Frank Moore e-Salon

Frank sings "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" [Youtube]

2011-02-09T10:52:00.003-08:00

mind-blowing performance!

2011-01-24T19:16:00.000-08:00

Well, the first performance of the year was the kind that would spoil me if I expected every performance or most performances to reach the depths of this one! Everything went there! In my performances there is an invisible hidden secret state of erotic friction of arousing human intimacy rubbing between bodies without limits or glamour. Because it is invisible, you can not see it, only feel it. For example, we didn’t enter that state at the performance at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco last summer, even though that was very erotic, visual, communal, tribal, etc. In fact, we last entered that state last February at Temescal.

The first couple to arrive actually set the tone, anchored /rooted the performance. The guy, Bobby, did that just by being there. Vicki turned out to be an actor. Her reading /acting out my poems throughout opened the door into the holy madness. Everything worked! It was possible to do a lot of the rituals [GESTURES, ROCKING, DRESSING, PROJECTING SLIDES ON NUDE DANCERS, etc] that have either set upon the shelf or haven’t reached the depths of arousing unknowns for awhile. And new rituals were introduced [UNDRESS THE CAMERAMAN, THE SIAMESE WAIST BANDS, TAKING /READING NOTES, etc]. There was just the right amount of resistance so that important issues could be explored, and to reveal that zones of comfort are silly and really prisons. [I am imagining the shit about being a homophobe a straight guy would get if he gave the reasons for not wanting to undress the cameraman that the Lesbian gave!] But Amy and her friend stepped up and by being actively lustfully abandoned willing to play and trust, broke everything open for everybody. And they did it as just fun, no big deal. I liked exploring his butt! Everything started floating into that juicy secret space as Amy started rocking on my lap, prickly freedom going all the way into both fusion and infusion of arousing magical pleasure erotic friction of comfort. Tomek’s surreal music created waves connecting the holy dancers together as they [us] webbed and flowed into different combinations and forms and roles without limits or judgments. Amy and her friend [he obviously hadn’t done anything like this before!] made it possible by simply trusting… Trusting so deeply, they could reshape the dance without avoiding anything. A whole band appeared at this point to join Tomek [they would disappear when the dance was over!]! Things got hot and surreal, while staying simple and human. Intimacy, closeness among everybody who stayed welded us into a cozy tribal body. Our skin [the organ of connection] webbed all of us together as the rubbing went all the way deeper into calm pleasure, as Vicki threw herself on the floor and rocked and belted out the words of the poem. I wish I could take credit for creating such a dramatic, erotic turn-on of an event. But I just followed the possibilities that the willingness people brought to the space created.

Da Boyz:

We arrived to Temescal a little earlier than usual, which turned out to be a good thing because there was a snag with the lights! After the performance, Herb, who does a lot of stuff at Temescal also, helped Mikee figure it out. So we did a last minute lighting adjustment, and Frank got going. He had to tell some of the early arrivals to hold onto their stories ... "Save it for the performance!" He told Vicki, an actress who was the first to arrive with her German husband, that he sometimes is not even visible when performances start. He is hidden!

There were two new wall hangings for this performance: banner versions of Frank's recent computer paintings, "Falling In Love" and "Let's Twist Again". They looked beautiful!

Right at 8, more people came in and Frank started talking with Vicky ... he said, "As you were saying ..." She had seen a flier for the performance up somewhere on Shattuck in Berkeley and went to the music & arts section of the Berkeley Public library, and had the librarian there google it! She said it was in her neighborhood and easy to get to ... She said she is an actress, and has always wanted to be on stage, with an audience ... never wanted fame, but to be on stage, with that audience reaction. Frank said that she had told him, before things started, that they spend half the year in France, and that he had just read the biography of Jean Genet.

Then Frank turned to a guy next to her, wearing a green Marvin the Martian Looney Tunes shirt. He said he loved the big backdrop, that it reminded him of Zap Comics. He had also seen the flier on a pole, near the Ashby BART, and had taken a picture of it. He had remembered seeing Frank on TV maybe 10 years ago ... Frank asked him to describe what he had seen ... He said he didn't remember a lot from that time period, because he was practicing illegal forms of "meditation". But he did not watch a lot of TV, and was picky about what he watched, and this really stood out ... you went from one channel, "Fantasy Island", to Frank's show: "Fantasy". He said it was a bunch of people in a room, he remembered Frank was there, and he thought Linda too ... he said, "how should I put this" ... it was very relaxed, and people were all naked, together in a very relaxed way. Frank asked, "A room like this?" He said perhaps ... but it didn't seem that the room was what was important about it ... Frank asked him what was important ...? He said it was the feeling of everyone there, very relaxed. Frank asked him about himself too at some point ... he is studying psychology, and works at Options, a recovery center. If he gets a degree, he said he could get paid for what he already does.

Next Frank turned to a pair of women in the center of the room. He asked one first what had brought her to the performance. She said her girlfriend had told her about it, had seen the flier, and said that it would be good for her to see "Live Art". They were attracted by the part of the flier that said, "Bring your sense of humor" ... Frank asked her how uncomfortable she was willing to be? She said it depends on to what degree? Frank asked what degree was she willing? She said she was willing to be uncomfortable as long as it was positive. Frank asked her if being uncomfortable is negative? She said, no, not necessarily ... Frank then asked her if she would undress the camera guy (Corey)? She said, right away, "No."

"Why?" Frank asked.

"Because I'm gay," she replied.

"What does your sexual preference have to do with it?" Frank asked.

"Well, its more that I am in a committed relationship, and don't feel the need to do anything like that with another person ..."

Frank asked her, "Is he gay?"

She said, "I don't know ..."

Vicki chimed in, "Only the cameraman knows ..." And Frank said, "Not necessarily!" Everyone was laughing!

Frank turned to the girlfriend, and asked her if she was willing to be uncomfortable? She said, "No." Frank asked, "So why did you come to the Uncomfortable Zones of Fun?" She said she really didn't know ... Later in the performance, he came back to her, and asked if she was "comfortable"? She said yes, but her back hurt from sitting on the floor ... Frank suggested she could lie down, but she said she was ok ... The two of them left later when things started getting juicier!

So now Frank talked to another pair of women who had come in, one with glasses, and her friend. Frank asked the first one what had attracted her to the performance. She said her friend had told her about it ... "What lies did she tell you?!" Frank asked. She said, "Well, that I wouldn't have to speak!" It turned out that she hadn't actually seen the flier, or heard what it said ... Frank had Vicki read it aloud. Her friend said that she had basically told her that it would be "weird". Frank asked the friend why she had wanted to come? She said that really it was because she had a school project where she needed to write a page describing a performance. She had seen a flier for this, and had thought that this would be a challenge to write about.

Frank talked to several others who had come in ... one was a dental hygienist from West Virginia, who just moved here ... she had come with two others, an unemployed soccer player who liked to read, and a waitress/bartender who was studying to be a massage therapist. They had all been together at the Albany Bulb, drinking wine and watching the sunset, and had wondered what they would do that night? They looked online, and found this! It had sounded interesting and it was free ... They were all willing to be uncomfortable ...

We think at this point Frank returned to the girl who was writing the page for school ... he asked her if she would undress the camera guy? She said, "No." Frank again asked why? She said that it was because her first choice for coming to the performance with her that night was her husband, and while she did not personally feel uncomfortable with doing that, she knew that he would feel uncomfortable hearing about it, because she would tell him about it, and she didn't want to do that. Then she added, "Also, the camera man looks like my husband." There was a roar of laughter! Frank asked, "Is that good or bad?" More laughter! She said, "Well I married him ..."

Then Frank turned to the Marvin the Martian guy, and asked him if he would undress Corey, but in the midst of what we think was a "yes", the waitress in back piped up, "I'll undress him just to get rid of that shirt!" So Frank said, "Be my guest ..."

She introduced herself to Corey as Amy, and took off his shirt and shorts ... she asked about the socks? Frank asked if Corey's feet were clean? He said he didn't know! They left the socks on!

So now Corey was nude behind the camera, and Frank had noticed that the one woman was taking notes for her school project ... he asked her to read them. The notes took everyone back through the events thus far, through the first girl who would not undress Corey because "she was gay" ... everyone was laughing, even her! It showed up how absurd it was! Very fun to hear it recounted this way. In the text, she had written that Frank was "goading" the audience to undress the camera guy! Frank asked Corey how it felt for him to be "goading" the audience to undress him! And then he said, "I could not come up with this ... or did I??" "Maybe you are a plant?" he asked the note-taker. She said, "Maybe ..."

We think now Frank turned to a girl with dreads ... she was an acupressure student, and had also seen the flier on a pole and taken a picture of it ... she had been attracted by the idea of being uncomfortable, how it can be a good thing ... she had been a sociology student and had been fascinated by taboos. She talked about how there are very simple things that can be taboo, like standing outside in a public space and doing nothing for 10 minutes. Many people only think of the extremes when they think of "taboo", but it was interesting to her the many simpler things that become taboo. She asked Frank what he thought was the most taboo thing in our culture? Frank said that it depends ... For example, he told the story of a performance at Passion Flower, an adult store that hosted several of Frank's performances ... Linda described how they did "Gestures", and Frank said that when it came to the gesture of rubbing feet, foot to foot, the guys freaked out. That was more taboo than anything else. The sociologist asked, so its the context then? Frank said yes ... She asked if he could describe what is behind what he does? In response, Frank asked if Vicki would read his poem, "I Came To Play". Then he turned to Amy the waitress, and the soccer player, and asked if they would come up and dress only in the costumes and jewelry that were laid out? They said yes, and came up .... Frank wanted to be sure that they understood the "only" part. They got it, and they were willing!

So while Vicki did a very enthusiastic and dramatic reading of "I Came To Play", Amy and the soccer player came up and picked out things to wear, and then took off their clothes, and put on the costumes and Betty's jewelry ... Frank told them about Betty, and Amy thanked Betty for the beautiful jewelry. She said, "She has good taste!" We think it was also here that Frank asked if the sociologist would rock Unruhlee ... so she rocked him in her arms while the rest of this was going on.

After the poem had been read, and Amy and the soccer dude had sat down, Frank asked them how they felt? Amy said, "Alive!" Frank asked if she could expand upon that? She said that she was not really uncomfortable getting undressed in front of people, was comfortable with her body, but she really liked the experience of going through that with her friend, doing it together, and she thought that they would be much better friends now.

Meanwhile! Tomek had come in and was playing during most of this, an amazing dreamy electronic soundscape behind everything that was going on.

The sociologist spoke up ... she said something along the lines of noticing that Frank facilitates who does what during the performance, and she wondered if there were certain things that were more uncomfortable for certain people, and not for others. For example, Amy was not uncomfortable with getting undressed in front of people, but maybe there was something else that would be uncomfortable for her ...

It may have been right around this point that Frank brought up his new "thing". Linda described the double elastic band that Erika had sewed together ... it was something that Frank had come up with for two people to get into, and dance together. So they would be connected with elastic at the waist ... He asked Amy and her friend if they would come up and try it? Sure they would.

So they danced around in the double elastic, which was a lot of fun. Frank told them after the performance that they really opened things up in the performance, their willingness. Frank asked if Erika would rock Unruhlee, so they rocked together for a while ...

After this, Frank asked if Amy would undress him, and if she and her friend would do Gestures with him? Linda described Gestures ... Frank also asked if Erika and Unruhlee would undress and do Gestures, and did anyone else want to do Gestures? No one spoke up ...

So Unruhlee and Erika, Frank, Amy and her friend did the Gestures that Linda read ... the music continued ... After a while of Gestures, Frank asked Amy if she would be the rocker ... rocking on his lap while Linda danced with them, touching them, and Amy's friend could join Unruhlee and Erika, dancing together. Would Amy undress Linda? Yes. And would Vicki read Frank's poem, "Wrapping and Rocking", repeating it, as they rocked and danced ...? Yes she would. Frank had Mikee lower the lights and turn the slides on, and Amy rocked on Frank's lap while Linda danced soft with them, and the three others danced very playfully! While they rocked, a group of musicians arrived who had come to previous performances in the series. A trumpet player started up, jamming with Tomek, and another guy was on the tom tom drums, and another friend played various toy instruments. The music was incredible! The rocking and dancing was beautiful! When Vicki's voice gave out, Herb volunteered to sing the poem, which was really wonderful. The rocking and dancing went on ... at some point, Linda took Amy's place, and Amy and her friend danced around Linda and Frank rocking ... And then a little later, Frank had Amy and her friend dance together while Unruhlee and Erika danced, and Linda rocked on Frank .... Frank asked Vicki if she would read "Wrapping and Rocking" one last time? She did an amazing reading of the poem, falling onto her knees and acting out the various images that the poem brings out of rocking ... like,

"the boys rocking
uncontrollable from laughter
at their childish pranks."

It was really amazing! And shortly afterward, Frank had Linda say, "The End."

Now Frank asked folks what they thought of the performance ... Vicki wanted to tell Frank and everyone there that she was what they call "bi-polar" and has had some very extreme experiences, including thinking one time that she had become a dog, but that she wanted to thank Frank for this experience, that she had really enjoyed it, had enjoyed reading Frank's poems, and was buying Chapped Lap. Frank asked her to come back, and she said she would, not next month, but maybe the month after. Herb said that it was hard to switch into "verbal" mode after he had been singing, but that he really liked it. Frank told him how much he loved the Temescal space. Herb is very involved in the space, and feels the same way, and wants very much for the space to survive.

The dental hygienist said that she had really enjoyed it too. She said she hadn't been uncomfortable. By the end of the night, the acupressure sociologist, and the note-taker and her friend had both left as well. Vicki's husband said that he really didn't know what to say about the night, but that it had been great, he had really liked it. He just didn't know what to say! Amy said that it had "revived" her, to do things like this with likeminded people. Her friend said that he had never done anything like this before in his life, but that he really enjoyed himself. Erika said she really liked the rocking and dancing, and loved how Amy and her friend had been willing to participate.

Next was Unruhlee ... what did he think? Frank made a sound and a face! Linda asked if hearing this made Frank uncomfortable? Yes! Everyone laughed. Unruhlee said that it was a great night ... and he showed everyone a copy of this zine that he had put together about 15 years ago called GAWE, "Gardeners Against the Work Ethic" ... it was a kind of performance piece, creating gardens in people's front yards in Madison, which was inspired very much by Frank's writings, especially his writings about eroplay. They had incorporated eroplay dancing into the gardening events ... He and Frank and Linda remembered how he had come with a tour of people on a bus and Frank had created a performance for them to participate in at 848 space in SF. Someone asked Unruhlee how he got his name? He said it started as a joke, which he tries to live up to. Frank added, "And fails!" "Touche," said Unruhlee.

Frank asked Amy if she would like to get together, and she said, "Yes!"

Frank turned to Linda, "I did it!" Yes! Linda explained Frank's hospital experience over the summer, and how he had ended up with a trach. and a PEG tube, and how big a deal it was now for us to be here, and for Frank to be performing. Really amazing! And wonderful.

Afterward, Frank and Linda talked more with Herb about Temescal ... Frank kept telling him how much he loved the space. We packed up the props and ate delicious popcorn and talked about the performance. Another amazing performance! Frank had said at one point that it was one of the best groups of people, because of how willing people were to participate ... Linda said that it often only takes one person willing to participate, and then it creates an experience that everyone has together, even if they are just watching.

ERIKA:

The January Uncomfortable Zones of Fun. We Are Back!! We got to Temescal and got everything set up including Frank's new blown up paintings on vinyl "Let's Twist Again," and "Falling In Love." They looked great behind where Frank and Linda would be sitting. Frank, Linda and Mikee arrived and we were doing our final set up when we couldn't get the power to work on the light board! While people were arriving Corey and Alexi rigged up some extension cords up to the ceiling to the lights. It worked and we had a few lights!!

There was a couple that spends half of their time in France who came early. The woman Vicki sat right up near Frank and Linda and started talking about how she had seen the flyer for the performance and Frank said to wait until the camera was rolling. Soon more people arrived and Frank started going around and talking to them. The woman who had come early said that she saw a flyer up and had gone to the art/music library where she is part of a play reading group and had the woman at the library googled Frank for her. The performance was near where she lived and that made it easy to come. She was an actress who never dreamed of being a star but enjoyed the audience and interacting with the audience. Linda said that they had just been listening to the biography of Jen Genet. Her husband came with her who worked on old cars and traveled around Europe part of the year. They both enjoyed seeing postcards of Frank's oil paintings before the performance had started.

There was a guy who had also seen a flyer and really loved the art on it and on the back drops. He said Mikee's art reminded him of comics he reads. He was studying psychology and works at Options a recovery center. He said he is going to school in psychology so he can get paid for what he already does. He had seen Frank and Linda on cable TV ten years ago. He said that it was very memorable and there wasn't a lot that he remembered from that time period because he had been doing a lot of illegal forms of mediation at the time. He said he was very picky about what he watches on TV and there was Frank and Linda and some others, nude and looking very comfortable in a room. Frank said much like this room here and he said yes although it didn't seem to be much about the room but how the people were together who were nude and very relaxed and comfortable.

There were two women in the center of the room who came together. One of them had seen the flyer at a BART station and told her girl friend about it. When Frank asked them what had attracted them to the flyer they said that they didn't know but that it was live art and to bring a sense of humor. They were both students, one a nursing student. They had not seemed to notice that the title was "The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun". Frank asked the nursing student if she was willing to be uncomfortable and to what degree. She said that that depended on if it was positive or not. Frank asked her if she would undress the camera guy. She said "no,". Frank asked her why and she said because she didn't want to. Frank asked her why and she said that she didn't want to do it because she was gay. Frank asked her why her sexual preference had anything to do with it. She said she was in a committed relationship and that she did not need to do anything physical with anyone else other that the person she was with. Her girlfriend was there with her and she had been the one who had seen the flyer. Frank asked her if the camera guy was gay and she said that she did not know. Vicki the actress said that only the camera guy knows and Frank said not necessarily!

Another woman had come with her friend who had seen a posting on-line about the performance. Frank asked her what lies her friend had told her about the performance and she said that her friend had told her that she was not going to have to speak at the performance! Frank had Vicki the actress read the flyer "Uncomfortable Zones of Fun," experiments in experience participation performance. Frank asked her friend why she had not told her friend all of that and she said she did tell her that it was going to be weird so she had been warned. She said that she needed to go to some event and write about culture for a school project and she had found the posting for the performance at 5:00. She had a strong feeling to come and to bring her friend with her. She was looking for something that would be hard to write about and Frank said you found it!

There was another woman who had just moved to the bay area from West Virginia. She was a dental hygienist and she had come to meet people and see new things. Frank said clean teeth and he opened his mouth ready for her. There was a guy with them who was unemployed who liked to play soccer. They had all been at Albany Bulb drinking wine together and were looking for something to do so they goggled and found Frank's performance. Their other friend was a waitress and a bartender who was in massage school.

Frank asked a couple more people if they would take the camera guys clothes off. The woman who was a hygienist said "No," Frank asked the woman who came for a class project if she would undress the camera guy and she said no. Frank asked her why and she said that because although she was there and agreed to be uncomfortable her husband was not there and had not agreed to be uncomfortable and she would go home and tell him all about it. And she said besides, the camera looks a lot like her husband. Everyone laughed and Frank asked if that was good or bad? She said well it was good because I married him. Then Frank asked the guy who saw Frank and Linda on TV ten years ago he said he would and he said yes. Amy, the woman who was in massage school also said yes at the same time just to get that shirt off of him. Corey had a bright colored flowered shirt on with Hawaiian shorts. She went up and undressed Corey. Frank asked her if she was gay and she said no but that she was open to love with all people. He asked her if her sexual preference came into undressing Corey and she said no because Corey was a human being and she did not know him. She would need to know him to be sexually attracted to him.

The woman who wouldn't undress the camera guy because he looked like her husband had been taking notes for her school write-up so Frank asked her to read her notes. Frank said he couldn't come up with this stuff! She recounted what had happened so far including the part about why the woman who was gay did not want to undress Corey. She too was laughing at this point as well hearing the re-telling of her reasoning for not undressing the camera guy. Frank asked her girlfriend how uncomfortable she was now and she said that she was comfortable except for her back. Frank said lay down and she said no she was ok. Obviously they were both uncomfortable and left shortly after that when people stared undressing each other.

Frank talked to a woman who was an acupressure student who had also studied sociology. She was interested in taboos. She said that there are lots of taboos, simple ones that make people really uncomfortable and that it is good to go into what is uncomfortable and taboo in order to free. Frank asked her what taboos are and she said that there are all kinds of simple ones like being in public and not doing anything. People expect you to be waiting for someone or talking on your phone but to be in public not doing anything makes people really uncomfortable. She said that although it was good to go into what is uncomfortable and taboo she did not want to do that tonight. Frank asked her why and she said that she didn't have a good reason other that it is comfortable not to and it takes a lot to push yourself to do things that are uncomfortable. Frank and Linda talked about the zones of comfort and how people are always talking about their zones of comfort. When you go into what is uncomfortable then there is true comfort which is flexible comfort. The woman said that it takes trust to go into what is uncomfortable. Frank asked her if she trusted, trusted people, trusted life. She said yes for the most part. She asked Frank what was the most taboo thing and Frank said that it depends. Frank and Linda talked about doing gestures with people at Passion Flower and adult shop and how people would do all kinds of stuff but when it came time to touch each others feet, feet to feet the guys freaked out and became very uncomfortable. And this was at a place where you would think people would be into feet.

The sociologist asked Frank if he could describe what breaking taboos is in his work. Frank asked her to rock Unruhlee while Vicki the actress read "I Came to Play." Then Frank had Erika rock Unruhlee. Frank asked Amy and her friend who was a guy to come up and undress each other and dress in costumes which they did. Frank asked them how they felt after putting the costumes on. Amy said that she felt comfortable being nude but that it was fun to do it with her friend. The sociologist said that different things were uncomfortable to different people and because Amy was comfortable being nude, comfortable with her body maybe getting undressed with her friend wasn't the thing to do to be uncomfortable. Then Frank had Amy and her friend try the newest costume, a couple of pieces of elastic sewed together. Erika helped them put it on in the center of the room. They danced belly to belly. Frank asked Amy if she would do gestures with Frank and her friend would join them. Erika and Unruhlee did gestures together. Frank asked if anybody else wanted to do gestures and nobody did. Everyone undressed and Linda began reading the gestures. Look at each other childlike, touch each others knees knowingly, sensually touch each others butts. Then Frank asked Amy if she would rock on Frank's lap while Vicki read Frank's poem "Wrapping and Rocking," over and over. Unruhlee and Erika would dance together and Amy's friend who was also in costume would dance with them. At some point Frank had Amy undress Linda and she joined them rocking and dancing.

Tomek played an amazing jam of music throughout the night. At some point during the dancing and rocking some other musicians came in and joined him with horns and other instruments. They had come to portions of performances before and just jumped right in. Vicki said that she needed someone to take over reading "Wrapping and Rocking." Herb a guy who is involved in the Temescal space took over doing an amazing and beautiful singing of the poem which sounded great with the musicians. The dancing and rocking continued for a long time, bodies intertwining in a soft deep erotic exploration of skin. Amy and her friend had opened up all of this when they said yes and came up put on costumes and danced and rocked with Frank and Linda. At the end Linda said that that is all it takes a couple of people who are willing and then it opens everything up. Even the people who are watching feel a part of it. At some point the guy who came with Amy joined her with Linda and Frank and Unruhlee and Erika continued dancing. It was a long time of deep dancing.

More people began to leave when the rocking and dancing started. The woman who was a sociologist and her friend left and then the woman who had been notes also left. At the end Frank went around and asked what people thought of the night. Herb the guy connected to the Temescal space said that it would take him a while to find words but that it had been a great night. Frank said that he hoped that Temescal would keep a float and that Frank really loved the space. Herb did to and said he would do what he could. The guy who lived in France part of the year said that he didn't know what to think but that it had been a great night. The woman who was a hygienist said that it has been a really great night and that she wasn't uncomfortable. Amy said that it had been fun and also at times uncomfortable up dancing doing things that she had not done before. Her friend said too that he had never done anything like it and it felt good. Unruhlee said that it was a good night. Frank said that he was uncomfortable with what Unruhlee might say. Someone asked why his name was Unruhlee and he said someone had come up with it a long time ago and that he tries to live up to it. Frank said that he doesn't. Frank said that Frank did it again and Linda told about how Frank had been in the hospital for weeks over the summer and then months of rehab and how we were up against the pictures the doctors had about Frank because he did not fit these pictures. Some said that Frank wouldn't make it or that he would never eat again or that he would not get his trach tube out but he had done all of that and he was back doing performances again and how that in and of itself was amazing and felt so good. Tomek came up at the end and said you did it again Frank!!!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

COME SATURDAY TO FIND OUT IF TOMEK WILL PLAY!

2011-01-18T18:57:00.000-08:00

also new backdrops, new props! Ah, but the same old uncomfortable journey outside of the margins!

Re: FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL is now offically on-line! (Captain Fred

2011-01-17T20:00:00.000-08:00

Hey Mikee!
I'm listening now and it sounds good! Congrats on getting it going. More options is always good.

-c'fred

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I am off to add more music to the new channel!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

question

2011-01-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

Mr. Moore,

I recently launched a website called Write the Vote, which tracks write-in campaigns nationwide. I found your write-in campaign website from 2008, and I'm wondering: Do you plan to run in 2012?

Thank you,

Austin Wright
writethevote.com

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hi, Austin! Well, I would need to be drafted! It was a very intensive two year journey . We do know That not all of the votes I received were counted. During the campaign, with the help of the national expert on ballot access issues Richard Winger, we forced several states to change their rules for write-in candidates. It was a very satisfying experience.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Westfield Alliance Indie Show #73

2011-01-17T19:49:00.000-08:00

The Westfield Alliance Indie Show #73

Ratcliff Bailey I Want You

Black Angel Be Gone

Mike Lyzenga Guardian of My Heart

Keith Secola Wailing Blues

Asatron Princess

John Mendell Lost Without You (LIVE)

Shaved Hampster Take It Back

JEALOUS INTERVIEW

JEALOUS I want your Love

JMinus Swing Low

Roger Campo Subversive Soul

John Lee Hooker Jr. Dear John

Ratcliff Bailey Back when I was a Fool

White Goat Cheerful Tear

The show is being sent to the outlets today.

I HAVE A MESSAGE TO RELAY FROM Frank Moore, owner of Berkley CA's Luver.com; and Michael LeBash, who does the tech work for Luver.Com, GOOD NEWS!:

From: Frank Moore fmoore@eroplay.com

Date: January 14, 2011 4:54:07 PM PST

Subject: FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL is now offically on-line!

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just one of the shows on LUVER!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL is now offically on-line!

2011-01-17T19:47:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Nice !

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yep! And we are busy adding a shit more music!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL is now officially on-line!

2011-01-17T19:44:00.000-08:00

as of today at http://www.luver.com/deeproots/! So LUVER now has two kick-ass channels!

even before we added the new channel, LUVER has been experiencing an explosion of listenership from before Xmas time. But a couple of months before that, for some tech issues, we had to upgrade the luver server. We had a choice... Either do it on the cheap [as we always don't have much money] or take a deal that costs more money monthly but gave us a shit load more bandwidth. We opted for the deal, although we hadn't been going over our allotted

bandwidth. Within a couple of months our listenership exploded.

That would have meant under our old deal hundreds of dollars each month in penalties. That would have killed LUVER! But now we have Plenty of bandwidth! SO LISTEN!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

from the biography of Jean Genet we are reading

2011-01-17T19:42:00.000-08:00

Paul Valéry is quoted as saying, "You mustn't hesitate to do what will lose you half of your fans and triple the affections of those who remain."

* * * * *

amen!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: milestones (Paul) IV

2011-01-17T19:39:00.000-08:00

Franke,

Glad to hear that physical therapy and the talking book are helping you nap.

Sven the physical therapist (Swede farm boy with a fetish for farm animals)...

Please let him know I'm glad he is helping you.

Also, if the bottom drops out of the PT gig there are farms in the Midwest he might want consider for employment. This is after all America's dairyland....Beautiful cows!!

xo Paul

* * * * *

MOO!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This week on Maximum Rock N Roll!

2011-01-17T19:37:00.000-08:00

Airs January 13, 2011 at 4pm pacific on http://www.luver.com

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL
tape #187
558 minutes
hosts: Tim, Ruth & Jeff

1. Jody Foster’s Army "Mad Garden"

from Sweden:
2. A.H.M. "Pyro Man"
3. Asocial "Revolt"
4. The Swankers "Anti Oi"
5. Poble Moble "Feel the Evil"

from England:
6. M.W.A.B. "Angus Young"
7. Potential Threat "We Don’t Want Your Fucking War"
8. Carnage "Social Elite"
9. Anti-System "Big Fallout"

from Japan:
10. Headless "Gathering"
11. Betoosha
12. The Stalin
13. Nubile
14. Gas Mask

Neo:
15. Das Damen
16. Poison 13 "One Step Closer"
17. The Congo Eels "Laugh in Your Face"
18. Velvet Underground "Foggy Notion"

Canada:
19. United State "Automation"
20. N.J. "Sitting Pretty"

21. No Policy "First Strike/Last Strike"

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RE: a new painting (Suzy)

2011-01-17T19:35:00.000-08:00

That is incredibly beautiful! Love to see two hot men together ;)

Suzy

Susan M. Block, Ph.D.
The Dr. Susan Block Show

* * * * *

exactly, Suzy! I have always gotten shit from so-called feminists who apparently can't count for just going after /playing with females!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Bruised Soul - A new LUVeR Show! (Paul II)

2011-01-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

I never known you to be modest Frankie....

That's part of your personal allure...

And I do believe being immodest is a requirement as outlined in the The Sex God Handbook.

Seriously, it's a gorgeous poster.

Heaps of hugs to everyone,

xo Paul

* * * * *

you got that right!

We here are listening to the first episode of BRUISED SOUL right now on LUVER! SO SMOOTH!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on BTV, Ch. 28, Jan.-Feb. 2011

2011-01-16T20:35:00.000-08:00

FRANK MOORE'S UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES on BTV, Ch. 28, Jan.-Feb. 2011

you can watch the show online at:
http://www.betv.org/betvstream.html
(It may take even longer than the 90 seconds they say it might take!)

461. “The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun” 3/27/10 Temescal Arts Center / Video by Atavus (from Brian Traylor) / Easystreet / 2 videos from Lula Chapman "Sugar Mama Papa Ritual" & "Lula Says Hi" / Penny Finds Her Own Stage / Persephone's Bees "Ugly Thing" / Vagrants 60's Garage Rock video / Magick Orchids "Betrayal In Babylon" / Philip Huang "Rentboy - The Porn" (1st run)
Monday, January 17, 11pm
Thursday, January 20, 11pm
Friday night/Saturday morning, January 22, 3am
Saturday, January 22, midnight

396. Reaching, Exploring, Melting - The Note Theatre, Hollywood, CA 1.17.09 / Reverend Beat-Man "Surreal Folk Blues Gospel Trash VOL3" / IHC (I Hate Cartoons) sampler
Monday, January 24, 11pm
Thursday, January 27, 11pm
Friday night/Saturday morning, January 29, 3am
Saturday, January 29, midnight

462. Steve Taylor-Ramirez / Male Bomb (1st run)
Monday, January 31, 11pm
Thursday, February 3, 11pm
Friday night/Saturday morning, February 5, 3am
Saturday, February 5, midnight

403. Corsica / The Lovemakers (2 videos) / "Ideas and Images" an interview with Simon Perchik
Monday, February 7, 11pm
Thursday, February 10, 11pm
Friday night/Saturday morning, February 12, 3am
Saturday, February 12, midnight

463. “The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun” 4/24/10 Temescal Arts Center, PART 1 / Heather Woodbury / Instagon "In The Flow" / Pudding Attack "Information Society" / "Soldier's Last Goodbye" / Road To Oblivion "Still In Love With You" (1st run)
Monday, February 14, 11pm
Thursday, February 17, 11pm
Friday night/Saturday morning, February 19, 3am
Saturday, February 19, midnight

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Re: Bruised Soul - A new LUVeR Show! (Kirk)

2011-01-16T20:29:00.000-08:00

Hey Frank,

I thought you might appreciate the attached "bruised soul" poem.

Peace,

Kirk

* * * * *

hey, Kirk! Thanks!

Btw, you in all your forms /bands are in our new music channel, FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL. It is the collection of my personal favorite music [unlike on LUVER where we play everything without my personal tastes controlling things].

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

* * * * *

kirk's poem:

STREET PORTRAIT: Two Versions

Oakland, CA

Hat brim

shadowing his face

from the corner street light

Trying to look

sinister

in the pose

of a child soldier thug

But

unbeknownst to himself

Peeking out

from behind his eyes

Is the bruised and frightened soul

of an angel

II.

In the hat brim shadow of the street light

Just a-hangin’ out on the street at night

In the pose of a child soldier thug

Lookin’ like he might be dealin’ some drugs

Like he might be packin’ a pistol

But in his eyes bruised soul of angel

In his eyes bruised soul of angel

But in his eyes bruised soul of angel

* * * * *

what a powerful poem, Kirk!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: milestones (Paul) III

2011-01-16T19:26:00.000-08:00

(Frank wrote:)

yes, but who has time to nap ?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

* * * * *

Frankie,

I realize you are The Only Sex God and the Busiest Shaman in Showbiz.....

May I suggest (If you're not in the middle of a split-week a Caesar's Palace) a 40 minute snooze daily.

The health benefits are amazing..It feels good and costs nothing.

Since I've been taking one almost everyday my health has improved immensely.

Just my 2¢.

Paul

* * * * *

hey, baby, i usually nap when I am getting physical therapy nightly with Sven [a Swede farm boy with a fetish for farm animals] as the talking book lulls me!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Bruised Soul - A new LUVeR Show! (Paul)

2011-01-16T19:24:00.000-08:00

Cool.

The poster is gorgeous!!

xo Paul

* * * * *

damn right, Paul! We do masterpieces here! Why do I get shit for being modest?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

a new painting

2011-01-16T19:19:00.000-08:00

it is called TWO DUDES [Mikee and me].

Fw: Alexi needs work!

2011-01-15T20:17:00.000-08:00

ah yes.... HIRE THE DUDE WITH THE HAMMER, PLEASE!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

* * * * *

Alexi has hit an extended dry spell and badly needs work! He is very experienced and great to work with. He is available for a very wide range of handyman/construction jobs, and is also available to work on your job if you need extra hands! Call us!

Alexi Malenky ● Handyman
(510) 558-0461
info@dudewithahammer.com
http://www.dudewithahammer.com
Facebook: dudewithahammer

Since 1992.
Large and small jobs.
Green building practices & non-toxic materials.
Experienced in all areas of construction.

Alexi spent 13 years working for contractor Jim Haedt learning every aspect of building houses, from the foundation to the roofing. Alexi is well-versed in green building techniques and familiar with the range of non-toxic materials available for most jobs. A short list of Alexi's skills would include foundation work, fence-building, decking, installing doors and windows, framing and carpentry, sheetrock, painting, tile, insulation, flooring, installing cabinetry and appliances, plumbing, electrical, and repair work in all of these areas ... just to name a few!

Bruised Soul - A new LUVeR Show!

2011-01-12T19:22:00.000-08:00

Every Wednesday 3pm tp 5pm pacific on HTTP://WWW.LUVER.COM ! Starts this week, January 12, 2011!

BRUISED SOUL serves up the blues of every imaginable kind from everywhere going back to the Twenties! A lot of rarities! If your soul has ever been bruised, tune in!

http://luver.com/bruisedsoul.html

NEED I SAY MORE!?!

Re: A NEW [SECOND] CHANNEL COMING TO LUVER! (Paul)

2011-01-12T19:18:00.000-08:00

Hi Frankie THE ONLY sex God,

Okay, cool.

Thank you for the information.

Just keep me informed as to how and when you would like payment.

I've both lent and given copies of 'Art of a Shaman' to many different people throughout the years. Remember, I purchased quite a few copies back in the early 90s.....

Those copies that I've lent never seem to return.

Nope, I'm incorrect...actually, one of them returned years later.

Looking forward to seeing the new edition!! :)

Hope all is well.

Heaps of hugs to everyone,

xo Paul

* * * * *

ah, yes, I used ART OF A SHAMAN, among other things, last night in a three hour session. It is good as a overview of the history and philosophy of my work, although it stops over twenty years ago. A lot has changed /happened since then.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Fw: milestones (Betsy)

2011-01-12T19:15:00.000-08:00

Sounds great Frank! To a new year of health,family,
good friends and peace.

L-Betsy

* * * * *

that's the plan, Betsy!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: milestones (Paul) II

2011-01-09T18:49:00.000-08:00

How do you like it?

Is it comfortable enough to lie back for a cozy snooze?

Heaps of hugs to everyone,

xo Paul

* * * * *

yes, but who has time to nap ?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: milestones (Paul)

2011-01-09T18:48:00.000-08:00

Cool!

xo Paul

* * * * *

and I forgot... I got my new reclining wheelchair!

In Freedom,

Frank Moore

RE: milestones (Rafael)

2011-01-09T18:46:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Wait until I finish your Milestone, baby ! ( up 85 % man ! )

* * * * *

can't wait!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

milestones

2011-01-09T18:44:00.000-08:00

the other night I had my first bath in the tub since I went into the hospital in May!

Last week I had my first session in my studio out back since the hospital! I haven't even been in the studio for over six months! I met with Maggie from the last performance for over three hours and I was still going afterwards! She is coming back tomorrow.

In other words, I'M BACK!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This Week on Maximum Rock N Roll!

2011-01-09T18:42:00.000-08:00

Airs January 6, 2011 at 4pm pacific on http://www.luver.com

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL

tape #186

59 minutes

hosts: Tim, Steven, Ruth & Jeff

Guest: Doug Humiski

1. Poison Idea "Rich Get Richer"

from the West:

2. The Skulldiggers "Reality of a Nightmare"

3. Bad Religion " Fugger"

4. Narthic Structure "Wave Me On"

5. Diatribe

European:

6. Kidnap "1989" (France)

7. L’erme (Belguim)

8. Les Secous Oubliant (France)

9. Puhat Kuhulu (Finland)

10. Revolta Del Audio (Italy)

11. Toten Hosen (Germany)

12. Interview with Dee Dee & Joey Ramone

Done by Donnie the Punk, December 1984:

Dee Dee interviewed on 12/28/84

Joey interviewed on 12/29/84

Guest:

13. Guest: Doug Humiski

14. Laughing Nose "Get the Glory"

15. Kiyak (all girl band from Japan)

16. Junk Skism (Japan)

17. MDC "Big Picture"

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Re: A NEW [SECOND] CHANNEL COMING TO LUVER!

2011-01-02T19:00:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

Sign me up for two autographed copies of the hardcover edition of "Art of a Shaman".

One will be as a gift for a friend.

Hope everyone is well.

xo Paul

* * * * *

sure, Paul! We are just finishing putting it together. We don't even know how much a copy will cost exactly. And autographed copy will require it to be shipped to me to sign and then we will mail it to you rather than the printer shipping it directly to you [extra cost]. BUT YOUR ONLY SEX GOD WILL AUTOGRAPH AS MANY COPIES AS YOU WANT!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: trivia

2011-01-02T18:58:00.000-08:00

how interesting! there is one of my posters in another movie..one with Johnny depp but i can't remember the name of that!

Happy new years to the whole crew

love
penny (and steve)

* * * * *

same back to you!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

A NEW [SECOND] CHANNEL COMING TO LUVER!

2011-01-02T18:56:00.000-08:00

we here are busy preparing for the new year! We have made new backdrops for the performances. You have to come to the performances to see them!

We are putting the finishing touches to the hard cover color illustrated [tons of photos!] edition of ART OF A SHAMAN... That has been decades in the making!

And today we have bowed to popular demand and started working on creating a second channel to LUVER. Don't worry! The original LUVER will still be here, still expanding!

But I will have my own channel where I can play my personal favorites! As most of you know, for years I have done the show FRANK SPINS HOT WAX and over the week between Xmas and New Years, I traditionally hijack LUVER to make LUVER into my personal party, shaped by my personal whims and tastes. But LUVER is a communal tribal channel, wide open to everything that is going on musically and every other way. And that is extremely important.

So I will be partying 24/7 on FRANK'S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL! If you like HOT WAX, you will love my DEEP ROOTS! They satisfy! They rock! They'll make you feel good, warm, cozy, happy, sexy, etc. you may dance, sing along with a nasty smile! Corny horny? Yes! But it will be hard to be depressed! I would be a millionaire if I could bottle this stuff!

Now we just have to get the channel up! Stay tuned!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Philip Huang commented on your note "last performance of the year" (Rafael) II

2011-01-02T18:54:00.000-08:00

T'as raison,

But we're the 31th and I'm going to "jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam" tonight :P

Happy new years Frank :)

Rafael

* * * * *

love those hot jams!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Philip Huang commented on your note "last performance of the year" (Rafael)

2011-01-02T18:52:00.000-08:00

"I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love"

Now, why don't I get any girl "Frankly" telling me that ?

Guess I don't know the right girls :D

You lucky beast, Frank :)

* * * * *

well, i never have believed in the concept of THE RIGHT GIRL... Or in RIGHT.... Or in GIRL... or in GETTING...

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

trivia

2011-01-02T18:51:00.000-08:00

hi, penny! We here just watched a great low Budget film, BLAST OF SILENCE shot in New York City in 1961. in the bonus features there is a slide show of the locations then and now ['07]. In one NOW shot is one of your performance posters.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

my write-up! see you at 3 pm.

2011-01-02T18:47:00.000-08:00

Hey Frank--here's my write up! See you at 3 pm.

I came to “Uncomfortable Zones of Fun” because I wanted to see what performance art could be. It was actually one three performance art pieces I went to see that weekend. Walking into the space decorated with brightly colored paintings, strange costumes, and the artist himself, Frank Moore, sitting in a wheelchair communicating through an interpreter set the stage for my discomfort. As the night went on with narrative from the artist, questions and challenges for the audience, and performances from fellow artists opened me up a tiny bit to what was going on. Some acquaintances ducked out early. They were offended. I told my friend I wanted to stay just a little longer. As I said this a non-descript man sat next to me and started slowly shedding cloths while donning a woman’s wig and lipstick. This made it more clear that I was still right there with the discomfort. As the artist came to me to ask me my first question of the night I decided I wanted to claim what I was feeling, I value authenticity. I responded I was uncomfortable and in saying this it began to dawn on me. The artist who must had made many people uncomfortable in his lifetime was creating a space to express that and engage people in what they invariably turn away from in their life: personal differences such a disability, sexuality, and each other. In the moment I claimed what I was feeling I connected to some of what Frank was expressing. I just returned from a 4-month artists’ residency and I had spent the last six weeks looking for work to support my artwork. I hadn’t found anything and I was feeling beat and hopeless. That night something shifted in me. I felt like a whiney kid. Of course I can make my art, Frank proved to me despite monumental personal and societal obstacles you can express your deepest experiences by creating space for others.

Maggie Lawson
Artist
Arts and Community Education Director
Eye to Eye: art, travel, activism
www.arttravelactivism.org
www.flickr.com/photos/photographyastravelinglight

* * * * *

what a great write-up, Maggie! glad that the performance gave you hope! Actually your staying gave you hope! And trust allowed you to stay! [btw, the masked guy (turns out to be an architect) has been coming to the performances for years to have a place to be nude at.]

and last night getting together with you in my studio was fun. And it was another milestone in my getting back to my normal work after not even being in my studio since May. I was still doing fine after our three hour session!

so when do you want to come back? We could read my ART OF A SHAMAN, the lecture I wrote in the early nineties for NYU. It may answer some of your questions. We are now getting ready to put it out as a hard back photo book [with no money!].

Next week I am free Wednesday (jan fifth) at three o'clock P.M. does that work for you?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Philip Huang commented on your note "last performance of the year".

2011-01-02T18:44:00.000-08:00

Philip Huang commented on your note "last performance of the year".

Philip wrote: "This is a very thorough account of the show. I keep thinking about what that man said, that our bodies are just meat, and what frightens me is my own reluctance to confront my own vanity and shame. He's right, we're just meat. And Frank's right--comfort is the ultimate means of control."

* * * * *

Philip, I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love. They are the tip of the iceberg of who we are. But they are definitely a part of who we are.

glad that the performance made you confront whatever. Art should do that. I don't know what shame is. And I am too cute to be vane!

We shouldn't confuse real comfort with "zones of comfort," which really are prisons of fragility making people easier to control and to limit. Real comfort is extremely flexible and supple and absorbent and inclusive, warm juicy! It Sticks to your ribs when you journey outside of the margins.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: on xmas...

2011-01-02T10:16:00.000-08:00

(Frank wrote:)

We have an extra copy of the Billy Bob Thornton movie, "Badder Santa". Would you like to have it?

* * * * *

HI Frank,

We don't need it but thanks for the offer! I enjoyed that movie more than I thought I would.

I hope you had a good Christmas. I survived mine, not my favorite holiday by any stretch. I still get bitter that being a Jew I have to do anything on Christmas but we can get into that rant later.

First my thoughts on the show, and I am still thinking about it. One of the things I thought about the most and afterward was the notion of uncomfortable. I found it interesting that nudity is one of the main things you use to get people uncomfortable, why do you think that is? While other people's nudity does not make me uncomfortable I know that I would not have been willing to get naked so obviously I have some major level of uncomfortableness with it. I would also love to see a show where people get just as uncomfortable without taking off their clothes. I would have liked to hear more from all the people there, it was very interesting to me why they came and how they were feeling. I loved the reading of the poem, to me that was the perfect example of someone feeling uncomfortable with what was happening around her but participating and getting really into it. Her reading was awesome. What made me most uncomfortable of all was that I would be asked to do something I didn't want to do, and that it wouldn't be ok if I didn't want to do it. I have generally avoided group participation activities for that reason, and in a larger sense have always felt like an outsider in this country for that reason. I don't stand for the national anthem because this is not the land of the free, and it should be my right not to, but that somehow makes me unpatriotic. But I realized at that show that I trust you, and even more that I am ok with myself so I did feel that uncomfortableness go away and I had a lot of fun. The reason I came was to see you perform. I would say that 90% of the people I work with don't get better, and in fact most get worse. It is really emotionally taxing to spend that much time with a group of people who know that they can no longer do the things they love and who are so sad. The opportunity to see someone who I met when he was recovering from some major medical catastrophes and came to care about back up on stage doing something he loves was the most fun for me. I also think that in a lot of ways doing therapy with you was a zone of uncomfortable fun. I struggle with the profession of swallowing for many many reasons. Here was this guy who if I listened to the textbooks, and to other colleagues, and to lawsuit happy America I would have believed shouldn't be eating. But I have always believed in quality of life and not giving into fear, and as I got to know you and be more comfortable with all of you it became really fun to challenge the naysayers and watch you eating. It was also fun to let go of my worries. You were also my first home trach, I have always worked with a team of nurses and respiratory therapists who are helping me monitor things. But I tell you, Linda and Mikee were the best team I could have asked for.

Please add me the e-salon email list! And I am glad I have become family. I hope things are going well, I will discuss movies in the next email.

Love Miriam

* * * * *

welcome to the e-salon, Miriam!

Hey, Bad Santa is a Jew, or at least his girlfriend is.

the nudity and eroticism are quick Tools [at least in this uptight country] to get under /beyond the casual, social, the normal, and other margins which keep people away from freedom so that we will start exploring, playing together tribally. And it works. People come to the "audience participation experiential performance " with that context clearly displayed. So they came for that, even if they don't know exactly what that means or includes. Not knowing exactly is the spice of life. Trust is the key to unlocking the "zones of comfort" [which really are prisons of fragility]. Really the trust I am speaking of doesn't have a subject. You trust me because you trust yourself because you trust life. That trust is a rugged comfort.

I am getting together with Maggie [who read my poem] Wednesday!

Well, if I didn't have you and Kerbavaz who are willing to go against the prevailing expectations, it would have been much harder for me to beat the curse of their expectations, judgments, projections. This curse is most certainly why I ended up in the ICU in the first place! [they couldn't ask me if I was breathing ok!] Of course I would be dead without my tribal body of Linda, Mikee, Corey, Alexi and Erika. And there are the hundreds of people who kicked my ass not to die and gave us what we needed to survive. Of course all of that came from a lifetime of living outside of the prevailing expectations, building tribal relationships, exploring erotically!

Hey, if they were so wrong about me, wonder how many of your other patients they are wrong about!

NO CAN NOTS

FRANK MOORE

Sunday, April 28, 2002

Talking to future healers

& teachers

& maybe future

muckrakers & troublemakers

Well,

Not really future

Because hopefully

You are doing IT

RIGHT NOW!

Hopefully

I’m not talking to the future guards

Of the corporate normalcy

Armed with can nots,

Limiting futures from birth,

Enforcing coloring only within the lines,

Enforcing doing everything

THE RIGHT WAY

THE NORMAL WAY

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Merry

2011-01-02T10:08:00.000-08:00

I would know you anywhere, Stavros!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: we have to keep meeting like this!

2011-01-01T18:23:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank
Yes I want to be on E-SALON!
I will send my commentary on the performance soon, life has just gotten busy and complicated all of a sudden. Must be the impending holidays. I don't even have a stay in the hospital to blame ;)
Hope you are well
Miriam

* * * * *

welcome to the E-SALON, Miriam!

can't wait for your commentary!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This week on Maximum Rock N Roll!

2011-01-01T18:21:00.000-08:00

Airs December 23, 2010 at 4pm pacific on http://www.luver.com

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL

tape #185

58 minutes

hosts: Tim, Ruth

Guests: Jon Von from Disorder Mail Order Records & Frightwig

1. Spit on Your Gravy "Violent Fluff"

New European Stuff:

2. R.A.F. Punk (Italy)

3. Anti-Dogmatics (Spain)

4. The Maniacs "Crusader" (Germany)

5. Sar San 81 (Germany)

Guest:

6. Guest: Jon Von

7. Stripper "Scandal Age"

8. Cobra "War"

9. Lip Cream "Grasser"

10. Gas

11. The Mobs "No More Hero"

12. Guest continues

from Finland:

13. Aborti 13

14. Massacre

15. Koalit Kukat

16. Mewaka

Guest:

17. Frightwig

18. Guest: Frightwig

19. Frightwig

20. The Drooling Idiots "Beat of a Different Drum"

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X-MAS CARD CONTEST

2011-01-01T18:16:00.000-08:00

(to Vinnie & Jacqueline:)

your card arrived yesterday. Ok, you two win again, although it pushed "Xmas" beyond the breaking point! Would you email the original photo before the special effects so I can paint you two?

Last night I was searching on the web for a photo for my next painting and ended up with a nasty computer virus

which was hard to get rid of! so people need to send me sexy nude photos for me to paint!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: the complete shit! (Katie)

2011-01-01T18:13:00.000-08:00

Frank, this was a great story. Keep doing what you do- by being so raw, whether people are uncomfortable or not, it causes them to question how they really feel on everything.

What is your tribe doing for solstice/the lunar eclipse tonight?

Katie

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thanks, Katie ! We Are getting more and more raw as time goes on... Which is how we celebrate every day!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

last performance of the year

2010-12-27T19:09:00.000-08:00

Ah, the last performance of the year and the first full out performance since May when I almost died. It is like riding a horse or a bike [I have done both]… You never forget how to do it, they say. But the large crowd tested that theory. Usually when it is stormy outside, we don’t get many people. It is the same for over the holidays. But both didn’t keep people away this time. So I was faced with a rug full of people eager to play. It was like sitting down to a complex instrument, trying to figure out how to play it. And drums and violins appeared in the audience to play with Kene-J and Mark [where was Tomek?]. But there were too many possibilities within the crowd, so it took most of the time opening the packages so to speak, and we were just getting started playing when it was time to wrap it up [and it was a very satisfying powerful wrap up!]. There was a lot that happened. But it was the tip of the iceberg. That is why it is a series! If I was driven by my own expectations, judgments, bits I have thought of years ago but time/space for which has not appeared yet, etc, I would get in the way of the performance. My main job of the night was to guide things away from casual, social, judgments, and other blocks to getting deeper. It worked. We curved away from “democracy” where people vote on their judgments and desires, curved into the tribal body where serious fun could occur, which was why most people were there.

As our T-shirt says, I SURVIVED THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN! Da Boyz: It was the first "Uncomfortable Zones of Fun" we had done in 7 months! The last performance was near the end of May, and then Frank went into the hospital about a week later. It was also forecast to be the rainiest day of the winter season so far. The three of us headed out as soon as we were ready, Erika in one car, and us in the other, carting all the performance stuff ... the rain had held off for most of the loading of the cars, but now it was raining, but not too bad. Frank's weather karma was working!

When we got to the space, it was all parked up, but soon we had spots right in front. We loaded everything in very quickly in the rain, and then Corey ran over to Peet's to get Mikee a small latte, and the set up was in full swing. Alexi got the large heater going to get the space nice and toasty, and we ended up using that primarily for the performance. They seemed to have fixed it so it worked very well, and was much less noisy ... what a wonderful space! It was really great to be back there again!

Almost right away, Mark (Phog Masheen) was there, up from L.A. to do several performances in the bay area, and would be in the band for this performance. Mark helped us set things up. Even with the extra time, we were setting up right up to 8pm! And by that time, there were already a whole bunch of people arrived and ready! Alexi counted 14 people at the beginning, and it grew to 22. Amazing! On the rainiest day of the year, and during the xmas season. Last December's performance had been very small. Plus, it had been gone for 7 months!

Like always, Frank started going around the room ... how did people hear of the performance, what attracted them to it?

There was a young guy in front with dark curly hair, and a girl next to him, they came together ... he said that he had been to a previous performance and really liked it, but the girl he came with did not feel the same way ... he said that it freaked her out, and she just said it was "weird, weird!" But the girl he brought tonight had a totally different response to coming to the performance ... when he told her about it, she was into the whole idea. Frank asked him what he does, and he talked about a spiritual practice that he is creating ... he said it was a kind of tantric practice, but also based on role playing games ... he talked about people choosing to play a certain role, and just playing it ... like he wanted to go with a group of 4 people to Albany Bulb to do an art piece where each person would be a different character ... one person would predict the future, etc. ... Frank asked him something along the lines of "Would it be for real?" And he said something like that it could be ... We weren't sure if we ever got exactly what he meant, but it seemed to be about playing in reality, and being whatever you want to be ... choosing to create a reality ...

His friend had just gotten out of school in Sonoma, and was now working ... Frank told a story about performing at Sonoma State in the 80s, when they brought the OBR there ... how the response from the students was really enthusiastic ... people taking off their clothes, climbing onstage, etc.! But afterward, a feminist group on campus, who had not actually attended the performance, got very uptight about what had happened, and lobbied to create censoring rules for future performances on campus! Frank was proud of that! People liked the story ...

Frank also talked with a couple, who were among the first to arrive. They had seen the flier on San Pablo, and were attracted by the look of it, the description, and the guy said there were great reviews on the flier! The idea of "uncomfortable" fun was attractive to them.

Frank asked her how uncomfortable she was willing to be? She said well she was willing to be pretty uncomfortable ... she noticed the big backdrop with all the nude bodies, and didn't know if it was going to go that far, but ... Frank said it usually does go that far. Her partner said he did urban farming ... Frank told them that Mark (Phog Masheen) had brought them seeds that his wife saves from their home garden, and he said he had seeds out in his car that he could give them.

At some point, Kene-J came in ... Frank said, "Get to work, son!" Kene-J started playing with Mark ...

The first person Frank actually talked with was a guy who had just met Mark next door at Lanesplitter pizza. Frank turned to him first, and said, "George Clooney! What brought you here?" He looked a lot like George Clooney! Mark was carrying his trumpet, and had told the guy about the performance, and he seemed attracted by the idea of improvisation ... he ended up playing the drums for most of the night.

Next to him was a group of 4 friends, 2 guys and 2 gals ... Frank asked one of the guys how he ended up coming to the performance? He said he had seen the fliers around for a long time, and then didn't see them for a while, and then saw the latest flier up on Shattuck and Prince Streets, and decided to come! Frank asked him what he does, and he talked about dancing (ecstatic, contact improv ...) ... Frank asked him without clothes? He laughed to himself ... well there was one time ...! He also liked to sing ... Frank asked him what kind of singing? He said karaoke, and then sang, "It’s just more fun to sing things ...!" Frank said, "Go on ..." He started singing about the weather, improvising ... Frank sang along. Frank suggested that he sing without words, and they did a short duet, vocalizing ... Frank turned to Miriam, who was also there from the beginning ... "How did I do?" Miriam was Frank's swallow therapist, who worked with Frank for months after the hospital stay to get him back to a "normal way of eating", but then corrected it, saying, well, "Frank's way" She said he did great! Frank said that singing, he still felt the trach ... Dr. Kerbavaz had said that there was scar tissue there from where the tracheotomy had been, which Frank was feeling. Miriam called it a "phantom trach." She said he could do vocal exercises ...

There was also a guy in the audience who had come from an internet listing ... he was an older man, perhaps from the middle east ... he had been attracted by the description ... had never seen anything like it. Zorana was also there ... the Bosnian journalist that Corey had met at BNG, shopping for her neighbor ... she would be translating the Russian article about Frank. Frank asked her about the article, was it good? She said it was very good, very complimentary, and she also talked about how they were impressed that Frank, a disabled man, could do what he does ... that in Russia and Eastern Europe, the economy is so poor, and the way things are set up, "handicapped" people do not have any opportunities, live in poverty ... Frank also asked her what she thought of the photos in the article? She had basically told Corey before that they had gotten her curious! She told Frank that the photos were what had brought her. Frank asked her too how uncomfortable she was willing to be, and she said something like that it was all new to her, she wasn't sure ... maybe she would watch first ... Frank said, "the quicker, the easier", which she did seem to get. Later, when Frank returned to talk to her, she actually said she had to go ... she had to pick someone up at 10 ... Frank said to come back, and she said she would. And, Frank said, next time, without anything to do afterward.

Ken Cheetham was there too, the guy who maintains the Bay Area Progressive Directory ... Frank asked him to define underground, and then progressive ... he said trying to maintain a more egalitarian society.

And Phillip Huang, a performance artist, was there too ... Frank said, "About time!" He agreed! A little later, Frank had him do a piece, and he did something from his latest show, which he said was an exclusive for Frank, because it had not been performed in public before. It was a sketch between what seemed to be a disabled girl making balloon animals and an uptight woman passer-by. It was intense ... the disabled girl has the woman wear a funny balloon hat that she makes for her, and dance silly ... Frank played with Phillip as he danced around as the uptight woman ... and then, after she has gotten the woman to dance sillier and sillier, the girl says, "Who is the freak now, bitch?" The woman is crushed, takes off the balloon hat ....

Frank came back to the group of 4 ... he talked to one of the girls ... why did she come? She said she had not actually seen the flier herself, but was attracted to some of the words that she had heard from it ... Like what? Frank asked. "Fun" ... she said ... "Uncomfortable?" Frank asked. No, she said, that wasn't one of them.
The other girl in the group had not seen the flier either, but had come along because it sounded fun. She is a singer too, and in a band called Omnicircus, which Frank later talked to her about booking for the Shaman's Den. She said she also worked with teenagers in after school programs, and generally fought the good fight against fear in the world (something like this). She described Omnicircus as robotic opera, and Frank asked if she would sing? Sure! She went right into a bluesy funky jazzy song, and the band played with her, and Frank sang with her. Afterward, Frank asked Miriam again how he did? Both she and the girl from Omnicircus said he did great. It was a fun song.

Frank then turned to another group of 4 that had come in more recently. It was quickly clear that they were a couple, guy and girl, and two guy friends. Frank asked them what brought them to the performance. The girl said that they were looking for something to do that night that was free, and this came up! They all pointed to one guy, who they all indicated was the one who really wanted to come to this, was the one who was interested in getting uncomfortable. When Frank asked the girl how uncomfortable she was willing to be, she pointed to the friend ..."He's the one, ask him!"

Frank of course kept on with her ... he asked her if the friend could dress her in only the costumes and jewelry? When she established that this meant taking her clothes off, she again pointed to the friend, no but he will do it! She mentioned her comfort zone. Frank suggested that she could dress the friend in only the costumes, but then she would have to let him do the same. They weren't going for it. Frank pointed out that since the friend was interested in "uncomfortable", it really was more uncomfortable for him to dress the girl in the costumes, then to be dressed himself, which they all agreed with ... At some point, the friend asked for a vote from the crowd as to what they should do, and Frank said, "This is not a democracy!" It was already established that the girl was not going to get dressed in costumes, but this is when the gal from the first group of 4 said that she objected to a girl being the first one to take off her clothes. This was the girl who said that "uncomfortable" was not one of the words she had liked.

In response, Frank asked Unruhlee to take off his clothes. He took them right off and sat naked on the floor. So there, the first person undressed was not a woman! Back to the uncomfortable group ... the girl was willing to dress the guy up in the costumes, and they came up very uncomfortably and he quickly undressed himself, and she quickly covered him up with costumes! But Frank said he wanted her to undress him, and then put the costumes on him. He gave a short protest, "I thought we were doing it, but guess it wasn't good enough!" But he reluctantly put all his clothes back on, and meanwhile Frank turned to something else ... perhaps this is when he asked Miriam to talk about their relationship.

Miriam talked about being assigned to Frank through home health to do swallow therapy, and help Frank get to the point where he could get the trach. out. She described coming to the house, meeting Linda and Mikee and Frank, the art on the walls, and how much fun she had talking with them. They would do the swallowing tests, but then most of it was just talking about movies, life ... She said that knowing she would be coming to be with Frank made it worth getting out of bed in the morning! She then asked Frank how he would describe their relationship. He said "fun" and "sexy", which she liked a lot!
Back to the uncomfortable pair ... were they ready to go again? The guy was surprised that Frank came back to him, said something like he had hoped maybe Frank forgot about him. Oh no, Frank was just stalling!
So they came up again to the costume area, and very uncomfortably, the girl undressed the guy, and then he danced around nervously, obviously trying to hide his cock, and trying to get her to put something on down there! But she wasn't doing it quick enough, was draping necklaces around his neck! It was very uncomfortable! Once she had some costumes on him, Frank asked him how he felt? He said something along the lines of feeling uncomfortable, but expanding through that feeling ... Frank asked, "into comfortable?" He said yes ... Frank said now, and again later, that "comfort zone is fragile", that real comfort is in willing to be uncomfortable. He went right from the uncomfortable pair to the first group of 4, and asked them if they would put on only the costumes, and they were all willing without any real hesitation. They all got up and stripped and went over to the costumes and jewelry, putting stuff on, having fun with it. Frank asked them if they would do a dance with him? Sure! As the band played on, they improvised a dance with Frank, who had his clothes taken off too. It was a fun dance. But one of the girls didn't join the dance ... as she was heading off with her friends, she noticed the video camera, and went up to Corey to ask him if he was filming this? Yes. "Is it going to be shown anywhere?" Yes, Corey said, on Frank's show on the internet and on Berkeley Public Access. "Is there any way you can just not film me?" Corey said, "I don't think so ..." So she sat it out ... but when her friends came over to dance with her and tried to pull her into the dance, and she danced with them from where she was, Corey filmed that! It might have been around this point, after the dance, that Frank asked Kene-J to come up and do 3 of his rap songs, which is always really fun. Linda was saying later that it felt like Kene-J risked a lot coming to the performances and doing his songs in that context, that you know it had to be "uncomfortable" for him, but he trusted Frank, and this had a real effect on people ... judgement transformed into enjoying, bopping to the music, having fun, enjoying Kene-J. At some point, Frank returned to the young couple in front, and asked them if they would put on only the costumes, and they said sure ... they took their clothes right off and put on the costumes, and then sat back down again in front ... Frank asked them to talk about how the performance felt so far, and he said that he enjoyed it, and talked about how last time he came, he felt that the performance, like in Frank's warning sign, had effects that happened afterward, for days and weeks ... he felt like it was going to be that way again. She said she really liked it, liked people getting undressed, putting on the costumes ... Frank said that she reminded him of Kat from Kat & Reuben, Plate & Dr. Rectangle ... Linda talked about how they met them in North Carolina, and what they were like, and what their LUVeR show was like ... how creative they were ...
One of the first group of four, a big guy with a beard, raised his hand to say a few things he had been thinking about. He referred to people's discomfort with undressing, nudity, etc., and said that our bodies are just matter, physical, just "meat" ... we are not our bodies, we are soul. Its not who we are. It doesn't mean anything to be nude, it’s just playing with bodies, and that it was definitely a different context for being naked than for instance, Harbin Hot Springs ... that here, there was not an accepted rationale for the nudity, so it seemed to be more challenging for people, more direct, more "uncomfortable". Frank said it was connected, the same (body and soul)... and that our bodies are for playing. After the guy finished what he was saying, Frank told the story of performing at Harbin, where the guy who booked him tried to censor what Frank would do ... whereas a bunch of the people who saw Frank's piece and heard that he was not able to do what he originally planned on doing, wanted him to do it anyway! So Frank ended up doing a second piece afterward for them!

The guy went on to say at some point that to focus on the differences in our bodies, color, sex, etc., is off the track, that it gets in the way of healing the bigger world issues ... Frank said it was the same, it is nonlinear ...
Now Frank continued going around the room and asking people what they thought of the performance thus far ... there had been a kind of exodus during Kene-J's set, so the group had gotten smaller ...
Frank asked Unruhlee to talk about his experience of the performance ... Unruhlee said that he had taken off his clothes, which felt liberating, but then after sitting there for a while, he felt alone, and didn't have the same experience that he usually has, and has come to expect from a Frank Moore performance ... It felt like he had come in with a lot of expectations, and wasn't really just melting into the experience, following, enjoying ... he had wanted something to happen a certain way, and when it didn't, he seemed to pass judgment ... Frank said, "Wait until you leave the performance." It felt like Frank just saying that immediately changed Unruhlee's experience!

Miriam said that it was about what she had expected, and that it was like being at Frank's house, with all of the colorful art on the walls, sitting and talking with Frank, and never knowing what was going to happen next, who might stop by, etc.!
The girl who came with the urban farmer said that the performance actually felt very serious to her, as opposed to "fun" ... she described herself as a "sponge" for other people's emotions, and said that she had really taken in how uncomfortable some people were during the performance, and that this had become a lot of her experience ... she said she felt that when she was able to shake off that feeling that she had picked up from others, she would better be able to experience what had happened.

Frank came to a girl who had sat through the whole performance, and Frank had never had a chance to talk with her until now ... she said that the performance had made her uncomfortable ... she was uncomfortable the whole time. Frank asked how? She explained that it not being used to seeing people nude in public. Frank said how not? She said, "Well, I am from Ohio"! Frank said that he was too! He was born in Columbus, and lived in Dayton. She said she was from a small town near Dayton ... Frank asked her why she moved out here? She said to get out of Ohio! She wanted to move to another country, and California was the closest to that, being from Ohio, without actually leaving the country. Frank said something like people come from Ohio for things like this! He also said that a lot of his cast have been from Ohio over the years. Maggie was her name, and she went on to say that she does art, and she tries to bring people together, she was really impressed by the way Frank just did it, with so much confidence, seeing his vision through to reality, and that it really inspired her.

Frank asked her if she would come up and read one of his poems? "I Came To Play". She said yes. She came up and sat next to Frank and read the most powerful reading of the poem that we think we have ever heard, and was visibly moved by reading it. She looked like she was going to cry. You could hear murmurs in the audience ... Linda said later that it felt like the poem was bringing the experience of the performance to a deeper place, making it more concrete and giving it a name ... Maggie was very warm toward Frank, and it was clear that the poem had really moved her. Frank said, "The End" But he asked Maggie if she would want to get together with him, and she said yes, and Linda exchanged cards ...

Frank turned to the young couple in front, and told them they did great jobs as plants! And would they come back next time to do it? They acted mystified ... but said yes .... Frank said that its great the way they are acting like they're not plants! They laughed!! Then Frank turned to the first group of 4 that had danced with him, and said the same, thanking them for being such great plants! And would they come back too to be plants again? They would see!
Afterward, Mark Phog Masheen came up to Frank, and Frank asked him to talk about his experience ... he said that the big teaching lesson he was going to take back with him was how the way that Frank asked questions opened everything up. People don't want to be told to do things, but by asking the questions, it allowed people to come into the experience themselves ... People hung around for a while talking, and talking with Frank ... we were really amazed by the performance! We did it! Like always, we talked about everything as we broke down the set, amazed at all that had happened in the night ... and we had sold out of Frank's poetry chapbook, "Chapped Lap"!

It felt so good to be back, to see Frank up there, doing so great after the whole hospital ordeal. Frank was back in the saddle, was amazing. Always had the perfect thing to say, conducting the performance into another amazing transformative experience for everyone ... It was a really really good feeling to be back there together.

Erika:
This was the first performance in six months since Frank had been in the hospital. There was a 100 % chance of rain but the rain cleared when we were loading all the stuff in and out. We arrived early since we had not set up for a while and Mark from Phog Masheen was there and helped us set up. Frank, Linda and Mikee arrived and we did the final set up and then streams and streams of people started coming in. They would come in and stand over by the door so Linda and Frank told them to come in and sit down on the mats. Frank said that he should get sick more often because there were so many people coming to the performance.

Frank started going around asking people how they had heard about the performance. Most people said that they saw fliers. Some people just saw the flyers today and came and others had been seeing the flyers for a long time. Frank asked people what they were attracted to in the flyers and one guy said because there were good reviews about Frank on the flyer. Others said they were attracted to the naked people, and the words on the flyer like fun, shaman, and uncomfortable. One woman said that she was ok with being uncomfortable and Frank asked her how uncomfortable and she said, well I saw naked people on the flyer and I'm not sure it's going to go that far. Frank said that we usually do go that far.

There was a guy who had come to a performance before with his roommate and they had left because she really freaked out and thought that it was weird but when he told his friend that he had brought with him tonight about it she was very interested. He had been studying the Kabala, Tarot and Tantra and was coming up with a role playing game that was about life and following
life. Later in the performance Frank asked him if the performance could be part of his game or role play and he said yes. He said that he read the poster on the wall behind Frank warning people that they might experience the effects of the performance weeks and weeks after the performance. He said that he felt that that was true, that had been his experience from the last time that he came to a performance. The friend that he brought with him had graduated from Sonoma State and Frank and Linda told a story about when Frank's Outrageous Beauty Review had performed there. They did short sexy acts. One was to a song by Devo. A guy in a wheelchair would come out with his nurse. Then his nurse strips her nurses uniform off and reveals a black leather S & M outfit and starts whipping him and tearing him apart, there were body parts flying, blood and she peed on stage and poured it on him and did an enema and smeared that on him too. It was two hours of acts like that and the audience went wild taking their clothes off and really enjoying it. Then after the fact a feminist group on campus who had not attended the performance heard about it and they were very upset. Out of Frank's performance a list was made of things that performers could not do at Sonoma State.

There was a group of four friends who had all seen flyers for the performance individually. They were singers and dancers and one woman worked with kids. Frank asked a couple of them to sing and they did. The guy started singing with words and Frank told him to sing without words. Frank said much better. Later Frank asked the four of them if they would dance nude with him and they said yes. One of the women got undressed but once she saw Corey with the camera and wanted to know what was going to be done with the video she sat down and didn't dance. The three other nude dancers danced and played around Frank, touching him and then making sounds and singing. It was beautiful to see Frank with only a fluffy red boa on, which he looked great in of course, with some nude people dancing around him. The two guys were dancing around Frank and touching him on the arms. The nude dancers would go over to the woman who had decided not to dance and interact with her so in the end she was in the camera quite a lot.

There was another group of people who came in together. They just heard about the performance the day of and were looking for something free to go to. Frank was asking them if they would like to be uncomfortable and they said no but that their friend would. Frank asked the woman to dress the guy in the costumes and jewelry that we had and nothing else and then the man would dress up the woman in the costumes with nothing else. The guy hesitated and was nervous and uncomfortable. He wanted to take a vote to see if that is what everyone wanted him to do and Frank said that this is not a democracy. He tried to ask everyone again after Frank said that. He said that he didn't know what to do. Frank asked Unrulee to get undressed
and he did. The guy finally came up and he undressed himself jumping around nervously. Frank said to get dressed and start again, that his friend would be undressing him and dressing him in costumes. She undressed him and put on some costumes and jewelry and he was jumping around making a spectacle of himself. Everyone was cheering him on and Frank said not to feed his ego. Once the guy was all in costume and jewelry Frank asked him if he was uncomfortable. He said that he was at first but he wasn't so much anymore. Frank said that real comfort is expanding what is comfortable, being willing to be uncomfortable in order to expand what is comfortable. The guy thought about it for a minute and he said yes and his flouncing around seemed to settle a bit. Frank said that he could go sit down again.

Frank's speech therapist Miriam came to the performance. At one point Frank asked her to tell everyone about their relationship. She said that she was a visiting speech therapist who visited with Frank, Linda and Mikee at home after Frank had gotten out of the hospital. She said that she loved being with them, looking at the art on the walls, never knowing who would stop by when she was there or what would happen. She told Frank once that he was the reason she got out of bed in the morning, that he was the best most fun patient that she had. She would come to the house and watch Frank as he swallowed and taught him things so that he could eat like Frank again and not use the feeding tube. At the end of the performance she said that the performance felt just like coming over to Frank, Linda and Mikee's house. There was art on the walls to look at and you never knew what was going to happen next.

Frank had this guy named Phillip, who is a performance artist, come up and do a short piece. It was an intense piece in which he played two characters. The first one was disabled and asks the other character if they like balloon animals. The other character says yes and so the disabled
person blows up a balloon animal that doesn't look like an animal and tells the person to put it on their head. They hesitate and then put the balloon on their head. Then the disabled person says now put your hips into it. Frank stuck out his hand at this point and starts rubbing at Phillip's butt causing the character with the balloon animal on its head to move the hips more. The disabled person then said, Now who's the freak, bitch?

A woman who shops at BNG where Corey works came to the performance. She is working on translating an article about Frank that had just recently been in a Russian magazine. She said she was still going to do the translation. She said that it was a good article, that people with disabilities were blown away by what Frank was doing with his life. She said that many people
in Russia who were disabled did not have such opportunities because of the state of the country and for financial reasons. Frank asked her what she thought of the photos in the magazine article and she said that the photos were what made her want to come to the performance. There were full page spreads of photos from the performances in the magazine. Later it turned out that she needed to leave the performance early because she had to pick someone up. Frank told her to come back to another one and to not schedule something afterwards so she could stay the whole time.

There was a woman from Ohio who said that she was uncomfortable the whole performance. Frank asked her why she was uncomfortable and she said she was not used to seeing naked people in public. Frank asked her how so and she said that she was from Ohio. Frank said that he was born in Ohio and that there had been people in his cast from Ohio so there were people from Ohio who liked to get naked, but they moved away from Ohio. Frank asked her why she left Ohio and she said that she wanted to go to a different country and California was the closest she could get to that was still in this country. Frank said California, where people get naked.

One of the guys who had danced around Frank naked in the group said that it was about context. He said that people are comfortable being nude in front of each other in public places like at harbin hot springs, and other times like in a public performance such as this people are not comfortable. He said that bodies are just flesh. We are really spirits. Frank said that they are connected and that it is fun to play in the body. Frank had a harbin hot springs story too. There was a guy there who was putting on a performance festival and he wanted Frank to be a part of it so he showed another guy at Harbin a video of one of Frank's performances which was Frank
nude and erotically dancing as Linda read one of his poems. Then a woman in the audience feeling turned on by it took her clothes off and started dancing too. So the people at harbin saw that and wanted to censor what Frank could do. Ordinarily Frank would have not gone to do the performance because they were limiting what he could do but this time he decided to play with it and included poems he had written about censorship addressing what harbin was doing. Afterwards the guy who had invited them said that Frank always challenges him. He was red faced and Frank was never invited back to Harbin again.

At the end of the performance Unrulee said that he felt alone. He said that he never felt alone at one of Frank's performances before. He said that he was happy to get naked but tonight he had not gotten to play, explore with anyone. He had pictures. Frank said to wait until he left the performance. Another woman said that the night had felt less like fun and more serious. She said that she was like a sponge and had felt other people getting uncomfortable and that once she shook that off she would be able to feel more clearly how the night had been.

Frank asked Kene J to come up and sing three songs. Some people started putting costumes on and dancing around getting into his music. Throughout the performance the band played in the back ground made up of Kene J, Mark from Phog Masheen and various others who would get up throughout to play an instrument. Some people brought their own instruments. We were all blown away. After all we had been through with Frank in the hospital, there he was, conducting a performance not missing a beat. Many people came to play and Frank had much to work with. It was a great night!

At the end of the performance the woman from Ohio said she was blown away by Frank's self confidence, by the way that he created his art with everyone who was here and how he brought people together. Frank asked her if she would read his poem, "I Came to Play." She went up and sat next to Frank and read it powerfully and beautifully. At times it seemed like she was going to cry as it touched deep chords within her. After the performance Frank asked her if she would like to get together and she said yes. The reading of "I Came to Play," summed up the night and seemed to touch deep chords of the many people who were there.

traditions!

2010-12-26T18:53:00.000-08:00

now until midnight Xmas night LUVER MIX is all Xmas Songs [including xxx Songs and anti- Xmas Songs] as is our tradition! And on midnight [Pacific time] I will lock myself in the LUVER studio to spin my favorite hot wax until January second as per tradition.

And speaking of traditions:

SEASON OF HIDDEN HOPE

a radio musical

FRANK MOORE

November 23, 1993

Walking along

cold dark homeless

roads

clogged with ice fears,

my only friend

is the wind

chilling my bones

into longing

and lost

and beyond...

into a cynical loneliness.

Herding my sheep,

looking in windows

of unattainable desires,

looking at presents

useless

because

I don't have anyone to give them to,

looking into the past

soft colored warm homes

that are no longer mine.

Everyone has left,

everyone is gone.

Even the sun has left

long ago,

long before the manger.

And the sun

will not come back

ever

again.

This is the season

of dark depression

and fragile suicide.

Yes,

I know

I can always bum up

the $29.95

to buy

the plastic hope and faith

at 7 Eleven

and pretend

it is my wonderful life

playing

in the video store's window.

But instead

I wrap myself

in a jaded pretense

of dry ice isolation

of not caring,

and drinking

the stale

but warm wine of regrets.

The birth

of new hope

has always been hidden within

the long cold

winter darkness.

Huddle together,

clinging to our tribal warmth

as our only protection

against dying

into the scary

black

unknown,

we always have been blind

to the evergreen

hope of life.

It has always been

the first time

the sun

and easy hope

have gone away.

So we always think

they will never

come again.

The evergreen hope

has been hidden

away

in the womb

of the humble

and in children's dreams.

The forces of greys

have always overheard

the possibility

of the hidden hope...

have always searched

for it

to pervert it

into human isolation...

or,

failing that,

to kill it

for all time.

But the forces of power

always overlook

the hidden human hope

rocking

in the baby's cradle.

As power

goes on a desperate killing,

chopping

hacking

gorging,

eating

the old world up......

we huddle together

in the silent night

upon the hill,

rocking together

in our tribal body warmth.

The shaman,

the holy woman,

the medicine man

have always shifted

our attention away

from the dark

cold

outward

fear,

have always shifted

our gaze

to the guiding light

of new birth...

at first

in the stars,

then in the roaring

tribal fire

which pulled

all human feelings

within it,

and still later

into that corny

home hearth

crackling

with bright colors

popping.

Into this fire

we have always gone,

hearing

the drumming

of our innocent heart

beating

in a slow excitement,

meeting

again

our love of life.

We curl up

with our love

and wait

for warm spring

to arrive...

as hope grows

into knowing.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: L'idealiste II

2010-12-26T18:51:00.000-08:00

:)

Invisible connection Uncle Frank ; my creative mind is like that big baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of fire right now ;

amazing how a single word can have so many sens, and taken out of a clear context, can create original thinking from people

* * * * *

at least, we try, don't we?!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: I came to play

2010-12-26T18:50:00.000-08:00

Oops! Butterfingers with the phone. I didn't mean to send that.

That was a great reading of your poem last night!

So much so, I bought a copy of "Chapped Lap."

Thanks again for the opportunity to play!

I was truely glad to attend the performance and not have to generate an excuse!

Mark Soden

Sent from my iPhone

* * * * *

we will play together again... No excuses!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

the complete shit!

2010-12-26T18:46:00.000-08:00

At the performance, we didn’t do the Harbin story Justice. So below is the complete story!

Friday, July 18, 2003

We have survived another performance! It was a weird one. It was another EARTHPEOPLE COMEDY CLUB show. We were in an ECC show in Berkeley a couple of months ago where I sat nude beckoning to the audience as Linda read my poem BOUNDERIES KILL. After 2 minutes, Kirsten who was sitting in the audience, slowly undressed then joined me in a slow, sensual, soft dance as Linda read my two poems about bodies merging. The whole piece was just 10 minutes. Afterward the producer, Mur, booked us to do the dance in a show at Harbin Hot Springs, a clothing-optional resort/retreat/community 2 hours north of here. We got 24-hour passes to be at the resort as payment. A good deal.

But on Tuesday we get a call from Mur. He broke a basic rule of doing shows. He showed a video of our piece to a higher-up at Harbin…who vetoed it…can’t have such an “x-rated” dance at “family-friendly” Harbin!

Well …at the Berkeley show Kirsten did rock on my lap for about a minute in the dance between other moves, circling me, lying on the floor, playing with my hands, looking into each other’s eyes. I hope it was sexy. But it wasn’t SEXUAL. It wasn’t meant to be SEXUAL! We did not have time to be SEXUAL! Never fear….THE NEXT 3 PERFORMANCES WILL BE HOT PANTANIC DANCES! 10 minutes just ain’t enough time to get HOT!

Anyway…Mur then broke a second rule of doing this kind of show. He actually told me what I could do [read poems “with heart”] and what I couldn’t do [dance!…with Kirsten!]! Normally I would just say HELL NO and not waste time. But there was some question about whether he was just a dumb guy in way over his head or what! So I decided to read poems that address the censorship… IS THIS APPROPRIATE?, Out of Isolation, and Family Friendly Poetry Reading. Truth be told, we all felt grossed out. But we four drove to Harbin.

Once there, things got much more fishy. Harbin is the ultimate of hippy-new age culture…for good and bad…very white! It was very enjoyable…if fragile…very pc-laden. But the nudity was laid-back. People were heavy petting on the lawn…HEY,HOLD THE PHONE! WHAT HAPPENED TO PG-RATED? I wasn’t on the poster, but a “SEXY CAVE DANCE” was on the poster! We couldn’t get satisfying answers from Mur, who kept trying to get Kirsten alone to “explain the changes.” She kept side-stepping him…getting grossed out being seen by him as “the weak link” of our unit, our tribal body. It was obvious that the problem that MANAGEMENT had wasn’t really the content of the piece, but my body! They didn’t think the people could handle it! Frankly I didn’t feel this from anyone there! Just management’s bigotry [and probably just one asshole!]! Ron Jones, who was the “headliner” of the night, encouraged us to dance anyway, after we told him the story. Over dinner [the food there was exceptional!] we decided that Kirsten would read the first poem as Linda and I dance, that Linda would read the second poem as Kirsten and I dance, and that Mikee would read the third poem as the 2 hot babes and I dance together…all nude of course! We did not tell Mur this! So if the shit came down from the management, he could say he told us not to dance…also so he couldn’t stop us. We ended up going on second after a keyboard player because the SEXY CAVE DANCERS got sick at the last minute. The keyboard player backed us. People loved our dance. Mur was livid after our dance, just saying “That’s enough, Frank. We’ve got to move on!” but the theme of the rest of the show became “inappropriate behavior.” By the time the show was over, Mur was speaking to us! He was saying, “Frank, you always stretch my limits, and I like that!”

At dinner before the show, I looked at the woman at another table. She looked very familiar. It was Tami [now a.k.a. Luna], my co-star in FEISTO! She ended up coming to the show, topless of course. After the show, she and another woman rolled around the floor together sexy contact dance style as people packed up and left. When only us and the keyboard player remained, she asked how the dance we did was different than the banned dance. She has always been mischievous…so she demanded to see the banned dance. So the keyboard player set up again…and Kirsten and I did a 10-minute dance. It wasn’t “sexual.” But it was more direct, focused, “personal” than what we did for the show…for a quite a few reasons.

The trip was really another 24-hour performance. Usually Linda, Mikee, and I are a tribal body, a unit that functions very smoothly, etc. But Kirsten merged with us, even/especially on the practical/mundane level. We are a very good team! This is very rare. Makes a lot more possible!

After we came to our senses about sleeping on the deck up a very steep hill in the dark, a kind security woman let us bed down in the room of the show. In the morning, after a big good breakfast, we headed up to the pools. There is a warm pool, an extremely hot pool, a cold pool, and a swimming pool. We ran into another of my co-stars…Sabina from FAIRYTALES CAN COME TRUE. She got in the warm pool with us and told us what she has been doing for the past 20 years. Me floating in a raft…what a life! Then, when I was baked real good, I laid in my lounge chair in the shade, watching nude people go by, Linda and Kirsten taking turns giving me cold water, as the other went into the hot and the cold pools with Mikee. WHAT A LIFE!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

I came to play

2010-12-26T18:43:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

I really love that poem of yours that was read last night, I Came to Play. Can't find it online anywhere. I'd love to read it to a friend. Any way you could help me find it or send it to me?

Cheers,
Lee

* * * * *

sure, Lee! It is up at http://www.eroplay.com/chappedlap/icametoplay.html. In fact the whole CHAPPED LAP is up there. We sold out of CHAPPED LAP last night. That was an extremely powerful reading of that poem Ohio [her real name is Maggie] did... A great way to end the night!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: L'idéaliste

2010-12-26T18:40:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Frank,

80 % on the track !. Voices ! :P

Now...

I
Am
I
Am
Not
Them
I
Am
Just
This is a great possibility ( not to sure if exactly that, don't have the project on me... )
If we wan't to do it
I
Am
Not
You
We'll deliver

This would be the first verse.

What do you think ?

* * * * *

I DELIVER YOU!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Philip Huang commented on your note "THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN" II

2010-12-26T18:39:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Philip Huang commented on your note "THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN".

Philip wrote: "Hi Love, I'm going to another show first but I'll try to get to Temescal. It's time we met in person!"

* * * * *

yes, indeed it's time!

I am venturing out into the worst rain of the season to be there. Talk about THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Holiday Card

2010-12-26T18:36:00.000-08:00

Frank, Linda, Mikey, Erika, Alexi, Corey

Just got your holiday card- what a delightful, simple message of love – compare to all the schmaltzy, garish gibberish on all the other cards that clog up our mailbox.

Thank you for being you – and for being there for us.

Love you too

Suzy

Susan M. Block, Ph.D.
The Dr. Susan Block Show

* * * * *

shucks, Suzy! Ain't that why we are here ... To be here for one another?!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Extreme Elvis & Frank Moore Holiday Special

2010-12-26T18:35:00.000-08:00

Awesome!!!!! We love it!

BTW, the request Frank made of us a month or so became our inspiration for this year's Christmas Card. It's on the way.

- Vinnie

* * * * *

can't wait to get your card, Vinnie!

yeah, that video is one of our best shows. It starts goosy loosey, and kept going more and more out there... Comparing our small ding-dongs [I won, I think!]! And ended up both nude, rubbing our two bodies together erotically [allegedly]. And I still get shit for only erotically playing with females! There's no Justice! Speaking of shit, what was that stain on his behind?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: cherotic sent you a video: "extremeelvis yt" (Paul)

2010-12-26T18:30:00.000-08:00

Ah Frankie,

I've often aspired to being labeled a 'sick puppy' by you.

I accept this as an honor as a high form of compliment.

Not the highest but it will do.

And you guys do indeed make the best Xmas specials!

'Badder Santa'...Are you referring to the movie with Billy Bob Thorton?

Never seen it.

If this the same film you're referring to I'll make sure to put it on my list to watch.

I've been enjoying gazing at your Xmas card on my fridge.

It's beautiful and warm. Thank you again.

Heaps of hugs to everyone,

xo Paul

* * * * *

yep, my sick puppy, that is the movie!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

* * * * *

Oh Cool!!

Thank you Frankie THE Amazing Sex God.

xo Paul

* * * * *

at your service, so to speak!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!". (Thomas Ferranti)

2010-12-25T19:19:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

Thomas wrote: "There is one of your digital pieces, (in particular), that I would love to see done-up as a "fake album cover" (one of my hobbies). Interested?"

* * * * *

sure! Which one?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Extreme Elvis & Frank Moore Holiday Special

2010-12-25T19:17:00.000-08:00

the video YOUTUBE just removed! Just to put tradition in your Xmas cheer!

Extreme Elvis & Frank Moore Holiday Special

http://www.eroplay.com/intimatetheater/intimate.html

with Jordana and Xtian

recorded 12.25.02

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Energy Within: The Art of Fred Hatt Calendar 2011

2010-12-25T19:12:00.000-08:00

Energy Within: The Art of Fred Hatt Calendar 2011

"Energy Within: The Art of Fred Hatt" 2011 Calendar is available now at RedBubble.com.

A great gift for your friends and loved ones who appreciate fine art, beautiful bodies, and psychedelic expressionism!

Or order any of the individual twelve images as a card or as a print in a range of sizes and formats at my RedBubble page. (Scroll to the bottom of the RedBubble page to click Safe Filter off.)

You can now subscribe to my art and photography blog, "Drawing Life", by email - follow the link and see the sidebar on how to subscribe. If the link doesn't work, go to http://fredhatt.com/blog I add new blog posts approximately once a week. You can also get notification of new blog posts by following me on Facebook or Twitter (fredhattart).

Happy Holidays!

Fred

* * * * *

Fred, a great way to spend the next year!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: THE FINAL CHAPTER [MAYBE!] OF MY NOVEL (Erika)

2010-12-25T19:10:00.000-08:00

(Erika wrote:)

Great "maybe" final chapter! Really fun to read!

New Show on LUVeR! The Language Of Imagination

2010-12-25T19:08:00.000-08:00

New show on http://www.luver.com!

Mondays at 12:30pm pacific

The Language Of Imagination

with host Milton Kerr

http://luver.com/miltonkerr.html

Starts Monday, December 6, 2010 at 12:20pm pacific!

* * * * *

we keep adding great EXCLUSIVE LUVER programs!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This week on Maximum Rock N Roll!

2010-12-25T19:07:00.000-08:00

Airs December 16, 2010 at 4pm pacific on http://www.luver.com

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL

tape #184

58 minutes

hosts: Tim, Ruth & Jeff

Guests: Sonic Youth (part 2)

1. Star Club (Japan)

from England:

2. Da Mona’s (Peter Gunn Locomotion"

3. Vice Squad "Teenage Rampage"

4. The Milkshakes "Gringles and Goiles Again"

5. Exile in the Kingdom "Total Disorder"

from Sweden:

6. The Krixshelters "Magic Mushrooms"

7. S.O.D. "S.O.D."

8. Mob 47

9. A B Herenfadt

10. Distrust

11. Guest: Sonic Youth (part two)

12. Sonic Youth (a snipet)

from the East Coast:

13. C.I.A. "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"

14. Reagan Youth theme sons

15. Nobody’s Favorite "Ruled by a Nazi"

16. The Mystery Girls "Waste Away"

17. The False Prophets "Banana Split Republic"

from Canada:

18. Asexuals "Be What You Want"

19. Bill of Rights "C9"

from the West Coast:

20. Trash "Peace or What?"

21. Plain Wrap "For What It’s Worth"

22. Iconoclast "Battlefield the Nightmare"

23. Oyo Seco (Brazil)

Download the show from the LUVeR show page:

http://www.luver.com/maxrnr.html

Subscribe to the podcast:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/MaximumRockNRollPodcast

Get past shows here:

http://mrnrpodcast.blogspot.com/

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

2010-12-25T19:06:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

Thomas wrote: "I just saw the digital art. Very inspiring! How often do you make new art?"

* * * * *

depends upon what you mean by art, if you mean painting, it varies. But the last four months, I have cranked quite a few out. But I always am doing some kind of art.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Philip Huang commented on your note "THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN".

2010-12-25T19:04:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Philip Huang commented on your note "THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN".

Philip wrote: "I'm scared and titillated!"

* * * * *

so are you coming Friday, Philip?

In Freedom,

Frank Moore

4th Amendment Victories!

2010-12-25T19:02:00.000-08:00

we do win some!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

* * * * *

Dear frank,

It's been a great week for electronic privacy and the 4th Amendment!

In a decision issued yesterday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can seize and search emails stored by third party email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in our amicus brief, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their phone calls and postal mail.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/breaking-news-eff-victory-appeals-court-holds

And today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with EFF and refused the government's request to reconsider an earlier pro-privacy decision, which held that federal magistrates have the discretion to require the government to get a search warrant based on probable cause before obtaining cell phone location records. That decision, based on EFF's briefing and oral argument as a friend of the court, has implications far beyond cell phone location privacy. It could apply to a broad range of communications records - including the content of your emails, your web search or browsing histories, as well as the location of your phone.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/eff-location-privacy-victory-third-circuit-stands

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Re: cherotic sent you a video: "extremeelvis yt"

2010-12-25T18:59:00.000-08:00

This has become a Christmas classic in my home.

I played it last year while a group of friends and I sat around drinking hot cocoa.

Please let da boyz know they've become a holiday crowd pleaser!

Paul

* * * * *

ah, Paul, you sick puppy! But yes, we make the best Xmas specials! That reminds me, on LUVER we are in the middle of our Xmas special! Right now every other song is a Xmas song and on Xmas week every song will be a Xmas song. We have the largest universal Xmas collection... All the classics, many rarities and novelties... And then there are the Songs that put the X in Xmas!

Speaking of Xmas... Our Xmas tradition is watching BADDER SANTA!

Da Boyz picked up next month's performance flier from the xerox place we have used for decades and our Xmas card was at the desk as an example of their work.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: THE FINAL CHAPTER [MAYBE!] OF MY NOVEL

2010-12-24T18:49:00.000-08:00

Perhaps just the final chapter so far!

rk

* * * * *

exactly! People are whining for more. And you know me. I am a sucker for whiners!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

The Atchleys at The Ivy Room, Wed., Dec. 15th - 9pm

2010-12-24T18:46:00.000-08:00

The Ivy Room improv/experimental Hootenanny series presents:

*The Atchleys

*Dean Santomieri -voice- with special guests Michael Zelner -reeds- and Suki O'Kane -percussion

*Amar Chaudhary -electronics

Venue:
Kingman's Ivy Room - 860 San Pablo, Albany, CA | 9pm | free

===========================

For their final performance of 2010, The Atchleys play in their proverbial backyard: Kingman's Ivy Room on San Pablo Ave. at Solano in Albany. The scene is laid back East Bay: good vibes, reasonably priced drinks, and seating available in the bar or in the adjoining music lounge: No Cover Charge.

The Atchleys mix sound-cocktails of found and original lyrics, commercially available loops, custom distortion and classic chords, audio-files from their private collection; all along with live vocals and electronics for a unique twist, unless you prefer olives, in which case we will accommodate with volume.

http://www.katch.com/performances

http://ivyhoot.wordpress.com/

http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=113

http://bayimproviser.com/transbay_calendar.asp?summary=false&event_id=9066

* * * * *

interesting!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: well....for the new year! (Annie Sprinkle)

2010-12-24T18:43:00.000-08:00

Thanks frank and all. Love the card.

Got it in the mail.

Love you too from San francisco.

Hope its your best year ever and that there will be no hospital stays.

xxx

Annie

* * * * *

knock on wood, Annie!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

cherotic sent you a video: "extremeelvis yt"

2010-12-24T18:40:00.000-08:00

today we tried to put up a Xmas video of extreme Elvis and I singing Xmas Songs together. But we got the below automatic rejection for copyright infringement. Obviously ELVIS is an automatic trigger, even though there are many EXTREME ELVIS videos on YOUTUBE.

And speaking of Xmas video, and remembering that YOUTUBE took the video of me down, here is one of our Xmas classics that has been up on YOUTUBE for years [watched by over eight thousands], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stIWdLqLvrM. Well, it is piss your pants funny video of Da Boyz hanging /dangling out at the BLUE HOUSE waiting for Santa, if you get my drift. That stays up!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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RE: another painting! (Suzy)

2010-12-24T18:36:00.000-08:00

Very dynamic. I love the hard thrusting force of her right leg!

Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

The Dr. Susan Block Show

* * * * *

hey, I always like hard thrusting!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!" II

2010-12-16T19:23:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

Thomas wrote: "This is awesome! I'd love to see more."

* * * * *

well, my oil paintings are up at

http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/painting-slideshow/paintings.html and my digital paintings are up at http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/digital/digital.html. Tell me what you think.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

2010-12-16T19:21:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank,

Thomas Ferranti commented on your note "another painting!".

Thomas wrote: "VIEWERS: PLEASE click the picture. It will embiggen. Then, here on Firefox, my cursor changed to a magnifying glass. I clicked the picture with it and it got bigger still! Highly recommended! ;) I love this one, Frank! I am happily surprised t see that you do computer art. How was this one made?"

* * * * *

I did it in COREL PAINT SHOP PRO PHOTO X2. I started from a high res photo. I mainly used "magic markers."

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: another painting!

2010-12-16T19:18:00.000-08:00

Nice :)

Frank, do you model out of a picture, scan and "paint" ( with the PC of course ) or draw it youself and paint ( with the PC I guess finally ) ?

Anyways, it's pretty "warm and relaxe" :)

Just curious ( and waking up on a cold minus 10 degrees Montréal morning )

Rafael

* * * * *

it varies. This one was from a photo.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Englishman in NY (Paul)

2010-12-16T19:16:00.000-08:00

Frankie,

They do you mean 'they' as in Medicaid??

Okay, so you are to produce a written document dated before 1968.

Why that year?

Have you or your doctors brought to 'their' attention that medical science teaches CP happens at birth.

Ugh.

Paul

* * * * *

I am trying to collect on my Dad's social security so I can get Medicare years from now. I just googled definitions of Cerebral palsy. While most definitions say at birth, some definitions say up to eighteen. But dealing with THEM, it is not a question of science /medicine, but having the right papers that fit into their system.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: Englishman in NY (Rafael)

2010-12-16T19:13:00.000-08:00

No, no, no, no, non :

I'm not a kid anymore and saw some performances on youtube, and honestly, was curiously surprised and shocked as this was new to my understanding of human possibilities in our near futuristic world

"Artists and musicians come up to me today and say they saw the O.B.R. when they were kids and thought if we could do that, they could do what they dreamt";

This last phrase resumes it all:

the kid inside me still thinks he can do what he dreams he Will :)

Thank you Frank :)

Rafael

* * * * *

hey, I am just doing my job as an artist!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN

2010-12-14T20:23:00.000-08:00

SEE EVERYBODY THIS FRIDAY... AND I DO MEAN BODIES!

THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN
experiments in experience/participation performance

yep! We are coming back in December! Get your excuses ready!

The Underground Hit!

CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)

Friday, December 17
8pm

TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058

For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
email: fmoore@eroplay.com
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartscenter.org/

2011 Dates!

1/22
2/25
3/26
4/23
5/28
6/25
7/23
8/27
9/24
10/22
11/26
12/16

"...He's wonderful and hilarious and knows exactly what it's all about and has earned my undying respect. What he's doing is impossible, and he knows it. That's good art...." L.A. Weekly

"Merging improv, erotica, entertainment, religion and ritual, Frank Moore - self-styled shaman, world-renowned disabled performance artist, and 2008 presidential candidate ...." - East Bay Express

Resisting "the easy and superficial descriptions..., Moore's work challenges the consensus view more strongly in ways less acceptable than...angry tirades and bitter attacks on consumer culture." Chicago New City

"If performance art has a radical edge, it has to be Frank Moore." Cleveland Edition

"Transformative..." Moore "is thwarting nature in an astonishing manner, and is fusing art, ritual and religion in ways the Eurocentric world has only dim memories of. Espousing a kind of paganism without bite and aggression, Frank Moore is indeed worth watching." High Performance Magazine

"Surely wonderful and mind-goosing experience." L.A. Reader

Downloadable poster here:
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In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Englishman in NY (Miriam)

2010-12-14T20:21:00.000-08:00

Vernon and I just had a discussion about this actually. One of his coworkers catalogued some footage of you and she said she had a hard time watching it. I had to wonder, if it had been naked and erotic but not someone she perceived as "different" if it would have bothered her at all. Vernon and I decided probably not. One of the best people I have known in my life had CP, and people would literally freak out when he tried to communicate with them. What is it that threatens people so much? This I have not figured out. Is it fear that they won't know how to communicate, or do they actually think something bad is going to happen to them? I would love your perspective on this Frank. And I say thank you for challenging people's stereotypes.

Hope all is well,
Miriam

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mmmmmm, the footage Parr didn't pay for!

Miriam, there are a lot of layers to it. did she say why she had a hard time watching? Can't imagine being so fragile... And then admitting it! Well, someone like me shouldn't be able to be on stage. So just me being on stage destroys the agreed upon reality of limitations. Then I am not THE SWEET CRIP ARTIST. Then I do confrontational art. Then I am happy, doing what I want, having a great life on every level. All of this destroys the excuses they use for not being happy, not doing what they want to do, etc. And I am sexy [it's the CP curse]! How can somebody like me be sexy, especially when THEY don't feel sexy. So they have to deny it. Maybe someone is forcing me, exploiting me, abusing me. Or I must be an extraordinary spiritual being to overcome my physical.... Well, you get my drift. Anything to avoid they can be happy, sexy, etc.

in the world, a lot of people use crips as Screens to project their own fears, limitations, etc upon. Then they relate to these projections. And the CP's innate sexiness just deepens these projections.

In my OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY REVUE in the late seventies, there was a cast of thirty people, including four guys in wheelchairs [playing people!].

The show was in bad taste, was called "exploitive". What made it thus was not just what was done, but who was doing it...crips, women and other "untalented" unfortunates. The first assumption of the people who were offended was that these were able-bodied actors making fun of crips; then, when it became clear we were real crips, the leap into dumbness was that someone was exploiting us. When they got it into their heads that we had created our own acts, the new way to deny our power was to say we were exploiting our own bodies. Forget nudity. Forget being sexual. Just by getting up onto the stage we were exploiting our own bodies. Women share this hidden yoke of suppression. By breaking this yoke, by offending a lot of people, the show released, inspired, and liberated a lot more. Artists and musicians come up to me today and say they saw the O.B.R. when they were kids and thought if we could do that, they could do what they dreamt.

To be continued...

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Thank you :)

2010-12-14T20:13:00.000-08:00

Hi Frankie and Everyone,

Received your Christmas card yesterday! Thank you, it's beautiful.

The card has a prominent place on my fridge next to the photos taken last time I came to study with you a few years ago. This way I can visit with you every day when I have coffee every morning.

Heaps of hugs to everyone,

Paul

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a great way to start your day, paul!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: well....for the new year! (Richard Winger)

2010-12-14T20:05:00.000-08:00

(Richard Winger wrote:)

Gorgeous card!

We are still waiting for the US District Court in Washington DC to rule on whether write-in votes for declared write-in presidential candidates must be counted.

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shucks, Richard!

Seems like a no brainer... Counting all the votes! Glad we were /are a part of the struggle /process!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:23:00.000-08:00

(Frank wrote:)

or don't threaten the personal isolation that produces the profits for the corporate combine and the imposed limitations which remove personal responsibility!

they [the people who freak out at my work ] are jealous of the joy and the freedom [which is erotic] that comes from the taking Of personal responsibility to risk to do what they really want.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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(Rafael wrote:)

Totally agree on that : you're a living example of it ;

a Movie will never replace this. Nor will any music :)

Hope it will give some people the curiosity to start a relationship with you, through the e-salon or by assisting your performances.

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shucks, Rafael!

Btw, you can still watch the complete video of the NOTE performance at http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/thenote2009/index.html. I don't believe in Depending on sites like YOUTUBE to get the work out!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

well....for the new year!

2010-12-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

Re: Fw: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:18:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Can't believe those assholes !

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absolutely true! Jack Smith said.." and the more tragic the artists
the more they dangle them in front of the public..because it
increases the vampire thrill"

dont die Frank because there will be so many movie of the week about
you it will make everyone heads spin...

xoxoxpenny

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well, I could put in my will that you must play me in any movie about me, considering that you and I are the same person! But, yes, they are waiting until I am dead to do any movie, etc. about me!

Now they are making me find a piece of paper from anytime before 1968 that says I have cerebral palsy to prove I had cerebral palsy since birth in order for me to be able to get Medicare. They don't want a doctor to tell them that.. They need a paper trail!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:17:00.000-08:00

Obviously , you are too sexy by yourself for YouTube! There is a song
in that! But look at the censorship climate that never goes sway! It
is 1990 all over again with the wojnrovic piece being pulled last
week..meanwhile lady gaga is having no problems!

Love penny

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hey, Rod Stewart should do that song, Penny! Ain't that really why they didn't want you anywhere near that movie? You are too fucking sexy. You would have shown how flat, mainstream that film was just by contrast. But what were the reasons they gave for not letting you audition for the Penny role and for keeping the actors away from you?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:15:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Whatever could make money or goes in the sens of money generating industries, even if provoking, won't ever pose a problem, Frank: even profound and serious matters are too often prostituted into commercial venues, would it be to discriminate them.

I'd say too many are jealous of you having those sexual powers, man ! :D

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or don't threaten the personal isolation that produces the profits for the corporate combine and the imposed limitations which remove personal responsibility!

they [the people who freak out at my work ] are jealous of the joy and the freedom [which is erotic] that comes from the taking Of personal responsibility to risk to do what they really want.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:14:00.000-08:00

(Rafael wrote:)

Can't believe those assholes !

Re: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:13:00.000-08:00

on a similar note... I have always said the eroticism and nudity is not the real reason why people freak out about my work. YOUTUBE has been taking down [aka censoring] my videos for years. There are a lot of videos up that have as much, if not more, nudity and eroticism as mine. YOUTUBE won't say why they took stuff down, won't engage in dialog. So last week they took down [or rather we discovered that they had taken down] the part one of a three-part video that had been up for a couple of years. It is of a thirty minute performance I did at THE NOTE THEATER in Hollywood a few years back. Keep in mind that they only took the first part down and left the other two parts up. Basically the first part was me sitting nude on the stage singing with my live band and beckoning to the audience. Ok, the three nude girls came out the last minute of the first part. But things got HOT in the second part [which is STILL UP!]. And in the third part [STILL UP!] a lot of the audience members [including a hot babe who took her blouse off and writhed on my lap] got on stage to dance with me and the three nude girls [this was before I saw your performance!]!

Now my question is... Am I, a nude crip, too sexy by myself for YOUTUBE?!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Englishman in NY

2010-12-13T19:11:00.000-08:00

hey you guys

Thanks for your funny spirited message re the film...The director would not even let me audition to play myself..and wouldnt let Cynthia or John hurt even see video of Quenti Crisp and I! It is too bad..QC and I were quite a trop togther!!!

Hope you are thriving!

xoxoxpenny

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and it shows in the movie! A black wig doesn't make Penny Arcade!

They have to include us. But they want THEIR versions of us, all cleaned up and quaint. They can't wait until we die so they can make us into their image without having to deal with us.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This Week on Maximum Rock N Roll!

2010-12-13T19:09:00.000-08:00

Airs Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 4pm pacific on http://www.luver.com

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL

tape #183

54 minutes

hosts: Tim, Mr. Puss, Ruth & Jeff

Guests: Sonic Youth

1. Enola Gay (Denmark)

from the Midwest:

2. Man-Size Action

3. Human Sufferage "Hey Big Boy"

4. Husker Du "New Day Rising"

5. Baby Astronauts

Cleanse the Bacteria Preview Night:

6. Seven Seconds

7. Part One "Possess"

8. Poison Idea "Die on your Knees"

9. Genocide Express "Genocide Express"

10. Genocide Express "Emotions"

11. The Seige "Sad but True"

from the South:

12. The Offenders "Face Down in the Dirt"

13. Scratch Acid "Lay Screaming"

14. Butthole Surfers "Dumb Dumb"

rom Germany:

15. Ciresen 81 "Strength Through Beer"

16. Der Ris

17. The Maniacs "Crusader"

18. Die Manner "Die Manner"

19. Inferno "Uncertainty"

20. Sonic Youth

21. Guest: Sonic Youth

22. The Wretched (Italy)

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YOU SHOULD SUE!

2010-12-13T19:08:00.000-08:00

hi, Penny! We here are watching AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK... A pretty good movie... Except For when that actress [from SEX IN THE CITY] who is supposed to be you came on! She totally failed to capture your Spirit, lust, sharpness, humor, sexuality, etc... She is not even an Italian New York chick with balls! We stopped watching for the night after her first two scenes. Hope she doesn't sandbag the movie. WE MISS YOU!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

another painting!

2010-12-09T18:23:00.001-08:00

this one is called LET'S TWIST AGAIN!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

from steve & Marjorie

2010-12-09T18:21:00.000-08:00

and hippie holidaze to you guys! love Steve and Marjorie

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and the same to you, my family of freaks!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

THE FINAL CHAPTER [MAYBE!] OF MY NOVEL

2010-12-03T19:19:00.000-08:00

WELL I AM BACK… sort of. The since you and I shared a word together many months ago I almost dead. I have not even printed the last chapter out yet.

I went to the hospital. Macho risking getting hurt! Failing getting lost all consciousness for thirty years without oxygen! We want it send to hell! Personally I always find a lot of places for getting me ashore. I laughed! But I was murdered when they moved us to keep us apart! Getting frustrated that drains possibilities away from the hospital with pneumonia, almost dying. Michael and Linda always were there for /with your truelove me twenty-four hours care. So I survived! But parts keep coming off of my whiners! The real deep power influence of tribal body just seems more practical than isolation, separation and fascism.

Well, should we end this now? We have not gotten stupid together for a long long time, mate. Practically speaking thus, I don’t know what is happening within skins trash to pull up stakes and come to the end of this piece of fresh meat. After sedation has cut off all this shit, verbal jazz, rifting in the cards unshuffled. So uncomfortable! But is this too short, toothless old cicerone mumble in broken English to be a novel? Was it just a shaggy dog self-serving story about me? Just coming up with another rapper Phat boy. I have jammed with you. But can we just say Good-by? Adore our campaign together and walk away? Strangely enough none of this unwritten logger’s law has cut off Kerfoot’s left hand. Is fifty-two Pages enough for a novel? Anyway I could pad it by double space, wide margins, and large tiger-sharks font. Easy street! So can you live without reading this? Well, I have not been writing in this journey for a long time, mate. But you have been reading this over and over again. Tide stranded you! Live without this shit, verbal jazz.. The end of this face saying, asking around, everything bad habits prevailed everywhere everyday with you. Timeworn words stay tuned like challenges. See you next time!

THE END

FINISHED
MAYBE!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: update (Francine)

2010-12-03T19:17:00.000-08:00

HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY HEROES TOO. HE IS A VERY GREAT DOCTOR.

Francine Manuel, RPT

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well, Francine, you were the one who got me into his office many years ago!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: update (Suzy)

2010-12-03T19:15:00.000-08:00

Good for Dr. Good! What a great success story.

Max is home again, recovering very nicely and sends his love. Have a great performance! We will also be going “on with the show” this Saturday at the Speakeasy. Speaking of which, hope to see you guys sometime soon here at our beautiful new space.

Peace through pleasure

Suzy

Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

The Dr. Susan Block Show

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great about Max!

I don't know when we will be up for any traveling.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: update (Rafael)

2010-12-03T19:12:00.000-08:00

Glad to hear you've got a good and Humane doctor ( man, I'm starting to read "confessions of an economic hitman from Perkins and it just kind of pushes you back to activism a bit :)

Frank, as i'm allways consulting you before such great directing decision, and as I was slicing your election speech, I cristalized in my mind the way I wan't the voice collage to come out :

Now, I wan't to create phrases out of sliced words like "I", "am", "not", "political", "education", "you", "or", "military", etc...

Somewhat of an Aiku :)

Therefor, this collage would be the representation of a "force", rather than a political campaign per say.

Ex: We will shut down nuclear generators, stop arms race, prejudice, etc...

I'll be using the "We" instead of "I", in order to represent that "force", that "community".

The end of the track will contain "Frank for President" : just thought that we are in 2010 NOW and that what you fought for DO NOT BELONG TO A MUSEUM ! ;)

It is, of course, impressionist as you allready know that I'm this kind of composer ;

I lately though of remastering the track ( when finished ! ) in the future and ad some some brainwaves editing ;

Stay as well until next time :)

Rafael

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funny... Years back the ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO hired me to do a lecture and some other stuff. We didn't know anything about the place. But it was all expenses paid kind of gig [a rarity!]... So... They put us in a fancy hotel. So the day before the lecture we walked to the lecture hall to check it out. It was in a bigtime museum! And all through the museum were my writings [to promote the lecture]. The piece they chose to xerox was where I described museums as graveyards for dead art! I LOVED THE IRONY!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

about last night

2010-12-03T19:11:00.000-08:00

you can count on one fucking hand how many performances I have cancelled over the past forty years. But, as DIRTY HARRY wisely once said, A MAN JUST HAS TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

i am not up for the kpfa show tonight

2010-12-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

i am doing well but going out at midnight in the rain and cold the day after my peg removal for a three-hour show is just too much.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: update (Eda)

2010-12-02T18:32:00.000-08:00

what a story! what a GREAT story! Good for you (haha)! i'm really so glad. wish i could have a doctor Good in NY.

it's gotten cold here, but lovely. we still picked a few raspberries in our backyard. after alan and our upstairs neighbor/tenant buried her cat there today (poor kitty had feline leukemia and deteriorated suddenly and quickly while she was away 4 wks taking care of her mom in Minneapolis, where btw, it got to 11 degrees.)

so, time for me to get ready for bed so i can get warm from Alan's fur.

again, so glad. lots of love, eda

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and ain't that what living is all about? Creating great stories to re- tell!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: update (Michael Diehl)

2010-12-02T18:29:00.000-08:00

Hi Frank and Linda

Well it is hard to keep a good man like you down for long. I have been struggling with some of my own physical and mental disabilities but part of what gets me through the dark tis the season to be jolly is hearing you on Crack of Dawn singing Christmas songs. Here's to your long life. You are an inspiration of how to beat the odds by being even odder!

Ho ho ho,
Michael Diehl

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well, Michael, this places a great sacred responsibility over my head! But I will do my duty tonight! Keep in mind I just had my trach out, so my voice is untested! The odds are more odd!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: update (Paul)

2010-12-02T18:28:00.001-08:00

Hot damn!

Paul

Re: update (Steve and Marjorie)

2010-12-02T18:26:00.000-08:00

that's the kind of second opinion we like...have fun at the performance! Steve and Marjorie

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you can say that again, Steve!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: update (Betsy)

2010-12-02T18:24:00.000-08:00

Frank that is wonderful!!! I work with lots of kids with pegs, but unfortunately they typically have to have it because they cannot swallow nor chew to be safe. SO, good for you, glad everything worked out, I applaud you for speaking up and asking questions. Sounds like you had a great visit with our buddy Steve. I keep track of him through you! I miss him, we sure had some good times. Have a wonderful holiday season with all your family,

Love,
Betsy

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hey, Betsy! I learned a long long time ago they often don't know what the fuck they are talking about and they can put a fatal curse on you if you fall for it! I never have!

Yep, our tribe is still intact after forty years or more! Great visit with Steve and his mate!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

update

2010-12-02T18:22:00.000-08:00

Renee, now I am really ready to dance sexy with you at the Temescal Friday December seventeenth!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore