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Hard Rock | With Music

36 tracks | 126 minutes

Released Apr 2007
on Stovepiper Books Media

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ALARM by Portland author/recording artist Mike Daily is a 212-page lyrical novel (and accompanying double CD) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.

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[ABOUT ALARM]

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"ALARM is a fantastically real account of life as we know it--and especially succeeds at uncovering the humor and magic of our most normal days working, loving, and living."

--CRAIG FINN, lyricist and guitarist, The Hold Steady

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"Projective, post-jazz, post-rock prose. Freedom only true bloggers have mastered and old experimental fogies can barely dream of. What this means is that literature, like life, should be enjoyed and not taken seriously."

--YURIY TARNAWSKY, author of Meningitis, Three Blondes & Death, and Like Blood in Water

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"Mike Daily has been compiling a body of music, visuals, and words that do for California subculture what Dickens might have done for London had he been into 99-cent stores and had a band. Now comes ALARM.

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Authentic as Harvey Pekar's graphic novels, as energetic and raw as any new indie movement, ALARM is a novel in the form of a rock song or a rock song in the form of a novel that mines the humor in mainstream culture as well as the humor in underground culture--along with their anthrax concerns, adverting pitches, boy-girl problems, and all the rest of the mashup."

--STEVE TOMASULA, author of VAS: AN OPERA IN FLATLAND, and The Book of Portraiture

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ALARM carries on the humorously visual narratives of fictional character Mick O'Grady, introduced in Daily's first published novel, Valley (Bend Press, 1998). Of that novel, RAY GUN MAGAZINE wrote, "Mike Daily packs so many stylish smash cuts into Valley, MTV dulls by comparison."

In ALARM, the humorously visual narrative engages another dimension. The novel includes two full-length CDs: one studio, the other a compilation of live performances featuring Mike Daily's spoken words excerpted from the book and performed with his band, O'GRADY.

ALARM finds O'Grady "settling into unsettlement" in the weeks after the hit on the World Trade Center. He's jobless, watching the news, shaky in his relationship, cautious with friends, curious with strangers. He's lost. But as the story progresses, his movements become more purposeful. He needs to eat. He gets a job. He gets two jobs.

ALARM is a stripped-down novel (and accompanying audio artifact) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery of hope in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.

[ABOUT MIKE DAILY]

Mike Daily is a novelist, recording artist, and blogmaster who frequently performs his work in Portland, Oregon, as vocalist for the experimental fiction rock band, O'GRADY. He contributed a series of footnotes for Kevin Sampsell's 2002 memoir, A Common Pornography, and performed the footnotes as the author read at bookstores and on KBOO 90.7 Radio. Daily calls himself "the world's most fastidious collector of Kevin Sampselliana."

[ABOUT O'GRADY]

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"O'GRADY is like a seizure--of music, of language. Mike Daily has created his own kind of conniption fit lit-rock, in which everything that occurs, even the smallest detail, takes on the texture of rapturous epiphany. It's nothing less than a thrill to watch."

--GARETT STRICKLAND, host of Portland's Phase One: Words + Music series

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O'GRADY is a mix of freestyle storytelling and improvisational music. In 2006, O'GRADY performed at the FC2 Writer's Edge event at Ash Street, the Chiasmus Press publication party for Northwest Edge III at Disjecta Gallery, and as opening act for Kill Rock Stars artists Wooden Wand at Someday Lounge.

ALARM features: Jason Begin, A.L. Hungate, jDUB, Matt McCullough, J. Morales, David Moscovich, Francis O'Plague, Mia Payne (vocals), Chutz Ponderosa, Kevin Sampsell (reading), Luke Strahota, Emilie Strange (vocals), Sub-Sic.

All 36 tracks mastered by Antreo Pukay, Tell Tale Recording.

The current incarnation of O'GRADY is jDUB/drums, Adam Levi Hungate/guitar, Chutz Ponderosa/bass, Daily/fiction, Nora Robertson as "Jocelynn".

[RECENT PORTLAND APPEARANCES]

Mike Daily performed with O'GRADY at Someday Lounge on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, for Phase One: Words + Music--along with Pecos B, Jackie-O Motherfucker, others. The show was broadcast live via Someday Lounge's "Virtual Stage" (and will be archived soon) on www.somedaylounge.com.

Daily read from ALARM at Powell's City of Books (Burnside location) in Portland on Monday, June 25, 2007, at 7:30pm. Local hip hop artist Sticks Downey rapped dialogue bits from ALARM and contributed beats.

[UPCOMING PORTLAND APPEARANCES]

First Thursday Aftermath (monthly event held on the third floor of an old hotel downtown at 14 NW 3rd Ave.) is featuring Mike Daily at 10pm on July 5, 2007.

Ash Street Saloon has booked O'GRADY to open for San Diego band Tygers of Wrath and Slaphog on Thursday, July 26, 2007.

Daily will be performing with O'GRADY at the FC2 Writer's Edge student reading on Saturday, July 28, 2007, at Someday.

[UPCOMING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA APPEARANCES]

Mike Daily is doing a one-man-show and book signing at Chapman University in Orange, CA, on Monday, March 17, 2008. Daily/O'GRADY will be introduced by experimental novelist, poet, playwright, Holocaust survivor, and Samuel Beckett scholar, Raymond Federman.

On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, in Canoga Park, CA, Daily will be the featured reader at Cobalt Cafe's Open Mic Reading hosted by Rick Lupert.

More CA dates pending.

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