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“Limber” – A Lost Audiovile Track – Discovered and Remixed

In 2014, I am planning to return to recording and to produce my first audiobook for Mastication Publications. So in early December, I started getting set up... and I stumbled upon an old recording of my short story, "Limber" hidden in the old master tapes for my 2007 CD from Raw Dog Screaming Press, Audiovile. I'd completely forgotten I'd even recorded it! As I listened, the only reason I could guess that I abandoned it was that it didn't quite "fit" into Audiovile...but now I like the "Pink Floyd" styled guitar that backed the vocals, and the storytelling still stands…
January 2, 2014Posted inArnzen News
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

My Monstrous Lecture on the Horror Genre: “Horror is the Removal of Masks”

I'm presently wrapping up a full semester of teaching Horror Writing to undergrads at Seton Hill University, and we've been having a blast doing all sorts of multimedia work -- especially work using SoundCloud for audio critiques. Along the way, I've been been playing with the site, too, uploading lecture excerpts and strange sound prompts and other weird things. I even recently gave a little presentation about the class experiments for a conference we held on campus called the iTeach gallery. During the term, I discovered the above excerpt (from my article in the wonderful book for dark authors, WRITER'S…
April 27, 2013Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inArnzen News Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems

National Poetry Writing Month 2013

[NOTE: The entries containing poems originally appearing on the calendar below were lost during a blog software update... I may be able to recover them at a later time.] I've signed up over at NaPoWriMo.net, committing to try to write and post a new poem every day throughout April for "National Poetry Writing Month". My plan is to mix things up regularly: to post twitter poems, full-length gorelets, some audio recordings, videos, word art, and more Fridge of the Damned magnet poetry pieces. Return to this calendar page for all this, which I'm posting off the main blog to avoid…
April 1, 2013Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems1 Comment
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Something in Your Ear for Christmas

If you haven't been listening to the 6'+ ('six foot plus') podcast, you've been missing out on some weird, strange and spooky music -- from psychobilly to demented surf to horror spoken word. The latest episode (#45: "The Holidays are Horrible") includes a track from my CD, Audiovile, called "Little Stocking Stuffers" -- and it's neat to hear how well it fits in with the rest of the battery of horrifying holiday beats. Stream it online, or subscribe via iTunes. If you dig it, be sure to check out Audiovile -- download it on iTunes or buy a CD for…
December 14, 2012Posted inArnzen News
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Live from the “Poedown Throwdown” at DV8 11.10.2012

I had a wonderful time reading poetry alongside Stephanie Wytovich (who read a battery of amazing "psycho ward" poetry) at DV8 Espresso Cafe & Gallery in Downtown Greensburg, PA, this past weekend. It was standing room only, there were a lot of laughs, and weirdness was definitely in high abundance. Among other things, I got to share my current Mutterverse experiment, which featured a slideshow of strange images...until the power went out on the projector, that is. But I just continued reading in the darkness, which was perfect. Perhaps the highlight of the night was a "Poedown Throwdown" slam poetry…
November 11, 2012Posted inWeblog Exclusive2 Comments