* Issue No. 2 ~ Exquisite Language: $13. Edition of 234. Cover: blue letterpress on natural chip stock. Includes "Fifth Column" card of George W. Bush with target. Exquisite
Language experiment participants include Alan Sparhawk (Low), Poppy Z.
Brite, Jessica Bailiff, Lauren K. Newman (LKN), Chloe Eudaly, Nate
Query (The Decemberists), Richard Meltzer, and many others. Short
fiction about New Orleans by Susannah Breslin. Coverage of: David
Chandler/Solenoid/DJ Brokenwindow, PICA's TBA fest, EL-fest, Homo A Go
Go, Portland Noise Fest, Autonomous Mutant Festival, much more.
Contributors included the following. A couple of their exquisite corpses appeared in "The Red-Headed Stepchild" issue, not the "Exquisite Language" issue.
Stevan Allred – writer; Dangerous Writers workshop leader (Portland)
Jorge Alvarez – musician, Solo Dos en Tijuana (Portland/New York)
Jessica Bailiff – musician, solo (Toledo, Ohio)
James Barnett – musician, Lakeside Rebar, Mission Valley Singers; artist, El Rey Del Art
(San Francisco)
Denel Bartsch – poet; publisher, Water Line Books (Bainbridge Island, WA)
Claudia Baskind – writer (Portland)
Rachel Blumberg — musician, The Decemberists, Norfolk & Western (Portland)
Joseph Bradshaw – poet; editor, FO A RM (Portland)
RV Branham — editor, Gobshite Quarterly (Portland)
Susannah Breslin – author, You're a Bad Man, Aren't You? (New Orleans)
Poppy Z. Brite – author, Lost Souls, Exquisite Corpse (New Orleans)
Tiffany Lee Brown – performer, Passiflora; editor, 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (Portland)
Gail Buchanan – writer; musician, ex-The Standard, ex-Sons of Bitches (Portland, New
York)
Robert Bumstead – poet; educator (Eugene, OR)
Dorien Campbell – musician, Salome Strings, ex-Sumerland (Portland)
Valerie Cashman – writer; founder, Anodyne magazine (Portland)
Trevor Dodge – author, Yellow #10 (Portland)
Sarah Dougher – musician, Cadallaca, ex-The Lookers, The Crabs (Portland)
Tim DuRoche – conceptual drummer; performer (Portland)
Heidi Durrow – writer (Los Angeles)
St.Dymphna — patron saint of the insane (Ireland)
Dave Eggers — author, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; founder, McSweeney's (New
York)
Warren Ellis – writer/graphic novelist, Transmetropolitan (UK)
CJ Evans – poet (Portland)
Chloe Eudaly – proprietress, Reading Frenzy (Portland)
Pollyanna Fishwrap – writer (Portland)
David Gans – musician, solo; radio producer, Grateful Dead Hour (Bay Area)
David "Also" Gerritsen – writer; editor/publisher, Music Liberation Project (Portland)
Leanne Grabel – performer; poet; author, There's a Pig Running Free; co-founder, Café Lena
(Portland)
Todd Grimson — author, Stainless (Portland)
Mark Gunderson, aka TradeMark G. – leader, The Evolution Control Committee
Kate Hambrecht – books editor, Jane; musician/performer, Flaming Fire (New York)
Andrew Hultkrans – author, Love: Forever Changes; former editor, Bookforum (New York)
humdog — poet; musician (Los Angeles)
Jemiah Jefferson — author, ST RF CK NG (Portland)
Richard Kadrey – author, Metrophage; editor, The Covert Culture Sourcebooks (San
Francisco)
Lauren Kathryn – musician, LKN, ex-Vanishing Kids, Stellamarie (Portland)
Mistina Keith – musician, The Prids (Portland)
Susanna Laaksonen – screenwriter (Helsinki)
Marisa Lenhardt — vocalist, 'Diva Marisa' (San Francisco/Black Rock City)
Corban Lester – musician, Cancer Fags (Portland)
Beth Lisick – writer; performance poet; musician (San Francisco)
Joseph Matheny — author, Ong's Hat (the Ether)
M.F.McAuliffe — writer; contributing editor, Gobshite Quarterly (Portland)
Paul McEnery – writer; former editor, Mondo 2000 (San Francisco)
Richard Meltzer – author, The Aesthetics of Rock; musician, Smegma (Portland)
Dave Memmott – poet, Within the Walls of Jericho; founder, Wordcraft Press (La Grande,
Oregon)
Joshua Camozzi Milligan — writer; visual artist; musician, Spacefairy, To-Ka-Ge
(Portland)
Terri Nelson – writer (Portland)
Alaura O'Dell – musician, solo, ex-Psychic TV; (aka Paula P'Orridge) Director, Sacred
Journeys for Women
(UK/NoCal)
Lance Olsen – author, Burnt; Pushcart Prize winner (Moscow, Idaho)
Richard Peabody — editor, Gargoyle (Washington, DC)
dAS Pixie – musician, Big City Orchestra (Oakland)
Ninah Pixie – musician, Big City Orchestra (Oakland)
Nate Query – musician, The Decemberists (Portland)
Lisa Radon – performer; poet; artist (Portland)
Camela Raymond – editor, The Organ Review of Arts (Portland)
Jonathan Raymond – author, The Half Life; editor, Plazm (New
York/Portland)
Doug Rushkoff – author, Media Virus; commentator, NPR's "All Things
Considered" (New York)
Justin Sanders – assistant editor, The Portland Mercury (Portland)
Jessica Rosalind Schabtach — writer; educator (Eugene, OR)
Elissa Schappell – author, Use Me; writer, Vanity Fair's book column
(Brooklyn)
Dana Schecter – musician, Angels of Light, Bee + Flower (Berlin)
Bruce Scherer – writer (Portland)
Steffen Silvis – playwright; assistant arts & culture editor,
Willamette Week (Portland)
Alan Sparhawk – musician, Low (Duluth, MN)
Richard Speer – art critic, Willamette Week (Portland)
Rob Spillman – editor, Tin House (Brooklyn)
Alix Sun — musician, Spacefairy (Portland)
Rob Tannenbaum – writer; performer; senior editor, Blender (New York)
Claire Tristram – author, After
Julian Tulip – musician, Julian Tulip's Licorice, Cancer Fags
(Portland)
Susannah Weaver – musician, Little Sue (Portland)
Don Webb — author, The Seventh Day & After (Austin)
Wiley Wiggins – writer; artist; actor, Waking Life, Dazed & Confused
(Austin)
Steve Wilson – writer; editor, Motionsickness (Portland)
Douglas Wolk – author, James Brown's Live at the Apollo; proprietor, Dark
Beloved Cloud records
(Portland)
Lidia Yuknavitch – author, Her Other Mouths; editor, Chiasmus Press;
founder, Two Girls Review (Corbett,
OR)
Miriam Zellnik – writer (Portland)
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Musicians from bands like Low and the Decemberists joined in with writers from Elissa Schappell to Lance Olsen in 2GQ's "Exquisite Language" project. Seventy contributors from around the world co-constructed a series of exquisite corpse stories and songs; the results were published in our special Exquisite Language issue of 2GQ and also interpreted as performance and song at an EL-fest event at the Heathman Hotel.
"Be
regular
and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original
in your work." --Gustave Flaubert
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