Here we go:
1. The trip down: quick and uneventful. Left Framingham at 1:30, and was comfortable ensconced on a bar stool at the club by 5:45. That included 2 stops — once for coffee, once for pisscall — and half an hour trying to find a garage that had room for me.
2. Everybody and their distant relatives showed up! aurorabell was a great host; mstegosaurus was there, as was loudpoet, dura-luxe, new lj friend lordrexfear, half of twosnoos behind the bar, Taylor, Roger, Lynne, Oscar Bermeo, Fish, Edward Garcia, Eric Guerreri, Rich Villar, George McKibbens on the door…wow. Much drunken revelry ensued…
3. The open mike was s’alright. A Japanese film crew was filming it for some sort of documentary. Taylor’s new poem about high school history class fantasies was pretty funny…ditto Shappy’s searing political screed on George Bush and Star Wars. (I kid here, I’m a kidder…it was damn funny, though.)
4. The set I did was short and a real mix…
Getting Ahead
Song of the Twirling Accountants
Cindy Moses
Suicide Notes
Political Art
DIY
and it was pretty well received, I thought. Great sound system, and a cool experience…really enjoyed myself.
5. The slam was…a slam. With all that entails. I leave it to others to chime in.
6. Oh, it was SO good to catch up with these people, most of whom I haven’t seen since Nats!
7. The drive home: a bit slower, but similarly uneventful.
Thanks everyone who came out…let’s do it again!!!!
I’m in great mood…because of course last night but also because today is NEW MEDS DAY!!!
I feel something akin to hope again.
Dark Matter 
January 17th, 2004 at 3:24 pm
good times!
and thanks for donating the sales of your chapbooks to the reverend pedro fund.
catch ya latah,
o.b.
http://www.geminipoet.blogspot.com/
January 17th, 2004 at 4:41 am
Re: Good Show!
Thanks. Sounds like I hit my target. I appreciate the feedback.
As for the revelry…well, someone was drunk.
January 17th, 2004 at 4:40 am
Re: Taylor’s New Poem
Never heard it before.
Has he written anything new lately? It seems everytime I hear him, and think I’m hearing a new poem, I find out it’s really old.
Weird.
January 17th, 2004 at 4:36 am
Taylor’s New Poem
Omigod, that’s funny.
Taylor’s “new” poem is frickin’ old, man– that’s one of the first poems I ever heard him do.
January 17th, 2004 at 3:12 am
I feel something akin to hope again.
yes!
(manoman, i need a trip to Austin…)
January 16th, 2004 at 8:24 pm
Good Show!
As I said last night, the storytelling flow works well. Delightfully NOT slam, especially in light of what followed your set.
re: “Much drunken revelry ensued…”
I should point out that I was on nothing more than caffeine last night. 🙂
January 16th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
the other half of twosnoos
Tony,
I was so sorry to have missed you, but was thrilled when I heard half of NYC poetry showed up and gave you the receiption your deserved.
I hope you came back again soon! For us carless NYCers, hearing fellow mid-Altantic and New Englanders read is an all too rare joy!
much love and stay warm,
Cristin