Kyle Beachy's Blog, page 9
April 7, 2009
Live On Air, Die On Air
A recording for you in the digital format that is just all the freaking rage these days, the glorious EM-PEE-THREE. Click here to either download or just hear my interview with KDHX last night. Show starts right around 3:50, or roughly one centimeter in from the left, then there’s some madness getting me on the phone line, then it’s basically rock and roll (pleasant conversation) from 5:40 onward…
On Game One, LOSS
Today I am making a commitment to write something about each Cardinals baseball game this season. I am more accurately going to try very hard to write about every game, but I will miss some and others might not appear before the next game, they could be out of order and or contain sly bits of disinformation. I could also abandon the project completely at any point. Perhaps I’ll include writing on other baseball related items like the shitass potholes all over the city of Chicago. And the Oakland
April 6, 2009
Radio Killed The Something Else Star
Tonight I’ll be interviewd LIVE by Amanda Doyle for KDHX’s weekly “Topic A” show. She is going to call me on the phone and we’ll have us a good old fashioned chat. Show begins at 7:30 and will be available as a podcast in the coming days. I will try not to stutter or cuss or say anything I will later regret. That’s 88.1 on your St. Louis radio dial.
Purchasing My Dream Saab
After months of rumor, news has come about my dear friend and constant source of inspiration, Serengeti, signing to Anticon to release his second album with worldly musician (and very smart man, and friend, and recent father) Polyphonic. Terradactyl will be released on June 23. If you don’t know Geti, start with his myspace page and go from there. Greatest rapper alive…
March 31, 2009
“The Smallest Composite”
A very very short and I suppose technically flash fiction story of mine appears in April’s decomP magazine. Here, for your review, is “The Smallest Composite”, which I’ve named in honor of the number four.
March 26, 2009
The Elusive BBBACAITPY
Well hey thanks, Chicago Reader and people who read the Reader, voters, and personal friends. The Slide has been deemed this year’s Readers’ Choice for “Best Book By A Chicago Author In The Past Year“. The Reader’s Choice (very important apostrophe placement) is Aleksander Hemon’s The Lazarus Project.
March 24, 2009
Logan and Western
I have compiled my early review of the almost open Logan Square skatepark:
Logan Square skatepark is going to be okay. It will not be great by any stretch of anyone’s imagination. But it will be covered and lit, and they have two flat bars, which up until now I had to drive to east bumble to find a flat bar, so that’s good. The transitions are gentle but I think the coping will be alright. Some of it is very dumb, but we all expected dumbnes. Also, on the way home I ran into Grumpy who was on his
March 19, 2009
St. Louis, Hooray
…In which Southern Living Magazine (note: not Midwestern Living Magazine (question: real magazine?)) gives mad propers to the brand newly revitalized downtown St. Louis. Hear the gush:
Style has come home to roost in St. Louis. Downtown is experiencing a major revitalization, powered by a brigade of young artists and designers who are giving the area a new lease on life, much like that vintage Chanel handbag you found in your grandmother’s attic.
This, I believe, is relevant news even for those of
March 7, 2009
“Chicago’s Triple Threat”
This weekend’s Books & Media section of the Chicago Tribune reviews The Slide alongside new books by Jesse Ball and Patrick Somerville, two men I know and admire. The ender paragraph is a doozy…
Beachy writes with quiet force about innocence and corruption, about how even something as transparent as water can be a source of deception. In sizzling dialogue, madcap action and striking soliloquies, Beachy grapples with the toxicity of ambivalence and the complexities of inheritance, grief and the fa
March 6, 2009
Slay the heart of the earth
I admit resisting when Chris Bower suggested I come hear his friends’ band. I have no excuse beyond I was…busy? Or more, doubted the merit of a band I knew to wear costumes? This was in 2004, I think. And sometime soon after, another Chris (Shea) said to me, listen to this song right now. On the computer. And I did and it was “Murdered at the Bar” from the stellar The Grinning Corpse Who Went to Town, and that was the death of my resistance.
The Bitter Tears, geniuses, have released a second albu
