Alice and JM both call themselves “mystical materialists,” but they take different approaches to what that means. His girlfriend Alice is just as insane, she’s this real white trash lumpenproletarian sex worker, she’s seen some shit living in the margins of society, they’re both crusty as hell, like to the extent that it’s this visibly clashing statement against the rest of the aristocratic court here. I introduced JM in “ A Fistful of Cuties ”-leftist crust punk dude who hates everyone in the scene, dresses like a hypebeast poison dart frog, has some tech job that gives him the money to purchase tons of theory books, was part of the scene that originally inspired Gasda’s Dimes Square play, abject and unpredictable “schizo” that better embodies what all the network-spirituality posers are trying to channel with their “schizoposting,” willing to challenge Crumps for seeming insufficiently committed to radical politics, is convinced that there is some untapped revolutionary potential in this little New York world of ours. We’re still hanging around out in front of the place chatting when we see JM pulling up with his girlfriend Alice. I watch Harrison Patrick Smith approach, and I’m certain he’s pulling up to this too, but then he just keeps on walking down East Broadway. I spot Dean Kissick first, and I have this sudden thought that maybe the evening will run smoothly because nothing insane ever seems to happen when Dean is around, his presence typically indicates a relatively civil function, we shouldn’t have any trouble getting in. There’s a crowd gathering out front and I already recognize a bunch of familiar faces-from Beckett’s, from the De Vere Ball, those kinds of settings. Tai and I talk for a bit at Seward Park and then walk over to Sovereign House close by on East Broadway. The two other readers are familiar downtown scene personalities: Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist: A Novel and former editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and Matthew Davis, another autofictionist on the dissident right poetry reading circuit and Dasha Nekrasova’s boyfriend. There’s definitely going to be a lot of bigshots there tonight, so a lot of people are going to be watching us very closely and suspiciously. Peter Vack is starring in a project to adapt a Delicious Tacos story to film, it’ll be directed by Asher Penn, founder of Sex Magazine, with a soundtrack by Negative XP (musician who also used to go by the stage name “School Shooter”). His brand of misogyny has an air of sophistication about it, and all the downtown cool kids love his work. Delicious Tacos is from LA and he fits the genre of “incel literature,” kinda like Chateau Heartiste with some Houellebecq thrown in. He’s been on my radar for a while, from my pre-NYC era. The big headliner for this event is a writer who goes by the pen name “Delicious Tacos,” and I want to meet him. I’m briefing Tai on the mission for tonight. Anyway, this will be my first time at Sovereign House, which I’ve previously been told will be “the new Beckett’s,” but more luxe and legitimate. But Tai’s back now at a good time, for our purposes-in the span of a week there’s this “Monsters of Alt Lit” event, and then there’s the angelicism film01 screening, and then the Praxis Society (venture capitalists trying to reverse the decline of the west by building a Mediterranean Dubai for “based” expats) has a week of parties called “Little Praxis” (some of them at Sovereign House) that seems a bit like a repeat of last year’s Urbit Week. I’ve had a sort of internal vacation of my own out in Brooklyn, lindywalking around Crown Heights, listening to Bob Dylan, editing the manuscript of Caroline Calloway’s upcoming book SCAMMER (more on that to come in future posts). I haven’t even been to Manhattan since the opening of that angelicist portrait exhibit at No Gallery. She hasn’t really missed much scene drama in the past month. I can’t think of a better way to welcome her back to the Big Apple. It’s the first day Tai is back in New York after a month on the west coast and I’m catching up with her at Seward Park a few hours before we plan to see “The Monsters of Alt Lit” do a reading at the new VC-backed Dimes Square event space called Sovereign House. Still from video uploaded by Delicious Tacos “Dasha smacks Mike Crumplar at the reading”
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