Me Reading Stuff

I lied about the sunset. LINKS:Koko's poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=FVuNTiqHys0Adrienne Butler: https://www.adriennerbutler.comWon't You Be My Neighbor documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ

I wrote a whole awesome thing and then my computer broke down (meaning I lost it) so I don't feel like writing anything again. But basically, sorry I keep talking about other people's urine. LINKS:Buy Mark Strand's Almost Invisible here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/Upcoming show at Steve Turner: http://steveturner.la/exhibition/through-line-drawing-weaving-by-18-artistsMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

THE SHADE I WITNESS ON MY DUSK-TIME WALKS, WATCHING WINDOWS: shade made by a man's thumb on a remote control, open car door shade, garage door closing shade, a dog's tennis ball on grass shade, one crumpled napkin on a table shade, kid on the corner of a couch shade, Larry's shade.LINKS:Link to this poem in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/each-day-unexpected-salvation-john-cageLink to buy FLOAT: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532529/float-by-anne-carson/9781101946848/Link to Anne Carson's reading & performance at UCLA's The Hammer: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Is the world populated by children? Have you had any? If so, why? If not, why? Do you suck on adult bottles? Do I? Can't wait to read that essay on happiness. LINKS:Buy “Nobody’s Home” by Dubravka Ugresic (Essays) here: https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/nobodys-homePrevious Dubravka Ugresic episode: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-03-22T21_55_49-07_00Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Don't murder me, don't murder her. Don't murder him and don't be hateful to that group of humans. Also don't hunt. Plant something and call home. Don't throw up unless you're on chemo (or dealing with something similar), and enjoy your breezes. I am your friend, but I can't always be there. LINKS:Buy "short", edited by Alan Ziegler here: http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=109Learn more about Jamaica Kincaid (and how she hates happy endings) here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/09/jamaica-kincaid-hates-happy-endings/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Hey, a computer took your place, Daddy." - Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream"Hey, I'm about to make a Buddha Bowl, Daddy." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS:Dusty Rhodes "Hard Time Blues" Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py4aMK3aIUErratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passionMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Just wanted to say a proper goodbye since I don't know when exactly I'll be back. I'll do my best to return to boring you to death with questions about foodstuffs ASAP. I love you guys!LINKS:https://www.robynoneil.comMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Will I be ableOn this unrest-fieldTo raise you a tent of my hands"-Far Within Us (1943) (Popa)"I will be ableUnder this peaceful strikeTo bury you fields of surrender"-Far Past This (2018) (O'Neil)LINKS:Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987My show in Houston: https://www.deasil.artMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"It's Ted. It's Vera's Boy." -Ted Kooser"It's Robyn. It's Jim and Wendy's girl." - MeLINKS: Buy Delights & Shadows here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B5DB744E9-E4AB-4314-A21F-C4C84A317273%7D

I had a rectangular pupil. I had a hot dog shaped pupil. I had a clover shaped pupil. And now it is round. LINKS:Buy Ugrešić's book and learn more about her from New Directions: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/dubravka-ugresic/Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enFollow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Today I tell the story of “Barry”, a man who offered to pay me $40,000 for 2 hours of work. Nope, it wasn’t for sex work! Listen to this podcast to find out what he wanted me to do. But more importantly, listen to hear from TODD: “Even when your own biography is breaking and entering into taboo areas, blazing and stabbing and juicing the days into their glistening parts our stories deepen as they go, finally revealing something not unlike the origin of the world.” Andrew WeatherheadLINKS:Buy Andrew Weatherhead’s book TODD here: https://monsterhousepress.com/books/todd-andrew-weatherheadFollow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weeatherhead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorFollow Andrew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeatherhead/TODD release party in NYC: https://www.facebook.com/events/1794628867506303/Go to Matthew Sontheimer’s show at The Union in Omaha, NE! http://www.u-ca.org/exhibition/

"Being happy is for what?" LINKS:Buy Near to the Wild Heart here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/near-to-the-wild-heart1/Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMicrowave-able Heating Pads: https://www.thewarmingstore.com/herbal-heat-pack.html?productid=herbal-heat-pack&channelid=FROOG&utm_source=CSE&utm_medium=GoogleShopping&utm_campaign=SolidCactus&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5t7UBRDaARIsAOreQthOM1XP7aBw20K_dc0NllDnA4mSFnMUPcQSs8EnD6H2zfd_PRcBx8EaAplIEALw_wcB

Tonight is the night I finally share the Q&A I did with Kevin Corrigan in NYC in January. Truly the highlight of my life. Listen here to hear him perform a dramatic reading of a poem he constructed out of the titles of my drawings. I still kind of do not believe this happened. But there is this recording of it, so apparently it did. But I still don't think so. Maybe nothing in my life has happened. Wouldn't that be something. “The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.” -W.S. MerwinLINKS:Video of my Q&A w/ Kevin Corrigan!: https://www.facebook.com/SusanInglettGallery/videos/10155998518482173/Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinFCorriganKevin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinfcorrigan/?hl=enKevin on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180984/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1Kevin's band Crystal Robots: https://crystalrobots.bandcamp.comBuy my book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawingsMy NYC gallery: http://www.inglettgallery.comErratic Fire, Erratic Passion:

Special thanks to my backup choir: Frankie and The Driers. Also, about that room I am. The most trafficked bathroom in a family home. I've seen things is what that means. I've seen things and have been forced to accept the worst & most human of things. Imagine it. I love you. LINKS:Buy Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-flowers-of-evil-charles-baudelaire/1125411806/2675900699807?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Catch-All,+Low_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP79700&gclid=CjwKCAiAn5rUBRA3EiwAUCWb2wj_VliX6UFIXAVeURw1b3dZiIaquJds3NoXeQFjbOkJHLYRKSIzzhoCSk8QAvD_BwELearn more about artist Tyler Bright Hilton here: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.comListen to the Sally Mann interview here: https://soundcloud.com/nypl/sally-mann-on-cy-twombly-and-the-babushkas-who-saved-russian-artCy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/campus/cy-twombly-galleryWatch the Sally Mann documentary here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/what-remains-the-life-and-work-of-sally-mann/id5

"In the Aztec empire, every fifty-two years, once in an average lifetime, the world was on the verge of coming to an end. The sun would no longer move, night would be eternal, and man-eating demons would descend to rule the earth." - Eliot Weinberger"In Kingwood, Texas, one afternoon in 2008, a woman and her dog Henry took a walk around their blistering neighborhood. A trio of preteen boys shouted a question at the woman: "Why are you so ugly?", and the woman now regrets not having released her man-eating demon to exact revenge on the little creeps." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS:Find out where to buy Eliot Weinberger's "An Elemental Thing" on the New Directions site here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/See the trailer for my film WE, THE MASSES here: https://vimeo.com/26486761More on director Eoghan Kidney here: http://cargocollective.com/kidneyInfo on my Ohio exhibition here: https://www.wooster.edu/arts/museum/exhibit/current/Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on twitte

Let's talk about little girl's skulls & 13 year-old boys drawing. Let's talk about you saddling horses and then we'll watch what you got in store. Let's talk about green onions and terra cotta (just to lighten the mood). Then push me out of your car. I'll dream of tigers. I'll continue to be loud and too much and big. XO, RobynLINKS:Instagram: @vera.solaFB: Facebook.com/verasolasoundWeb: www.verasola.comYouTube: www.youtube.com/verasolaTwitter: @verasolasoundUPCOMING NYC SHOW!:Vera Sola performing w/ Aster String Quartet January 30, 2018Public Arts Space at the Public Hotel on Chrystie StreetDoors open at 8pm $10Event info and tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1622019Free Download of LAST CARESS: https://verasola.bandcamp.comME on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilME on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

I'm on fire in an annoying way tonight. But don't worry, I apologize for it. There was also a bit of a snafu where I almost told you to watch the new CAT STEVENS comedy special on Netflix. Can you imagine that shit? Someone should make that for real. And lastly my leaky, unsteady heart set off an impassioned round of applause for each one of you. LINKS:Trailer for American Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23usoyDRLtQThe Great Concavity Podcast: https://greatconcavity.podbean.comMy appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/e/episode-3-with-robyn-oneil/Matt Bucher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattbucher?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorDavid Drury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davdrury?lang=enFolded Shorts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

My hotel was worried about me, I bought a cookie, I am a bat and a coyote, I will write tonight, I have things going on.LINKS:Buy Mary Ruefle's On Imagination here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/on-imagination-mary-ruefleCome see me and Kevin Corrigan Saturday NYC!: http://www.inglettgallery.com/content/3-news/20180113-robyn-o-neil-kevin-corrigan/o-neil_invitation.pdfHit me up on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enTalk to me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

"For my sisters who remember everything differently..."LINKS:Buy "Displeasures of the Table" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&BookID=44My SVA evening on Jan 9th: http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screeningInfo about my book signing at Susan Inglett Gallery on Jan 13th: http://www.inglettgallery.comTrailer for my film WE, THE MASSES: https://vimeo.com/26486761Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.comStephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

"Overheard in the moonlight.Overcome in the moonlight." - Claudia RankineI love listening to you. LINKS:Buy Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizenLearn more about HERO TO THE WORLD Claudia Rankine here: http://claudiarankine.comBuy the book of my artwork here (just click under HARDCOVER and there are plenty available still): https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514509462&sr=8-1&keywords=20+years+of+drawingFollow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enFollow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil