Archive for January, 2009
REVEREND JEN’S ANTI-SLAM
Wednesday, January 28th, 10pm
At Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
performers get 6 minutes
3 dollars
Join “it elf”, author and art star, Reverend Jen, as she hosts her long-running open mike, the Anti-Slam! Pros and amateurs alike share the stage, and both are given equal respect and a place to try out new things. All performers are welcome – poets, storytellers, novelists, comedians, musicians, dancers, performance artists and people who simply need therapy but can’t afford it. Plus, everyone gets a ten no matter what!
This month’s show will feature a world-premiere screening of “Reverend Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood, the Rock ‘N’ Roll Episode” starring Rev. Jen, Moonshine, Mangina, J-Boy Thompson, the O’Debra Twins, Lloyd Floyd and more. The live show that was voted best “Off-Off-Off Broadway Musical Theater” by the Village Voice is now a TV show!
Come on down and join the madness!
“The Bowery Poetry Club feels like the last vestige of the old East Village. Reverend Jen’s open mike is always wonderfully insane; it’s kind of like being in Bellevue without being locked up.” — Jonathan Ames, author of THE ALCHOLIC
“Reverend Jen is a beacon of hope—that the unconventional can thrive, even among trendy new restaurants where they can’t afford to eat.” —Village Voice
“Reverend Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood made me wish I still did acid and had walked in peaking.” – Satisfied Audience Member
A friend sent me a copy of A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo. Given my love for NYC, they thought I’d dig it, which I am. It’s less about her relationship with Bob Dylan (she’s the girl on the cover of Freewheelin w/ Bob Dylan) and more about all of the unconventional characters that hung out in the Village in the ’60s.
In one part, Suze writes
There were so many talented people who practiced their art form and sharpened their skills during the period of the Greenwich Village rennaisance of the sixties. To become a legend or a star wasn’t always the point.
Very cool. I think sometimes the obsession with fame hampers artists and kills originality. Anyway, glad I have this book, as I am stuck at work in midtown. It will be a miracle on 34th Street if I ever leave.
Forgot to mention that the goals of this blog are to let readers know where I’ll be performing and also to promote my book, which comes out April 25th. The book party is May 2nd at Bowery Poetry Club. I still need boylesque dancers for it and possibly a band or two.
Now I have to go back to work at the therapist’s office where I spend every Tues., Wed., Thurs. I signed a confidentiality agreement when I was hired hence I won’t bore you with the details of what goes on there.
Sad that I will have to miss a great moment in history because of work. Wondering how my crazy friends who went down to DC are faring. A small, masochistic part of me wishes I could be there, but due to my tiny bladder and the lack of public restrooms in DC, it’s probably for the best. This was a big problem during anti-war demonstrations. I hate war, but I also hate feeling like I need to wear depends in order to protest it.
Hello, readers. Welcome to my new blog. Here I will share stories and poetry. Sometimes I will complain and rant. But mostly, I’ll just tell you what I’m doing or what I did the night or day before.
Why? Why not? Maybe this blog will prevent me from spiraling further into facebook addiction.
Today I am very tye tye. Luckily, I don’t have to work. Last night I was an extra in a music video my roommate, Jason Thompson, directed for The Fools. It took place at Bowery Poetry Club where more than a little drinking occurred.
I am about to work on a painting, which seems to be taking forever. I spent two days on the clavicle. I started it after going to the Met and staring at the Vermeers for an hour. Vermeer only did something like 34 paintings in his life because, like me, he had other shit to do. Also, like me, he was an obsessive perfectionist. Finally I am comfortable with doing a painting that will take several months because I don’t plan on showing anything until the economy improves. I figure that gives me two years to paint. I feel a sense of freedom in this collapsed economy.
Many people don’t know that aside from being a writer, I am also a painter. When I write I use my conscious mind and when I need to give my conscious mind a break, I paint using my subconscious mind. Painting is like dancing, breathing or dreaming. I don’t think about it when I do it, but I have to do it to stay sane and stay out of the nuthouse. Some people meditate. I paint.
Now I’m going to do just that.
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