giacomo

giacomo made a joke on twitter asking that i blog about him so i'm going to blog about him. this is a post about giacomo. i was thinking about what i would say and i realize that a lot of people online don't know anything about other people online so it might be interesting if i just list off stuff i know about giacomo so other people can know these things too.

 

(this is giacomo)

giacomo, in his personal, irl world in the united kingdom, goes by "jack". i, and almost everyone who only know him through the internet, call him "giacomo" or "giac". cavin pronounces "giacomo" like "gee-ah-co-mo" which i think is funny.

giacomo has a sister and a brother. his sister is younger than him by something like 15 years. his brother is only two or three years younger than him. his brother, i think, is some kind of professional, "good", non-artist person, or something. [update] his brother is also a photographer, so he is not a non-artist. giacomo recommend describing his brother as "moral." neither of us are entirely sure what that conveys, but it feels appropriate

giacomo's father lives in italy and giacomo's mother lives in the UK.

giacomo was in a metlacore band called Chronographs. they made a music video - giacomo is the one with a beard doing the cool fingertappies on the guitar

we 'met' over the internet because of music. here is an excerpt from the afterword in my forthcoming book of blurbs about his book of chainsaw poems:

[W]hile we’re both writers, we actually found each other through music. I became obsessed with Giacomo’s musical accompaniment to Sam Pink’s despairing recitation of Your Glass Head Against the Brick Parade of Now Whats, which was released as a collaborative album between the two in 2017. Giacomo then found my music, a short EP titled Three Trucks, which was also posted online in 2017. We thus started talking and soon found in each other similar passions – for music, obviously, but also for weird internet poetry, for minimalist design, and for our special type of humor.

 giacomo is very hairy. i think he's hairier than cavin. both are hairier than i am.

giacomo has recommended me several books that i didn't like, and he has recommended me several books that i did like. he owns more poetry books than i do, and based on a quick survey, he owns more books by women than i do, which i feel bad about, and i am working on closing that gap. re: books i didn't like, many other people i the indie lit scene have praised the same books or recommended them to me, so i don't think it's a giacomo thing, but a me thing.

giacomo is doing a phd in maths. 'maths' is how british people refer to 'math'. to them, maths is more like 'sports', whereas to us, math is more like 'music.' i think this is a very poetic observation that is also very wrong.

we talk every day over twitter DM. i'm 98% confident we talk every single day.

i am giacomo's friend on linkedin dot com

i don't think giacomo has a facebook

giacomo and i have collaborated on, and continue to collaborate on, many projects, writing-based and otherwise. i think we're very similar in certain ways about coming up with and trying to execute ideas and 'schemes,' except he's more technically and artistically savvy than i am. for example, shortly before he curated neutral spaces to host writing cvs for indie writers, i had made the same kind of page for sam pink, hosted on tumblr, and considered making more for other people. i think this is one of many examples where we basically thought of the same idea independently, only now we talk about the ideas as they come up.

giacomo's apartment has a lot of plants in it, and his bookshelves look really cool.

giacomo loves his partner holly very much. i think she's the one who does all the plants.

i realize now that i know a lot of other stuff about giacomo but this is probably enough for a blog post about him. i don't want to say anything too personal or weird at this time. i am waiting for him to confirm that he is ok with the content of this post.

oh, giacomo is also really into cryptography, which i think is cool and something i don't have the brain or patience for. i admire his interest in, and dedication to, cryptography. i think there is a 50% chance that giacomo will abandon the 'independent internet writing scene' in favor of the 'hobbyist internet cryptography scene' in the next 5 years.

[update] giacomo has approved of this post and suggest an edit about his brother, which i included as an [update]. not sure if this [update] thing makes sense but maybe it does.

[update] giacomo has posted a response to this blog post on the neutral spaces blog