i'm doing a first in the 11-year history of the shaman's den! i'm doing a live double header!
first up...at 8pm pacific time it is Marjorie Swann Edwin, a founding member of the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), a radical pacifist organization formed in 1957 to resist the US Government’s program of nuclear weapons testing. http://rcnv.org/202 To tune into this live, video show, go to http://www.luver.com/listen.html and click on "watch here".
and then at about 10:30pm Pacific Time, everything will be expanded when "the queen of the underground" Penny Arcade will join me...comparing notes from our lifetimes of cultural subversion! you on the e-salon know how special this will be!
THEN, AFTER THESE 2 SHOWS...I'LL DIE!...MAYBE!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Sunday, March 8, 2009
last night's show of penny arcade...even better!
when we got home last night from penny's show, we watched 20 to Life: The Life and Times of John Sinclair (2007)...a great documentary! it was fitting because it was john [a frequent guest on my show, a luver dj, an elector/endorser of my presidential campaign, and who donated his whole music library to luver] was the one who forwarded me penny's email about her show. after i forwarded it out, i put it in my trash. but i kept thinking about inviting her to be a guest on my show...it was a long shot...but fuck it!...i went into my trash and emailed her. she wrote back! she knew my work! this week has been a process of penny, her director steve, and i trying to get her here, working against the flu, time, etc. it still may happen late sunday night or monday night. but the process revealed we 3 share the same life and philosophy as art outsiders, using the same tactics and performance tools, facing the same issues and boxes. anytime such outsiders meet one another, THINGS HAPPEN!
last night's show was even better than opening night. the dancers were more relaxed, hence even hotter and sexier. penny's riffs were expanded, deeper, more intense...partly because there was more of a p.c.-uptightness undercurrent in the audience that she could play with. even more satisfying!
and again miss muffy danced with me during the dance free-for-all! but this time the other dancer nina and one of the guy dancers krowe joined our steamy circle as did a hot babe from the audience. really during the show whenever the guy dancers needed someone to play with, they came to me...because i'm always ready to play. that's a secret of getting hot babes of whatever gender!
DA BOYZ:
From the very beginning of the show, it was just so much fun. Watching all the great sexy dancers, guys and girls, dancing throughout the theater, rotating their positions as people filed in ... taking turns, one by one, doing a kind of solo to each new song ... Linda pointed out Miss Muffy to us, who was going to be on a future Shaman's Den ... all of the dancers were amazing, but she was definitely one of our favorites!! Everything was just exciting, turned on, fun ... And all this before Penny even came into the room ...
It was really neat the way that Penny interacted with Frank throughout the performance ... there were some moments that were intensely deep and focused between them that just gave us chills. Linda had handed her Frank's book of poems and Art of a Shaman before the show, and she had already started reading it ... you could feel the real affinity and connection that she and Frank have, and the whole performance really showed that too ... there was a lot that reminded us of Frank, and of the feeling of us, and of our performances ... a feeling of being on the edge with her, taken on a journey with her, having fun with her in the moment, the way she "jammed", improvised ... and the way she kept driving things, ideas, concepts home .... and the way it felt like she brought everyone together in the process ....
It was really fun to dance with the dancers, and everyone else in the audience up onstage, and watching Miss Muffy, Nina and others dance with Frank. He was busy!! The way that the dancers were with the audience was really neat, soft, personal, direct ... totally changing, transforming the standard perception of an erotic dancer ... And it was really neat to see them all in their street clothes at the end ... it humanized everything, and made you feel like all of us were sexy dancers, and anyone could be ... and all the next day we wondered who, in the course of a day, walking around in their street clothes, might be an erotic dancer?? It felt like it melted a lot of things together ...
Alexi said he had tears in his eyes from almost the very beginning, because everything Penny was saying was so deep, direct, personal ... We loved being in the dark theater with her! There is so much we have been talking about in the performance, its hard to remember all of it ... Penny is so funny too!! And we were saying afterward that, like Frank, she weaves a powerful message nonlinearly and is sneaky ... using the fun, the dancing, the nudity, the eroticism, the skits and personal history to carry these ideas into you ... It was really neat the way Penny talked about pc, self-censorship, the way she likened the climate in the U.S. to the way things were in Germany before the Nazis came to power ... the way she really got underneath a lot of different eras and the current state of things ...
It was really neat talking with Steve after the show ... how again you could feel such a deep affinity between him and Penny and Frank ... how much he and Penny valued the consistency, the long term relationships, staying "outsiders" ... very similar experiences. It was a trip to hear about what has happened in New York City, and how they see the Bay Area as having the last cracks of freedom in the corporate take-over, the gentrification of everything ...
And then Frank talking with Krowe, Nina, Muffy ... lining up shows! What an amazing fun night, and a feeling of very deep connections ... We were some of the last to leave.
JEN:
The boyz were waiting for us at the theatre which was also decorated with a mix of the place it used to be and what it has become. We got in and waited for the show to start. Penny saw us and said hi then ran out to get false eyelashes. When she came back she had already been reading Art of a Shaman which we gave her and she was loving it. We were told that there were seats right up front for all of us. When the stage music came up loud we entered and saw all the erotic dancers doing their thing. It was awesome! We were figuring out where our seats were but I couldn't stop looking at all the beautiful bodies writhing around. We got settled in and really soaked the dancers in. All different body types colors sexes juicing the place up. They rotated and everyone of them had center stage for a song. They humped the stage, the poles, each other. They touched themselves and teased, shook and jiggled in joy. It was so much fun! They interacted with the audience dancing into them. It was great. And then Penny came down the aisle and she stopped at Frank. They communicated without words for a while giving each other meaningful looks and gestures. Then she got up on stage and started. She's a fireball, funny and smart, getting her ideas across by letting the audience in. She's direct and honest talking about sexual energy being the only one energy, talking about aids and the loss that created, talking about the gentrification of NY. She hits on so many things that need to change by exploring basic topics of being a bitch, dyke, faghag and whore, but all is entertwined into the bigger picture of life. She connects everything together with her wit and vulnerability. When she goes through the audience in the dark it feels good like we're friends with her just rapping about life together. She's so cute and sexy. She does a strip tease and then a political rant which is very powerful. All the time I'm thinking how sexy, how intense, how affective. And then I realize that we do that too, we bare all and Frank weaves everything into a sexy powerful experience. It is the same, and so I'm struck again with how lucky we are, how amazing this life is. The energy in the place was sexy and most of the audience got up to dance during the 3 song break. Frank had 3 babes getting down with him. People let loose and shook their stuff, inspired by the performance. When the erotic dancers came onstage at the end in their street clothes it really drove the fact home that all the sexy juicy energy was in everyone. All came full circle. It was a really great show.
When it was over we made our way out to the lobby. Penny talked to Frank telling him that she loves the part of his book she read that talks about following. She said that not many people do that anymore, but they do that. Kindred. We went out to the lobby and talked with several dancers and with Steve, Penny's partner. Everyone was warm and open. Frank asked Krowe to be on the Shaman's Den. Miss Muffy also confirmed that she'll be on the show soon. He told Nina that he liked her dancing and she was thrilled. Steve talked about the 'art scene' and how gross it all was now because the people are all careerists so it isn't about the art anymore. It was neat to hear the similar experiences Penny and Frank have had with that world. We were buzzing from the energy of the night, but we were getting tired and hungry. After most people left we made our way to the cars. Had a long wait to get on the bridge and talked about this and that during the traffic jam. Got home and had our pizza talking about how great the performance was and then we all passed out.
Was thinking about the performance last night all day today. How the sexy dancers really blew my mind because they blew away any pictures of what sexy looked like. It was a feeling, a juicy openess and vulnerability. And all that Penny said and did was there too, telling us her stories and weaving them into our lives when on the surface they could seem remote.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
last night's show was even better than opening night. the dancers were more relaxed, hence even hotter and sexier. penny's riffs were expanded, deeper, more intense...partly because there was more of a p.c.-uptightness undercurrent in the audience that she could play with. even more satisfying!
and again miss muffy danced with me during the dance free-for-all! but this time the other dancer nina and one of the guy dancers krowe joined our steamy circle as did a hot babe from the audience. really during the show whenever the guy dancers needed someone to play with, they came to me...because i'm always ready to play. that's a secret of getting hot babes of whatever gender!
DA BOYZ:
From the very beginning of the show, it was just so much fun. Watching all the great sexy dancers, guys and girls, dancing throughout the theater, rotating their positions as people filed in ... taking turns, one by one, doing a kind of solo to each new song ... Linda pointed out Miss Muffy to us, who was going to be on a future Shaman's Den ... all of the dancers were amazing, but she was definitely one of our favorites!! Everything was just exciting, turned on, fun ... And all this before Penny even came into the room ...
It was really neat the way that Penny interacted with Frank throughout the performance ... there were some moments that were intensely deep and focused between them that just gave us chills. Linda had handed her Frank's book of poems and Art of a Shaman before the show, and she had already started reading it ... you could feel the real affinity and connection that she and Frank have, and the whole performance really showed that too ... there was a lot that reminded us of Frank, and of the feeling of us, and of our performances ... a feeling of being on the edge with her, taken on a journey with her, having fun with her in the moment, the way she "jammed", improvised ... and the way she kept driving things, ideas, concepts home .... and the way it felt like she brought everyone together in the process ....
It was really fun to dance with the dancers, and everyone else in the audience up onstage, and watching Miss Muffy, Nina and others dance with Frank. He was busy!! The way that the dancers were with the audience was really neat, soft, personal, direct ... totally changing, transforming the standard perception of an erotic dancer ... And it was really neat to see them all in their street clothes at the end ... it humanized everything, and made you feel like all of us were sexy dancers, and anyone could be ... and all the next day we wondered who, in the course of a day, walking around in their street clothes, might be an erotic dancer?? It felt like it melted a lot of things together ...
Alexi said he had tears in his eyes from almost the very beginning, because everything Penny was saying was so deep, direct, personal ... We loved being in the dark theater with her! There is so much we have been talking about in the performance, its hard to remember all of it ... Penny is so funny too!! And we were saying afterward that, like Frank, she weaves a powerful message nonlinearly and is sneaky ... using the fun, the dancing, the nudity, the eroticism, the skits and personal history to carry these ideas into you ... It was really neat the way Penny talked about pc, self-censorship, the way she likened the climate in the U.S. to the way things were in Germany before the Nazis came to power ... the way she really got underneath a lot of different eras and the current state of things ...
It was really neat talking with Steve after the show ... how again you could feel such a deep affinity between him and Penny and Frank ... how much he and Penny valued the consistency, the long term relationships, staying "outsiders" ... very similar experiences. It was a trip to hear about what has happened in New York City, and how they see the Bay Area as having the last cracks of freedom in the corporate take-over, the gentrification of everything ...
And then Frank talking with Krowe, Nina, Muffy ... lining up shows! What an amazing fun night, and a feeling of very deep connections ... We were some of the last to leave.
JEN:
The boyz were waiting for us at the theatre which was also decorated with a mix of the place it used to be and what it has become. We got in and waited for the show to start. Penny saw us and said hi then ran out to get false eyelashes. When she came back she had already been reading Art of a Shaman which we gave her and she was loving it. We were told that there were seats right up front for all of us. When the stage music came up loud we entered and saw all the erotic dancers doing their thing. It was awesome! We were figuring out where our seats were but I couldn't stop looking at all the beautiful bodies writhing around. We got settled in and really soaked the dancers in. All different body types colors sexes juicing the place up. They rotated and everyone of them had center stage for a song. They humped the stage, the poles, each other. They touched themselves and teased, shook and jiggled in joy. It was so much fun! They interacted with the audience dancing into them. It was great. And then Penny came down the aisle and she stopped at Frank. They communicated without words for a while giving each other meaningful looks and gestures. Then she got up on stage and started. She's a fireball, funny and smart, getting her ideas across by letting the audience in. She's direct and honest talking about sexual energy being the only one energy, talking about aids and the loss that created, talking about the gentrification of NY. She hits on so many things that need to change by exploring basic topics of being a bitch, dyke, faghag and whore, but all is entertwined into the bigger picture of life. She connects everything together with her wit and vulnerability. When she goes through the audience in the dark it feels good like we're friends with her just rapping about life together. She's so cute and sexy. She does a strip tease and then a political rant which is very powerful. All the time I'm thinking how sexy, how intense, how affective. And then I realize that we do that too, we bare all and Frank weaves everything into a sexy powerful experience. It is the same, and so I'm struck again with how lucky we are, how amazing this life is. The energy in the place was sexy and most of the audience got up to dance during the 3 song break. Frank had 3 babes getting down with him. People let loose and shook their stuff, inspired by the performance. When the erotic dancers came onstage at the end in their street clothes it really drove the fact home that all the sexy juicy energy was in everyone. All came full circle. It was a really great show.
When it was over we made our way out to the lobby. Penny talked to Frank telling him that she loves the part of his book she read that talks about following. She said that not many people do that anymore, but they do that. Kindred. We went out to the lobby and talked with several dancers and with Steve, Penny's partner. Everyone was warm and open. Frank asked Krowe to be on the Shaman's Den. Miss Muffy also confirmed that she'll be on the show soon. He told Nina that he liked her dancing and she was thrilled. Steve talked about the 'art scene' and how gross it all was now because the people are all careerists so it isn't about the art anymore. It was neat to hear the similar experiences Penny and Frank have had with that world. We were buzzing from the energy of the night, but we were getting tired and hungry. After most people left we made our way to the cars. Had a long wait to get on the bridge and talked about this and that during the traffic jam. Got home and had our pizza talking about how great the performance was and then we all passed out.
Was thinking about the performance last night all day today. How the sexy dancers really blew my mind because they blew away any pictures of what sexy looked like. It was a feeling, a juicy openess and vulnerability. And all that Penny said and did was there too, telling us her stories and weaving them into our lives when on the surface they could seem remote.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
RE: THE DR. SUSAN BLOCK SHOW on BTV, Ch.28 & Ch.24, March-April 2009
Thanks so much Linda and Frank! BTV is even more precious to us now that we’ve lost ALL of our stations in LA.
Xxxo Suzy
Susan M. Block, Ph.D.
Susan M. Block, Ph.D.
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ah, yes...makes the mere incompetence of btv seem heavenly! we have been carrying around an issue of the l.a. weekly because it listed our performance. yesterday we just noticed and read the cover story/expose of the shutting down of public access...and your great photo!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Orgasm
(from Stavros:)
I had surgery on my nose. The doctor said that when I came out of the anesthesia my muscles tightened and I was breathing rapidly. They put me back under anesthesia and injected muscles relaxants. The next two hours were spend saving me.
I realize after I came home that it was an organism. That is typical for me when I have an orgasm and is one reason why I practice non orgasmic sex. After my brother died during an orgasm I thought it would be in my interest to control my orgasms. However when I think of it I can’t think of a better way to depart from this earth. If I died after that operation my obituary would have read “Stavros went out in a wet dream.”
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oh, yes, those orgasms can be fatal...but!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Monday on a Shaman's Den's Special
Frank Moore's Shaman's Den
Monday, March 2, 2008
Penny Arcade
http://www.pennyarcade.tv/
To tune into this live, video show, go to http://www.luver.com/listen.html
and click on "watch here".
Show starts at 8pm Pacific Time
About Penny Arcade’s
BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!
“In a world where "bad girl" has become a marketing ploy applied to the likes of Britney Spears, New York performance artist and social satirist Penny Arcade is the real thing.” – The Sydney Morning Herald
“The show is everything you ever wanted to know about censorship, feminism, counterculture and joy – without speaking about any of those things.” – Rolling Stone Magazine
Penny Arcade was recently featured in the Weimar, NY Series presented at SF MOMA, February 2008. Arcade aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected writer, actress and director. Penny Arcade debuted with John Vaccaro's explosive Playhouse of The Ridiculous at 17 years of age, and was a Warhol Factory superstar at 19, featured in the Warhol film "Women In Revolt. In 1991 the great Quentin Crisp chose Penny Arcade as the woman he most identified with naming her his Anima Figure and their friendship became professional as they undertook many performances together right up till one month before his death at age 91. For the first time, Arcade world renowned performance piece, “BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!” comes to San Francisco!!!
Monday, March 2, 2008
Penny Arcade
http://www.pennyarcade.tv/
To tune into this live, video show, go to http://www.luver.com/listen.html
and click on "watch here".
Show starts at 8pm Pacific Time
About Penny Arcade’s
BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!
“In a world where "bad girl" has become a marketing ploy applied to the likes of Britney Spears, New York performance artist and social satirist Penny Arcade is the real thing.” – The Sydney Morning Herald
“The show is everything you ever wanted to know about censorship, feminism, counterculture and joy – without speaking about any of those things.” – Rolling Stone Magazine
Penny Arcade was recently featured in the Weimar, NY Series presented at SF MOMA, February 2008. Arcade aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected writer, actress and director. Penny Arcade debuted with John Vaccaro's explosive Playhouse of The Ridiculous at 17 years of age, and was a Warhol Factory superstar at 19, featured in the Warhol film "Women In Revolt. In 1991 the great Quentin Crisp chose Penny Arcade as the woman he most identified with naming her his Anima Figure and their friendship became professional as they undertook many performances together right up till one month before his death at age 91. For the first time, Arcade world renowned performance piece, “BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!” comes to San Francisco!!!
A GREAT SHOW!
As those who know me/us well, I don’t go to shows much…like almost never….except for our performances. It takes days for us to prepare to go out…then days afterward to recover…and I’m usually painfully disappointed at what we see…not to mention our lack of money. Moreover, we have the bands, hottest acts coming to our house for THE SHAMAN’S DEN each week…like Sunday’s band, Corsica, has members who have played with Dizzy Gillespie and the bassist for Jimi Hendrix. So why go out?But we did last night! We went to Penny Arcade’s BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! To put it simply it is one of the five “best” live performances I have ever seen. I knew, or had a feeling, it wasn’t much of a risk…not because of her titles of WARHOL’S SUPERSTAR, THE QUEEN OF THE UNDERGROUND, etc….those would be normally bad omens! But Penny and I have been emailing about her coming over. She emails like a grounded person who shares my excitement about getting together with someone who has been doing the same work. And the below photo sealed our going.
The ticket guy on the phone off-handedly said we should get there a half hour before “show time” to catch the pre-show goings-on with erotic dancers. In spite of our normal challenges getting out of the house, we got there about an hour early. Just tell me “erotic dancers!” One advantage of being in a wheelchair is you are let into performance areas early…which is like being backstage! We are front row kinds of people, ready for action…people think sitting in the back is safer! Anyway, Penny walked out into the space before the doors were opened to check things out. She was in street clothes. When we saw each other, we hugged as fellow warriors/players/misfits. Then she went to piss before the show. Meanwhile about 15 dancers in different sexy costumes came in and took positions both on the stage and in the mist of the seats. Both genders, all body types, races, etc. All hot! They started dancing erotically, hot! During their 45 minute dancing period, they rotated their positions after each song. After 10 minutes the doors were opened and the audience started coming in [SO GET THERE EARLY!]. Frankly it was visually and erotically overwhelming! During the show, each dancer became a person to us. At a certain point, Penny walked back into the theater. She was still in her street clothes. So most people didn’t know she was PENNY ARCADE…just a middle aged woman trying to make contact with people, going up to people in the audience. But I was the first she came up to. We did our thing together….but a guy in a wheelchair and a middle aged woman…but all that changed when she climbed up onto the stage!
The show is Penny. And Penny is funny, warm, sexy, erotic, kick-ass, political, subversive, plain talking, nude, up-lifting, real, wise, entertaining, committed, outsider, humane, community-building, rich history…and a damn good artist! We are going back next week! Btw, be prepared to dance! I loved dancing with Miss Muffy!
And PENNY ARCADE will be my guest on a special edition of THE SHAMAN'S DEN this Monday at 8pm pt.on http://www.luver.com !
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Penny Arcade’s
BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! (Regional Premiere)
Written and Created by Penny Arcade
February 25 – March 7, 2009 at 8pm
Tickets $20-$50
“In a world where "bad girl" has become a marketing ploy applied to the likes of Britney Spears, New York performance artist and social satirist Penny Arcade is the real thing.” – The Sydney Morning Herald
“The show is everything you ever wanted to know about censorship, feminism, counterculture and joy – without speaking about any of those things.” – Rolling Stone Magazine
Penny Arcade was recently featured in the Weimar, NY Series presented at SF MOMA, February 2008. Arcade aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected writer, actress and director. Penny Arcade debuted with John Vaccaro's explosive Playhouse of The Ridiculous at 17 years of age, and was a Warhol Factory superstar at 19, featured in the Warhol film "Women In Revolt. In 1991 the great Quentin Crisp chose Penny Arcade as the woman he most identified with naming her his Anima Figure and their friendship became professional as they undertook many performances together right up till one month before his death at age 91. For the first time, Arcade world renowned performance piece, “BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!” comes to San Francisco!!!
Sunday on the Shaman's Den
Frank Moore's Shaman's Den
Sunday, March 1, 2008
Corsica
www.corsicaband.com
To tune into this live, video show, go to http://www.luver.com/listen.html
and click on "watch here".
Show starts at 8pm Pacific Time
Sunday, March 1, 2008
Corsica
www.corsicaband.com
To tune into this live, video show, go to http://www.luver.com/listen.html
and click on "watch here".
Show starts at 8pm Pacific Time
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