Sinister: stripping poets & atp chalet?

[Robyn Fadden]

hello all you rockstars!

i wanted to write and tell you about a really good performance
artist/stripper i saw the other day, but i was rethinking it b/c i
told the story to a friend of mine (a canadian) who is living in
oxford and she said she was going to tell the story to her british
friends and they'd get all uncomfortable and squeemish and go home
and *not* masturbate, but think about their grans. prove her wrong!
(especially if you're in oxford...)

but first! i've got holidays coming to me in the first two weeks of
april and i thought that i would come over to england and hang out in
the london/oxford area and go to All Tomorrow's Parties! so, before
going to the atp message board for kids without chalet mates, i
wanted to ask any of you if you needed an extra person for your
chalet. and if you'd like this person to be a kind, thoughtful,
hard-drinkin' 26 yr old girl from west coast canada. all bids to
rfadden at yahoo.com

back to the stripping:
i went to a reading called 'skank' the other night. it
was greatness! poetry and strippers together at last! and even one
poet/performance artist who stripped! but not only did she strip, but
she first read, then stripped off her coat and danced in her 1970s
peach lingerie, then read a bit, then stripped her top off and took a
stuffed toy duck (seriously) out of her underwear (which she took off
to reveal a thong) and bit the head off the duck! and blood spurted
out all over her! it was wicked! and she was stipping to 'highway to
hell'! then she rubbed the blood all over her and took a bottle of
glue and rubbed *that* all over her and proceeded to cover herself in
feathers from the duck. and when the music stopped, she brushed her
hair from her face, whiped a bit of the blood off, and read another
poem. insanely awesome. she kicked stripping ass. the boy stippers
(it being a gay bar with mostly male clientele, though not on this
night) who came on later had nothing on her. though one guy did
dance/strip to 'paradise city', so he gets points for that and his
incredible 1987 mane of black hair (it was real). poetry rules!

not to say that i would want to see, say, ezra pound take all his
clothes off while reading 'canto XIII'. or even 'in a station of the
metro' for that matter... which is obviously just not going to
happen. (er, that may bring an abrupt halt to any thoughts of Mx
where M is masturbating, and x is a person*)

oh, they've finally released "ratcatcher" in north america - such a
good movie, really amazing. and there are scottish accents galore if
that's what gets you out to the foreign pictures these days. :)

and 'aliens' on dvd is *the* shit. yo. 

the other day i went to the sinister site and in the search box was
'sad_fluffy_ghd'. it made me go 'aaawwwh' and when i clicked on it a
million ghd posts came up. 
IT WAS COOL.

ooh, i must do more work now. again, please let me know if you have
chalet room or know of someone who does. that would be nice and i
would be so grateful and happy. thanks.

robyn

*http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/masturbating.html

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright
~~~
Robyn Fadden    rfadden at yahoo.com    Vancouver, BC

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