i got a lameo review which was hilarious, i can’t wait to use it in future schtick/webcast calls to army of broken toys-arms/poems/pr0n, etc. (a 1 sentencer, that said a lil’ of me goes a long way. DUH. i’m a loud five foot hobbit-muppet-fairy. something my parents, montessori school teachers, terrorized elementary school admins and ANY ONE who has had even 1 conversation with me in their lifetime could tell you) and btw, freaks and fantastiques? don’t let borings tell you to reign it in. this is how pants wearing regimes sneak in. (that is me re-quoting my twitter, i think it was true) sooo, have some press that actually tells you accurately how the audience reacted to me. swell!
Puppets populate world of the Brothers Grimm
from the Tufts Daily by Michelle Beeler (exceprts below) »
http://bit.ly/Grimmtufts
Right from the start, The Performance Lab proves its dedication to revealing a new, exciting theater scene — one that is already underway, but not entirely well known. The entire first act of the show, the “HUBbub,” is an unprecedented and completely separate performance from “Le Cabaret Grimm” and stands more as a precursor to the fictional cabaret than as a part of it.
The “HUBbub” is comprised of different acts from underground Boston artists and is a part of The Performance Lab’s mission to draw attention to Boston’s alternative art scene. Each week, the “HUBbub” highlights a different set of performances hosted by the gender-bending performance artist Johnny Blazes. Since the opening acts change from week to week, audiences have the option of returning to the theater for another performance — and a completely different experience.
For the first weekend, from April 8 to 10, guest performers included Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys, jojo The Burlesque Poetess and Madge of Honor…
The Burlesque Poetess was the best contribution to the “HUBbub.” With her quick wit and expert manipulation of words, she was a constant surprise of entertainment (as was her tendency to flash the audience)…
read on : http://bit.ly/Grimmtufts
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(some reblog det’s from mlle.tumblr below, forgive me) - i was on the front/splash of ukulelia.com the other day. and that permalink included a great new review i’d yet to see. double yay.
…and the stand-up comic poetry of jojo, The Burlesque Poetess, whose Amelia Bedelia-meets-Lady Gaga fashion sense and skewed patter kept the house in stitches.
-EDGE Boston on Le Cabaret Grimm by Kilian Melloy » http://bit.ly/Grimmedge
though i make no claims to Amelia Bedelia or Lady Gaga fashion attempts, in my comment-defense i will say i was dressed as a pretty cracked out Alice-going down on the rabbit— i mean Alice nude before the looking glass, i mean. we’re Lewis Carrollian, as a band. it happens. we crashed fairy tale jail!
and in other facebrain news, come join the cult! i have my fan page url officially claimed. come join the temple of frilly verse and satin sonnets unraveling at your ankles: http://facebook.com/poetesss
poems/love en route mes amis xo
p.s. oh yeah, i was in
Huffington Post too for my work with
WILLA: women in letters and literary arts. needless to say your tumblr friend doesn’t just write poems-on-demand, i’m up to a lot of not-good when i’m not writing dirty versery, i admit it. i have many irons in the fire? MPD teapots whistling muttering talking and singing to themself on the same stove range? yup. fire. away i go.
