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The Long Goodbye

2009-04-10T15:04:43Z

"When it's over. It's over." --Lucindo Anthony

In the past year, I've barely used this app. I'm shutting down this journal.

I still check into White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE* once in a while. At least for now.

Most of my creative free time is involved with Muse Thing: The Calliope Nerve Weblog and other related projects.

I'm also taking a hiatus from zine writing so I can spend more time working on my book One Nite Pig (which is two years overdue) as well as pursue my book selling businesses.

Please keep in touch and subscribe to Calliope's E-newsletter: The BLACKLIST.

God bless.

Peace, Love, Death Metal.

Nobi out.

LULU

2009-02-26T13:06:05Z

I'm looking for a good book on publishing books, zines, etc with LULU. I don't like downloads. Any suggestions?

If you haven't checked out the online component to Calliope Nerve, please my all means, check out: http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/

Thanks,

Nobius

Calliope Nerve 17: A Crash Course In Brain Surgery

2008-11-14T15:16:33Z

"The words are cutting deep inside my brain." --Budgie

The newest issue of Calliope Nerve is now available and featuring an interview with small press maverick Jason Behrends of What to Wear During An Orange Alert as well as works from an impressive line up of writers including J.D. Nelson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Jim Benz, David McLean, Ariel Lee, Christian Ward, Felino Soriano, Puma Perl, Sergio Ortiz, and John Grey. Our thanks goes out to the contributors for this issue.

Due to recent finances, we are only offering free printed copies to contributors, if you are a contributor and would like a copy, please contact us. Otherwise printed copies are available for three dollars by check, money order, concealed cash, or for $3.30 per issue via pay pal. Email nobius (AT) gmail.com for details. Digital copies are always free of charge.

You can support Calliope by purchasing your Amazon.com products via my personal weblog White Rabbit -*Black Hole* or by purchasing products available at our on-line store. Donations to sell at the store are always welcome.

Speaking of weblogs, Calliope will be launching it's first site including original content in the near future. (More details soon.) Submission guidelines for both the zine and the blog remain the same.

We'd like to kick off the site with Thirty Days of Calliope. In other words, thirty or more original pieces to be published over a month's time. And we have several major projects in the works that will run under the Calliope Nerve banner.

If you enjoy this issue, spread the word. Also we are always up for flyer/advertising/link trades and the likes.

Have a great week. Keep the faith, keeep poetry. God is ink.

Peace, love, death metal,

Nobius Black

out.

Black Clouds Follow

2008-07-17T16:32:41Z

I planned to blog about moving and about how well some odd thing I've found sell like Free Comic Book Day books.

I planned to tell you about two new blogs I plan on launching before year's end and how I enjoy being more self reliant economically and making my own future.

I still plan to talk about these things but instead I get to talk about how the gas company won't turn on my gas because they say I have two leaks. It'll only cost $1500-$2000 to fix. So, now I have to find $2000.00 and probably find an attorney to see if I can go back on the seller. (If it's even worth it.)

Everywhere I go, the black cloud follows. I try not to let it get me down but sometimes...........

Moving Sale

2008-07-13T18:25:46Z

Everthing at Calliope Nerve Media is on sale. 'Cus damn it, I gotta move and I'm not as young as I used to be.

Buy my stuff. Or contribute to my moving fund by ordering your Amazon products via my blog White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE*.

Don't make me beg now. :)

Cheap plug done. :)

Twilight World Zine

2008-06-28T01:08:31Z

Got and read my complimentary copy of Don Field's Twilight World Zine Version. Thanks Don.

This issue gives us some tidbits on Don's personal history, his publishing credits, examples of his art and comics, as well a nice smattering of zine and related reviews. Don's uniqueness is spread through and through.

Follow the link to get your own.

Poet Intervention

2008-06-26T04:15:02Z

"I pay for you in tears." --Madonna

Poet Intervention

Anymore
My Heart an (anchor)
&
I am not here.

A War of Frogs

2008-06-26T04:13:33Z

"Bring me the Disco King!" --David Bowie

"Everyone got twisted up." --Cold

A War of Frogs

eVOLVe
symbolism
of the one Finger salute
& my tongue
catching
FLieS.

Red Fez 19!

2008-06-23T05:41:34Z

REd FeZ issue 19 is knocking at yo door.

If you fancy your hinges, best to let 'er in.

Red Fez 19!

This issue is extra special brought to you by guest editor, Jeffery Van Den Engh.

We have Poetry by:

Zachary Moll
David Sparenberg
Corey Mesler
Gerald So
Wayne Mason
Micheal Lee Johnson
Dan Provost
Jack Henry
John Sweet
Nicholas Karavatos

Stories by:

David Sparenberg
Zack Wilson
Adam Moorad
J.D. Riso

Illustrated Poems by
Jeff Crouch

Woo-hoo!

Check it.

Red Fez 19!

Diamonds Among the Turds

2008-06-23T05:39:55Z

"How in the world could it come to this? Couldn't you see that you'd gone too far?" --Winger

Anyone who knows me, knows Nobius is metal. Like bread and butter, we go together. I'm the better looking half. Me and my good hair.

Or something.

Or something else.

Definitely it's the hair. Good hair is the most important quality in a person you know.

Do I have a point?

Oh yea... Hair bands aren't metal in the least. (There goes that hair fetish again.) If they're your thing, that's cool. Don't take offense, to each their own. I'm a Sepultura, Pro-Pain, and Melvins kind of dude. I like it screaming between the eyes, fists like hammers fillin' the sky, and a few bodily injuries for good measure. (Just like Christmas at Grandma's. Now those were the days!)

Spandex is for super heroes.

However amongst all the turds of the late eighties and pre-grunge nineties there are gems. I really like this song from Winger. (Never thought I'd say that.) Only when I sing my daily set in the shower, the song is punk. (Now if only I had Tommy Lee on drums.) Just ask the howling dog next door.

But that my friends is a story for another day. Check out the video for Madalaine (I prefer it blind folded) while I check out another Bud Light.

It is Father's Day after all.

Calliope Nerve XV!: Under Glass, We

2008-06-08T01:05:56Z

"I see nothing but old people and stopped clocks." --Warren Ellis

Calliope Nerve Zine 16: Glass Under, We is available now free of charge via email. Inspired by this Charles Bukowski piece:

The original print run is sold out! I will advise you when we go back to print again, in the meanwhile enjoy the works contained in this issue including pieces by:

David McLean
Ariel Lee
J.A. Tyler
Christine Stoddard
Lyn Perry
Scurvy Bastard
Jeremy Hanson
Jason Behrends
Gary Beck
Theo Moller
David LaBounty
Alan King
Glen Chestnut
Billy Jno Hope
Adam Hinton
Tony Nesca
Felino Soriano
Nicole Isabella
Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabal
Charles Bukowski
Michael Lee Johnson
Shawn Misener
Chris Major

Edited by Melissa Lebruin and me, I'm Nobius Black.

More information about Calliope Nerve can be found at this link. Support the magazine by ordering your Amazon products here and shopping our store located here.

God is ink, Poetry is prayer. Calliope Nerve: Name your Muse.

To get your send an email to nobius at gmail dot com.

Bazooka Joe

2008-04-16T14:48:15Z

"Mockingbird, wish me luck." --Charles Bukowski

"If I am exempt from one thing as an artist, surely it is knowing what my government is doing." --Cerdwen Dovey

Gabcast! White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE* #10

Bazooka Joe

Truly, Truly,
I say to you:
A comic in ever piece.

No words for
far too long.
Punch drunk now.
(Alcohol induced
horizon event.)
Brain pull/
not even -Light from on High-
Escapes.

More whiskey!
Puritanical Bukowski
--that Spontaneous bastard--
Make me wanna combust.
Let's burn together!

SiMULACRA:
A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham;
-- now usually in a derogatory sense.

My ink brother:
I copy/clone DNA.
(never be You.)

pail

only
a Scar on a Stage,
momentary Pop star...
Prima donna poet Joe
Questing for immortality.
The internet changed everything.

I like to blow
pretty pink bubbles
before the taste
wears out.

Red Fez 17 is up!

2008-02-24T00:27:22Z

Red Fez Issue #17 has launched!!!

Red Fez #17.

go
see
read

Then tell us what you think of all new things fezzery.

Calliope Nerve XV: Pleasured Hands

2008-01-05T05:09:14Z

"...from the sky, from the Earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ...We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it." --Pablo Picasso

This version, of this song, inspired the new super-sized edition of Calliope Nerve. Jam out and then email nobius AT gmail.com for a copy of Calliope Nerve XV: Pleasured Hands. (Note: Copies delivered via email are free, but print copies are $5.00.)

This issue features works by:
Jim Benz
Sheila E. Murphy
Sarah Felder
J.D. Nelson
Amanda Boschetto
Michele McDannold
David McLean
Zachary Bush
Ray Succre
Glen Chestnut
Miles J. Bell
T.R. Healy
Joseph Veronneau
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Jonathan Hayes
Raymond Farr
Michael Grover
Tolu Ogunlesi
Gary Beck
Justin Hyde
Felino Soriano
David LaBounty
Christopher Major
Joseph Goosey
Karl Koweski
Jason Behrends
Shawn Misener
Melissa Lebruin
Ariel Lee

Guest Editor and Poet James Dilworth

And myself, I'm Nobius Black.

For more information on the magazine and submission info go here.

Calliope Nerve: Name Your Muse!

New Fed Fez Up

2008-01-05T04:26:59Z

The new issue of Red Fez is now up. And though I helped edit, the rest of the team deserves the real credit. Click here to read.

Poetry by:
Scurvy Bastard
Shaindel Beers
John Sweet
Stephen Morse
Joseph Veronneau
Joel Sweeney
Corey Mesler
John Rocco
Joseph Goosey
Kenneth Pobo
John Dorsey
William Doreski
Robert T. Tiffin
Michael Cuglietta
Michael Frissore
Judy Brekke

w/ Stories by:
Dean West
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
William Taylor Jr.
DB Cox

Brought to you by the all new Fezzed-Up Crew:
Michele McDannold
Rob Taylor
Chris Deal
Nobius Black
& of course,
the man w/ the plan-
Leopold McGinnis.

Enjoy w/ our many thanks
and best wishes for a
Happy New Year.

Interview

2007-12-06T13:29:06Z

Read the interview of me over at What To Wear During An Orange Alert.

Great job Jason, and thanks for flattering me like that.

How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures

2007-10-15T11:56:37Z

"She said, 'Tell me are you a Christian child.' And I said, ' Mam, I am tonight...'" --Marc Cohn

How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures

1)

Your troubled air
empty ink
infatuate
Me. Jackie Paper.
page soul Calligraphy/
Could be a mess.

2)

THiS iS hOW:
-I-
Learn to love (Our Bomb)
Strange Candy Holocaust
Between Us.
L O V E
dynamite
Complex light balanced
In a nugget center
Mmmhhhmmm...
good pill push
commercial world.

3)

POeT
& previously released p*rn star
remixed
FROM THE DAY I sued
God

the soul vibrates
like angels wayward
flapping.

4)

Apparently,
the
Maker
responds
to
law
suits
when
poems
are
written
with
long
over
bloated
titles
by
long
over
bloated
authors.

Delicate
Ego.

The Nobius Formula:
Evaporate.

5)

Assume identity makes
*TONGUE* telling
Well spoken Poe corpse.
Not even the
magic marker--
Universal Hippie
Can smoke
OPUS.

6)

Arrhythmia desire.

my sides color redemption
Don't know a f*u**ing thing about goodbyes...
So let me love/leave
Exit brain left
With

some-elusively
sought
Forgiveness

Dignity

this nite.

--Nobius Black

Trowel Destiny

2007-10-15T03:40:07Z

"Because the drugs never work... Another cog in the murder machine. They said, 'All teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me.' They could care less as long as someone'll bleed..." --My Chemical Romance

"White Trash Beautiful. I swear to God it's true. I'm coming home to you girl." --Everlast

"And she drags me to church but I'm scared to commit." --Sixx A.M.

Gabcast! White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE* #9

Trowel Destiny

Rooted
Panic Soil
LiFE flowers grow
Upside Frowns,
Crying Clowns,
Not quite nature intended.
(Man is involved.)

Old Gods wear New Masks
You, Gardener digging
Hardly take notice
Yet rooting for
that something more
Tell me,
"No big deal.
I'm looking for
Where that damn
Icarus landed

And all of my
lost days."

One tear.

a Trowel of Destiny!
Formerly known as Spear.
This the last time I go
Blind dating
With that cat with the sandals,
That dude
Named Jesus.

--Nobius Black

Calliope Nerve XIV: THE Queen

2007-10-06T17:43:13Z

"My wealth is words. And I invested wisely in poetry." --Nobius Black

Calliope Nerve XIV: THE Queen is available now and free of charge. In grand Calliope tradition this issue features a wide range of styles and pieces by both seasoned and new creators including Melissa Lebruin, Billy Jno Hope, Zachary C. Bush, Jim Benz, Joe Nolan, and me, I'm Nobius Black.

This issue's featured artist is the incomparable Jim Benz.

A Cup of Coffee

arrhythmia

could it be another morning?
ungodly
perhaps I’m dead

oh for the climate of dreams
found lacking, found

casting aspersion
on daybreak
full of songbirds
full of meaningless
ennui or conflict, snarling
eggs be damned, give me coffee

--Jim Benz

Due to a limited print run, this issue is being distributied by email only to the general public. Send your email address to nobius at gmail dot com.

Submission info is located here. (We are always looking for talent.) Internet link trades, advertising, back issues, and flier swaps available.

To support Calliope order your Amazon products via my web log: White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE*.

Name your muse! Calliope Nerve.

Lucy Crooked House (The Nobius Tree)

2007-09-16T00:44:10Z

"No one knows how the Princesses leave their rooms at night... Or where they go to dance." --Dungeons & Dragons (Dragonlance)

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God." --The Gospel of John

Lucy Crooked House (The Nobius Tree)

Skin Walk
Crooked House
Of Mists
Holds Soul
Poetry dreams
Lesser Prophets
Mouth

say something beautiful

I feel words.
(tHEM all.)
It's what I do.
Fretful workings
Belong with other men.

wiLL it take us forever?

to transcend
to become script
to morph Spirit
Write God.
Ink will tell.

Started today with ten essential
Vitamins/Minerals
It'd take ten bowls
Of that other kind!
(Wheaties Natural Selection.)

I'm finally buff enough
To get with Lucy Lieu!
I heard it
from you Love...

The sound of
Your heart
brEAKing
& the pruning
of the Nobius Tree.
The star of my own work.

--Nobius Black

Calliope Nerve XIII: Sheila's Day Out

2007-09-09T16:56:34Z

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am. " --Sylvia Plath

For nearly two years, Calliope Nerve Magazine has been bringing you the best in underground, avante garde, and original poetry and short-lit. Now one of our featured creators Sheila Murphy sits down for an interview with Calliope editor Nobius Black.

Due to a limited print run. This issue is only available via email to the general public and you can get yours by sending an email request to nobius AT gmail.com.

Submission info is located here. (We are always looking for talent.) Internet link trades, advertising, and flier swaps available.

To support Calliope order your Amazon products via my web log: White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE*.

Name your muse! Calliope Nerve. Poetry is prayer, God is ink.

Halo Overhead/Frequency 35

2007-08-22T01:49:21Z

"Words are meaningless and forgettable." --Depeche Mode

"You keep what you kill." --Chronicles of Riddick

Gabcast! White Rabbit - *BLACK HOLE* #8

Halo Overhead/Frequency 35

Lips too thin--
to ask forgiveness.
I close mine;
Stars go out.
Lovely lovely
Skull
sidewise
keeper.
Mother's only
sky.

Happy 35th birthday
(all my grey)
--In Glass--
Brazen mirror
How dare you show me!
(1/2 way to end)
Life expectancy.
not a tick-tock
friend
we will

Antennae sprout.
Frequency of ghosts.
Quick deploy Scarab
Launching.
I don't wanna
(ten, nine, eight...)
count down
die.

Say Grace.
Say, "yourself."
Fire Woman.
Let it go.
Shine Halo
Overhead.

In shape of Ankh
or rejection letter
My parts
bleed.

I librarian
& poet
All day long
(between wadding papers)
to the
Vertical file
Confess,
"Fuck the New Yorker."

Zine Club/Amateur Publishing Association

2007-08-03T02:19:52Z

The great zine club and Amateur Press Association APA Centauri has finally launched our new website and we're seeking interested members. Check us out!

Review

2007-07-26T00:59:07Z

From my per-zine White Rabbit Fall! available exclusively in APA Centauri:

...In early August, my brother and I saw Disturbed at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls (the town I grew up in). My third cousin Wayne is obscenely rich from selling Blossom most of the land it now resides on and then worked there for twenty years. My mom gave me my middle name in honor of ol’ Wayne. Wayne …yuck. If Mom was a little cooler she would have named me something a little less hick like Hamerstein, Balls Mahoney, or Nobius Black…lol. The original bill contained Hatebreed as the opener but due to a family emergency Strapping Young Lad filled the opening spot, followed by home town rockers Mushroomhead.

I had only recently become familiar with Strapping Young Lad and their latest release The New Black. (Praise God for that Internet radio thingy—the second greatest invention ever.) Screeching, pounding, and furious Strapping’s blitz took me to a head banging Nirvana that I did not expect. Like a fine whiskey or good drug. In typical Akron fashion, no one else seemed to know who these guys were. (It’s amazing any music has come out of this cesspool I call a hometown. Akron, OH is the most boring and culturally uninformed city on planet Earth.) The band clearly noticed. Moments before their closing number Devin Townsend (lead singer) pointed to me and shouted, “Ya that guy in the green shirt in back, he gets it! Screw the rest of you!” My sentiments exactly... those nutty Canadian metal bands.

With the wonderful schedules I work, I had never been lucky enough to catch Kent, OH natives Mushroomhead. Kings of alt-metal, they began wearing their masks and face paint so they wouldn’t be recognized. The members were in other bands and ‘shroom was a crazy side project. It’s practically urban myth, in these parts, of how good the costumed, theatrical septet is. But let me assure you, the legend is quite true. Ripping into songs from nearly all of their releases, it’s rare that you hear a rock act so polished that you can’t tell the difference between live and studio. These guys are the real deal and the performance of tracks off their new release, the melodically evil Savior Sorrow, were like the first lingering kiss with your true love. You never want it to end! Lights, smoke, Blue Man Groupish drum solos… I’ve never seen or heard anything like it and I’ve been to hundreds of metal shows over the years.

The second song I was exposed to from Chicago thrashers Disturbed was their 2000 cover of Tears for Fear’s Shout. Having a certain fondness for cover songs (especially by metal artists, blame Metallica!), I was immediately enamored and shorted the electric bill so I could run out to buy The Sickness album. Not the most responsible act on my part, but well worth the thirteen dollars. Six years later, it’s still a mainstay in my CD player. I had some trepidation over this year’s release of Ten Thousand Fists, the CD had been delayed nearly eighteen months so the band could "perfect" the tracks. What a mind blow, when my brother spun the album for me during martial arts practice--it’s a spiritual, political, anti-Iraq war, full-of-truth metal journey. David Drayman and the boys are all grown up making music in the metal genre that not only rocks but is important art. Nodding to old schoolers like Judas Priest (my favorite of that era) and Maiden but giving the music a much needed modern feeling. Who wants to hear the same style over and over?

Eschewing the pyro and effects of other rock acts, Disturbed plowed through their musical staples with efficient beauty. Even with a strained voice (this show was on an Ozzfest off day) Drayman’s powerful, inspiring style lit the night sky like fire. Between songs he’d speak his metal anthem while pounding on his heart with a fist, "…my brothers, my sisters, my blood!" and the crowd went nuts! A metal-head family reunion, even if we’d never met before—-a religious experience…a commune. The highlight of the evening was the anti-Bush growl Deify (a song that starts with real audio of a talking head spewing "Bush was reelected because the people know you can believe what he says..." which quickly moves into a tirade of why man should never turn their politicians into gods or for truth.) Followed by another Disturbed cover song in Land of Illusion that is faithful to the Genesis source but given new life as an anti-fascism, anti-big business, anti war pledge for today’s kids.

The whole night was a throw back to the eighties when metal shows were a huge deal in these parts complete with tailgate parties. Even ticket prices were much lower than what I’ve paid lately, at thirty eight dollars a pop for pavilion seats with service charge. My neck muscles are still sore. I think I threw my spine loose! ...Or at least until the next time one of these bands comes to town.

The Everything Test

2007-07-23T02:55:33Z

The Everything Test

There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all.

Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-)

Personality

You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about self than concerned about others, more atheist than religious, more loner than dependent, more lazy than workaholic, more rebel than traditional, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more introverted than extroverted.

As for specific personality traits, you are intellectual (81%), adventurous (75%), innovative (71%), horny (69%).

Stereotypes
Punk Rock	73%
White Trash	59%
Hippie	37%

Life Experience
Sex	65%
Substances	19%
Travel	18%

Politics
Your political views would best be described as Libertarian, whom you agree with around 64% of the time.

Socioeconomic
Your attitude toward life best associates you with Lower Middle Class. You make more than 78% of those who have taken this test, and 19% less than the U.S. average.

If your life was a movie, it would be rated R.
By the way, your hottness rank is 57%, hotter than 37% of other test takers.

TAKE THE TEST
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The White Rabbit - *Black Hole* Live Journal Feed

The Long Goodbye

LULU

Calliope Nerve 17: A Crash Course In Brain Surgery

Black Clouds Follow

Moving Sale

Twilight World Zine

Poet Intervention

Poet Intervention

A War of Frogs

A War of Frogs

Red Fez 19!

Diamonds Among the Turds

Calliope Nerve XV!: Under Glass, We

Bazooka Joe

Bazooka Joe

Red Fez 17 is up!

Calliope Nerve XV: Pleasured Hands

New Fed Fez Up

Interview

How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures

How I Learn to Love Our Bomb Strange Candy In Six Measures

Trowel Destiny

Trowel Destiny

Calliope Nerve XIV: THE Queen

Lucy Crooked House (The Nobius Tree)

Lucy Crooked House (The Nobius Tree)

Calliope Nerve XIII: Sheila's Day Out

Halo Overhead/Frequency 35

Halo Overhead/Frequency 35

Zine Club/Amateur Publishing Association

Review

The Everything Test

The Everything Test

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