Currently BZoO Homegrown Radio is going through a major revamping of its radio station, and although Chaotic Radio is scheduled for play on Monday evenings (5:00 PM CST), there have been talks of reworking the show and the staton. So in the meantime, enjoy these radio shows from our library!
show #82
November 11th through November 24th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: A live reading at The Green Mill (in Chicago, where the slam poets are chosen for the annual National Poetry Slam) of a poem called True Happiness in the New Millennium; “Duality in G”, a song by Athena Reich; “Calling On Your Love”, a piece by Mikia Vera; Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine, reads Sept. 11 2001; a piece by Michael H. Brownstein read live at the Cafe in Chicago on 04/20/04 called “1939: Exiction Day”, which also appear the the cc&d sounds page and also appeared in cc&d magazine’s April 22 2004 issue; Chicago Poetry Fest’s 2004 reading at Weeds by David Hernandez; and a book reading from the book Moving Performances, which includes the poems You Would Know If You Were Here, My Father, Shooting an Animal, and the short story Crazy. Background music is of sampled music that was also sampled from the DMJ Art Connection of a piece read by Jared Smith called Everything Was Alive and Dying.
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show #81
November 4th through November 10th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by David Michael Jackson, with the piece Holding My Skin Together (which was written in 2000); Shelley Nation reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “Rainy Night”; The Second Axing with Realistic Dreams, which was written in 1995 and was performed live at the music/poetry open mic Sing Your Life on July 1st; a practice session of poetry reading for the perofrmance art show A Foot Fantasia of the poem Your Soul Is Shaking (originally written in 2006 and read while in art gallery spaceat the Peter Jones Gallery with background music (really lightly) of music from the HA!Man of South Africa with “MAKANA battle scene”, off of the CD “Soundtrax”, while a computer laptop tried to play a thumb drive as an audio device (and produced a strange set of computer noises); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Night Beat”; THEN a little bit of a radio show interview with The Second Axing with ArtistFirst.com Internet Radio, where they are interviewed briefly on 11/06/03 — ending with their three pieces from when they played in concert live in Alaska, including Too Far, the Burning, and On An Airplane with a Frequent Flyer; a studio recording of Key To Survival (written in 2005) form the performance art show {Stripped} live in Chicago 06/07/05; the studio release of the pieces Elvira Doe, the poems Someone Give Me The Answers (originally written in 1998) and Sometimes It’s Not (originally written in 1998), then Hallucinations, Imagining Friends and Loved Ones and the poem
Will Be Just Fine (originally written in 1998), from the February 2003 Chicago performance art show Death Comes In Threes; and finally the book reading this week, from the book Seeing Things Differently from Scars Publications, with the poems Andrew Hettinger, Communication, and Conversations a Day of Grieving, 1/22/94 Two. Background music is the instrumental music from David Michael Jackson of The DMJ Art Connection with rthe music behind Holding My Skin Together, which is Pod 3 Trance.
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show #80
October 28th through November 3rd “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by David Michael Jackson, with the piece I Dreamt About You Last Night (which was written in 1998, which is also on the CD release Manic Depressive or Something); Holly Smith reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “D.U.S. Muzik”; The Second Axing with I Want, performed live at the music/poetry open mic Sing Your Life on August 19th; a practice session for the perofrmance art show A Foot Fantasia of the poem Yeah (originally written in 1989, and had Peter Bartels dancing throughout the performance, as well as the HA!Man of South Africa playing the cello); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Black Party”; THEN a little bit of a radio show interview with The Second Axing with ArtistFirst.com Internet Radio, where they are interviewed briefly on 11/06/03; C Ra McGuirt reading Young Wives Tales at the Lake Demented Poets live 03/13/02; a piece from the Scars Publications collection CD String Theory (with music by The DMJ Art Connection, that had material appear in a section of the book Chaos Theory), of a piece by Bobbi Dykema Katsanis called the Buddha Will Not Fit Inside Your Briefcase; then it’s book reading time with a book reading from the collection book Rinse and Repeat, which includes the poems I Don’t Want To, Against My Will, Like My Motto, and You Would Know If You Were Here. Background music is from Jake and Haystack off their CD “Right Like It Is,” called Genesis.
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show #79
October 21st through October 27th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: is one extremely long performance art show that was held in Chicago October 16th and October 17th called A Foot Fantasia. This radio show contains the entire first performance on Tuesday, October 16th. The events took place at the Peter Jones Gallery (1806 W. Cuyler, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60645) at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16th and Wednesday, October 17th 2007.
Featuring the musical genius of Francois LeRoux (a.k.a the HA!Man of South Africa) and Peter C. Bartels with video shot by Francois LeRoux (aka the Ha!Man of South Africa) and Cathleen Schandelmeier, this event features the amazing artistry of Donna Pecore, Tekki Lomnicki, Janet Kuypers, and Ed Roberson (whose work will be performed by Michael C. Watson - the Word Shaman of WordSlingers). You can also check out a chapbook of material from a number of the performers, or a Janet Kuypers chapbook of show poetry (plus additional dance-related writings) collected for this show. Background music is “GUMBO card game” off the CD Soundtrax by HA!Man.
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show #78
October 14th through October 20th
“Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine, reads A Finding Woman Once; a studio recording of the entire DvA Art Gallery performance in Chicago of the show Conflict•Contact•Control, including the poems Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl), The Men At The Construction Site, Women’s Very Existence, White Knuckled, And What I Want To Know, And I’m Wondering, The Way You Tease Me, Military Police, Too Far, and Communication ‘05 (with the majority of the background music by the DMJ Art Copnnection; ElektroNarkoz working with a WZRD radio live performance reading and developing Taking Out The Brain; from the CD Seeing Things Differently, the poem Philosopher at the Blue Note; an Aqua Velvet reading live at the open mic Mad Bar; Maureen Flannery reading “Coming Into Color”, live at her at The Cafe, April 27, 2004; a musician’s recording live at the open mic Shag’s Little Thing; a Coffee Chicago live poetry reading of the poems Burning Building and Worn Out; and a recording from Pointless Orchestra’s CD Rough Mixes, with the piece called Christmas Eve. Background music is of sampled music that was also used for the Seeing Things Differently CD track of Philosopher at the Blue Note, originally sampled from the “Kaboom” CD for Wild and Wacky Sound Software.
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show #77
October 7th through October 13th
“Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: Jason Pettus reading “Out There” live at an open mic in Chicago; the reading of a Marie Kazalia poem (live at The Cafe in Chicago) called “Out Of A Language Of A Thousand Fears”, which had been previously accepted in Children, Churches and Daddies magazine; Belinda Subraman, the editor of Gypsy Magazine, reads the poem “Alice”; the song “Why,” performed by The Second Axing; Artvilla’s David Michael Jackson performs “Out There”; the music band Feedback, performing “Eric Don’t Care”; a reader live at the 09/28/04 Chicago Poetry Fest, reading at Weeds; a poem by Cheryl Townsend (interpreted through Pointless Orchestra); Right There, By Your Heart, as performed on the Six One One compact disc turned book Change/Rearrange; then readings from the book Six Eleven, including the poems Looking for A Worthy Adversary, Work Journal One, Work Journal Two, and The Effects of Nine One One. Background music is of a droning rhythm, along with a bass drum march intro, sampled from the “Kaboom” CD for Wild and Wacky Sound Software.
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show #76
September 30th through October 6th
“Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: The Second Axing with Headache, performed live at the music/poetry open mic Sing Your Life; Ward Kelley, with “Joan”; Belinda Subraman, with a piece called “A View Of Self Release”; Feedback, with the song “Dead Valentine’s Song” from the album “Gigantes de Pop”; Erika Mikkalo reading live at the 08/29/04 Chicago Poetry Fest, at Weeds; a piece by Mikia Vera called “Beautiful”; Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, recorded live at The Cafe in Chicago on April 20, 2004, the poem “You Are The Sperm Whale of my Life”; a poem from Cheryl Townsend (interpreted through Pointless Orchestra); a readings from the book The Entropy Project, including A Retired Policeman Talks About Suicides He’s Seen, Odd How Things Turn Out That Way, Salamander, Ranting, and September 11, 2001. Background music is different pieces of suspense music, along with a drum high hat rhythm, sampled from the “Kaboom” CD for Wild and Wacky Sound Software.
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show #75
September 23rd through September 29th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by Andy Derryberry, with into the piece A Stand-Off (which was written in 1994); Amy Stewart reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “F***”; a song/reading from the Cafe on 05/29/07 of a a song and a poem, derived from the song What We Need In Life and the poem Fantastic Car Crash; then the studio tracks of the 08/05/07 Beach Poets Feature (with a large amount of material which is in the e-book/PDF file chapvook called Sun, Sand & H2Poetry), including All Men Have Secrets (written in 1990, Children, Churches and Daddies (written in 1993, Dive (written in 1994, Freedom Just Past the Fence (written in 2002, I Just Waited (written in 1990, I’m Thinking About Myself too Much (written in 1997, And I’m Wondering (written in 1997, Last Before Extinction (written in 1994, Moonlight (written in 1983, Philosopher at the Blue Note (written in 1995, Precinct Fourteen (written in 1995, Slate and Marrow (written in 1993, The Beach at Night (written in 1986, Too Far (written in 1995, To The River (written in 1987, Under the Sea (written in 1980, Writing Your Name (written in 1988, and You Once So Confidently (written in 1999; then two prose pieces that were used in the performance art show 6/11 called Work Journal One and Work Journal Two, then followed by the prose piece The Effects of 9/11; C Ra McGuirt reading Ticket at the Lake Demented Poets live 03/13/02; Penn Kemp, with the piece Cogito Ergo Sum; Nina Corwin, live at her feature at The Cafe, April 13, 2004, reading the poem Love in the Double Bass; the poem High Roller (written in 1990) form the CD Change/Rearrange; and finally a poetry reading from Joel live at the open mic Yammer. Background music is the instrumental music from Andy Derryberry of The DMJ Art Connection, with Andy 12.
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show #74
September 16th through September 22nd “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by Andy Derryberry, with into the piece The Apartment (which was written in 1991); and then we have selections from the Artist First Internet Radio show interview with The Second Axing on 09/22/03, which includes not only extensive interviews but also the interviews with the songs What We Need In Life, What I’ve Been Through and In Love I Abide, and interviews with the poem (set to music) Headache; then... Bradley T. Egner reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “A Reason Now”; and finishing off the show is a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Cocktail Hour”. Background music is the instrumental music from Andy Derryberry and The DMJ Art Connection called “Strat blue 8.”
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show #73
September 9th through September 15th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background guitar by Andy Derryberry and background guitar and bass by John Yotko, with into the piece Indian Flux (based on the writing Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl, which is also on the CD release Indian Flux); Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a plethors of poetry readings set to music), reads the piece Lady Punk Talks; Batya G. Hernandezreading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “Paper Chasin”; a reading from the Cafe on 06/19/07 of the feature performer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, reading a poem about pregnancy and motherhood; then a poem from the feature UNcorrect on 06/21/07 from the Jesse Oaks’ Politically UNcorrect Open Mic/Poetry Slam (hosted by Billie and Jacqueline) at Jesse Oaks Bar & Grill, 18490 West Old Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake (Lake County) Illinois, with a poem called Being God (which was originally written in 1998, and which you can even see a video for here); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Blue Delilah”; then a live performance of the poem Athena on 08/19/03 at the music and poetry open mic Sing Your Life, sponsored by the band The Second Axing (written in 1997); Cheryl Townsend (with music from Pointless Orchestra) performing Futile (with musicians including Cheryl Townsend with Voice, Mike Hovancsek with Gongs and metals, Paul Guerguerian with Gongs and metals, along with Jim Cole, Sharen Baker and Allan Dow with Harmonic vocals); the poem Gears Get Caught in the Mud (the final mix) (written in 2000) form the CD Change/Rearrange; Maureen Flannery reading The Farmer’s Widow Speaks, live at her feature at The Cafe, April 27, 2004. Then it’s book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poems I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, I’d Laugh More, Sometimes It’s Not, Not For Me Yet, My Height Any Longer, For My Car Or My Life, Well, Someone Is, the prose piece The Effects of 9/11 (written for the show 6/11), the poems Want That Too You Know, To Get To That Point, Not Getting Better, Slow Painful Death, and Is To Blame For It. Background music is the instrumental music from the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Blue Delilah.”
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #72
September 2nd through September 8th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by Andy Derryberry, with into the piece The Way You Tease Me (which was written in 1997, which is also on the CD release The DMJ Art Connection Disc One); Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a plethors of poetry readings set to music), reads the piece Miracle; Larry Sawyer reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “A Little Too Gangsta”; a reading from the Cafe on 06/19/07 of the feature performer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, reading a poem about a movie class, and creativity; then a poem from the feature UNcorrect on 06/21/07 from the Jesse Oaks’ Politically UNcorrect Open Mic/Poetry Slam (hosted by Billie and Jacqueline) at Jesse Oaks Bar & Grill, 18490 West Old Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake (Lake County) Illinois, with a poem called Grab The Other’s Neck (which was originally written in 2000, and which you can even see a video for here); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Let’s Get Goin’”; then a live performance of the poem New To Chicago on 06/24/03 at the music and poetry open mic Sing Your Life, sponsored by the band The Second Axing (written in 1997); Cheryl Townsend (with music from Pointless Orchestra) performing Eminent Domain (with musicians including Cheryl Townsend with Voice, Mike Hovancsek with Gongs and metals, Paul Guerguerian with Gongs and metals, along with Jim Cole, Sharen Baker and Allan Dow with Harmonic vocals); the poem Why Do You (written in 1997) form the CD Change/Rearrange; Maureen Flannery reading falling, live at her feature at The Cafe, April 27, 2004; then a series of prose pieces: After 7/11 One, Two, and Three, as performed on the Six One One compact disc turned book a book, which is available for sale on line for only $7.95. Then it’s book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poem Needy Person, the prose piece Seven Miles, and the poems Good Things Have Happened To Me Too, First, On The Flip Side, Short-Term Advice, All My Problems Disappear, and I See More. Background music is the instrumental music from the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Let’s Get Goin’.”
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #71
August 26th through September 1st “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by Andy Derryberry, with into the piece God (which is based on the poem “Being God” and was written in 1998, which is also on the CD release The DMJ Art Connection Disc One); Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a plethors of poetry readings set to music), reads the piece We’re Bound to Tangle; Scott DeKatch reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “321 (The Crowd Goes Wild)”; a reading from the Cafe on 06/19/07 of the feature performer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, reading a poem about love; then a poem from the feature UNcorrect on 06/21/07 from the Jesse Oaks’ Politically UNcorrect Open Mic/Poetry Slam (hosted by Billie and Jacqueline) at Jesse Oaks Bar & Grill, 18490 West Old Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake (Lake County) Illinois, with a poem called Weren’t Even Married (which was originally written in 1998, and which you can even see a video for here); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “August Moon”; then a live performance of the poem The Measuring Scale and A Socially Accepted Target on 07/01/03 at the music and poetry open mic Sing Your Life, sponsored by the band The Second Axing (and the Measuring Scale was written in 1997, and A socially Accepted Target was also originally written in 1997); Cheryl Townsend (with music from Pointless Orchestra) performing Lost In (with musicians including Cheryl Townsend with Voice, Mike Hovancsek with Gongs and metals, Paul Guerguerian with Gongs and metals, Jim Cole with Harmonic vocals, Sharen Baker and Allan Dow with Harmonic vocals); the poem Praying To Idols (written in 1997) form the CD Change/Rearrange; Maureen Flannery reading her second poem, live at her feature at The Cafe, April 27, 2004; then a reading (from another Chicago poet) at the Cafe on 06/22/04 of a poem called Worn Out (originally written in 2004); then finally The Battle At Hand (written in 2000), as performed on the Six One One compact disc turned book a book, which is available for sale on line for only $7.95. Then it’s book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poems Grab The Other’s Neck, And Flowers And Funerals, Fantastic Car Crash, The Third or Fourth Fourth of September, What Do You Do, You Know It (fish), New To Chicago, Feel So Much, Which I Like, They Tried, and Getting Used To Something New. Background music is the instrumental music from the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “August Moon”.
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #70
August 19st through August 25th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by David Michael Jackson of Artvilla, with into the piece What The Hell Is She Complaining About (written in 2005, which is also on the CD release The DMJ Art Connection Disc One); Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a plethors of poetry readings set to music), reads the piece When The Rice Runs Out; Eneek Eneri reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “Coming To Break You Off”; a reading from the Cafe on 06/19/07 of the feature performer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, reading a poem about her children; then a poem from the feature UNcorrect on 06/21/07 from the Jesse Oaks’ Politically UNcorrect Open Mic/Poetry Slam (hosted by Billie and Jacqueline) at Jesse Oaks Bar & Grill, 18490 West Old Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake (Lake County) Illinois, with a poem called The Battle At Hand (which was originally written in 2000, and which you can even see a video for here); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Hey Hey Big Boy”; then a live performance of the poem Once Wanted You as my Friend on 08/19/03 at the music and poetry open mic Sing Your Life, sponsored by the band The Second Axing; Cheryl Townsend (with music from Pointless Orchestra) performing Beck Center (with musicians including Cheryl Townsend with Voice, Mike Hovancsek with Gongs and metals, Paul Guerguerian with Gongs and metals, Jim Cole with Harmonic vocals, Sharen Baker and Allan Dow with Harmonic vocals); the poem Why I’ll Never Get Married (written in 1997) form the CD Change/Rearrange; Maureen Flannery reading Poetry Writing Workshop, live at her feature at The Cafe, April 27, 2004; then a reading (from another Chicago poet) at the Cafe on 09/23/03 of a poem called I Dreamt About You Last Night (originally written in 1998); a piece from the Scars Publications collection CD String Theory (with music by The DMJ Art Connection, that had material appear in a section of the book Chaos Theory), of a piece by David Lawrence called I’m No Adviser;. Then it’s a long book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poems Pressure On Me Again, Given A Warning Early On, How Many Times I’ve Done It, Touch, Seasons 1998, I See The Scene, Late For A Class, Princess Diana, One Year Later, Transcribing Dreams One, So Many Lies, Making Sense Out Of The Insane, the prose piece Soybeans, and the poems When I Am Weak, After the Bomb, and Have a Friend in Me. Background music is the instrumental music from the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Hey Hey Big Boy”.
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #69
August 12th through August 18th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Fun Lovin Mattie”; then the live 08/05/07 Beach Poets Feature (with a large amount of material which is in the e-book/PDF file chapvook called Sun, Sand & H2Poetry) with these pieces (where here you can either get the mp3 file of watch the YouTube video), including
Under the Sea (written in 1980, as an mp3 file or as a video), Last Before Extinction (written in 1994, as an mp3 file or as a video), Precinct Fourteen (written in 1995, as an mp3 file or as a video), Slate and Marrow (written in 1993, as an mp3 file or as a video), Philosopher at the Blue Note (written in 1995, as an mp3 file or as a video), I’m Thinking About Myself too Much (written in 1997, as an mp3 file or as a video), Freedom Just Past the Fence (written in 2002, as an mp3 file or as a video), Children, Churches and Daddies (written in 1993, as an mp3 file or as a video), Writing Your Name (written in 1988, as an mp3 file or as a video), You Once So Confidently (written in 1999, as an mp3 file or as a video), The Beach at Night (written in 1986, as an mp3 file or as a video), All Men Have Secrets (written in 1990, as an mp3 file or as a video), To The River (written in 1987, as an mp3 file or as a video), I Just Waited (written in 1990, as an mp3 file or as a video), Moonlight (written in 1983, as an mp3 file or as a video), Too Far (written in 1995, as an mp3 file or as a video), Dive (written in 1994, as an mp3 file or as a video), and And I’m Wondering (written in 1997, as an mp3 file or as a video), a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by Harold Skelton, mixed into the piece Women’s Very Existence (written in 1997, which is also on the CD release Contact•Conflict•Control); then a reading at the Cafe on 01/13/04 of the poems Athena (originally written in 1997), New To Chicago (originally written in 1997), and Barbie (also originally written in 1997); a studio recording of Outsourcing the American Dream (written in 2005) and also used in the performance art show {Stripped} live in Chicago 06/07/05; portions of the CD recording created for the live performance art show “Changing Gears” — covering materials from the poem
The Bridge to New Orleans (1994), the prose New Orleans part one (2003), the poem Jackson Square/Bourbon Street (1994), and the prose New Orleans part two (2003). Then it’s book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poems a New Life, Kill Yourself, a Diamond, and a New Idea Pretty Quick. Background music is the instrumental music from a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Fun Lovin Mattie”.
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Now Available: Chaos in Motion, a 6 CD compilation of the DJ’s materials in a series of radio shows from Chaotic Radio. Show #12 contains the Beach Poets 08/14/05 performance (as well as bonus studio releases of those poems). Show #29 contains material from the Not Mute live Chicago show 06/25/03. Show #24 contains material from the Burgundy Room, the DMJ Art Connection, the CD Change/Rearrange, Cafe Aloha 4/23/02 readings, the Lake County Poets Society performance 08/22/06 , and material live at the Poetry Fest 08/26/06 at the Society of Professional Journalists convention. Show #61 contains poetry with music from the Bastard Trio, music from the Second Axing, poetry originally played on WSUM Radio, the book release Chicago party readings 05/19/07. The Cafe Chicago recordings exist in shows #61 through #63, and show #64 contains material from the Uncorrect poetry feature at Jesse Oaks (as well as bonus tracks of the Sigular practice session). Show #66 contains live studio recordings of the show Living in a Big World, as well as book readings from Seeing Things Differently. Show #69 also has material from the 2007 Beach Poets show 08/05/07. This collection (6 full CDs of material!) is available for only $1995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #68
August 5th through August 11th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by David Michael Jackson of Artvilla, with the piece Grab the Other’s Neck (written in 2000, but also keep in ming that this musical piece fom the DMJ Art Connection is also on the CD release Indian Flux); Dave Gecic (founder of Puddin’Head Press) reading his poetry at the Jared Smith book release event 05/19/07; then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “Here We Go’”; then a reading from the Cafe on 06/19/07 of the feature performer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, reading a poem about race; then a poem from the feature from the open mic from Jesse Oaks’ Politically UNcorrect Open Mic/Poetry Slam (hosted by Billie and Jacqueline) at Jesse Oaks Bar & Grill, 18490 West Old Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake (Lake County) Illinois, with a poem called Communication (which was originally written in 1997 but also has additional changes to a version in 2005, which you can even see a video for here); then a song by the Penthouse Playboys, off their CD release “Bourbon Street Burlesque,” called “Sugar Daddy”; then a live performance of The State of the Nation on 08/05/03 at the music and poetry open mic Sing Your Life, sponsored by the band The Second Axing; Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a collection of published performance art at Scars Publications), reads the piece Sensations; Ruan Wright reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; C Ra McGuirt (from Penny Dreadful press) performing the piece “Walk Among The Stars”; a studio recording of We Listened (written in 2005) and also used in the performance art show {Stripped} live in Chicago 06/07/05; then it’s book reading time... So we’ll close off this radio show with a book reading with more poetry from the book the Elements, including the poems Here’s Your chance, As I Recovered, Telling What you Want And Hearing What You Want, This May Sound, Everyone Else Does It, Simple Things, and Wrong Attention. Background music is an instrumental from Joanne Powers.
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Now Available: the 2 CD 2007 audio set Chaotic Elements from the book reading sections of Chaotic Radio (from shows 61-65, 67-73) — of the book (and supplement set of chapbooks) readings for the collection book The Elements. This extended (almost 160 minutes!) radio audio CD set (with a 3 poem tracks bonus from the expanded 2007 release of the CD Seeing Things Differently) is available for only $995 (+ s&h in the continental US).
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Order a one-track CD copy of the hour long “Chaotic Radio” show for only $495 (plus shipping & handling) here. For check ordering & mailing information, contact the DJ, and include which show you’d like to order.
show #67
July 29th through August 4th “Chaotic Radio” 60:00, ~68.7 meg
In this show: a piece by The DMJ Art Connection, with background music by David Michael Jackson of Artvilla, and vocals by Jared Smith, the piece Last Before Extinction (written in 1994, but also keep in ming that this musical piece fom the DMJ Art Connection is also on the CD release Indian Flux); Belinda Subraman, host of Gypsy Magazine (who also has a collection of published performance art at Scars Publications), reads the piece We Are All Part Of; Kwame Pitts reading a set of poems live at ChicagoPoetry dot com’s Poetry Fest in August 2004; then a portion of the Jared Smith feature live at the Cafe 07/10/07, wich seems more like a farewell feature performance since Jared just found out he was going to be moving away from Chicago (to Colorado); then a track from Smokey da Bandiot, off their CD “a Whiff of Smoke,” called “F**K Wit Me’”; then a reading at the Cafe on 07/10/07 of a poem called Because This Is What We Do (originally written in
