move out of a grungy hotel room and into a house within a couple of weeks. The house comes with two french poodles, puppies, which I will train to walk up and down the stairs using only their hindlegs. This way they can carry my breakfast in their front paws. The master bedroom has a view of the pacific that is great for breakfast in bed. I will begin work soon. I will make pennies, and I am not being paided for training. But there are others in this boat. I don't feel bad. I wish I could tell you more about how all mexican food will make you sick if you eat too much of it, and all mexican beer tastes the same no matter what color it is, and every bus takes you where you need to go no matter which one it is or where you pick it up, but these things you will have to find out when you come. So come soon!
