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Stephen Michael McDowell in Brooklyn

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Spazzkid - Truly (feat. Sarah Bonito) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Working on this song with Sarah Bonito was a very special experience for me. When we started brainstorming the music video, I wanted to share the fun, care-free feeling that the song gives out. My good friend Czar Campos, who also directed the video for “40 Winks” off of Desire, traveled to the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku in Tokyo to shoot with the lovely Ayumi Yokoyama. The culture in Tokyo is a huge inspiration for me and the animations were inspired by “Purikura” or the photobooths that pepper the city. Following Ayumi through her day “Truly" makes me swoon and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed the process of it’s existence.  Credits:

Director - Czar Campos

Starring - Ayumi Yokoyama

Camera - Kento Nakada, Kento Watanabe

Make-up - Ameri Nakamura

Assistant - Ai Munemoto

Edit - Czar Campos

Animation - Paco Raterta

(۶ꈨຶꎁꈨຶ )۶ʸᵉᵃʰᵎ

[voicemailpoems]

we’re just about a week away from the release of our fall 2014 issue!!!

plz do your ears a favor and listen to these rad poems from the summer.

[mollysoda]

pitchfork did a great write up/interview on NewHive’s “major tendons” mixtape you can read it here

i designed the cover for it (above) which takes you to the rest of the mixtape (click here)

[sarahjeanalex]

Joke Book by Victor ‘KOOL A.D.’ Vazquez is available in its entirety, for free, on Medium today. I forgot how amazing it is. Here are some parts from it.

[altlitgossip]

if you want to listen to some cool music today, I suggest checking out Major Tendons — a mixtape curated by Melissa Broder and featuring art by Stephen Michael McDowell, who made an interactive music video for Shallou

the mixtape includes songs by Belave (a side-project of Majical Cloudz), Blue Hawaii, and Suicideyear

Melissa Broder was interviewed on Pitchfork about it, read that here

[altlitgossip]

Habbo Hotel

It was a messy and foggy morning when Steven Sillyperson logged onto 4chan.org and saw the picture of a dog photoshopped inside the foreskin of a human penis. Steven, who prefers gender neutral pronouns, saved the picture in their Dropbox folder titled reaction pics, and after spending twenty minutes reading a post about Elliot Rodgers, they started a Tinychat room and linked to it in their thread on /b/.

The sky felt gender neutral to Cher Littlebit while she browsed an area code hook up thread on /soc/. She ctrl+F’d “415” but didn’t receive any results. Simba, the orange ragamuffin, knocked over a vase before running out of her bedroom and hiding under a couch. Cher followed him out the room and laid down at eye level with him where they stared at one another. “What’s the matter with you?” she said but Simba had trouble understanding her because he mainly communicates through body language.

Steven smoked salvia alone in their room to an audience of twenty peers, and when they began to feel constrictions tense through their body, they came to the same, reoccurring thought, “I can not imagine anyone consenting to this.” In the middle of the terribly physical and violent yanking of Steven’s identity, they felt something familiar.

But does it really matter if things feel familiar to Steven,and I mean does this feel similar to you, this familiar feeling thing I mean?Just FYI, I don’t see any correlation to how Steven perceives themself to how someone like, for example, me can perceive themself. It’s hard for me to find the connections between the things happening around me, but we make connections with the people in our communities all the time anyway, and they affect the way we think about the things and people around us, just in case you weren’t paying attention this is what is currently happening.

Paul Nickleback, who had recently published Cher in his serialized magazine focused on culture and gender after their initial meeting at a book launch last month in San Mateo, who had just sent Cher one of many increasingly concerning text messages requesting nude photos, hadn’t left his home in a week following his termination from his job, and watched Steven on tinychat but lost interest halfway through, in the same familiar way he had lost interest in himself whenever long ago, it doesn’t really matter.

Eli recently began his job at NewHive.com and is otherkin. His Facebook news feed displays an article that matches his interests. Millions of dollars go towards an algorithm that ensures you only see the articles that are most relevant towards you. Humans are increasingly finding new ways to control and change the environment around them. Eli, on the other hand, identifies as a cat.

_ Theo Thimo

http://theothimo.tumblr.com/

[threethousandfifty-blog]

What ended up being two weeks with Herman Melville has become a blur to me, even though I’m writing this only a week after. We had a routine of waking up anywhere from one to three in the afternoon, getting breakfast, usually at some place “just around the corner,” a phrase Herman Melville used to describe any restaurant, bodega, or market within five-to-six blocks. He called me pet names. I have never gotten used to pet names. “My sweet,” “my little corgi,” and “my Philip Seymour Hoffman.” — Hannah Van Arsdale

Read more.

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[threethousandfifty-blog]

Don’t Know by Theo Thimo

mom

please

i cant

mom

i dont

know how

to

swim

mom

please

dont let

go

of me

mom

hold

me

mom

please

[altlitgossip]

Stephen Michael McDowell livetweets church

selected tweets from: ”back by popular demand’, me aggressively livetweeting a church service ‪#‎churchlivetweet‬’

im standing outside avoiding ppl

walked anxiously past a large gaggle of women aggressively smiling, hugging ppl, painfully attempted smiling back

1 of the women turned suddenly & angrily demanded a child ~10% her age hand her her bible

brought in a cup of coffee as what now seems like a sort of defense against being touched

choir singing a song that just goes ‘hallelujah ur worthy to be praised’ on what seems like an nvrending loop

minister in suit walked up to me & aggressively shook my hand, said ‘how are u stephen’, stared me in the eyes a long time

im as far back as i cld possibly be & still be considered ‘participating’

1 of the ppl in the choir is extremely close to a microphone & incapable of harmonizing, it seems

cant believe ive nvr had sex in this building

this service is coinciding w a multiple day ‘womens conference’, i think, feel terrified what the sermon will be abt

a prsn named vanessa williams who isnt vanessa williams is singing a song that has the words ‘joy comes w the son’ in it

theres a large wasp in this room

told my dad theres a wasp, he kissed me on the cheek & said ‘ok, u can protect everyone’ lol

feels like the ‘joy comes w the son’ song has been going on for years

i dont think my phone batterys going to survive this livetweet

ppl keep making sex-noise-like ‘mm’ sounds & saying ‘thank u’ at bizarre-seeming intervals

my godmother is preaching

the pastor said something that seemed vaguely gender-bend-y then tried to undo it awkwardly

oh wait godmom is just introducing my cousin whos actually the 1 preaching

havent seen my cousin in ~4yrs, now feel terrified ill have to hang out w her after this

cousin shouted out every pastor at the church including my dad before beginning to preach, seemed insane

doesnt seem like shes started preaching shes just talking to the audience repeating ‘women who win & men who are mighty’

kicking into ‘idgaf anymore mode’

might start watching star trek on netflix, no one wld even notice

preacher telling an anecdote abt an australian preacher w no arms who rolls around on stage while preaching

trying to figure out the wifi password

if i figure out the wifi pw im literally turning this into a star trek livetweet

p sure i just found out my cousin ( preachers son ) died via anecdote in this sermon

jesus, yea my cousin died, v fucked up way to find out imo

wifi password situation seems bleak

at this point preacher is just talking abt having cancer, this is getting way too real

this is a live action horror movie

i dont understand how turning these anecdotes into bible rhetoric / convos w jesus changes anything

preacher said the word ‘saved’ & a lot of ppl whooped & hollered, idgi

preacher says rly fucked up things followed by something like ‘but my help cometh from the lord’ loudly & ppl say ‘yasss’

preacher says the way she recovered from heart failure was by ‘walking by faith not by sight’, wtf does that mean ?

preachers doing an armor metaphor, said ‘the helmet of faith’

realizing bc of low mic the ppl in this part of the church are being uncharacteristically quiet, feel grateful

bro sitting in front of me keeps looking back at me w a face like ‘is she forreal ?’ & ‘wtf is she talkin abt ?’

this is 1 of the most fucked up days of my life

not sure what shes talking abt anymore but preacher said ‘heroin’ & ‘crack’ which got my attn

have i srsly been here doing this for an hour & a half ? kill me

lms if i shld just leave rn

preacher finally started preaching, said ‘1) uve got to break the chains of choice’, have no idea what shes talking abt

preacher started telling the story of esther, seemingly unrelated to anything else

preacher keeps saying ‘im a diamond’

wasp got caught in a spiderweb, sources reveal

preachers rushing thru ‘alter call prayer’ bc took too long talking abt seemingly nothing, however enthusiastically

my goddad ( the senior pastor ) cut out early, passed me, stopped, congrat’d me on getting a new job while preacher prayed

ok, shows over, bcup out

cousin/preacher didnt recognize me when passing me thank god for more livetweets by me follow http://twitter.com/smmlivetweet

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Stephen Michael McDowell

[altlitgossip]

if you want to listen to some cool music today, I suggest checking out Major Tendons — a mixtape curated by Melissa Broder and featuring art by Stephen Michael McDowell, who made an interactive music video for Shallou

the mixtape includes songs by Belave (a side-project of Majical Cloudz), Blue Hawaii, and Suicideyear

Melissa Broder was interviewed on Pitchfork about it, read that here

[altlitgossip]

Harry Burke wrote an article about NewHive for Rhizome includes interviews with NewHive founder Zach Verdin, Stephen Michael McDowell, Molly Soda, and Penny Goring

read it here

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Lil B - No Black Person is Ugly

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[shabbydollhouse]

excerpts from sexts by pancho espinosa and mira gonzalez

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I spent two weeks with a famous person and all I got was severe depression and a penchant for cocaine by Hannah Van Arsdale

                Ah yes any trip to meet a special someone is going to be odd. The levels between the two are impossible to even out. By traveling a great distance from coast to coast to meet an online someone there is going to be moments of pure weird. Online a person can edit their interaction think twice about what they are going to do. With the offline lifestyle an individual cannot hide behind a computer screen. Souls are impossible to hide offline. Habits, the messy ones, the ones that have a person wear the exact same outfit every day, those are tough to break. 

                Guests are supposed to feel welcome. It is perfectly normal. A host needs to cater to their needs. Doing so is relatively difficult however. Oftentimes guests develop strange habits. For a guest a new exciting habit might be enjoying delicious lemonade, having a heaping bowl of Special K, and developing a penchant for cocaine. Thanks to the mass commoditization movement all of these requests can be catered to and more. Economically sound the world’s economy relies upon this kind of spending, the kind where it begs people to please consume for the sake of everyone. Unfortunately such spending has to reduce expenses elsewhere hence the need for roommates. 

                Sex happens. Life is sex. When a person was created that happened because of sex or less likely, some form of decanting via the Brave New World. Typically people have sex as a way to pass the time because there is so much time and it is so easy to waste it. People aren’t born with much but usually they are born with literally years ahead of them ready to simply grow older. Hence people have sex to go to sleep because sex is awesome and sex is a way to make sure there’s at least some form of exercise during the day. Sex is the ultimate sleeping aid. 

                Fuzzy details are details that have grown chest hair. Aging does that to the details growing out hair until the original intention is unclear. That is fine. Nobody really needs to remember everything and the mind does a great job of blocking out needless information. When an argument happens that is usually a great time to basically tune out. Due to the mind’s penchant for remembering the bad time (to compare them against the good) arguments linger longer than they should. Then the trip is over and the return to home happens once again, with a brief view of a person’s life left in the mind.

[electric-cereal]

Ghosts by Moon Temple

It’s a bad idea to become close to a writer because it hurts to know the truth about yourself. Your heart will be pierced. It becomes suffocating. At the age of eight, in the summer-time, I would swim at a swimming pool with the day-camp group my grandma paid for me to be a part of. Paid for me to get out of the house, interact with others my own age, gain useful life-lessons from the high school-aged counselors managing the camp. In the pool, the older boys would often swim up behind me, putting one hand on my head and the other around my shoulders, and dunk me. Every time felt like death. So sudden. I’d be gasping for air for a full minute after. The way other people speak about you when they don’t realize you are listening. The way other people see you. The words feel suffocating.

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