Sunday, December 27, 2009
Re: Fw: SEXECOLOGY! The LOVE ART LAB at FEMINA POTENS in SF. Exhibit+Events
Hi Frank,
I can help you get an event happening at the Center for Sex and Culture. There's a freight elevator in the building that we can get you upstairs with. We're just not allowed to advertise that we're accessible since the elevator is not intended for public use. ;-)
My family is in town for x-mas but let's chat in the new year about getting you set up to do something there.
orgasmic love,
Nellie
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great, nellie! can't wait to work with you! A freight elevator is a luxury after most punk clubs I have played at!
In ORGASMIC Freedom,
Frank Moore
the last 2009 performance!
Ah, sometimes there’s not much for me to say about a performance. I will let others below fill in the details. But this last public performance of the year was extremely satisfying. It was enough… The kind of enough that is more than enough! Me doing my Don Rickles’ bit. Stand-up comedy chews up comfort zones! Always eat the fucking cookies when you are with Alice! Don’t be rude! The guy who ended up on the drums was awe-inspiring… Way beyond his comfort zones, his television fantasy just leaked out into his everyday life and he kept a good downbeat! And he just came to buy a video! Playing jamming with him and the Master musicians Tomek and Jhon [smoking guitar!], it don’t get better than that… Well, dancing explicitly with the three sexy female skin warm juicy flesh pleasure creatures… It don’t get better than that! Well, breaking out with a hard-core version of THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY… Seriously it don’t get better than that!
Ah, I have not used Somala in years! But it is always in my bag of tricks. I saw the Mrs. Fields’ cookies and saw the uptight fragile couple, and voila! It just shows it doesn’t matter in the performance alter reality if something [Somala] physically exists if it exists conceptually. It has physical, psychological and every other kind of arousing effects. Hey, this is a core principle of the shamanistic performance I do. Somala did cut through the bullshitting… And isn’t that one of the things art is supposed to do?
And this brings us to the end of this year and this word file. This year at the performances, people have been yapping about comfort zones. In the past people have come to be taken beyond their noses and assholes and normal boxes to be expanded into possibilities and potential paths of newness and flexibility. It is called growth and risk and freedom. Lots still came for these horizons. But there has been a growing peanut gallery who think they are entitled to be comfortable and get really pissed, shocked and discomposed when that isn’t “respected, “ that we will not engage in “reasonable acceptable discussion” to find out why they are entitled to demand that reality stay confined to within their personal taste! We don’t have a constitutional right to not have our comfort zones threatened or violated. Go to Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce and try to yap about comfort zones! So 2010 will be THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN! So be warned!
ERIKA:
We got everything set up, the back drops, the lights, the cozy mats on the floor, the jewelry, the musical instruments, the free boxes and the display table at the front. Everything looked great and the room was warm and cozy. A few people arrived. There was Mark from Food Not Bombs who had come before, Michael who had come many times and a guy who had been watching us on BTV for years. He had showed up because he wanted to buy another video. Frank asked him how often he watched our shows and which ones were most memorable. He said he watched a couple times a month and he remembered the one where Jen was making a banana cream pie and the Deep Core Magic's with Frank and Erika. A couple came in and Frank asked them how they heard about the performance. The guy had a friend who had always wanted to come to one of the performances. The friend was now off to Mexico so he came to the show. The pair was in an improv group for shy people. Frank asked the guy if he would do something now. He got up and fumbled with his glasses and talked about a childhood memory with his glasses and his mom and being absent minded. Frank saved the guy from totally flopping and helped move his "comedy routine" along.
The woman who was with the improv guy said she really had no idea what to expect tonight and had not actually read the flyer but had come along. Somehow she brought up the term strange, and Frank asked her how strange she wanted the night to be. She asked if she could get help from someone else and handed the mic to Erika who said very strange. Frank asked her what would be too strange and she said violence and drugs. Frank said that we had cookies that had somala in them. Linda said that somala was odorless and tasteless and that we often put them in cookies or water. When people eat or drink somala they feel less inhibited/fearful, they are more easily able to do the things that they want to do. This had always been true over the years and then it starts to wear off people would say that they needed some more. Linda passed the basket of cookies around and everyone ate some except for the couple who mimed eating cookies, even though Frank said that he could be lying after all the cookies were Mrs. Fields cookies in sealed packages. The couple wouldn't eat them. Linda handed out the holiday card that Frank made to everyone and everyone got a cd to go along with it.
Then Frank asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Jen and Erika and they said that they had had a great time with all of us but that the guy had driven a long way and they needed to go eat a sandwich. Frank said that we would watch them eat their sandwiches. The woman then said that when they had arrived at the performance it was like spring and then they had a nice summer with us but it was fall and then leaves were falling and it was time for them to go migrate. Frank asked them where they were going to go migrate to and they said to where there were sandwiches and beer. Frank said that he guessed that they had reached their limit of strange, and they said yes the nudity was not something they were comfortable with and they left. They left their cds and their holiday cards behind.
Frank asked Michael if he would undress Linda, Jen and Erika and dress them in costumes from the costume/jewelry spread. He said yes and so he undressed us and put jewelry on all of us. The band picked up at this point and Frank joined them doing vocals. The band was made up of Tomek on keyboard and mixer, a guy named Jhon on guitar and vocals who was recently on the Shaman's Den and the guy on the roto toms who had arrived at the show after he had been watching us on BTV for years. When Frank asked him if he would be in the band at first he said he couldn't play the roto toms but when he got up and did it he played amazingly with the band. While the band played some amazing songs Linda, Jen and Erika danced together, sexy, rubbing, juicy soft, melting, holding, hugging, rocking. Frank asked Jhon if he could do a couple songs and he wasn't sure what to do and then he just took off and the other guys joined in. At the end of the show he kept saying what a great time he had jamming with everyone and that he was way more relaxed than he had been on the Shaman's Den. Frank asked him if he could do a Christmas song and he played an amazing raw version of little drummer boy and everyone joined in. Then Linda, Jen and Erika went over to Frank and all four did a juicy sexy dance together. Then Frank said it was the end but the band kept playing. They did not want to stop!
Frank said that now we have another Christmas special. Linda talked about all of our previous Christmas specials beginning with Frank and Extreme Elvis getting naked together and then Frank and Erika the Elf and their erotic dance with Linda. Then there was Frank singing in front of the fire and Mikee would come out in nothing but a Santa hat and add logs on the fire and Erika the Elf would smack him on the ass. Then there was Corey and Alexi jumping around with nothing on except little santas and the Santas that kept falling off. Frank asked Tomek if he would read Frank's Poem 'Season of Hidden Hope." He read it and then talked about the night. He talked about how it had been a challenging start with what felt like lots of road blocks and then when the sandwich people left things opened up. Linda talked about how in the begging Frank thought that he had to weed people out and then found that people screen themselves out. It is amazing what happens in each performance depending on who shows up and how willing then are to jump in and play. Frank is amazing!
JEN:
When we got to the space we set things up. Lights, mats and blankets, banners, swag table, jewelry, sound system etc. Heat was blasting and warmed us up quickly. The new door knob to the bathroom helped a lot too, keeping the draft from that room out. Tomek arrived and got his gear set up, then started to play fun electronic sounds. One guy arrived early and sat to watch us finish setting up. Frank then got his board and pointer on and started to talk to him. He asked how he found out about the performance. The guy had been watching Frank's show on BTV for years! He said that he watches it about 3 or 4 times a month. Frank asked him what his favorite thing on the show was. He said that he remembers seeing the video of me making a pie! It was a while ago that was made and it was amazing that it stayed with him! Frank said that everything comes back. The guy also said that he remembers seeing Erika and Frank talking together on Deep Core Magic. He said that he called the number displayed on Frank's show and found out about the performance that way.
Frank asked him what he did. He prepared tax returns. Frank asked what he did for fun, and he said that he watched tv and wrote stories when he was in school. Frank asked him what kind of stories he wrote and he talked about one in which a kid read a book about a zoo and then went to the zoo to let all the animals free. Frank said that zoos were being phased out because of the economy. The guy talked about the Oakland zoo being privately funded, but the San Francisco zoo just had a tragic event where a tiger mauled some people and so they were having publicity problems that probably caused some financial loss.
By this time Michael had arrived and Frank said that he was glad he got his email and came. Another man had also arrived, the same one that had come to the last performance. Erika had invited him from Food Not Bombs. Frank asked him about his life. He said that he had a really good childhood playing and having fun. His dad was in the military so he had lived in many places including Germany, just like Frank. Frank asked him what he did in high school and he said that he didn't have a good time in high school. Frank said 'who does?'.
A couple came in and sat down. Frank asked them how they found out about the performance. The guy said that his friend had always wanted to come, but just went to Mexico, so he thought he would check it out. He didn't know much about it at all, just that his friend had mentioned many times that he wanted to come to one. Frank said 'you came from that?'. The girl said that he had sent her a link to fecal face, an internet site that posted events. The website name intrigued her enough to come. Her and the guy were in an improv group together. The guy said that he wanted to do comedy so Frank asked him what he would do. He said probably just flail around. Frank wanted to see that so the guy stood up and flailed around a bit and his glasses fell off. Frank said that he should strap them on next time, and the guy said 'or bolt them'. Frank said, 'or not wear them'. It was a comedy routine because Frank was coming back with the funniest remarks and the guy didn't seem to get what was happening. Then Frank reminded him that he was the guy's straight man. It was really funny how the straight man, Frank, was really the one making all the remarks people were laughing at. Frank was improving masterfully, but the guy didn't know how to play along like that. Then the woman said the group was called Improv For Shy People. Frank asked if she was shy and she said she was in some situations. Then he asked her if she was in the group to feel less shy because she would look outgoing around all the shy people. She said maybe that was it, yes she probably was doing that. She was attracted to the performance because it seemed strange and that was good. Frank asked her how strange she wanted it and she asked if she could get help to answer him. She asked Erika for help and Erika said 'really strange!'. Frank said that was a bad choice to ask Erika. Frank then asked her what would be too strange and she said that arguing and violence would be too strange. He said she was safe then. What else? She said that drugs would be too strange as well. Then Frank told her about somala.
Somala is a drug that Frank puts in water or cookies. It is a drug of death and dreams. It's colorless and odorless, and it will not let you do anything you don't want to do, but it will help you do what you really want to do. Linda said that it really works because they have seen the effect it has on people. Also, when some people feel it wearing off, they ask for more. Frank said he got it from Aldus Huxley's The Island. He said that there was somala in the cookies that were in a basket to be given out. The woman thanked Frank for telling her that, for giving her clear information and being honest. Frank said that she shouldn't thank him just yet because he could be lying. Then the cookies were passed around. Everyone took some except for the first guy who arrived and the couple. The woman from the couple took an invisible cookie out of the basket instead and Frank said that the invisible ones were the most potent. She said she would have another then! She would not give any to the guy she was with at first until he asked if he could have some.
Jhon Thumb had arrived and started jamming with Tomek. The somala started to take effect and Frank asked the BTV viewer if he would play the drums. The roto toms were set up and Mikee gave him the sticks. Then Frank asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Erika and Jen, and then adorn us with the jewelry that was displayed. They both said no. They said that it was a comfort thing. Frank said 'those damn zones of comfort!' The woman said that they had to take a break to eat a sandwich. Frank said that we would watch them eat, but it didn't seem like there was a sandwich. It was like this strange make believe they were playing which wasn't really flowing with what was going on. Then the woman started to say that they were leaving by telling a story about the seasons and how it was now winter so they had to migrate. Frank still played along improving with them. He responded to whatever they said, asking them where they were migrating too etc. Whatever they said to him was just saying that they were out of here. Then they left.
The performance changed gears and Frank had Michael undress us and adorn us with jewelry. Then we started to dance. The music grew and jived. The feeling was fun and free. We melted into slow erotic movements together with the music. Frank jammed along with the band. Then he had Jhon sing a couple of songs that were amazing. He came willing to play. We rubbed into each other and felt like the whole room was one. The Christmas song that was played was really great. Little drummer boy distorting and morphing into scratchy groovy vibrations. The guy on the roto toms was great. We had our new Christmas special!
Frank motioned for us to dance with him. Linda rubbed on Frank's lap as Erika and I rubbed from either side. It was very erotic and fun! Very intimate. Michael was dancing around having a ball. After a while Frank said 'The End!'. The band just kept going like they didn't want to stop. Eventually they did and Frank said we have to work on the ending. He called the band over to come sit down. He asked Tomek what he felt about tonight. Tomek said that at first there was a great block, like a bad vibe and he wanted to leave, but when the couple left then everything lightened and grooved and he had a great time. Frank asked him to come up and read his poem 'Season of Hidden Hope'. Tomek did a great reading. Then Frank asked Jhon to come up and talk about how the evening felt to him. He said that he loved it, loved jamming and had a great time. Frank asked if he was staying in the bay area and he said yes! Frank said that you can't find this in New Jersey. Definitely not! Then Frank asked the guy who played the roto-toms what he thought. He said that it was delightful. He enjoyed playing the drums. Michael said that he enjoyed undressing the ladies and had a great time too. It was a lot of fun!
When the performance was over we started to take the set down. Jhon said goodbye and he would see us at the next one. Tomek stuck around talking with Frank for a bit. We got everything packed up and then headed home. Linda said that it felt like there were uncomfortable moments all the way through. Definitely with the couple and what they were doing, but also when Frank asked the band to sit down. Tomek didn't seem very comfortable with that. But it is always amazing how Frank ploughs through using the most of what's available. He always finds an opening for everyone to play in and the night turns out to be another incredible experience.
DA BOYZ:
We arrived extra early, and loaded everything in and got started setting up. Even with the extra time, we were still setting up until just before 8pm! There were a few extra things this time ... the basket of cookies and Frank's holiday display of free CDs, set up right next to his chair. It was always fun to set up, and transform the space ... beautiful. Early on, the guy who works with Erika at Food Not Bombs, was there ... then Tomek ... and shortly before the performance started, a black man in his 40s-50s came in tentatively ... It turned out that he wanted to get a copy of Feisto. He had seen part of it on BTV, but wasn't able to catch the whole thing. But as it turned out he was there for the duration of the performance as well.
So the performance got started and Frank asked this guy how long he had been watching Frank's shows on BTV, and what did he like? He had been watching Frank's shows for several years, and had seen Frank Moore's Unlimited Possibilities and also Deep Core Magic ... when Frank asked him what were some of his favorite parts, he mentioned as standouts Jen's making of a banana cream pie, and the shows with Erika on DCM. Frank said that it always comes back ... meaning that everything we do has effects, and we never know what they are! And that what you do always comes back to you in some way. Amazing ...
Then Frank turned to the Food Not Bombs guy, and asked him to tell us about his life ... he had spent some of his childhood, like Frank, in Germany, because his father was in the military ... then he was in Delaware ... Frank said both cold places! Frank asked him to go on, how about high school? He said he did not have too much fun in high school ... Frank: "Who does??" He ended up in Haight-Ashbury in '92 ... But we didn't get to hear much more about his life, as this is when the couple who were later to be known as "the sandwich people" came in. Tomek had already been playing since the performance started, and around this time too Jhon arrived as well, and was setting up and beginning to play with Tomek. It sounded great!!
The "sandwich people" were a young man and woman who came in, paused for a bit, and then finally sat down ... Frank asked them what drew them to the performance? He brought her along ... he said his friend had told him about it, that it was something he himself had wanted to come to, but never did, and now had gone off to Mexico ... and without any other information or explanation about the performance, he had decided to just come on his friend's interest ... he said his friend had recommended other fun things for him to do ... Frank asked him what other things had his friend recommended, and we think this is where the whole improv thing came up ... he had recommended doing improv, improv comedy ... Frank asked him if he was a standup comic? He said, "Maybe someday ..." Frank said, "Maybe tonight!"
The guy said he would have to work up an act, and Frank asked him what his act would be? He said probably stumbling and flailing around ... Well, Frank was ready! He asked the guy to do it! So the guy stood up and started literally flailing around, and his glasses flew off! Then he just stopped ... Frank played off of him, trying to keep the act going ... feeding him lines, giving him a way to form an act around his bumbling around ... but it was rough going ... Frank was hilarious! Frank said he had all of us in the palm of his hand, keep going! Frank asked if he had noticed that Frank was playing his "straight man" ... he said he did ... but the act didn't really go anywhere ... Frank kept talking to the pair, and it came out that they were both in an improv class together. Improv for shy people! Frank mused on the irony of hanging out with shy people to become more outgoing! But she didn't seem to get that ... There was a back and forth about whether she was really shy, or outgoing ... she was hedging ... said she was shy under some circumstances and outgoing under other circumstances ... Frank said that she appeared to be outgoing, that's what she projected ... She split hairs about whether she was really outgoing, or just "projecting", but Frank asked what was the difference?? Really!! It turned out that she really didn't know what they were coming into either ... he had sent her a link to the listing of the performance on a new online arts calendar that Corey had found, called Fecal Face. The title of the calendar, she said, was enough to get her to go ... she thought it was just too strange! So she wanted to go.
Frank asked her, "How strange to you want it to be?" She said she couldn't answer ... could she get help from someone else in the "audience"? Sure ... So she asked Erika to answer. And of course, Erika said, "Very strange!!" Frank said, "Bad choice!", meaning of who to ask! He asked her what would be too strange? First, she said, "Arguing and violence." Frank said, then, she was safe here. Anything else? She said, "Drugs." Frank said, "Well ... there is the drug somala in the cookies here, " motioning toward the basket of pre-wrapped Mrs. Fields cookies ... She immediately gushed with thanks to Frank for being so truthful and honestly communicating with her, and answering her directly ... Frank said, "Don't be so quick to thank me ... because I may be lying ..." He said they may just be Mrs. Fields cookies, but they may have somala in them, and then he had Linda describe what somala is ... the drug of dreams and of dying ... it won't make you do anything you don't want to do, but it will make it easier for you to do what it is you truly want to do ... it is tasteless and odorless ... and it works! Linda said that over the years we have used it in many performances ... sometimes in the water, sometimes in cookies, and there is often the experience that people will come back for more, saying that it has worn off!
So now Frank had Linda pass out the cookies ... and most people took a cookie, except for the improv couple ... instead, they reached into the basket and pretended to take out cookies ... so they were there, holding invisible cookies, taking bites out of air, and then passing the cookie to each other to take bites out of ... At some point, Frank said, "The invisible ones are stronger!" She said, "Well then I'll have another one!" So once everyone had their cookies, Frank had Linda hand out free CDs and the xmas cards ... fun!! Then Frank continued with the couple ... he was asking if there was anything else that would be "too strange"? There wasn't ... So then he asked the BTV viewer if he would join the band, playing the rototoms ... sure, he would ... he got up and started playing. Then he asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Jen and Erika, and put on items from the costume/jewelry layout ...?
They whispered amongst themselves, and then she said something along the lines of, "Its time for us to have a sandwich actually ... he drove from San, San ... (what was it?) Menlo Park ... and is ready for a sandwich, so we're going to have our sandwich now ..."
Frank said, "Ok, we'll watch you eat your sandwich."
The bottom dropped out!
Then they whispered amongst themselves again ... and she came out with, "We arrived here in the spring, and spent a wonderful summer with all of you ... but now, it is getting colder, and moving into autumn and winter, and the leaves are falling from the trees, and its time for us to migrate ..." Frank asked where they were going to migrate to? She said, "Somewhere where there are sandwiches and beer ..." And the guy said, "Yeah, that sounds good ..."
But Frank kept talking to them ... we can't remember all that was said at this point ... but they didn't leave right away ... Frank said at some point that he guesses we reached the "too strange" point. And they said, yes. And Frank asked what was it? She said it was the nudity ... The guy said he guessed it was just outside of his "comfort zone" ... Frank said, "Those damn comfort zones!"
And within moments, they were gone!
So now, Frank had Michael Diehl undress Linda, Jen and Erika, and he jammed with Tomek, Jhon and the BTV guy ... and the music was fantastic!!! And Michael was having a blast undressing Linda, Jen and Erika, dancing and putting jewelry and other items on them ... Linda, Jen and Erika then danced together as the music continued ... a great jam!
At some point, Frank asked Jhon if he would sing two of his songs, and Jhon started up, and it was great!! Frank sang along with him, and Tomek picked up on what he as doing and played along too, and the BTV guy was drumming along all through it. It was amazing ...
Then Frank asked if Jhon knew any xmas songs ... Jhon did an awesome version of Little drummer boy, with Tomek and Frank still jamming along, and Linda, Jen and Erika were making sounds too ... Frank had Linda, Jen and Erika dance with him, and it just got juicier and deeper and the music was incredible ... really fun! At some point after a while, Frank, Linda, Jen and Erika all said "The End" The End The End!! The band wouldn't stop ... The End!!
Frank got everyone to sit on the mats and he asked Tomek to talk about the night felt to him ... he talked about not feeling in the groove until after the "sandwich people" left, but them just really loving playing with Jhon ... he really loved the way Frank interacted with people. Then Frank got Jhon up to talk about how he felt ... he just loved playing, felt really good and free, even more so than when he was on the shaman's den ... He really enjoyed playing with Tomek and the drummer guy ... he appreciated how the BTV guy had gotten into a nice rhythm with them ... Frank asked the BTV guy if that was first time he had played? It had been the first time he played the drums, but had played sax for years in school. Frank encouraged him to bring a sax next time!
Frank said that now they had material for another xmas special ... with the jam and little drummer boy, and Frank and Linda described all of our current xmas specials ... On that note, he asked Tomek to come up and read his xmas poem. Tomek said afterward that he really liked Frank's poem, and said something like, "Are we all now transported into another reality ...?"
Frank also asked Michael how he felt about the performance. He had a lot of fun ... he said it wasn't as "wild" as some others have been, but he really enjoyed himself.
The BTV guy really enjoyed the performance too ... he said it was very interesting, and delightful. He had wondered what it would be like to actually come to one of these performances, having seen videos of them on FMUP. He talked about the undressing of Linda, Jen and Erika and the dancing was delightful, and that he had really enjoyed playing the rototoms.
And that, we think, was the end. We started breaking down the set, and there was a lot of talking about the "sandwich people", and what an amazing part of the performance that was ... and Frank and Linda were telling Tomek a story from the 48-hour processes, which was great! An example of someone not believing that Frank could really see into them ...
So we packed everything up, had popcorn, packed up the car, and swept up and soon you guys and Jen were heading out, and Erika left too, and we finished sweeping up, and shutting things down, and snacked on popcorn and talked about the performance as we drove home. It was always so amazing what Frank made out of apparently "nothing" ... that even before the "sandwich people" arrived, Frank started talking with the BTV guy, and we got to hear, as if a fly on the wall, of what people like and get turned on by when they watch our shows ... and then was about to reveal the life of the guy from Food Not Bombs, which we imagined could have been very interesting ... We were saying later, back here, that Frank's persistence and being unflappable, just cranking away, made/allowed everything to happen.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Ah, I have not used Somala in years! But it is always in my bag of tricks. I saw the Mrs. Fields’ cookies and saw the uptight fragile couple, and voila! It just shows it doesn’t matter in the performance alter reality if something [Somala] physically exists if it exists conceptually. It has physical, psychological and every other kind of arousing effects. Hey, this is a core principle of the shamanistic performance I do. Somala did cut through the bullshitting… And isn’t that one of the things art is supposed to do?
And this brings us to the end of this year and this word file. This year at the performances, people have been yapping about comfort zones. In the past people have come to be taken beyond their noses and assholes and normal boxes to be expanded into possibilities and potential paths of newness and flexibility. It is called growth and risk and freedom. Lots still came for these horizons. But there has been a growing peanut gallery who think they are entitled to be comfortable and get really pissed, shocked and discomposed when that isn’t “respected, “ that we will not engage in “reasonable acceptable discussion” to find out why they are entitled to demand that reality stay confined to within their personal taste! We don’t have a constitutional right to not have our comfort zones threatened or violated. Go to Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce and try to yap about comfort zones! So 2010 will be THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN! So be warned!
ERIKA:
We got everything set up, the back drops, the lights, the cozy mats on the floor, the jewelry, the musical instruments, the free boxes and the display table at the front. Everything looked great and the room was warm and cozy. A few people arrived. There was Mark from Food Not Bombs who had come before, Michael who had come many times and a guy who had been watching us on BTV for years. He had showed up because he wanted to buy another video. Frank asked him how often he watched our shows and which ones were most memorable. He said he watched a couple times a month and he remembered the one where Jen was making a banana cream pie and the Deep Core Magic's with Frank and Erika. A couple came in and Frank asked them how they heard about the performance. The guy had a friend who had always wanted to come to one of the performances. The friend was now off to Mexico so he came to the show. The pair was in an improv group for shy people. Frank asked the guy if he would do something now. He got up and fumbled with his glasses and talked about a childhood memory with his glasses and his mom and being absent minded. Frank saved the guy from totally flopping and helped move his "comedy routine" along.
The woman who was with the improv guy said she really had no idea what to expect tonight and had not actually read the flyer but had come along. Somehow she brought up the term strange, and Frank asked her how strange she wanted the night to be. She asked if she could get help from someone else and handed the mic to Erika who said very strange. Frank asked her what would be too strange and she said violence and drugs. Frank said that we had cookies that had somala in them. Linda said that somala was odorless and tasteless and that we often put them in cookies or water. When people eat or drink somala they feel less inhibited/fearful, they are more easily able to do the things that they want to do. This had always been true over the years and then it starts to wear off people would say that they needed some more. Linda passed the basket of cookies around and everyone ate some except for the couple who mimed eating cookies, even though Frank said that he could be lying after all the cookies were Mrs. Fields cookies in sealed packages. The couple wouldn't eat them. Linda handed out the holiday card that Frank made to everyone and everyone got a cd to go along with it.
Then Frank asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Jen and Erika and they said that they had had a great time with all of us but that the guy had driven a long way and they needed to go eat a sandwich. Frank said that we would watch them eat their sandwiches. The woman then said that when they had arrived at the performance it was like spring and then they had a nice summer with us but it was fall and then leaves were falling and it was time for them to go migrate. Frank asked them where they were going to go migrate to and they said to where there were sandwiches and beer. Frank said that he guessed that they had reached their limit of strange, and they said yes the nudity was not something they were comfortable with and they left. They left their cds and their holiday cards behind.
Frank asked Michael if he would undress Linda, Jen and Erika and dress them in costumes from the costume/jewelry spread. He said yes and so he undressed us and put jewelry on all of us. The band picked up at this point and Frank joined them doing vocals. The band was made up of Tomek on keyboard and mixer, a guy named Jhon on guitar and vocals who was recently on the Shaman's Den and the guy on the roto toms who had arrived at the show after he had been watching us on BTV for years. When Frank asked him if he would be in the band at first he said he couldn't play the roto toms but when he got up and did it he played amazingly with the band. While the band played some amazing songs Linda, Jen and Erika danced together, sexy, rubbing, juicy soft, melting, holding, hugging, rocking. Frank asked Jhon if he could do a couple songs and he wasn't sure what to do and then he just took off and the other guys joined in. At the end of the show he kept saying what a great time he had jamming with everyone and that he was way more relaxed than he had been on the Shaman's Den. Frank asked him if he could do a Christmas song and he played an amazing raw version of little drummer boy and everyone joined in. Then Linda, Jen and Erika went over to Frank and all four did a juicy sexy dance together. Then Frank said it was the end but the band kept playing. They did not want to stop!
Frank said that now we have another Christmas special. Linda talked about all of our previous Christmas specials beginning with Frank and Extreme Elvis getting naked together and then Frank and Erika the Elf and their erotic dance with Linda. Then there was Frank singing in front of the fire and Mikee would come out in nothing but a Santa hat and add logs on the fire and Erika the Elf would smack him on the ass. Then there was Corey and Alexi jumping around with nothing on except little santas and the Santas that kept falling off. Frank asked Tomek if he would read Frank's Poem 'Season of Hidden Hope." He read it and then talked about the night. He talked about how it had been a challenging start with what felt like lots of road blocks and then when the sandwich people left things opened up. Linda talked about how in the begging Frank thought that he had to weed people out and then found that people screen themselves out. It is amazing what happens in each performance depending on who shows up and how willing then are to jump in and play. Frank is amazing!
JEN:
When we got to the space we set things up. Lights, mats and blankets, banners, swag table, jewelry, sound system etc. Heat was blasting and warmed us up quickly. The new door knob to the bathroom helped a lot too, keeping the draft from that room out. Tomek arrived and got his gear set up, then started to play fun electronic sounds. One guy arrived early and sat to watch us finish setting up. Frank then got his board and pointer on and started to talk to him. He asked how he found out about the performance. The guy had been watching Frank's show on BTV for years! He said that he watches it about 3 or 4 times a month. Frank asked him what his favorite thing on the show was. He said that he remembers seeing the video of me making a pie! It was a while ago that was made and it was amazing that it stayed with him! Frank said that everything comes back. The guy also said that he remembers seeing Erika and Frank talking together on Deep Core Magic. He said that he called the number displayed on Frank's show and found out about the performance that way.
Frank asked him what he did. He prepared tax returns. Frank asked what he did for fun, and he said that he watched tv and wrote stories when he was in school. Frank asked him what kind of stories he wrote and he talked about one in which a kid read a book about a zoo and then went to the zoo to let all the animals free. Frank said that zoos were being phased out because of the economy. The guy talked about the Oakland zoo being privately funded, but the San Francisco zoo just had a tragic event where a tiger mauled some people and so they were having publicity problems that probably caused some financial loss.
By this time Michael had arrived and Frank said that he was glad he got his email and came. Another man had also arrived, the same one that had come to the last performance. Erika had invited him from Food Not Bombs. Frank asked him about his life. He said that he had a really good childhood playing and having fun. His dad was in the military so he had lived in many places including Germany, just like Frank. Frank asked him what he did in high school and he said that he didn't have a good time in high school. Frank said 'who does?'.
A couple came in and sat down. Frank asked them how they found out about the performance. The guy said that his friend had always wanted to come, but just went to Mexico, so he thought he would check it out. He didn't know much about it at all, just that his friend had mentioned many times that he wanted to come to one. Frank said 'you came from that?'. The girl said that he had sent her a link to fecal face, an internet site that posted events. The website name intrigued her enough to come. Her and the guy were in an improv group together. The guy said that he wanted to do comedy so Frank asked him what he would do. He said probably just flail around. Frank wanted to see that so the guy stood up and flailed around a bit and his glasses fell off. Frank said that he should strap them on next time, and the guy said 'or bolt them'. Frank said, 'or not wear them'. It was a comedy routine because Frank was coming back with the funniest remarks and the guy didn't seem to get what was happening. Then Frank reminded him that he was the guy's straight man. It was really funny how the straight man, Frank, was really the one making all the remarks people were laughing at. Frank was improving masterfully, but the guy didn't know how to play along like that. Then the woman said the group was called Improv For Shy People. Frank asked if she was shy and she said she was in some situations. Then he asked her if she was in the group to feel less shy because she would look outgoing around all the shy people. She said maybe that was it, yes she probably was doing that. She was attracted to the performance because it seemed strange and that was good. Frank asked her how strange she wanted it and she asked if she could get help to answer him. She asked Erika for help and Erika said 'really strange!'. Frank said that was a bad choice to ask Erika. Frank then asked her what would be too strange and she said that arguing and violence would be too strange. He said she was safe then. What else? She said that drugs would be too strange as well. Then Frank told her about somala.
Somala is a drug that Frank puts in water or cookies. It is a drug of death and dreams. It's colorless and odorless, and it will not let you do anything you don't want to do, but it will help you do what you really want to do. Linda said that it really works because they have seen the effect it has on people. Also, when some people feel it wearing off, they ask for more. Frank said he got it from Aldus Huxley's The Island. He said that there was somala in the cookies that were in a basket to be given out. The woman thanked Frank for telling her that, for giving her clear information and being honest. Frank said that she shouldn't thank him just yet because he could be lying. Then the cookies were passed around. Everyone took some except for the first guy who arrived and the couple. The woman from the couple took an invisible cookie out of the basket instead and Frank said that the invisible ones were the most potent. She said she would have another then! She would not give any to the guy she was with at first until he asked if he could have some.
Jhon Thumb had arrived and started jamming with Tomek. The somala started to take effect and Frank asked the BTV viewer if he would play the drums. The roto toms were set up and Mikee gave him the sticks. Then Frank asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Erika and Jen, and then adorn us with the jewelry that was displayed. They both said no. They said that it was a comfort thing. Frank said 'those damn zones of comfort!' The woman said that they had to take a break to eat a sandwich. Frank said that we would watch them eat, but it didn't seem like there was a sandwich. It was like this strange make believe they were playing which wasn't really flowing with what was going on. Then the woman started to say that they were leaving by telling a story about the seasons and how it was now winter so they had to migrate. Frank still played along improving with them. He responded to whatever they said, asking them where they were migrating too etc. Whatever they said to him was just saying that they were out of here. Then they left.
The performance changed gears and Frank had Michael undress us and adorn us with jewelry. Then we started to dance. The music grew and jived. The feeling was fun and free. We melted into slow erotic movements together with the music. Frank jammed along with the band. Then he had Jhon sing a couple of songs that were amazing. He came willing to play. We rubbed into each other and felt like the whole room was one. The Christmas song that was played was really great. Little drummer boy distorting and morphing into scratchy groovy vibrations. The guy on the roto toms was great. We had our new Christmas special!
Frank motioned for us to dance with him. Linda rubbed on Frank's lap as Erika and I rubbed from either side. It was very erotic and fun! Very intimate. Michael was dancing around having a ball. After a while Frank said 'The End!'. The band just kept going like they didn't want to stop. Eventually they did and Frank said we have to work on the ending. He called the band over to come sit down. He asked Tomek what he felt about tonight. Tomek said that at first there was a great block, like a bad vibe and he wanted to leave, but when the couple left then everything lightened and grooved and he had a great time. Frank asked him to come up and read his poem 'Season of Hidden Hope'. Tomek did a great reading. Then Frank asked Jhon to come up and talk about how the evening felt to him. He said that he loved it, loved jamming and had a great time. Frank asked if he was staying in the bay area and he said yes! Frank said that you can't find this in New Jersey. Definitely not! Then Frank asked the guy who played the roto-toms what he thought. He said that it was delightful. He enjoyed playing the drums. Michael said that he enjoyed undressing the ladies and had a great time too. It was a lot of fun!
When the performance was over we started to take the set down. Jhon said goodbye and he would see us at the next one. Tomek stuck around talking with Frank for a bit. We got everything packed up and then headed home. Linda said that it felt like there were uncomfortable moments all the way through. Definitely with the couple and what they were doing, but also when Frank asked the band to sit down. Tomek didn't seem very comfortable with that. But it is always amazing how Frank ploughs through using the most of what's available. He always finds an opening for everyone to play in and the night turns out to be another incredible experience.
DA BOYZ:
We arrived extra early, and loaded everything in and got started setting up. Even with the extra time, we were still setting up until just before 8pm! There were a few extra things this time ... the basket of cookies and Frank's holiday display of free CDs, set up right next to his chair. It was always fun to set up, and transform the space ... beautiful. Early on, the guy who works with Erika at Food Not Bombs, was there ... then Tomek ... and shortly before the performance started, a black man in his 40s-50s came in tentatively ... It turned out that he wanted to get a copy of Feisto. He had seen part of it on BTV, but wasn't able to catch the whole thing. But as it turned out he was there for the duration of the performance as well.
So the performance got started and Frank asked this guy how long he had been watching Frank's shows on BTV, and what did he like? He had been watching Frank's shows for several years, and had seen Frank Moore's Unlimited Possibilities and also Deep Core Magic ... when Frank asked him what were some of his favorite parts, he mentioned as standouts Jen's making of a banana cream pie, and the shows with Erika on DCM. Frank said that it always comes back ... meaning that everything we do has effects, and we never know what they are! And that what you do always comes back to you in some way. Amazing ...
Then Frank turned to the Food Not Bombs guy, and asked him to tell us about his life ... he had spent some of his childhood, like Frank, in Germany, because his father was in the military ... then he was in Delaware ... Frank said both cold places! Frank asked him to go on, how about high school? He said he did not have too much fun in high school ... Frank: "Who does??" He ended up in Haight-Ashbury in '92 ... But we didn't get to hear much more about his life, as this is when the couple who were later to be known as "the sandwich people" came in. Tomek had already been playing since the performance started, and around this time too Jhon arrived as well, and was setting up and beginning to play with Tomek. It sounded great!!
The "sandwich people" were a young man and woman who came in, paused for a bit, and then finally sat down ... Frank asked them what drew them to the performance? He brought her along ... he said his friend had told him about it, that it was something he himself had wanted to come to, but never did, and now had gone off to Mexico ... and without any other information or explanation about the performance, he had decided to just come on his friend's interest ... he said his friend had recommended other fun things for him to do ... Frank asked him what other things had his friend recommended, and we think this is where the whole improv thing came up ... he had recommended doing improv, improv comedy ... Frank asked him if he was a standup comic? He said, "Maybe someday ..." Frank said, "Maybe tonight!"
The guy said he would have to work up an act, and Frank asked him what his act would be? He said probably stumbling and flailing around ... Well, Frank was ready! He asked the guy to do it! So the guy stood up and started literally flailing around, and his glasses flew off! Then he just stopped ... Frank played off of him, trying to keep the act going ... feeding him lines, giving him a way to form an act around his bumbling around ... but it was rough going ... Frank was hilarious! Frank said he had all of us in the palm of his hand, keep going! Frank asked if he had noticed that Frank was playing his "straight man" ... he said he did ... but the act didn't really go anywhere ... Frank kept talking to the pair, and it came out that they were both in an improv class together. Improv for shy people! Frank mused on the irony of hanging out with shy people to become more outgoing! But she didn't seem to get that ... There was a back and forth about whether she was really shy, or outgoing ... she was hedging ... said she was shy under some circumstances and outgoing under other circumstances ... Frank said that she appeared to be outgoing, that's what she projected ... She split hairs about whether she was really outgoing, or just "projecting", but Frank asked what was the difference?? Really!! It turned out that she really didn't know what they were coming into either ... he had sent her a link to the listing of the performance on a new online arts calendar that Corey had found, called Fecal Face. The title of the calendar, she said, was enough to get her to go ... she thought it was just too strange! So she wanted to go.
Frank asked her, "How strange to you want it to be?" She said she couldn't answer ... could she get help from someone else in the "audience"? Sure ... So she asked Erika to answer. And of course, Erika said, "Very strange!!" Frank said, "Bad choice!", meaning of who to ask! He asked her what would be too strange? First, she said, "Arguing and violence." Frank said, then, she was safe here. Anything else? She said, "Drugs." Frank said, "Well ... there is the drug somala in the cookies here, " motioning toward the basket of pre-wrapped Mrs. Fields cookies ... She immediately gushed with thanks to Frank for being so truthful and honestly communicating with her, and answering her directly ... Frank said, "Don't be so quick to thank me ... because I may be lying ..." He said they may just be Mrs. Fields cookies, but they may have somala in them, and then he had Linda describe what somala is ... the drug of dreams and of dying ... it won't make you do anything you don't want to do, but it will make it easier for you to do what it is you truly want to do ... it is tasteless and odorless ... and it works! Linda said that over the years we have used it in many performances ... sometimes in the water, sometimes in cookies, and there is often the experience that people will come back for more, saying that it has worn off!
So now Frank had Linda pass out the cookies ... and most people took a cookie, except for the improv couple ... instead, they reached into the basket and pretended to take out cookies ... so they were there, holding invisible cookies, taking bites out of air, and then passing the cookie to each other to take bites out of ... At some point, Frank said, "The invisible ones are stronger!" She said, "Well then I'll have another one!" So once everyone had their cookies, Frank had Linda hand out free CDs and the xmas cards ... fun!! Then Frank continued with the couple ... he was asking if there was anything else that would be "too strange"? There wasn't ... So then he asked the BTV viewer if he would join the band, playing the rototoms ... sure, he would ... he got up and started playing. Then he asked the couple if they would undress Linda, Jen and Erika, and put on items from the costume/jewelry layout ...?
They whispered amongst themselves, and then she said something along the lines of, "Its time for us to have a sandwich actually ... he drove from San, San ... (what was it?) Menlo Park ... and is ready for a sandwich, so we're going to have our sandwich now ..."
Frank said, "Ok, we'll watch you eat your sandwich."
The bottom dropped out!
Then they whispered amongst themselves again ... and she came out with, "We arrived here in the spring, and spent a wonderful summer with all of you ... but now, it is getting colder, and moving into autumn and winter, and the leaves are falling from the trees, and its time for us to migrate ..." Frank asked where they were going to migrate to? She said, "Somewhere where there are sandwiches and beer ..." And the guy said, "Yeah, that sounds good ..."
But Frank kept talking to them ... we can't remember all that was said at this point ... but they didn't leave right away ... Frank said at some point that he guesses we reached the "too strange" point. And they said, yes. And Frank asked what was it? She said it was the nudity ... The guy said he guessed it was just outside of his "comfort zone" ... Frank said, "Those damn comfort zones!"
And within moments, they were gone!
So now, Frank had Michael Diehl undress Linda, Jen and Erika, and he jammed with Tomek, Jhon and the BTV guy ... and the music was fantastic!!! And Michael was having a blast undressing Linda, Jen and Erika, dancing and putting jewelry and other items on them ... Linda, Jen and Erika then danced together as the music continued ... a great jam!
At some point, Frank asked Jhon if he would sing two of his songs, and Jhon started up, and it was great!! Frank sang along with him, and Tomek picked up on what he as doing and played along too, and the BTV guy was drumming along all through it. It was amazing ...
Then Frank asked if Jhon knew any xmas songs ... Jhon did an awesome version of Little drummer boy, with Tomek and Frank still jamming along, and Linda, Jen and Erika were making sounds too ... Frank had Linda, Jen and Erika dance with him, and it just got juicier and deeper and the music was incredible ... really fun! At some point after a while, Frank, Linda, Jen and Erika all said "The End" The End The End!! The band wouldn't stop ... The End!!
Frank got everyone to sit on the mats and he asked Tomek to talk about the night felt to him ... he talked about not feeling in the groove until after the "sandwich people" left, but them just really loving playing with Jhon ... he really loved the way Frank interacted with people. Then Frank got Jhon up to talk about how he felt ... he just loved playing, felt really good and free, even more so than when he was on the shaman's den ... He really enjoyed playing with Tomek and the drummer guy ... he appreciated how the BTV guy had gotten into a nice rhythm with them ... Frank asked the BTV guy if that was first time he had played? It had been the first time he played the drums, but had played sax for years in school. Frank encouraged him to bring a sax next time!
Frank said that now they had material for another xmas special ... with the jam and little drummer boy, and Frank and Linda described all of our current xmas specials ... On that note, he asked Tomek to come up and read his xmas poem. Tomek said afterward that he really liked Frank's poem, and said something like, "Are we all now transported into another reality ...?"
Frank also asked Michael how he felt about the performance. He had a lot of fun ... he said it wasn't as "wild" as some others have been, but he really enjoyed himself.
The BTV guy really enjoyed the performance too ... he said it was very interesting, and delightful. He had wondered what it would be like to actually come to one of these performances, having seen videos of them on FMUP. He talked about the undressing of Linda, Jen and Erika and the dancing was delightful, and that he had really enjoyed playing the rototoms.
And that, we think, was the end. We started breaking down the set, and there was a lot of talking about the "sandwich people", and what an amazing part of the performance that was ... and Frank and Linda were telling Tomek a story from the 48-hour processes, which was great! An example of someone not believing that Frank could really see into them ...
So we packed everything up, had popcorn, packed up the car, and swept up and soon you guys and Jen were heading out, and Erika left too, and we finished sweeping up, and shutting things down, and snacked on popcorn and talked about the performance as we drove home. It was always so amazing what Frank made out of apparently "nothing" ... that even before the "sandwich people" arrived, Frank started talking with the BTV guy, and we got to hear, as if a fly on the wall, of what people like and get turned on by when they watch our shows ... and then was about to reveal the life of the guy from Food Not Bombs, which we imagined could have been very interesting ... We were saying later, back here, that Frank's persistence and being unflappable, just cranking away, made/allowed everything to happen.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Friday, December 25, 2009
A TRADITION
SEASON OF HIDDEN HOPE
FRANK MOORE
November 23, 1993
1
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.
2
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
The Family Curse on The Intimate Theater
and be prepared to be blown out. The most dynamic and sexy band ever to appear on THE SHAMAN'S DEN!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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You can now watch The Family Curse's live performance on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den, recorded October 12, 2009, at the Intimate Theater:
http://www.eroplay.com/intimatetheater/intimate.html
Direct video link (Windows Media):
mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/familycurse.wmv
[Mac users! You can watch Windows Media files with your Quicktime player after you get this free plugin:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx ]
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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You can now watch The Family Curse's live performance on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den, recorded October 12, 2009, at the Intimate Theater:
http://www.eroplay.com/intimatetheater/intimate.html
Direct video link (Windows Media):
mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/familycurse.wmv
[Mac users! You can watch Windows Media files with your Quicktime player after you get this free plugin:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx ]
Shelley Doty - New on the Shaman's Den Archives
New on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den Archives
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
Shelley Doty
http://www.shelleydoty.com/
Listen to the show:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/shelleydoty09.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/shelleydoty81609/index.html
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
Shelley Doty
http://www.shelleydoty.com/
Listen to the show:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/shelleydoty09.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/shelleydoty81609/index.html
Beltaine's Fire - New on the Shaman's Den Archives
New on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den Archives
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
Beltaine's Fire
http://www.beltainesfire.com/
Listen to the performance:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/beltainesfire-music.mp3
Listen to the conversation:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/beltainesfire-talk.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/beltainesfire/index.html
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
Beltaine's Fire
http://www.beltainesfire.com/
Listen to the performance:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/beltainesfire-music.mp3
Listen to the conversation:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/beltainesfire-talk.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/beltainesfire/index.html
The Family Curse - New on the Shaman's Den Archives
New on Frank Moore's Shaman's Den Archives
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
The Family Curse
http://www.frcollective.com/
www.myspace.com/thefamilycursemission
http://www.myspace.com/thefamilycursemission
Watch the performance:
mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/familycurse.wmv
Listen to the performance:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/familycurse-music.mp3
Listen to the conversation:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/familycurse-talk.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/thefamilycurse/index.html
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html
The Family Curse
http://www.frcollective.com/
www.myspace.com/thefamilycursemission
http://www.myspace.com/thefamilycursemission
Watch the performance:
mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/familycurse.wmv
Listen to the performance:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/familycurse-music.mp3
Listen to the conversation:
http://www.luver.net/podcasts/familycurse-talk.mp3
Photos:
http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden_photos/thefamilycurse/index.html
spam!
we are getting a lot of Spam at LUVER! Last few weeks a "band " has decided that how to get on LUVER is to bombard us with "fans' requests". How
to get banned from LUVER!
Then people started sending Linda hate mail over LUVER'S XMAS MIX now playing straight through to Christmas night, filled with the traditional, the classics, the novelties, the treasures from around the world and from all Cultures! But what got their dirty underwear way up their noses and assholes is Linda includes some dirty songs about Xmas... Well, they are really filthy! To Linda's critics, we say "fuck it if you can't take a joke!"
you still have time to catch the LUVER'S XMAS MIX!
now the question is how am I topping Linda with my week long new year special starting midnight
tonight?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
to get banned from LUVER!
Then people started sending Linda hate mail over LUVER'S XMAS MIX now playing straight through to Christmas night, filled with the traditional, the classics, the novelties, the treasures from around the world and from all Cultures! But what got their dirty underwear way up their noses and assholes is Linda includes some dirty songs about Xmas... Well, they are really filthy! To Linda's critics, we say "fuck it if you can't take a joke!"
you still have time to catch the LUVER'S XMAS MIX!
now the question is how am I topping Linda with my week long new year special starting midnight
tonight?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: SEXECOLOGY! The LOVE ART LAB at FEMINA POTENS in SF. Exhibit+Events (Annie II)
Frank, Funny the things you remember and I don't, perhaps on purpose.
Too bad the Center for sex and culture has so many stairs. that would be a great place for you to perform.
Bummer no local gigs now, but i'm sure you will be getting some soon. how do you manage to keep on doing it all?!
Annie
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oh, you know what they say about a bad penny! She turns up every ten years or so.
I did THE POW POW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL in San Francisco a couple of months ago. And i have the monthly performance series at the Temescal art center in Oakland [the dates are below in my first email]. We are heading into the second year of that series. And don't get me started on my cable show, etc, etc. but I would love to do something at the Center for sex and culture! The sex therapist Nellie Wilson, who has been a guest on my cable show and also has come to quite a few of the Temescal performances, is Connected to the Center for sex and culture. can you put in a good word for me?
how do I keep doing it all? Do I have a choice? Things open new possibilities for everybody. So it's a part of the job to take opportunities that come to one. I rarely go after things. But when they come to me, I follow them. I thought things are supposed to slow down when you get old. But it's the opposite. Tomorrow tonight I am doing a third private performance with a woman who came to a Temescal performance. Last week I was on KPFA doing a three hour Christmas /call-in show. then I had a great guitarist on my Sunday cable show who then came to the Friday performance to jam.
I don't know how each piece goes together. I just stay here with Linda, Mikee, Jen, Alexi, Corey, and Erika. Everything else falls around that.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Too bad the Center for sex and culture has so many stairs. that would be a great place for you to perform.
Bummer no local gigs now, but i'm sure you will be getting some soon. how do you manage to keep on doing it all?!
Annie
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oh, you know what they say about a bad penny! She turns up every ten years or so.
I did THE POW POW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL in San Francisco a couple of months ago. And i have the monthly performance series at the Temescal art center in Oakland [the dates are below in my first email]. We are heading into the second year of that series. And don't get me started on my cable show, etc, etc. but I would love to do something at the Center for sex and culture! The sex therapist Nellie Wilson, who has been a guest on my cable show and also has come to quite a few of the Temescal performances, is Connected to the Center for sex and culture. can you put in a good word for me?
how do I keep doing it all? Do I have a choice? Things open new possibilities for everybody. So it's a part of the job to take opportunities that come to one. I rarely go after things. But when they come to me, I follow them. I thought things are supposed to slow down when you get old. But it's the opposite. Tomorrow tonight I am doing a third private performance with a woman who came to a Temescal performance. Last week I was on KPFA doing a three hour Christmas /call-in show. then I had a great guitarist on my Sunday cable show who then came to the Friday performance to jam.
I don't know how each piece goes together. I just stay here with Linda, Mikee, Jen, Alexi, Corey, and Erika. Everything else falls around that.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: Jesse Beagle and J.C. read at Nefeli Caffe January 8th, 2010
From: Dale Jensen
Subject: Jesse Beagle and J.C. read at Nefeli Caffe January 8th, 2010
Subject: Jesse Beagle and J.C. read at Nefeli Caffe January 8th, 2010
Jesse Beagle and J.C. will read their poetry at 7 pm on Friday, January 10th, 2010, at Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, a little north of Hearst, in Berkeley, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone (510) 841-6374.There is also an open reading.
Jesse Beagle is a well-known poet, musician, singer, and composer. She is one of the best jazz poets around, composed the award-winning musical Timber, and has played and sung with many prominent blues and jazz musicians. For years she coordinated poetry reading series at Spasso Coffeehouse in Oakland and at the Beanery in Berkeley. Her poetry has been published in many magazines and journals and ranges from political to autobiographical to some of the most beautifully lyrical jazz poems anywhere. Her songs have been recorded and performed by many. Her music is a unique blend of classical, blues, jazz, and Broadway and is always true to itself. Finally, after decades of writing and performing, her first book of poetry, Poetry in Jazz, is being published in early 2010. This reading will be in celebration of her new book, and is a special event for anybody who knows Jesse or her work.
The poet JC, native California born, has been writing poetry, short stories, plays, and screenplays since the age of 16. He is probably the most unrecognized professional writer in the world, due to his independence from groups, academia, and cliques, and
lack of willingness to submit his work. JC is not stuck on any one subject or style in his
poetry, due to his extensive travel, and self education, and the many vastly different trades in which he has partisipated. JC also has a seriosu background in music (SF Boys Chorus, rock bands and folk groups), acting, dance, painting, and photography.
He has compiled two books,Wildlife in the Redwoods and Awake in a Fog (the latter to be published in 2010), and has appeared in many anthologies, journals, and magazines. He is a consummate adventurer, outdoorsman, and body surfer.
The Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe, a café/restaurant that serves dinners, tapas, coffee drinks, beer, wine, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free. Dale Jensen, Ralph Dranow, John Rowe, Diana Q, Grace Grafton are co-hosts.
Jesse Beagle is a well-known poet, musician, singer, and composer. She is one of the best jazz poets around, composed the award-winning musical Timber, and has played and sung with many prominent blues and jazz musicians. For years she coordinated poetry reading series at Spasso Coffeehouse in Oakland and at the Beanery in Berkeley. Her poetry has been published in many magazines and journals and ranges from political to autobiographical to some of the most beautifully lyrical jazz poems anywhere. Her songs have been recorded and performed by many. Her music is a unique blend of classical, blues, jazz, and Broadway and is always true to itself. Finally, after decades of writing and performing, her first book of poetry, Poetry in Jazz, is being published in early 2010. This reading will be in celebration of her new book, and is a special event for anybody who knows Jesse or her work.
The poet JC, native California born, has been writing poetry, short stories, plays, and screenplays since the age of 16. He is probably the most unrecognized professional writer in the world, due to his independence from groups, academia, and cliques, and
lack of willingness to submit his work. JC is not stuck on any one subject or style in his
poetry, due to his extensive travel, and self education, and the many vastly different trades in which he has partisipated. JC also has a seriosu background in music (SF Boys Chorus, rock bands and folk groups), acting, dance, painting, and photography.
He has compiled two books,Wildlife in the Redwoods and Awake in a Fog (the latter to be published in 2010), and has appeared in many anthologies, journals, and magazines. He is a consummate adventurer, outdoorsman, and body surfer.
The Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe, a café/restaurant that serves dinners, tapas, coffee drinks, beer, wine, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free. Dale Jensen, Ralph Dranow, John Rowe, Diana Q, Grace Grafton are co-hosts.
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Actually I think I was very dismissive of Jesse when I was in San Francisco (in what seems a lifetime ago). There were many things about those two trips what made me feel uncomfortable. Australia and California are very different cultures, I felt very out of place and shrunk from Jesse's generous attempts to make me the centre of attention at some small gathering - however briefly. I apologise.
Tony
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mmmmmm!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Happy Holidays & A Happy New Year!
Reflecting back, 2009 was one crazy year, but aren't they all?
We lost an exorbitant number lot of wonderful people and creative forces this year; which means it's up to us to pick up the slack and keep music, art, culture going strong - whether we are those who participate in it or appreciate and support it as patrons.
I'm super proud of everyone in my life.
May 2010 be a year that is healthy and prosperous for you all,
No matter what - stay inspired, be brave, stay on your course.
Much love,
Jon Krop
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we will stay the course! Of course!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
We lost an exorbitant number lot of wonderful people and creative forces this year; which means it's up to us to pick up the slack and keep music, art, culture going strong - whether we are those who participate in it or appreciate and support it as patrons.
I'm super proud of everyone in my life.
May 2010 be a year that is healthy and prosperous for you all,
No matter what - stay inspired, be brave, stay on your course.
Much love,
Jon Krop
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we will stay the course! Of course!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Cute pictures of Betty and Betty & Erika tonight!
Betty is really the eighth person in our tribe. She's the church goer in her eighties living nextdoor to us. She for years has given us jewelry for the nude dancing girls to wear at the performances. She and her mate Joe would watch videos of these performances... And gave me shit if the girls didn't get nude! Since Joe passed a year ago, she has become more a part of our everyday life... Actually that started when we took care of Joe during his last few months.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
the holidays on http://www.luver.com!
well, I have received emails from snobs who think all Xmas Songs are worthless trash. Well, they shouldn't listen to LUVER this week because Linda has locked herself in the LUVER Xmas vault which contains over 4466 Xmas Songs of every imaginable and un- imaginable type! Her mission: to play as many of these treasures as possible!
And I am in a rigorous training in preparation of my traditional Marathon of my spinning hot wax of my personal favorites from the end of Christmas night to January Second... I will drink gallons of hardcore coffee, pop poppers, etc. TOO MUCH FUN!
well, you have been warned!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
And I am in a rigorous training in preparation of my traditional Marathon of my spinning hot wax of my personal favorites from the end of Christmas night to January Second... I will drink gallons of hardcore coffee, pop poppers, etc. TOO MUCH FUN!
well, you have been warned!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Longtime RHS history teacher dies - Redlands Daily Facts
Ruth, did you see this great article? How lucky were we to have him as our teacher!?
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/obituaries/ci_13510942
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/obituaries/ci_13510942
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: i feel like getting darkly sexy for this holiday performance!
he Frankie I'll see you there tomorrow.
I'll bring a very small set up and, we can improvistically wail into christmas!
I'll bring a very small set up and, we can improvistically wail into christmas!
your pal
Jhon Thumb
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and we did wail! But more when I recover! Great to jam with you and Tomek, jhon! Hope it'll be a long term relationship!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: The Shaman's Den in January
I'm sorry about the sad news Frank, of course it's more than understood; as far as my side of things, there is no schedule conflict with moving the show to Jan. 17th.
My deepest condolences, and warmest thoughts to you in this time,
Jon
My deepest condolences, and warmest thoughts to you in this time,
Jon
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thanks, Jon. We have penciled it in until we hear if the band can do January seventeen.
he was my high school world Cultures teacher... And the one who gave us access to the mimeograph for our underground paper. He was picketing against the Vietnam war in 65 before it was fashionable to do so. He is one of my role models. The high school was in Redlands in southern California. His name is Raymond Haight. Apparently Haight Street was named after his grandfather who was a governor of California. I love how he loved life and people in a deep and lusty way. He taught how to have both an open mind and deep passions, and how to talk to others without limiting judgments.
In the mid- eighties, I ran into him up here in San Francisco. He was tickled at how my life had developed. At the time, I was trying to make my first film. He wanted to give me a couple of grand for it. But right then he lost his job and had to use the money for a biking tour of Europe with his wife. This made perfect sense to me! That is why he is my role model!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
he was my high school world Cultures teacher... And the one who gave us access to the mimeograph for our underground paper. He was picketing against the Vietnam war in 65 before it was fashionable to do so. He is one of my role models. The high school was in Redlands in southern California. His name is Raymond Haight. Apparently Haight Street was named after his grandfather who was a governor of California. I love how he loved life and people in a deep and lusty way. He taught how to have both an open mind and deep passions, and how to talk to others without limiting judgments.
In the mid- eighties, I ran into him up here in San Francisco. He was tickled at how my life had developed. At the time, I was trying to make my first film. He wanted to give me a couple of grand for it. But right then he lost his job and had to use the money for a biking tour of Europe with his wife. This made perfect sense to me! That is why he is my role model!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: OUR X-MAS CARRD! (Champ)
frank, linda, mikee!
got ur xmas card in the mail! thanx a lot! we wish you a pretty rocking xxx-mas to you and the rest of the gang!
btw, we put it in the refrigerator so everyone in Malo Funhouse (where we live) can see it...hope all is well with you in this yuletide schmultide! we dont celebrate it as much but we like the spirit of good times and giving...im not sure if told u already but rhea and i and 2 other friends from LA are going to the philippines in 3 weeks and we are xcited about that..make sure to send you some pics of how the "real beaches " look like over there! B) rhea also sends her best wishes!
you guys are awesome! right on!
-champ
also check out videos ive been making:
www.youtube.com/champoyhate
mikee,,im not sure if youve check out the links to the radio shows yet but i added some text to it to describe the shows...its all short and simple -just a run down on wat the show is about...im close to getting the post-care done..hopefully after all the shows we play this week...
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GREAT, Champ!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
got ur xmas card in the mail! thanx a lot! we wish you a pretty rocking xxx-mas to you and the rest of the gang!
btw, we put it in the refrigerator so everyone in Malo Funhouse (where we live) can see it...hope all is well with you in this yuletide schmultide! we dont celebrate it as much but we like the spirit of good times and giving...im not sure if told u already but rhea and i and 2 other friends from LA are going to the philippines in 3 weeks and we are xcited about that..make sure to send you some pics of how the "real beaches " look like over there! B) rhea also sends her best wishes!
you guys are awesome! right on!
-champ
also check out videos ive been making:
www.youtube.com/champoyhate
mikee,,im not sure if youve check out the links to the radio shows yet but i added some text to it to describe the shows...its all short and simple -just a run down on wat the show is about...im close to getting the post-care done..hopefully after all the shows we play this week...
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GREAT, Champ!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: SEXECOLOGY! The LOVE ART LAB at FEMINA POTENS in SF. Exhibit+Events
Am catching my breath. Exhaling slowly.
I'm hoping to come to one of your performances sometime soon.
Let me know when is the best time to come see something.
Anything in SF would be best.
Annie
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well, Annie. We do not have any bookings in San Francisco right now, although I just started talking to Shelley Cook [the snob who would not talk to you when you both were in my cast in the late eighties?] about doing a performance at her San Francisco space in the summer. But that's very ify. We do the monthly performance series at the Temescal arts center in Oakland. The next Temescal performance is Friday (12/18). And we have booked that series for the whole 2010!
2010 Dates!
Saturday, January 30
Saturday, February 27
Saturday, March 27
Saturday, April 24
Friday, May 21
Saturday, June 26
Saturday, July 31
Saturday, August 28
Saturday, September 25
Friday, October 22
Friday, November 19
Friday, December 17
hope you guys can come to one!
I'm hoping to come to one of your performances sometime soon.
Let me know when is the best time to come see something.
Anything in SF would be best.
Annie
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well, Annie. We do not have any bookings in San Francisco right now, although I just started talking to Shelley Cook [the snob who would not talk to you when you both were in my cast in the late eighties?] about doing a performance at her San Francisco space in the summer. But that's very ify. We do the monthly performance series at the Temescal arts center in Oakland. The next Temescal performance is Friday (12/18). And we have booked that series for the whole 2010!
2010 Dates!
Saturday, January 30
Saturday, February 27
Saturday, March 27
Saturday, April 24
Friday, May 21
Saturday, June 26
Saturday, July 31
Saturday, August 28
Saturday, September 25
Friday, October 22
Friday, November 19
Friday, December 17
hope you guys can come to one!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: CHAPTER 16
(Erika wrote:)
Amazing!! To be read again & again!!
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ah, shucks!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Amazing!! To be read again & again!!
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ah, shucks!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
SEXECOLOGY! The LOVE ART LAB at FEMINA POTENS in SF. Exhibit+Events
YOU'RE INVITED to the OPENING RECEPTION of our EXHIBIT and other related events (in San Francisco.) Twood be lovely to see you. We'd like to gift you with our "ecosexual" bumper sticker on opening night.
Ecosexually yours,
xxx Annie (and Beth)
PS- Note we changed the opening night from Dec. 5 to Dec. 13th.
PSS-Please DO forward and post this info.
SEXECOLOGY: Making Love with the Earth, Sky and Sea
Collages, drawings, texts, wedding costumes/ephemera + an ecosexual walking tour
Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle: The Love Art Laboratory
Dec. 13, Sunday. 5:00-8:00. Opening reception. Presentation/performance by the artists at 6:30.
Dec. 17. Thursday. 7:00-8:30. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: A Memorial Vigil Ritual. Everyone welcome.
Dec. 19. Saturday. 1:00-4:00. The Sexecologists are In. Annie & Beth will show you around, chat, answer your questions.
Jan. 3. Sunday. 2:00-3:30. Sexecological Walking Tour with Beth & Annie. Meet at Femina Potens and take a walk to explore your ecosexuality-- rain or shine. $15.
Femina Potens Gallery, 2199 Market St. (at Sanchez), San Francisco, Ca. 94114
This exhibit is supported by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Equity Grants Program, UCSC Arts Research Institute, and generous support from the Queer Cultural Center.
ANNIE M. SPRINKLE, Ph.D.
Artist * Sexecologist * Author * Lecturer
Educator * Faculty Wife * Thespian
Pioneering Film Director and Performer
Former Sex Worker * Ecosexual
_____________________________
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Thanks Frank! You're the balls. woudl be nice to see you sometime soon.
annie
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tennis anyone? When, Annie?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Frank Moore
RE: OUR X-MAS CARRD! (Rafael-alexandre Ramos)
Well happy Christmas too you jolly bunch :)
..And a freakish new year ;)
Rafael
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yes, we are a bunch of jollies!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
..And a freakish new year ;)
Rafael
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yes, we are a bunch of jollies!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: MR Thumbs big west coast adventure
yes put me on the E salon!
yes put me in the community.
cheers!
Jhon
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yes put me in the community.
cheers!
Jhon
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you're on, jhon!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
CHAPTER 16
Sorry, I had to cut it short and scant and run to read the last few chapters at the Temescal. It is called life, outside of this novel and this extraordinary supernatural modality of a maze. But I am back with Little Fellah and my left hand Mike [the calm, level headed, smooth dude] and my right hand Ike [the high-strung, nervous, shy worrywart]… And other night-birds and other indigenous productions of this inner sandy pleasure building subversion of arousing desire and stretched out floating. Did you miss me? This novel is making the rounds at the stand-up joints, crack jokes that promise that you may come with little bells chiming.
Well, Mike always has had a special relationship with Little Fellah. Yep, I am left handed. Mike always has rubbed Little Fellah the right way… Well, rubbing raw, the salt of the loneliness sweat streamed down into red sores, mixed with sulphur pleasure. Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, and Fabian stared down from the TEEN BEAT posters on my walls as I first discovered beating the meat after they pulled down my balls. I was thirteen in Germany. I was listening to better music on Radio Luxemburg. But those lame posters were all I could get Mom to put up. I was sneaking peaks at PLAYMATES OF PLAYBOY. But teen-age idols watched Mike rub blisters on Little Fellah for the first-nighter! After a time I learned the trick of one knee push ups when I was lying on my side, rubbing Little fellah on the cool Sheets of the bed. Much more accommodating and warm juicy. But that only worked when I was lying on my side. When I was lying on my back, it was Mike’s job! Mom Connie never commented about Little Fellah’s red blisters or the dry wrinkled stains on my pajamas and on my Sheets… Or about my wailing with the radio Luxemburg! But I wonder how I got the German maid to show me her tits in my bedroom. I couldn’t even speak German… In fact, I couldn’t even talk. Oh, those damn mysteries of art! She went on to rip us off! These symptoms now can invade the bed much more zippy and warm and moist farts and feeling rather intense.
I never understood the fad of jacking off. To me it was always filling hunger with Spam. I have not jerk off in over thirty, forty years. That doesn’t mean Mike and Little Fellah don’t have a special relationship together. Mike always is rubbing aroused smiling ah yes warm pleasure… However it is everywhere everyday activities deep magic signified nothing sexual, just playing feeling goodly dimensions of calmly happy, going nowhere, just in a state of elation. Feeling goodly happy. But Mike is rubbing aroused within me. It is not going within you, being curious about your ideas. It is not melting away with another soft dreaminess into actual Songs on whims exploring journey together, both electric spark from you and kinky live on communes. So it is a cool beer on a hot cooking-range. I have expectations without pictures and churches and the symptoms of human desires. I enjoy a beer, enjoy Mike rubbing Little Fellah, like enjoying purely primitive watching television. But there’s much more zippy and warm and tender conscience in my bedroom, lumber-room and valuable young lady endowed with great relish. Why settle for being so alone for several centuries? I can’t give up! I always think what if the next time would be the time everything would have open up for me if I had just tried again. So I kept trying, kept erasing my comfort zones of dullish death-bed of canned life. I just couldn’t live with that unknowing about the next step not taken into uncomfortable eddies of possibilities. That always motivated me. I never was ambitious. But I always was self-moving and motivated. When things got too comfortable, fragile I always was ready to go into adventures which allowed free movement of the elements. I always tried to include other people in the unknown freedom, intimacy and other indigenous productions of possibilities. Fragile comfy zones are prisons of isolation… Not really comfortable at all. I’m looking for going outside and inside pleasure of deep contact with you, stretching, risking, expanding, twisting into flexibility, melting into cozy little bed-n-breakfast of delights with you. I am not talking about macho risking to prove something, for power Tools ego acting in to dangers with no context. That is just as fragile as comfort zones of dullish death-bed existence. I don’t try to digest whether I feel comfortable, lucky. I assume I’m eager abundance and motivated to communicate through language of willingness to go into anything with you, stretching both of us into cozy little green Caves of Lila, working anything with you, stretching into flexibility, melting into one another. Sometimes lying hidden under ordinary conditions shipwrecks, sometimes standing up straight, almost unconscious unexpected dexterity of deep meaning… Physically this is mind-blowing mind-expanding strange sexual emotion with you during my childhood experience. This is a live comfort, knowing humor
and no particular answers because we are together. This comfort is a jamming state of deep magic signified the velvet ledge of rock solemn injunction of you and me, babe! Who would be surprise that we are still going higher? I assume things will work out. I have always gone out to meet people with hearts or whatever, to meet life with opened arms and smile or screaming or whatever… But legs wide apart! Getting hurt is a part of life… But avoiding life is death without living! And that is hell! I never have gone to hell personally! Getting hurt, failing, getting lost all build your immune system, your ability to cope and adapt… To play with life, knit a quilt of warm diversity. All of this is outside of comfort zones. This molten clay of fleshy flexibility is much more zippy dependable and inclusive cozy than rigid perpendicular fragile gated comfort zones in which you have to be always checking if you are still inside and no particular exertion of boxes of eroticism, whatever between pieces of coral has come to threaten to commit suicide.
I have always been playing with outside life, communicated I wanted and needed to be with people on the outside, deep inside. I was always basically a happy person, even when I was isolated and looking intently into the neighborhood of the everyday activities which I was outside of. I always tried to include myself, projected joy of living. Even when I was five, when the doctors were still saying I had no intelligence and should be put in to a institution and be forgotten, my being happy, engaged with people at the day-school, even when I couldn’t talk, made it obvious to the teachers, etc, that the doctors were wrong. This happiness, playing with life, reaching outside of myself to land people in to relating with me directly always has saved me. Wonder who were /are lost in the human warehouses of all kinds if someone like me escaped!
There is no modest humble unassuming bone in my body! Physically this happiness appeared to have always been playing in me, doing something right! Also there is no modest shy bone in my body either! Perhaps you have not notice! Maybe this is why I rub some surprises into some people the vulgar way. I never understood modesty of any kind. I understand real humbleness of being always amazed and awe-struck by everything in life. But when somebody writes IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, humble ain’t the reality that’s going on. As you can tell, my opinions are never humble pie. Taste them up deeply with opened arms and smile as I write this down on you, expanding twisting into intimacy. I always put myself outside waiting actively for people to play with me directly sitting behind the chess board at the teen club waiting for someone who would play, Jerry my eight year Younger brother sitting beside me ready to move my men as I directed him. I don’t know how I directed him. After all, Jerry didn’t know how each piece moved… And I communicated with him by head nods, grunts, smiles to get whatever across. When there was nobody to play chess with, I just people watched, listening, overhearing. This was my acting training. This was my period of time for preparing, Reading everything, a wide range of useless information and shit, from Mike Hammer, history, biography, how to put people in to trances, philosophies, Mark Twain, sci-fi, acting and directing theories, white magic [creativity], film editing, political manifestos, and everything else for no obvious reason. Keep in mind, growing up I had THE GIANT GOLDEN BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY that I could turn Pages by myself. So I did for hours. Then THE SEARS CATALOG. Then the dictionary. Then the encyclopedia. Yes, I was always preparing for when I could get out into the world and be with people, not just watching nude legs under swirling dresses undulating feverish wakeful to trances dancing at the teen club sock hop to the house band BILL HAILEY AND HIS COMETS. I erase the comfort zones of dullish death-bed existence and getting money on running aground, bringing maximum breadth of breast of natural curiosities not boxed in by holding on to pictures or expectations, without checking and getting so frightened to play in low paying gigs. I just love you dearly to the core of my duet with life! Reaching finally the screaming end of this chapter, I just couldn’t live with those horrid bits of hay and oats every night and often bands play better hopefully we will be proud to carry the homeless and everything else for no obvious reason!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Well, Mike always has had a special relationship with Little Fellah. Yep, I am left handed. Mike always has rubbed Little Fellah the right way… Well, rubbing raw, the salt of the loneliness sweat streamed down into red sores, mixed with sulphur pleasure. Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, and Fabian stared down from the TEEN BEAT posters on my walls as I first discovered beating the meat after they pulled down my balls. I was thirteen in Germany. I was listening to better music on Radio Luxemburg. But those lame posters were all I could get Mom to put up. I was sneaking peaks at PLAYMATES OF PLAYBOY. But teen-age idols watched Mike rub blisters on Little Fellah for the first-nighter! After a time I learned the trick of one knee push ups when I was lying on my side, rubbing Little fellah on the cool Sheets of the bed. Much more accommodating and warm juicy. But that only worked when I was lying on my side. When I was lying on my back, it was Mike’s job! Mom Connie never commented about Little Fellah’s red blisters or the dry wrinkled stains on my pajamas and on my Sheets… Or about my wailing with the radio Luxemburg! But I wonder how I got the German maid to show me her tits in my bedroom. I couldn’t even speak German… In fact, I couldn’t even talk. Oh, those damn mysteries of art! She went on to rip us off! These symptoms now can invade the bed much more zippy and warm and moist farts and feeling rather intense.
I never understood the fad of jacking off. To me it was always filling hunger with Spam. I have not jerk off in over thirty, forty years. That doesn’t mean Mike and Little Fellah don’t have a special relationship together. Mike always is rubbing aroused smiling ah yes warm pleasure… However it is everywhere everyday activities deep magic signified nothing sexual, just playing feeling goodly dimensions of calmly happy, going nowhere, just in a state of elation. Feeling goodly happy. But Mike is rubbing aroused within me. It is not going within you, being curious about your ideas. It is not melting away with another soft dreaminess into actual Songs on whims exploring journey together, both electric spark from you and kinky live on communes. So it is a cool beer on a hot cooking-range. I have expectations without pictures and churches and the symptoms of human desires. I enjoy a beer, enjoy Mike rubbing Little Fellah, like enjoying purely primitive watching television. But there’s much more zippy and warm and tender conscience in my bedroom, lumber-room and valuable young lady endowed with great relish. Why settle for being so alone for several centuries? I can’t give up! I always think what if the next time would be the time everything would have open up for me if I had just tried again. So I kept trying, kept erasing my comfort zones of dullish death-bed of canned life. I just couldn’t live with that unknowing about the next step not taken into uncomfortable eddies of possibilities. That always motivated me. I never was ambitious. But I always was self-moving and motivated. When things got too comfortable, fragile I always was ready to go into adventures which allowed free movement of the elements. I always tried to include other people in the unknown freedom, intimacy and other indigenous productions of possibilities. Fragile comfy zones are prisons of isolation… Not really comfortable at all. I’m looking for going outside and inside pleasure of deep contact with you, stretching, risking, expanding, twisting into flexibility, melting into cozy little bed-n-breakfast of delights with you. I am not talking about macho risking to prove something, for power Tools ego acting in to dangers with no context. That is just as fragile as comfort zones of dullish death-bed existence. I don’t try to digest whether I feel comfortable, lucky. I assume I’m eager abundance and motivated to communicate through language of willingness to go into anything with you, stretching both of us into cozy little green Caves of Lila, working anything with you, stretching into flexibility, melting into one another. Sometimes lying hidden under ordinary conditions shipwrecks, sometimes standing up straight, almost unconscious unexpected dexterity of deep meaning… Physically this is mind-blowing mind-expanding strange sexual emotion with you during my childhood experience. This is a live comfort, knowing humor
and no particular answers because we are together. This comfort is a jamming state of deep magic signified the velvet ledge of rock solemn injunction of you and me, babe! Who would be surprise that we are still going higher? I assume things will work out. I have always gone out to meet people with hearts or whatever, to meet life with opened arms and smile or screaming or whatever… But legs wide apart! Getting hurt is a part of life… But avoiding life is death without living! And that is hell! I never have gone to hell personally! Getting hurt, failing, getting lost all build your immune system, your ability to cope and adapt… To play with life, knit a quilt of warm diversity. All of this is outside of comfort zones. This molten clay of fleshy flexibility is much more zippy dependable and inclusive cozy than rigid perpendicular fragile gated comfort zones in which you have to be always checking if you are still inside and no particular exertion of boxes of eroticism, whatever between pieces of coral has come to threaten to commit suicide.
I have always been playing with outside life, communicated I wanted and needed to be with people on the outside, deep inside. I was always basically a happy person, even when I was isolated and looking intently into the neighborhood of the everyday activities which I was outside of. I always tried to include myself, projected joy of living. Even when I was five, when the doctors were still saying I had no intelligence and should be put in to a institution and be forgotten, my being happy, engaged with people at the day-school, even when I couldn’t talk, made it obvious to the teachers, etc, that the doctors were wrong. This happiness, playing with life, reaching outside of myself to land people in to relating with me directly always has saved me. Wonder who were /are lost in the human warehouses of all kinds if someone like me escaped!
There is no modest humble unassuming bone in my body! Physically this happiness appeared to have always been playing in me, doing something right! Also there is no modest shy bone in my body either! Perhaps you have not notice! Maybe this is why I rub some surprises into some people the vulgar way. I never understood modesty of any kind. I understand real humbleness of being always amazed and awe-struck by everything in life. But when somebody writes IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, humble ain’t the reality that’s going on. As you can tell, my opinions are never humble pie. Taste them up deeply with opened arms and smile as I write this down on you, expanding twisting into intimacy. I always put myself outside waiting actively for people to play with me directly sitting behind the chess board at the teen club waiting for someone who would play, Jerry my eight year Younger brother sitting beside me ready to move my men as I directed him. I don’t know how I directed him. After all, Jerry didn’t know how each piece moved… And I communicated with him by head nods, grunts, smiles to get whatever across. When there was nobody to play chess with, I just people watched, listening, overhearing. This was my acting training. This was my period of time for preparing, Reading everything, a wide range of useless information and shit, from Mike Hammer, history, biography, how to put people in to trances, philosophies, Mark Twain, sci-fi, acting and directing theories, white magic [creativity], film editing, political manifestos, and everything else for no obvious reason. Keep in mind, growing up I had THE GIANT GOLDEN BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY that I could turn Pages by myself. So I did for hours. Then THE SEARS CATALOG. Then the dictionary. Then the encyclopedia. Yes, I was always preparing for when I could get out into the world and be with people, not just watching nude legs under swirling dresses undulating feverish wakeful to trances dancing at the teen club sock hop to the house band BILL HAILEY AND HIS COMETS. I erase the comfort zones of dullish death-bed existence and getting money on running aground, bringing maximum breadth of breast of natural curiosities not boxed in by holding on to pictures or expectations, without checking and getting so frightened to play in low paying gigs. I just love you dearly to the core of my duet with life! Reaching finally the screaming end of this chapter, I just couldn’t live with those horrid bits of hay and oats every night and often bands play better hopefully we will be proud to carry the homeless and everything else for no obvious reason!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: BIG THANKS FROM BARB (Jesse Beagle)
Incidentally, Barb, Frank Moore, C&A,
Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to hear the program, but perhaps it will be in Frank's archives. Other Crack o' Dawn programs I heard, with Frank as guest, were incredible.
Jesse
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KPFA has archived the show at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/56685
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to hear the program, but perhaps it will be in Frank's archives. Other Crack o' Dawn programs I heard, with Frank as guest, were incredible.
Jesse
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KPFA has archived the show at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/56685
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: OUR X-MAS CARRD! (Lob & Yvette)
WE GOT OURS.. it looks beautiful on our mantle!!
thanks for your wonderful generosity and support of TIF
hugs and love to all of you.
Lob & Yvette !
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shucks!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
thanks for your wonderful generosity and support of TIF
hugs and love to all of you.
Lob & Yvette !
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shucks!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
BIG THANKS FROM BARB
I was very tired and wondering whether I should just give up doing Crack o' Dawn.
It seemed like such a pain to get my butt over there in the cold night.
Yes, both Frank's presidential platform and the poem for Connie brought tears to my eyes.
People phoned in with very serious questions and Frank's answers, were filled with depth and simplicity, it was overwhelming and for three hours I could let go of my cynicism and near despair.
The jam, + Elvis, Otis, Platters, etc accompanying Frank's distinctive singing style was a hoot, providing balance to the callins.
To quote Linda the Great: "Hot shit!"
Love,
Barb
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barb, people need CRACK O'DAWN for those reasons. It is our job to get our butts up!
Do you want me back in June.... Our birthday show?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
It seemed like such a pain to get my butt over there in the cold night.
Yes, both Frank's presidential platform and the poem for Connie brought tears to my eyes.
People phoned in with very serious questions and Frank's answers, were filled with depth and simplicity, it was overwhelming and for three hours I could let go of my cynicism and near despair.
The jam, + Elvis, Otis, Platters, etc accompanying Frank's distinctive singing style was a hoot, providing balance to the callins.
To quote Linda the Great: "Hot shit!"
Love,
Barb
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barb, people need CRACK O'DAWN for those reasons. It is our job to get our butts up!
Do you want me back in June.... Our birthday show?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
video of Frank Moore's POW POW performance is up!
WOW!
In Freedom, Frank Moore
for photos, text and video:
http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/powpow2009/
video link: mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/powpow2009.wmv
In Freedom, Frank Moore
for photos, text and video:
http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/powpow2009/
video link: mms://69.20.93.141/WMPub2/powpow2009.wmv
Re: Fw: [instagon] TIFORG FUNDRAISER
(Frank wrote:)
well, lob... You know we here are in the same boat... But look for a little something in the mail.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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Frank.. i know it has been said before.. but you are simply amazing. thank you soo much for your generous kindness.
you rock!
Lob
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shucks, Lob!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
well, lob... You know we here are in the same boat... But look for a little something in the mail.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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Frank.. i know it has been said before.. but you are simply amazing. thank you soo much for your generous kindness.
you rock!
Lob
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shucks, Lob!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: CRACK O'DAWN
Yes the show was truly superlative!
-DJ Adversary, Berkeley Liberation Radio
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Michael, glad you were listening and liked the show. It was extremely satisfying!
hope to see you at the Temescal performance again!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
-DJ Adversary, Berkeley Liberation Radio
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Michael, glad you were listening and liked the show. It was extremely satisfying!
hope to see you at the Temescal performance again!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Seasons Greeting
Hi, listening to your station is lots of fun. Speaking of disability, I understand as a blind person.
Merry Christmas
Gianfranco
PS. Reply so I'll feel beter that my email came in...
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Gianfranco, this means a lot to us at LUVER! keep listening!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Merry Christmas
Gianfranco
PS. Reply so I'll feel beter that my email came in...
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Gianfranco, this means a lot to us at LUVER! keep listening!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: Artists and the Recession Survey Results
hi POW'sters - thought you might be interested in this...happy holidaze!
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Date: December 2, 2009 3:51:04 PM PST
Subject: Artists and the Recession Survey Results
Dear Alyssa,
Thank you so much for your participation in the Artists and the Economic Recession Survey, commissioned by Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in collaboration with Helicon Collaborative and Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
As promised, here are the preliminary survey findings:http://www.lincnet.net/sites/all/files/Selected%20Findings%20Artists%20and%20the%20Recession%20Survey%202009.pdf
Highlights of the data include:
Two-thirds of artists hold at least one job in addition to making art.
Artists’ incomes are relatively low (two-thirds made less than $40,000 in 2008), and half (51%) reported a decrease in their art-related income from 2008 to 2009.
Forty percent of artists do not have adequate health insurance and more than 50% are worried about losing what they do have.
Despite the challenges, artists are optimistic about the future—89% think artists have a special role in helping strengthen communities in these times, and 75% believe this is an inspiring time to be an artist.
Some opportunities have emerged as a result of the recession—40% report they have been able to spend more time on their artwork, and one-third have seized the opportunity to experiment and collaborate more.
While direct financial support would be most helpful to artists, technical assistance, networking opportunities, and supplies are also high on the list.
A full report will be available on our website (www.lincnet.net) in early Spring 2010.
Thank you for your interest and participation,
Judilee, LINC
Parita Patel on behalf of Judilee Reed
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
237 W 35th Street, Suite 1202
New York, NY 10001
lincnet.net
646-731-3275 vox
646-731-3289 fax
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and is this suppose to be earth shattering news? Or even shocking depressing outrage?
Actually this survey is a great piece of ironical performance art. Getting paid good money to ask those obvious questions! That is high art indeed! And I love the surreal name, Leveraging Investments in Creativity. Like how many joints did it take to come up with that new speak name, and how many more joints to keep a straight face saying it.
Btw, if you see Leveraging Investments in Creativity drive up, RUN!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Date: December 2, 2009 3:51:04 PM PST
Subject: Artists and the Recession Survey Results
Dear Alyssa,
Thank you so much for your participation in the Artists and the Economic Recession Survey, commissioned by Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in collaboration with Helicon Collaborative and Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
As promised, here are the preliminary survey findings:http://www.lincnet.net/sites/all/files/Selected%20Findings%20Artists%20and%20the%20Recession%20Survey%202009.pdf
Highlights of the data include:
Two-thirds of artists hold at least one job in addition to making art.
Artists’ incomes are relatively low (two-thirds made less than $40,000 in 2008), and half (51%) reported a decrease in their art-related income from 2008 to 2009.
Forty percent of artists do not have adequate health insurance and more than 50% are worried about losing what they do have.
Despite the challenges, artists are optimistic about the future—89% think artists have a special role in helping strengthen communities in these times, and 75% believe this is an inspiring time to be an artist.
Some opportunities have emerged as a result of the recession—40% report they have been able to spend more time on their artwork, and one-third have seized the opportunity to experiment and collaborate more.
While direct financial support would be most helpful to artists, technical assistance, networking opportunities, and supplies are also high on the list.
A full report will be available on our website (www.lincnet.net) in early Spring 2010.
Thank you for your interest and participation,
Judilee, LINC
Parita Patel on behalf of Judilee Reed
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
237 W 35th Street, Suite 1202
New York, NY 10001
lincnet.net
646-731-3275 vox
646-731-3289 fax
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and is this suppose to be earth shattering news? Or even shocking depressing outrage?
Actually this survey is a great piece of ironical performance art. Getting paid good money to ask those obvious questions! That is high art indeed! And I love the surreal name, Leveraging Investments in Creativity. Like how many joints did it take to come up with that new speak name, and how many more joints to keep a straight face saying it.
Btw, if you see Leveraging Investments in Creativity drive up, RUN!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Monday, December 21, 2009
Re: MR Thumbs big west coast adventure
hey Frank !
thanks for the shout out!
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful time I had playing and hanging out at
the Shaman's Den! You all were so nice and accomodating.
A real warm sense of frendship and brotherhood.
Thanks for one of the highlights of my great west coast adventure.
Lets not make it another ten years!
Will see you soon buddy. Merry Christmas to you and all of the Luver staff!
cheers!
Jhon
thanks for the shout out!
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful time I had playing and hanging out at
the Shaman's Den! You all were so nice and accomodating.
A real warm sense of frendship and brotherhood.
Thanks for one of the highlights of my great west coast adventure.
Lets not make it another ten years!
Will see you soon buddy. Merry Christmas to you and all of the Luver staff!
cheers!
Jhon
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ditto! We'll see you at the Temescal performance!
Hey, want to be on THE E-SALON, my email community?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Hey, want to be on THE E-SALON, my email community?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: Fw: hi (Steve Davis)
hi
whats up/ sorry I've been outta touch,...just busy..
I saw that the theatre of note will do another marathon...thanks for suggesting DOG! I emailed sofie there about dog playing..
I'd love to play bass w. the all-stars this year...sorry I couldn't make it last year...I should be there this year!!
are you all coming down for that???
I hope so!
see ya
take care
love
steve
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Steve, we can't afford to come down this year. So if you want to play with me, you will have to come up here!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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whats up/ sorry I've been outta touch,...just busy..
I saw that the theatre of note will do another marathon...thanks for suggesting DOG! I emailed sofie there about dog playing..
I'd love to play bass w. the all-stars this year...sorry I couldn't make it last year...I should be there this year!!
are you all coming down for that???
I hope so!
see ya
take care
love
steve
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Steve, we can't afford to come down this year. So if you want to play with me, you will have to come up here!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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hi
that sucks..but i know how it is..I got a fucking 5% pay cut...!! I have some cd's to send from LEM too...
keep me posted about shows and i'll try to make one up there...
i miss you guys...can we schedule dog on shamens den sometime in '10??
thanks
take care
steve
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hey, Steve! I have missed you! We have booked the Temescal performance series for the whole next year! The
dates are up at http://www.eroplay.com/events.html. The next is Friday December eighteenth . Love to have you play/jam! We are having great musicians showing up!
Can +DOG+ do The Shaman's den on January seventeen? That is our first opening!
Hey, if +DOG+ has any Bay area gigs, I might be available to play!
Btw, my Sunday guest was a great guitarist Jhon Thumb. I asked him to be a guest ten years ago after we both played at THE WEFEST in North Carolina. Apparently he kept
my email invitation in his in-box for all of these years so that when he moved out here from New Jersey, he contacted me about being on my]
show. Wild! Anyway, he wants to get link up with musicians out here... So...
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
RE: FOR GOINGS ON ("Crack O' Dawn")
(Re: Frank Moore on Barb Golden's "Crack O' Dawn")
I’m sure you know the old joke:
Why doesn’t Tony Orlando need an alarm clock? Cause he always rises at the crack of Dawn.
Heh heh harley
Why doesn’t Tony Orlando need an alarm clock? Cause he always rises at the crack of Dawn.
Heh heh harley
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wasn't the word "into," not "at?"
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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Right again President Frank!
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
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ah, yes! I just call 'em as I see 'em! Dawn, bend over! Let sunrise!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
CRACK O'DAWN
Linda and I have been guests on Barb Golden’s KPFA radio show, Crack O’Dawn, for twenty years … sometimes a couple of times a year. Somewhere in there being on her Christmas show has become a tradition. Last night was the night! With Mikee figuring out how to get calls on air, it was one of those perfect shows! The four of us are so comfortable together. There was a steady stream of calls with an extremely wide range of questions and angles, giving opportunities to talk about a lot of things very deeply. We did slip Christmas songs and a couple of poems in before the three hours disappeared!
ERIKA:
ERIKA:
Last night's show with Frank, Linda and Mikee on Barb Golden's Crack O 'Dawn on KPFA was really amazing. It was really fun to hear the jam at the beginning of the show and throughout. It was a great way to start the show pulling everyone in. Frank sang Christmas songs throughout the show including Back Door Santa one of my favorites that he does. Linda read Frank's poem, "Season of Hidden Hope," as well as "Connie," about Frank's mom. It was a cozy show that had a steady stream of listeners who called in who were really loving the show. The callers included Tomek and Michael Pepe and many people who had questions for Frank. One person had seen Frank's flyers around town for his series Reality Playings at the Temescal Arts Center but has been afraid to come, until now!. Frank and Linda talked about how wonderful it was to have an ongoing series and some of what had happened in the last one with a musical jam with Guillermo, a dance Frank did with one of the women and a woman who lead a group of people through a play movement journey. One of the callers wanted to know about Frank's presidential campaign and his platform so Linda read Frank's platform and Barb said that it brought tears to her eyes again just like when she heard it for the first time.
During the show Frank and Linda talked about the changes in policies that have happened with BTV and how many of Frank's shows are no longer on the air. They now have policies about how a host cannot have more than one show on in a day There were a couple of callers who watched Frank's shows on BTV and really missed having them on and one even called BTV during the show to express how he felt about Frank not having his shows on anymore. There was a guy from England who called and wanted to know if Frank could come and play there and another person who wanted to know if people can study individually with Frank so Linda talked about that and how Frank had just done a three hour private performance with someone. There were a couple of callers who listened to luver and said how amazing it was with all of the variety of music that plays and wanted to know how bands can send their music to luver.
There was a woman who called in who said it was amazing hearing about all that Frank does and how does he do it all the things that he does. Frank and Linda said that it was the tribal body, living as one body. There was a woman who called in who wanted to know more about living tribally and had Frank written a book about how people can get along when they live together. Linda talked about how Frank had done relationship counseling for years and the thing he discovered is that most people have the same problems, they want to think that their problems are unique but everyone is really the same. One caller wanted to know what a typical day in the life of Frank, Linda and Mikee was, Frank starting his day in bed with a shot of espresso and getting an update of the days events so far, all the delicious food they eat, and desserts, work time, the movies they watch, living beyond a 24 hour day. A guy called in and wanted to know why we are here, what is it all about and Frank said to be together, adapt together, to change together, to play together, to love together. It was an amazing show full of music, Frank singing holiday songs, poems, and a steady stream of callers who called in who were loving the show and wanted to know more about life, love, living together and all the amazing things that Frank's tribal body does.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
RE: sasha (Ava Bird)
(Ava Bird wrote:)
frank and linda
deepfelt compassion!
i am so sorry to hear about sasha! i know that must be devastating, she was a big part of your family and was a sweet special being...
when my cat marvin passed away a few years ago, it was like losing a soulmate. he shows up in my dreams all the time, telling me he is safe, joyful and still with me!
rest in cherotic cherubic peace sasha!
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hope you are coming to Temescal, Ava!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
frank and linda
deepfelt compassion!
i am so sorry to hear about sasha! i know that must be devastating, she was a big part of your family and was a sweet special being...
when my cat marvin passed away a few years ago, it was like losing a soulmate. he shows up in my dreams all the time, telling me he is safe, joyful and still with me!
rest in cherotic cherubic peace sasha!
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hope you are coming to Temescal, Ava!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Re: sasha (Jesse Beagle)
what a sad loss, and she'll be well remembered. Cats become like their owners when
close, Jessica was just like me!!!! A little 'odd' Fast as lightning and really human. Was she the closest to you, Frank? We humans aren't so much smarter. We manufacture in our own bodies, no vit C, whereas cats make a lot of mg. of vitamin C that helps much to keep them alive. I will celebrate her memory.
I needed/wanted a cat when Jessica left though who could replace her, but when
Isobel, who helped me in 'deciding what vegetarian raw meat (ugh! Jessica said)
she should eat like Isobel.' but when she saw I took it so hard, she understandably said, "No,' you should not get another cat, that was too hard on you.
Only Alexi, with me all the way, with the doctor both days wih me (I left her overnight)
got me through it. Jessica when the doctor botched the first shot, turned
around and bit him and the doctor smiled and said "a fighter to the last!!!!!!
love, Jesse
close, Jessica was just like me!!!! A little 'odd' Fast as lightning and really human. Was she the closest to you, Frank? We humans aren't so much smarter. We manufacture in our own bodies, no vit C, whereas cats make a lot of mg. of vitamin C that helps much to keep them alive. I will celebrate her memory.
I needed/wanted a cat when Jessica left though who could replace her, but when
Isobel, who helped me in 'deciding what vegetarian raw meat (ugh! Jessica said)
she should eat like Isobel.' but when she saw I took it so hard, she understandably said, "No,' you should not get another cat, that was too hard on you.
Only Alexi, with me all the way, with the doctor both days wih me (I left her overnight)
got me through it. Jessica when the doctor botched the first shot, turned
around and bit him and the doctor smiled and said "a fighter to the last!!!!!!
love, Jesse
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
i feel like getting darkly sexy for this holiday performance!
SO DON'T MISS THIS FRIDAY!
The Underground Hit!
CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express
REALITY PLAYINGS:
experiments in experience/participation performance
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 18th
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/
2010 Dates!
Saturday, January 30
Saturday, February 27
Saturday, March 27
Saturday, April 24
Friday, May 21
Saturday, June 26
Saturday, July 31
Saturday, August 28
Saturday, September 25
Friday, October 22
Friday, November 19
Friday, December 17
"...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:
http://www.eroplay.com/RealityPlayingsDEC2009.jpg
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
www.eroplay.com
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The Underground Hit!
CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express
REALITY PLAYINGS:
experiments in experience/participation performance
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 18th
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/
2010 Dates!
Saturday, January 30
Saturday, February 27
Saturday, March 27
Saturday, April 24
Friday, May 21
Saturday, June 26
Saturday, July 31
Saturday, August 28
Saturday, September 25
Friday, October 22
Friday, November 19
Friday, December 17
"...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:
http://www.eroplay.com/RealityPlayingsDEC2009.jpg
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
www.eroplay.com
www.luver.com
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Re: sasha (Paul Escriva)
Friday morning Sasha, our second cat, passed away. He is now in the back yard under the redwoods with Cyb. Kittee is taking it reasonably well.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
* * * * *
Frankie and Everyone,
I'm very sorry to hear of your loss.
I'll always remember Sasha as the mellow kitty.
It's a difficult matter under any circumstances.
Heaps and heaps of hugs to all,
xo Paul
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
* * * * *
Frankie and Everyone,
I'm very sorry to hear of your loss.
I'll always remember Sasha as the mellow kitty.
It's a difficult matter under any circumstances.
Heaps and heaps of hugs to all,
xo Paul
RE: FOR GOINGS ON
(Harley Spiller re: "Frank Moore on Barb Golden’s Crack O’ Dawn show, KPFA 94.1 Berkeley 12/3/09":)
I’m sure you know the old joke:
Why doesn’t Tony Orlando need an alarm clock? Cause he always rises at the crack of Dawn.
Heh heh harley
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
80 Arts - The James E. Davis Arts Building
80 Hanson Place, #301
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1506
* * * * *
wasn't the word "into," not "at?"
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
[instagon] TIFORG FUNDRAISER
Hello to all of you out there on the other end of this list..
I was recently sent an unexpected bill that I need help with.. this month the hosting charges for tif.org are due and its nearly $180.00. I knew that it would be this much when it came around this year.. but was not expecting it this month and at the moment i am sorta tight financially..
so, here at tiforg we are looking to raise some funds.. and you can help, and get yourself some cool music or words.. if you have been thinking about scoring some merchandise from me.. please please do it now.. if you were not thinking about it.. then please give it some thought. Your help would be greatly appreciated and all orders will get bonus goodies...plus i am willing to make great deals and discounts if you order multiple items.
here are some places you can find Instagon Foundation items that will help us raise the funds needed to pay for our huge domain expense this year.
TIFORG DISTRO
http://tiforg-distro.blogspot.com/
this page was started recently and we are adding stuff all the time. there are rare limited items, and current releases listed. new items from LOVE EARTH MUSIC just arrived and will be added this week.
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AUDIO ROADKILL
http://www.tif.org/audioroadkill/
there are 2 volumes out so far in the Audio Roadkill series.. or you can subscribe and get both of them and the next 4 volumes! Also I am willing to create signed prints of my photos if anyone is into that.
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BANDCAMP
Both Instagon and Garage Jazz Architects have 2 full length brand new download CDs available at bandcamp.com. All funds come DIRECTLY to our paypal account. We will also be releasing more new titles on this site VERY soon.
Instagon
http://instagon.bandcamp.com/
Garage Jazz Architects
http://garagejazzarchitects.bandcamp.com/
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BOOKS!
poetry anthologies from both Lob and Charles Ardinger containing poems from the popular times of the 1990's when you all saw is reading regularly.. lots of poems that you will remember and recognize available on demand. Great quality BOOKS.. not chapbooks at lulu.com
http://www.lulu.com/tif
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STUFF
Shirts, mouspads, beer mugs, stamps, skateboards (yes skateboards!) featuring Lob's Art work and Instagon images are available thru Zazzle. Great products with fun art. Give Instagon for the holidays!
http://www.zazzle.com/instagon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ART
in the past 2 years Lob has been doing the occiasional showing of his art here in Sacramento. And it has begun to sell.. Original art pieces by Lob are available.. and gret deal can be made at this time on anything. if you are interested in seeing some images and talking art with Lob.. contact him directly instagon@yahoo.com
He will also be showing a few pieces at the VOX GALLERY in Sacramento for a month starting on Dec. 12.
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INSTAGON
as you are all probably well aware.. Instagon plays a lot, and we record everything.
so nearly EVERY show that Instagon has ever played can be made available on CD.
$5 per disc is the going rate.. if you are interested in getting a copy of a show that you were at, or missed, or heard was really good.. now is the time.
search the archives at the site and let us know
www.instagon.com
also.. nearly all previously released titles from the Deamon are still available.. simply ask.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
DONATIONS
we like that too.. feeling generous this holiday season.. please help
send donations via paypal to : instagon@gmail.com
if you dont like paypal and want another option..let us know.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIVE SHOWS
these live shows are happening in December.. your attendance would help us get paid more.
GARAGE JAZZ ARCHITECTS
Dec. 10, 2009 w/ Chikading! - Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 7pm
JOLTHROWER w/ DOG, NUX VOMICA, and others
Dec 13, 2009 THe Lab, San Francisco, CA - NOON
INSTAGON
Dec. 18, 2009 - Luna Cafe, Sacramento, CA 8pm
Dec. 22, 2009 - El Rincon, San Francisco, CA 9pm (w/ Xome, & Rubber O Cement)
okay. that is plenty for you to chew on..
you may get this message a couple of times, as i am going to be spamming it out to all of my lists.. so if that happens.. please forgive us for the redundancy.. but we are really trying to raise funds for this domain issue.
thank you for your time and your continued support and interest in the art of Lob, Thee Instagon Foundation, and garage jazz music in general.
happy holidays.
Lob
Thee Instagon Foundation
* * * * *
well, lob... You know we here are in the same boat... But look for a little something in the mail.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
I was recently sent an unexpected bill that I need help with.. this month the hosting charges for tif.org are due and its nearly $180.00. I knew that it would be this much when it came around this year.. but was not expecting it this month and at the moment i am sorta tight financially..
so, here at tiforg we are looking to raise some funds.. and you can help, and get yourself some cool music or words.. if you have been thinking about scoring some merchandise from me.. please please do it now.. if you were not thinking about it.. then please give it some thought. Your help would be greatly appreciated and all orders will get bonus goodies...plus i am willing to make great deals and discounts if you order multiple items.
here are some places you can find Instagon Foundation items that will help us raise the funds needed to pay for our huge domain expense this year.
TIFORG DISTRO
http://tiforg-distro.blogspot.com/
this page was started recently and we are adding stuff all the time. there are rare limited items, and current releases listed. new items from LOVE EARTH MUSIC just arrived and will be added this week.
---------------------
AUDIO ROADKILL
http://www.tif.org/audioroadkill/
there are 2 volumes out so far in the Audio Roadkill series.. or you can subscribe and get both of them and the next 4 volumes! Also I am willing to create signed prints of my photos if anyone is into that.
-------------------------------
BANDCAMP
Both Instagon and Garage Jazz Architects have 2 full length brand new download CDs available at bandcamp.com. All funds come DIRECTLY to our paypal account. We will also be releasing more new titles on this site VERY soon.
Instagon
http://instagon.bandcamp.com/
Garage Jazz Architects
http://garagejazzarchitects.bandcamp.com/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOOKS!
poetry anthologies from both Lob and Charles Ardinger containing poems from the popular times of the 1990's when you all saw is reading regularly.. lots of poems that you will remember and recognize available on demand. Great quality BOOKS.. not chapbooks at lulu.com
http://www.lulu.com/tif
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
STUFF
Shirts, mouspads, beer mugs, stamps, skateboards (yes skateboards!) featuring Lob's Art work and Instagon images are available thru Zazzle. Great products with fun art. Give Instagon for the holidays!
http://www.zazzle.com/instagon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ART
in the past 2 years Lob has been doing the occiasional showing of his art here in Sacramento. And it has begun to sell.. Original art pieces by Lob are available.. and gret deal can be made at this time on anything. if you are interested in seeing some images and talking art with Lob.. contact him directly instagon@yahoo.com
He will also be showing a few pieces at the VOX GALLERY in Sacramento for a month starting on Dec. 12.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
INSTAGON
as you are all probably well aware.. Instagon plays a lot, and we record everything.
so nearly EVERY show that Instagon has ever played can be made available on CD.
$5 per disc is the going rate.. if you are interested in getting a copy of a show that you were at, or missed, or heard was really good.. now is the time.
search the archives at the site and let us know
www.instagon.com
also.. nearly all previously released titles from the Deamon are still available.. simply ask.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
DONATIONS
we like that too.. feeling generous this holiday season.. please help
send donations via paypal to : instagon@gmail.com
if you dont like paypal and want another option..let us know.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIVE SHOWS
these live shows are happening in December.. your attendance would help us get paid more.
GARAGE JAZZ ARCHITECTS
Dec. 10, 2009 w/ Chikading! - Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 7pm
JOLTHROWER w/ DOG, NUX VOMICA, and others
Dec 13, 2009 THe Lab, San Francisco, CA - NOON
INSTAGON
Dec. 18, 2009 - Luna Cafe, Sacramento, CA 8pm
Dec. 22, 2009 - El Rincon, San Francisco, CA 9pm (w/ Xome, & Rubber O Cement)
okay. that is plenty for you to chew on..
you may get this message a couple of times, as i am going to be spamming it out to all of my lists.. so if that happens.. please forgive us for the redundancy.. but we are really trying to raise funds for this domain issue.
thank you for your time and your continued support and interest in the art of Lob, Thee Instagon Foundation, and garage jazz music in general.
happy holidays.
Lob
Thee Instagon Foundation
* * * * *
well, lob... You know we here are in the same boat... But look for a little something in the mail.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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