March 31, 2005

Last night:

By Tony Brown

The Event: Sample at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, a monthly open mike/feature reading. Curated beautifully by Oscar Bermeo (geminipoet)

Feature readers:
Eliel Lucero (ambitious and well built poetry, plus a nice guy — great stuff)

Kyra Wolfe (wonderful delivery of really excellent work; her last poem was the poem of the night for me)

Tony B (ancient hack)

LJ folks in attendance: sancochao, ladyliberate, azureflame, aurorabell.

Random thoughts:

— BELGIANS!!! A school group from Bruges in Belgium showed up at the museum for the reading just before it started. There had to be 5,000 of them. It was like looking out over a blond sea.

— If you are a shit-hot, fire-spittin’ rapper, you should consider that not leaving your crew behind, including your manager, when you approach the mic really damages your credibility. Especially when none of them can beatbox. At all. When they don’t even try, even though you’re nonplussed by the fact that there’s no music.

— And when your manager blames the venue for not having music.

— Oh, and you should reconsider your career overall when you SUCK OUT LOUD.

— On the other hand, the guy who was “Blessin’ the Mic” was pretty tight.

— Cuban Sandwiches rule, even without pickles.

— And meals for six people, including a couple of beers, for 39 bucks in NYC is excellent in general.

— This is a great venue, a good time, and you all need to go. NOW.

Thanks and love to all who came out! We stopped the war with Belgium!

About Tony Brown

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