much shit - good - in lopezland this week, which culminated in an overnight stay by los hermanos eckes [musician brandon on the left and poet ryan on the right]. pay no attention to the date there. guess the digital camera done hiccuped, i assure you that this photo was taken this morning - see the clock above them - in my kitchen right before i drove them to the airport.

both were cutting a swath thru canada, the pacific northwest and northern california before heading home to philadelphia today. both good guys who were kind to my rantings, drank copious amounts of beer, and good-naturedly sat thru a screening of h.g. lewis anti-classic splatter opus blood feast. the movie was meant to illustrate my theories of collapsing the often artificial barriers between lo and hi art.

i am trying to convince the bros. to start blogs. ryan's poems and prose style, evident in his emails, are the stuff of a good blogger. check out ryan's poems here, here, and there, and a recording of a reading here. brandon can post mp3s of his compositions and so on. but before i go on and on about personal shit, i want to say i enjoyed their very brief visit. they are remarkable young men. i'm glad to have spent a few hrs with them.