4/29/08

britney spears stickers 'have arrived'

*update* the stickers are back in stock, scroll down for prices; support independent literature *update*

these stickers are to promote my new poetry book, cognitive-behavioral therapy (may 15, melville house), if you live in nyc you will maybe see them on select major corporations, pieces of trash on the ground, most nyu facilities

BRITNEY SPEARS
i am also selling them, they are works of art, 4" x 2", copyright 2008 tao lin, 100 for $40 / 20 for $12 (paypal binky.tabby [at] gmail.com), free shipping worldwide and, as the artist, i will write my signature on the backs if that is what you want

i feel like something has 'finally' been done, there is a sense of 'completion,' i honestly feel like something has been achieved with this, some 'new' kind of meaninglessness or level of experience or way of inducing detachment from the physical world, or something, that has not been achieved in my fiction/poetry

20 Comments:

Blogger ryan manning said...

philip roth

8:59 AM  
Blogger Kendra Grant Malone said...

50 cents for a sticker? tao tao, you are being absurd. i think you need to sign all 100 stickers if you want to price them like that.

some times you get out of control tao tao. maniac.

12:18 PM  
Blogger cecilia said...

being towards.

12:30 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

people can resell these stickers for $1 or $2 easily

hi cecilia

hi ryan, i also 'designed' philip roth stickers but chose britney spears 'in the end'

1:18 PM  
Blogger Jack Morgan said...

"life sucks," even in quotes, in cliché.

2:38 PM  
Blogger grace said...

i can't afford the 100 stickers but i want one. what do i do?

4:14 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

borrow money or peel one off duane reade in about a week

4:19 PM  
Blogger Anthony Joseph said...

hmm great design and all but i am a bit curious how it is intended to promote your book. how will anyone know that this is supposed to represent 'tao lin' or 'cognative behavioral therapy?'

10:37 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

people will ask people

the information will be known

this is a very straightforward, direct, honest situation

the britney spears stickers exist to promote tao lin's new poetry book called cognitive-behavioral therapy

11:27 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i'm listening to stereolab and answering emails

my body is half off the bed, like diagonal, there is a kombucha on the floor

i feel like an asshole, like a lot, and i don't know if it's in a bad way, i'm grinning

3:23 AM  
Blogger ryan said...

thanks, asshole, the book in the mail in the newspaper wrapping on my counter. bitchcrotch. appreciated muchly. i'm grinning too

9:11 AM  
Blogger ryan said...

isn't philip roth marco's husband?

11:18 AM  
Blogger lissa said...

you're hilarious.

7:33 PM  
Blogger Glen Binger said...

absolutely genius.

7:48 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

Someone blogged about 'Britney Spears' stickers.

http://pubbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/05/field-notes-from-spring-redivider.html

2:35 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

steve, were you at the reading?

4:48 PM  
Blogger bruce said...

waiiiit. so that was the purpose of those britney spears stickers? i was standing outside of the ifc center a month ago, waiting to get into a screening of mister lonely and these kids were trying to pawn off these stickers! oh, tao lin, how you permeate my life in ways i never thought possible.

10:38 PM  
Blogger smartcrewusa said...

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4:27 PM  
Blogger smartcrewusa said...

smart crew works for vandal squad..

http://www.smartcrewusa.com

peace

4:28 PM  
Blogger octavius said...

hahaha mystery finally solved. strange how two separate things in the back of my head have finally converged.

11:10 PM  

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