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Whisky Priestess

17:51 / 27.02.06

I recently took on a challenge/commission from First Draft Theatre to write a play in a week about or concerning a current news event. The play is called Operation New Life, and is based on this article. It's 45 minutes long and will be performed in a double bill with another new play written under the same conditions. The actors and directors have three weeks to rehearse the scripts and then BANG! they're on stage, for three nights only.

There's lots of other info and bumf and fluff about First Draft at their website, but if you fancy coming along here's the essential info:

Sunday March 19, 7pm, Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington.

Monday March 20, 7.30pm, The Bedford pub, Balham.

Tuesday March 21, 7.30pm, Inn on the Green, Ladbroke Grove.

Tickets are £7.50/5 concessions at all venues and are available from the producer/dramaturg, Suzy, on 07834 522 566.

Them as what wants to meet up with me, I will hopefully be going along to the first night (at the Hen & Chickens), possibly the second in Balham but am almost certainly going to be unable to make it up from Norwich on the last night in Ladbroke Grove, alas. PM me nearer the time for exact movements.

15:14 / 01.05.06

check out new writings & links on www.insanityheroes.co.uk

new demos to come soon
live dates to be updated

vive la revolution

14:07 / 01.06.06

I've come out of barb-retirement to plug my brother's t-shirt shop - CCC

If you look reeeaaal close you might see a few that are kinda Barbelith inspired...

foolish fat finger

15:00 / 01.06.06

er, this is my art- sketchbooks, photos and artist trading cards on flickr...

paper tiger #3 just came out; a Brighton-based 'adult' comic featuring various surreal/amusing/political strips. featuring some work by me and my friend with the nom-de-plume 'vitamin joe' and a camp mangling of Judge Dredd by meself, writing as 'fashion penis'.

paper tiger

also I got a poem this month in the Ugly Tree poetry zine in Manchester... here...

cheers!

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

15:09 / 01.06.06

Just reading this thread... grant, the Unlike domain seems to be bought and run by some unhealthy linkspam crapweasels now. Is your record still out there somewhere?

Fly Beezy (War Minister)

16:39 / 01.06.06

Londoners! Do you like music? Do you like dancing? Well, then, come dance to some music this Saturday!

16:47 / 01.06.06

'Phone-lovers! Love texting or dialling? Try these bad boys!

To vote for Sezer, text SEZER to 84444 or call 09011 32 33 13

18:50 / 01.06.06

Free music? Strong cocktails? Cheapo vegan food? All in Nottingham's nicest and friendliest venue? yes!

19:05 / 01.06.06

A coworker and I just launched a new site for another artist who also works at our agency. He's quite a good illustrator/designer who's been starting to make waves in Philly and in the online artist community. Check 'em out...

Tim Gough

17:35 / 04.06.06

last few hours of my ebay sale of comics. If you like comics that are cheap then click here..

13:28 / 13.06.06

Ok, last time I plugged on here, I wussed out. But this one is not wussoutable on. And it'll be fun!

It's the 2nd year degree show @ The Circus Space.
12th- 15th July, in a Big Top in Shoreditch Park.

I'll be doing acrobalance with my partner, and there'll be swinging trapeze, juggling, german wheel, tightwire, silks, trick-cycle, handstands, etc etc etc. If you haven't seen much contemporary circus before, it'll be much less upsetting than what you might be used to. Hopefully...

Anyway, I'll nag you with booking details when I know them.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

22:12 / 13.06.06

This isn't something that I did, but I don't know where else to put it.

The House Rabbit Society needs your help!

2006 has been a hard year for House Rabbit Society. One of our chapters closed down and we were faced with the extra expenses and emotional challenges of finding homes for an extra few dozen rabbits— all at once! Animal care expenses are up, more animals are being abandoned, we’ve started a new chapter grant program to help our chapters, and we are feeling the strain. Plus we have the latest issue of the House Rabbit Journal complete; all that’s needed is the funds to get it to the printer! Your tax-deductible donations would help bunnies and people alike.

This is a great organization, and I urge all rabbit-lovers (and all animal people) to join. A 1-year membership is only $18 ($25 overseas) and you get a subscription to their journal, an excellent publication for any bunny owner. If you don't own a bunny, adopt one! Plus, it's tax-deductible!

If you're looking for a charity to donate to, please consider HRS!

XK

22:59 / 13.06.06

Jakegnosis, you have so gotten me to give the bunnies money!

BUNNIES! BUNNIES!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

23:15 / 13.06.06

YES!

They really are a fantastic organization, though. Rabbits are abandoned much more often than cats or dogs, because people buying them don't realize that they are just as smart and loving and need as much attention. A lot of people adopt bunnies for their kids around Easter because "it's cute" and don't give a second thought to the fact that they're adopting an intelligent, social animal that is goint to be reliant on them for 8-15 years. People can be real jerks sometimes.

Okay, I'm putting my soapbox away.

13:00 / 19.06.06

1. CIRCUS WITH INTENT
Individually devised performances by
3rd Year BA (Hons) Degree Students and 2nd Year Foundation Degree Students

This year we are very excited that our Students' end of year performances
will take place in a circus tent in Shoreditch Park! Each student will perform a piece that they have devised themselves in their specialised circus discipline, so not only will you experience their wonderful creativity, but you will also get the chance to see a range of different skills including juggling, aerial hoop, swinging trapeze, balancing and corde lisse.

2nd Year Performances
12th - 14th July, 7pm
15th July, 2.30pm & 7pm

3rd Year Performances
26th - 28th July, 7pm
29th July, 2.30pm & 7pm

Tickets are only £5.50 - a bargain price to see
tomorrow's circussuperstars. TO BOOK CALL 020 7729 9522.

A Haus of Minions

13:07 / 19.06.06

Are you performing at either of these, Bop?

Whisky Priestess

13:29 / 19.06.06

Haus: from p3 of this thread:

It's the 2nd year degree show @ The Circus Space.
12th- 15th July, in a Big Top in Shoreditch Park.

I'll be doing acrobalance with my partner, and there'll be swinging trapeze, juggling, german wheel, tightwire, silks, trick-cycle, handstands, etc etc etc. If you haven't seen much contemporary circus before, it'll be much less upsetting than what you might be used to. Hopefully...

Whisky Priestess

13:31 / 19.06.06

so I'm guessing you're doing all five 2nd year shows, right gingerbop?

19:33 / 06.07.06

Yes, indeed. I'm performing next week, 12-15th, in the 2nd year show.

I'll be being thrown around by my partner for 6 minutes, and there'll be 19 other acts, most of which are really good. There's a fairly big stage, so it's letting everyone do pretty much whatever they want. As long as it's only minorly dangerous. I think my mum might wee herself.

Obviously it's mostly the kinda stuff I'm into, but I'd say you'd be pushed to watch something better for £5.50. Shiny Shiny!

19:35 / 06.07.06

Oh, and WP, I will be in all five shows, saving any major accident.

21:36 / 02.08.06

I'm running a couple of "real time" online reading groups for epistolary novels at the moment. This means that we take epistolary novels, practically kill ourselves transferring them to a number of accounts on LiveJournal (one for each narrator), and then post the letters or diary extracts in a community on the day that they're dated in the novel, where readers can comment on them. Dracula, which runs from May to October, is halfway through, and has been a great success so far, although the level of discussion is fairly light. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (posted in the original French), which runs from August to January, is just beginning, with a couple of editorial introductory entries up so far and the first letter appearing tomorrow. It's looking very promising already, we're getting a more erudite crowd, as well as witty and friendly. In January we're thinking of tackling Clarissa, heaven help us.

So come along and read with us! And when I've finished editing footnotes and frantically rifling through eighteenth century French art for icons for the characters, I might even get round to hanging around Barbelith properly, I've been meaning to for ages.

03:00 / 27.08.06

Shameless. Shameless. I know.
So & So Circus Theatre.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

16:07 / 06.09.06

Dundee based Eye as well as Birmingham band Mother Trucker and Bossk, who I believe have just finished touring with Cult of Luna are doing gigs in the Midlands, Luton and Leeds.

The dates are

Sep 20th, Chapter 11, Birmingham
Sep 21st, Time Bar, Leicester
Sep 22nd, The Well, Luton
Sep 23rd, The Old Angel, Nottingham (not sure if Bossk is playing that)
Sep 24th, The Fenton, Leeds

For more info including a taste of the Eye see:

Eyemakemusic

(This is the first time I've ever tried to link on Barbelith so I hope it's worked.)

All of the bands are stoner rock (as much as I hate that phrase)/progressive metal (also icky) call them what you well.

Eye are the most melodic, instrumental, be turns mellow and sinister though capable of heaviness. They have been favourable compared to Mogwai in the past. (Okay so I’m not a music journalist.)

Mother Trucker and Bossk are heavier though still melodic. All the bands on the line up are excellent musicians. If bands like Mogwai, Isis, Pelican etc. are of interest to you, or you just like rock/metal or you fancy a change I'd heavily recommend checking them out.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

16:07 / 06.09.06

Okay so the link didn't work so well.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

16:23 / 06.09.06

Tremendous!

Disco is My Class War

16:37 / 06.09.06

id entity already started plugging this in the Books forum, but I think I get to plug it here too. Some of my writing's in it, and it's the first time my non-academic writing has been in a real, honest to god, BOOK.

Self-Organizing Men cover

Self-Organizing Men: Conscious Masculinities in Time and Space

The roles of paradox and incoherence in the construction and maintenance of the masculine self remains unexplored in both gender and men’s studies. Self-Organizing Men -- through poetry, visual images, prose and humor -- seeks to understand how paradox and the failure to adhere to a unitary self creates opportunities for sustained connections to sexual love, the penis, childhood, and vulnerability as well as disrupts traditional transsexual narratives of masculinity and the gendered body.

You should totally buy this book. Not only because it has ever-so-slightly porno essay in it by your truly, but because it's chock-full of great writing and art, and it's also the first book from Homofactus Press. So you're not only reading great new trans writing, you're also supporting small presses.

And if you order it before September 15, you get free shipping! How good is that?

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

11:19 / 19.09.06

Bump

Whisky Priestess

11:28 / 19.09.06

"Homofactus" = "made man" (not in the Mafia sense, alas, but as in constructed)?

I have little Latin and less Greek but that's a good name if I'm right - am I?

*Haus/Deva Bat Symbol*

Whisky Priestess

17:43 / 22.09.06

For Gingerbop and anyone else twisty and bendy:

Supple acrobats / gymnasts / dancers etc
required for photo shoot (London)

OK, slightly strange. We now have two different
photographers who are looking for people who fit
this brief for various photographic projects. This is
legit, i.e. not glamour or similar...

Basically you need to be capable of looking graceful
and "weightless" for stills photography...

These aren't for specific campaigns, but instead for
what's known as stock or photo-library images. The
rate of pay tends to be around Â£120 for a half-day
shoot.

To be considered for this (which isn't for any
specific date, just yet) please email one or more
photos (preferably full-length) to casting@turns.net
and we'll come back to you - thanks!

aim for joviality

18:14 / 22.09.06

"homo factus" appears in the Nicene creed: Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est, et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas, et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexterm Patris., translated as "was made man" or 'became truly human' in an inclusive language version.

Also apparently in 'homo factus ad unguem': "Usually quoted thus, though the proper form is "ad unguem factus homo." A highly polished, accomplished man. (The expression is borrowed from the practice in sculptors, who, in modeling, give the finishing touch with the nail; or from joiners, who test the accuracy of joints in wood by the nail.) " from here.

Whisky Priestess

22:59 / 29.10.06

Me and Alex have written a short play each (both black comedies themed around Christmas) and they are on in a double-bill at RADA in London (Malet Street, fact fans) on Thursday November 9th, from 7.30pm. Entry is FREE!

Gathering thread here. See y'all there, hopefully ...

03:09 / 05.01.07

Thanks for that, WP.

I am such an intolerable show-off. Fucking performers. But here is a wee video (with plenty of slightly worrying dodgy bits) of an acrobalance performance in October, with myself and the delectable Mr Rahnama:

So & So Circus Theatre present Polkadotty.

Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)

04:22 / 05.01.07

I'm genuinely impressed ... well done, GB!

(Though I could have sworn you were on wires for some of it, lady.)

05:50 / 05.01.07

Gingerbop - awesome! I especially love really dynamic acrobalance like that. Having dabbled a little in it myself, I know just how hard those tricks are, and yet you both made them look so easy! Very impressive.

10:51 / 05.01.07

That was totally fucking nuts. I think it's incredible that anyone can do that leapy, spinny stuff. Well done, GB.

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