afrikprophet

I felt productive this week. Did a lot of reading and re reading, had my exam for my next raise and made an appointment, finnally to see the doctor for a physical. On top of that I'm actually working on writing something for publication, a little thing for Rifts but should be flexible enough for any RPG. Hopefully I will have it done by the end of the week.

I realize that I often post at times when my spelling is the worst. may the gods of grammer forgive me.

The Chaos Frame gig on Saturday went really, really well. It was the first time we had performed in front of a decent sized audiance, most of whom didn't know us personally. A bunch of friends showed up including Mikal aka HIred Gun, CeeCee and two of my friends from Adelphi Jessie and Ray. Cris was also able to finally see us live and according to her we were awsome, and I know she would tell me if we sounded like crap. I had cut up some samples of Robert Anton Wilson's speech at the Disinfocon and several of the creepy midnight spank commercials to use as filler and transition peices and they worked out great. There were a few moments in the beginning as always where it took some time for us to sync up but by the end it just felt really good. Thars not the right word, it felt pure and honest. At the end we actually got the loudest applause of the night, at least that I heard.

I don't get Laila Lounge at times. Everytime that I have played there, either as a band or DJing, the vast vast vast majority of the other performers just well, don't sound that good, many of them sound rather painfull to listen to, as if there friends never had the heart to tell them, to quote Adarro Minton "you can cook but you can't sing, get back in the kitchen." Is it that New York is just oversaturated with bands and sub par performers or is it just that there is no discrimination as to who they book? I don't know. It may have worked in our favor that night. Its a really great venue, I just wish they had better performers there.

In other news I finnished my first freelance writing gig. It was a review of a short story collection called "Gay Black Crippled Fat" by Adarro Minton and an interview. It was an interesting read, he is very talented but I found myslef wishing that most of his stories were longer. They seemed to be cut short. The interview was a bit surreal. I met him, his partner, a intern and an assistant in Jamaica Queens, we then went to the Vetrans of Forigen Wars bar/club/office house to conduct the interview. He was a very cool guy. I sent the review and the transcipts out on Monday hopefully it will be up online or in press releases soon.

I am writing a grant proposal that needs to be postmarked by tomorrow. Its part of a new intiative to get grant m oney directly to artists no matter what stage of production their projects are in. I'm going to try and get some money to fund a full release of "The Bergen Sessions" this time with a run of between 300 and 500 copies, with cover art, upc codes and and ISBN number so I can put them up on amazon and other markets. I have my fingers crossed. Just hope that I can get everything done and sent out on time. I've been having major writers block on the subject this week. I think the heat has been messing with my brain, especially after the tours.

Its a book review and interview. It dosent pay much but its not interfeering with anything else and the stories are looking pretty good. will write mor elater, have to show off Harlem to the Chinesses now.

Okay okay, I know its been a while since I posted (Cristen) I've been keepingmyself pretty busy. I have fianlly gotten back in to the groove of writing and completeinting my work. Its strange to actually have something with a beginning middle and end that you still enjoy a week after completeing it. The short story still needs some work but its mostly done. I'm workingon a little stream of thought didy right now. I don't know where its comming from. one of those medium moments. I guess my subconsiousness is flexing its muscles since the stress of tax time and rent time has passed. I'm starting to think of it as a kind of 21st century Book of the Dead (don't give me any of that post modern bagage, at least not yet). Here's the first two verses.

This isn’t magic, its reality
hit the feedback tab
feel it dissolve in your mouth
information flowing thru your veins
synapses opening up
like voltage control gates
transporting out of 4d time
in to the undefined dreamscape
no, no you can’t escape
your Armageddon is a personal event horizion
and me and morrison are checking our stop watches
counting to none
“yo son, yo son word is born son/Bow wow yipe yay didn’t you hear me say I’m a dog killer cause all dogs have there day”
except for the devourer of your soul
yes that’s it
that’s the metaphor
the dog of death
his maw wide open at the event horizon
the arma- to your -geddon
his back is the hill of hells army
his teeth the reckoning of the lord
oh and lord
your trip has just begun

we who know you are false
know you cannot survive
beyond what you created
trapped in your own creation
your maddness has been infecting us
ever since Adam took his first breath
You infected us with your maddness
and then you left.
Inept
Absent
Yet your watchers still demand tribute
You feed on the stuff of our souls
You can’t digest it directly
like in the old time religion days
so you have the dog of death digest it for you
Seraphims feed the pap to you in the smoke of their
once sacred brazier chanting “Holy Holy Holy”
atop Mount Quaf.

Mad thanks to Macedonia!
Macedonia put up one of my Sankofa Bass Project songs, "What We Use" on his roughly bi weekly podcast show. you can hear the whole set here and the play list here (http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/bsots/macedonia/radiobsots-1205playlists.html). Jason if you are reading this thanks for your comments too, Cristen will tell you I was smiling from ear to ear the whole day.  

I should be writting something more today but I cant really think of anything so here it is.
What I'm Reading:
Finnishing up Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeffery Chang
Couriers 03: The Ballad of Johnny Funwreker by Brian Wood
DMZ by Brian Wood (not to self get down to forbidden planet for the next issue)
Douglass Rushkoff's interviews on Open Source Judaism, very interesting concepts, and dreamspace
http://www.seeingblack.com/

 

What I'm writing:
background for the sigil project- Notes, quotes, lyrics to fill in the dreamscape. Later today I may put in a LJ cut to give you all a peak at the literary/sonic background.
Sigil Episode One Treatment: almost finnished just have to write in one more character then its to the actual scripting. Thinking of using Grant Morrisons style in Arkham Asylum.

What I'm listening to:

The Rachel Maddow Show: Air Americas morning news show, very good,  very funny.

Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Courtesy of Mikal aka Hired Gun aka SPROUT!

Macedonias Podcasts -of course

Trying to find more music and news sources to listen to at work. the computers here don't have realplayer on them. so if any one knows of any streaming news sites that use Windows Media let me know.