Bean Newton
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Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network
Found written on the back of the packaging that contained an AOL CD ROM, “Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network” represents late Bean Newton at his most cogent. Interpolating e.e. cummings rolling on ecstasy, Newton asks us to consider both existential dread and Epicurean pleasures, even if of a minor sort. –EW Wilder subject portway throughnot the Continue reading
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Brue in Bean
In the end, I suppose, Bean Newton needed this, something of a prayer, something of a lament, something of a love poem. Battered, sick, saddled with student loan debt, Newton found himself, at the end of 1998, before he finally lost or cut contact with friends, acquaintances, and the outside world, settled into a sort Continue reading
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Voices of Fragrance and Termination
By the summer of 1998, Bean Newton’s life was, by all accounts, in freefall: his relationship with Donna McKnifey was ending in a series of ever more bizarre pagan rituals, his job as a night-shift floor-tech at a major big box retailer had grown unfulfilling, and his ability to communicate in anything other than cryptic Continue reading
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