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Reminder - No HPSM today (Dec 27) because of Christmas-our last Sun of the month spoken word event starts up again on Sun Jan 31st!Chris Bodor (host) and RA Posted at 11:31 AM Dec 27 from ReverbNation Sync view more

  • Chris Bodor

  • 42 / Male
  • Island of Misfit Toys, Florida, US
  • Last Login: 12/28/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Salvaged
    POET PLANT PRESS
    from the ashes of
    POETNOISE PRESS (1993 - 2003)
    Before that it was
    LOOKING At NOISE (1989-1993)

    Before that
    When I was in high school (1982-1985)
    it was The UNDERGROUND VIDEO SHOW
    and LOW BUDGET FILMS

    I was
    and all these years later
    I am still
    a self-publisher of my movies,
    of my prose,
    of your art,
    and the poems of others.

    I know my way around a copy machine.
    I am familiar with the computer.
    I own a book stapler.
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  • Music

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    "Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche.

    Chris Bodor can only
    play one instrument -
    the radio
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to blip.com Chris Bodor can
    relive his WNHU radio days.
    St. Christopher
    (his old radio name) lives on www.blip.fm:

    Poet Plant Press Soundtrack Songs: Clouds in My Coffee - Carly Simon; Kids on Coffee - Descendents; Coffee Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins; Coffee in Bed - Squeeze; A Cup of Coffee - Johnny Cash; Coffee Club - Spandau Ballet; One Cup of Coffee - Bob Marley; One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan; Coffee Shop - The Red Hot Chili Peppers; Cup Of Coffee - Garbage; Amphetamines and Coffee - Afghan Whigs
  • Movies

    I have worked on a few movies
    web search Chris Bodor www.imdb.com
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  • Television

  • Books

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    BOOKS BY CHRIS BODOR:
    Train of Thought (Poetnoise Press, 1994)

    Vestibule (Poetnoise Press, 1995)

    Voice Male (Poetnoise Press, 1996)

    Railroad Ties (Poetnoise Press, 1997)

    Railroad Ties - Best of the First Three Years (Visual Arts Press, 2001)


    COLLECTIONS EDITED BY CHRIS BODOR
    Alt Dot Spoken Word (Poetnoise Press, 1997)
    "Words and prose from those who read at the Open Mic Series, Alt Dot Coffee Cafe - 1994 to 1996)

    Poetnoise 2000 (Poetnoise Press, 2000)
    "Words and prose from those who send emails to Chris Bodor"
  • Heroes

    "The hours are long and must be filled somehow until our death. And there's just not enough glory and excitement to go around. Things quickly get drab and deadly. We awaken in the morning, kick our feet out from under the sheets, place them on the floor and think, ah, shit, what now?"

    Charles Bukowski
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    walking words


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    The Genius of the Crowd
    by Charles Bulowski

    there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity
    in the average
    human being to supply any given army on any given day

    and the best at murder are those who preach against it
    and the best at hate are those who preach love
    and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

    those who preach god, need god
    those who preach peace do not have peace
    those who preach peace do not have love

    beware the preachers
    beware the knowers
    beware those who are always reading books
    beware those who either detest poverty
    or are proud of it
    beware those quick to praise
    for they need praise in return
    beware those who are quick to censor
    they are afraid of what they do not know
    beware those who seek constant crowds for
    they are nothing alone
    beware the average man the average woman
    beware their love, their love is average
    seeks average

    but there is genius in their hatred
    there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
    to kill anybody
    not wanting solitude
    not understanding solitude
    they will attempt to destroy anything
    that differs from their own
    not being able to create art
    they will not understand art
    they will consider their failure as creators
    only as a failure of the world
    not being able to love fully
    they will believe your love incomplete
    and then they will hate you
    and their hatred will be perfect

    like a shining diamond
    like a knife
    like a mountain
    like a tiger
    like hemlock

    their finest art

    found in:
    The Roominghouse Madrigals by Charles Bulowski
    pg. 31 (1988)

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: The Island of Misfit Toys
  • Ethnicity: Other
  • Religion: Other
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Education: College graduate
  • Occupation: Dumpter Diving
  • Income: Less than $30,000

Schools

Networking

Companies

  • Poetnoise Press

    • Beacon, NY US
    • Self Publish
    JUN 96 - AUG 03
  • Looking At Noise - 62 issues

    • Orange, CT US
    • Every-other-Friday college radio music column
    Aug 89 - Mar 92
  • Poet Plant Press

    • St. Augustine, FL US
    • Self Publish
    Aug 03 to present

My Top Artists

Blurbs

About me:

HEART POUR OPEN MICROPHONE SERIES (2009 to present)
Ancient City Poets present
Last Sunday of every month (except December) at Coffee Creations, St. Augustine, Florida
Hosted by Outsider writers member Chris Bodor

THE ALT DOT OPEN MICROPHONE SERIES (1995-1996)
Chris Bodor was a natural on the microphone thanks to his college radio experience (WNHU, West Haven). All his rock journalism, film script experience, and communication skills melted into his new found writing outlet of poetry and spoken word performing. The open mic series ran its course after a year and a half. That period was Bodor's most prolific time. He was constantly writing and rewriting and polishing and fine tuning each word with each reading. He developed an ear and his writing without a doubt began to take on an audio component. He became aware of how a word sounded rather than how it a word looked on the printed page. During the '90's Bukowski died, Kurt Cobain died, and Bodor did not. Chris Bodor documented the spoken word scene that developed at his brother’s place in his first anthology, simply titled “Alt Dot Spoken Word” (Poetnoise Press, 1997).

ANTHOLOGY PROJECTS BY CHRIS BODOR / Poet Plant Press

Three years later Chris self-published his second and best known anthology “Poetnoise 2000”. Words emailed to Chris Bodor and Poetnoise Press.

THE LUNCH BREAK BOOK
In 2007 Poetnoise Press was reborn as Poet Plant Press finding Bodor derailed from his train of thought and living in St. Augustine, Florida. http://www.myspace.com/lunchthebook

MOVING FORWARD...
(like a traveling Commuter Train)

This year (2009) Bodor broadened the theme of the lunch break to include musings on work in general. "Employees Only - The Work Book" features poems and images that relate to work and the work experience. The ups and the downs. Pay raises and rat race mazes. This project is a milestone because for the first time Bodor has reached out to others for assistance. Michael Henry Lee from Bodor's day job came on board as assistant editor and Chris' wife Mary Beth handled all the office related tasks (Office Manager, if you will).
Highlights of this amazing print book project include three paper cut images by Jad Fair from band Half Japanese. Forward by labor poet Wayne Mason. The featured poet is factory cog Karl Koweski. Cover art by Henry Denander. A gritty photo by Linda Kay Lund. Written contributions by Mike Watt from the legendary band The Minutemen and fIRHOSE, RD Armstrong, t. kilgore splake, Mike Daily, and St. Augustine based opera singer Roger Geronimo, and more than 25 others. Buy your copy today and read it on your lunch break.

http://www.myspace.com/theworkbook

UPCOMING POET PLANT PRESS projects

2010 - THE LOVE BOOk
January of 2010 Poet Plant Press will be collecting poems, prose, and artwork for their fifth anthology: Working Title - The Love Book. Go to the Myspace profile for "The Love Book" for more info on this 3P print book project.

http://www.myspace.com/thelovebook



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Chris Bodor from Poet Plant Press has audio spoken word pieces posted on reverbnation.com



REMINDER - NO Bodor reading TODAY (DEC 27)


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Wishing everyone a great New Year! 2 dates 4 January. Kaspar's open mic (1st Tue of the month) and mine (Last Sun of the month). Please note that a last Sunday of the month reading HAS NOT been scheduled today so that we can get ready for the new year. The feature list looks great for Heart Pour '10. Stay tuned. With Respect/C.Bodor

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Comments

Displaying 25 of 34 comments
  • Dec 27 2009 1:33 PM

    Thanks for being our friend.

    Cheers,

    Tears in the Fence
  • Dec 18 2009 6:25 AM

    Have a good weekend!
  • Oct 25 2009 9:58 PM

    Thank you so much!!  I had a great time today at the Poetry Reading you hosted at Coffee Creations.. It was awesome!  :)  have a great week! 
  • Sep 25 2009 6:31 PM

    Saw that you added some Eitzel songs to your page.  I saw him last night here in San Francisco..brilliant, as always.
  • Sep 18 2009 9:09 PM

    Thanks for being a friend of the Jesse Bernstein tribute page!

    Comments on Jesse and his works are welcomed.

    "The test of the integrity of a poem, or any work of art, may be, simply: does it lead, in the end, to freedom, or does it merely expand the arena of confinement? A voice from the outside, truly, is what we need to hear. Even a single word. Even something that is not a word, but suggests such a word."

    --Jesse Bernstein, 1987
  • Sep 14 2009 8:19 AM

    Thank you for the Friendship.

    All the best!

    -AMAdea Records

  • Sep 13 2009 12:16 AM

    hey Chris, be there at end of month show, please sign me up. been commin to Augustine for years, musician songwriter friend, Tom

    love the place

    see you 

    mike
    poet singer songwriter Split Pea/ce Americana poetry music

    http://www.myspace.com/splitpeace

     
  • Sep 12 2009 7:42 PM

    It's a good song, it is.
  • Sep 6 2009 10:14 AM

    Damn sorry I can't make it to the poetry reading on the 27th it' a work conflict thing
  • Aug 31 2009 11:40 PM

    Thanks Chris,  for all your help and paving the jitters with your rye spoken humor! Hard Core Heart Pour Rocks! See ya Tuesday!
  • Aug 31 2009 8:52 PM

    Chris, thank you for hosting the hard core heart pour matinee at the coffee shop. What a great sucsess and hope everyone enjoyed it! By the way you left your mic and book stapler LOL! On another note we won the annual Best of St Augustine second place for best coffee shop. We are truly blessed and you are part of the honor my friend.



    God bless



    Chris
  • Aug 19 2009 6:26 AM

    Thanks for your friendship.
    Stay tuned for more Author Television!

    ~James
    www.AuthorTelevision.com
  • Aug 10 2009 12:29 PM


    Be happy and laugh often...  Life is truly beautiful! Very nice to meet you, Chris...


    Love,Peace&Light  ~Andrea~
  • Aug 6 2009 1:06 PM

    Thanks for adding me, new friend!
  • Jul 26 2009 3:12 AM

    Hey Hello and I am happy to meet you
  • Jul 19 2009 8:28 PM

    Thanks! :)
  • Jun 1 2009 3:47 AM

    after listening to the cleaning thepool comp I could only imagine you at work slowly cleaning the damn pool while contemplating your lot in life.Thats the shit make me a copy.
    GutterGuerry
  • May 25 2009 2:34 AM

    Thanks and cheers! - Denis
  • May 11 2009 3:57 PM

    Thanks for being friends!
  • Apr 29 2009 11:09 AM

    “Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” -- Bill Cosby

    Have a great day -- Thom
  • Apr 28 2009 1:58 AM

    howdy
  • Apr 15 2009 9:04 AM

    glad to be along for the ride..happy poetry month
  • Apr 9 2009 4:03 PM

    Thanks for the request!
  • Apr 9 2009 9:14 AM

    Thanks for the add!
  • Mar 25 2009 4:43 PM

    thanks for the add and i changed my settings!