[Newspoetry] more whatnot

[bhagy at onthejob.net]

i can meet any day after 6 (except mondays then, not until after 8)

dinner n tawk...wow!

brian


On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, gillespie william k wrote:

> 
> > is great.  There's one more limitation (other than space and time) to keep in
> > mind here, and that's noise.  If it is decided that we're going to do something
> > that involves a lot of commotion, then we need to keep the noise level down, and we can definately perform commotion without a lot of noise.  If it's too loud, then we're going to alienate non-newspoetry customers, and we won't be allowed 
> 
> But what about my Electric Guitar Solo Poem?
> 
> I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the reading is 5-ish.
> (Happy Hour, except dry). I'm
> wondering if it couldn't be 7:30/8-ish (assuming they close at 9:00). My
> main ulterior motive is that the later we push the time, the more
> likelihood that Dirk can make it (he teaches high school that day in
> Cincinnati) (he 
> wants to come, but isn't willing to take my advice and cancel class Friday
> and tell all the kids to instead have _Gravity's Rainbow_ finished by
> Monday). 
> 
> I think if we nudge the time back we can coax him.
> 
> (That was my only point but I kept writing...)
> 
> Also my experience has been that if Sweet Betsy's gets dinner business (I
> may be wrong) the rush is around 5. Maybe it won't be a problem to make  
> noise later. 
> 
> Are we at least allowed to read naked?
> I'm working on a Newspoetry Etude for prepared piano, where I prepare the
> piano by
> drilling holes in it and filling it with live eels and setting it on fire
> halfway through the piece. Is that going to be a problem?
> 
> Or are we supposed to entertain people
> who are eating dinner? I hadn't thought of that. We're, like, light jazz?
> We're not going to tear the roof off the sucker? Ask Terry if it's okay if
> we tear the roof off the sucker. 
> 
> Electronic political poetry & tofu salad. Urp. For people who don't eat
> dairy but love profanity and slander, war and capital punishment. Free ice
> cream and indoctrination for the kids.
> 
> > 	I propose that some of us meet there and talk about it so that we're 
> > actually looking at the space itself.  	
> 
> Great idea. Any day after 5 works for me. We can have dinnah and tawk. Oh
> Lawd it's been yeahs since I last ate a slice of the pizza there... I love
> the sawce there.
> 
> Psyched,
> William the Hun
> 
> 
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