First of all, thanks for all who came out to the Palmer last week for the slam; it was a wild night...the East was in the house big time (big ups to Carlos Andres Gomez, John Blake, and Oveous Maximus for showing love!), and Sam Skow ripped an all new set ranging from hilarious speculative fiction ("If I had a Million Dollars") to a Mos Def inspired hip hop tribute to the Sacramento hardcore scene! Roger Bonair-Agard blessed with two poems from his new book and one-man show, and proved why he's one of the most respected poets on the scene today. The man has PRESENCE. And in the midst of all this, there was, of course the SLAM! Congrats are due to our two qualifiers this month, BLAKE and SONYA RENEE! The stakes keep getting higher, y'all...
And now a word about this week's feature, BRUTHA GIMEL:
You may have seen him at some party, show (Spoken Funk), or local reading (Da Poetry Lounge) wylin' out on the ones and twos. You may be pumping one of his mix cd's (The Soul Suite Vol. 1 or Vol. 2, Hip Hop Pioneers"Shell-toe Edition") in your ride. Or maybe you got your hands on a rare copy of "Rhymes In The Key Of Hope", his hip hop & poetry cd.
Maybe you saw him on stage in front of a mic (Green, Mic & Dim Lights), reciting his hearts ambition: "To utilize the power of spoken word in an effort to help shift the planet into a state of healthy consciousness and well-being".
That is part of of Brutha Gimel's mission statement. When asked, "What do you plan on doing with poetry & spoken-word?" His answer: "I want the world to recognize Hip Hop culture for it's attributes to society and for the "Renaissance" that it is."
This Monday, February 5th, Green is proud to welcome back Brutha Gimel as our feature.
Also! Recent Gang Green qualifier and all around swell chick, Dominica, will be celebrating her BIRTHDAY with us and about a gazillion of her closest friends. Come for the usual onstage calamity! Stay for the cake!
See you at the Palmer,
Jedi, Josh, & Slim
And now a word about this week's feature, BRUTHA GIMEL:
You may have seen him at some party, show (Spoken Funk), or local reading (Da Poetry Lounge) wylin' out on the ones and twos. You may be pumping one of his mix cd's (The Soul Suite Vol. 1 or Vol. 2, Hip Hop Pioneers"Shell-toe Edition") in your ride. Or maybe you got your hands on a rare copy of "Rhymes In The Key Of Hope", his hip hop & poetry cd.
Maybe you saw him on stage in front of a mic (Green, Mic & Dim Lights), reciting his hearts ambition: "To utilize the power of spoken word in an effort to help shift the planet into a state of healthy consciousness and well-being".
That is part of of Brutha Gimel's mission statement. When asked, "What do you plan on doing with poetry & spoken-word?" His answer: "I want the world to recognize Hip Hop culture for it's attributes to society and for the "Renaissance" that it is."
This Monday, February 5th, Green is proud to welcome back Brutha Gimel as our feature.
Also! Recent Gang Green qualifier and all around swell chick, Dominica, will be celebrating her BIRTHDAY with us and about a gazillion of her closest friends. Come for the usual onstage calamity! Stay for the cake!
See you at the Palmer,
Jedi, Josh, & Slim
Thursday, January 25, 2007
SLAM AT GREEN! SAM AT GREEN! DAMN! AT GREEN!
About the featured performer for this evening, SAM SKOW:
Sam Skow has performed his "poetry" for the last seven years under quite a few different aliases (Buddha Hat, Barnabus Briefchatter, A Fumagating Ape) but none have merited the controversy as that of his own given Christian name. Beginning his slow and even currently imperceptible rise in Slam under the moniker Barnabus Briefchatter, Sam won his first slam at the Midnight Special Bookstore, a now defunct reading that took place every Friday night in Santa Monica. Frequented mainly by the stale crony Literati, Sam was like a gush of fresh blood to their flaccid mental genitalia. Obviously, he grew weary of having to weekly bridge the Viagara/Menopausal Gap.
Moving on to the original incarnation of Green (Tanner's in Culver City), Sam was relieved to hear some spoken word that was actually relatable, not only by the people listening to it, but by the writers themselves. When DJ Jedi casually remarked one Thursday evening that "that shit was hot," Sam knew he had found a home, or at least a cool foster home where you won't get molested as much.
Green moved to the Good Hurt Bar and Sam moved with it. Alcohol being introduced into the equation brought about a rapid bloom in the ever slacktastic Sam Skow. Slamming like he meant it, Sam was on the fast track to his fifteen minutes. After the end of slam season place shifting finished and preferential teaming was instated, Sam found himself as the alternate for the 2003 Los Angeles Slam Team alongside Steve Connell, Sekou tha Misfit, Rives and Javon Johnson (the Golden Child if you must). Rives went to Edinborough and the team won Nats. Rives' name was put in place of Buddha Hat's in the newspaper article. But whatever, man. Who's bitter?
Sam Skow is a charismatic enigma wrapped in a sexy riddle smothered in hot buttery question sauce. Someday he will figure out how to say what he really means. Until then, let's all bask in the hilarious nature of insincerity and how sometimes if you really think about it, it's still, like, y'know, kinda true.
PLUS: It's the next qualifying slam for Gang Green 2007...WHO'S NEXT??? Who's man--woman--HUMAN enough to be the next two to make it into the semi-finals for our very own national slam team? Thus far, Lara Kaapuni, Dominica, Ratpack Slim and Paul Mabon have cemented their spots. Who will up the ante and make this race that much more interesting? All takers are welcome, y'all.
See you at the Palmer (where it'll be the $5 cover for the slam!),
Slim, Joshua, and Jedi.
About the featured performer for this evening, SAM SKOW:
Sam Skow has performed his "poetry" for the last seven years under quite a few different aliases (Buddha Hat, Barnabus Briefchatter, A Fumagating Ape) but none have merited the controversy as that of his own given Christian name. Beginning his slow and even currently imperceptible rise in Slam under the moniker Barnabus Briefchatter, Sam won his first slam at the Midnight Special Bookstore, a now defunct reading that took place every Friday night in Santa Monica. Frequented mainly by the stale crony Literati, Sam was like a gush of fresh blood to their flaccid mental genitalia. Obviously, he grew weary of having to weekly bridge the Viagara/Menopausal Gap.Moving on to the original incarnation of Green (Tanner's in Culver City), Sam was relieved to hear some spoken word that was actually relatable, not only by the people listening to it, but by the writers themselves. When DJ Jedi casually remarked one Thursday evening that "that shit was hot," Sam knew he had found a home, or at least a cool foster home where you won't get molested as much.
Green moved to the Good Hurt Bar and Sam moved with it. Alcohol being introduced into the equation brought about a rapid bloom in the ever slacktastic Sam Skow. Slamming like he meant it, Sam was on the fast track to his fifteen minutes. After the end of slam season place shifting finished and preferential teaming was instated, Sam found himself as the alternate for the 2003 Los Angeles Slam Team alongside Steve Connell, Sekou tha Misfit, Rives and Javon Johnson (the Golden Child if you must). Rives went to Edinborough and the team won Nats. Rives' name was put in place of Buddha Hat's in the newspaper article. But whatever, man. Who's bitter?
Sam Skow is a charismatic enigma wrapped in a sexy riddle smothered in hot buttery question sauce. Someday he will figure out how to say what he really means. Until then, let's all bask in the hilarious nature of insincerity and how sometimes if you really think about it, it's still, like, y'know, kinda true.
PLUS: It's the next qualifying slam for Gang Green 2007...WHO'S NEXT??? Who's man--woman--HUMAN enough to be the next two to make it into the semi-finals for our very own national slam team? Thus far, Lara Kaapuni, Dominica, Ratpack Slim and Paul Mabon have cemented their spots. Who will up the ante and make this race that much more interesting? All takers are welcome, y'all.
See you at the Palmer (where it'll be the $5 cover for the slam!),
Slim, Joshua, and Jedi.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
JERRY QUICKLEY THIS WEEK AT GREEN!
Ever since Green started booking weekly features in 2003, we've been blessed to have some amazing performers grace our stage. National slam champs, literary heavyweights, recording artists...our featured performer this week is all of that and then some. We couldn't be more psyched to bring you JERRY QUICKLEY to the Palmer stage!
A poet, journalist and radio host, Los Angeles-based Jerry Quickley is a three-time Los Angeles Poetry Grand Slam winner and a multiple National Poetry Slam finalist. He's been featured in anthologies, magazines, and newspapers including Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times, and has performed his poems on Lifetime and CNN. Recently he was commissioned by The Mark Taper Forum and The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain to write and perform "Live From the Front," a play about his experiences as a journalist and filmmaker in Iraq before and during the war. A native New Yorker, Quickley is the host of the popular Pacifica Radio Network show "Beneath the Surface" on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
And yes, it's still free. So why won't you be there? Oh, good, you will. We thought so.
See you at the Palmer,
Slim, Jedi, and Joshua
Ever since Green started booking weekly features in 2003, we've been blessed to have some amazing performers grace our stage. National slam champs, literary heavyweights, recording artists...our featured performer this week is all of that and then some. We couldn't be more psyched to bring you JERRY QUICKLEY to the Palmer stage!
A poet, journalist and radio host, Los Angeles-based Jerry Quickley is a three-time Los Angeles Poetry Grand Slam winner and a multiple National Poetry Slam finalist. He's been featured in anthologies, magazines, and newspapers including Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times, and has performed his poems on Lifetime and CNN. Recently he was commissioned by The Mark Taper Forum and The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain to write and perform "Live From the Front," a play about his experiences as a journalist and filmmaker in Iraq before and during the war. A native New Yorker, Quickley is the host of the popular Pacifica Radio Network show "Beneath the Surface" on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
And yes, it's still free. So why won't you be there? Oh, good, you will. We thought so.
See you at the Palmer,
Slim, Jedi, and Joshua
Thursday, January 11, 2007
ANDREA GIBSON, KATIE WIRSING AT GREEN THIS WEEK!
First of all...HOW FREAKIN' AMAZING WAS GREEN LAST WEEK??? Big props to the Brothers Landau for kicking off '07 on an acoustic tip. Huge props to NYC's ShadoKat and John "Survivor" Blake for a powerful feature...and all kinds of ups to everyone in the audience and on the open mic. Queen D from Oakland, Amir Suliman, Malcolm Jamal-Warner...we see you and thank you for blessing our stage!
This week, we have two of the members of the 2006 National Slam Team champs, denizens of Denver and powerful performers...Andrea Gibson and Katie Wirsing will blow your mind...!
Rousing audiences throughout the United States and Canada with her poignant message and her genuine interest in generating change, Andreas words are powerful, compassionate, and inspiring. She is a queer poet/activist whos work deconstructs the foundations of the current political machine, highlighting issues such as patriarchy, gender norms, white-supremacy, and capitalist culture.
Andrea moved from New Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where she began attending weekly poetry readings at Denver's political hub, The Mercury Cafe. In a years time she had rushed the scene, making her mark with the 2000 Denver Slam Team at The National Poetry Slam in Providence, Rhode Island. In the same year, Andrea joined Vox Feminista, a multi-passionate performance tribe of radical, political women bent on social change through cultural revolution. She went on to become a four-time Denver Grand Slam Champion. Andrea took 4th place out of 350 competing poets in the individual finals at the 2004 National Poetry Slam in St. Louis, while simultaneously leading Team Denver to a 2nd place title in the team competition. In 2006 she captured 3rd place at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Andrea has headlined everywhere from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, to Pride Fests and Lady Fests, to high schools and universities throughout the country. She has been showcased on Free Speech TV, Dyke TV, the documentary Slam Planet, and Independent Radio Stations nationwide. She is currently a member of the prestigious Bullhorn Collective "comprised of 30 of the highest ranking slam poets and most accomplished performance poets in the world."
Andrea is an independent artist who has self-released two CDs, Bullets and Windchimes and Swarm, as well as one book, Trees that Grow in Cemeteries.
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Plus, of course, the award-winning DJ JEDI on the ones and twos, JOSHUA SILVERSTEIN on the host-box, and RATPACK SLIM acting as spiritual advisor...!
and January 22nd: JERRY QUICKLEY!
January 29th: GANG GREEN SLAM featuring SAM SKOW!
See you at the Palmer,
Slim, Joshua, and Jedi.
First of all...HOW FREAKIN' AMAZING WAS GREEN LAST WEEK??? Big props to the Brothers Landau for kicking off '07 on an acoustic tip. Huge props to NYC's ShadoKat and John "Survivor" Blake for a powerful feature...and all kinds of ups to everyone in the audience and on the open mic. Queen D from Oakland, Amir Suliman, Malcolm Jamal-Warner...we see you and thank you for blessing our stage!
This week, we have two of the members of the 2006 National Slam Team champs, denizens of Denver and powerful performers...Andrea Gibson and Katie Wirsing will blow your mind...!
Rousing audiences throughout the United States and Canada with her poignant message and her genuine interest in generating change, Andreas words are powerful, compassionate, and inspiring. She is a queer poet/activist whos work deconstructs the foundations of the current political machine, highlighting issues such as patriarchy, gender norms, white-supremacy, and capitalist culture. Andrea moved from New Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where she began attending weekly poetry readings at Denver's political hub, The Mercury Cafe. In a years time she had rushed the scene, making her mark with the 2000 Denver Slam Team at The National Poetry Slam in Providence, Rhode Island. In the same year, Andrea joined Vox Feminista, a multi-passionate performance tribe of radical, political women bent on social change through cultural revolution. She went on to become a four-time Denver Grand Slam Champion. Andrea took 4th place out of 350 competing poets in the individual finals at the 2004 National Poetry Slam in St. Louis, while simultaneously leading Team Denver to a 2nd place title in the team competition. In 2006 she captured 3rd place at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Andrea has headlined everywhere from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, to Pride Fests and Lady Fests, to high schools and universities throughout the country. She has been showcased on Free Speech TV, Dyke TV, the documentary Slam Planet, and Independent Radio Stations nationwide. She is currently a member of the prestigious Bullhorn Collective "comprised of 30 of the highest ranking slam poets and most accomplished performance poets in the world."
Andrea is an independent artist who has self-released two CDs, Bullets and Windchimes and Swarm, as well as one book, Trees that Grow in Cemeteries.
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Plus, of course, the award-winning DJ JEDI on the ones and twos, JOSHUA SILVERSTEIN on the host-box, and RATPACK SLIM acting as spiritual advisor...!
and January 22nd: JERRY QUICKLEY!
January 29th: GANG GREEN SLAM featuring SAM SKOW!
See you at the Palmer,
Slim, Joshua, and Jedi.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
THE YEAR OF THE GREEN
For the 1st GREEN of 07 we're bringing some new faces to the GREEN spotlight. On Monday, January 8th we will be featuring for the first time The Brothers Landau! The Brothers Landau is a Cello Guitar Duo that performs all kinds of music ranging from Bossa Nova to folk to rock to standards to pop to classical to funk to groove and the list goes on. They make life more enjoyable and promote a feeling of overall well-being. They promote good will towards men and have been known to perform in such locations as nature, restaurants, clubs, forests, coffee shops (and other caffeine dealers), private parties, weddings, and living rooms. In addition to our awesome features we will also be bringing back all your GREEN favorites, and by favorites we of course mean Ratpack Slim, Joshua Silverstein and DJ Jedi on the 1's and 2's! We will see u on Mondays
peace,
us
For the 1st GREEN of 07 we're bringing some new faces to the GREEN spotlight. On Monday, January 8th we will be featuring for the first time The Brothers Landau! The Brothers Landau is a Cello Guitar Duo that performs all kinds of music ranging from Bossa Nova to folk to rock to standards to pop to classical to funk to groove and the list goes on. They make life more enjoyable and promote a feeling of overall well-being. They promote good will towards men and have been known to perform in such locations as nature, restaurants, clubs, forests, coffee shops (and other caffeine dealers), private parties, weddings, and living rooms. In addition to our awesome features we will also be bringing back all your GREEN favorites, and by favorites we of course mean Ratpack Slim, Joshua Silverstein and DJ Jedi on the 1's and 2's! We will see u on Mondays
peace,
us
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