O'GRADY played a show at Ash Street Saloon on July 6, 2006. We opened for Portland hip-hop sweethearts CAC. Here's our set in four video clips . . .
VIDEO: PART I of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Only Girls Can Smoke in Here" in O'GRADY's Videos. O'GRADY: Brian Crowl (Sub-Sic), Mike Daily, jDUB, Francis Plague. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.
VIDEO: PART III of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Los Angeles" in O'GRADY's Videos. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.
VIDEO: PART IV of IV: Click HERE to Watch "Drum Machines" in O'GRADY's Videos. Filmed July 6, 2006 at Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Ore.O'Grady: Crowl, Daily, jDUB, Francis Plague.
[O'Grady's Note: My goal with this "lyrical narrative" was to incorporate every title of every book Fiction Collective / FC2 / Black Ice Books has published since its inception in 1974. Collage.]
Fiction Collective(FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press...it was Robert Coover, I believe, who said in the babble of American publishing, FC2 is one of the few coherent voices QUOTE! make serious novels and story collections available UNQUOTE! QUOTE! keep them in print permanently UNQUOTE! it was Ronald Sukenick, I believe, who said that . . . seventies / eighties / nineties / two thousands // seventies / eighties / nineties / two thousands // Fiction Collective(FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press..."don't forget Black Ice Books..."
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.
TRACK LISTING FOR DISC I [STUDIO FULL-LENGTH]: 01. ALARM [1:33]; 02. Anthrax [0:51], 03. God Is My Friend [1:39]; 04. War [8:45]; 05. Made in Burma [2:44]; 06. Oh for Fook’s Sake! [6:16]; 07. Van Nuys Blvd. [2:55]; 08. Follow Your Heart [2:28]; 09. Cut to a Commercial [1:59]; 10. Brautigan [5:18]; 11. Drum Machines [4:30]; 12. Kevin Sampselliana Pt. I [8:03]; 13. Kevin Sampselliana Pt. II [9:30]; 14. You [2:13]; 15. Major Fiction [7:13]; 16. Way Too Tight [0:16].
TRACK LISTING FOR DISC II [LIVE PERFORMANCES FULL-LENGTH]: 01. O'GRADY [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 02. Ordinary Concerns [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 03. Shake It, Bump It, Sniff It [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 04. War [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 05. Anthrax [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 06. Los Angeles [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 07. Drum Machines [Ash St. - July 6, 2006]; 08. Any Questions? [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 09. Only Girls Can Smoke in Here (Pt. I) [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 10. Only Girls Can Smoke in Here (Pt. II) [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 11. Major Fiction [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 12. ALARM [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 13. Archivalism [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 14. Cut to a Commercial [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 15. Francis O'Plague [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 16. Brautigan [Ash St. - January 6, 2007]; 17. God Is My Friend [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 18. Follow Your Heart [Ash St. - July 29, 2006]; 19. End of Reality [Disjecta Gallery - July 20, 2006]; 20. You [fidge]
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.
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"Yes, I had to come back to Mike Daily’s book and double-CD ALARM, because I know this release was the release highlight of 2007, and yet I’ve only considered it in one or two of its numerous aspects. I’m pretty convinced that Mike Daily and his band O’Grady have no real understanding of the groundbreaking intellectual, emotional and PHYSICAL force of their art."
Projective, post-jazz, post-rock prose. Freedom only true bloggers have mastered and old experimental fogies can barely dream of. What this means is that literature, like life, should be enjoyed and not taken seriously.
Your CD sounds fan fucking tastiic. Thanks for being the only friend of mine who actually gets shit done. It gives me some semblance of hope. Keep doing it.
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.
