we stood in Darks

[ @@@ Toj :: Three Thunderpain ]

Report to you I will th fact that I had fun in Darks! I (& friend Vinnie) appeared at a party hosted by Gothic Funk in Hyde Park in Chicago! Th concept: party in th Dark! Sun down, lights out, windows covered. Th exception: wearable light permitted! Bits of hovering humanlight went to & fro. I donned round punchlight as medallion, w/ initials NN to identify appropriated Self during performancetime. Which happened.

As Nim, I played a funtimes set in th dark, unplugged, mandogasmically fancylike! People did claps, taps, beats, & grand singalongery; I enjoyed an audience thus engaged in Jamtype betweens! Indeed, my people had heard of Eris (All Hail Discordia, mhftee!) & song-poems (I played 'Pink Roses Palace' & 'Jimmy Carter Says Yes' for an appreciative bunch of Happies)!

I did a bit of wanders in dark to meet people whose faces I could only guess at th identifying details of. People seemed kind & interesting, fans of stuffed sharks, statistics, quantum physics, half nakedness, etc.

Sol Truck

I should mention also th very excellent band that played second: Sol Truck, a marvelously strange & lovely set of Eastern Europeans! They did songs w/ accordion, slide whistle, guitar, [tiny] keyboard, Jews' harps & lots of fun vocalizations (grunts, shouts, sings, giggles). I loved them & wish I'd had a chance to chat chat chat w/ them after their set. Another time! Hooray for Sol Truck.

Now I have shared my times w/ you.

Much love & Coconothingness,
AndR Q Nim

SONG POEMS WANTED!

I & three good friends went out to see a preview of Song Poems Wanted: th Musical! last night, & we had a blast! Another showing happens in March, & I think I may try to get loads of good people to come. Would you like to check it out with me?

I have a show coming up in April in which I will split a bill with song-poet guru Gary Forney & his son & bandmate Josh Forney! To celebrate th wonder of song-poems, I've decided to learn a few covers of fantastic song-poem masterpieces (do you have any favorites?) as well as write some of my very own! For that, I need you.

"Song-poems" refers to song lyrics written by regular people & submitted to companies like Red Rock Records who turn their words into original songs & record them for a fee. These companies have done this for years, & created many thousands of obscure song-poem recordings that delight collectors like myself who enjoy th natural weirdness of authentic people in their element.

Some say th song-poem business preys on naive people, unethically trading them false hopes for sums of money. Yes, perhaps, when they make claims that th poets' works will surely become hits. But, when a poet just wants to hear her/his poems turned into songs & receives pleasure in that, I say that song-poem companies do a real service for these people. After all, these people choose to send their lyrics, often over & over again. They obviously get their own rewards from it.

Anyway, I like song-poems a whole bunch, & for this special show in April, I intend to write some of my own.

So send me your lyrics! Email them to me, post them as "fnords" to this post, get them to me however you like, but do get them to me! I want very much to turn your zany poems into original songs!

I can tell you this:

1. If you send me your words, you agree to let me turn them into an original song to perform & record!
   
2. I won't charge you anything for this.
   
3. I may use your poem, & I may not. Take no offense if I don't.
   
4. If I turn your lyrics into a song, I will record it & make an mp3 file of it available for you (& whomever else wants it) online.
   
5. I will always give you credit for writing th words.
   
6. If I ever make any money off th song (unlikely), I will give you a cut.
   
7. Th stranger th better.

So send me your poems! I will do them right good!