TWO ZINE FESTS AND A HOOTENANNY: AN
AFFIRMATION OF DAILY TYPEWRITING is Old Folks's 265th book. The book combines the
novel, the memoir, the journal of a novel/memoir, literary theory, and roving-correspondent
reporting for the L. A. (Lower Alabama) Free Press rolled into one. Old Folks
is serializing the book, as he writes it, at his web site, The Daily Bulletin.
He begins the book July 1 and gives himself a month to write it. That's his usual
pace. His rhythm.
He is scheduled to appear at Philly Zine Fest 2005, where
he will participate in the Underground Literary Alliance's ULA Philadelphia Invasion!,
Saturday, July 16, at the Medusa Lounge, capping a reading by fellow ULA writers
to rival the beatnik reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 when Allen
Ginsberg first read "Howl."
The event is also a book release party
for Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground Writer and
His Family, if the books come from the printer on time.
Then, on Sunday,
Old Folks will give a workshop on do-it-yourself (DIY) publishing at the zine fest,
and give away, or sell copies of his self-published pamphlet Underground Writer
Makes Good, written for the occasion.
An occasional writer. As William
Faulkner said, "I write when the impulse strikes me, and it strikes me every
day." That's where daily typewriting comes from.
Then Old Folks
schedules himself to appear at Zine-A-Polooza 2005, in Atlanta, July 31, by signing
up for an exhibitor's booth.
His son Balder plays in a reggae-bluegrass fusion
band called Dread Clampitt. Dread Clampitt are playing at the Red Light Café, in
Atlanta, July 14. Old Folks gives Balder fliers for Zine-A-Polooza to hand out.
Then Old Folks finds out the band his son Owen plays fiddle in, David Davis and the
Warrior River Boys, are playing at the Everett Brothers Music Barn in Suwanee, just
up the interstate from Atlanta, Saturday night, July 30.
So his tour-date
card for July is complete. Two zine fests and a hootenanny.
In the middle
of the book, Old Folks has a crisis of confidence, about what he's going to write
in August, but finally sees that he will write a memoir called UNDERGROUND WRITER:
A LIFE OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM and JOURNAL OF A MEMOIR, about writing UNDERGROUND
WRITER, and post them at The Daily Bulletin, simultaneously, as he writes
them. They will be about selling Bukowski Never Did This around Northwest
Florida, and about how Old Folks came to produce a body of work, his stack, and invent
a form to present it in, daily typewriting.
A stack is an unpublished, or
underpublished shelf.
It could be the ULA reading at the Medusa Lounge is
historic, and TWO ZINE FESTS AND A HOOTENANNY: AN AFFIRMATION OF DAILY TYPEWRITING
is an insider's account. All Kerouac wanted to do was go out and get wine, but Old
Folks has agreed to read. We are all a Bushed Generation. Man, I'm bushed. Bukowski
Never Did This makes fun of Bush's War on Totemism, which he calls the War on
Totoism.