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  • I am reading and listening; bleeding and thirsty

    I've been busy and lucky lately.  Writing a lot and getting calls to read.
    Put these in your memory banks and on your calendars.  I'd love to see you, sign a book, talk some shit...and of course, have some drinks.

    I might not be reading at this event, but I will definitely be there and you should too!
    Monday, August 23rd at Duff's     392 North Euclid in the CWE of St. Louis
    As many of you may know,recently our beloved friend and poet Mathieu Paul Allsup took a 4 story plunge from the roof of a building,as such he will be out of work for at least two months so Get Born has come out of retirement for one night only in order to raise some money to keep Mathieus' bills paid while he is unable to work.
    This reading is being held in collaboration with Chance Operations,Bad Shoe,and Voices From The Undergr...ound and will feature readings by Erin Wiles,Joseph Sulier,Tony Renner,Matthew Freeman,Elly Herget,Mathieu Paul,Joe Wetteroth,Bill Foster,Julia Gordon-Bramer,and Ken Brown,with musical intermissions by Jacob Cohen(solo hip-hop),
    Bob Reuter,and Mat Wilson of The Rumdrum Ramblers.Please come out and help us raise some money for a great person/poet.Admission is $5.oo.

    Friday, August 27th at Cranky Yellow     2847 Cherokee St.
    Get Born and Voices from the Underground madman, Sean Arnold is releasing a book.  Show starts at 9 p.m.  I WILL be reading and I am going to bring the hard truths with me for this event.  No need to make it nice for the children.  These children already know!

    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH 7 pm @ AT THE HARTFORD COFFEE COMPANY 3974 Hartford Street, St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-JAVA (5282)
    Several poets from the recently released anthology of St. Louis poets FLOOD STAGE will be reading.  I am one of those poets!
    Read about the book and the local publishing seen here:
    http://www.stltoday.com/..entertainment/books-and-..literature/reviews/article_..bc5b7e12-7d68-5b75-ae9a-..88895e596f84.html
    http://www.stltoday.com/..entertainment/books-and-..literature/article_a53f72cd-..28df-5d1e-8f77-265422a378c3...html


    ...and this is the big one!
    Saturday, September 10th
    HEARding Cats Collective presents
    Daedalus Cacophonus
    An outdoor collaborative at the Old Post Office Plaza featuring percussion, dance, and poetry
    ST. LOUIS, MO - August 3, 2010 - HEARding Cats Collective, St. Louis' new presenter and producer of "strange and wonderful" arts events has received a generous grant from DowntownNow! to create innovative arts programming at the Old Post Office Plaza (9th St. and Locust).  Entitled Daedalus Cacophonus, the event will take place Friday, September 10, 2010 at 6 pm, and feature an evolving percussive landscape led by Artistic Director Rich O'Donnell (SLSO principal percussionist, retired), dancers from Ashleyliane Dance Company, a variety of local poets (Anna Lum, Brett Underwood), and New York jazz saxophonist Joe McPhee.  The event is free and open to the public.
     
    In homage to Daedalus, an ancient Greek craftsman so skilled that his sculptures "seemed to move about," HEARding Cats Collective will assemble a team of local professional musicians, poets, and dancers for a mesmerizing 75 minute multimedia cultural journey. The music will inspire dancers and audience alike to move about the Old Post Office Plaza - just like one of Daedalus' creations.
     
    Daedalus Cacophonuswill create a free-flowing rhythmic dialogue between musicians, poets, dancers, and audience. The core musical element of the piece is an ensemble of 5 percussionists (O'Donnell, Papa Wright, Craig Williams, Matt Henry, and Thomas Zirkle) belting out world rhythms on bass and hand drums; meanwhile troupes of dancers, dressed statuesque in togas will groove to the beats; other sections will feature quieter duo and solo sections combining poetry with improvised saxophone (McPhee); and later, mallet percussion with splash cymbals and water gongs - making use of the basin at the plaza. The entire performance will be scored (timeline of individual sections broken out by sequential minute cues), so that each member's unique contribution is a coordinated piece of the whole, interwoven with the other performers' sections to create a complete narrative
     
    Like many of the events HEARding Cats already has planned for 2010, Daedalus Cacophonus will draw artistic talent from a variety of age, gender, and ethnic backgrounds. Performers will range in age from 20s to 70s, both male and female, and include Caucasian, African American, and Asian individuals. This diversity of cultural influences and talent pool is the ideal way to highlight St. Louis' role in the regional and national art scenes.

    For more info, please visit the links above, or www.heardingcatscollective.org...
    HEARding Cats Collective was formed in November 2009, and will work to keep St. Louis strange and wonderful...

    I hope this finds you well and that you will join us at the Schlafly Tap Room after the show for some rock n' roll!  We've got a doozy of a show AND its free!

    Tok http://www.myspace.com/..tokandroll

    GasRat http://www.myspace.com/gasrat

    I, Crime (Hot Rock from Detroit!)     http://www.myspace.com/icrime

    Brett Lars Underwood
    http://lungsofthecity...blogspot.com
    12:49 AM

  • Live Music at the Schlafly Tap Room

    Live Music Schedule

    Most bills at the
    SchlaflyTap Room
    are set in the Eliot Room,
    a venue overlooking 21st and Locust

    and adjoining our game room,

    where you can shoot some stick,

    fooze your ball, chuck darts
    at each other

    and slobber through some story

    about how you used to stumble out

    of the Rocket Bar!!!
    These gigs start at 9 p.m.
    and end at
    Midnight
    (unless otherwise noted).
    There is never a cover.

    October 9th:

    Red-Headed Strangers
    Mill Creek Outfit
    Irene Allen and Friends

    October 16th:
    Warm Jets (Jason Hutto strikes again!)
    Pat Sajak Assassins http://www.myspace.com/patsajakassassins
    Black for a Second


    October 23rd:
    Moonjaw Records artists and St. Louis legends Theodore http://www.theodoremusic.blogspot.com/
    welcome their homeboy
    Andrew Bryant www.myspace.com/andrewbryant


    October 30th:
    Last to Show, First to Go http://www.myspace.com/lastotshowfirsttogo
    balance out the bill with St. Louis old-timers:
    Homewreckers


    Friday, November 5th:
    Tight Pants Syndrome http://www.myspace.com/tightpantssyndrome

    Dulad http://www.myspace.com/duladsduelinginfinity

    Franklin Felix http://www.myspace.com/7098989


    Thursday, November 11th:
    Get your freak on!
    Floating Laboratories presents:
    Half Gay
    Bikini Acid
    N. Nomurai

    Friday, November 12th:
    Fumer http://www.myspace.com/fumertunes

    Left Brain Heart http://www.myspace.com/leftbrainheart

    Stoop http://www.myspace.com/stoopgoodnoise


    Saturday, November 13th:
    Blood Pony http://www.myspace.com/thebloodpony

    Middle Class Fashion http://www.myspace.com/minxelite

    Boy Without God http://www.myspace.com/boywithoutgod


    Thursday, November 18th:
    Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
    all night!

    Friday, November 19th:
    Trigger 5 http://www.myspace.com/trigger5country

    Prairie Rehab http://www.myspace.com/prairierehab


    Friday, November 26th:
    Jenny Kavanaugh and John Kavanaugh
    Corey Saathoff and the Trophy Mules http://www.myspace.com/coreysaathoffmusic

    Jenny Kavanaugh Band http://www.myspace.com/jennykavanaughband


    Saturday, November 27th:
    The Ransom Note http://www.myspace.com/ransomnotepayup
    (Merv Schrock of Nadine, Stiffneck Roy, Fran heads up this Soul extravaganza with fellow veterans of the rock scene: John Parsons, Sherman S. Sherman and Ron Liesly and others)

    This City of Takers http://www.thiscityoftakers.com/

    Tok http://www.myspace.com/tokandroll
    9:06 PM

  • Day of the Dead Beats 2009

    7 p.m., Monday, November 2nd
    at
    The Way Out Club
    2525 S Jefferson Ave
    Saint Louis, Missouri
    We have an enormous line-up this year. There are 17 of us presenting the message of the Beats. It will be a challenge to get everybody up to fit into three hours, but we will do it. We'll need to keep each reading under ten minutes. I am excited about this year, because we have a solid core of powerful performers that have graced the stage in the past: K. Curtis Lyle, Michael Castro, Ann Haubrich, Bob Putnam, Phil Gounis, Chris King, Ken Brown. Stefene Russell returns to us this year and is part of a sizable group of women that will present their selections, including Haubrich, Russell, Erin Wiles, Lauren Keefer and Mary Fisher (coming all the way from Salt Lake City!). Also returning are a powerful contingent from the Get Born Readings scene: Joseph Sulier, Brock Walker, Mathieu Paul, Ken "the jokes are in there, Kids" Brown and Wiles. Joining us for the first time are Sean Arnold, Lauren Keefer, Fisher and Typewriter Tim Jordan.
    We'll be missing a couple folks this year due to life and death and time constraints, etc...
    I know that there are many who have performed in the past that I am not including here, but have to mention that I will always miss those that joined us since I've been at the helm of the event and brought it to the stage: Hunter Brumfield (R.I.P), Ben Hanna, Bob Wilcox, Agnes Wilcox, Joe Wetteroth, Mariah Richardson, Greg Hazleton, Kevin McCameron and Cynthia Sutton.
    There will be many highlights this year, but perhaps the most theatrical of the event will be that of Tim Jordan in his persona BodyBag Man while channeling William S. Burroughs.
    Yep.
    AND, this just in: Bob Putnam is going to read from the works of the recently departed Jim Carroll. Bob brought Carroll to St. Louis twice back in the day. It seems fitting. I will pick up Herbert Huncke and leave Brion Gysin to the spirit of the dreamachine.
    What's that?
    Yes, James Ottolini has built a dreamachine and it will be strobing on stage or in a corner, adding to the experience.
    You can read more about this stroboscopic gizmo here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine


    After all of that, we'll have the musical stylings of the St. Louisans of Humdrum http://www.myspace.com/humdrumsound and
    Jason and the Beast
    http://www.myspace.com/jasonandthebeast
    You might want to cancel any Tuesday morning activities!

    Here is the lineup in no particular order:
    Phil Gounis---Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Brock Walker---Gary Snyder??/Peter Orlovsky???
    Bob Putnam---Jim Carroll
    Ken Brown---Charles Bukowski
    Sean Arnold---D.A. Levy
    Mathieu Paul---Hubert Selby, Jr.
    Chris King---Kenneth Rexroth
    Ann Haubrich---Jack Kerouac
    Tim Jordan---William S. Burroughs
    K. Curtis Lyle---Bob Kaufman
    Stefene Russell---Allen Ginsberg
    Erin Wiles---Ruth Weiss
    Mary Fisher--Richard Brautigan
    Lauren Keefer---Leroi Jones
    Michael Castro---Gregory Corso
    Joseph Sulier---Kennetch Patchen
    and
    Brett Underwood (that's me!)---reading Herbert Huncke
    Photobucket


    2:43 AM

  • Lungs of the City

    Current mood:awake

    I started a blog at the end of last year.  Things slowed down for a short time after Day of the Dead Beats went down and I felt like I needed some way to work my muscles, so I put one up.
    Please give it a visit and pass on the word if you think it is something somebody might enjoy...or something.
    http://lungsofthecity.blogspot.com

    I can't say that I've made it what I want it to be quite yet.  I still hope to do more reporting, creative writing and reviews of books and music.  Yet another reason to bookmark it and check in every once in awhile, yeah?
    9:06 AM

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