Jun 27, 2014

2 good events tonight:

8:00pm
Woolsey Heights presents
1628 Woolsey Street, Apartment C
Berkeley
and
  
Live at 851: Paige Taggart, Sophia Le Fraga, Sampson Startkweather, and Tracey Knapp

Jun 24, 2014


Kit Schluter and Elaine Kahn at Curds And Whey.

So much Hyphy.


Stephanie Young apples "anti-surveillance" makeup to Ben Mirov's face at Feral Childe West.

I'm about to eat some salmon with brown rice and quinoa.

And watch The Tree Of Life.




44. Another You- Paul Vangelisti
The Red Hill Press


I just ran 4.32 mi with Nike+

wine tasting suxxx

so many B-Boys dies in the Apocalypse

this goes out to all the Boogie Boys
who dies in the Apocalypse

43. As Water Sounds- Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
Bootstrap Press


smell a bottle cap, what does it smell like

fortune cookies and the Barbary Coast

Chicken tikka masala is entirely British

not sure I should be rethinking Boz Skaggs
42. When New Time Folds Up- Kathleen Fraser
Chax Press


even Mark Twain can't stand James Fenimore Cooper

I dress to the left

you don't clean your dishes with a dry paper towel do you?
baby wipes

it's a Kirkland universe, we're just living in it
41. AMERARCANA #5


I wonder what the Hunger Games could have looked like

why don't I like this photo

definitely didn't like that PJ Proby record

on the other hand, The Swamp Rats, yeah yeah

Jun 23, 2014

Jun 17, 2014

I'm reading this Saturday in the first installment of the 2014 Bay Area Poetry Marathon, details below

BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON: language after language

at
The Emerald Table
80 Fresno StSan Francisco, CA,94133United States

Please join us on Saturday, June 21st at 7pm for the opening show of the annual Bay Area Poetry Marathon!
The Emerald Tablet is thrilled to host Donna de la Perrière’s wonderful series, which each month of the summer features a stellar list of poetry superheroes. The kickoff show, guest curated by Tiff Dressen, includes Christopher DanielsSusanne DyckmanDenise LetoClaiborne McDonaldAnna Soteria MorrisonJohn SakkisAlana Siegel, and Eleni Stecopoulos.
We’ll also be hosting the shows on July 26, August 30, and September 27—so mark your calendars and check out those lineups right here.

Jun 14, 2014

the me and Nico triptych, a trip to the country with your buds






Camp Ravencliff pre-camp


me and the cousin Manol, The Chef


Flavor Country!
Devil's Triangle lives on

cooking everlasting loukoniko

my safe space

Camp Ravencliff pre-camp, 2 best quotes:

"if you learn anything at church camp it's to love Jesus Christ and hate everyone else"

"I don't trust babies until they've been baptized"

Jun 12, 2014




three more from the DBC

Jun 11, 2014

In Case You Missed It: A Reading Report From John Sakkis (from 2009)

[I just found this on the SPT site, don't know if I ever originally saw it posted up there, anyway, I'm bringing it back, cause it brought me back]

In Case You Missed It: A Reading Report from John Sakkis

A full house, a fundraiser, questionable wine, minimal ventilation and 2.5 hours of inter-media work. Thus was the Poets Theater 09 Inter-Media night. Typically my favorite SPT night of the season.
Karla Milosevich:”My Past Life” and “29 Palms”
I think what they said was “I was a horse” and then there were two women, one of them Karla, standing next to each other off of I-5 looking at the sky maybe, or making big Tai Chi circles with their arms, I think the other women, Paula Pereira, was miming Carla’s movements but I could be wrong, and I kept waiting for Karla to turn into Steve Martin and pipe “What the hell is that?” and for the other woman to morph into Bill Murray and say “I don’t know, what the hell is that?”
and then Karla: Hey, you kids! Get away from there!
Paula: I would not mess with that thing..
Karla: Don’t put your lips on it!
Paula: [ ever curious ] What the hell is this?
Karla: Well.. get a photo of me with it, anyway!
But none of that last part happened…but it looked like it might have.


Dillon Westbrook:”pan(Oa)ic(k)land”
This one featured Westbrook on drums and Woodcock on bass. I think they were both wearing Oakland A’s jersey’s…but then Westbrook put on a jacket, so I could be wrong…and then a video by Nao Nakazawa driving around Oakland (quick zooms, slow pans, landscapes, architecture, people, signs, OAKLAND, mirrors) with live jazzy musical accompaniment by Westbrook and Woodcock. David Harrison Horton’s dubbed voiceover reciting poetry things but I forget what and I couldn’t take notes even though I brought a notebook because it was pitch black in the theater…and then suddenly it wasn’t Horton’s voice anymore (Westbrook’s?) and it reminded me of Jim Morrison’s post-humus spoken word album An American Prayer esp. that track where he says something like “Did you have a good world when you died? enough to base a movie on…?”


Heriberto Yepez:”Voice Exchange Rates”
Probably my favorite of the night, anti-fill-in-the-blank iconography a la Hot Topic and the AK Press Catalog (at a slant) (I think…)) as moderated by a 4bit robot-voiced human skull…super funny and charming. The part where the robot-voiced human skull repeated glitchy variations of the phrase “Americans rule the world” made me laugh and then feel ashamed of laughing in the same way that Nate Fisher’s (Six Feet Under) first AVM (arteriovenous malformation) seizure in the Chubby’s drive-thru where he ordered his food all “I’d like a chubb-chu-ch-ch-ch-cubbbbb-FUCK!!!-chchchchch-Chubby’s Burger” made me laugh and then feel ashamed. And then something about Gertrude Stein and Nazi’s and a big black dildo.


Bill Luoma:”The Concept of Ass”
A blooper reel! A baseball blooper reel! A baseball blooper reel Benshi Particle Physics cut-up delivered by a baseball-cup-wearing-baseball-shorts-sporting Bill Luoma. Bill “Homer” Luoma. Everyone laughed. A Dragon Fly on a pitcher’s cap. Bill and David Hadbawnik used to show up to Poet’s softball in SF in full uniform. David’s uniform really annoyed me, Bill’s didn’t. Success!


Claudia Rankie & John Lucas:”Provenance”
Zinedine Zadane headbutts Marco Materazzi in slow motion with a Terminator 2 Brad Fiedel like sound design. Compelling. Materazzi got “owned” but so did Zinedine. I love Claudia. I love soccer. There was a rumor going around Naropa in 06 that I loved Claudia. Which was true but besides the point. Naropa’s only sports team is a soccer team. I was in Claudia’s workshop during the 06 World Cup.


Paolo Javier:”FYEO”performed by Dennis Somera
I have never met Paolo (or seen a photo), and I had never met Dennis (or seen a photo). And I didn’t read my program closely enough, so the whole time I thought that Paolo was the one on stage performing his piece, not so, it was Dennis. A slide show, lot’s of Filipino puns, drawings, comic book erasures, poetry, quotes, mis-ques and National Anthems.
Intermission:Henry Hills’s “Money” (1982)”feat.
John Zorn, Abigail Child, Bruce Andrews, Sally Silvers, Charles Bernstein, Arlo Lindsey and dozens more…”like, a young Jack Collom!!! and then LRS remarks “poets seemed a lot less inhibited back then…” and then says “I think my wine is bad…” and then buries his face in his contributor’s copy of Mrs. Maybe handed to him earlier by Lauren Levin. Hills’s “Money” was the best piece of the night that nobody saw. We were either smoking, or eating cookies, or drinking 2-buck Chuck, unfortunate. Have you ever seen that rare 1979 Graf documentary Stations of the Elevated? “Money” is like the “innovative poetry” version of that.


Amanda Davidson & Cassie Riger:”A-Verbal”
This was a super cute piece (by “cute” I mean “fun” and by “fun” I mean “not bad”). And pseudo-interactive! I kept thinking “where do I know Amanda Davidson from?”…I still don’t know. Great choreography and interaction between their video piece and their stage performance. I don’t know, this piece just sort of “worked” really well. A refreshing way to start the second half of the night. They looked like they were having fun (a relief), and they took the “inter-media” theme to heart incorporating audience, video and set design, bully to you guys! And then those scenes that were shot in an SFSU classroom (burgundy chairs!) reminded me of having one of those dreams where you flunk your 9th grade pre-Algebra quiz and then you wake up and realize that you’re 29 years old and never have to take a math class again…


Linh Dinh:”A Smooth Life”
I think Linh was a no show. I thought Ariana’s piece was Linh’s piece the whole time I was sitting through it. It wasn’t. I think Lindsey Boldt told me Linh was a no show. Is that correct? Boldt is also the one who told me that Dennis Somera was in fact NOT Paolo Javier. Egads.


Ariana Reines:”Father”
Lot’s of adorable Emo boys on stage reading a huge text in synch over an intermittent sound-scapey Macbook Pro score. Hmmm…Father talking to progeny about Mother on Father porn. About Mother’s vagina, I think. I thought this was Linh Dinh. And it kind of made sense. But it seemed a little conceptual (or something) for Linh. I don’t know, I was confused. I think I tried closing my eyes to concentrate better. But then Buuck (I think) turned on the air which suddenly ventilated the entire theater (ahhhh, sweet air…) which kind of distracted me which for some reason made me check my phone where I learned that it was 10:07pm which made me panic a little because I realized that I was already 15 minutes late for a date at Mission Hill Saloon down the street with 2 more pieces still to go after Reines’s piece which was just now winding down. So after the boys left the stage I grabbed LRS and bee-lined to the bar, where my date showed up 15 minutes later than I did.


So, I missed Konrad Steiner’s “Suite for Face” and the raffle drawing. Sorry Konrad! Sorry Raffle!
Addendum: Formally Sadies, Mission Hill Saloon is steadily becoming the new Gino & Carlo’s. They love poets there. Not sure if Gino & Carlo’s ever “loved” or just tolerated poets, but anyway, Mission Hill loves poets, just ask for Ces



Sunday morning, Fairyland Boathouse
Dude Brunch Crew (DBC)

Jun 6, 2014

 2 good readings happening tonight,

firstly, Feral Childe West

 Join us for an open-studio at Feral Childe West with sartorial readings by

*Stephanie Young and Adrienne Elder*

at the studios of Feral Childe West
(4797 Telegraph Ave Oakland 94609)
Friday June 6th, 7-10 PM 

 
Hosted by Feral Childe and Sara Wintz 
 
*Bring your fabulous self!* 
 
For more details, visit Feral Childe 

secondly, Curds + Whey

an anti-eviction reading series
in the backyard
behind kingfish pub
this is not inside kingfish pub
it is in the backyard of the houses on the same lot

// 7:30
jasper bernes
wendy trevino
eric sneathen
zoe addison

freeee beer
lots of friends
music after


cake murder, we murdered the cake/ Stian looks like Michael Pitt a little


Aaron serenades the wild squirrel beneath a large tree/ Stian has a mental breakdown


Nico falls over next to the pretty pond/ Orion will rap for food


Ryan vigorously slut shames a large, hollowed out potato/ I drape myself in a large culturally appropriated  scarf


Adam getting aggressive while shirtless/ Grant plays the Knockout Game


everywhere I look there are pennies/ Alex pays homage to Bacchus

Jun 5, 2014

40. Memory-of- Angelos Sakkis
Zarax Books


Cosmic Horror went mainstream

employee onboarding

Slue-Foot Sue
Natty Bumppo

I don't have a dog in the fire
39. The Road To Darkness- Paul Leppin, translated by Mike Mitchell 
Dedalus/ Ariadne


we need more women in the MPAA!

how do you account
for seeing through your eyelids though

a room should reflect its occupant

I just ran 3.23 mi with Nike+



38. High Soft Lisp- Gilbert Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books


Pygmalion Effect

Exclusive boytalk
Inclusive boytalk

when in doubt, lead with your head
37. Each Next: narratives- Kathleen Fraser
The Figures


ACK!

I really like her freckles though

anarchist dunking booth
anarchist tarot readings

The Gollum Effect

Jun 4, 2014



new issue of Steve Orth's Where Eagles Dare, summer double issue

Jun 3, 2014


STIAN + MEME (before the bonfire)



C R E W I N G, The Warlocks Gather