Late Breaking Muse

I will be updating my blog live from my performance of "Late Breaking Muse" at Living Arts....as part of the New Genre 17 Fest here in Tulsa.....should be a fun/interesting night.....I'm totally ripping off David Byrne....I hope he doesn't mind...... Because I love Mr. Byrne. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of this!

-off to work!

Babs

Break

Taking a blog breather for a few days.....
Performing tonight, tomorrow...
Working on a book review (which comes with a book winning contest!)
I should be up and running with a full report by ,,, very soon.
Gotta sweat it out!
Groovy plans are a foot....

Be good!

John Hughes Muse

dedicating this photo to friends- old/new
and w/ love to Mr. Hughes.    one of my Muses.

NEW GENRE FESTIVAL: LIVING ARTS: TULSA

THIS IS WHAT'S UP

WEEK 1; FEBRUARY 23-28  |  WEEK 2; MARCH 1-7 Master Class Workshops KRISTINA WONG RESIDENCY – PERFORMANCE ART – FEB 23, 24 & 25, 7-10pm LIVING ARTS LAB, 308 S. KENOSHA, TULSA. No Charge Finding Your Language: Playing with Different Performance Tongues You don’t have to be the best actor, singer, or dancer to tell an amazing story..... Master Class with Contact Improviser, Jordan Fuchs - Saturday, Feb. 27th, 10 am - 12 noon - Where: ORU Howard Auditorium Dance Studio    Cost: $5/personOriginally from Providence, Rhode Island, Jordan Fuchs seeks to extend the expressive possibilities of live performance through explorations of form and formlessness, physical relationships at close-quarters and experiments in staging and technology...... ARTSPOT/MONDO BIZARRO – PERFORMANCE ART/VOCAL WORKSHOP – MON, March 1, 7-10pm  & SAT, March 6, 1-3pm No Charge    Living ArtSpace Kathy Randels will work with a group of Tulsa performance artists to further develop solo material they have been creating throughout the Living Arts Festival this year.....  MARK RUMSEY – Creation of: ASK: Tulsa – March 2 & 3, 2-5pm & March 4, 5-8pm at LIVING ARTSPACE – The Community is invited to come to several work sessions as Mark builds his installation. The installation process is accomplished in two phases..... EMILY JOHNSON Our Bodies in Performance Workshop - March 7, 2-5pm & 8, 9,  5-10pm LIGGETT STUDIO  No Charge. An experiential workshop focused on bodily practice and commitment to performance. We will do warm-ups for the body, engage deep levels of concentration.....

Upcoming Events LIVING ARTS HAS MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION! 307 E. BRADY  New Gallery Hours Mon.closed Tue.Wed.Sat.Sun.1~5pm Thu.Fri. 1~9pm Video Race Winners Five by REKK WINTER DRUM CIRCLE ARTBIKE WORKSHOP #1 1p, Sat., February 20 Video Art  Electronic & Acoustic Music Techniques Corner Installation Sites Tulsa Art Blog New Living Arts History Blog Like to receive Living Arts Email?Send your email address tolinda@livingarts.org

LIVING ARTS. LIVING MY LIFE. LIVING YOUR LIFE. LIVING OUR LIFE.

I am so thrilled, excited, rejuvenated, freaked-out... ya know all that good stuff. Living Arts of Tulsa is having a really amazing two week event, happening....here in TULSA. Artists from all over are coming and connecting right here....and right NOW.....I think this is something Tulsa has been waiting for. A little bit of fun. A little bit of performance. Vibration. and THINKING. I cannot wait to get in on the adventure. Come on join the fun!!!!! http://www.livingarts.org/

Poet, didn't know it.

some new ones......work in progress as usual.

Rails/Ties

Man w/ engineer cap

Sweaty beautiful muscular

Blackbrownanything angels

Hammer in the veins

Of our connection.

The crossroads

Connecting rhythms of

A

Train

Collective rhythm of this

REIGNrain  go away

Electricity & Sweat

And

UNION YES!

Went into these TRACKS

Commerce

Commerce

Delievered on

The Crossroads

I want to get hammered

Want to get hammered into

Want to get hammered get

Hammered into

Into my head into my head

Into my heart heart    in to.

Le Musee Fou

“ Miss Alabama”

Oh, there goes

Another one

Who was trapped in

Her

Burning

House.

She was beautifully

Damned

To be Damn

To be

To be

Damn Good.

Can I take you back to Berlin?

Pretty Lady? Kitty Cat-

You made running away with you

Seem so good

That I wanted to run

Run away

With you

To Montgomery

Where we could be Gothic

Debutantes.

Then of course back to Berlin

Where we could be the same.

& Morrocco I dreamt of it last

night. Us in the market

Causing some scene

Sweating

Out

Our blues.

You don’t believe in

Hurricanes or Weather.

At least not in TVs

To my knowledge.

Now I see why.

Here is our crazy list

( I know there’s more)

Cahun, Dora Maar, Leonora, Lee Miller,

……..

Hello Kitty?

They saved you the waltz

They didn’t spare you the shit.

I loathe them for that.

Just so you know.

Don’t cry

Don’t cry, kitty.

My claws are sharper now

The heart patched itself.

Jazzbabygirlkitty

You were not made for

This NOW.

It just made you

Uncomfortable,

Exuberant

& Scared.

& too Electric

for this dimension.

Oh, I forgot about our

Little mold thing.

IT was just tradtion.

Up,Up,Up w/ the

Muse

Damn it’s fun

To watch

Her

Fall.

Oh, Shadow Sister

May you be in

Lights,

Neon,

All that yummy stuff.

May you be dressed to the

Nines at all times.

Pretty kitty.

……

Back to the Burning

And you were trapped there

Why didn’t you get

“enough rope”

or

“Get Out…Get Out” like

Los Angeles by X

Honey you really

Were not that crazy.

Just too much fun.

May I tell you something

I think I believe

Sometimes Madness

Is just Madness

And Wisdom

Is just Wisdom.

All Tomorrow's Parties, Yo!

Don't Look Back!

Sister Morphine.....can we morph, babe?

IMAGE FROM----->http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/marianne-faithfull-sister-morphine/

about Townes......http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/townes-youve-gotta-move-or-just-youre-waitin-around-to-die/


and a little Roky, too......
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/roky-erickson-the-great-lost-texas-pioneer-of-rock-and-roll/

LOVE is a Battlefield, Baby!

From IO9.com

For we mere mortals, romance can be tough; after all, love is, as Pat Benetar once so tunefully pointed out, a battlefield. But some comic book characters come prepared for this kind of war. Here're 10 examples to learn from.

Five men, five women - All of whom have the power of love, and not in a Huey Lewis and the News sense. Comic characters have possessed special love powers since the early day of the medium, but the portrayal of what that means has changed as the audience has gotten older, more cynical and read a lot more mind control fetish stories on the internet. Whither the innocence of comics' youth? Well, that's still around, as well...

continue here 

and of course, the Classic Ms. Benatar HERself