“I’d throw away the cars and the bars and the war”

tomorrow, the crew hits the radio. after many years of being a devoted opie&anthony listener and a full fledged big-ass member of the ron&fez society, i finally get to be in a studio.

not sure exactly how it’s going to go down but i will just flow like always.

point– if you get a chance, tune into WBAI tomorrow (the ninth) at 2:00pm and lend me your ears, so to speak.

friday is going to be a day of silliness as i will *attempt* to make the martin espada reading at cornelia street then shoot directly over to bluestockings for a feature that the Acentos crew has going on over at soul nation hosted by the amazinf mujeres de mahina movement.

bluestockings is a small, independent bookstore that focuses on woman’s books until recently they had a woman-only policy which sucked. i understand how groups need their space but my philosophy says you achieve more through inclusion than exclusion but thats just me. mahina had their first soul nation a few months back and it was the bomb… so i expect yo have a really good time while all thats going on.

also at 8:00pm keith roach is having a book release party for his new book, The World Changes at the Expense of Black People, at the Poetrty Project

and, over at the nuyo you have manny xavier as the spotlight.

you know, there was a time when if i did ONE poetry reading a day every day of the week, i thought that i was bein’ some kind of poetry warrior… now, i am lucky if i only have ONE a day.

The Friday Five

1. What vehicle do you drive?

currently… the iron horse of the NYMTA

2. How long have you had it?

for the last few months after i lost my honda (long story)

3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle?

on the honda… everything! man and machine were like one in that bad boy!

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle?

the NYMTA… people! gawd they are so f’ing loud and with nothing to say

5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now?

its a toss up between getting a jet black harley

or

the honda accord v6 coupe

“take a little trip, take a little trip with me”

‘the cabana cabal’ (myself, fish, & rich– credit shappy with the name) rode back down to the blue ox to catch willie perdomo… again. sign of a true poet, you just can’t get enough and there are always things one can learn about going about a set, poem selection, crowd reaction, etc.

also down with the brown, ed garica, eliel lucero, holmes mchenry, and juan. there were other readers (some latino) but they weren’t down with the acentos name brand.

good news– the cabana cabal all came with brand NEW pieces

bad news– we went up after willie and half the crowd was gone

no worries, we all came across well and pretty confident considering how fresh the pieces were (mine was less then three hours old)

this new piece is titled “Brooklyn Back Break Beat” and like a super egomainiac i was talkin’ about my lines all night on the ride back home with rich which sounds like a real schmuck move but i was so excited about the poem and all the possibilities that are in it after some more edits.

back to willie– the set was tight and very similair to the nuyo reading except without both ‘Reflections on the Metro North’ and no ‘Spotlight at the Nuyo…’ which makes all the sense in the world and was instead filled up with more passages from “Where A Nickle Costs A Dime”

funny moment was when will reads ‘Somking Lovely,’ “When you smoke crack…” and the VERY conservative BCA crowd starts laughing cuz they can’t figure out why he’s starting a poem like that. the crowd will be much different when will drops by on november 11th (check out the updated calendar to your right, y’all)

big head rush moment of the night– willie is plugging the october 13th book launch party at Bar13 and says “my boys from the Acentos crew will be holdin’ down the door”

hell yeah! the cabana cabal will be in the fullest effect!