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/ I. Issue XV - Hit. [ http://hit.spreadhead.net ] Featuring: New poetry by Rosendo M Makabali ('Pfft'...), Tony Nesca ('Muted love symphony in the big easy drizzle'...), Davis Schneiderman ('Sonnet 12'), and Jerry Vilhotti ('Doing game'). New prose by Mike Paul-Anthony ('One Letter') and Titus Toledo ('e'). / II. unblog - the underground blog [ http://unblog.spreadhead.net ]: our rambling registry of random rummages, recently rescued readings & restlessly renegade ruminations on art, culture, politics, society, and the new media. / III. Wanted: New Visions+Voices... Spread is now accepting art+literary contributions to the following sections: -folio/issue xvi: essays, poetry, prose, who gobbled up the ghost? -mind.cakes: explorations in code art, browser art, flash art -art.ill.ery: art, photography, visuals [ submit your meat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] / IV. For your capitalist fix: [ http://shop.spreadhead.net ]: for those who might want to help spread spread... / Spread XV - Hit What a word to name this issue. "Miss" is rather apropos. This issue's lateness (not again?!) is an inexcusable let down. Unsurprising if scores of spreadniks have by now given up missing this vehicle and boarded instead any gravy train coming on the information network. The contrite (lately undynamic) duo behind Spread (Titus Toledo and Rosendo Makabali) beat their breasts in atonement and profusely bleed here their individual pieces to coalesce and compact with the sheddings of steadfast co-conspirators on hand---Tony Nesca, Davis Schneiderman, Jerry Vilhotti, Mike Paul-Anthony---to vigorously hit towards new underground guerrilla exploratory art + literature in the new medium. Bringing up the poetry section are Makabali, Nesca, Schneiderman, and Vilhotti.Makabali's verses creak from elemental tensions of logos, eros, and thanatos. Schneiderman's matter-of-fact take on the Bard of Avon is a toss-up between frivolous and marvelous, dada and gaga. Laidback blues and jazz permeates in Nesca's poetry; the lines trippingly distil the otherwise sad or wry quality of incidental drink, sex, smoke, music, and light. While Vilhotti's poem lets us in on gods from mythology appreciating the doings of mortals in fierce tug-of-fate against one another, like shuffled game pieces on history's board--only the puzzle demands no solution, so it stays a littered slate of war, death, ignorance, lust, disease. Raising the sphere of fiction are Paul-Anthony and Toledo. A streamlet of consciousness carries Paul-Anthony's prose piece. His persona's stake at happiness derives strength from the precious mundane. Lastly, is Toledo's story series (more like a textual montage) of arresting scenes and dialogues and catalogues that peak at a hard-hitting film noir recast of a 2,000-year-old tableau of divine dissent and redemptive indifference---but then the entire thread abruptly drops, disintegrating into inexorably disgruntled groans. / Spread [ http://www.spreadhead.net ] is gesture dedicated to the free creation, propagation, and dissemination of new underground guerrilla exploratory art and literature in the new medium. It is an attempt--- sustained by the promise of new technologies and summoned by the premise that art, specifically literature, must cease not: to pick, to pry, to probe, to plough down the fences--- to provide a free alternative clearinghouse for artists and artisans of whatever merit. method or manner who share the same bold and boundless verve and verb for experimentation, exploration, and innovation. Serving the underground netizen since 21 July 2000. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
