Showing posts with label Jeff Phillips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeff Phillips. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013

These Books Will Change Your Life - Whiskey Pike and Turban Tan by the Jeff Phillips.

There are these people you meet and they seem to have so much going on. Outwardly certainly. With their various projects and pursuits. But internally as well. Maybe it's the questions they ask, or how they seem to be absorbing everything around them. Or maybe it's more simple, you see them read or perform and they appear to be teasing through so many ideas. So they become intriguing and you may want to know more, and possibly even consume them in some fashion. Or maybe that's just us? Maybe, probably, still all of this brings us to Whiskey Pike and Turban Tan by the Jeff Phillips. Because Phillips is one of those people for us. He's a comic, he makes videos, he seems to be involved in theater, so many things, all of which possess a literary bent. 
Which brings us to the fact that he is also an author and there are these books. Which are not outright stabs at humor, as we expected. Or especially theaterish, which we thought might be a possibility. And no we don't know exactly what that means. What we found is more akin to fables. Whiskey Pike is almost old-timey, a bedtime story about the history of one family, their moment in the sunshine as distillers of fine whiskey and their ultimate implosion. It reminded us of a song. Then there is the Turban Tan. Also a fable of a kind, but one with espionage and new world orders. It is both forward looking, and timely, with all the stories about the NSA and spying appearing everyday. And so we ask ourselves, how does all this hang together? We see these books as a means for Phillips to bring order to the world, but also as a means for organizing a mind full of ideas. Now might this just be a projection? Or some need of our own to organize the world ourselves? Yes, sure, maybe. Which means there is more intrigue, but also soon, a podcast, hopefully, definitely, with questions. Until then there are these stories. Which you can read, and should, because they just might change your life.  

Friday, September 28, 2012

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Dizzy. And full of Phillips.

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The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have a new story, The Dizzy by Jeff Phillips, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and 47 percent prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, real refs yo.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

"The dialogue in Ben Tanzer's You Can Make Him Like You from Artistically Declined Press reads like a riveting play." Wherein The Igloo Oven expands on his previous You Can Make Him Love You Goodreads love and tremendous joy is felt across the land.

Much joy. And much appreciation. More here. Plus excerpt.

"The dialogue in Ben Tanzer's You Can Make Him Like You from Artistically Declined Press reads like a riveting play. But instead of seeing everything from the fourth wall, you're seeing it from the narrator's eyes, ears, nose, mouth, sweaty palms. The subtext is working through your nervous system. You're up there. You're in it."