There was a good turnout for the 5th Friday event at Comma Coffee in Carson City. The evening included dance, drama, poetry, weird fiction, comedy, and an open mic.
Comma Coffee before the show
Four Ash Canyon poets read during the open mike segment and they were excellent. I mixed a track for my reading. It worked out pretty good so I may do more of that in the future.
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| Lucky Pierre |
The biggest event for me was that a long time friend from the Ashland days, Barbara Bonomo showed up with her charming friend Pete the dog. It was great seeing them. She made a special point to drop in for the show on her way home to Arizona. They were at the Comma when I got there that night. Pete sat up and watched Scot Sarni's rendition of Hamlet but slept through most everything else.
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| Monsieur La Chance and Lucky Pierre |
Rita Geil was Mistress of Ceremonies. Poet Susan Botich read. Dave Fritz performed original music. Ellen Hopkins, Lindsey Stoeberl, Roman Valenzuela, Zach Trippiedi read from Impulse. Susan Priest did a performance art piece as Palisades. Also, every time I turned around, Lucky Pierre was sitting somewhere else.
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| Ellen Hopkins and Haley Bennett reading from Crank. |
Perhaps the biggest surprise was how much June Joplin, the proprietor of Comma Coffee, liked the show. Afterwards she emphatically encouraged us to go on but at this point, it doesn't look like we'll be doing another show. Too many personality clashes putting it together. I'm just not into that kind of thing. It got to be a big drag. Anyway, glad we did it. Glad it's done.
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| Barbara, Pete the dog, Lucky Pierre and Monsieur La Chance |
Barbara posted photos and a slideshow from 5th Friday on her blog The First Chakra. Check it out.
6 comments:
Lucky Pierre, it seems, was moving around a lot, working the room. The desert air, decidedly unlike that of a musty basement, agrees with him.
Yes it does. It was all I could do to wrestle the microphone out of his hands on two separate occasions. Seems he fancies himself a crooner, French cabaret style.
well, if fences mend, as fences sometimes do, it would be fun.
What a sweet little world. I want to live in one too. It looks as though if we want to live in a sweet little world, we have to build it.
"It looks as though if we want to live in a sweet little world, we have to build it."
Thanks, Don. Seems a consensus is building. asia and Someone essentially said the same thing. I will have to do a little work to keep this little world alive but perhaps it is worth it. I am writing this from Comma Coffee. I came here this afternoon to discuss all this with June, who is always too busy to talk more than 2 minutes at any given time. But she also agrees so I am drinking coffee, reading poetry (books donated by Ash Canyon Poets) and, as Comma Coffee's resident feline Small Cat, scratches her whiskers on my brief case, contemplating exactly how to help keep this little world alive.
i agree, you have to build little worlds, and work at them. keep it alive!
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