writing
All writing by Greg Korn and all music/sound design by Chris Matule.
contact: greg AT goodluckbadluck DOT net
• how to make pickles (with historical concordance)
A recipe/how-to piece that’s sort of like Alton Brown if he did history instead of science and didn’t really know how to cook.
• local currencies and the wörgl experiment
A short essay on local currency.
• it’s the way i disappeared above and below (pilot episode)
A multimedia fiction project about an island called San Sebastian. The story unfolds through radioplays broadcast from a pirate station in one of San Sebastian’s shantytowns, and it features young love, political kidnappings, cults, comas, new-indigenous psychedelia, Julian Jaynes, alternative currency models, space-junk, extremist body-modification, and more! With artwork and photography by characters in the story, music by musicians in the story, and assorted essays/historical fiction/reportage about the island, its history, and its inhabitants written by all sorts of imaginary people, it’s the way i disappeared above and below is narrative by way of actual artifact. Hmmm. Does that make any sense? If not, just click the link above, or listen to this clip:
A short audio/textual piece built from poorly transcribed/heavily edited snippets of late-night new-age talk radio in Los Angeles.
Written in the style of Subcommandante Marcos and excerpted from it’s the way i disappeared above and below.
• the more important adapter of the world
Some very weird language that’s thematically informed by religion and aesthetically inspired by Ben Marcus and William S. Burroughs. …What?
• house back home (The GW Review)
An old ghost story of mine that was written around 2002 and published in the Spring 2003 issue of The GW Review (which is really by way of saying that i was like 22 when i wrote the thing, so forgive me for the cringe-y parts).
Unfortunately, and despite my best efforts to recover them, I’ve lost all the images that accompanied the original text (to the overall function of which they were pretty central). Most of them were Photoshopped sections of blurry and overlapping text that floated ominously behind the sedate and stately Garamond. Seeing as they were meant to represent the presence of ghosts both personal and linguistic, it’s sort of fun that these same now-missing images were printed almost too light to see in the published Review version, anyway; point being that whenever I try to show them to anybody in whatever small way the ghost words just keep disappearing. So maybe it’s just as it should be, and in the spirit of the story it’s probably ultimately fitting. The images are gone now, and they weren’t supposed to be there in the first place.
• 1-sheet and episode breakdown for The Strait Story (TV pitch)
Some copywriting for the development of a TV series.
• crete
A flowery thing about Greece from 2003 or so.
