don't miss this! [please note that i'm on friday night!]

I am excited about being involved in this!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore
http://www.eroplay.com
http://www.luver.com

POW! POW! Action Art festival 2009

2^nd annual mini performance art festival

Produced and curated by Alyssa Lee and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo

Featuring performance and installations by artists from around the world

October 15-18, 2009

The Climate Theater – 285 9^th Street San Francisco, CA 94103

8pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

$12 in advance, $15 at door - 4-day festival pass $30

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/77223

(SAN FRANCISCO – October 15-18, 2009) – POW! POW! ACTION Art festival 2009 is a 4 evening festival of new ACTION art works that will take place on Thursday October 15th, Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17^th, and Sunday October 18^th. Co-curated and produced by Alyssa Lee of group A and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo, POW! POW! displays “cutting-edgy” work of performers and artists from the Bay Area, New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Canada, and Germany.

" The ultimate artists response to the economic melt down…A tax payer/GOP friendly festival. No one penny of tax money ever used to produce it". –POW! POW!

Translation = " Real freedom of expression. No strings attached."

One of the few uncensored festivals in the US, POW! POW! is presented as a response to the ways in which the art scene is managed in the Bay Area and the United States and to the bailout of “too big to fail” arts organizations. Artists have been forced to follow certain aesthetics in order to have their work presented in a gallery or a festival and obligated to create a specific type of work that follows the fiscal sponsor's agenda. Thus, the sponsor gets either to censor the artist or to adapt the art to fit the organization’s specific agenda. The curators of POW! POW! devised a festival where the artist is encouraged to present work without restrictions.

The previous year’s festival, POW! 2008 mini performance art festival was a huge success, generating excitement for performance art and for uncensored expression from artists. This year’s POW! POW! has quadrupled in size and will be even more shocking!

Among many outrageous artists, POW! POW! 2009 will feature daring and controversial performers such as Frank Moore, Keith Hennessey, Michael Namkung, and many others. The content of these shameless pieces are all over the map, ranging from works about volcanic eruptions, underwater explorations of performative hygiene, photographs of souls, wearable art pieces, first dates, electro-mechanical soft sculptures, absurdist hip hop performances, art critiques, interactive video installations, Japanese-American Internment camps, and the ironic and sometimes brutal ideals we teach our children that we consider acceptable.

For more information visit www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival

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POW! POW! PROGRAM INFORMATION

THURSDAY NIGHT

Alyssa Lee + gal*in_dog

Anna Martine whitehead

Artist

Greg Crane

Joshua Kit Clayton

Kagel Kater + Hairspray (The Pony)

Kingsley September Irons

Michael Namkung

Nora Raggio

Shawn Feeney

FRIDAY NIGHT

Frank Moore

gal*in_dog

Green Hemoglobin

Greg Crane

Nora Raggio

Tina Takemoto

SATURDAY NIGHT – PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS

Bo Choi (Fiber Artist)

Corner Liquor Store

Erika Hannes

Gina Clark

Greg Crane

Keith Hennessey/ Zero Performance

Marita Bullman

Michele Beck

Nicole Zvarick

Nora Raggio

Rebecca Anne Wilson

Sheryl Anne Simpson (I + an audience)

your name here

SUNDAY NIGHT

Alyssa Lee and George Alley

Greg Crane

Holly Furgason

J. Robert Reed

Maria Legault

MOM

Nora Raggio

Sheryl-Ann Simpson

Suki Tawdry

MISSION STATEMENT

POW! was founded by Kattt Atchley (formerly Kattt Sammon), Alyssa Lee, and gal*in_dog to promote action art. The first POW! was held in March 2008 in San Francisco. The festival was formerly called POW! mini performance art festival, but over time it became clear that what this festival aims to do is to produce and present ACTION art, so the curators/directors changed the name of the festival to POW! ACTION art festival. Each year the curators will add a POW! to the name, hopefully making the 10^th POW! ACTION art festival read as POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! ACTION art festival. Or, POW! to the 10^th power ACTION art festival.

The POW! POW! festival is not only original in its aesthetics but also in its grass roots community organized model, which is very different from the top down model that has been applied to the arts through Art Organizations over the last 20 years. POW! POW! Is a viable alternative to other conventional performance art festivals and venues. POW! POW! is an invitation to play and experiment new and controversial ideas in front of an audience. The festival is a long time project that creates a community establishing partnerships between artists who believe their performance art doesn’t belong to any pre-established categories.

LUVeR at the El Cerrito, July 4th Fair

BEAUTIFUL!

http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/elcerrito2009/index.html

Re: FRANK MOORE - POW WOW

POW POW (no pow no wow)
congrats!
tomek

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ah yes! And thanks to you, Tomek! And i will need you!

Hey, I got this on the day I pulled out of the point reyes festival because of new age yuppie sleaze greed [!] and the day after I learned there won't be HOW BERKELEY CAN YOU BE PARADE! our summer just radically changed!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

no how berkeley can you be fest this year : (

Dear Frank,

I don't know if Corey mentioned it to you all, but there was a letter in the Berkeley Daily Planet from one of the co-founders of the How Berkeley Can You Be fest and he said that due to financial considerations, there would be no festival this year. I'd love to see an anarchistic version of the thing happen... no permits, no authorization, just a bunch of weird people dressing up and having a giant party. Just converge like a flash mob and take over some city park! Of course, I am not the person to organize such an effort, I'm just spouting off here... any ideas?

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yes, I sent it out yesterday. On the surface level it is about the bad economy. But in reality they don't want the people [our kind of people] to gather together. That was the feeling even last year. You could feel it was the last parade. Everything was in a lower key.

Actually i did two "FANTASY COSTUME PARADES" in the mid- seventies which were the model of HOW BERKELEY CAN YOU BE. We started in PEOPLE'S PARK [or actually the park above it] and ended in HO MINH [CIVIC] PARK with big free concerts. A lot of nudity, see-through colorful costumes, body paint and glitter. But you need a few months to set it up. Also that was back in the time when the City supported such actions. So we could get permits.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

The How Berkeley Can You Be festival is not happening this year ...

(the boyz wrote:)

Capt. Fred told us about this letter today when we were over there:

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-07-09/article/33302?headline=Letters-to-the-Editor

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too bad! It was going to be our finale of the summer!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

and, obama, watch out! people who wear your t-shirts are asking me to run again!

For the second year we spent the Fourth at the El Cerrito July Fourth Festival. Last year it was one of our favorites, reminding us of Berkeley of years past. This year the volume of people was much less and somewhat older. This probably hurt the booths that sold things. But we were there for the contract with people, making deep connections with people. And in that, we hit a rich vein… As you will see below!

DA BOYZ:

We were pulling into the Vista park lot at 7:15 ... there were a smattering of people there setting up booths ... a lot of festival workers setting up the stages in the park, and City of El Cerrito people ... We had a lot of room to unload and get situated!

We got to setting up the tent ... we almost had it down to a science now, after doing so many festivals! It was a lot of fun. Soon, the NRA guy was there, setting up his tent ... more and more people were showing up ... the NRA guy said, "God must have a sense of humor", that he put us next to him. He said they were not "politically correct". We said we're not either! Early on we were starting to wish we had requested the coffees for earlier! But it was fine ... we had said 8:30 so that we would be able to take a break at that point, and wouldn't be kicking the coffees over, etc.! Erika was there at 8:30, with the coffees, then came back with the cookies and flowers. It felt like she was very excited and happy to be able to connect with all of us again ... she asked if there was anything she could do to help us set up, but at that point, there wasn't much, and it would be easier for us to do it ... we thanked her for the coffees and were saying we were ready for a cookie too! Erika felt really happy to be there.

We finished setting up, all took bathroom breaks, and were ready by about 9:45 or so ... there were a few people coming by that early ... we had more of our coffee and sampled the cookies!

People started coming by ... a lot of people mentioned the "karmic" perfection of the LUVeR booth's placement there at the festival ... right between the NRA and the El Cerrito Republican Party! We were saying whoever did the booth layout was having a good time. Right across from the Republicans, they put the Democratic party! We were handing out luver fliers, telling people about Frank, about his show on BTV ... about "Reality Playings", and sometimes we got as far as to mention what was happening at BTV, and how we were asking people to call in ... People just loved the booth, and loved our "costumes"! There were a few who were hoping Mikee's panels were for sale! We gave them Mikee's card ... The guy who owns 1000 rock'n'roll 78s came by the booth, and expressed interest in being a DJ. A blues and jazz singer came by with her husband, a photographer ... We checked out the booth that was setting up late next to the NRA ... it was the music shop owner, setting out all kinds of horns and other instruments ... we ended up getting those yard doodly dads from him too ...

Then you guys were there, and Corey came down to the LUVeRmobile to help bring stuff up to the festival. Soon Frank was in position! Of course, everything shifts when Frank is there ... so much fun! Right away, an older black woman came behind the tables to hug Frank, and was telling Frank and Linda that she had just started taking guitar lessons ... Linda described how Frank plays piano!

There were all kinds of people who came by the booth, and Linda would describe why Frank started LUVeR ... and sometimes tell them about his BTV show, and what was happening there ... A woman who was there as part of a booth for a candidate for Congress, who had come by earlier, really loving the booth, came by again and talked with Frank, and was there several more times that day, really enjoying Frank, and talking more, hearing more about Frank's history ... she loved that Frank had been investigated by Jesse Helms, and said she felt like a "slacker" hearing about all that Frank does! She was really on the same page with Frank, and would be getting together with him ... at the end of the day, we found one copy of Frank's presidential platform to show her, and she loved it! Throughout the day, Frank's run for president last year came up again and again, and we realized we should have the FM4Prez stuff available ... people were still hungry for real ideas to change the way things were going ... Obama's shine had worn off ...

You all went across the way, and Linda found the beautiful purple dress at the African clothing booth there, and later Jen and Mikee brought cookies over for the woman in the booth there ... her dog was excited about them too!

Then there was the Indian girl who came by and said that we were "down to earth", like her! Later, when the two of us went to get coffee, she was there too, and was asking more about what our booth was about ... we told her about LUVeR, about Frank ... she liked it. She had just opened an indian restaurant in Richmond, and was looking at more ways of connecting with the community ... she wanted to have live music there, etc. We told her that Frank often does long jams with musicians who have never played with each other before, and they just start playing ... She was interested! Corey got her info, and that's when he dumped his coffee all down the front of the brand new "Hot Wax" shirt! Later, when we were packing up, she came over and offered us food from her restaurant booth ... amazing tandoori chicken and chickpeas and rice ... She said something along the lines of that of all the booths there, she had really only felt a connection with ours ... she said she looks for people who "understand life" and "respect nature" ... and felt like we were this ... like her ... We were blown away! There were several people throughout the afternoon who expressed similar things ... While it wasn't at busy as the year before, it did pick up at the late end of the day, and the connections were really amazing.

A Brazilian woman stopped by at the end of the day and invited Frank to have the booth at her Brazilian festival the next week. She again really liked the feeling of what we were doing ... And then there was the guy who stopped by at the end of the day, a former member of the BTV board of directors who said, flat out, that what they were doing now at BTV was illegal! He described how hard it was for him when he was doing stuff at BTV to do anything, how the board made things difficult, and how much of a hard time they had with Frank's shows ... it sounded like he was there right before or possibly during the time of the first BTV censorship battle, when they tried to move "adult" shows into the wee hours of the night. Amazing .... And we had it all on tape!

We were packing up around 6pm ... a lot of people had already started packing up earlier ... it was always an amazing transformation from the space into the booth and out again ... leaving a bare parking lot again. Next time, we would be documenting the process ... so it wasn't just pictures of us sitting at the booth, saying that we were somewhere new!


JEN:

It was a short ride to El Cerrito. We passed the theatre Alexi had worked on the lights for, and then we entered a parking lot where all the booths were being set up. We emptied the truck and then Corey parked it. The canopy went up. Then the backdrops were hung. Little decorations were placed and the tables started to get set up when we all started to feel the effects of no coffee. Pretty soon Erika was walking towards us with what we sorely needed, espresso drinks from Roma! She was excited to be helping us out and that felt good. She went back to the car to get the flowers and cookies. Lots of cookies! All organic and whole wheat, sweetened with maple syrup. The flowers were organic too. She asked if she could help with the set up but we only had fussing over the tables left to do, so we told her we were ok at this point. She headed off.

The set up for the booth is getting easier and quicker. Little things change every time but that is fun, and we fussed over where everything went on the tables so that it all looked really good and accessible. Our booth is so much color and content! The booth next to us was the NRA and they were accommodating right from the start leaving a lot of room beside us so that Frank could get in and out. The guy who was first there said that god had a sense of humor to put us beside each other, and then he said that their organization wasn't very politically correct. I said that we weren't very politically correct either. To the other side of us was the Republican Party and their set up was a little table with an umbrella, so we had plenty of room to get around.

The festival started and we cracked into the cookies right away. They were good! People were trickling in and we were handing out flyers. The first people to come by seemed to be people who were also involved in some booth, like the women from the Democratic Party booth, and the Mahr Baba group across from us. At one point Steve Taylor, who is booked for an upcoming Shaman's Den, came up to the booth and asked if he would be able to get a copy of the show to edit, and Corey told him that he would. Other people got a cd and gave the thumbs up to the booth, the colors, and the fact that Luver is anti-corporate no limits online radio. There was a guy who said that he had a thousand 78's and 45's dating back to the 1940's and we told him about Luver copying record collections and playing them, then burning the records to disc before returning them. The guy said it sounded good and took our contact information. There were a couple of musicians who were also given contact info so that they could send in their stuff. We told people about Frank starting the station 10 years ago and hosting the show The Shaman's Den. People loved to hear that. We waited to hear from you to see when you would be arriving. Many people were told that you would be here a little later so they should drop back in to say hi.

Alexi was hungry and was the first to dig into the sandwiches. It was gone in no time. A little later on Corey and I had ours too. There was the smell of food everywhere. Lots of families too but the crowd never got very big. Pretty soon we heard from you and then you arrived and Frank's presence started to suck people in right away. Many people came up and got the rap about how Frank started Luver 10 years ago when he couldn't find any good music on the radio, so he started his own internet station and when people sent in their music he realized there was good music to be heard, it just wasn't being played on mainstream radio. Lots of people get the anti-corporate anti-censorship thing. They love it. One couple asked what would be the one focus of the station and Frank said 'freedom!'. They got it and loved it. There was an older guy who said that he was all about exploring the edges and beyond too! A woman who was at a booth for a guy running for Congress came up and she got really excited when she met Frank. She had been by before and loved the booth and what Luver stood for in terms of being free radio. She lit up when she met Frank and talked with him about his artwork and what he does. She was amazed! She kept blowing us kisses and saying she was so glad she met us. Frank eventually asked her if they could get together to talk so contact information was exchanged. There were several women and men who wanted to touch Frank. One black woman came around into the booth to put her arms around him and rub his head as she found out about what Luver is. She said she was just learning the guitar. When she heard that Frank played the piano, it inspired her to keep going with the guitar even though she found it difficult.

The day was filled with music as we had luver playing on the ipod, but there was also a guy who owned a music store who had a booth on the other side of the NRA. He had a drum set as well as various horns set up for people to play. Before Frank Linda and Mikee arrived he was playing one of the horns as a young guy played the drums. There was a funky beat and then he would play something like Somewhere Over the Rainbow to it. What a mix! Little by little people kept coming up and jamming with him until by the end of the day there was a full fledged jam going on with many people sitting in a circle playing instruments. Frank gave him a flyer for the next Temescal performance and told him about the music jams there. He also invited the guy to be on the Shaman's Den because the guy was talking about the music being for the kids to learn, play and have fun. Another girl who got a luver flyer said that we were down to earth like her. Later when the boyz went to go get coffee, she told them that she was opening a cafe and wanted artists and musicians to come and play there. She thought Frank would be perfect so again, info was exchanged. The boyz told her about the music jams that Frank organizes and she said that sounded great. At the end of the day when we were packing up, she came by and gave us some free Indian food from the booth she was working at. She said that she could feel from us that we understood life and respected nature and she really enjoyed that. Another woman came up to the booth and found out about Luver, then handed us some information about a Brazilian festival happening soon just down the street and invited us to participate. She said that it was the booth and our energy that was from another planet, another level. It was such a great day!

When we started nearing the end of the day, a guy who had worked on the BCM board came up to the booth. We told him about Frank's show on BTV and he went on to say that when he was on the board, all they could do was talk about how they wanted Frank off the air. The guy said he tried to put the experience out of his memory because it was so horrible, but he said that they always talked about Frank as something they didn't want to deal with. Frank told him the fight that was going on right now with them about the new content rules. Right away the guy could see that what BCM is doing is blatantly illegal. He said that this fight could turn into something big and Frank said that we have a lawyer looking into it right now. Many people heard about the fight with BCM, and another woman said that it was time for the people with money to finally stand up for something.

We also realized today the relevance of Frank's platform and how it continues to inspire people, so we plan on having more on hand to give out. People are already losing hope in Obama, just like Frank warned during the election. Every time Frank asked someone what they thought of him, they would say that he wasn't doing enough. People are still looking for the things Frank proposes.

Even though it wasn't a very busy festival, and the paths were wide enough so that everyone kept walking in the middle of them making it easy to pass us by instead of checking us out, we/Frank/Luver still turned a lot of people on. It was a very satisfying day. Linda got a slinky dress to wear around the house and Corey got a couple of good hours of video. Pretty soon we were packing up and heading out.


In Freedom,
Frank Moore

COME ON BY

We are having the LUVeR Booth Saturday at...

Saturday, July 4th, 2009
El Cerrito July 4 Celebration/Eleventh Annual World Music and Dance Festival
Stage (10am-7pm)
Cerrito Vista Park
950 Pomona Ave. (at Moeser Ln.)

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: the haight street fair...and my novel

Hi Frankie,

Thank you for this.

Let me know if you like to talk about Kittee and his condition.

My last cat Deluxe outlived the expectations of the DVM's for over 2 years with alternative intervention.

Heaps and heaps of hugs to everyone,

xo Pablo

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today Kittee has improved wonderfully!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

the haight street fair...and my novel

Well, I do not usually miss our performances/events. But Kittee, our Siamese cat, got sick fast the night before the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair. So Linda, Mikee, and I stayed home to take care of him… Letting Jen, Alexi and Corey man the LUVER Booth. So I spent the day writing my novel!

DA BOYZ:
After we had the beautiful booth set up, Jen and Alexi headed out to search out coffee and treats, and Corey stayed to watch the booth and finish putting the streamers up around the front legs ... They came back with mochas and a scone for Jen. We split a Phoenix choc. chip cookie Jen had brought home. The mochas were great! We would remember this place for next time. Alexi also got us some "real" food ... we split a breakfast burrito and a spinach feta pie ...

Then people started strolling through the fair, light traffic at first, but soon very much packed ... beyond anything we have seen up to now! At the peak of the attendance, it was a wall of people moving past the booth, and people had a hard time stopping even if they wanted to. But nonetheless we were getting fliers to lots of people! We kept evolving our little rap throughout the day ... people really liked hearing "anti-corporate" "anti-capitalist" "no limits" "no censorship"!

But early on, you called and we found out that it did not look good for you guys to come because Kittee was not doing well ... Alexi relayed that he was exhibiting signs like Cyb before she died ... was having trouble walking ... it made us cry. Poor Kittee ... We were bummed too that you guys would not be there, which you confirmed later. We kicked it into high gear! But of course, throughout the day, we couldn't help thinking of how much fun Frank would have had with all the people coming by ... he would have had a field day, really worked the crowds, not to mention all the babes!!

It was really fun to outfit our red, white & blue cowboy hats with the LUVeR fliers! We were cute! The booth looked amazing ... And like at every event, you felt like people really responded to the vibe of LUVeR ... coming through everything ... the backdrops, the text of the laminated sign, which a lot of people would just stop and read ... what we were saying ... everything ... A lot of people said the booth "felt good", that it was good vibes ... that it was the most beautiful booth, best hats, etc.! Throughout the day, a lot of musicians came by, and were totally thrilled to have an outlet for their music, and also at the possibility of being on Frank's show! The CDs again were a major hit. We just wished we had more!! But even when it was down to Happy Turtle, Bell the Cat and Skip Skiffington, it was still fun describing the selection to each new person who stopped by ... people got a real kick out of hearing about Rod Weston's mythology of Skip Skiffington, born out of a basement in Missouri ... and a collector's item to boot! The loquats were a big hit too, and it meant a lot to people to hear that it came from our own tree in Berkeley ... the whole day was like this ... really personal, even though in a sea of people rushing by ... Also, a lot of people took the performance fliers and were turned on by them ... there were a good number of people who actually lived in Oakland, knew about the space, and were interested in coming ... Then there were people like NSide, a jazz poet, and Kara from Sarathan Records, the label for Two Loons for Tea, who already knew about LUVeR, and were jazzed to see us there at the festival. NSide said that Frank had even invited him to attend a Temescal performance, and he might "see us there!"

It was always neat too how many different kinds of people came by the booth, all ages, all walks of life ... all different interests ... and it felt like there was something at the booth for everyone! And people were really generous with donations!

Time slipped away! And it was demanding! We ran out of all of the fliers! We needed more coffee! Alexi made a coffee run in the later part of the day, and we were renewed! At some point, we also had lunch ... sausage sandwiches and a spinach potato knish, which were all pretty good ... Fair food .... Jen had a chicken shawerma ...

Then the fair people were coming by and telling us we needed to start packing up! The fair was over at 5:30pm on the dot! But people were still coming by, lots of people, and wanting to find out about LUVeR, etc. We were talking to people and giving away the very last of fliers even as we were packing things up ... Another whole level of the day was the people coming by on the sidewalk behind the booth, which we had not interaction with ... but we could hear them from time to time, reacting to the "B" side of Mikee's backdrop, the farting woman with the eye in her pussy! At the end of the day, there was another group out back, two girls and a guy giggling, and looking at the free stuff ... they really weren't sure what was going on with that woman!!?? They were curious to see the other side. Corey gave them all fliers for the performance, saying that the backdrops were always hung at the performances ... when they peeked around, they liked the other side too ... the guy just stood there with his mouth open, saying, "Whoa ... whoa ...."

So we packed everything up ... had to unearth the stinky cesspools, which seemed to have grown during the day! We were getting good at packing everything up really quickly and well organized! Soon we had it all piled on the sidewalk, and Corey ran up to get the truck, and we were loading it up, wiping down with handiwipes, and heading out!

We talked about the fair on the ride back ... it felt like it was still happening ... it was a surreal after glow ... still riding along on the experience as we drove home. Back here, we unloaded the truck, gave Cookie lots of love! Then before long we were coming down to the PH to hear the latest chapters of Frank/Aurora's book. Amazing ... all these things woven together nonlinearly ... Frank's biography, descriptions of intimacy and philosophy, bits and pieces from our everyday life, and goofy jumps into unexpected places ... describing something that you couldn't wrap your mind around, that more sort of enveloped you ... and then for a while it would get very concrete, and very deep, and all of those things that were jumping around would resonate ... it was like a performance, or like Mikee's art ... interconnecting, hitting you on deep levels .... putting you into a trance ... funny!

Then we told you guys some about the day, and heard about how it had gone with Kittee from the night before ... We had missed you, but you had no choice .

JEN:
The boyz plan on how to put up the banners better worked really well. We used heavy duty clamps and zip ties. They went up fast without any problems. Then we got the LUVeR banner up. Next came the decorations and the front table set up. Everything looked so good when we got it out. Did some fun stuff like put the Chapped Lap's in a hanging basket. Had the great pic of Frank Spins Hot Wax too. The large big banner for the back went up last. The boyz had prepared it by rolling it up the night before. We were so glad that we had gotten there early because it was tough for the latecomers as space on the street was now limited and trucks were squeezing by. Once we got the booth set up, Alexi and I went to go get mochas and something to eat. There was a small cafe on Cole St. that served pastries. I had a scone and the boyz shared a whole wheat organic breakfast burrito and a spinach turnover. We got back to the booth and started handing out flyers to the people that were already walking up the street. The fair officially started and the crowd increased quickly.

So many people! We were handing out a lot of flyers and people were taking the cds, buttons, stickers. It was a lot of fun! A spoken work poet stopped by and said that he sent us his stuff. Corey knew it! He was glad to see us. There was a also a girl that worked for a recording label who knew us because one of their bands, Two Loons For Tea, was on The Shaman's Den. And at another point a guy came by who said he knew about Frank. He said he's always wanted to know what goes on in Frank's mind because Frank is brilliant. Other people got the Fiesto cards to send their music in. There were film makers and djs, all of whom we told about starting a show on LUVeR. People loved the booth, the great murals, the colours. We gave out Mikee's cards telling the ones that wanted to buy the murals that Mikee does commissions. We handed out performance flyers to locals, and a few lived in Oakland and knew where the Temescal Arts Center was. We told them it was in danger of closing due to the noise complaints and they all rolled their eyes saying that was lame. There were people who stopped by from Florida, New York, and a few from Southern Ontario. All could listen to LUVeR when they went back home!

Alexi went out to scope for food. Corey reminded me that we had snacks so I started to scarf down the trail mix until we got something a little more substantial - but it was just fare food. We cried when we heard about Kittee's health and that Frank, Linda and Mikee couldn't leave. Frank would have worked this immense crowd. He would have had a field day! It was turning into a wall of people!! At one point the people almost became a solid mass herding by. Few stopped because they were just being carried with the crowd. We handed out so many flyers because all most could do was stick out their hand to take it. Some people did stop though. We handed out a lot of The Magical Act of Doing to people who were hungry for more. Many people who stopped got what we were doing. They said keep going! One couple stopped and said that there was a great vibe to the booth. Another girl stopped by who said we had the best booth, the best costumes (we had the cowboy hats and luver tees on), and the best snacks! The loquats were going just as fast as the chocolate. Pretty soon we were out of buttons and stickers. We were down to just Happy Turtle and Skip Skiffington cds. We were folding up the large LUVeR flyers because the small ones were all gone, and people seemed reluctant to take the bigger ones. We had put the donation basket beside the free cds and there were a lot more bills being dropped in there! There were a lot of musicians that started showing up as well and then signed the contact sheets and said they would love to be on the Shaman's Den.

What a day!! We couldn't believe how many people there were. At one point I took a short walk around. There was nothing particularly eye catching. Lots of food vendors and some of the same stuff you see at all the fairs like t-shirts, fake tattoos, leather purses etc. Down from us was a bootleg cd stall and they were playing music all day that we could hear. On the other side of us was a car repair stall that advertised showing you how to fix your own car. It was one of the more interesting things there. The guys who set it up were a little gruff at first telling us that we were slightly over the line and they would need all the space available, but everything worked out in the end and one of them warmed up to us right away, while the other guy came around at the last minute and apologized for earlier. We had a great time! People were coming up to the booth at the last minute and we even had to take some of the flyers off of the bows that were decorating the booth because we had run out of them. Our load was lighter as we packed up.

It seemed to end pretty abruptly. The organizers went around telling everyone that it was over and to start leaving. The thick crowd dispersed and then it was trickles of people. The locals started to gather together. Once we got everything packed up and onto the sidewalk again, we had to tackle the mess over the sewer. We put the plastic tarps into a couple of bags and then Alexi gathered up all the soaked paper. We thought at the beginning of the day that we would need incense to get rid of the smell, but it didn't bother us all day because the fair smells took over - popcorn, grilling chicken etc. But once it was over, the old Haight smell was coming back. Corey got the truck and we loaded up keeping a close eye on everything. It was a quick drive back to the city talking about all the amazing things that happened today. We were blown away.

We got unloaded here and then came down to hear Frank's writing for the day. It was the nonlinear novel, several chapters. It wove in and out of our consciousness. Feels like a dream to hear/read it. Bits of Frank’s life, of his writings, emails, experiences, all dancing together, bobbing up from the whole and then melting back in again. Some parts just make you laugh! Some parts become linear for a second and then are off again, into the tangle of images and expressions. Listening is letting go into it, surrendering to it, because you can't hang onto any one thing or you will miss the next. We loved it. Then we told you about our day. Was unthinkable that you weren't there, but you had to stay home because who knows what Kittee is going through. He may have been much worse had you left him. We were all starving so we came back to the bh and everyone got dinner ready.


In Freedom,
Frank Moore

photos of the LUVER crew at the TEMESCAL STREET FAIR!

http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/temescalstreetfair2009/index.html

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Street Fair Edition

Dear Readers,

In this issue we'll be covering the Haight Street Fair on Sunday the 14th of June which is an especially momentous occasion.

Why? Because it's not a remembrance of things past, it's not what's left over after a hot Saturday night, it's not Indian Summer in place of true Spring, it's the real thing walking down Haight Street with flowers in her hair, .

Many people think that the Hippy Era has come and gone, many people're filled with nostalgia, sentimentality, remorse, and sadness, feeling that that time has past and will never be again. . .

But what if the 60's were just the dress rehearsal? What if they were just the warm up, the prelude, the opening symphony to the real start of the New Age which is to come in the year 2012 when the Mayan calendar ends?. .

What if nobody blew it at all, and all the trials and tribulations were the tough schooling we all got for taking the trip and for purchasing a ticket to life in the first place?

The year 2012 is “the end” of the Mayan calendar.

“The End”, the point, the purpose of it all, when everyone 'gets it', and the New Age starts.

Many people thought and hoped that some great change would come in or around the year 2000, but it hasn't come yet, and despite the W.W.W. and the Technocrats taking everybody's money away to invest it in as 'far off' places as possible – it's not the light of the new that everyone had hoped would bring refreshment and respite.

The Water Bearer hasn't yet arrived on the scene. . .

The reason that the Earth is in such a sorry, polluted, messed up and manipulated state is – no one's fault at all.

The reason that there are wars, wars, and rumors of wars is – no one's fault at all.

The reason for the shape that the Earth is in at this very moment is that people do not live here and have never had the hope of living here.

You can't blame people for the way they treat a place if they don't live there, if it's not their's, if it can never be their's, and if it's not their ultimate home.

It's time for the New Age to start and for the old cycle to end. It's time to roll away the dew, the mist, and the wall of fog.

Like the Judgment Card in the Tarot deck, a horn blows and a man, a woman, and a child arise from the coffins they've been laying in and rise with their arms outstretched.

The start of the New Age is: That for the first time in human history people will be able to live here in their physical bodies and maintain them without dying.

The Mayan calendar ends at that point, in 'the year of physical immortality'.

The end of the Mayan calendar is the beginning of the New Age and the end of the Old Age of Pisces and Jesus and “the highest love” being proclaimed self-sacrifice.

Those perceiving doom and destruction for the year 2012 just happen to have a different view of “the end” than some others, and it just may be the end for them if they'd been planning on spending billions of dollars of tax payer's money on life in outer space and technology not having anything to do with taking care of this planet and being human.

It doesn't seem that Mr. God is going to let us sluggards get away with fucking up the whole planet and then like the pigs we are just move on to new virgin territory somewhere else. . .

The following story was written by Summer Dawn, a true initiate of the Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico.

There he learned to write and to etch things in stone that last for a very long time.

To some, he's known as 'The Tenant', a Carlos Castanedian term meant to signify one who's lived here on the earth in his physical body for many hundreds of year.

To others, he's known as The Cosmic Fool, the Fool in the Tarot deck, a fool on another level than most people normally associate with the term “Fool”, somewhat in the mode that the wise man Socrates said 'he knew nothing”, He has some kind of special knack for starting all over again and being a beginner just as his beard is turning gray. He also has the ability to forgive people their idocy, so that they can evolve.

To others, he's known as Joe Hill, the man who never died.

And whatever it is in all of us that has never died – better get it's ass down to the fair this year!

Roy Holtzman
Editor of the Haight Ashbury Free Press

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(6/12/09)

We will be out there in the LUVER Booth! Come by!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Temescal summer festival

For a lot of years I did street performances where I sat on street corners. It looked like I was panhandling. Panhandling was an aspect of those performances. But at the core, I was making myself available to any possibilities that the human waves would wash my way. Actually I have been doing this all my life… Sitting, waiting, ready to jam with anyone who came by, stopped, and got sucked in. Having a booth at these summer festivals has taken this to a whole new level! Six hours of human waves connecting, inspiring, opening up possibilities. It was non stop! I won’t try to go into detail [see below]. But it was pure core!

DA BOYZ:

We were all ready shortly before noon, but people were already checking out the scene by around 11 or so ... Our first visitors were these three kids, probably around 10-12 ... they were starting to load up on CDs, and we had to lay down the law! One per! They were really cute. They had a hard time deciding on which CDs they wanted to take. But the youngest, a girl, really liked the title of the one she got: "The Happy Turtle".

Then there was a scattering of visitors to the booth ... Sam Sheats from Savante Garde came by ... other musicians and artists ... Stefan came by ... we were soon starving for lunch! Jen went to get the fried chicken sandwiches from Bakesale Betty's, which Stefan had raved about, and we had heard all sorts of rave reviews of ... They were just "ok". We were talking about how we would make them!

Then finally you guys arrived, and Frank got right up in front behind the table, ready for action! The rest of the day was a steady flow of people to the colorful, fun booth that was like a magnet for people ... it was really neat the wide variety of people that were there at the Fair ... It was amazing also how many musicians, artists, bands showed up at the booth, and Frank's Shaman's Den schedule filled up! It is always fun to be with Frank, Linda & Mikee interacting with folks ... Frank always has the line! It was neat too how Frank was communicating to people that the Temescal Arts Center was threatened ... a lot of people knew about the Center. It has been a fixture there for years, and it seemed like most people get the dynamics at play ... a yuppie condo opening up across the street from an artists space ... It was also amazing to hear how inspiring, in a lot of different ways, that LUVeR and Frank are to people. How people "get it"! The young guy who came by and said that he tells his fellow artists/friends about Frank as an example of how they should not be discouraged from doing whatever they want to do ... the young black woman, an artist inspired by Frank's paintings ... There were so many moments like this that just piled one on top of the other ... overlapping! You could feel that the booth really filled a need. It wasn't trying to sell anyone anything ... Frank was just there to connect with people ... and you could walk away with a CD and other free stuff, and a sense of possibilities! Really really amazing ... And it was really fun how much kids loved the booth too ...

At the point when Linda turned to us and asked if we wanted to take a walk around and check out the other booths in the fair was right when we were starting to talk about needing some medicinal assistance to aid us in making it through the rest of the day. The nights of short sleep, and the firewood delivery were taking their toll!! Alexi mentioned the Scharfenberger dark chocolate mocha "freddo" "extra bold" that they had at Peet's, which seemed like it was just what the doctor ordered ... We made that our first stop, and then toured the fair. It was really fun to people watch, and there were a few neat booths ... but we wanted to get back to where the action was! We had heard a guy who stopped by from a local band mention that they had played at a space called Smokey's Tangle, which actually had a booth right down from ours, and so we stopped in and talked to them, found out that they are an art gallery, but also do music events ... Later, the guy from the Tangle came by the LUVeR booth, and had a good time discussing with Tomek how to handle the people in the condo who were making noise complaints about the Temescal Arts Center. Tomek suggested that they could be sedated daily!

One young guy stopped by and said that the booth was what he had been looking for all day at the Fair, and he finally found it! It felt like a lot of folks had that experience ... Altering reality!

It was hard to break it down, as always, at the end of the fair. We didn't really start until a quarter after 6, after the fair had officially ended, and only then really because there was a flood threatening all the stuff from the gutter! People were still coming by, and picking up fliers and talking to Frank ... And all day, people were sifting through the free boxes at the back side of the booth, where they also got to see the backside of Mikee's backdrop, where the farting naked lady was on full display. We heard comments throughout the day from back there!


JEN:

We got the tables set up and all the swag laid out. Decorations and t-shirts went up and the booth looked great! So fun and colourful. Corey set up the camera and we were all set. People had already been coming up and getting cds. We handed out a lot of luver flyers, and also told people about the weekly performance series, handing out those flyers as well. Stephan came by a couple of times. He raved about the fried chicken sandwiches at Bakesale Betty's. Also talked about how he got poison oak recently. He was having a good time. So were we! The people watching was so much fun! Telling people about the cds and everything.

When we got hungry I went to Bakesale Betty's to get us 3 of the chicken sandwiches. The line up was huge but moving quickly. They were really pumping out the sandwiches. When we ate them at the booth, they were ok but nothing spectacular. I walked back and saw some neat things, but nothing that really made me want to stop and take a closer look except for some colourful handmade hoodies. I saw our booth among all the others and it really stood out. The festival was packed and we were handing out a lot of flyers. Many of the cds were gone already. We had plenty of Bell the Cat, Happy Turtle and Sons of Skip left though. You guys arrived and Frank sat right up front.

The next few hours were really amazing with all the people that came up and saw what we were doing. Was cool to see what caught their eye on the tables. A lot of people were attracted to the sign. They would walk by slowly checking it out or stop and take a closer look, and then when Linda waved a flyer at them they came over! They really wanted to. When we told them Frank started the station 10 years ago they would smile at him and thank him. It was really great! Non stop. There were a lot of musicians who were possible Shaman's Den guests. One guy said that he was waiting for us, that this was what he wanted at the festival when up until now all he saw were clothes for sale. People loved getting the free stuff. One girl from Ohio said that she would spread the word because people there were hungry for this kind of thing. LUVeR is so great because anyone can tune in from anywhere, so even though we're local, people who are not local can still experience it when they get home! It is such a great channel. I love being a part of this, and this comes out of us being together. It is really incredible. And people get that. They feel that and they love it too. So many people thanked Frank for doing what he's doing. And he does a lot! There's luver, but then there's also the performances, the poetry, the writing, the painting, the Shaman's Den, the jams... Blows people's minds! We had a great time!!

Tomek had come by several times. Was great when he was there talking to another musician who we gave a performance flyer to. At the end of the day he talked to Frank and Linda about another performance that Frank could be a part of. Many people knew about the harassment Temescal Arts Center was getting with noise complaints from the condo, and a couple of those people said that they would bring it up to certain people or at certain meetings. Someone also said they heard about what was going on at BTV. We got a couple of cds from musicians already, and many others said that they would send their stuff in. Some djs were told about doing a show for Luver so it would be great if they followed up on that. Around 6 the crowds started to dwindle. It was time to pack up. Just in time too, as the drain in the sidewalk behind us started to drain water into our booth. We got everything down and put away.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

photo from Sunday

Hi Frank and friends -- One of the photos that I snapped of you on
Sunday turned out pretty well, so I'm enclosing it here in case you want it. You all were a nice presence at the celebration. Some other photos from Sunday are here: http://bapd.org/park40.html

-- Ken Cheetham

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ken, what a beautiful photo! It captured the feeling of the day... As do your other photos.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

people's park

On Sunday we started Luver’s summer of festivals by having a “cave “[table] at the 40th Anniversary of People's Park. Basically it was nonstop amazing six hours of relating with people! It really was an overwhelming tide of feedback of How what we are doing has a profound effect on so many people. Really it’s now a blur… Not really… But so dense and intense! Reading the poem on the main stage for the large crowd, backed by Shelley Doty and her band, felt like a breather from the human stream! Thank God I have Da Boyz and Jen to write more detailed reports of what went on. So read on!

DA BOYZ:

Soon we were off, stopping at the PH to pick up the boombox and the last two totes, and off we went! We were pulling up to People's Park not too long after 8am. It was just us and the People's Park regulars, watching us set up. We started unloading, and Jen went down to Peet's to get our coffees ... mochas all around! The first thing that happened, almost as soon as we started setting stuff down at the spot, was a big smear of dogshit on our plastic that we had put down to protect the stuff from the wet grass! We discovered landmines of dogshit everywhere! We moved operations over a ways, and covered the poop anytime we found a pocket with plastic and rocks!

Then we got started setting up the booth. Always fun. This was the first time with the backdrops, so it was a learning curve to figure out the best way to do it. Now we know for next time exactly how we'll do it. But in any case, it just looked beautiful with Mikee's colorful erotic flowing backdrop and panels ... created a really neat feeling in the booth ... we called it a cave! Especially when it got so cold!

And then it was noon, and people were already coming to the booth to check it out ... There was the guy who knew Frank and Linda from the Mabuhay days, and who noticed when the fliers went up for performances, and how quickly they got torn down, especially on Shattuck Ave. A guy wearing a 911-truth t-shirt came by and ended up giving LUVeR 2 of his CDs! He, like a lot of other people throughout the day, really seemed to appreciate what LUVeR did in being such an open channel ... People were really enjoying the booth, and really enjoying looking through and selecting the sample CDs that were out for free from bands that play on LUVeR. Every one of the CDs amazing! It was really fun to watch people selecting just the right thing for what they liked ... and often asking us to tell them more about the CDs ...

In comparison to what it was like the rest of the day, it was kind of mellow the first couple hours, but when Frank, Linda and Mikee arrived, it really got going! How can we remember everything that happened! Frank could barely get a sip of water in between talking with the waves and waves of people who came by the booth ... amazing interactions, and possibilities opening up ... It was amazing how many people watch Frank's shows on BTV, and we talked later about how incredible it was to hear, when Frank asked them what they thought, how they really saw what Frank is doing, how he is opening up possibilities, pushing the boundaries, altering reality ... using these very phrases! And a lot of folks remembered the presidential campaign too, which had made a stop at the park the year before. They loved that Frank had run, one guy said he wanted Frank to run again, and said that he would vote for him! Later, the black woman who had read Frank's platform the year before, cover to cover, totally engrossed, not saying a word at the end, but just giving Frank an intense look of approval and appreciation, ... came up to the table, and it was the first time we actually heard her voice, big and loud telling Frank how much she loved what he did, and checking in again now with LUVeR!

Before too long, it was coming up upon Frank's turn at the mic onstage ... Jen and Alexi manned the booth while Corey went down to video Frank. Frank got Shelley and her band to back him up while he read "That Goddamn Weed of Life", just the most perfect poem to capture what People's Park was all about, and it felt like everyone really got it deeply. There were murmurs and shouts of recognition throughout the poem. Shelley tore it up on guitar backing Frank! We found out later that she had asked Frank if he wanted her accompaniment to be "clean" or "dirty"? "Dirty", of course! She knew the answer already!

Wavy Gravy intro'd Frank, was doing most of the MC-ing throughout the day. After the poem ended, Corey heard a guy telling his friends in the crown about seeing a performance, with strobe lights, Frank, nude bodies, etc., on BTV ... pointing out that it was the same guy!

Frank was stopped several times just getting back to the booth by people who loved his poem, shaking his hand ... a poet told him that it was amazing, but no one really applauded. Frank said that was ok, he didn't like applause! There were tons of Shaman's Den interview possibilities that came out of the day, out of Frank just talking with all the folks who came up to the booth. It was so much fun ...

When Frank, Linda, MIkee and Jen went down to Peet's to go to the bathroom and get a coffee, who should walk up but Wavy Gravy, going on and on about the beauty of Mikee's backdrops, wondering who did those??? We told him ... He also needed his fish on the end of a harness repaired. He turned to Alexi! He had his intuition, obviously! Alexi fixed up the fish harness with some gorilla tape, and then who else should walk up but Country Joe MacDonald, and he and Wavy bantered about a movie that Wavy was recommending ... it was hilarious!! And Corey got it all on video! Wavy left what we called his turd instrument, because it seemed to have a turd in place of a bridge for its one string. He later pointed out that it was a real meteorite ... he said, "A turd from outer space."

When he came to get it, Frank hit him up, yet again, to be a guest on the Shaman's Den. He said that Mrs. Gravy did not approve ... she said she didn't think it was a good idea for someone running a children's camp, to be on a show where Frank's weenie was hanging out! Frank and Linda explained to him that on the Shaman's Den interview show it would be Frank and Wavy just talking. Hearing that, he was open to the idea, and said that they should talk about it. It was just the weenie hanging out, or "tits to the wind" that made it a problem! Wow!!

There were so many amazing interactions ... near the end of the day, an artist from Vancouver stopped by the booth, and she and Frank ended up talking deeply about art and the function of art and the artist ... she brought over her black & white, psychedelic, liquid dreamlike comics, a lot like Mikee's art in the way that you could see so much in each page, get lost in her drawings ... Linda said later that you could see from what the comics were talking about, that she was on the same page with Frank ... at one point she cried and looked deeply into Frank's eyes. It was after Linda had given her the flier for the Temescal performance, and also after she had started reading the Magical Act of Doing ... She did a trade with Frank for his Chapped Lap book of poems ... she gave a copy of her comic, signed ... We also got a few of her painting postcards, which are beautiful ... She couldn't set up a Shaman's den with Frank because she was traveling, so Frank did the interview right there.

We were blown away by the day ... Another couple bought Chapped Lap after seeing Frank's poem about Connie. They have a daughter named Connie ... something struck the guy about the line, "a black sheep, raising black sheep" ...

Kay came by, a veteran of jams and performances, and checked in again with Frank ...

There was so much, and it was only slowing down a little at the point when the event was officially over, and we were ready to start breaking things down, and Frank, Linda and Mikee were on their way home ...

While we broke down, people kept coming up to the booth, wanting to know about LUVeR. We were handing out fliers right and left!

JEN:

Found a good place to open the canopy and then we went to work putting it up. Once that was done we put the back drop up. This was new and we had to figure out how to do it. We didn't want it to hit ground. Clips and ropes were rigged up and we eventually got it.

We put up the other panels back to back on the sides. Talked about how we could make it better next time using sturdier clips and some weights so that the bottom stays down. They looked great though. Really vibrant, creating a cozy space that really caught your attention. We started decorating. Table cloths, peace flags and bows were put up. We got all the flyers, buttons and cds out. Alexi put up the t-shirts. Went to the bathroom at one point and when I saw the booth on my way back it looked amazing. Then I went to Bongo Burger and got us all breakfast. Tasty stuff. The boyz had omelets with sausage and I had scrambled eggs with bacon.

We sat and Corey was shooting video. People came up to the booth here and there. We told them about LUVeR, gave them flyers etc. A guy came up who said he knew Frank from the Mabuhay days, and he was glad to see us there. A girl came up and wanted to take one of the cds but didn't know what the music was like so the boyz described it to her and she picked one that sounded good. It was fun. We got the call from you that you were on your way. After a while I could feel that you were near and when I looked around I saw you coming down the sidewalk.

You got cozy in the booth and people started coming up more frequently. Frank worked his magic and asked some of them what they did. It was amazing the people that came up to the booth and said they saw Frank's tv show and what they thought of it. Really incredible how they could see what Frank does. One guy said that it was disturbing in a good way, in the way that made people go outside of the norm and think about things that weren't in the box of what is considered normal. They all loved the show. I can't remember what everyone said, but it was really great to see how many people responded to what Frank is doing. How they could all see the value of Luver, and just everything as being something different than what is out there in the mainstream channels. Doing it for love rather than for money. So many people came up and could see that, responded to that, wanted that. Frank is amazing. What he does is amazing. I have always felt that. It's what sucked me in to you.

Frank went on stage to read his poem about the goddamn weed of life. It silenced the crowd. You could feel how much it touched the spirit of that park and the people that were there today. When you guys came back and talked about how people came up to Frank and told him how much they liked it you could feel how much more important that was than applause. When you got back to the booth it was again a constant flow of people coming up and Frank pulling them in, asking them what they did, getting possible guests for the Shaman's Den, connecting. It was a great fun day.