The E Sequence (Ecstasy Sequence) on PennSound

E Sequence 1*: Something Solid, Aughts Philly, The Painter.

E Sequence 2: Something Solid, Aughts Philly, The Studio.

E Sequence 3: Something Solid, Aughts Philly, Riot Grrrl.

E Sequence 4: Something Solid, Aughts Philly, Starlight.

E Sequence 5: Something Solid, Aughts Philly, Live Forever.

* A footnote about why the title E Sequence was applied to these pieces. E does, of course, suggest ecstasy, a state or states of transcendental bliss. That is part of what is connotated. The other part is about the drug E, or Ecstasy, a form of benzedrine which was popular in the Nineties. The physiological effect of dropping E is akin to the sensation of riding on a magic carpet. The pieces attempt to convey this. Part of what we found intoxicating in the early Aughts was concerned with ingestion of chemicals (not exactly E, but close), part was just each other's company and the sense, from West Philadelphia to Logan Square, of right place right time. But the moniker E Sequence is a bit of Nineties-ism which attempts to convey the levitational nature of our emotions at the time, steady as they were in the upper ranges. 

Equations

Equations 1, The Thesis Episodes, on PennSound.

Equations 2, The Jade Episodes, completing the dialectic & book, on PennSound. 

Run Away With Me

 Faces to names, as Run Away With Me sprints into place.

Stumped II

 Channeling Rimbaud to cover State College news flashes. And hot. 

Javelin Frequencies

 Newly recorded: Frequencies and Javelins. 

Stumped?

A word of note about what just got published in Art Recess 2. The poem dear gr, by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, was published in Columbia Poetry Review 12, out of Chicago, Illinois, in 1999. The poem is resolutely set in State College, Pennsylvania, in 1996. Jeremy was about to graduate from Villanova University, in the Philly 'burbs, at that time, but found time to be in State College, too. As of then, Jeremy and I were acquaintances. Gretchen, in the poem, is one Gretchen Stump. As of early '96, when I began to date Jennifer Strawser, here shown, Gretchen and Jen were best friends. 

In the piece, Jeremy, or an anonymous narrator, is wry with Gretchen about Jen and I being troublemakers, and leading towards a troublemaking marriage. We were, indeed, banditos for a number of reasons. After that, readers may draw their own conclusions, as Jeremy sifts through the grab bag of influences like E.E. Cummings and Frank O'Hara, and finds his own, Nineties-classic, voice.