https://www.mrjohnathanrice.com/home-wav daily 1.0 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ace69c7cef3722e322e6dc4/1534277456754-7P7RLMQ11TJT2AZJUKLL/_MGL5333.jpg Home https://www.mrjohnathanrice.com/artists daily 0.75 2018-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ace69c7cef3722e322e6dc4/1532991808171-JVPVNG7BSCQC6IFMFIF0/JR_Cover_1024x1024.jpg Books - Farewell My Dudes: 69 Dystopian Haikus Poetry, when encountered unexpectedly, can be unexpectedly loved. One might love it accidentally. -Mandy Kahn Using the ancient Japanese art form of haiku as his weapon of choice, author Johnathan Rice dissects and disrupts, blasting our collective feed with razor sharp socio-political satire and insightful culture commentary. From the chaotic state of American politics to the labyrinthine emotional landscape of a Tinder date-his debut book of poetry addresses all the vacuous ennui of the modern world. A singer-songwriter signed to Reprise Records in 2003, Rice has been recording and producing music ever since. In 2016 a shift in his life led him to move from a leafy home in Laurel Canyon to a rougher, weirder existence in Echo Park. Spending hours on Instagram, Rice eventually came to see it as a form of social hieroglyphics. This ignited a personal creative experiment, as Rice began populating his feed with words, all on an app usually reserved for images. The result was a series of what he dubbed his "dystopian haikus" and what became a cathartic, therapeutic method of using humor and poetry to comment on what he feels may be a disintegrating culture ... and his own complicity in it. Farewell, My Dudes is a specially curated selection of Rice's 2016-17 Instagram posts, each of them a three-line, structured syllabic wonder. Sly, witty, and unexpectedly poignant, Rice's dystopia is simultaneously insightful and hilarious. It is an assortment of keenly observed statements about life, music, art, social media, brunch-and of course love. Edited by Jessica Hundley & J.C. Gabel Introduction by Mandy Kahn Designed by Taylor Giali Softcover, 160 pages 4¾ × 7½ in. 12.065 × 19.05 cm. https://www.mrjohnathanrice.com/events daily 0.75 2019-05-09 https://www.mrjohnathanrice.com/label daily 0.75 2019-05-09 https://www.mrjohnathanrice.com/artist-page-wav daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58876eca2e69cfb6696d2453/1494268977035-C8YFYOL1FGHJGLM3TJVE/image-asset.png Artist Page SAMPLE ALBUM NAME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58876eca2e69cfb6696d2453/1494268952499-4LSVG0BXHTPDK7Y97Y3L/image-asset.png Artist Page SAMPLE ALBUM NAME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58876eca2e69cfb6696d2453/1496761510742-IZW8UEZX53HGCX6ST18M/image-asset.jpeg Artist Page - ARTIST NAME