Brian Alan Ellis's Blog, page 5
October 19, 2018
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June 1, 2018
houseofvlad:
Oh yeah, SOMETHING TO DO WITH SELF-HATE by Brian...
Oh yeah, SOMETHING TO DO WITH SELF-HATE by Brian Alan Ellis is a 99-cent download over at Amazon dot com // This weekend only // Get some // Also available in paperback (houseofvlad.bigcartel.com) and audio book (via Talking Book) // CLICK TO BUY NOW!
May 16, 2018
The Best of Chris Farley
Shout-out to Blake Butler for publishing my tasty but bittersweet story, “The Best of Chris Farley,” over at FANZINE!
May 9, 2018
Life is Lonely and People Make Fucked up Choices to Deal with That Fact: An Unfinished Interview with Chelsea Martin (Feat. Elizabeth Ellen)
The term “genius” gets thrown around a lot but I definitely feel Chelsea Martin is genius as fuck. She is one of the best (and funniest) raconteurs of sadness, embarrassment, longing and family trauma you are likely to read (or “the preeminent chronicler of Internet-age malaise,” as Lena Dunham once called her), all of which is cranked to maximum levels in her latest essay collection, Caca Dolce (Soft Skull Press), a book I was surprised to relate to (even as a cemented Martin fan) on very deep levels. Unfortunately, the following interview did not go as planned, or maybe it turned out perfectly, I don’t know.
Brian Alan Ellis: Your new essay collection, Caca Dolce, opens with the line: I had my first sexual experience while watching Child’s Play when I was six.Apparently there is a new Chucky movie out [Cult of Chucky]. Have you kept up with the series at all, or were horror movies like Child’s Play only a childhood fascination?
Chelsea Martin: I stopped watching horror movies when I was, like, nine. I refuse to watch them now. I have a lot of anxiety, so movies like that—any movie with a lot of tension—I don’t care for the experience.
BAE: I ask because I too grew up watching them. My mom would let me rent slasher movies from grocery stores on Long Island. I saw a lot of messed up shit (Friday the 13th; Silent Night, Deadly Night; A Clockwork Orange) at a very young age and I’ve always wondered how it’s affected me, sexually or otherwise, as I’ve grown into whatever adulthood I’m currently experiencing.
BAE: I am too, actually. Okay, moving on… In one Caca Dolce essay, “Punks Not Dead,” you write about your stepdad, which I related to because my mom remarried when I was ten—to a welder from Georgia who drank too much. (I never knew my biological father; he’s apparently dead.) My stepdad and I never got along, much like you and your own stepdad. There was this weird resentment thing, like we both were competing for my mother’s attention or something. Did your stepdad put a lifelong wedge between the relationship you and your mom once had, or are the two of you now closer because of it?
CM: My mom fucked up. Everyone fucks up. Are we closer because she fucked up? Probably not. But I don’t hold it against her either. Life is lonely and people make fucked up choices to deal with that fact.
April 11, 2018
houseofvlad:
HOT SAVINGS on the just-added Something to Do with...
HOT SAVINGS on the just-added Something to Do with Self-Hate/Failure Pie in a Sadness Face by Brian Alan Ellis BOOK BUNDLE DEAL going on right now // Also books by Bud Smith, Noah Cicero, and Sam Pink // houseofvlad.bigcartel.com //
April 3, 2018
NEW BLURB! When I approached Mila Jaroniec at AWP, the first...
NEW BLURB! When I approached Mila Jaroniec at AWP, the first thing she did was hand me a warm PBR, which (I am pretty sure) is how all great friendships begin. Check out her novel, Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover (Split Lip Press), as well as the rad stuff she does for Dr Doctor.
