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MISTINESS by Tigre Benvie
TIGRE BENVIE, “MISTINESS”
Dream, as we dream, of worlds beyond this one.
Dream of the swearing of oaths, of communions of trees, of parliaments of spectres, of grimy songs to be sung.
And so in 2012 Tigre Benvie presents Mistiness, a 16-song swamp of music for you to download, to ingest, to heed.
Tigre Benvie is of and by Rob Benvie (Camouflage Nights, The Dears, Thrush Hermit), along with cherished colleagues, including: Murray Lightburn, Matt Murphy, Sarah Gregg Millman, Stephanie Southmayd, Ian McGettigan, Nobu Adilman, Sofia Silva, Wayne MacPherson et cetera et cetera.
Adhering to the tenor of the times, this homemade album is presented as a Pay What You Desire digital release. Waste not, childrenz. Distribute and reproduce and mangle it however you see fit. Please do so.
Get it on iTunes. Or Bandcamp. Or Noisetrade. Also available in limited edition double-disc gatefold vinyl; write for details.
For further information: try tigrebenvie@gmail.com. If you’ve somehow received this email by accident, respond saying NO and this will all just be a sad memory.
Thanks, bruv
TRACK LISTING
01 Mistiness
02 I Swore an Oath
03 Black Bolt
04 Bodies Bagged in Bodybags
05 Song of Glee
06 2003
07 Man w/Phone
08 Actress w/Oxygen Tank
09 Dreamerz
10 Glisters and Gold
11 Love Wracks Me Deeply
12 You Must Like Me
13 Quitting Time
14 Summer Squall
15 Meet Me Over the Holidays
16 Police Brutality
It is 1974
It is 1974. In a subdivision in upper Rensselaer County a pair of cement trucks rumble over uneven gravel terrain, past plots of half-built houses across from a marshy plot. A young couple sits in a Buick LeSabre on the shoulder of an unpaved laneway, sharing a takeaway shaved meat sandwich, gazing past the trucks, down the road. In the back seat of the car a ten-month-old girl is belted into a plastic car seat, asleep under blankets. The man drums his gloved hands on the steering wheel and wonders aloud about the availability of the final report on the water table. The woman can’t listen; she is four months pregnant, wracked with barf.
He Shall Do Well (x)
The blitz had been underway all week, and was turning out be a genuine coup. In addition to today’s thing on Good Morning America, on-air appearances were slated for Fox & Friends, Opie & Anthony, along with segments to be pre-taped for Access Hollywood and, hopefully, Ellen. And, according to a text Belt received just minutes ago, Piers Morgan Tonight was also a maybe. Everyone—the media, the curious public—wanted to speak with Randy, to interrogate him, to be seen with him, to bask in the opportunity of an otherworldly presence. But ever since Randy’s arrival in New York, things had not been going well.
Filmstrips you are all of us
Filmstrips you are all of us. And I all of thee. Inculcated. Drainage in the opalescence. All of this and more. The pearls of the adolescent. The tug of the grubstaker and wrangler. Cobblestone. Foulness in a night of things fine.
Miraculous Barf
He is sandwiched between two nothings: the oceanic roll of clouds below and the wheezing sterility of the plane’s inner chamber, with The Esteemed Reverend Sachs trying to furrow his brow into unimpeachability on the folded printout before him while, across the aisle, Archie Farquhar yaks up last night’s gin into a Greenpeace sack. Down, outside, is an icy stratospheric sundae, seated long into a tired sun, inviting in its blueish contours.
‘Mr. Sweltham,’ Sachs calls out over the raw noise of engine and aeronautics.
Parker sits up. ‘Yes.’
‘When I was a boy,’ Sachs shouts, his big lippy grin full in place, ‘I never dreamt I’d tire of flying in the clouds. Look at that. When I was a boy I was pickpocketing soldiers in Freetown. The first time I flew on a plane was eleven years ago for the International Methodist Assembly in D.C. This is Washington.’
Archie ceases vomiting. He glances around, glassy and tearful, then slumps forward again, face buried in knees.
‘That first venture was an unbelievable experience, Mr. Sweltham. Our images of Heaven, the Afterlife, manifestations of Paradise. Unfortunately, these cartoons compete with the verifiable, and we aren’t ready for all the wonders now available to us. To all of us. When I found myself rising up uppy up, into the sky, so high that everything down there became unrecognizable, I thought I sat in defiance of He Himself. And looking out the window and seeing the clouds below me, to recline above even angels, that felt blasphemous.’
Parker: ‘Imaginably distressing.’
Sachs: ‘Sure, but. After all these diplomatic voyages, all these trips to all these piece-of-shit broken-down town halls, you start to realize. You see the miraculous and, well, as time goes by, you are more and more unimpressed by anything.’
MAINTENANCE: The Original Soundtrack Slash Audio Companion
To help guide you through the demented hellride that is Maintenance, I bring to you Maintenance: The Original Soundtrack Slash Audio Companion: an hour or so of music/audio/whatever loosely inspired by and in reference to the book. You can download it directly from Coach House here, or via Bandcamp here (and, if you’re feeling flu$h, drop a tip to the author/artist, i.e., me). Stay tuned for more wackiness.
MAINTENANCE: FULL THROTTLE PLATINUM EDITION BOOK LAUNCH
October 14th, 2011
@ Double Double Land, 209 Augusta Avenue, Toronto
Featuring:
A READING of sorts by Rob Benvie
MUSIC by The Maintenance Band (Matt Murphy, Ian McGettigan, Mike LeBlanc)
SPECIAL APPEARANCE by Choir! Choir! Choir! (Performing music inspired by Maintenance)
+ DJ DAN VILA
FREE AS THE WIND
Brought to you by DDL, RBV, and Coach House Books.
Maintenance Launch Events Holy Shiz
Bunch of launch events in the next couple of weeks for Maintenance!
And: LIKE IT ON FACEBOOK
October 2nd: Coach House Fall Launch
Montreal, QC
The Sparrow, 5322 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
– This will be fun. C-House and Snare Books team up for a big night w/many authors and many drinks. Come early, ’twill be a packed house.
October 3rd: Rob Benvie @ Mother Tongue Books
Ottawa, ON
Mother Tongue Books, 1067 Bank Street
– I have no idea what to expect. I’ll be appearing with punk polemicist Krystin Dunion (The Dirt Chronicles) and urban fabulist Jim Nason (The Girl on the Escalator). Ottawa gets a bad rap, but every time I go there I have fun with wonderful humans. Do it!
October 5th: Coach House Toronto Fall 2011 Launch
Toronto, ON
The Dance Cave, 529 Bloor Street West
– A book launch at The Dance Cave is either the best or worst idea ever. But this promises to be a mighty thing. Impressive humans including Sina Queyras, David McGimpsey and other towering literary figures will be launching books. We will party. Come!
October 14th: Rob Benvie Launches ‘Maintenance’ Full Throttle Platinum Edition
Toronto, ON
Double Double Land, 209 Augusta Ave.
– This will be a blazing inferno of heartache and joy. With SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST(S) WHO SHALL NOT YET BE NAMED. Details to come.
More to come! MAINTAIN!
Coach House Toronto Fall 2011 Launch
Yup. My upcoming novel Maintenance will be featured in a number of launch events this fall, including the Coach House Fall 2011 Launch.
Details, courtesy of the great Evan Munday:
Wednesday, October 5: 8:00pm - 11:30pm
THE DANCE CAVE
529 Bloor Street West (above Lee’s Palace), Toronto, Ontario
On Wednesday, October 5, Coach House Books takes over The Dance Cave for our big Toronto group launch. Not only will we have readings from all our fabulous fall authors, it will be in The Dance Cave (!), so you can relive the glory days of your youth (if you’re not currently still living them).
Also, we’ll have a mini photo booth. It will be like the best wedding ever, but with fantastic readings instead of the usual boring speeches and ‘vows.’
Who’s launching that night?
Sina Queyras reads from her debut novel, Autobiography of Childhood
Tristan Hughes reads from his novel, Eye Lake
Rob Benvie reads from his novel, Maintenance
David McGimspey reads from his poetry collection, Li’l Bastard
Leigh Kotsilidis reads from her debut poetry collection, Hypotheticals
Jenny Sampirisi reads from her debut poetry collection, Croak
Six readers! One great host (Alana Wilcox)! Please join us!
