| Nov. 8th, 2009 @ 10:54 am just. wow. |
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Current Mood:  enthralled
i'm completely full & exhausted from this weekend's marathon festival.
the schedule was challenging (i already know some changes likely to be made).
late nights, early flights,shuttling day gigs to evening & then the whole of yeaterday, from an ungodly 9am
until well beyond 9pm. 8 poets can be aloooooong show, and i know it was a little too long for a few, but a lot more people hung around for the second half than at a usual event. to me, it all went by at a pretty quick pace.
because it was a "that just happened!" evening.
it may have been the best show i've ever hosted, though it's hard to rank these things considering the diversity of some of the favorite ones.hierarchies aren't really my thing anyway.
but WOW. i loved the range. i think there was something for everyone.or multiple somethings for everyone.
GREAT AUDIENCE
i remembered at some point in the afternoon that a majority of my best shows rely on the extra adrenaline of pushing on through some kind of fatigue.it was an easy sell to be great---i mean, marty, jamie,regie cabico, theresa, ami,jt, kit,joanna hoffman--REALLY?! all in ONE PLACE?
OHMYG-D.
(in my monring afterness, i really hate that we didn't have a videographer.some of the best sh* doesn't get recorded).
the how.
i can't even describe what everyone did or the how.just think of regie cabico, wearing a bright green bow around his head from the chocolate box he used in an earlier piece.picture jamie doing his janis best, excoriating with beauty of precision in language,his first major cheating-without-knowing-experience.picture jt bullock pulling out a comb on his freddy mercury 'stache, theresa both holding down local rep,& doing "octomom" to the hilt.joanna hoffman finally releasing the piece it took 9 years to write about coming out, or the persona poem of a holocaust "survivor" from within a nursing home, ami's declaration for sisterly respect "it's ideology, not biology," kit yan calling bs on gender or describing the recycling of plastic he grew up with,
and marty....marty casting drag queen spells---but also how in this room "we become verb" which was, really, the whole evening in a phrase.
i mean. damn.
i heard more pieces from everyone than i ever have had the chance to hear and i am full.
we are so very very very very fortunate to have had that moment, the challenges, the all of it.
right down to the last-night-hook-up attempts (and one success) & convenience store hysteria
which I KNOW made the behind-the-counter-guy's evening, laughing with & at us.
more than a few people suggested we should do a road version of what just happened.i wish.
well look what wishing can do.sometimes, they do come true.
jamie literally fell asleep while we were talking about at least setting up a retreat of some kind, with regie going on as a kind of couch side idea factory.
but before that...
i should be sleeping, but now my house is empty and i just can't.
not quite yet. |
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