EMILY WELLS at GREEN!

That's right, Greenest of Friends:

October is kicking off with a musical BANG as we welcome back one of our absolute favorite musicians in the world...EMILY WELLS will be doing a set on the Green stage this Monday, October 2! Jedi, Joshua and I first met and were wowed by Emily during the magical years of Rachel Kann's Co-LAB:Oration at The Temple Bar, and let me just say, she had me at "e.e. cummings said it best/'one leaf falls/loneliness' ".

Imagine if Billie Holiday fronted Portishead with an acoustic guitar and a book of Raymond Carver poems. That's not even close enough, but it's a start.

EMILY WELLS! at GREEN! OCTOBER 2ND!

See you at the Palmer,
Slim, Jedi, and Joshua

SEPTEMBER'S LINE IS BONKERS!

Greenlings and Green-a-maniacs,

The first thing you need know is that WE ARE CLOSED MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th, FOR LABOR DAY. If you show up at the Palmer, we will not be there. The Palmer staff will not be there. The staff of your local banking facility will not be there. So, one less night at Green this month means we're gonna make the rest of the month off the chain.

To note:



SEPTEMBER 11: MIKE THE POET! Mike Sonksen is an LA original. This cat breathes LA in every word he spits. Influenced by everyone from Kerouac to Mike Davis, he's also put a CD of spoken word over some fat electronica. He pinballs all over the city, hosting shows and/or performing with the collective Poets of the Round Table (big ups to Phil Harmonic). And he's got a brand new book out, "I Am Alive In Los Angeles", a collection of poems and writings from the perspective of someone who knows this city inside and out. Join us for Mike dropping science tonight!

SEPTEMBER 18: TOTEM MAPLES! I saw these cats doing and being a poetry BAND years back at the Rainbow Room on Sunset. They've been taking some time off and now they are back, and we are jazzed to have them in the house...! You can check them out at www.totemmaples.com if you want a sneak preview. And here's a snippet from the group's lead vocalist/poet Larry Handy about TM's "recitare" style:



LARRY: Recitare is a Latin verb meaning "to recite". Recitare, I'd say, is Totem Maples' number one adjective. It's not a genre. It's not something to capitalize on. It's our intimate style. Performance poetry which is not SLAM based. IT'S DEFINITELY NOT poetry recited to background music, just because the music and the verses are one-Siamese twins-just like rap music, but without the rhyming, the street bravado, and STAGNATATION DAT-tape beats that end in like 2 or 3 minutes. Recitare is understood only through vibe and mood and contradiction. See, I'd tell you to go listen to rap music, then go to a poetry SLAM, then go listen to Totem Maples, and then you can probably feel what our Recitare is about. Juxtapose a daydream to a night dream.

So there you go. Do not miss the return of TOTEM MAPLES!

SEPTEMBER 25TH: MYSTIC DEFENDER! D.SILENCE VS. SKOW! MCGEE VS. SLIM! The official slam season hasn't begun in earnest at the Palmer yet, but we want to make sure nonetheless that the last Monday of the month is packed with extra zing. And this is no exception, y'all. Dig the three big reasons you won't mind parting with that 5 dollars at the door:

1) DIRTY HAIKU BATTLE! Our very own Gang Green powerhouse SAM SKOW will return to the Green stage for one magical night and go head to head against The Bay Area's resident purveyor of lyrical raunch, D. SILENCE! Seventeen searing syllables will fly back and forth, the audience will vote, one of these men will win, and we will all be scarred for life. Holla!

2) NERD SLAM! How do you know when the host of a venue obviously spends too much time inside his own little bubble and needs to get out more? When he challenges a former National Slam Champion to a one-on-one bout, that's how! RATPACK SLIM will unsheath his admantium pen and prepare to nerd out against none other than MIGHTY MIKE McGEE! Mike's held the top honors as the National Poetry Slam Champion. Mike holds the record for most feature appearances at Green--by the end of this grueling Nerd Slam, will he also be holding Slim's head on a lance? Or just holding Slim as they weep like emo kids? BE THERE!

3) MYSTIC DEFENDER ROCKS! The Green booking agents have spies everywhere. At all the hottest clubs, the coolest coffeeshops, the best industry functions, the most isolated bus stops...and lo, one of those moles brought word back to our door about this brand new force of rock, MYSTIC DEFENDER. And this is from their MySpace page (www.myspace.com/mysticdefender)...



Mystic Defender is hard to categorize. They're not a cover band. Well, they do cover songs, but they're so UNfaithful to the original versions, that it's almost difficult to recognize what they're playing until they're more than halfway through the song, at which point it hits you, and you bust out laughing: "I KNOW THIS SONG!" like Nick Spiccoli in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", getting down to "Wooley Bully" at the prom. At their first show EVER, at Boardner's in Hollywood, frontman Chaki took delight in introducing the band before breaking into a bouncing cover version of Weezer's "Tired Of Sex" (opening track from "Pinkerton") which, to tell the truth, there could be no better song to introduce the record-geek rock that made up the remainder of their set. These guys aren't playing rock for the chicks, or for the dudes, for that matter. They're playing, in their own words, "because we don't care about anything - EXCEPT FOR YOU!!!" Comparisons between frontman Chaki and Jack Black's character from Richard Linklater's "School Of Rock" were plentiful, but Chaki has been rocking out with his cock out for longer than Tenacious D, guaranteed. Sideman "Hot Dog" has been backing Chaki for a long time too, long enough to have transitioned from playing guitar to playing a strap-on Casio keyboard (CZ-101?) with enough balls to keep a bassist out of the band. A band consisting of two keyboard players, a guitarrist, and drummer, everybody but the drummer, Morgan, took turns demonstrating their abilities to mock every song the band covered. Prince's "When You Were Mine", an Isley Brothers/Ice Cube mash-up done live with vocal duties shared by both keyboard players, a cover of recent Flaming Lips output with vocals from Jason on guitar... and then... a Jesus Christ Superstar cover? This band is not for the stiff-lipped: Mystic Defender are wanting their audience to enjoy the show as much as they're enjoying putting on the show. -Duddhist Monk

In short (which this wasn't)...SEPTEMBER WILL ROCK!

See you at The Palmer,
Slim, Jedi, and Joshua