The Word Is Spoken!

		THE REVOLUTION IS LIVE Male 101 years old GAINESVILLE, Florida United States Last Login: 7/11/2009
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MySpace URL:

www.myspace.com/thewordisspoken

The Word Is Spoken!'s Interests

Movies

We will perform at your party or special event. Fees are nominal and cover mainly our time and travel expenses. Please send a message for further details.

Heroes

Photos on this page are from many peeps, including William Lewis, Stacy Parrish, Greg Turner, and others. Some were shamelessly stolen from other people's pages. Video footage for TWIS! created by Mike "Son of Sham" McShane. If I forgot to give you credit, gimme a shout! If you didn't want me stealing it ... well, you shouldn'ta put it online, you ninny!

Some of the out-of-town guests we have hosted in the past include:

The Nude Bandit

from Orlando

Jesse Parent a.k.a.
"Jesster"

from Salt Lake City

Adrienne Nadeau

from Tampa

Rhoade

from San Francisco

Lyndel Brown

from New York

Sami J

from all over Florida

Gene Anderson

from St. Augustine

Wavy Davy

from Orlando

Krystle wit a 'e'

from Tampa

Anteaters and The Women Who Love Them

from Fort Lauderdale

Influences:
Aesop Rock
Laurie Anderson
Maya Angelou
John Ashbery
Margaret Atwood
Afrika Bambaataa
Blue Man Group
Victor Borgia
Lenny Bruce
Charles Bukowski
George Carlin
Jim Carroll
George Clinton
Jim Croce
Billy Collins
E E Cummings
Salvador Dali
Vanessa Daou
Diane Di Prima
Ani DiFranco
Rita Dove
DJ Kool Herc
Rita Dove
Bob Dylan
Eminem
M C Escher
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Gainesville Poets & Writers
Allen Ginsburg
Grandmaster Flash
Spalding Gray
Arlo Guthrie
Ed Hamell
Doug Henning
Jim Henson
Bill Hicks
Langston Hughes
Jack Johnson
Quincy Jones
Venus Jones
Andy Kaufman
Danny Kaye
The Last Poets (of the World)
Tom Lehr
Letterbomb Collective
Steve Martin
Matisyahu
Spike Milligan
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Ron Palovcik
Queen Sheba
Henry Rollins
Rumi
Sage Francis
Gil Scott-Heron
Shakespeare
Tenacious D
Tupac Shakur
Charles Simic
Sister Spit
Spellbox
Tom Stoppard
Sugar Hill Gang
ThirdEyeSpoken
Sly Stone
Lily Tomlin
Andy Warhol
Gillian Welch
Saul Williams
William Carlos Williams
Stevie Wonder
Frank Zappa

The Word Is Spoken!'s Details

Status:	Single
Here for:	Networking
Zodiac Sign:	Capricorn

The Word Is Spoken! is preparing for some big shows throughout the summer.
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The Word Is Spoken!'s Blurbs

About me:

Please do not post video comments or podcasts on this page.

I hope that was large enough. Geesh!

Next shows: June 13, 20, 27

Thank you to everyone attending our recent shows, especially the 2nd Anniversary Show AND the McShane Baby Shower & Roast. Also, thanks to Mike McShane for screening his film "You Are Not Frank Sinatra" at the show. We love movies about local poetry!

WE LOVE short theater, stand-up comedy, visual art, performance art, and acoustic and experimental music. ALL poetry styles--from academic to hip hop--are WELCOME.

If you are coming from out of town, please contact me ahead of time.

Listeners, readers, and fans WELCOME!

There is OPEN MIC at every show

The Word Is Spoken! is a free speech forum.

In January 2007, Gainesville sculptor/painter Kayla Prommersberger introduced Orlando novelist/spoken-word artist Joe Pasquale ("The Nude Bandit") to Gainesville writer/poet/gadfly David Maas ... and The Word Is Spoken! was born.
David organizes spoken word shows in an around Gainesville and helps aspiring poets get recorded, published, and featured at shows.

POETRY SHOWS - based in Gainesville, FL. Most of the shows are here, but Gainesville poets and friends sometimes hit the road. We'll eventually come to your neighborhood.

Many poets are featured regularly. TWIS! connects with poets in ThirdEyeSpoken and at the CMC Poetry Jam, and members of the Letterbomb Collective, Gainesville Poets and Writers, and One Nation

Did you miss Tom Miller reading his classic poem "Bum" at The Word Is Spoken! on August 24, 2007?
Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyQzSHLlm0

The Word Is Spoken! was featured in the October 2007 issue of Satellite Magazine (Gainesville, FL).

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please send a message via MySpace: www.myspace.com/thewordisspoken
OR
thewordisspoken@hotmail.com
OR
thewordisspoken@aol.com

Who I'd like to meet:

YOU!

BUT if you post a comment containing an unsafe link, it will deleted, and you will be removed from our friends list, no questions asked.

AND PLEASE NO VIDEOS, AND NO PODCASTS!

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