Uzodinma Okehi, aka Blue Okoye, (b.1977 Uzodinma Chizomam Okehi) aka Chiz, Chizach, Chiza-mom, aka Dina, Dinma, aka U, aka U-D, Uzi, Uzo, aka that fuckin’ guy; in his book, House of Hunger, the new bildungsroman is a word-track to a 90’s playlist (insert your songs and artists here and start reading; trust me, it works…Richie Hawtin,
I’m on a constant search for that pleasurable audial battering of the spirit, that thumping bass that cracks the ribs and sends the body into overdrive, past the limit of human experience into pure physical release, an ecstatic brutality unlike any other. I’m listening to Drug Store Core Boy by La Peste, an old mix by a DJ who I haven’t heard anything else from, but judging by this tape,
Nick Earhart’s Four Places, published by Lillet Press, is ostensibly a ‘comic.’ It is a deceptively simple work. Each comic vignette is comprised of four discrete boxes, or “places” as the title states. We enter into the work unsuspecting. As with all cultural productions, we expect narrative, or at the very least a robust use of symbol and metaphor. Earhart disabuses us of this notion. We come to realize that there can be no narrative herein,