Okay, this is awesome

I gotta admit, this is one cool thing.

Next Rockstar Show: Tuesday, November 25th: 7pm, BLB

How about some video?

Or maybe just the article from the Camel website [after the jump]

Myth Me Musings (12)

After the jump, the piece that I’m doing for Rockstars tonight.  Since this is what will most likely become the jumping off point for Myth Me, I thought I’d post it as today’s blog.

Rockstar Show Friday Night!

Just a general PSA that the next Rockstar Storytellers show is tomorrow night, 10 pm at Bryant Lake Bowl.  We’re taking on religion tomorrow night.  Curt Lund, Courtney McLean, Rik Reppe, Amy Salloway, and myself are performing, and phillip andrew bennett low is hosting.

And I hope to answer the question for you before the end of the night: Are you a pipe or a bucket?!

In case you needed any more incentive, City Pages gave us a pitch yet again.  Yee haw!

New Pictures!

I just uploaded new pictures to the Rockstar Facebook Group.  Check ’em out!

The MPR story.

Well, that was just cool.  I’m proud to say that six of the ten Rockstars recorded stories tonight for “In The Loop: Story Slam”.  The show will air on MPR on March 2nd, but we recorded a couple hours and they cut down to an hour, so there’s no guarantee that I will make it on.  However, if I do, click below to read the text of the story I did tonight.

Keep these numbers in mind this weekend

Actually, through Monday at 9pm:

1, 9, 36, 42, 45, 70, 106, 138

I will not say why.  Don’t want to jinx anything.

But the tags probably give it away.

Rockstars tonight

BLB.  10pm.  It’ll be good.

Look Who Got A-Listed!

I have big ideas a lot of times.  Most of the projects I never start.  However, once in a while I actually start something, and few and far between on those projects, people take notice. 

I gotta say, it looks like the Rockstar Storytellers are getting noticed. 

Evidence?  Why, we just got ourselves A-Listed in City Pages for this Friday’s show.  Here’s the text:

Let’s face it—storytelling may be the primordial art form, born at the dawn of language. However, modern performance telling, with its small but dedicated, heavily middle-aged audience, has just never managed the same level of cool as rock ‘n’ roll. But this year, a group of 10 younger local performance artists banded together to take back some of the cultural cachet storytelling deserves. Optimistically calling themselves Rockstar Storytellers, they come to the stage from a multiplicity of backgrounds, from mime to radio monologue to traditional theater to slam poetry to competitive speech. Laden with Fringe Festival credentials, the cast promises to not just twiddle your emotional dial, but to take a monkey wrench to your presuppositions about what storytelling should be. Highlights include the evening’s host, Allison Broeren, a standup comedian and co-Slam Master of the Minneapolis Poetry Slam, and philip low, a highly energetic and physical teller who’s been known to take the stage wearing nothing but boxer shorts to illustrate the transformation of a character. — Ward Rubrecht

And that?  Is pretty dang cool.

Why I work off a script

We had our first Rockstar Storytellers show last night, which I think was quite a success.  Not quite the audience numbers we were hoping for, but we gotta start somewhere, right?

People often ask me why I work off a script.  It’s partly because it’s my trademark now, partly because my memory’s really not that great, and partly because if I don’t, I am not to be held liable for what comes out of my mouth.

Last night I hosted the show, so wasn’t working off anything.  I started off the show reading the definition of the word “betrayal” and this was one of the first things that came out of my mouth:

“Let’s see, definition of Betrayal: ‘to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty’.  I guess that’d be like Benedict Arnold, Brutus, or Judas Iscariot.  I think it’s kinda funny that the biggest betrayal in Christianity is one guy kissing another guy.  Maybe that’s why they have such a problem with homosexuality.  Or, on the other hand, if Judas hadn’t kissed Jesus, then there wouldn’t have been a crucifixion and subsequent resurrection.  Which means, you know, there wouldn’t have been Christianity.  So maybe they should like gays!”

I swear to God I’m Catholic.