February 2012
3 posts
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[…] she’d expected to find an overheated nightclub of sleazy possibility like those scouted in her travel book, but the place was only another dimly-lit bar, mostly empty, with a pool table in the rear and Alice in Chains on a digital jukebox […]
Another fr. new thing, Kenya storiez
The boy said he’d killed a lion once. He was headed to the well to fetch water when his sister was sick with typhoid, and saw a lion drinking at the riverbed. He picked up the biggest rock he could find and threw it at the lion, hitting it squarely on its nose, which paralyzed it. Then he went over and stabbed it with the knife he kept in his belt for separating corded firewood bundles. It took...
Fr. edits of new thing
Soon his chequing account was brimming from a full slate of projects, and he burned through them, fueled by grocery store chardonnay, sheer momentum and a reluctance to think about anything else than money. He spent three weeks smoking weed in Atlanta with Jaleel White, better known as Steve Urkel from the ABC sitcom Family Matters; a first-person account of a wayward Christian’s brush with...
January 2012
1 post
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...
December 2011
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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...
November 2011
3 posts
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,...
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...
October 2011
2 posts
MAINTENANCE: The Original Soundtrack Slash Audio...
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...
MAINTENANCE: FULL THROTTLE PLATINUM EDITION BOOK...
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.
September 2011
2 posts
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...
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...
May 2010
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“My father was a milkman. So I delivered milk.”
– Karl Malden