I remember when The Wall fell.

These few days in Berlin must be a lot of fun.
:-D

The Haiku Deathmatch --
If you're not there this evening
You're having less fun

It will be better
Than an army of monkeys
Flying out your butt


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in my dreams last night i came home to everything different.
all our rooms had been switched. the house was bigger and we all lived together and that's how it always had been, but my room was no longer what it had been when i left. we always rotated rooms and mine was upstairs and large with paintings on the walls i didn't recognize. i looked at them again to see what they were and they were some of mine. they were large. the rooms were big and open with large windows and many levels with staircases. it was very modern and west coast or florida feeling.
i tried talking to chris. i was excited to share something with them all. he was talking to jeremy. i realized this and quieted starting to apologize for interrupting, having not noticed their conversation. he turned to me with such anger in his eyes and coldness in his voice as he said that they were talking and for me to be patient. i clammed up. i was small as a shoe. i could feel myself trying not to cry and tears leaking out. this place felt weird. home but everyone different, everything different.

taking a new risk
eating some deep fried dogs cock
chi-wow wow goodness

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• Fly to Long Beach, CA today. Join the Revival w/Buddy, Anis and Derrick. Mucho missing both my homes. Love ya, Silicon Valley and Worcester. #

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"It's hard to say
That I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep,
Because my dreams
Are bursting at the seams."
~Owl City, "Fireflies"

For akka_pelleh's 1930s theme party, I defaulted to my standard of 'dress plus accessories' -- a long slim cocktail gown with rhinestones and tall velvet gloves. While getting ready for the party, I found a hat I was going to loan to a friend and, having no free hand to carry it, I put it on my head.

Then I glanced in the mirror. ( And made a few changes. )

00:43 Played ukulele on the deck of the Queen Mary. Now, book store dance party! #

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i'm completely full & exhausted from this weekend's marathon festival.
the schedule was challenging (i already know some changes likely to be made).
late nights, early flights,shuttling day gigs to evening & then the whole of yeaterday, from an ungodly 9am
until well beyond 9pm. 8 poets can be aloooooong show, and i know it was a little too long for a few, but a lot more people hung around for the second half than at a usual event. to me, it all went by at a pretty quick pace.
because it was a "that just happened!" evening.

it may have been the best show i've ever hosted, though it's hard to rank these things considering the diversity of some of the favorite ones.hierarchies aren't really my thing anyway.

but WOW. i loved the range. i think there was something for everyone.or multiple somethings for everyone.
GREAT AUDIENCE

i remembered at some point in the afternoon that a majority of my best shows rely on the extra adrenaline of pushing on through some kind of fatigue.it was an easy sell to be great---i mean, marty, jamie,regie cabico, theresa, ami,jt, kit,joanna hoffman--REALLY?! all in ONE PLACE?

OHMYG-D.
(in my monring afterness, i really hate that we didn't have a videographer.some of the best sh* doesn't get recorded).

the how.

i can't even describe what everyone did or the how.just think of regie cabico, wearing a bright green bow around his head  from the chocolate box he used in an earlier piece.picture jamie doing his janis best, excoriating with beauty of precision in language,his first major cheating-without-knowing-experience.picture jt bullock pulling out a comb on his freddy mercury 'stache, theresa both holding down local rep,& doing "octomom" to the hilt.joanna hoffman finally releasing the piece it took 9 years to write about coming out, or the persona poem of a holocaust "survivor" from within a nursing home, ami's declaration for sisterly respect "it's ideology, not biology," kit yan calling bs on gender or describing the recycling of plastic he grew up with,
and  marty....marty casting drag queen spells---but also how in this room "we become verb" which was, really, the whole evening in a phrase.

i mean. damn.
i heard more pieces from everyone than i ever have had the chance to hear and  i am full.
we are so very very very very fortunate to have had that moment, the challenges, the all of it.

right down to the last-night-hook-up attempts (and one success) & convenience store hysteria
which I KNOW made the behind-the-counter-guy's evening, laughing with & at us.

more than a few people suggested we should do a road version of what just happened.i wish.

well look what wishing can do.sometimes, they do come true.

jamie literally fell asleep while we were talking about at least setting up a retreat of some kind, with regie going on as a kind of couch side idea factory.

but before that...
i should be sleeping, but now my house is empty and i just can't.
not quite yet.

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00:22 4th & almond in long beach. Enjoying a late night horchata alone in a town that ain't mine #

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• My love of coffee (especially Barefoot; Silicon Valley) I am determined to find the best in each town. So I sit at Stumptown in Portland… #

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anyone in the la area tonight, come check out the revival show, info:
November 6, 2009 with Mindy Nettifee and the Elephant Engine High Dive Revival, Write Now Poetry Revival Party, Immanuel Center For Conscious Living, 3215 E. 3rd Street (corner of 3rd and Obispo), Long Beach, CA, 8pm, 10 bucks, 5 with student id


and then tomorrow:

November 7, 2009 with Mindy Nettifee, Annual Double Decker Bus Party!!! (Leaves 6:30P from Open Book Store - 4th and Junipero), Long Beach, CA 
BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.poetrytickets.com/


this event is sold out but feel free to join us for the start of the show at open book store and if you'd like caravan with us as we do poetry around long beach!

 a while back ago i listened to a fever ray cover of this vashti bunyan song "here before" and it's pretty awesome. today i wanted to hear it again, and i decided to also get the original. both are amazingly beautiful. all i want to listen to right now, over and over.

also, "shine blockers" from the upcoming solo album from big boi is FUCKING AWESOME.

fever ray:





vashti:


big boi:

NOTE: All bold events through 11/20/09 are with The Elephant Engine High Dive Revival (Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani and Buddy Wakefield.)

Sun Nov 8
Santa Margarita Catholic High School
Time of Show: 7:00 pm
GYMNASIUM
22062 Antonio Parkway
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
$5 donation

Tue Nov 10
Student Union
University of Nevada
1500 N. Virginia
Reno, NV
7pm
Free

Wed Nov 11
Main Theatre
Dominican University
50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Free for students, $10 for general
8PM all ages

Mon Nov 16
Kilworth Chapel
Puget Sound College
Puget Sound, WA
N. 18th and Warner St., Tacoma, WA, 98416
Free for students, $5 for general

Tue Nov 17
Lewis and Clark
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd Portland, OR
97219.,
Student Union Auditorium
8PM, all ages, FREE

Wed Nov 18
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA,
Details TBA

Thu Nov 19
Whatcom Community College, Syre Auditorium
237 West Kellogg, Bellingham WA 98226
7:30pm

Fri Nov 20
Reed College
Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland OR
8:30pm

Wed November 25: Berkeley, California; Berzerkely Poetry Slam “Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Mike McGee/Sock Puppet Slam” at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave. Sign up: 7:30pm

Wed December 2: Albuquerque, NM; Poetry & Beer, Blackbird Buvette, 509 Central NW. Sign up at 7:30pm.

Mon December 14: Vancouver, B.C.; Van Slam, Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive.

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• My lovely people of Honolulu. My good man Ed Mabrey is featuring tonight during Hawaii Slam at Pipeline Cafe. Go love him. Say hey for me! #

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Babies are born with super powers these days.

The first ones starting showing up in India. Just a few at first. They were confiscated and the families were disappeared. They were inspected and kept hidden in secret facilities.

More started showing up in other countries.

The myths started, then. Rumours of babies born deformed or on fire. Babies born with super strength or eyes that could kill with a look. Babies that flew out of the doctor’s arms and out the window into the skies.

All dismissed as the worst tabloid journalism. Until the celebrity twins.

Katrina Jolie-Pitt and Apple Paltrow-Clooney gave birth to twins on October 16th. One of those twins immediately became living rock just seconds after birth right in front of the doctor’s eyes. The other one become transparent. Jakarta and Apple II.

After that, super-births happened regularly. Doctors watched the rate climb up to a hundred per cent.

Every single birth that happens now is a super-birth.

The first ones that were born got a nasty shock when puberty kicked in.

Their powers disappeared and they became baseline humans.

This is the world we live in now. Every child is a god and the adults are scared. We can control them with guilt like any parent but casualties are high. When tantrums can shatter eardrums or burn down houses, the results can be deadly.

There are super children that make suicide pacts and promise to never become human. There are hero children that looks forward to the day that they can finally become human.

There are super-children police forces that keep the peace with the other super children. The children have to take care of each other.

The baseline humans live in protected camps.

Right now, it’s my fourteenth birthday. My entire body is covered with tiny mouths. I don’t see how this is a power but it’s what I ended up with. Some of the boys in the super school call me the blowjob King.

I got my first few pubic hairs this week. Already, I can sense my tiny mouths drying up. Soon, I’ll be able to visit my parents in the dome and, if they like me, I can move in.

I won’t be able to taste the surrounding miles of air anymore. It will be a blessing. I’ll miss being able to scream in two hundred different voices. But not really.



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