With all due respect to the Professor, all I can say about the Haiku is that I WAS ROBBED!!! And I was willing to dance all night to get that IPOD:

I-POD I NEED YOU
I WILL DANCE TO YOUR MUSIC
AND KICK TOLAN'S ASS

:) and such was done...and shall be done again tonight... :)

INSTEAD OF I-POD
I'll TAKE VICTORY TUESDAY
LET'S HOPE KERRY WINS

I've got some close-up pics of the haiku readings at http://radio.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/10/30/171398.html

:)

NERDATORIUM!

A Public Apology

For mature readers

Sorry, Czerina.
The iPod was mine to give,
and I fucked it up.

An empty dance floor
Filled by Princely pod people
You sexy m.f.s

can we get some transcripts of those 5 runner ups honorable mentions, and runner ups once removed...and the winner?....I need to testify.

On behalf of the committe for AN IPOD FOR CZERINA

dancing brings merit
an ipod for czerina
is what we're seeking

I went into the apple store on Michigan and tried to get them to give me an i-pod for my haiku. I left with an i-pod and a $499 dent in my visa bill.....but that's a bargain in £'s!

i swim the airwaves
i drown in the sea of sound
i pod rescue me

I was fortunate enough to catch Joe Frank live twice this past year in Los Angeles--once at a theatrical space called the Evidence Room and on another occasion at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum. The man truly sets the bar, there's no doubt.

Am I the only person who was really disappointed by that Joe Frank performance? I don't want to say what I hated about it, because I don't want to offend anyone. But I was really saddened by it.

do you mind sharing why you didn't like the joe frank performance, or what about it saddened you?

i have a feeling most would be curious to know...and you may or may not be alone in your opinion.

julie

I thought it was disappointingly cliche and surprisingly unsubtle and unthoughtful. The modern dancer was offensively lame; there was a flugelhorn player, for god's sake. The stories had their moments, but mostly they were cliche and sappy, which is the opposite of what I like about his other (older) work. I felt cheated, frankly. I went to the performance expecting dark, brilliant stories that felt alive. This performance felt dead, like he just hauled out some old shit from the Playboy Channel or whatever and passed them off as ... what? Relevant? Great? They weren't either. They were cute sometimes, but mostly they were dumb and more obvious than he should allow himself to be, in my opinion. It was embarrassing. I mean I was embarrassed for everyone in the room--Joe, the audience, the musician and especially the dancer. If Joe's not interested in making new and vital work--and I think he's earned the right to take it easy, he's done so much briliant work--then he shouldn't expect people to give him hours of their time and their full attention and expectations of greatness. He totally let me down, I'm sorry.

I didn't want to say all this because I didn't want to offend anybody. If I have, I'm really sorry. I'm a big fan of his, otherwise I wouldn't have cared at all.