This video was shot inside KBOO radio studios in Portland, Or August of 2009. I had been reading from Cannibal Cuisine but in this moment just improvising vocally with Fiasco Improvisation. Tim Alexander and Jerry Soga doing most of the sound works. Video by Alejandro. The video gets better the longer you watch it. Feel free to scream. Don't think too hard. As promised, more from the Federman files underneath the video.



This is a poem I wrote playing around Federman's name. He said he already beat me to it, he already wrote a poem about his name. So he had to title my poem as well. He gave it the title through emails that we shot back and forth. MOSCOVICH, he wrote. I found a name for your poem -- go see -- I attached it to my poem -- (I haven't included his poem just my version, his was written long before mine of course)

Here is my version of the Federman poem, titled by Raymond Federman:


what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal

FEDERNAME

Federmaniacal
Federmundo
Federdumonde
Federdemain
Federmawatt
Federmanism
Federmanistic
Federmystical
Federmanthanyou
Federmanicpolarity
Federmanicstate
Federminnow
Federmannish
Federmonocle
Federmann
Federmostly
Federmaninacloset
Federmanisaman
Federmunich
Federmaparis
Federmokyo
Federsanpetersburg
Federmabuchurestii
Federmanberg
Federhamburg
Federradio
Federmanation
Federemanation
FedearmanFederman
Feedermeinkampf
Feedorforget
Federmanstairwell
Federmandossier
Federmanitoba
FedermuñecaFedermarzipan
Federmantilldawn
Federmanewyork
Federmanewshooes
Federmanlooseshoes
Federforyabedher
Federmanabetterman
Federmanafeatherman
Federmandeplume
Federhomme
Federbien
Federbesticoulddo
Federbombastic
Federthantelevision
Federmanicstatic
Federbomb
Federnommedeplomb
Federinaditch
Federmolloy
Federmoran
Federmalonedies
Federgodot
Federgigi
Federoldman
Federcomposite
Federscan
Federmalgamation
Federbeckettian
Federbeckettic[etic]
Federbeckettsamman
Federmoinous
Federmanamredef
Federmanoffame
Federmanthesun
Federmanatee
Federprophecy
Federfiveyears
Federyouneed
Federapprenticeship
Federbefore
Federyoucan
Federcallyourself
FederawriterFederitwilltake
Federfive
Federyears
Federhesaid
Federmansaid
Federmanette
Federsucette
Federmashima
Federsmachina
Federstashima
Federmacaffery
Federmadaily
Federmatology
Federmanology
Federmanânc
TheFederToEatYou
Federexpress
Federmanpress
Federmalicious?
Federmanever
Federromantic
Federmaarphy
Federmaanothingstory
Federmaallarmé
Federmaanure
Federmaasurf
Federmaacritique
Federmavorbeste
Federmapoveste
Federomanian
Federmantuform
Federmaswing
Federmanmiss
Federaining
Federveteran
Federmanterpret
Federmonthedouble
Federmanitorleaveit
Federmanoodle
Federmosaicfederman
Federmoimoi
FedermerikaFedamerica
Fedhillaria
Fedallergía
Federfonda
Federmane
Federinnerman
Federouter
Federmaltiplicity
Federnaacomplicity
Federmatural
Federmontreal
Federmundo
Federration
Feduration
Federbeckerette
Federmasturbation
Federmanofwords
Federmanofworlds
Federmannish
Federmaninspanish
Federfrench
Federungaric
Federgermanic
Federmanaddict
Federmalingual
Federmerengue
Federmatwostep
Federmawaltz
Federmachacha
Federmaswinga
Federmaninone
Federmaparker
Federaphona
Federmajazz
Federmatrench
Federmanicure
Federmansays
Federmaniquote
Federmawhen
Federmaone
Federmatakes
Federmaones
Federmadesires Federmafor
Federmaones
Federmaneeds
Federmaor
Federmawhen
Federmaone
Federmatakes
Federmaones
Federmaneeds
Federmafor
Federmaones
Federmadesires
Federmaeros
Federmavanishes

Raymond Federman (1928-2009)
For the moment I am still speechless and hungover with a sense of shock. I hope to write something of my memories of Raymond in the next few days as my fog clears up. I brought out his books, spread them on my writing table this morning. I've been shoving the emotions under a rock since I heard the news. It's time for me to face the music, and face that he really has changed tense. It's difficult to explain what this man meant to me. It's difficult to face the fact he is gone. I promise to post something of my tuna sandwiches with Raymond, something of my meetings with him in Chicago and San Diego. See you in the dreamworld, Raymond. See you on the written page. DM

I have re-posted the Interview I did with Raymond in 2005 for those of you who are curious: FEDERMAN INNER-VIEW

Clawfoot House Benefit Show!
Please come. Clawfoot House is a non-profit venue, a home, a place where local artists can gather and share ideas, host of the Clawfoot Salon, and the experimental series which brings artists to Lincoln, Nebraska who would otherwise have blown straight through. Thanks, Clawfoot House for putting Nebraska on the map.

This Saturday and Sunday is a benefit show featuring a new play written by Robert Stewart (The Living Room) just for our space and music by 9 different bands for our most eclectic lineup ever. Among these rumoured also to play Sunday night is Howlooseanation, with possible creepy remote phone call-in performances from members Mark Baldridge and James Barnes A.K.A Jaroba. More info on Clawfoot House is available at www.clawfoothouse.com.

Here's a fun writing exercise the artist Danny Smith turned me on to. He suggested taking the first and last entry on a page from Webster's dictionary and combine the meanings to create a new word -- he calls the exercise "Webster's Synthesized." He was reminded of this when I sent him a note about a word from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- now there's a book with thousands of invented words informed by Joyce's twelve or more spoken languages. Anyway, Danny Smith has come up with some royal ones. Instead of Webster's I used my Chamber's dictionary. Here are some of the ones I came up with this morning on the typewriter. At the end of the list are some unfinished terms which you, dear reader(s) I hope may fill in.


Coccid Cockatrice
a fabulous serpent with the wings of a bird and the head of a cock and a dragon's tail sprung from an infection that results from inhalation of the spores of the fungus coccidioides immitis, often affecting felines or small children, from whose nostrils this creature usually springs.

Hyman Hysteron Proteron
a very rare condition in woman where menopause precedes virginity.

Experimental Exsanguination
one of the various untested methods of Dr. Von Von Leibendorf, a Cuban vampire famous for draining the blood of his subjects using complex Goldberg style machinery (ex. a chicken pecks an egg which breaks the yoke which fills a thimble which drops into a water tank depressing a lever which releases piranhas that devour a mouse whose weight releases a seesaw with a hypodermic needle on the end which pricks the subject.)

Schlemiel Stone
a legendary stone in the northern reaches of Gallic country with a sword stuck inside of it. He who is able to extract the sword would gain extremely clumsy awful powers to lose any battle fought for centuries.

Lout Lozenge
a diamond-shaped parallelogram or rhombus, sweet, often medicated for the purpose of enticing then sedating an ill-mannered or aggressive man or youthful bumpkin.

Here are the ones I didn't write definitions for:

Reindeer Relapse

ICBM Ichthyic

Hack Haggis

Glucose Gnosis

Limbeck Limonite

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