national poetry month

o.k. clown,
o.k. devil,
I'm not on the porch,
howling at the moon,
at the sky,
at the woman
whose neck I didn't
I'm not
nibbling on
right now
I'm in my bed
room spinning
just glad
I'm not
howling
at the moon
at the sky
at the woman
whose neck
I didn't
I'm not
right now
in my bed
room spinning
just glad
i know
when
sometimes
is when
just glad
room spinning
not howling
just spinning
just glad
good night
still spinning
good night

Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Tx - Forum - General Discussion - Theatre Odin Notes

Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Tx - Forum - General Discussion - Theatre Odin Notes: "We each are responsible for cleaning one part of the theatre. I mention this over and over, because it is the single most transformingly binding force I have encountered. To make a theatre belong to someone, give it to them. Make it their own. Even if it is only the stairs, as I had during Odin Week. Or the library/dining room, as I have now. Every wood floor in this theatre is clean enough to eat off."

brilliant.
although no amount of cleaning would have me eat off the axiom floor.

The Academy of American Poets - National Poetry Month

The Academy of American Poets - National Poetry Month

ok...
in honor, think I'll try one a day...
owe ya 6...

here goes:

12
13
14
15 hours a day
may be
a bit
too much




lacking the motivation
to do more than quack
golden eggs
backing up
inside


yelling at friends
in my head
and being glad
they can't hear me



who hasn't?
I mean who hasn't?
done the one
and said the other
said the one
done the other
that's pretty much
how it works


shoulda went out
stayed in
frozen chicken
and processed plots
and not one smile
and not one drink
and not one,
but many, smokes
shoulda went out
stayed in



If I'm angry
it's not at you
and it's not at
this
or any
situation
it's self-directed,
I assure you
and it
is not
stengthening
it is what it is
and why can't
I just be?
a little melancholy
never killed nobody
it'll pass and
one day it'll
be nothing but smiles (right.)
haha.
see, I'm feeling
better already.

[sic] - pay what you will performance Monday night

Hey all...

this is the show I did sound design for...

Monday is another pay what you will performance.

Read the Press review below, then go see it...

really.

you won't regret it.

 

 

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company presents [sic] by Melissa James Gibson.

The show is running now through April 15 on Friday and Saturday nights @ 8pm.  Tickets are only $10!  There is a special pay-what-you-want performance THIS MONDAY, APRIL 10 @ 8pm.

The show is at Midtown Art Center, 3414 LaBranch at Holman.  Please email mildredsumbrella@hotmail.com for more info or to make reservations...seating is limited!

 

Check out what the Houston Press has to say:

 

[sic] In the old days, Melissa James Gibson's comedy of manners would've been called experimental and avant-garde because of its overlapping dialogue, non sequiturs, intimate asides to the audience, flaccid plotline, linguistic flourishes, time bends and slacker characters not knowing which way to turn. It's still that -- the play's even written without punctuation -- but the old-hat unconventionality of its literary pretensions seems fresh and breezy in Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company's winsome production. Three loser friends live next door to one another on the third floor of a ratty apartment building in a nameless big city. These empathetic sad sacks, whose failures are ingrained within them, are joined at the soul; they're thirtysomethings who can't make anything work in their lives. Their constant bickering, teasing and dreaming only draw them more tightly together. Pining for what they can't have, they feed off one another. Hack musician Theo (Eric Doss) stumbles over composing a theme song for the Thrill-A-Rama ride at the amusement park; overly analytical writer Babette (Jennifer Decker) can't finish her magnum opus of "20th-century outbursts"; gay Frank (Alan Hall) obsesses over his ex-boyfriend, who introduced the three to one another, and practices to be an auctioneer by reciting tongue-twisters. Adding to the enchanting disenchantment of their lives are the disembodied angry voices rising from the air shaft and the surprisingly frisky -- and also unseen -- Mrs. Jorgensen down the hall, who may be dead, sleeping or sleeping around. This clever, brainy, constantly amusing play, superbly acted and gracefully directed by Michelle Edwards, may be about failure and dashed hopes, but it succeeds like gangbusters. Through April 15. Midtown Art Center, 3414 La Branch, 832-418-0973.

 

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Newly discovered letters show Brecht's talent for offending

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Newly discovered letters show Brecht's talent for offending:

"'You have to forgive my bitterness at your injured manner, when I suggested that you were 'bought',' Brecht wrote two days later, in September 1943. "

Sounds like this'll be a good read...

BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Radio Sound Effects

How they made sound effects on the radio:
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Radio Sound Effects

Websnark: Why do we keep talking about the Great Outdoor Fight? Because it's *good.*

If you haven't been following The Great Outdoor Fight get yrself on over to www.achewood.com and catch up!

Websnark: Why do we keep talking about the Great Outdoor Fight? Because it's *good.*: "Ray Smuckles, in September of last year, was a coward who would desert a dying man. He had sought his father and found him. But more to the point, he had sought something in himself. And now, he was confronted with destruction if he didn't do what was expected. Beef, who had guided and encouraged and enabled him, was helpless. Terrified. His father, who was his inspiration, had nothing to help him."

Dr. Frank wrote a book

Dr. Frank? from The Mr. T Experience? a book?
blog | Reviews index

and it sounds good, but could it be as good as my favorite Mr. T. Experience song?

Love American Style:

You're an anomaly
that's a thing without a name
you're worming it out of me
and this worm you cannot change

I want to drive you up the wall
I want to treat you like a doll
I want to write it out in blood
I want an oriental rug

on a star spangled night my love
you can rest your head on my shoulder
and by the dawn's early light my love
I will defend your right to cry

I want to be there at your trial
I want a Love American Style
cause I'm a former young american
and I don't know if it's real or re-run
there's something you ought to know
before you think you understand
I'm invisible and I've got a robot friend
I want to tie you to a post
I want to make you tea and toast
I want to be there at your trial
I want a love american style.

Bob Ostertag free digital downloads

Gpod: "I have decided to make all my recordings to which I have the rights freely available as digital downloads from my web site.

These works are now covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution Non-commercial” license that permits you to freely download, copy, remix, sample, manipulate, fold, spindle, tamper with, defuse, detox, or deconstruct - as long as you credit my work as a source, and the work you make is not marketed commercially."


ok...
now go discover some amazing music!
go!

Ask a Hill Staffer: Hagiographic Content - Wonkette

Ask a Hill Staffer: Hagiographic Content - Wonkette: "If you could paint a mural on one of the Capitol walls, what would you paint?

I would paint a mural of Ronald Reagan, because he doesn’t have enough shit in his honor around Washington. The Capitol would make the perfect place for a new memorial to our 40th President. I’d paint it of his life: the son of a hard working New Deal union man who grows up to become President of the SAG. This would segue into the part of his life where he stabs his fellow union members in the back by negotiating sweetheart deals with the mob and outing the Communists. His dad would be watching in the background with an “I�€™m disappointed in you, son,” look. You know, like when your dad doesn�€™t yell but makes you feel really bad? And then, I would move on to the part where he divorces his first wife and estranges himself from his kids. Oh yeah, then on to the part where he marries Nancy so he can run for office. I would end it with him going batshit insane with Alzheimer’s and Nancy ironically lobbying the Republican party that he built to allow for more embryonic stem-cell research. But don’t worry, the lobbying would be interpretive so as not to be offensive. And Reagan would be smiling. How much room do I have for this mural? I forgot Iran-Contra!"

If I win the lottery I'm paying someone to paint this.

Lance Mannion

Lance Mannion: "Most people, to get back to my original point, change their sleep patterns during adolescence, because of the simple fact that teenage bodies and brains are growing and changing wildly and the whole process is mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausting.

Everybody knows this.

Everybody except, apparently, school administrators who schedule their districts' school days exactly as if the opposite was true, starting their high schools' days at the crack of a winter dawn. There is absolutely no good reason for this."


Kids need sleep
and I'm a night owl.

sidebar and last.fm

added a few
new links
over to the right
and reorganized
a bit...
everybody above Eschaton
are friends
or acquaintances...
maybe one day
I'll actually
divide the rest
into categories,
but probably not...

oh yeah,
and you can see
the last few tunes
I've played on Itunes
up on the top now,
thanks to last.fm...

whoohooo!

Boing Boing: Alcohol, Red Bull, and perception of buzz

Boing Boing: Alcohol, Red Bull, and perception of buzz
Red Bull doesn't make me feel less drunk...
more awake? yes, but not less drunk...
it DEFINITELY helps with the hangovers...

M

eBay Motors: Mercedes-Benz : 400-Series (item 4624891589 end time Mar-29-06 12:53:25 PST)

Ya know, I really regret not buying Redd Foxx's Cadillac a few years back...
anybody wanna loan me the $$$ for Stan Lee's Mercedes?

eBay Motors: Mercedes-Benz : 400-Series (item 4624891589 end time Mar-29-06 12:53:25 PST)

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

YAY! It's like a dialogue...
REAL ART (and politics and culture)

So the question is how do we start holding the fire to corporate criminals?
If we could reduce/eliminate the benefits of hiring illegal aliens wouldn't that be half the battle?

Ken-Welch.Com - Russian Nuke Traced to Texas

Happy Easter!!!

Ken-Welch.Com - Russian Nuke Traced to Texas: "
During the summer of 2005 it was decided go ahead with plans for America’s second 9/11.

The decision was not made in a torch-lit cave in Afghanistan, nor in a nondescript safe-house in Iraq. Implementing the plan would involve the highest officials of the United States government. The centerpiece of the plan is a portable nuclear weapon manufactured in the former Soviet Union. A tame “terrorist”, destined no doubt to be an eventual patsy, arranged for the bomb’s transport by sea, and the ship carrying it entered Galveston Bay on January 25, 2006. At this time the device remains hidden on board the ship that brought it, a freighter docked in or near the port of Texas City, about thirty minutes south of Houston, and only ten miles from the island city of Galveston."

file under: HAHAHAHAHA!!!

reading this made me smile...
Chron.com | Indicted DeLay fights to regain gun license: "RICHMOND - U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, a gun rights supporter under indictment on charges of laundering campaign money, is fighting to regain his Texas concealed handgun license, which was suspended because he is accused of a felony."

ChomskyTorrents.org v.2

Documentaries, lectures, etc...
not just chomsky, but all kindsa lefty media goodness:
ChomskyTorrents.org v.2

The Left Coaster: Rubber Stamp Republicans show their commitment to....

Every time I think the crooks running the show can't get any more brazen, I run into something like this:
The Left Coaster: Rubber Stamp Republicans show their commitment to....: "Apparently this entire 8 page colloquy--which is scripted to read as if it were delivered live on the floor of the Senate, complete with random interruptions from other Senators--never took place"

Can we get these senators up on perjury charges now?
please?

and here's a play you might wanna see... pay what you will tonight - Monday Mar. 27

I did sound design on this show,

and have been thoroughly entertained everytime I've seen it...

great performances, a funny, sharp script,

and the sound design ain't too shabby either.

 

pay what you will show tonight

at midtown arts center.

 

 http://www.mildredsumbrella.com/

 

Sic
by Melissa James Gibson

Three young urban failures navigate the slippery allegiances of their triangular friendship. Babette , a frustrated editor; Theo, a terribly blocked, classically-trained composer; and Frank, an aspiring but tongue-tied auctioneer, share a world of quicksand needs and fickle urges, where a vast landscape exists between what is intended and what is construed, and where ordering Chinese food is a deeply personal matter.

Mildred's Umbrella is right at home with Melissa James Gibson's [Sic] , winner of an OBIE Award and the Kesserling Prize, with its quirky, off-beat script full of wordplay and oddball characters.

Directed by Michelle Edwards and featuring Alan Hall, Eric Doss, and Jennifer Decker, [Sic] opens March 24, 2006 and runs through April 15, each Friday and Saturday, as well as two “pay as you like” Monday shows, March 27 and April 10. All shows are at 8pm .

For further information or reservations for this show, call 832-418-0973 or e-mail mildredsumbrella@hotmail.com .

Who: Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company
What: [Sic] by Melissa James Gibson
When: March 24, 25, 27, and 31, and April 1, 7, 8, 10, 14 and 15.
Where: Midtown Art Center, 3414 La Branch at Holman
Price: $10 on Fridays and Saturdays. Two “pay as you like” performances on March 27 and April 10. Cash or check only at the door. Credit cards may be used via PayPal (charges are non-refundable) on our website.