Mayhem Onward!
Poems with Sound
April 24th, 8pm
at the Hamilton Gallery
2927 Hamilton Ave, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore poets and musicians, Joe Smith, Ron Williams, Tom Swiss, Mike Monroe, Jesse Bretie, Karla Mancero, Brian E. Langston, Matt Muirhead, Robin Gunkel, and Suzanne x will be preforming poems and with musical accompaniment as well as some original songs and unique sounds.
My ... Name ... Is ... BRIAN
To fulfill some narcissistic desire or other, I just Googled my first name, the keyword "Brian". Alas, I didn't find myself on the first page of results. I guess my Blog hasn't propelled me to the world of single name only celebrity status, like Madonna, or Cher, or, um, those other people that just go by one name.
Early Morning Delusions of Poetry, The Matrix, and Mark Doty
One thirty eight am, Sunday, April 19, 2009 - I am delirious from lack of sleep and still I am not ready for bed. Two movies have run their course in the background on TNT - the tail end of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and it blurred into The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which then blurred into The Chronicles of Riddick. Now The Matrix has begun. Images and words and sounds blurring into the background so that I can avoid the absence of noise in the middle of the night quietude of Hampden in an old house and Karla in NYC.
Happy Holidays from Oakland, Oregon
After being stranded in Denver and unable to fly into Seattle or Portland, we finally made it to San Francisco, stayed with our friends Diane and Jasson overnight, and drove up the California coast, spending the night in Arcata. Yesterday we completed the journey, crossing the Siskyous on 199 from Crescent City to Grants Pass and finally up I-5. Just in time for Christmas Eve. Without our luggage, of course, which is lost in transit somewhere, trying to find us :) Woke up today to a completely white Christmas and snow falling all morning... Beautiful and peaceful. K and I are together, and with family, and that's all that truly matters. Peace.