Books and writing, music, sports, coffee, food, comedy, old people, young people, slow movies about people, surprises!
Music
Mates of State, Richard Buckner, Pixies, Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Prince, Solex, Beastie Boys, Menomena, Kings of Leon, Holy Sons, Vic Chestnutt, Beat Happening, The Kingdom, Belle and Sebastian, Dressy Bessy, Bob Wills, Nation of Ulysses, Os Mutantes, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Robyn Hitchcock, Arcade Fire, Old Time Relijun, Queen, Uncle Tupelo, Whale, Fiery Furnaces, Dolorean, Joggers, Rainer Maria, Feist, Hefner, Peabo Bryson, The Smugglers, Caribou, The f'in Wedding Present, Reclinerland, The Go-Betweens, Public Enemy, Gang of Four, Weakerthans, Lionel Richie, Guided by Voices, Home, Black Flag, Spoon, Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Heavenly States, The Fall, Grandmaster Melle Mell (lots of old school hip hop), The Standard, Junior Senior, The Cars, The Hold Steady, New Edition, both Elvises, and endless others...
Movies
Blue Velvet, Capturing the Friedmans, All the Real Girls, Children of Men, the Monty Python movies, No Country For Old Men, Ghostworld, Badlands, Man On Wire, Faces of Death, Exotica, Karate Kid, The Iron Giant, Squid and the Whale, Highway 69, Juno, Last American Virgin, Leolo, Keane, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Brown Bunny, Stand By Me, Harold and Maude, some Woody Allen stuff, any movie with a sasquatch...
Television
30 Rock, MILF Island, Nightline, Friday Night Lights, The Shield, anything with Charles Barkley on it.
Books
Too many to mention, but...Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz is my all-time favorite. Runners up: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Homeland by Sam Lipsyte, Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Larry Brown, Gordon Lish, Kevin Keck, Mike Daily, Harry Crews, Dave Eggers, Ben Marcus, William Gay, Lewis Nordan, Barry Hannah, Derek McCormack, Kevin Canty, Beth Lisick, Mary Gaitskill, Mark Leyner, Dan Clowes, Mark Jude Poirier, James Tate, Michelle Tea, Willy Vlautin, Donald Ray Pollack, Monica Drake, George Saunders, Diane Williams, Jami Attenberg, Jonathan Ames...oh, so many...
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Heroes
AKA Inspirations: Steven Jesse Bernstein, Devo, David Lynch, Calvin Johnson, Ian Svenonius
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FUTURE TENSE BOOKS's Schools
Kennewick High School
Kennewick, WA
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Editing
Minor: Stapling
Clubs: Equipment Manager, Varsity basketball team, President of Geriatric Club
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About me: Future Tense Books is a Portland, Oregon micropress that has existed since 1990. My name is Kevin Sampsell and I'm the editor and publisher. I publish two or three exclusive chapbooks every year along with a full-length book on my series through Manic D Press in San Francisco.
I've published everyone from Lyn Lifshin, Susannah Breslin, and Richard Meltzer to Zoe Trope, Sarah Grace McCandless, Mike Topp, Elizabeth Ellen, Gary Lutz, and Suzanne Burns. Our newest releases are the mini-chapbook, Our Beloved 26th by Riley Michael Parker, and two paperbacks--Embrace Your Insignificance: Lessons Learned Teaching English in Japan by Bob Gaulke, and Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin.
I live with my girlfriend (the lovely Frayn Masters) and fifteen year old son in an upstairs apartment in Northeast Portland. I've been working at Powell's City of Books since 1997, where I coordinate events and run the small press and zine sections. I've written a few books myself. And I've written about books for Associated Press and other publications.
My collection of stories, Beautiful Blemish was published by Word Riot Press in 2005. I also edited The Insomniac Reader that same year (Manic D Press) and I guest-edited issue 4.3 of Spork Magazine in 2006.
My newest book is my longest collection of fiction yet, entitled Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press, 2008). It is personally recommended by fine writers such as Sam Lipsyte, Jami Attenberg, and Davy Rothbart. I recently finished a longer version of my memoir, A Common Pornography. It will be published on January 19th, 2010 by Harper Perennial. Akashic Books just published Portland Noir, an anthology that I edited (featuring a bunch of cool Portlanders). There will be a bunch of readings for that collection in June and July.
The image on this profile is by Ivan Brunetti, from my chapbook, Etiquette For Evil (published by Kapow! a few years ago).
If you want to email me the old fashioned way: futuretense@q7.com
My debut novel, The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke, has just launched. If you get a chance I'd be grateful if you'd go to my profile to find out more. The story's about Dada, art and artists, and the attempt to instigate revolution by means of art.
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happy birthday and on this day..we are closer and closer to being awake..eat your cake and taste the wine..and say to yourself it is divine..the beautiful way we get home..and let today be another happy steppingstone.
Hi Kevin! Long time no speak. I'm only about ten years late on the MySpace thing, but thank you for adding me now that I'm here. Please take care not to catch a cold.
Hallo, bedankt voor de vriendschap Merci pour lui amities Hello, thanks for the friendship Hallo, danke for ihre freundschaft falco, a reader and dreamer from Haaksbergen, the Netherlands
Torpedo fiction quarterly mark the 25th anniversary of the death of author Richard Brautigan with a special tribute issue co-edited and with a foreword by Richard Brautigans daughter Ianthe Brautigan.
The special issue features Brautigan inspired fiction from 30 writers, a section of Brautigans own writing in the middle plus a specially designed envelope containing 8 full colour A5 double-sided prints featuring artwork based on his stories. One of which prints is a comic strip by myself, using Richard Brautigans own text, called 'The Library'.
Hey Kevin, thanks for the add. I'd like to read more of your work when I get some free time, I am working on several new projects for 2009 ! No rest for the wicked. Hve a Happy New Year.
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