-- Note:

Certain links contained in this MySpace message will no doubt be electronically labeled as spam or virus-loaded, or whatever other crap that, Tom (Rupert Murdoch), deems evil. I assure you, there is no spam, or viruses in the contained links, and you can copy and paste them into your browser, only if you'd like to investigate them.

If you'd like to pull caution from the wind and, barring the trust I hope you put in me, preserve the false stability of your computer and your life, then by all means and with my complements, DO NOT GO TO THOSE LINKS. It's not necessary, anyway, to get the picture. Just read what I posted in this blog, and then think about reality.

Thank you, and God bless America.



LETTER TO JAMES VALVIS, THE GREATEST WRITER IN THE WORLD, ABOUT PROJECT r; A THING I AM IN THE MIDST OF DISCOVERING.


Dear James Valvis,

here's what's happening now.


For fifteen years or so, I have been absorbed with discovering a nature of truth. Not 'the' nature, just whichever one will do. I didn't realize I was doing this. I thought I was a performance artist, or writer, or movie maker, or musician, or drunk guy, or bum, or manager of the Hippodrome State Theater Bar...

It's confounding to have a beautiful Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, an iPhone, an apartment downtown, and a job, and to be able to eat in the finest restaurants in town, and yet, to be in such preposterous debt that I have no rent, no money for electricity, $5.25 in my pocket, and a room full of poetry that the termites are eating and the cats are pissing on.

As it turns out, I have discovered I'm really a scientist, and now, finally getting a serious glimpse at the unified theory that will explain everything (no, the answer is not 32), I've got this Project r thing that is either destroying my life or successfully reinventing it.

Arcane email so far, ain't it, Jim.

I remember the old trailer days, Jim, fondly. I remember, with you, the drinking, cigarettes, banging out anything, everything, some of which were pretty decent poems and some of which were embarrassing amateur garbage. The irony being that in later life, on re-reading, some of the garbage were better poems on reflection than some of the better poems, which are now, for the time being, garbage. But that could change.

The nature of truth varies from time to time. That's the one thing I'm picking up on. While at the same time, icicles are there, solid, melting, then gone... but they keep coming back. Different ones, maybe, but with the same character.

I'm trying the old Arthur Rimbaud trick -- a long, intimidating, immense, and rational derangement of all the senses -- but I'm trying at 44 instead of barely 18 years of age. If you fuck with that 'deranging the senses' philosophy too young, you become a gunrunner, and your leg gets infected, cut off, and you die early. I think there's no doubt about that, unless you conclude this approach only affects certain French people, or maybe just one French person; Arthur Rimbaud.

And you know, really, fuck the French anyway. What have they ever done for me?

I have been thinking about your question, "What is Project r?"

Jim, I have no idea. But having said that, it's already written, it's been written, and I'm now writing it on an old-school Olivetti Underwood Littera 32, every day at Maude's Cafe in downtown Gainesville, Florida -- the known center of the universe. Some of the work on this Project r exists on the internet from years ago, when I used to be other people.

And so I sit at the coffee shop with my coffee, tall-boys, wine, cloves, cigarettes, high on pills and dope, and type from the iPhone, internet stuff, onto the Littera 32 so that when it's finished, I can then input the manuscript into a computer, spell check the thing, spruce it up, clip it down, and turn it into zeros and ones that will look exactly like writing.

I might even, after all that, print it on the page, Xerox it, and then send it somewhere. I just don't know where it will go and what will happen to it next. Because I'm dealing with the nature of reality. And though reality lasts, I'm not sure to what extent the writing does. In that regard, the Bible gives me hope, and so does the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and also a number of various rock carvings.

As I've read what I've put down so far in my Project r manuscript, it seems to me, collectively profound, juvenile, poignant, beautiful, offensive, repulsive, insane, absurd; pretty much all the things that life has to offer. I believe this collusion/collision may render unto me what is either my finest work, or otherwise, simply the rantings and ravings of a complete drunken, stoned, depressed, and possibly psycho loon: Unpublishable!

Too offensive. Too real. Too twisted. Too weird. Too incomprehensible. Too unfathomable.

Maybe some college students into subversive rant-writing which deconstructs the nature of truth into its own inevitable truth... Well, that truth is coming at the end of the story. I will have an answer to Project r. That's what keeps me writing it. Maybe those same college students will read Project r, and call it a a religion. Or maybe it will be consumed by termites and pissed on by cats, and will become what it might otherwise, in fact, be... Shit.

I hope I've answered your question, "What is Project r?" Though I'm quite sure I didn't. But the answer of Project r, itself, is about 200 pages down the road from here, and I am walking carefully down that road. I will not stop until I find it, and I will not be distracted by flowers, wolves, or crumbs of bread.

And I am afraid.


-- Tom Miller



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The beginning of Project r:


               there is someone
staring at me from
across the room...


                         the cat will not stop
                         typing about it


the blue girl in the painting
is a guitar


                         and nothing whispers
                         anything of love






Project r
By
Tom Miller


    
     Project r began as a concept which became this book. The concept was, call something Project r and then begin it. From there, Project r would decide for itself what to be.



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-- The manuscript continues --







Jim, I'll send you Project r when it's done. I will also share with you, this: I am vaguely sure that 'r' stands for reality, and it would like to be represented in lower case.


-- TM


cc: Don Traub
(Thank you, Don.)

Attached picture: Bunnay emerges from its limo.


The Contribution link for Project r is at the top of my re-vamped homepage at http://www.fredink.com

I'm hoping to raise a total of $1,000 to publish this work, down from $1,000,000, as the economy is running a little rough.

On my site, you can read literature and poetry, see avant-garde videos, hear music, read press, look at art, and generally waste a considerable amount of time in the service of arts & entertainment.

Thank you.


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i love you


what if
'i love you'

was some genetic
sound thing

evolved over ages
that even lizards could understand?

i said it to my cat
and a spider

they both looked up at me
and took a pause

'yes, go on,'
they seemed to say

'i love you'
i said again

the cat purred
the spider waved its arms

and the lizard
ate a fly


-- miller

i could write a poem right now
if i wanted to

one line at a time
it's coming out like piss

natural
steamy and yellow

look at me go
it's like a magic trick

so now here we are
in the midst of a poem

i see it, smell it,
maybe i'll taste it

why not?
will you? too late.

as i move through the lines
and wonder what may spring up next

an idea pops in
sick as a dog

love

the old writer's trick
love, and writing

what else is there to write
if you're a writer and you like love?

but now how to make it
poetic and bring things

to a tangible conclusion

piss on love.
and write it down as quickly as you can.



-- miller

Poem of the Minute



it is 8:25pm
this is the poem of the minute

things which have changed the world
have happened in less time

it is now 8:26pm.



-- Miller

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DEAR  PRESS REPRESENTATIVE:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

As Halloween approaches, we at Rafelson & Schneider Promotions realize there must be enormous competition for print space in your respectable and highly popular rock-n-roll periodical.


Therefore, we would like to offer you two options for photos to use for the upcoming Halloween debut of the fabulous Lousy Monkees! The first photo, taken in 1969, is a color photo of The Lousy Monkees in front of their classic electric guitars. In these extraordinary photos, you'll find brilliant 60's colors, and all the sexy joy of The Lousy Monkees in their Fun!™ pose which is sure to get your young girl readers screaming for more! End even the fellas enjoy good clean rock-n-roll. It will be a kick and a hoot!

Please select one of these photos to run with your feature story on the debut Halloween performance of The Lousy Monkees. Notice how frighteningly Fun!™ the photos are. It almost looks like grown men in costume pretending to be a band. But if pretending to be a band isn't what The Lousy Monkees are all about, the we at Rafelson & Schneider Promotions, Inc. aren't really a real music promotions company. And if we're not a real music promotions company, then how do you explain the terrific Halloween show that's about to take Gainesville, Florida by STORM!




Attached, please find two photos: One photo in full Monkees 60's color with Fun!™  posing, and the other photo being a portrait from 1966, lovingly rendered in old-school Sepia Mono-Tone 60's Wash™!

No other performance in Gainesville on Halloween Night will be even half as fun as The Lousy Monkees Debut Performance at Brophys Irish Pub! Don't miss the second Fab Four - America's Answer to The Shoddy Beatles. Don't miss the best television show band to ever grace the stage in Gainesville, Florida - Home of the Fightin' Gators!!!




THE LOUSY MONKEES


DEBUT - HALLOWEEN

NIGHT AT BROPHY'S IRISH

PUB - A NEW FRESH OLD

KOOKY TALENTED SEXY

ROCKING GAINESVILLE

TELEVISION BAND!





By Billy Krishner, Illigimate Son of Don Kirshner

     The tremendous success of the fabulous Shitty Beatles (Later Changed to The Shoddy Beatles) was a boon to the business of music in Gainesville, Florida, and America at large. Teenage girls swooned and screamed as the Fab Four played their chart topping tunes in all the Gainesville area clubs, and beyond.

     It was only a matter of time before America responded with its own brand of popular music. Four television actors, so talented and amazing, they were inducted in the Rock-n-Roll hall of fame, and they weren't even a real band.




     Allow me to introduce,


THE LOUSY MONKEES!




     Not only does this great new band play all the terrific Monkees songs we've come to know and love, such as I'm a Believer, Stepping Stone, Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, and many many more, the Lousy Monkees have the added edge of being professional actors who can readily entertain any audience with their goofy fun-loving television chops. They can even wear outfits and pretend to have adventures! No other Gainesville Band can do that!

     The premiere of this groovy band will be on Halloween Night at Brophy's Irish Pub - October 31 at 10pm - The Lousy Monkees open up for local favorite 60's style rockers, The Righteous Kind!

     For a rare first-time feature interview or lead story information on this new and exciting band, please contact lousymonkees@live.com soon, because The Lousy Monkees intend to change the world into a big blue ball of peace, love, and three minute catchy danceable songs! It will be frighteningly fun!

     On Halloween Night, October 31st, join Charlie Dolenz, Tommy Jones, B. Tork, and Larry Nesmith - The Fabricated Four - as they bring you back to an oddly comedic, psychedelic, and musical time.

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To Whom It May Concern,

I would like to volunteer for the 520 Day Mars experiment.

Though I have no qualifications in the specific areas in your protocol, I enthusiastically offer my services and experience as an artist, entertainer, and amateur philosopher. You see, I've been a bartender, musician, entertainer, and public gadfly for over two decades.

The kind of people who will ultimately colonize Mars are not all going to be all academically trained in medicine, biology, life support systems engineering, etc. To isolate such a group of people without arts and entertainment; you'll have nothing but mild insanity in the end. You need someone who's had life experience in listening to and solving problems of a social nature, someone with a background in providing humor and amusement to take the edge off the cabin fever the other volunteers will ultimately experience. And it would be very valuable to study someone who is more of an ordinary untrained "Average Joe", because that is the sort of person to whom colonization ultimately will fall to in the long run.

I urge you to select me for your study.

I am 44, in good health, I enjoy martinis, lobster, and have a fascination with UFOs and all things in space. I'm mentally sound, with interesting quirks of fancy and whim. My driving record is clean and I have never been arrested. I promise not to use any drugs or engage in unusual sex during my 520 days in isolation. My participation would also be a boon to public relations here on Earth and could provide a unique perspective for media to promote the study. This could result in global awareness and additional funding for future studies.

Please consider my offer serious, as I would enjoy the privilege of providing knowledge which may ultimately save humanity from itself.


-- Tom Miller
millerworks@hotmail.com


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Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission

October 20th, 2009

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The simulations will take place here on Earth inside a special facility in Moscow. A precursor 105-day study is scheduled to early 2009, possibly followed by another 105-day study, before the full 520-day study begins late 2009. Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja

(PhysOrg.com) -- Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration space mission. ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part.

 

The Mars500 study takes place in a special isolation facility at the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. The purpose of the Mars500 study is to gather data, knowledge and experience to help prepare for a real mission to Mars one day. The participants are subjects in scientific investigations to assess the effect that isolation has on various psychological and physiological aspects, such as stress, hormone regulation and immunity, sleep quality, mood and the effectiveness of dietary supplements. Credits: ESA

Following on from the successful 105-day precursor study completed in July, ESA is now looking for two candidates and two backups for the full 520-day study, which is due to get underway before mid-2010 after four months of training.

Cyrille Fournier helps Oliver Knickel prepare for a nighttime EEG. Credits: ESA

Selection will be based on education, professional experience, medical fitness and social habits. Following an initial assessment, potential candidates will have to submit results from medical tests and will then be invited for interview, to be screened in a process similar to that used in astronaut selection.

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