gladys tagged me up so here ya go….

LISTS OF 3

Three books I can read over and over:
1. Neil Gaiman’s SANDMAN series
2. Federico García Lorca’s “The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition”
3. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “Martín & Meditations on the South Valley”

Three places I’ve lived:
1. The Bronx (Whitestone, Parkchester, Morris Park, University Heights, Boynton Ave, Jerome Ave, Fox St, Hoe Ave)
2. La Loisaida (East 10th & 1st Ave)
3. Crown Heights (The Snackbox)

Three TV shows I love:
1. WWE Raw
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Charmed

Three highly regarded and recommended TV shows that I’ve never watched a single minute of:
1. Lost
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Smallville

Three places I’ve vacationed:
1. Guayaquil, Ecuador
2. New Orleans
3. Puerto Rico

Three of my favorite dishes:
1. my mom’s shrimp ceviche with shrimp sango (a plantain porridge stewed with shrimp broth)
2. a four course Italian meal at La Mela
3. my mom’s sopa de queso with a big helping of white rice

Three sites I visit daily:
1. Bloglines
2. Yahoo!
3. G-Mail

Three places I would rather be right now:
1. Oakland
2. The Cave
3. By the fire escape’s tangerine light

Three bloggers I am tagging:
1. tara betts
2. mara jebsen
3. raina león

welcome to the blog.verse the (VERY occasional) blog of lynne procope

Rich Villar rocked the house last night at Bar13. One of the things I failed to mention about last week’s Acentos feature was how relaxed I was especially in relation to the louderMONDAY feature where I was craving a strong Scotch to calm my nerves. If Rich was suffering from the same nervousness, he didn’t let it show. The set was calm, well paced and teeming with a variety of voices & inflections.

The post-feature Q&A went smooth even with Roger’s left-field questions but they kind of had to be left-field being that many of us have spent a lot of time with Rich and are familiar with his politics and inspirations.

Best part- show done by 9:30 which left plenty of time for… dancing! Ask and ye shall receive.

More pics, including me reciting an imaginary duet with Tara Betts, the meeting of the families, the poetic version of ‘Master Killer: Return to the 36 Chambers,’ and Rich shining bright in the spotlight are here.

Check me out on WBAI this Sunday sometime between 3:30 and 4:30

The show will revolve around the bX and the discounted petrol the borough has received courtesy of Hugo Chávez, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (no joke– that’s what he renamed the country. what a manda todo. my hero)

You can listen to WBAI online by clicking here

One of the difference between the present louderMONDAY and its previous incarnation ‘A Lil Bit Louder’ was the fact that after every Lil Bit Louder we would dance our asses off for at least a good half hour and sometimes even longer all thanks to DJ Frank Rempe. No one ever had as much fun up in that booth playing with the crowd, the host and the poets as DJ HotNuts (inside joke bell). Maybe it was cuz Frank was a poet himself making it all the way to the Urbana finals one year.

Anyways, go check out Frank out and then go check out one of his remixed beats for a lil ditty called Capicú which was inspired by the off my ass drunk (three tequilas & five Coronas into the evening) initial performance of said poem.

Capicú = Spanish term used in playing Dominoes, when the winning domino can play on either open end of the layout.