The 60s In 2012

 ”What do I do? Well, I pass on terrible gibberish that can only be translated by me for three dollars a hit in some back alley flashback of a sixties Acid Culture Center representing some pulsating form of peace and love waltzing with the classic cow boy American Dream.”

“What’s an Acid Culture Center? Well, it’s like any other drug culture center, hell, you’re in one right now!”

“Everything about this, my friend, has to do with The American Dream. This misunderstood, beautifully lucid dream! No one appreciates this ideal way of life molded for the individual and what they care about, not what all the other side show jerk offs care about, even though you’re just a side line, chronic masturbater as well, jerking off other’s successful lives. This is the American Way! An orgy of right hands and left hands and dollar bill wrapped sex toys! For some reason, everyone believes everyone, everyone thinking of themselves, even if they’re being selfless, if they are being selfless,they only want something from you. Everyone’s a damn liar! This pertains to the most truthful, honest, hard working, never-spoke-a-word-about-that-confession-where-you-told-him-you-murdered-your-own-Mother, virgin priest, and the scum bag motherfucker who stole a sheet of high grade LSD from me! They’re all liars. Every single one of them, no matter how much they tell the truth.”

“No, I’m not ranting. I’m trying to explain myself, and The American Dream, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I’m just sore about that sheet of acid still. People like him backstab good, honest folk like us, and just get their claws in your wallets while they twist the knife! Hell, they couldn’t of known that when they pull that sort of stunt that they’re only hurting their own chances at The American Dream! Every stab at me is a stab at The American Way Of Life! They, of course, don’t know this, so they keep stabbing, and stabbing, and stabbing away! They mine as well just nuke the shit out of us now! An entire population of post-hippie-era junkies and tobacco spitting, back water farmers breeding with god damn invasive species and just mixing up the pure white, it’s like mixing a little flour in with pure, grade A cocaine! What type of shit-head, anti-America pig does that?”

“Shit, I really am ranting, aren’t I?”

“Sorry. Holy shit, I’m sweating.”

“Don’t worry man, it’s just the acid. Calm down. Don’t worry about me. Just pass me that red pill right there, the one next to that twenty. Not the rolled twenty, the crushed up one. Were you snorting some of those? No? Well just give it to me…”

“…Thanks.”

“Alright, well, this the most important part. You need to be able to recognize an anti-American Dream pig when you see one. You gotta keep yourself safe. These commies, japs, niggers, spics, desert dwellers, hitch hikers, God fearing Nam vets, hell, even some Iraq vets, bless their America loving souls, moralists, spitters, quiters, the dead, gamblers, chain smokers, hipsters, those back alley homeless types with trash in their beards, sex toy maids that the only reason their master keeps around is to drill behind his wife’s back, every day men and women, hell, even some CEOs who already have attained the classic American Dream, the one that everyone of these bastards came here to find, before it became more individually based, and all of these mother fuckers screamed ‘to hell with The American Dream’, and now, well fuck, hand me another red one.”

“Where was I? Hell, I don’t know. I don’t really even care. Fuck The American Dream.”

“So yeah, you understand now? No? Do you have three dollars so I can translate?”

 

by Jeremiah Walton

How To Build Up Your Name As A Writer

Phase 1: Get local. Even if you enjoy writing in solitude, there is a lot to benefit from networking. You can join local writing groups for a more focused community. Go to readings or events that cater to your interests. Meet the people who read or are in charge, as well as those who are in the audience or participating. You will meet writer friends. This will allow you to network and locate opportunity that would have been more difficult alone. They might be able to open doors for you one day, and you might want to open doors for them. Participate in slams, public readings, and open mics when your have the opportunity.

Phase 2: Submit to area publications. You can do this alongside phase 1, but if you follow phase 1 with phase 2, you’ll have a name that is more well known in the writing community around you. This is currency with literary magazines within your local community. You are much more likely to be accepted by a literary magazine of a school you go to or the community you live in. Try to build upon your successes. Publish in a school magazine? Try a local magazine. After this phase, the local writing community should be aware of who you are. Take this opportunity to join in on readings that are more official, and less hobby. That means people in your community should be wanting to go to a reading (even if you are not the main reader) because you are there, not just because it is a reading. They should be excited about your work.

Phase 3: Submit to regional publications. Once you managed to be submitted in area publications, try your hand at state or regional publications with some renown. If you are unsure of your likelihood of acceptance, contact the magazine and ask about the average credentials of successful submissions to determine which publications to try for. After this phase, editors and readers outside your community should be familiar with you. You should even try to extend your reading base outside of the local community. This is a great time to really push a web presence with social networking.  Facebook, reddit, wordpress, twitter, tumblr, and other social media sites are great tools.  Do some research into social media marketing before hand, so you don’t turn away a myriad of potential fans before you even have the oppurtunity to share your work with them.  Another great thing you can do is get a website for your writing up and running (here’s my poetry website for example).  Getting a large amount of hits will take time, dedication, and perserverence.  Do MORE research into terms like SEO, SEM, SERP, and generał website management.  I can say first hand this extremely helpful.  Web presence is very important in this age of technology.  

Phase 4: Go for the gold! Once you have some regional publications under your belt, go for the gold. Submit to the top magazines. Don’t be shy about it. After all, you have a local following, a state following, and a regional following. There is a reason for the magazine to publish you. They aren’t taking any chances.

David Foster Wallace on Ambition and the Motivation to Be Smart

David Foster Wallace (author of Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men) says the following two years after his suicide and 14 years after the tour for his book Infinite Jest.

Foster’s words on Ambition and Motivation to Be Smart

Stretch – Nostrovia! Poetry

Stretch – Nostrovia! Poetry.

A new preview to the upcoming poetry collection Nostrovia! I wrote! The collection is finally complete and due to be released soon. This is also the first song performed by The Aeolists (Jeremiah Walton, Tyler Leblond, and Mike Stanton)

Legends Of Green Isle

“When Matt’s brother and two other children from town disappear, Matt finds himself involved in a primeval struggle to defeat a Warlock. An ancient spell, which could cause the destruction of earth, is about to be unleashed. Following a dragon and fairy through a hidden portal to another world, Matt and his friends seek to rescue the children who were taken. Told their coming was prophesied over three thousand years ago, they begin their quest to locate a magic sword, which is the only weapon able to conquer the Warlock. Given an encrypted map, the group embarks on a dangerous journey, hoping to reach the Warlock’s lair before they are too late to help the others.”

This quote was taken from Constance Wallace’s Legend Of Green Isle: The Forgotten Spell’s page at Outskirt Press.  This book is a spellbound adventure with mythical creatures and other-wordly adventures.  Watch the Legend Of Green Isle: The Forgotten Spell’s trailer for more teasers and information about this worth while read.  If you are interested, or have enjoyed reading this book, like her Facebook page to show support for her and her writing!

The Aeolists

An aeolist is an individual who acts inspired and full of creativity, but is not either of these things. Jeremiah Walton’s “Home’s Calling” project, a collection of spoken word songs, has been dropped. The Aeolists, with fellow members Tyler Leblond and Mike Stanton, has risen in its place. Tyler Leblond plays guitar and Mike Stanton plays with home mutilated and altered basses that sound damn fantastic. Jeremiah performs his spoken word and poetry in the form of “talking songs” along with the powerful guitar and bass for company. This is much more unique than Home’s Calling was, and seems to be working out better. You can preview The Aeolists at Nostrovia! Poetry and read more about the group’s formation, members, and future.

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