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The Band In Heaven: will play our favorite song

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The Band In Heaven recently came to my attention. Fans of shoegaze should continue reading…

MP: Where are you from? How long have you been together? How do you all know each other?

TBIH: We are a two-piece shoegaze/dream-pop band from West Palm Beach, Florida. Lauren (percussion/vocals) and I have known one another for maybe 7 years now. She played percussion for Strangers Family Band for some time, and I was there singer until about 2 months ago. We left at the same time and started The Band In Heaven.

MP: What do you like about where you are living? Good venues? Good food? Good art scene? Favorite local bands/performance artists/visual artists/film makers?

TBIN: South Florida has a great music community at the moment. Lots of friends trying to help each other out. Our friends in Love Handles and Chill Pillars (both great bands) throw free shows at their practice space, calling it Club Sandwich. There is another venue down here called Propaganda that throws such cheap shows with such good bands… it’s really helping to keep live music alive around here. There are too many good bands to name coming out of South Florida right now. Check out Weird Wives if you have a chance. Continue reading →

ARIANA REINES: MISS SAINT’S HIEROGLYPHIC SUFFERING

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Last fall 2009 I was fortunate to see Ariana Reines‘ theatrical work Miss Saint’s Hieroglyphic Suffering starring Birgit Huppuch. The theatrical work is the second act to Ariana Reines’ Obie Award winning play Telephone. And Ariana discussed the inspiration behind the work here.

Check out MONDRIAN’s latest video “Last Breakfast on Planet Surf”

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MONDRIAN is delighted to present his new music video “Last breakfast on Planet Surf”, directed by the great Jesus Hernandez (NYSUfilms). This is the third collaboration between the Paris group and the Spanish director, after “Beware! The killer!” (Jury Prize at the International Festival of Independent Clip Protoclip 2009) & “Love, collision (videocreation finalist at the Festival of Malaga).

Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Oh My.

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This week I am involved in two events I’d like to draw your attention to. The first is Sex Worker Literati at Happy Ending Lounge (And I do hope the name is an indicator of things to cum!) from 8-10pm June 3rd, and the second event is part of the Arts in Bushwick Festival June 5th-6th between 12-7pm at 301 Grove St. Brooklyn, New York.

EVENT 1: Sex Worker Literati

I’ll be reading from my new book GHOSTS this week at Sex Worker Literati. If you don’t know,

Sex Worker Literati is a monthly reading/performance series spawned from the book Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex. Sex workers, former sex workers, and people who have worked in the sex industry come together to read and perform their stories, showcasing the diversity of the business of sex.

So when and where is this event exactly?

The reading is on the first Thursday of every month, hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry at Happy Ending Lounge in New York City. (Interesting tidbit: the lounge was once an erotic massage parlor. Very fitting!) The doors at open at 7 pm and the reading is from 8-10pm. It’s free, but 21 and up.

This month’s Sex Worker Literati: Coming Out & Passing features Randi Newton, Cameryn Moore, and Sarah Jenny along with special guests from RentBoys.com.

EVENT 2: Arts in Bushwick

My friend Kevin Sheneberger and I have each been conscientiously surviving within an iEverything world. In celebration of the writer Richard Brautigan, his story In Watermelon Sugar, and the land of iDeath; we decided to put together a body of work.

All our banter turned into a show happening in conjunction with the Arts in Bushwick Festival: an experiential meditation on time-use, process, and the meaning of efficiency in the age of all things lower-case “i” uppercase “P”. Marvels of efficiency will be smashed and dissected, to give rise to a recycled world of aluminium and meticulously haphazard construction. Attendants will be invited to participate in the construction of a sculptural centerpiece, forged from the discarded shells of FREE BEER. Art being displayed will include sculpture, painting, performance, poetry, and prose.

Arts In Bushwick has two core functions – producing neighborhood arts festivals, and facilitating community projects and dialogue. All of our activities are produced by volunteers and at no cost to the public.

The show is June 5th-6th between 12-7pm as part of the Bushwick Arts Festival at 301 Grove St. Brooklyn, New York. The show on Sunday will culminate in a birthday party for Kevin’s birthday so bring dancing shoes and whatever it is you need to get them moving!!!

Re-Introducing Classical Theatrics: Taylor Mac

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Last fall I saw the five hour epic, “Lilly’s Revenge” at HERE Arts Gallery. Needless to say, the show took up quite a bit of space in my mind and it’s been hard for me to think about theater since the show without instantly reverting back to the spectacle I partook of. In last weeks Village Voice, Taylor Mac took the cover for the Obie Award he won for “Lilies Revenge”. The sudden resurgence of Taylor in the media was plenty of insight to get me off the couch and online to buy a ticket to his first ever cabaret at Joe’s Pub. Continue reading →