Then he stopped waving and his eyes got really wide because our car was starting to drift dangerously into his lane. An accident was luckily avoided, however, and we continued on our way. RIP, Mojo.

The first thought that popped into my head was, "that looks like the kind of vehicle Mojo Nixon would drive." As we passed the van, I looked up and was shocked to see that the driver was in fact, no bullshit, Mojo Nixon. In the passenger seat was unmistakably Skid Roper. I pointed this out to my friends and we all started waving at Mojo, who noticed us and waved back.

I saw Mojo Nixon four times, but only three of those times involved him being onstage playing and singing. This is the story of the other time. One evening in the spring of 1989, two or three buddies (that I worked at a record store with) and I were driving up to see Throwing Muses at the Palace in LA. As I was chilling in the backseat, we came up on an old white van in the lane to our right.

http://survisionmagazine.com/currentissue.htm

Excited to announce that another of my hypnopompic diary entries from Brain Soliloquies is now live in the current issue of SurVision Magazine. My thanks to the editors Tony Kitt and Anatoly Kudryavitsky! Also worth checking out the work of the other writers in the issue such as Charles Borkhuis and Mark Young, among others. #poetry

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=0TGKyLuxYVw9Hvni

1. Rosalie Chilvers - "Ego Tripping". Seattle teenager Chilvers mashes up Blondie and Hole. Crunchy guitar stabs and expressive vocals make this the week's most earwormy new release.

These and all my favorite new songs of 2024 (so far) available at link. #music

2. Malice K - "Radio". Olympia-to-Brooklyn transplant evokes Elliott Smith with raspy acoustic strumming, strings and a whispery, aching vocal that walks the listener through an existential crisis.

3. Meg Elsier - "forlyleinsanfrancisco". Nashville-based New Englander Elsier starts this song out singing sweetly over a feedbacky '90s indie rock track and gets more frantic as the accompaniment crescendoes.

4. Andre 3000 - "That Night in Hawaii...(live on The Late Show)." People are making fun of rapper Andre for making an album with flute instrumentals and no rapping, but watch and listen as he holds Colbert's audience spellbound for 10 minutes with his trippy jazz.

My top 5 songs of 2024 week 4:

5. Wisp - "See You Soon". A mainline hit of dreamy, druggy, shoegaze bliss from San Francisco's Wisp.

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New edition of First Literary Review - East just dropped today and it's chock full of short poems by me (a hypnopompic diary entry from *Brain Soliloquies*), Sheila Murphy, Heath Brougher and Scott Norman Rosenthal, among many others. Thanks to the editors Cindy Sostchen-Hochman and Karen Neuberg! #poetry

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=uDii5luZD4h4BzXi
My top 5 songs of 2024 week 3:
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Chemical Angel".
4. IDLES - "Gift Horse".
3. Punchlove - "Screwdriver".
2. Topographies - "Chain of Days".
1. Yard Act - "We Make Hits".

These and all my favorite songs of 2024 (so far) are on the YouTube playlist linked here. #music

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=H5EFj_shfSECeGRx

The top 6 songs of 2024 week two:

6. The Smile - "Friend of a Friend".
5. Gustaf - "Starting and Staring".
4. The Black Keys - "Beautiful People (Stay High)".
3. Lil Nas X - "J Christ".
2. Ride - "Peace Sign".
1. Waxahatchee & MJ Lenderman - "Right Back to It".

Open door policy, heavy metal implementation

Bill O'Reilly: Florida should ban books

Florida: (bans Bill O'Reilly's books)

Bill O'Reilly: No, not like that

https://reapthrill.com/2024/01/12/apophonic-epiphanies-three-poems-by-steve-carll/

Three of my hypnopompic diary poems are now live at Reap Thrill. My thanks to the editor, Jannat Alam. I discovered Reap Thrill when it published two excellent poems by Lewis LaCook, which I would recommend checking out as well. #poetry

https://youtu.be/750ipb2Uj_E

And if you're interested in seeing/hearing it performed live, there's a video of me doing just that on my YouTube channel.

https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/breathnexus
Breathnexus, my longish poem written in the early days of the pandemic shutdown, now has an online home at Unlikely Stories Mark V. My thanks to editor Jonathan Penton. #poetry

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIkFdS_vpHiw_a8LEnROY2G3&si=bkMGoL0BP5HI_ZzD

In case an 850-song playlist is a bit too much, here's my playlist of the top 60 songs of 2023. #music

"defenestrated from my sleep window"

is my first line of poetry in 2024. If you write poetry and you're willing to, please share your first line of poetry for 2024 in the comments. I'd love to read them. #poetry

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR8C61SW

I'm super excited to announce the publication by Black Scat Books of TYPO #4: The International Journal of Prototypes, which includes four pieces of mine: one imaginary translation of Baudelaire, one erasure, and two photographs. Thank you to the editor, Norman Conquest. Above is the Amazon link. #poetry