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what happens in cornelia street stays in cornelia street

Soundtrack goin on in mah head: U2’s version of “Unchained Melody”

The set list for this last Friday’s reading at Cornelia Street will be up by the end of the week but that news sure does take a back seat to the fact that my invocation of the muse is on some, as the kids would say, next shit.

For you lovers of the nebulous, the Top Ten:

10. (Cue the Homer Simpson voice) Oh, Profe! How could we stay mad at you? (Dan Castellaneta mode: Off)

9. Whiskey- Yes/SoCo- No

8. NO!!! Not ___________!

7. What is this Mango Lassi you speak of?

6. “Boo boo, it’s been a whole thirty minutes since I’ve seen you!”

5. Rice Cake! Rice Cake! Rice Cake!

4. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire in Brooklyn

3. Mangu = Yummy

2. Canoodling at Cornelia

(Cue the drumroll!)and the number one title for this blog post:

1. Best Weekend, Ever!!!

love ya like if ya fell from the sky and into mah arms

please refer to the previous post for details on the reading tonight at cornelia street. i actually plan on toning down some of my normal stage antics in favor of a poem after poem, story after story, slow build of a larger narrative type deal OR i may just ask “is there is no one else?!?” (which i did at the last acentos, i have video but sadly no sound) either way, its gonna be something new for me since most of my new work has been a revelation or more like remembering an old dream. ya know what i mean? (ding! the nebulous bell)

on the flip side- mah main homie, the starsky to mah hutch, the jerry to mah deano, the chuleta to mah apple shawsh, el profe himself, will be doing his thing which always keeps me at the edge of mah seat. we also have a tendency to flip roles so perhaps he will ask “remember a time when kings read their own poetry?!?” or sumthin like dat

and after the party is the after party… though not in the hotel lobby.
it will be goin down at B1 as Raj and crew will be throwin it down for a free (ya heard? FREE!) jam with drink specials and wings and bodies doin figure 8s and such

me, i think after the feature i may have a partial sip of some scotch to celebrate but thats providing i nail the set which is your last teaser to come on down and check out the hotness

love ya like if wah wuz mah favorite flavah jelly bean

Friday, August 26 2005
6:00pm
Pink Pony West
Featured poets Oscar Bermeo & Rich Villar
The best open mike in NYC (according to poetz.com)
Hosted by Roxanne Hoffman (while Jackie is on holiday)

Friday, August 26th @ 6 pm
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
$6 gets you a free drink
Subway: A/C/E/F to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher
www.poetz.com/pony/pinkpony.htm

FOR MORE INFO:
Cornelia Street Cafe
Oscar Bermeo
Rich Villar

i recently had the only WDRE flashback moment. if ya dig through the archives ya can find my eulogy to the only station that i’ve ever known with a real music personality*

but i was able to find a list of past “Shreik of the Week”s (listener voted best debut song of the week)
on a guess, you can say that Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC (Jun-92) would be when when the vision gang started listening hard to DRE. of course, not everyone was happy with our choice of R.E.M. over A.B.C. or Midnight Oil over WuTang but they eventually fell in line and were soon BEGGIN for some good Live

you can find the full list of Shreiks here and some of personal faves – excluding the usual suspects Morrisey, Smiths, Depeche, U2, Duran Duran, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc – are:

I Know What Boys Like Waitresses 1-Dec-80
Tempted Squeeze 1-Jun-81
I Melt With You Modern English 4-Aug-82
Shock The Monkey Peter Gabriel 3-Sep-82
The Look Of Love ABC 1-Oct-82
Annie Get Your Gun Squeeze 4-Oct-82
Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling 4-Jun-83
Every Day I Write The Book Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1-Jul-83
Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 2-Feb-85
Shell-Shock New Order 3-Feb-86
No One Is To Blame Howard Jones 3-Mar-86
Oh, L’Amour Erasure 1-May-86
Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 1-Nov-86
Lips Like Sugar Echo & The Bunnymen 1-Aug-87
Glad I’m Not A Kennedy Shona Laing 2-Aug-87
The Great Commandment Camouflage 4-Nov-87
Route 66 Depeche Mode 1-Feb-88 (i know, i know but this single gets ZERO play on the radio)
Here’s Where The Story Ends Sundays 2-Jun-90
Kiss Them For Me Siouxsie & The Banshees 2-Jun-91
Move Any Mountain Shamen 2-Nov-91
The City Sleeps MC 900 Ft. Jesus Apr-92
Hunger Strike Temple Of The Dog Jul-92
Not Sleeping Around Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Oct-92
Connected Stereo MC’s Jan-93
Feed The Tree Belly Feb-93
Regret New Order Apr-93
Break It Down Again Tears For Fears Jun-93
Sweet Lullaby Deep Forest Jul-93
My Sister Juliana Hatfield Aug-93
Cannonball Breeders Nov-93
Into Your Arms Lemonheads Nov-93
Laid James Dec-93
Backwater Meat Puppets Apr-94
Seether Veruca Salt Oct-94
How Soon Is Now? Love Spit Love Jul-96
Ready To Go Republica Aug-96

and one of the all time so fuckin hard to find DRE singles of all time:
Tasmin Archer’s “Sleeping Satellite”

* SIDE RANT: close 2nd goes to the late 70s version of WKTU. new yorkers should not confuse this as an endorsement to the current incarnation of those call letters which is the most nutra sweet on a peppermint stick god awful taste in ya mouth “dance” music available to the ultra-hip NJ & Long Island crowd. back in the dizzay, Paco would be the night DJ on WKT(we love)U or KT(jus for)U.

and the only other station in these here parts with some real life & breath was the old WNEW with its all talk format anchored by the raunchy Opie & Anthony, the loveable Ron & Fez and the camraderie of the Radio Chick crew but dats another rant