Tag Archive for the term: reading

The other day I bought a purple ukulele and Elran and I wandered through old Montreal and China town just strumming along. The ukulele is a special little thing, it makes a pluky joyful noise and the 4 nylon strings make it pretty easy to play and if you’re smallish like me it fits it [...]

“Stalin verses Akhmeteli” is a ten minute puppet story-telling that will be featured in the 2nd Anniversary Indyish Monthly Mess, Saturday August 9th 2008, at La Sala Rossa - 4848 St Laurent, Montreal, QC.
The piece was first performed at the Sardapi Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia in the spring of 2003. It was part of [...]

Risa and I have had the chance to cover a lot more then just the Fringe this year. We’ve met with some great Toronto minds, schemed some exciting new collaborations, worked on the upcoming Mega Mess at Sala Rossa on August 9th, experienced a rooftop mini-jam and reading, and met wonderful creative minds. And met [...]

Hello and happy new year! It’s been over a month since last we visited the land of podcast. Now we’re back with the third and final installment of that ever so entertaining evening of music featuring the It’s a Living Thing band, Me & Maryjane, Risa and myself. After the last Indyish meeting, we were [...]

I actually have a copy of “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing” signed with good wishes from The Atwood herself, which is a prized possession of mine though I didn’t meet her - it was a gift. I read this non-fiction about ‘the craft’ when I’m feeling gripe-y about Writing.
I think I [...]

Fyi for the audio curious, or anyone at home poking the Internet, hoping it’ll do something: a new Reading is up over on Indyish.com/podcast. If you secretly get a kick out of the art of foley, or dig bitter yet hilarious sci fi irony, or the idea of me doing funny voices, check it [...]

Over on the Readings podcast I’ve just posted 2 new bits of kinda random audio - if you’re bored at work I dedicate these to you. 1 is a repost of an earlier podcast, this time posted at the right streaming rate to make us sound normal and not slow and testosteroni (yum, testosteroni, sounds [...]

For a little while I thought I’d write my undergrad thesis on Wallace Stevens. I love him, especially Of Modern Poetry.
In 2002 I bought his collected letters, and just a week or so ago I remembered them again when Erik Virtanen mentioned he’d bought the collected poems. I have been pouring over the poet’s [...]

Just a last minute reminder:
The second installmentof the Monthly Mess is tonight. Doors open at 8pm folks.
Locale: Tricycle Media, 1180 Sainte-Antoine St. West. Right near the Bell Centre. Here’s the map.
What’s going on? Well, it’s a mess… so musicdjsphotgraphyreadingspoetrypaintingsandtheatrics. Come hang out!