Poemx RULE tonight

Hey people
Tonight is going to both rock AND roll with some super awesome touring poet action. That's right BLAIR from Detroit Michigan is going to kick lots and lots of awesome assery. So come on over and bask in the awesome that is you on the mic, that is your pal on the mic and that is good times and art sharing revolution and shit at the Queer Open Mic.

Hosted by Cindy Emch and Sherilyn Connelly
@ $3 Bill Cafe
1800 Market St
SF
8pm (730 sign up)

more about BLAIR
In his own words: " I'm a black, queer writer and musician. I went to South
Africa and on a a few tours including a six month independent tour of the
U.S. I grew up in New Jersey. I live in Detroit. I'm interested in every
kind of music. It just has to move me. Always been interested in doing a lot
of different styles. I feel I'm ready to dive deeper. I've written a one man
show called Burying the Evidence. You can check one of the blogs for a
description of it. Come see it sometime. I'm working on a book. I've been
published in Black Rennaissance Noire (NYU Press) by Quincy Troupe and some
newspapers and journals over the last few months. My dad looked like Chuck
Berry, played like Hank Williams. My mom cleaned white folk's houses. She
raised five children. On her own. I inherited all sorts of ghosts from both
of them. Sometimes I can fly."  http://www.myspace.com/blairmusic

self reflective meme

rain_and_rivers chose some icons and interests of mine and asked for explain

icons: sex in the 20s, yes i did get these at graceland, lydia the tattooed lady
interests: exploring musical landscapes, mythology of baseball, profane vs sacred

sex in the 20s
while looking around for flapper underwear on ebay i somehow came across this picture - which sums up how i sometimes feel, how i want to feel and the aesthetic of sexual glee and ease with self. one of the sexiest pics I have ever seen.

yes i did get these at graceland
ah - my actual elvis glasses. i took this pic myself at an old job when i was just getting my lj feet wet and wanted more icons. that's me looking as i imagine one should look in graceland glasses.

lydia the tattooed lady
image from a delicious bonnydoon vineyard wine. and sums up how i sometimes see myself in my mind.

INTERESTS
exploring musical landscapes
this often applies to jazz for me. laying back and hearing the improv and where it's going and where it's taking and how its looking back and what places come up for me while it's on and the spaces in between the notes and how once in while really good music that isn't jazz can take me places too. exploring the landscapes of places that the music brings up and then the landspaces peaks and valleys of the notes and instruments themselves

mythology of baseball
the ultimate americana. along the lines of trainhopping and woodie guthrie - baseball is one of those things - so accessible by the working class, has been of and for the american people since the beginning of the last century. i watched the ken burns doc and saw history interconnecting. how americans have played out social issues on the baseball field. how it can give people something in common to root for or to rally about. a piece of how to keep community as we roll into a culture that is so isolating. at modern games still singing the old songs. baseball is one of those things that still actually cares about tradition. and there are some serious characters in its stories

profane vs sacred
it all about how the ugly and the beautiful interconnect. real love has it's ugly sides. anything that holds gorgeous has to have it's contrast. anything that the heart holds sacred has an underbelly. the dark and twisty and complicated parts are what make things so precious and the profanity makes us want them more.