One
morning many many years ago, Knox stopped off at a saloon
on the way from the bus terminal to his job as a shipping
clerk for a printing company in San Francisco. He had
his usual quick couple coffee-and-brandies, while ... read
the true story of the origin of the novel Flapping on
this page far below.
Limited Edition of Flapping, with mini-disc including the lost songs from the original cd* recording Flight of the Atom Bee:
Flight of the Atom Bee (Original version)
The Blue Man Wept
World's Night
The Big Shimmer
*Flapping edition of Flight of the Atom Bee included. See below for track listings and downloads.
Only fifty copies will be sold at this special price of $49.95
Or buy the original edition of Flapping and cd for just $19.95
The Bulbous Worlds
Chervil Orbane, a youngish man
living alone in the San Francisco Bay area, has awakened
flapping. And knows it.
Two agencies--one extra-dimensional,
one a super-secret government entity - know it also.
And they want Chervil, for the furtherance of very different
agendas.
An allegorical novel, Flapping
hews to classic epic form (the call, the journey, the
dying, and the rebirth) in bite-size chapters, with diagrams,
charts, and graphs to assist the reader in grasping essential
concepts underlying Flapping -- Chervil Orbane's saga,
his moment of clarity, the great epiphany, the big ideas,
the good guys, the bad guys, the gratuitous sex, the
refreshing absence of name brand pop-culture icons, a
predictably cinematic happy ending, the ipso and the
facto, as it were, of nuevo-millennial metaphysical thought.
FLAPPING comes with its own cd
soundtrack, Flight of the Atombee, the legendary and
otherworldly confluence of thirty years of analog and
digital technologies, for the creation of pliant machine-made
and vector-based rhythms, charting the erotic, tensile
fields that bridge harmony, melody, and undiluted electronic
noise. Beautiful, timeless, haunting music composed by Knox
Bronson.
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Straight facts about Flapping
Myth:
Flapping
is a relatively new phenomenon.
Fact:
The fossil record
indicates that people have been flapping since the advent
of agriculture. Ancient texts abound with oblique references
to flapping. However, it is only recently that people have
begun flapping publicily and discussing it on the talkshow
circuit.
FLAPPING—a
novel—with its very own cd soundtrack"Flight
of the Atom Bee" Written by Knox Bronson
Illustrated by Roy Sablosky
Published by xONk zoetic structural art
Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 0-9724499-0-6
Publication date: December 18, 2002
Retail Price: no longer available
FLAPPING, Limited Editon Series One, 50 in series, signed and numbered: $49.95 US (includes cd) regular edtion. Includes mini-cd (and access code to download) original unedited "Flight of the Atom Bee" as well as the missing songs from the original cd: "The Big Shimmer," "The Blue Man Wept." and "World's Night."
Song
titles from Flight of the Atom Bee:
3 Seconds Before Maia Smiled (download mp3)
Wild Pink Yonder
Stay
Ubi Mel Ibi Apes (Where there is honey, there are bees)
Serenity Applicator
March of the Molecule Men
It took that much love to carry them that far
Flight of the Atom Bee
When We Were Machines
Boolean Nights
Sex Party
Fountain of You
The Quark and the Jaguar
No waiting for the first
Flapping boxed DVD set to get this kind of in-depth deep background
glimpse into the creative universe! The unvarnished truth about
the origin of the book that is taking the publishing world by storm,
in the sense that, if you subscribe to Chaos Theory, a butterfly
flapping its wings can cause a hurricane several hundred miles
away.
The Origin of Flapping
One morning many many years ago, Knox stopped off at a San
Francisco saloon as he walked from the bus terminal to the
printing company where he worked as a shipping clerk. He had
his usual quick couple coffee-and-brandies while reading Herb
Caen's column at the bar. He was astonished, angered (by jealousy),
and saddened (by the certainty that the universe held no such
break in store for his most-deserving self) to learn that a
local writer had gotten a $100K deal for the paperback rights
and movie option for a 68 page book about a DUCK. Sixty-eight
pages about a duck!
He had long been diligently researching—certain aspects
of which effort are better left for another time—the
phenomenon of Flapping and he knew that he could write a much better
68-page book—filled with the arcana and lore he had uncovered
through his travails. Hell, he had already sent out two loving
and subtly encoded missives to those nearest and dearest to
him, for their edification and, nay, their very protection: Straight
Facts About Flapping and Bulboscity
in Stasis—upon which he could build for that phat
100K bling bling ...
Knox smoked another Camel, contemplating the arc of the Story,
who might direct the movie (Lynch or Speilberg?), possible
color schemes for the cover, and how he would use the 100K
to finance a number of large-scale art projects he had been
planning for some time.
He hopped off the barstool, strode to work enjoying the bright
south-of-Market morning, as well as the caffeine-sugar-and-booze
rush, walked into the plant, sat down at his desk, threaded
some paper into the old manual typewriter normally used for
shipping labels, and wrote the introduction and the first three
chapters of Flapping as they exist today, word for word. It
would take another excruciating 11 years of sacrifice, self-discipline,
and delusion to finish the opus.
Sadly for the guy who wrote duck story, George Lucas's egomania
and alcoholism had by the mid-eighties advanced to a sufficient
degree so as to engender his making of the movie "Howard
the Duck," which bombed bombed BOMBED, shelving all duck
movies in Hollywood for at least a generation.
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