Ben Mich @ DD33

Ben Mich @ DD33
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los feliz, los angles

tattiya and i are moving to los feliz in a few weeks! we should be moved in by the end of the month, so don't send any mail to the house on 6th ave anymore. can't wait.

round and about

we're back in l.a. and i feel extremely reinvigorated.


hamburger lychees.


and a map:
we went on many bike rides, but this one probably covered the most area. awesome awesome awesome.

berlin

is for lovers



tattiya's pics

just got back to berlin from a few days in hamburg. it's been a bit rainy, but enjoyable nonetheless. fun times, fun times.

scrabble sunday in marina del rey

erik is using our bikes for a display at niketown in beverly hills. we had to stop by to swap one of the bikes.



hugs.
paul looks much more at ease because it wasn't his turn.
bathroom break.


more pics at tattiya's flickr

time to pack!!

I Was Built For Sundays

There's new music rippling about
and rejections popping up

a fresh cup of coffee
to help supply calm

excitements
through investigations
into the bold 1980s car
bold lines
that keep popping up
everywhere
heavy lines in all the nooks

and also into
the linkages woven here

and now I know
that walking into the kitchen
won't help and won't change
anything
though I did manage
to make it outside
to move my car across the street
which was a start

and just up the way
was a little school
with a play-set
with wood-chips
with eees nnns vvvs yyys
scribbled into their faces

and a yarn tele
tethered to the knobbles of a tree
it rang so I ran
and picked up the line
to hear pssst pssshhhshssh
and I was confused

I thought I'm dreaming?
but pierce sure enough in my ear
I'm not dreaming

they're all playing family
(I hope my sister's ok)
so I put my arms straight out
and said hey I can play.


© 2008, Jared Linzmeier

to berlin

in one week with tattiya to visit alastair (jan. 15-29). send in your recommendations, experiences, etc. etc. etc. etc.

hugs,

for my birthday

, which was almost a month ago already, we went bowling. tattiya posted some pics and who doesn't love pics?

^captions go up^
^amazing.



i think it's safe to say this one was a strike.


and there were screaming armenian-jewish-american-indian-nerds present


, but most of us were just having a good ol time.


after bowling we hit the gower gulch for karaoke. paul belted some jams.


nathan bought me a car bomb. thanks, nathan.. look how excited i am.

i had a grrrreat time.

If We Wanted To

we could talk about the magic out there

and about the times of waking up

new year's nights and days
how maybe that sets the tone

and we could talk about walking

or how to pick a good calendar

or how I'd come to visit her
and vice-versa
and we would peddle and giggle
and trip (kisses on the cheek)
I don't know hows

and we could talk about the birds in the sky on a windy day.


© 2007, Jared Linzmeier

new reads

all over coffee


[buy cheaper directly from city lights.]

and

feeble attempts

cell phone

is out of order at the moment.

12.30.07: and now is back.

happy new year!

Two Stripes

Two Stripes Were Minding Their Business…
and then a plaid accident.


our likelihoods crossed paths and
I tucked
tucked
tucked
and rolled
and when I arose tot tot
tot tot
frogs bit against the pink
tin bottoms of rabbits
and a chorus of harps laid loose
and laid claim
the frogs blossomed and their petals clapped
clap clap clap
and I snip
cut a ringlet from my dangling hangling
curls
to barter for a high five bam and I said ‘yeah’
with excitement and was so excited
snap snap
clip clip
yay yay
but all the baby whua whua blue in the high sky
got mad and all started whining whining whining sprink whine sprinkling and they seemed oh so sad oh so sad with an !
pop
and they clumped together, all the baby blues, and their mothers above them in the sky
shook their scarlet fingers in shame
while the frogs finished their tin snacks
and the sun began to shine.

© 2007, Jared Linzmeier

christmas eve

was wine and cheese.



monica--->joshua--->pablo.

more photos on ryan's flickr.

first holiday season in l.a.

is/was sh-amazing. i feel very fortunate. and new year's yet to come...

-jared

christopalypse

decks shifting

Decks Shifting



You understand what I mean when I say
wow that went fast
you know what I’m intending to be
when we hug

so these, and other things, make me a poet.

Where I come from it’s cold and hot and seasons rub fiercely
and sledding is a thing that’s essential
and I spent nights with snow stinging my face
holding my mom’s waist down the hill in our front yard
I shot arrows in the fall and slipped on ice in the spring
and have loved and still am loving

and now I live in L.A.
and I am still loving

There’ve been coffee
and cigarettes and asthma doesn’t appreciate that
but someone does.
I’ve alluded to problems with alcohol
and have had the privilege of
turmoil in the country
and words baffling me
and measley divorce.

Jumping thoughts and, simply, attempts at simplifying and capturing scenes.

I live in a world where honor is present.
There is honor
humor
in the ways of things.
and a piece of lint
in my beard

My fancy is windows down
and lines that strike
like ‘this is a hard, stolen land’

I have a threaded history of pine needles
and bee stings and roasted chipmunks
it’s the truth
and am capable of
not thinking
before acting
tickling
My shaking hands can’t stop
and my family…
stitching the two together
after wearing them apart.

and I’m sometimes a branded man
and othertimes squinting with so much day in my eyes.

© 2007, Jared Linzmeier

creative commons and copyright business

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.


maybe it's unfounded, but lately i've been thinking about how to protect my poems from redistribution, theft/borrowing, etc... anyone know more about the pros and cons of using a creative commons license for my work?

any other advice than applying a "© 2007, Jared Linzmeier" to my stuff?

good news for a friday

margins mag out of philadelphia has decided to publish my poem "spoke cards" in their premier issue. i believe it's scheduled for release in the spring.

bad things come in...

yesterday:
-got a $50 parking ticket for street cleaning right in front of my house.

tonight:
-forgot my cell phone at work.
-road 6 miles home in the rain and realized the above bad thing about 2/3 the way.

so that's 3, eh? doesn't stop me from being cold and wet and incapable of sleeping right now. hmm.. i just found my phone so things are already looking up!

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oh well.. maybe this celebration of my bday [which is technically on the 10th]

will help things brighten up a bit. come out if you can! thanks for the flyer, tattiya.

also on a up and up note, i've been training pretty heavily at intelligentsia the past few weeks. i'm now pulling shots consistently and working on pouring hearts and rosettas and also have cupped coffees a few times [which i'll write more about soon] and overall learning tons about all realms of coffee. it's really been a quite insightful past month or so. me sniffing in on some wet aroma at the intelligentsia roasting works: check my coworker ryan's blog for more coffee-geek-relatedness, pictures and more, and also tony's blog and pics.