Forrest Armstrong's Blog, page 6

We're Cyber Cuddle Buddies

Amazon is now offering Asphalt Flowerhead and Matthew Revert's A Million Versions of Right as a couple. Which is really nice and cute and thrilling. Matt's an awesome writer from Austrailia who's book is fucked up and absurd in a really, really satisfying way – to describe it in its own words, it's overflowing with shit like "masturbatory headphones, diabolically toppled comb-jars, moustache-filled ejaculations, malfunctioning bookmarks, bricolage scrotums, wank fairies and a poorly...

The Official Ass Goblin

There is some new Cameron Pierce text on Everyday Genius, and that is very good news. Check it out here.

I love this kid. As a writer obsessed with word-music, I find it neccesary to constantly be reading stuff where people get really fresh with language. To keep myself inspired and not trapped in the feeling that I've written this sentence a hundred times already. I really think Cameron is among the finest writers going today for this… the kid never stops catching me off guard.

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Champagne!

I just sent the draft script of our upcoming comic to Jase Daniels, my collaborator in it. We got a good deal more to do but it's enough to make me feel like celebrating already. We are, without a doubt, going to have some dope art to show you within a year's time. This shit blows This City is Alive outta the fuckin' park.

Jase and Forrest have never been so melted together.

This Kid is Deep

Check him out, having a serious existential crisis in the backseat. I remember the first time I left a sober head, thinking things like this – my favorite part's when he goes "Is this gonna be forever?" Ahhhhhhh

Hits From the Bong

Agua de Fuego

Word to Spanish nightlife. It will make you forget you took pictures like this (from a photoshoot after multiple pitchers of the drink this post took it's name from – basically a mash of liquors up to the lip of the pitcher, splashed with some kind of juice):

Tomorrow I do the whole airplane thing again. But I got to see a lot of amazing stuff while I was here, even true flamenco, which stuck with me deep… I never heard such beautiful, tortured voices like that before. There was this one guy I...

Help Me Make A Mixtape!

Hey everybody, I much appreciate all of you who stop by regularly to read whatever fell out of my head that day, and I want to ask for your involvement in the creation of my next mixtape. So, what it is:

This next mixtape is what I've been vaguely refering to in conversation as a "trip mix"… there'll be a bunch of new Gasoline Monk songs on it (all leaning more towards the surreal), and other things like that (my man Jdubeats is remixing "Gunshots & Gavels" and there might even be some...

"Goodbye Portland" beat

Leaving Portland got me making this beat…  filled with nostalgia for something just ending. That kinda thing. I'll miss this place.

Listen to the beat here.

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I'm sittin here smoking Bugler. Yes, I've been reduced to rolled cigarettes. Already feel sick, but I suspect that came off of Carlton Mellick, not Bugler. Feel better Carl (cough). Of course Portland's getting beautiful; soon as I announced my departure everything started to bloom. Two more days of apple & cherry blossoms, then back home to that great New England muck.

We still don't know what to call it (I've gone through a few titles, but titles are often the final touch for me and it's...

Yo, I Promise

that tomorrow I will actually sit down and make words. There's been a lot of music gettin me excited lately, and compelling me to just throw it up here, but tomorrow I will make words. I'll even talk about writing – the book coming out on Swallowdown Press in May, and the comic I'm working on now with Jase Daniels – & other real life things… tomorrow. Today, check out more Erykah Badu with Madlib production.