safety and other

i am convinced now that if you smother all of the birds i will be happy. feel barely anywhere. looking out of the conservatory at the dog looking at the fence. the dog looks in awe. the dog is looking at the birds. next door they are hammering. the dog is looking about to find the source of the hammering. i cant see the dog now. i anticipate that the dog will come in here and make me touch her head and try to convince me to touch her belly.

today i am going to fix the bits of the novel. but i dont have the energy to redraft it full yet. it is called UPWARD COAST & SADIE. will trade it for a shack if the shack is not going to be bulldozed.

have thought 'long and hard' about deleting this blog and not writing anymore. seems like that would end in me at the bottom of a well laughing.

thinking how naphyrone seems awful and nrg-2 is probably only 5-IAI and both are probably not great substitutes for anything.

the dog came in. she is looking at me. like right in the eyes. she is staring. the skin around her legs is all bunched up in fat wrinkles. i am going to take a picture of both of us 'right now' and add it to this post.

i can only hope that this eloquent and moving blog post has convinced you to pre-order an island of fifty .

for some reason here is a short excerpt from The Kasahara School of Nihilism which i guess will be out soon.

'A bear walks through the gulf, staring at the valley slopes with wondrous sadness. His arms outstretched, he begins to run as fast as feeling will allow him. The valley slopes slide inwards. Dry dirt crumbles under the grey sun and trips his stumbling feet while he clutches at ethereal boughs in the air before him. He starts to notice that there is no ground and that he is not there at all.

Nobu and Hoshi are separate.'

Probably that has convinced you not to buy anything with the name 'Ben Brooks' on it.

I encourage you to send your attractive daughter to my house so that I can put my fingers on her bum. On but not in. I am maturing.

School is over now. The last day of school was weird I guess. A band of friends played in the last assembly. I am going to perhaps unwisely post a video. John reads this sometimes I think. John is the pretty one on the right who wanders about a lot. Hello John. The video looks funny/lame when people stand up. It eventually seems to turn into the partyboy dance. Everyone is alive right now.



This concludes our blog post in which nothing happens. Thankyou for not applauding.

Morning

Thanks to people that replied to the post below. Your books will be sent soon I encourage you to write about the experience of trying to slip them onto bookshelves. If anyone experiences any trouble then I encourage them to commit arson.

And I encourage you all to eat your pets.

Working on something at the moment which I guess would put me into one of the lists in light boxes.

Light boxes release day yesterday.

I will write something about lb soon.

I like in Evelyn Waugh's vile bodies the angels with their wings in cases. Think it's there anyway.

Here is yesterdays headline from my city paper:
'Doped-up Teens' 100mph Joyride'

I think what that means that everyone is starting to get bored and restless.

Cant wait to get out of here.

Literally, nothing.

And if I ever tried to jump a bonfire again then I would purposely trip myself.

Daily s-Press wrote about An Island of Fifty yesterday. I encourage you to pre-order it.

This feels like waiting for a deer without a head in the royal forest of a king with hooks for hands.

-He stowed a brick in his underwear so that when they caged him he could leave.-

'Huge' Promotional Campaign For Third Book

Pretty soon my third book 'The Kasahara School of Nihilism' will come out on Fugue State Press. It will look like that picture above. Inside of it there are illustrations that look like this.The illustrations were done by Dan. If you want him to do illustrations for your book or something then email him at dnvenn@googlemail.com and he will probably try his best to help you so long as you are not an irritating bitch.

Here are things Crispin Best has said about the book:
-'i think it is a great thing'
-'i enjoyed it'
-'i felt good and optimistic for you'
-'i do probably prefer this to fences'
-'i felt like it was an accumulation of images'
-'language was used strongly'

here is a summary of the book by Crispin Best:
"if someone said 'what is it about?' i would say 'it's about a school burning down'

but it doesn't matter if that's not what it is about

that's what i liked and took from it

the school burning

chizuko sato

the bear

the two women (very excellent)

yamagato sensei"

LARGE SCALE PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN
Pretty much I am not good at promoting things. But I came up with an idea for this one and ran it past james and he said 'do it'. So it will be done. Although how many people choose to participate will be unpredictable. Here is how it will work:

1. You will sign up to the large scale promotional campaign by emailing your address and the name of a local bookshop which you will need for later to brooksben@hotmail.co.uk
2. When the book has been printed (pretty soon) I will send you a copy of the book.
3. You will read the book hopefully.
4. After you have finished reading the book you will put it onto the shelf at your local bookshop. Inside the book will be written:

Dear Happy Shopper,
Please take this book home with you
You do not have to pay for it because it is not really supposed to be here
If someone tries to arrest you then please email me and I will come to get you out of jail. You can send the email to kasaharabail@gmail.com
I hope you enjoy the book,
have a great life
Ben.

5. You will go on to eat meals, go on dates, do sex and general live.
6. I will gradually become more and more wealthy until I become so wealthy from this scheme of giving away free books that I stop the scheme of giving away free books.

I hope people feel positive things about this. It will make me very happy if you participate.

Possibility Of Nakedness
Also please pre-order An Island of Fifty if you havent. Sasha Fletcher has already sold out his first print run through pre-orders and I think I am far behind. Sasha got paid to get drunk when he sold out his print run. Because he sold out his first print run a second print run is being done. I would like if this happened to An Island of Fifty but also am aware that it may not. But please try mates. I feel an intense sense of competition except it isnt really competition because I am going to lose. Pre order Pre order Pre order. If the print run is sold out in 1 week then I will send a totally naked picture of myself to 'Other' except the penis will sort of be blurred out. I feel like the chances of that happening are maybe 2% so probably I will not need to get naked.

I hope everyone is well.

there is a female in my bed who will not be quiet

oh jesus christ

i am thinking about that guy who killed his wife in his sleep

i am thinking 'maybe i could pretend that happened'

i am looking around and i can see a deodorant can

and a mug

and a beer bottle

and a hardback book

and a guitar

and i am trying to decided which will kill you fastest

because everything that comes out of your mouth

should not ever come out of anywhere

because actually i want to know zero things about you

because actually you are not an interesting female

you have not done good things

you do not think well

you are not in possession of gifts

and it is not exciting that you moved some jeans at work today

or gave your friend a discount

or totally got checked out by an old asian guy

i literally just want to sleep

maybe once i finish these novels they will let me join a movement

maybe this will end badly

maybe the sky is plastic and the trees are shit

it is getting harder to find ledges

if you were a church then i would be screaming that the children were gone

and the stone is glass and hailstones run

down our legs

to lodge in your knees

to drive men through the way

that when i write YOU in a poem or a novel or here

actually i am speaking about no-one anymore

and it has been that way for a while

and i cant decide

Udder

Crispin and Socrates have started a snazzy new internet magazine called 'Other'. Go to it here. Become part of it. Submit your lazy deaths. Wake up and watch. Write.

Lord knows why ropes tangle.

Or why people climb into ovens and sometimes never climb back out.

It is the middle of the year but already things are dead. I guess there is a drug that has died and with it the parties full of people gurning and being in love. Sitting up till 5am talking shit about how great everything is or was or will be. Possibly it is a good thing that the year of that is over. But it was pretty okay.

Currently I am finishing off a novel. After the novel I will finish off this collection of short stories. That novel and that collection and Fences are all on the same thing. They are all the same thing. Except one is abstract and one is less abstract and one is less abstract again. For the sake of ease I may call it The Trilogy of Vagina Far Away.

We have had our elections. We are idiots. I am an idiot. I panicked with laughter and voted 'Monster Raving Loony Party'. Hung parliament. Maybe the only good that will come of this is electoral reform. Maybe we will AV Plus or something else sweet. But also we wont cope with minority govt or a coalition for very long. Nobody knows. On television David Mitchell said 'we are essentially ungoverned and falling into chaos'. Henning Wehn participated in the ch4 election coverage. He is a great german guy.

I am listening to the new Laura Marling album. I am thinking 'nice one Laura'. I am thinking 'maybe I can go to her wedding somehow when she marries Marcus mumford'.

I have a confession to make but I have to send a telegram to mexico before I can make it.

This is not sustainable.

Devendra B is a pretty attractive man.

Christopher Mansfield is a pretty attractive man.

I have watched too many episodes of sex in the city to be heterosexual anyway.

Ranking of females in sex in the city:
1. Carrie
2. Charlotte
3. Samantha
4. Miranda

Miranda is absolutely shit.

Ranking of males in sex in the city:
1. Steve
2. Harry
3. Smith
4. Aleksander
5. Trey
6. Stanford

Yesterday I watched the last episode of sex in the city again.

Here is a very good song by some very good guys.



If anyone will let me live in their castle/villa/stately home in about a month that would be sweet. I promise to repeatedly touch the dog and make it feel good and also to flush the toilet and also to not spit on the carpet.

Okay hope you are all 10/10.

nobody invited you here i dont think

if you tell me that your hands are cold
I will warm them up and swap naked pictures with you
if my hands are cold they’re in your mouth

I’m picking up change from the ground
just to hurt you because my hands are still cold
I’m being serious
I want to tell you these things but instead I say
hello I wrote things and they’re not about you so they’re shit
you seem very much younger than yesterday or something

in my room you roll your hair all around your face
it looks like a turban but I can’t see your eyes and I hide
my hands inside your hair
you look around and tell me you need bigger breasts
you say “lick me” softly so i cross my arms and uncross them
cross and uncross them again and keep doing this until i make up my mind

that’s not normal

An Island of Fifty

So pretty soon An Island of Fifty will be coming out. That there is the cover, designed by Steven Seighman. I am excited for holding this book eventually. I cant imagine holding it really.
Here are blurbs:

'AN ISLAND OF FIFTY is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, & flame. Old & stale literature won't know what just hit. This is something new masking itself in the old & I'm so so so excited

Shane Jones, author of LIGHT BOXES'

'Ben Brooks is popping quarks with AN ISLAND OF FIFTY, spilling new flavors

of literature on the swampy bookstacks of old.  Call it new political, new
ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism, or even new imaginary
creationism.  This book builds up to tear down and tears down to build up.
Desire as melancholia, progress as slippage, and wanting for wanting’s
sake.  The floodgates crumble.  I relish the shape of this new wordspace,
the play of noise and whisper, the unfamiliar voices, and the ache of
nihilism paradoxically juxtaposed with the gleam of hopeful invention.

—Christopher Higgs, author of The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney'

I think that both Shane and Chris are highly trustworthy people.
You can preorder the book here.
If you do then I will be your friend.

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I am giving up certain things now.

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In the future I would like to lead someone into my room and say
'this is where the magic happens'

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I was a finalist in Sean Lovelace's htmlgiant wink wink contest.

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Just watched doctor who. Amelia Pond is 'extremely fit'.

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Nobody else is in the house.
Nobody else will be in the house for a while.

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I watched the whole of series 2 of peep show again today.

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Fiction not psychostimulants.

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Meth lab castle.

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What do you call a what do you call a what

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Last night I heard these things said repeatedly:
'art is so subjective'
'words mean nothing'
'what is freedom?'

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People are geniuses it turns out!

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Okay goodbye.