The Notebook That Explodes III-IV, by Rudy Martinez
The Notebook Explodes III (2014)
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“To all those who made this show possible, I missed my last queue and I have no more lines. I’m out of blow because I did too many lines. The whole system is fucked. I refute the notion of tacit consent and I opt out, I’d like to rest now, thank you.”
That
Was
the suicide letter of
Jose Be doy
as told to Rudy Martinez. 26 12 14.
Funny: Got beat up last night by Christian. Guess I got too ‘doom & gloom’ around him.
What can I say?
“Black tar heroin”
Something else, man. Dark dimension, detached misery.
Thank you, life, for an irrational fear of needles.
Al’s infinite playlist::
fatale flower symphony
ISIS Member of the Month
“Deep in my heart, I know there’s no health I can bring”
Sit and cheer for the wrong side
first days of the War
“Old man,” sister said.
“IT’S OUR TURN NOW”
It seemed as if everyone in New York was now smoking.
Drive faster. 23 minutes. Stoned, brink of collapse, 11 seconds late.
“no, you go, I’ll wait.”
There must be a word that describes wanting to understand the collective struggle of humanity:
ALIVE
This isn’t a thesis statement, it’s a call to arms.
1 hour. 20 minutes in.
Hope they’re enjoying it.
Who’s the spy here?
Victims aren’t always pedestrians
Gears halt self
Where her trauma originates from,
there’s Maggie.
Laid my loyalties because I’m lucky in 13 minutes.
Many toasts.
THE INFORMATION ACE.
A DAY (SEVEN HOURS OR SO) IN THE life OF A FUNNY SAD MAN
5:51: Sits outside Tantra smoking a cigarette he bummed from me.
5:58: “Maybe Chris Dorner had a point.”
5:59: Tom’s here. “Maggie makes me feel things.”
6:00: A thought crosses my mind: “…as he does?”
6:09: New joke, Freud was right, “it’s about mom fucking.” Jack might dig on it.
6:23: ANARCHIST ANAL SEX, let’s put that on a sticker, man.
7:15: “If you’re going to be dumb, you gotta be tough.”
MALT LIQUOR AND CAR WRECKS
where’s Jose?
CCTV: WE’RE ALL FAMOUS
8:30: Jose’s back.
8:35: He took half an Adderall.
8:41: “You need to age faster, John.”
9:25: Sleeping Pills
10:06: The boss is here.
10:13: I met the Lizard Man. Told him: “My family and I were disgusted with you whenever I was a child.”
He dug it.
10:21: What is reality. way.
10:27: Comedian #1.
IS THE GREEN GRASS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE IF YOU’RE IN the middle east?
Mother’s Day is coming up, she’s a junkie.
SLOW decay as a suicide attempt, wait
it out.
“HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO DIE, RUDY?”
-Pertinent question posed by (see above) during our last trip.
Well, I’ll stop when it means something.
The drugs (2C-I) are turning you Anti-Semitic (Jews),
Not conducive to gaining public support.
half-assed bombing campaign,
listen,
inter-planetary,
“Hello, 2015”
November 11th, 2008 anti-TERRORISM,
accused of authoring, as well, manual
“…next YEAR…no oysters!”
student disquiet, singular peril, Made off, the West
as whole
Greek political spectrum
not only in 2007, but its present state,
“liberating” recycling centers,
PUMP THAT FIST, COWDOG
A wanna-be junkie with half-though out ideas about something.
Unimpressed, pen betrays.
TOO MANY QUESTIONS (I has this dream I befriended a young African. He didn’t think I was funny).
Shadow of the Panther
August 22nd, 1989
Comfort zone, go left
Dual: the intellectual and the criminal
SS
Sounds of Confusion, what the next show will be called,
“Jesus may have cured the blind, but he led them,”
Children walk in the sun,
Ships sail, in fire-lit skies,
Dope sick as I
continue
to, of sorts, tornado
PLANNING POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS SINCE 2001
BE CAUSE
A bullet IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN WILL
CHANGE THE WORLD
Hollywood bushes,
I am alone, yes,
“our fourth gig is tomorrow”
First practice: 27 10 14. Monday. Block
Heads.
21st of January: Smoking a cigarette in the rain,
you know this girl’s name,
Fabric cameras
fight slowly
“Nancy said no on January 24th, 2015.”
TELEVISION IS A PUNK BAND
a premature tomb
sister of mine,
stop your bleeding,
get in the car
for a heavenly mood
9
“Goodnight friend. Should I cut off all my hair and wear a stripped dress and dark glasses?”
Baby Diego’s past, present, and future,
AND INTRODUCING: NEW COLORS, 9:00 P.M.
DIRECTIONS: Write down people’s quotables.
For a period of seven days.
At the end of every seven-day period,
Write free-form song using other’s words.
We present to you,
The assassination of Julius Caesar and the Invasion of Iraq,
September 2007—laundry and tears,
“what it means to be white”
The No.
DON’T PARK ON ROGERS
Romanticizing that
which is either gone or unobtainable!
not the Human Condition, the Rudy Condition,
oh,
how noble,
another attempt at writing
about
yourself.
Answers inside, launch an offensive on the outside.
Show tomorrow.
The Notebook that Explodes IV (2014)
Drunk on the premise that this freedom still exists
That night
in Chandler, Arizona
an informercial
for 10-CD set of ESSENTIAL ‘60s music
Leaves: Brown
Sky: Gray
BOOST IMMUNE SYSTEM
Brief resident
These white kids piss me off,
fuck ‘em,
c’mon, LeBron.
RIP Haile Kifer.
We complain by nature.
I wanna be abducted,
beauty, comfort, approachable,
too many bones,
2001/11/09, 2012/29/02, 2012/05/05, 2011/11/09, 2011/10/09, 2010/14/02, 2014/14/07, 2006/20/06; the day I became a diplomat
Dwyane Wade makes my dreams come true.
sure, I’ll be your friend.
ENTER: Vincent (& the Bunnymen)
“What in Asimov’s name?”
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He’s just a head, I shall remain quiet now.
Eyes will remain pillars
with soldiers standing guard.
I’ve always thought this Beach Boys line was a reference to Death.
Reset America,
I think I love you, E—
gods and generals,
Prayers in languages none of us comprehend,
I have 16 of them
Probably curses.
potential “criminal,”
sign here
the Horror,
Two versions of the same letter,
you almost got stabbed, asshole. Dope scar though.
self-perceived sex god,
P.S. Don’t forget about Gaza,
they asked if I’d join them,
that knock. You lazy bastard.
Shower no; in of thanks bottle don’t. Is A of viewpoint present non-sensical rats?
Split you and put together.
oh yeah, she was at the coffee shop too.
Drowning as oppressor and emancipator as literature,
jumping into holes, but my stomach hurts
they surround me,
“We had to do British accents. Mine was Irish.”
Staring into one of your three mirrors,
smoking meth in a boiler room somewhere in Hollywood,
“no touching,” I said.
Chosen for an audition, of sorts.
Mired in dualities,
Remind me of the Stasi,
sit down for tea, grandfather was shot dead,
should’ve offered milk instead.
An infinite smile for the man who does not see.
Comprehensive assembling of the collected works of a given number of individuals (not necessarily those in relatively tight geographic sphere) allows
for movement(s)
familiar to hindsight
where there is jazz
in the last minute
it will not end,
realizing we had fallen asleep on one another amongst the trees
slight eyes, slight eyes,
accidentally reading the same Vonnegut book with a boring second act,
meticulous managers and deposed queens
I’m not supposed to be here today, in attendance, photograph taken
it’s all been said, the First World’s fed,
PRE/POST/&META jokes
will cost you
your head
Joyce is a hack, with one eye
& Pynchon’s rainbow is stained with dye
tell me more about the books you’ve read
all my favorite authors choose to be dead.
Do not knock.
born of pure reflection
voyeurism
do not knock
well-lit temerity
before the arrival
Tomorrow’s Intellect
a critical ether
a plea to god
a film unfinished.
Propaganda.
Art by Stephen R. Spencer II