FIVE POINTS AND BOSTON
FINALLY, I have some time to post something new on this neglected blog. One things I/we haven't been keeping up with is all the shows and other events we've been doing. Ugh, ugh, ugh! To begin the catching up process, here are some photos and details about our feature performance at the The Five Points Variety Hour in Chinatown, NYC held at the end of June.
We double-featured with Harry and Mark from Two Warriors:
That's Mark on the left and Harry on the right. This is the best picture I have--most of the pictures came out too dark, and since I wanted to get a post out on-the-double, I didn't have time to fix it on Picasa! Sorry we can't really see your faces, guys!
Anyway, there were so many wonderful folks performing at the show--and my pics are too dark. It was the first time I really saw Adriel and Ruby from Ill-Literacy--really amazing and charismatic. I've probably seen Adriel before and the memory of it has been sucked away in the nether-areas of my "Mommy Brain." Speaking of which--if you ever come up to me and tell me that we've met and I look completely blank, please don't be upset or take it personal. Having kids has given me a severe case of "Mommy Brain" filled with and distracted by all kinds of mommy-need-to-know things like drinking too much juice will make the kids pee themselves, or watching Hi 5 and Spongebob on a loop won't make my kids comatose, or pizza is a good meal 3 days-in-a-row. If it's not a mommy-need-to-know thing, then I have to write it down or it's into some other irretrievable abyss within my brain.
Anyway, because I got to Silk Road Mocha so late (oh-my-god, traffic was sooo bad coming into NYC) I didn't get a good seat. Feliza found a spot for Myong and me on the far wall from the stage-area--Catzie got much closer but, alas, I don't think she was taking pictures. Well, here are some pics that aren't too bad. First, Jeannel, who I seem to remember read a poem in Edison but only introed folks this night at Five Points:
And here's an amazing young poet who we first met when we double-featured earlier in the year with Two Warriors at Ti-Fusion in Edison, NJ. I believe his name is TJ--Mommy Brain!--and he has great stage presence and some good poems. This night, one of my favorites was the one he did acting out a video game.
Finally, here's a picture of me and my daughter, Myong, with my friend, Doris (wearing the red jacket and who is married to Dan Kim of Asians Misbehavin') and her friends, Chris and Allsion, who came out to see the show:
Thanks, guys, for coming to see us! And thanks, also, to my friend Jessica who made it to the show just in time to see us perform and who walked with Myong and me back to our car.
Even more and brighter pics can be viewed here from The Five Points website. Myong really enjoyed the young lady who sang that night, Alexandra Kelly. Her dad was sitting next to me in the audience and overheard Myong ask me if she could get her autograph. He gave Myong a free copy of Alexandra's CD. The funny thing was he had no idea I was going to be performing later that night, and after our Yellow Rage set, he came up and said to me, "You just never know who you might be sitting next to."
Our next show was on July 13 at East Meets West Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, and was organized and sponsored by Boston Progress Arts Collective.
Catzie was running late and the place started to get packed--and, boy, did it get hot in there! You'll be able to tell b/c in all the pics my face is bright red--ugh!
Finally Catzie showed up, but we started rehearsing and I didn't get to see anyone perform. So I only have pics from after the show was over. Here are some pics with folks we met and with members of Boston Progress.
You can read the post about the show on the Boston Progress Radio website. I think some of our performance and an interview we did are also being aired on Boston Progress Radio, so tune in--but don't tune in just for us. Listen to all the great APIA artists and musicians that BPR is playing too. Anyway, here are Eugene and Delia, two of the wonderful people we met from Boston Progress:
They were so nice--they picked me up at my hotel and brought me back after the show. Because this trip to Cambridge/Boston was my family's vacation this summer. Although I've been to the Boston-area a few times before, it's always been to perform and I pretty much just zip in and zip out, and I never get a chance to enjoy the city. So my husband and I thought we'd attempt our first family vacation with ALL the kids--which means we braced for any toddler-tantrums from Victor and Vanessa.
All-in-all, it was a good vacation even with the couple of screeching meltdowns Vanessa had and the wrestling that took place every night trying to get the kids to lay down and go to sleep. Here are some pics of us vacationing. First, Myong and me at Boston Harbor:
My son, Victor, was so enthralled with the living statue performer outside of Faneuil Hall, who moved and gave you a fortune when you put a dollar in his/her collection thingie:
My husband (in the blue t-shirt) let Victor put $1 in two different times, and during both, Victor was so excited and tickled when the performer started moving--afterwards he kept talking about it and wanted to hold the fortunes in his hand most of the afternoon (he eventually lost them). I think Vanessa was a little scared even though she's the little-Rage in the making. Don't mess with Nessa--she'll bite, scratch, kick, and punch if you make her mad enough. You wouldn't know it from this sweet face, huh?
Don't let her fool you--she don't play! How's this for a mean face?
That's my little Buttercup! And here's my whole beautiful family:
Some lady offered to take our picture while we were on a harbor cruise. This was right before Vanessa's major meltdown which Catzie witnessed later in Boston Common. But we had a great time; Boston was good to us while we were there. So I leave you with this gorgeous view of the city, taken while we were out on the harbor.
I'll try to post again soon--there's so many updates from the last show at AAI's Cherry Street space to the National Asian American Theater Festival to the APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit. I'll get on it soon!
We double-featured with Harry and Mark from Two Warriors:
That's Mark on the left and Harry on the right. This is the best picture I have--most of the pictures came out too dark, and since I wanted to get a post out on-the-double, I didn't have time to fix it on Picasa! Sorry we can't really see your faces, guys!
Anyway, there were so many wonderful folks performing at the show--and my pics are too dark. It was the first time I really saw Adriel and Ruby from Ill-Literacy--really amazing and charismatic. I've probably seen Adriel before and the memory of it has been sucked away in the nether-areas of my "Mommy Brain." Speaking of which--if you ever come up to me and tell me that we've met and I look completely blank, please don't be upset or take it personal. Having kids has given me a severe case of "Mommy Brain" filled with and distracted by all kinds of mommy-need-to-know things like drinking too much juice will make the kids pee themselves, or watching Hi 5 and Spongebob on a loop won't make my kids comatose, or pizza is a good meal 3 days-in-a-row. If it's not a mommy-need-to-know thing, then I have to write it down or it's into some other irretrievable abyss within my brain.
Anyway, because I got to Silk Road Mocha so late (oh-my-god, traffic was sooo bad coming into NYC) I didn't get a good seat. Feliza found a spot for Myong and me on the far wall from the stage-area--Catzie got much closer but, alas, I don't think she was taking pictures. Well, here are some pics that aren't too bad. First, Jeannel, who I seem to remember read a poem in Edison but only introed folks this night at Five Points:
And here's an amazing young poet who we first met when we double-featured earlier in the year with Two Warriors at Ti-Fusion in Edison, NJ. I believe his name is TJ--Mommy Brain!--and he has great stage presence and some good poems. This night, one of my favorites was the one he did acting out a video game.
Finally, here's a picture of me and my daughter, Myong, with my friend, Doris (wearing the red jacket and who is married to Dan Kim of Asians Misbehavin') and her friends, Chris and Allsion, who came out to see the show:
Thanks, guys, for coming to see us! And thanks, also, to my friend Jessica who made it to the show just in time to see us perform and who walked with Myong and me back to our car.
Even more and brighter pics can be viewed here from The Five Points website. Myong really enjoyed the young lady who sang that night, Alexandra Kelly. Her dad was sitting next to me in the audience and overheard Myong ask me if she could get her autograph. He gave Myong a free copy of Alexandra's CD. The funny thing was he had no idea I was going to be performing later that night, and after our Yellow Rage set, he came up and said to me, "You just never know who you might be sitting next to."
Our next show was on July 13 at East Meets West Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, and was organized and sponsored by Boston Progress Arts Collective.
Catzie was running late and the place started to get packed--and, boy, did it get hot in there! You'll be able to tell b/c in all the pics my face is bright red--ugh!
Finally Catzie showed up, but we started rehearsing and I didn't get to see anyone perform. So I only have pics from after the show was over. Here are some pics with folks we met and with members of Boston Progress.
You can read the post about the show on the Boston Progress Radio website. I think some of our performance and an interview we did are also being aired on Boston Progress Radio, so tune in--but don't tune in just for us. Listen to all the great APIA artists and musicians that BPR is playing too. Anyway, here are Eugene and Delia, two of the wonderful people we met from Boston Progress:
They were so nice--they picked me up at my hotel and brought me back after the show. Because this trip to Cambridge/Boston was my family's vacation this summer. Although I've been to the Boston-area a few times before, it's always been to perform and I pretty much just zip in and zip out, and I never get a chance to enjoy the city. So my husband and I thought we'd attempt our first family vacation with ALL the kids--which means we braced for any toddler-tantrums from Victor and Vanessa.
All-in-all, it was a good vacation even with the couple of screeching meltdowns Vanessa had and the wrestling that took place every night trying to get the kids to lay down and go to sleep. Here are some pics of us vacationing. First, Myong and me at Boston Harbor:
My son, Victor, was so enthralled with the living statue performer outside of Faneuil Hall, who moved and gave you a fortune when you put a dollar in his/her collection thingie:
My husband (in the blue t-shirt) let Victor put $1 in two different times, and during both, Victor was so excited and tickled when the performer started moving--afterwards he kept talking about it and wanted to hold the fortunes in his hand most of the afternoon (he eventually lost them). I think Vanessa was a little scared even though she's the little-Rage in the making. Don't mess with Nessa--she'll bite, scratch, kick, and punch if you make her mad enough. You wouldn't know it from this sweet face, huh?
Don't let her fool you--she don't play! How's this for a mean face?
That's my little Buttercup! And here's my whole beautiful family:
Some lady offered to take our picture while we were on a harbor cruise. This was right before Vanessa's major meltdown which Catzie witnessed later in Boston Common. But we had a great time; Boston was good to us while we were there. So I leave you with this gorgeous view of the city, taken while we were out on the harbor.
I'll try to post again soon--there's so many updates from the last show at AAI's Cherry Street space to the National Asian American Theater Festival to the APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit. I'll get on it soon!
posted by Yellow Rage at
8/16/2007 11:04:00 AM
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