Do you really shimmer
before or after absinthe
a shimmering jewel cut
with facets of thought
ghosts in ice water
dancing dreamy green
one more, if you please
be drunken on these dreams
of wine, women and song
frightening beauty
is the kind of horror
we should all hope for
Their first show in 3 years, discharge information system will be playing at the Mississippi Pizza Pub on Fri, Aug 1st at 8:30pm. This show is only $5. Discharge Information System is a two person group playing cello, accordion, drums and screams.
Yes a test
with no questions
only answers you offer
questions come later
if you can guess them
hard test to pass
without cheating
fail once begun
cannot be retaken
pencils down
I grade on a curve
There are dream
things that seem
real things unreal
dreamed feelings
imagine my touch
touching you
there are real
things that seem
dreamed things real
real feelings
imagine your touch
touching me
taking time to feel
real dreams
dreamed real
as good a time as any
for frustration and pain
reminds us we’re alive
or at least not dead yet
time slows down a bit
or reminds us to slow down
take time to recover
what wits we can preserve
in jars like pears
in their own juice
convenient stores
in case of emergency
because you never know
until it’s too late
when you’ll need pears
Some friends of mine are in a “ritualized dramedy” they created on Fri, Aug 8th 2008 at Sekhet-Maat Lodge at 7:30pm.
Maat is one of the oldest Egyptian deities, and embodies Truth, Balance, and most importantly, the concept of social structure and understanding.
This ritual will invoke Her along with many other spiritual traditions, as an interplay between truth and lies, order and chaos, harmony and cacophany, melding together to show the form and beyond the form of evolutionary consciousness. Song and instrumentation will assist us on this journey, so bring your voice and your dancing spirit. All guests are encouraged to bring whatever books they consider holy to rest upon the altar for the ritual. All books will be returned unharmed.
Please bring a tasty dish to share potluck style. A cash bar will be provided.
Doors open at 7:30pm, ritual begins promptly at 8:00pm. No late admittance.
We ask for a $5 contribution to assist with the maintenance of our Temple.
All spiritual traditions are welcome, so please come to see how the OTO can honor you as well.
The Birth of Maat: a ritualized dramedy August 8, 2008 ev – Sekhet-Maat Lodge
concealment is an art
worth investigation
I hear it’s one secret
of skillful seduction
but words unsaid
are too easily forgotten
and weathered by elements
of what if or why bother
of whether this or that
so write it down
save it now
before the moment is gone
and everyone forgets
my solar plexus
is an index
to a dictionary
of things
categorically
interesting
but
linguistically
complex
for which
subtle skill
and wry wit
are required
prerequisites
I blush reading it
and blush writing this
blood rushes places
where the blade I wield
is a soft tongue
my gift of destruction
is a temporary interruption
an annihilation perhaps
that does not last
but a good one
Joey LeBard is doing a one-person show with Arts Equity in town called 21A:
July 10 — 26
21A
BY KEVIN KLING
7:15 pm — Doors open • 8:00 pm — Curtain
General Admission: $20
Plays at the Landmark Theater! Theatre! building
3430 SE Belmont, Portland OR
Kevin wrote “The Ice Fishing Play” in our first season. This one man tour-de-force features Joey LeBard (Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile) playing all eight of the people on a Minneapolis bus.
This hilarious and decidedly different work had them rolling in the aisles at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s famed Humana Festival, where it won the Heidemann Award.
Update 25jul08 @ 12:50pm:
This show has been extended through August 30th, so there’s plenty of time to see it a couple times.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Arts Equity extends one man show “21A” by NPR commentator Kevin Kling
through August 30th.
Portland, Or – July 24, 2008 – (Arts Equity – In the Arena at Theater, Theatre) -Arts Equity extends one man show “21A” by NPR commentator Kevin Kling through August 30th.
“21A” creates a character named Ron Huber, the bus driver of the 21A, who later shows up in another of Kling’s plays “The Ice Fishing Play” produced by Arts Equity in its 2005 season. According to Ron Huber, …”Some of the people have been through sh*t a cat wouldn’t live through. Crazy” No way. They’re just as sane as you or me. Oh, They’re a little odd, most of them, you can bet on that. I don’t know how they keep from crackin up.”
An actual bus route between Minneapolis and St. Paul the 21A has a lot to say about the current Portland/Vancouver mass transportation light rail interstate bridge discussions and the perceptions of those who ride them.
This one man show features Joey LeBard playing all eight of the characters on 21A a Minneapolis bus plus a few more recorded characters so he can make the quick costume changes. Joey LeBard was nominated for an inaugural PAMTA Award in 2008 for his portrayal of Eddie in “Blood Brothers” also at Arts Equity. Other roles at Arts Equity include Leslie the Lizard in Edward Albee’s “Seascape” and Einstein in Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” that ran for the entire summer last season for this Vancouver based theatre company.
“21A” is designed and directed by Llewellyn J. Rhoe.
PERFORMANCE INFO:
July 31 at 8pm
August 1,2,8,9,14,15,16,22,23,28,29,30 at 8pm
August 10,24 at 2pm
TICKET PRICES AND INFO:
Daily Internet Specials $12.50 click link below
http://www.artsequity.org/
General Admission $20 at the door
Senior & Student $17 at the door
the only secret
I know to living
is in life not ending
before its time
but who tells time
with watches broken
or daylight savings
breaking the horizon
with dawn or dusk
and choices
to see or not see
beauty anymore
or beyond borealis
frozen icy field
of unknown future
when futures forget
to wake themselves
mornings sleep
hiding under covers
darkness ends
in waking dreams
but darkness begins
in mistaken endings
too many secrets
not enough time
surrender to life
or give up
telling the truth
forever
no martini still
have lips touching
lips moistened brushing skin
trying to taste some
last sip of gin
bitter water made sweet
vermouth to nourish
but dirty with juice
overly anxious olives
bursting in my mouth
as I bite and suck
feel that still
moment of silent
surprise and lust
swirling within
from toes to fingertips
and tipsy drips
sprinkle the floor
with holy water
blessing the earth
with sloppy urges
Johanna Kunin, who played with Loch Lomond a while ago, sent out an e-mail saying she would be playing in town on Friday:
“I’m very excited to announce that I am now an official member of my very favorite electro-funk party band Velella Velella!!! They have kindly invited me into the fold and allowed me to play their luscious vintage Clavinets and Farfisas, rock the tambourine, whip crowds up into a dancing frenzy, and occasionally sing while doing nothing else! A dream come true on all accounts.”
Here’s the specifics:
Velella Velella
Fleshtone
Mega Church
DJ Beyonda
==========
@ Holocene
FRIDAY, July 18th
1001 SE Morrison
Portland, OR 97214
8:00pm
21+
$5 PICA members/$7 General
Also, Johanna Kunin says she will be be back in town as herself on “August 16th for a show at the Artistery with Adrian Orange and Small Sur.”
have I thought all I’ll ever think
just re-thinking thoughts
I lost and find again in mind
reminded of my ever after
every craft devised I repeat
myself recycled means used
words I say repeated by line
and phrase and emphasis
I cannot seem to refrain
from self-plagiarizing
going back in time
from time to time
I read things I would write
in what I’ve written
and wonder how I knew
back then what I think now
precognition or purgatory
or all the same thing
inspired by aspiration
for a future other than aperture
rather cloture than closure
not ending but beginning
unseen and unheard
unspoken and new
in renewal of a vow
to live for real
in feral and vital
renaissance
I demand it happen
conjured evocatively
by word and deed
before I’m dead
unlived and asleep
I wake me up
unfettered by fate
what am I doing
being stuck
like a broken twig
or a withered vine
struggling to new growth
and waking up
after a life-long winter
ice aged
frozen in glacier side
with stone arrow in my back
like a red violin
or Man Ray cello
fingers touch necks
and music sounds
between bars and rests
the clef is clavis
and locus lock
eyes and fingers
keys and keyholes
melting together
music and magick
“Early EJB music (the band then going as The Steele Street Revolutionary Jass Band) revolved around crescendoes of modal, looping riffs, recalling Ethiopian jazz-funk as well as the ecstatic vibe of 1970s afrocentric jazz visionaries like Sunny Murray. Now, the band has incorporated even more stylistic map-points, allowing them to manipulate a highly charged jazz language with confidence and ease. Combining their aforementioned influences with bebop compositional balance, Jarmuschian cinematic moodiness, torch song, New Orleans proto-jazz, and American band music, the band is quickly forging a powerful, brave, and singular musical voice.”
And, I got to evangelize about absinthe, so a good time was had by all.
