Last night and this evening found me at the Gallery where I was the shepherd of poetic and musical flocks.
FRIDAY, the 13th:
Amy HALLORAN and Matthew KLANE were the featured poets of the night and they got the ball rolling for an evening of sheer entertainment.
Miss Halloran delivered her pieces with a fantastical, quasi-melodramatic yet very humorous diatribe-ick (dare I say) slant that left me pondering, laughing, and wanting more.
Mr. Klane, on the other-hand, should've gone before Amy for his reading erased all light and laughter Miss Halloran's had so graciously instilled. His piece (or pieces - it was hard to tell where it all began and ended) was served in a melancholic monotone of measured pauses between each and every word, sentence, and thought. I was almost comatose. Not only that, they were very dark, negative and - dare I say - powerful? Powerful in the sense that I felt the need to go back on the meds and was very thankful there wasn't a ledge at arm's length!
Now onto noisier enter-containment ... Five extremely audible but innovative new-age, alternative, left-wing, yadda, yadda, yadda rock bands played: 1. Grab Ass Cowboys, 2. Ghoul Poon (my favorite - believe it or not), 3. Coma, 4. Severe, Severe and 5. Human Host.
SATURDAY:
Not to be outdone by the rock bands, the hip-hop, classic rap and dance bands blew it up tonight: 1. Prayers For Atheists (pleasantly surprised by how entertained I was - very slam poetic, set to contemporary but retro-induced dance beats), 2. B. Dolan (spoken word - though I laughed my booty off, I "hated" his rant about J. Timberlake), 3. MC Graffiti (see below), 4. Unsound Mind and 5. Sapient.
Though I couldn't stay for the whole thing (because I'm tired, in pain and broke), I enjoyed what the night allowed me to experience and that experience would've been more painful if it had not been for my favorite rapper of all time ... drum roll, pleeeeease ... MC GRAFFITI (notice the clear pic of him and of no one else [-:)!
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