APPENDIX D:
“THE OCEAN AND THE SEA”
A POEM BY
NICHOLAS J. CANBERRY
Green waves
Green mind
Bud kind
Life unwinds
The ocean and the sea
It means so much to me
The salt tastes sweet
Feel the sand on my feet
Something ’bout the ocean air
Makes me forget all about my cares
Waking dreams
Are what they seem
The jettys have
The bettys
But the waters kissing the shore
Have my soul forever more
All you hear is radio gaga
All I hear is the seagull’s caw-caw!
The fish and the sharks
Swim in the deep, in the dark
If I only had a boat
To leave the shore and all her sea oats
And leave the land for the worker bees
For the ocean and the sea
Is the life for me
For the ocean and the sea
Is the life for me
Peace.
APPENDIX E:
A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF THE HAIKU WALL
Hmmm: Triumph, or Rush?
Canadian Power Threes
Both? Neither? Neither.
Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar
Ba-rino. Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar
Bar-Ba-Rino. Jeece!
Welcome Back, Kotter
Arnold Horshack, Juan Epstein
Boom Boom Washington
At Gatorroni’s
I saw this nugget today
With tits out to here:
Bam Bam Bigelow
Babyface, or Heel?
Wrestlemania!
Jake and the Fatman
One guy’s Jake, the other’s fat
Jack and the Fatman
When Darby Crash said
“someone get me a beeyah”
He would then drink it
Maux’s drunk on vodka
William’s swiped Metrognome
Roger eats tofu
Devo: Mark, Bob One
Bob Two, Gerald V., Alan
Not much is better
The Really Rottens
The Laff-a-lympics Bad Buys
Heavens to Murgatroid!
Mushmouth says to me
“Beeba deeba seeba see,
Soba doba boo.”
OJ, OJ, O
J, OJ, OJ, OJ
Jeez, who gives a shit?!
Dee Dee Ramone on
The bass guitar wrote many
Of their greatest songs
I like it when the
Grungy guy in the grunge band
Is all like: “eeeeeeeeeeeyeah!”
It’s Sanford and Son
Oh! Elizabeth!
This is the big one!
The Robert Plant bum
Been a long time since he had
A home. Ramble on.
Oh, Beetle Bailey
You are so slow and clumsy
Careful, Sarge is mad.
At EPCOT Center
I got lost at Morocco
Land but bought a fez.
Webster has a dad
It’s George Papadapolis
Alex Karras, dude
Curtains and the drapes
Do they match? Well then? Do they?
Folks should just say it
In the tacklebox
There are lures, bait, worms, hooks
At least I think so
Simon and Garfunk
Loggins and Messina, Hall
And Oates. Pro boners.
Steely Dan records
I like em all except the
First and “Gaucho”
Was watching jai-alai
The betters scream at players
Rip tickets, go home
The Jenny Jones Show
Moms and Daughters Who Party
Together, Bad News
We’re talkin’ big breasts
Here, the bounce em squeeze em kind.
Boobs. Tits. Juggs. Knockers.
My socks are itchy
Will you please scratch them for me
My feet, not my socks
Portobello slice
That’s what I want, what I get
I think Neal farted
APPENDIX F: oreGONE, XMAS ’95
SIDE A
“Isabel”—Unrest
“Driveway to Driveway”—Superchunk
“Baby’s Way Cruel”—Guv’ner
“Zurich is Stained”—Pavement
“You’re a Million”—The Raincoats
“Window Shop for Love”—The Wipers
“24”—Red House Painters
“Our Secret”—Beat Happening
“Mothra”—Spoke
“37 Pushups”—Smog
“Slugger”—Tsunami
“Parasol”—Sea and Cake
SIDE B
“Facial Disobedience”—Radon
“Image of Me”—Flying Burrito Brothers
“Questioningly”—Ramones
“Game of Pricks”—Guided by Voices
“Twin Falls”—Built to Spill
“Seven”—Team Dresch
“Supreme Nothing”—Tiger Trap
“Insomnia”—Versus
“Port of Charleston”—Seam
“Tragic Carpet Ride”—Polvo
“Sorry”—Galaxie 500
“Realize”—Codeine
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to Jacob Knabb, Victor Giron, James Tadd Adcox, Leonard Vance, Naomi Huffman, and everyone at Curbside Splendor.
Also, thanks to Ryan Duggan for his work on the cover, and Luke Chappelle, Tim Lampinen, Ben Lyon, and Marieke McClendon for their illustrations.
Thank you to the following for their friendship, support, and inspiration during the years this novel was written: Scott Adams, Randy Albers, Dustin Atwater, Sean Atwater, Shawn Bailey (RIP), Sara Bassick, Seth Bohn, Julia Borcherts, Chris Campisi, Todd Campisi, Pete Capponi, Russ Calderwood, Justin Champlain, Chicago Reader—especially Tony Adler, Jerome Ludwig, Philip Montoro, and Miles Raymer, Chris Costello, Deborah Costello, Peter Costello, Brett Cross, everyone at Empty Bottle, Zach Dodson, Chris Erickson, Rich Evans, Matt Flaiz, David Gregorski, Jered Gummere, Brian Hieggelke from New City, everyone at The Hideout—especially Seth Dodson, Michael Slobach, and Katie and Tim Tuten, Bryan Hoben, Chuck Horne, Nathan Johnson, Spencer Johnson, Rob Karlic, Ryan King, Rick Kogan, Dan Lang, Mark MacKenzie, Jim McCann, Jonathan Messinger, Kevin Meyer, Kristy Moss, Carin Mrotz, Mike Mrotz, Nick Myers, Wendy Norton, Todd Novak, Outer Minds (Gigi Lira, Mary McKane, Zach Medearis, A-Ron Orlwoski), Brian Pineyro, Trent Purdy, Chris Rice, the Class of 1986 from St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School in Peoria, Illinois, Shame That Tune (Abraham Levitan, Jeanine O’Toole, Nick Rouley), Tony Sagger, Justin Santorsola, Marin Santorsola, Joel Shaugnessy, Ginna Springer, Matt Springer, John Sturdy, Nicole Torres, Wesley Torres, and Dan “The Fan” Urban.
Boogie Dave was not modeled after any independent record store owner in Gainesville. —BC
(Write your own book. Start your own band. Paint your own picture. Do it.)
BRIAN COSTELLO
is a writer, musician, and comedic performer living in Chicago, Illinois. He plays drums in the band Outer Minds, and co-hosts Shame That Tune, a monthly live game show. Losing in Gainesville is his second novel.
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