Heartworm Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles, USA. It specializes in limited editions of books by music-related artists.
Founded in 2003 by the musician Wesley Eisold, Heartworm began with zines and cassettes, before transitioning to Poetry collections, Novels and fine-artbook editions. Eisold states that he was influenced by other publishers such as Grove Press, New Directions Publishing, Hanuman and 2.13.61.
Heartworm Press also releases musical output by related artsist such as Eisold's own Cold Cave.
Heartworm Press has given cataloged different artistic mediums as releases. Heartworm #20 was a video recorded performance that was placed on YouTube, and featured readings from Eric Paul and Wesley Eisold that was shown behind the two authors as they read poetry at Rutgers University in 2008. . Heartworm #37 was a one-off live event comprising spoken-word and musical performances at Santos Party House in New York City on August 8, 2009 and featured Cold Cave, Boyd Rice, Thee Majesty/ Genesis P-Orridge, Jamie Stewart, Eric Paul, Prurient,Chris Leo, , Kid Congo Powers, and Howie Pyro.
In February 2013 Genesis P-Orridge announced that Heartworm Press would be publishing “Collected Lyrics and Poems of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Volume One 1961 to 1971."
In March 2013 Heartworm Press announced the release of two Cold Cave singles, "God Made the World" and "Black Boots". In April of 2013 Pitchfork Media called the release "God Made The World" a "Best New Music" track.
Heartworm Press authors
* Genesis P-Orridge
* Boyd Rice
* Wesley Eisold
* Eric Paul
* Max G. Morton
* Chris Leo
*
Deathbeds
In 2007, Wesley Eisold released a "176 page perfect-bound paper back collection of Eisold's work from 1999-2007" which was limited to 1,000 copies. In 2012, to celebrate the five year anniversary of the company's first "perfect-bound release, Deathbeds," the company re-released a thousand copies.
Pressings to Date
Heartworm #00 - Go On Get Left At An Altar by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #0 - A Seatbelt Between the Breasts by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #01 - XO Skeletons - Live from Planet Death
Heartworm #02 - Spacehorse - Ghosts of a Civil Living
Heartworm #03 - Dear Friends, Lovers, Suckers by Wesley Eisold & Charles Rowland
Heartworm #04 - Depressed Skull by Wesely Eisold
Heartworm #05 - Lascivious Facts by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #06 - Ye Olde Maids
Heartworm #07 - Sex, Meaningless by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #08 - Three After Midnight by Anthony Smyrski
Heartworm #09 - Nisennenmondai
Heartworm #10 - hardcore zine by Weseley Eisold
Heartworm #11 - Deathbeds by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #12 - Where There Are Two There Are Three by J.W. Buckley
Heartworm #13 - Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #14 - Indestructible Wolves Poster
Heartworm #15 - You Will Never Look This Good Again, You Will Never Be This Young Again by Max G. Morton & Mike Martinez
Heartworm #16 - I Offered Myself As The Sea by Eric Paul
Heartworm #17 - Stuck On The Map by Dan Murphy f name"The Heartworm"></ref>
Heartworm #18 - Integrity In The Workplace by William Pym
Heartworm #19 - Suicidal Tennants by William Boone
Heartworm #20 - Performance 3/26/08 by Eric Paul and Wesley Eisold </ref>
Heartworm #21 - Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes by Jonathan Shaw
Heartworm #22 - Scarecrow by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #23 - 23 by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #24 - WOUND by Mark McCoy
Heartworm #25 - ROSE PILLAR by Prurient
Heartworm #26 - Relaxing Time is Over by T.A.S.K.
Heartworm #27 - Feathers like Leather by Chris Leo
Heartworm #28 - Love in the Monkey Cage by Eric Paul
Heartworm #29 - ???
Heartworm #30 - Coma Potion by Cold Cave
Heartworm #31 - Juanita and Juan's
Heartworm #32 - Looking for the Magic by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #33 - NO by Boyd Rice
Heartworm #34 - Cold Cave - Electronic Dreams CS
Heartworm #35 - Love Comes Close by Cold Cave
Heartworm #36 - Reading by Max G Morton and Boyd Rice
Heartworm #37 - An Evening with: NON, PRURIENT, COLD CAVE, Genesis P-Orridge, Jonathan Shaw, Jamie Steward, Eric Paul, Chris Leo, Kid Congo Powers
Heartworm #38 - Love Songs To The Dead by Jonathan Shaw
Heartworm #39 - The History of Love by Max G. Morton & A. De Beneditti
Heartworm #40 - After Dark / Dreaming is Free by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #41 - Night Flights / Embers by Max G. Morton and Sammy Winston
Heartworm #42 - Initiation by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #43 - Ye Old Maids - God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us
Heartworm #44 - Mentholated Suburbia by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #45 - Carousel of Progress/Knights in Satan's Service by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #46 - New Wave Hookers by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #47 - Cloud Removal by Matthew Adis
Heartworm #50 - Bluem by Robert Lotzko
Heartworm #51 - This Life’s Behind Glass by Nikolay Saveliev
Heartworm #54 - A Little Death to Laugh 7″ by Cold Cave
Heartworm #55 - Black Boots 7″ by Cold Cave
Heartworm #56 - Oceans With No End(Digital) by Cold Cave
Heartworm #57 - God Made The World 7″ by Cold Cave
Founded in 2003 by the musician Wesley Eisold, Heartworm began with zines and cassettes, before transitioning to Poetry collections, Novels and fine-artbook editions. Eisold states that he was influenced by other publishers such as Grove Press, New Directions Publishing, Hanuman and 2.13.61.
Heartworm Press also releases musical output by related artsist such as Eisold's own Cold Cave.
Heartworm Press has given cataloged different artistic mediums as releases. Heartworm #20 was a video recorded performance that was placed on YouTube, and featured readings from Eric Paul and Wesley Eisold that was shown behind the two authors as they read poetry at Rutgers University in 2008. . Heartworm #37 was a one-off live event comprising spoken-word and musical performances at Santos Party House in New York City on August 8, 2009 and featured Cold Cave, Boyd Rice, Thee Majesty/ Genesis P-Orridge, Jamie Stewart, Eric Paul, Prurient,Chris Leo, , Kid Congo Powers, and Howie Pyro.
In February 2013 Genesis P-Orridge announced that Heartworm Press would be publishing “Collected Lyrics and Poems of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Volume One 1961 to 1971."
In March 2013 Heartworm Press announced the release of two Cold Cave singles, "God Made the World" and "Black Boots". In April of 2013 Pitchfork Media called the release "God Made The World" a "Best New Music" track.
Heartworm Press authors
* Genesis P-Orridge
* Boyd Rice
* Wesley Eisold
* Eric Paul
* Max G. Morton
* Chris Leo
*
Deathbeds
In 2007, Wesley Eisold released a "176 page perfect-bound paper back collection of Eisold's work from 1999-2007" which was limited to 1,000 copies. In 2012, to celebrate the five year anniversary of the company's first "perfect-bound release, Deathbeds," the company re-released a thousand copies.
Pressings to Date
Heartworm #00 - Go On Get Left At An Altar by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #0 - A Seatbelt Between the Breasts by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #01 - XO Skeletons - Live from Planet Death
Heartworm #02 - Spacehorse - Ghosts of a Civil Living
Heartworm #03 - Dear Friends, Lovers, Suckers by Wesley Eisold & Charles Rowland
Heartworm #04 - Depressed Skull by Wesely Eisold
Heartworm #05 - Lascivious Facts by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #06 - Ye Olde Maids
Heartworm #07 - Sex, Meaningless by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #08 - Three After Midnight by Anthony Smyrski
Heartworm #09 - Nisennenmondai
Heartworm #10 - hardcore zine by Weseley Eisold
Heartworm #11 - Deathbeds by Wesley Eisold
Heartworm #12 - Where There Are Two There Are Three by J.W. Buckley
Heartworm #13 - Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #14 - Indestructible Wolves Poster
Heartworm #15 - You Will Never Look This Good Again, You Will Never Be This Young Again by Max G. Morton & Mike Martinez
Heartworm #16 - I Offered Myself As The Sea by Eric Paul
Heartworm #17 - Stuck On The Map by Dan Murphy f name"The Heartworm"></ref>
Heartworm #18 - Integrity In The Workplace by William Pym
Heartworm #19 - Suicidal Tennants by William Boone
Heartworm #20 - Performance 3/26/08 by Eric Paul and Wesley Eisold </ref>
Heartworm #21 - Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes by Jonathan Shaw
Heartworm #22 - Scarecrow by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #23 - 23 by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #24 - WOUND by Mark McCoy
Heartworm #25 - ROSE PILLAR by Prurient
Heartworm #26 - Relaxing Time is Over by T.A.S.K.
Heartworm #27 - Feathers like Leather by Chris Leo
Heartworm #28 - Love in the Monkey Cage by Eric Paul
Heartworm #29 - ???
Heartworm #30 - Coma Potion by Cold Cave
Heartworm #31 - Juanita and Juan's
Heartworm #32 - Looking for the Magic by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #33 - NO by Boyd Rice
Heartworm #34 - Cold Cave - Electronic Dreams CS
Heartworm #35 - Love Comes Close by Cold Cave
Heartworm #36 - Reading by Max G Morton and Boyd Rice
Heartworm #37 - An Evening with: NON, PRURIENT, COLD CAVE, Genesis P-Orridge, Jonathan Shaw, Jamie Steward, Eric Paul, Chris Leo, Kid Congo Powers
Heartworm #38 - Love Songs To The Dead by Jonathan Shaw
Heartworm #39 - The History of Love by Max G. Morton & A. De Beneditti
Heartworm #40 - After Dark / Dreaming is Free by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #41 - Night Flights / Embers by Max G. Morton and Sammy Winston
Heartworm #42 - Initiation by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #43 - Ye Old Maids - God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us
Heartworm #44 - Mentholated Suburbia by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #45 - Carousel of Progress/Knights in Satan's Service by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #46 - New Wave Hookers by Max G. Morton
Heartworm #47 - Cloud Removal by Matthew Adis
Heartworm #50 - Bluem by Robert Lotzko
Heartworm #51 - This Life’s Behind Glass by Nikolay Saveliev
Heartworm #54 - A Little Death to Laugh 7″ by Cold Cave
Heartworm #55 - Black Boots 7″ by Cold Cave
Heartworm #56 - Oceans With No End(Digital) by Cold Cave
Heartworm #57 - God Made The World 7″ by Cold Cave
George Komsky is an American operatic pop artist. He has toured with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, was lead soloist for Riverdance, and the Twelve Irish Tenors, and a semi-finalist on . He is a protégé of American vocal coach Seth Riggs.
Early life
Komsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to San Francisco at the age of three. He graduated UCLA with a BA in Political Science.
Career
Komsky was lead soloist for the Irish theatrical show Riverdance in 2004 and for the Twelve Irish Tenors in 2007.
He was invited to contribute to San Francisco Bay Area 9/11 10th anniversary memorial services that year. In December, 2011 he performed at the California Governor's Ball for Jerry Brown.
In 2012, he began touring with Chris Botti with engagements at the San Francisco Symphony and the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.
On December 16, 2012 he sang the US national anthem for the New England Patriots game on NBC Sunday Night Football.
Charity
Komsky has performed in aid of various charities including the Wheelchair Foundation, Jewish Federation, Autism Society of America, Face Forward, and Police and Fire: The Fallen Heroes.
Early life
Komsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to San Francisco at the age of three. He graduated UCLA with a BA in Political Science.
Career
Komsky was lead soloist for the Irish theatrical show Riverdance in 2004 and for the Twelve Irish Tenors in 2007.
He was invited to contribute to San Francisco Bay Area 9/11 10th anniversary memorial services that year. In December, 2011 he performed at the California Governor's Ball for Jerry Brown.
In 2012, he began touring with Chris Botti with engagements at the San Francisco Symphony and the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.
On December 16, 2012 he sang the US national anthem for the New England Patriots game on NBC Sunday Night Football.
Charity
Komsky has performed in aid of various charities including the Wheelchair Foundation, Jewish Federation, Autism Society of America, Face Forward, and Police and Fire: The Fallen Heroes.
Toxic Ravine (full title Orlando Poon's Toxic Ravine Clean-Up and Rescue Service) is a small action computer game created by Glenn Wichman. Version 1.1 was released in 1989 as shareware for the Macintosh. Version 2.0, adding color, came out the following year, in a shareware version and also a boxed version marketed by Pointware, Inc. The game is now abandonware, and neither version of it will run under Mac OS X.
Objective
The player controls a blimp from which he needs to drop bombs on toxic waste to get rid of it. Different types of debris react differently to being bombed. Patience is the key to get the highest score and to survive because one must not drop bombs too fast since that will likely kill the PANG clones that must be rescued (using a magnet-shaped robot that is deployed from the blimp). Also, one must not drop bombs on the floor, else toxic wraiths will escape from the canyon floor and damage your blimp.
After the toxic waste is cleaned up, the player moves on to the second and last challenge, which is to rescue more little guys escaping from the caves at the right and left of the screen. The player drops rocks and elevators to create a way for them to reach the top and also drops apples to feed them so that they have enough energy to continue their journey.
Objective
The player controls a blimp from which he needs to drop bombs on toxic waste to get rid of it. Different types of debris react differently to being bombed. Patience is the key to get the highest score and to survive because one must not drop bombs too fast since that will likely kill the PANG clones that must be rescued (using a magnet-shaped robot that is deployed from the blimp). Also, one must not drop bombs on the floor, else toxic wraiths will escape from the canyon floor and damage your blimp.
After the toxic waste is cleaned up, the player moves on to the second and last challenge, which is to rescue more little guys escaping from the caves at the right and left of the screen. The player drops rocks and elevators to create a way for them to reach the top and also drops apples to feed them so that they have enough energy to continue their journey.
Adrianus Johannes Lemmens (Hatert, 24 March 1904 - Hengelo, 27 June 1990) was a Dutch Chief engineer with the K.P.M. Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (Royal Merchant Navy) and on 24 October 1953 decorated with the Dutch War Commemorative Cross or War Cross (Oorlogsherinneringkruis met gespen) with the clasp for general War service and the clasp for special War duties for his bravery during the Battle of the Java Sea (1941-1942).
Biography
Family
Lemmens was born as son of Johannes Gerardus Lemmens and Catharina Maria Manders. Married first in Surabaya on 6 February 1929 (divorced Batavia Dutch East Indies on 17 September 1929) to Dolly Gerarda Bogaardt, he later married in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on 7 November 1929 Gertruda Catharina Geutjes. They returned shortly thereafter to Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia. Three children were born from the second marriage.
Career
Lemmens received his exam of second engineer in April 1932. In this rank he served from 5 June 1940 until 2 January 1942 on board of the Van Overstraten, Van Cloon and the Janssens. At the end of 1941 he was sailing officially as 2nd Engineer but replaced the Chief Engineer on the K.P.M. ship Janssens from Surabaya to Singapore with torpedo's for the Dutch submarines, which together with the British and Australian ships was involved in protecting Singapore from the threat of bombardment by the Japanese planes. During that time the Dutch Navy due to their shortage in their own ships rented merchant navy ships of which the Janssens was one. Lemmens was on board of the Janssens from 5 June 1940 till 2 January 1942 and then on the S.S Liran until 1 March 1942. The S.S. Liran had originally been a Hungarian owned ship ( when it was named s.s. Nuygat) but was in 1941 confiscated by the Dutch Government.
On board of the Janssens there were, further to the crew, also a survivor of a Dutch submarine sunk in the Gulf of Siam and survivors of the British torpedo ships, the flagship Prince of Wales and the Repulse. Afterwards the crew and the survivors safely returned to Surabaya. Lemmens received in 1953 for his service on board of the Janssens the Dutch War Commemorative Cross with two clasps. On 7th December 1942 , the same day as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Netherlands declared war to Japan and this marks the start of the Dutch East Indies campaign. In February 1942 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the islands of Sumatra and Java which were a part of the Dutch East Indies. They first rounded up all the man in the East of Java, where Lemmens and his family lived, to transport them to (labour or POW) camps or many were thrown in Surabaya in pigbaskets into the sea. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies Lemmens was first interred in Camp Kesilir in East Java as the family lived in Malang, East Java. Lemmens was then taken by train to the prison BanyuBiru on Central Java, followed by train and transport by ship to Changi Prison near Singapore and a camp on Devil's island (Pulu Damer) near Singapore. At Devil's Island near Singapore prisoners were forced to dig a dock for the Japanese. Prisoners sabotaged this project by putting sugar into the cement which made it brittle. Lemmens survived the war and was freed by a Gurkha regiment in August 1945 after the capitulation by Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
In January 1946 Lemmens was reunited with his wife and children, all of whom had survived imprisonment in the prison Banjoe Biroe (BanyuBiru) in Mid Java and were also freed by a Gurkha regiment. Due to the fact that the war with Japan finished on 15 August 1945 and the Indonesians started a civil war (War of Independence) two days later on 17 August 1945 the family remained for security reasons in the prison Banjoe Biroe until December 1945. At this time they were taken by a convoy of a Gurkha regiment under the protection of accompanying British planes to the nearest harbour town of Semarang in Mid Java. Eventually the family was taken by the British on which Prince Philip served as a Naval officer from Semarang to Singapore. It was in the streets of Singapore that the reunion between Lemmens and his family took place, when by chance he asked for directions from a random person who turned out to be, in fact, his eldest son.
Decoration
Lemmens was decorated on 24 October 1953 with The War Commemorative Cross or War Cross (Oorlogsherinneringkruis met gespen) with the clasp for general War service and the clasp for special War duties for his bravery during the Battle of the Java Sea in 1941 and 1942.
Gallery
Biography
Family
Lemmens was born as son of Johannes Gerardus Lemmens and Catharina Maria Manders. Married first in Surabaya on 6 February 1929 (divorced Batavia Dutch East Indies on 17 September 1929) to Dolly Gerarda Bogaardt, he later married in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on 7 November 1929 Gertruda Catharina Geutjes. They returned shortly thereafter to Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia. Three children were born from the second marriage.
Career
Lemmens received his exam of second engineer in April 1932. In this rank he served from 5 June 1940 until 2 January 1942 on board of the Van Overstraten, Van Cloon and the Janssens. At the end of 1941 he was sailing officially as 2nd Engineer but replaced the Chief Engineer on the K.P.M. ship Janssens from Surabaya to Singapore with torpedo's for the Dutch submarines, which together with the British and Australian ships was involved in protecting Singapore from the threat of bombardment by the Japanese planes. During that time the Dutch Navy due to their shortage in their own ships rented merchant navy ships of which the Janssens was one. Lemmens was on board of the Janssens from 5 June 1940 till 2 January 1942 and then on the S.S Liran until 1 March 1942. The S.S. Liran had originally been a Hungarian owned ship ( when it was named s.s. Nuygat) but was in 1941 confiscated by the Dutch Government.
On board of the Janssens there were, further to the crew, also a survivor of a Dutch submarine sunk in the Gulf of Siam and survivors of the British torpedo ships, the flagship Prince of Wales and the Repulse. Afterwards the crew and the survivors safely returned to Surabaya. Lemmens received in 1953 for his service on board of the Janssens the Dutch War Commemorative Cross with two clasps. On 7th December 1942 , the same day as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Netherlands declared war to Japan and this marks the start of the Dutch East Indies campaign. In February 1942 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the islands of Sumatra and Java which were a part of the Dutch East Indies. They first rounded up all the man in the East of Java, where Lemmens and his family lived, to transport them to (labour or POW) camps or many were thrown in Surabaya in pigbaskets into the sea. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies Lemmens was first interred in Camp Kesilir in East Java as the family lived in Malang, East Java. Lemmens was then taken by train to the prison BanyuBiru on Central Java, followed by train and transport by ship to Changi Prison near Singapore and a camp on Devil's island (Pulu Damer) near Singapore. At Devil's Island near Singapore prisoners were forced to dig a dock for the Japanese. Prisoners sabotaged this project by putting sugar into the cement which made it brittle. Lemmens survived the war and was freed by a Gurkha regiment in August 1945 after the capitulation by Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
In January 1946 Lemmens was reunited with his wife and children, all of whom had survived imprisonment in the prison Banjoe Biroe (BanyuBiru) in Mid Java and were also freed by a Gurkha regiment. Due to the fact that the war with Japan finished on 15 August 1945 and the Indonesians started a civil war (War of Independence) two days later on 17 August 1945 the family remained for security reasons in the prison Banjoe Biroe until December 1945. At this time they were taken by a convoy of a Gurkha regiment under the protection of accompanying British planes to the nearest harbour town of Semarang in Mid Java. Eventually the family was taken by the British on which Prince Philip served as a Naval officer from Semarang to Singapore. It was in the streets of Singapore that the reunion between Lemmens and his family took place, when by chance he asked for directions from a random person who turned out to be, in fact, his eldest son.
Decoration
Lemmens was decorated on 24 October 1953 with The War Commemorative Cross or War Cross (Oorlogsherinneringkruis met gespen) with the clasp for general War service and the clasp for special War duties for his bravery during the Battle of the Java Sea in 1941 and 1942.
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