Thank you, William & Mary, and VA!
*Note: Post written by Catzie with comments in brackets added by Michelle.
Thank you for everyone who came out to see our show over at William & Mary. It wouldn't have happened without the hard work of this young lady. Her name is Stacey, and like her shirt says, she will not love you long time. She may look small but she's certainly a feisty little lady. She did a perfect job putting the show together. [Yay, Stacey!]
[OK, so Stacey doesn't like that picture, but I think she looks like she's ready to kick some ass--for real, her look says, "Don't fuck with me" and we need more women looking like that, so I don't want to take this picture down. But here's another one with a smiling Stacey looking much nicer]
[See, even angry Asian American women can be about peace and love, too, dammit].
Stacey took us out to eat [along with her friends Maria, Jenny, Dorothy, and Maura] at this Vietnamese place that also had Korean BBQ. We don't know how that happened but Michelle was happy to try Korean food somewhere else. [Actually, I didn't get to eat any Korean food because they said they wouldn't be able to serve it for another hour. I mean, come on, how hard is it to make Bi Bim Bap? Not!]
On our table was a little knick-knack pond complete with water, fish and a rock-climbing turtle. [It took up, like, the whole middle of our table. When they brought our appetizers out, I think we were all afraid we were going to drop food in it.]
Just look at their little bug eyes. Cute, huh? [The turtle reminded me of Beaker from the Muppet Show]
Ok so on with the show... Here's the auditorium, but where's the sound/tech guy?
Oh here he is, finally arriving to check our mics only moments before the show was to begin in 15 minutes. Right on CP Time.
It's beginning to fill... yay. [I took this picture because these are Stacey's friends: Maria and Jenny from dinner and Andy and Mike--who successfully managed to put Stacey's new dartboard up while we were at dinner, a feat quite spectacular considering they had started some happy partying a wee bit early, if you know what I mean, and Stacey had some concerns about how her wall would look by the time she got back. But they came through--hooray!]
These folks down front are Lamar and his friends who came right from another show that hadn't ended just to make sure they didn't miss our first poem - Listen Asshole. That's what we call dedication. [Lamar claimed he knew all the words to Listen Asshole --we should have pulled him on stage with us to prove it! Sike!--hey, don't laugh at me for still saying "sike"--we wouldn't put him on the spot like that. We're very happy he and his friends came to our show instead of that other one. Shout to my Jersey girl from Newark and even though the Giants stomped the Patriots, lol to the girl from Boston who talked all that pre-Super Bowl smack. We love you guys and, ladies if you read this, please email me so we can get your names up.]
One of them had on the De La Soul Dunks. Had to flick that.
Stacey and another lovely lady--that I cant remember her name, sorry--giving us intros. [Her name is Amanda Andrei and is the director of the IPAX show "Twilight"--see below]
This is Eddy Hong blessing our show with a solo performance from a show about the LA Riots. [Eddy is one of the founding members and Producing Director of a performance group on campus called the International Performance Arts eXchange or IPAX. The show they're working on this semester about the 1992 LA Riots is called "Twilight." Really wonderful work Eddy is doing--watch for him 'cause you're going see a lot of him real soon]. He was so great. We couldnt believe that his first time performing in front of a large crowd.
Thanks to Daniel, a sweet Colombian from ODU, who came all the way out from VA Beach to take a picture of my fabulous purple boots.
Somewhere in this mix of lovely people is Andrella, Emmy and Janae who let me use her keyring sharpee.
Shout out to Jennel from Vtech who came all the way out here to say hello, get the Volume 2 CD because her friend Aaron was on one of the interludes and to remind me of the fond memories of sharing a fried calamari with her and Bobby Lee. [And special thanks and apologies to the young lady on the left for her patience waiting for me to stop running my mouth and sign her CDs--ugh, I felt so bad!]
The down-front-audience-members [Lamar and his friends] make their way on stage.
And special thanks to Stacey's mom for giving us these lovely beaded bracelets that come in a pretty satiny silky pouch. Yep, Stacey's mom has got it goin on. [The funniest thing about Stacey's mom is that after watching our Def Poetry video clip on YouTube, she told Stacey that she "laughed and laughed." I thought that was great and so funny. Oh, and please stop to admire Catzie's nails].
Ok so extra apologies for anyone and everyone we couldn't remember the names for, and for eveyone like Angeline and Shawn from ODU whom I cant remember faces for but I'm sure we took your picture. We try to get QT with everybody but sometimes it becomes a long lost blur once we get back to Philly, especially if we're going to sleep past midnight and waking up super early like 7am.
-Catzie [and Michelle in brackets]
Thank you for everyone who came out to see our show over at William & Mary. It wouldn't have happened without the hard work of this young lady. Her name is Stacey, and like her shirt says, she will not love you long time. She may look small but she's certainly a feisty little lady. She did a perfect job putting the show together. [Yay, Stacey!]
[OK, so Stacey doesn't like that picture, but I think she looks like she's ready to kick some ass--for real, her look says, "Don't fuck with me" and we need more women looking like that, so I don't want to take this picture down. But here's another one with a smiling Stacey looking much nicer]
[See, even angry Asian American women can be about peace and love, too, dammit].
Stacey took us out to eat [along with her friends Maria, Jenny, Dorothy, and Maura] at this Vietnamese place that also had Korean BBQ. We don't know how that happened but Michelle was happy to try Korean food somewhere else. [Actually, I didn't get to eat any Korean food because they said they wouldn't be able to serve it for another hour. I mean, come on, how hard is it to make Bi Bim Bap? Not!]
On our table was a little knick-knack pond complete with water, fish and a rock-climbing turtle. [It took up, like, the whole middle of our table. When they brought our appetizers out, I think we were all afraid we were going to drop food in it.]
Just look at their little bug eyes. Cute, huh? [The turtle reminded me of Beaker from the Muppet Show]
Ok so on with the show... Here's the auditorium, but where's the sound/tech guy?
Oh here he is, finally arriving to check our mics only moments before the show was to begin in 15 minutes. Right on CP Time.
It's beginning to fill... yay. [I took this picture because these are Stacey's friends: Maria and Jenny from dinner and Andy and Mike--who successfully managed to put Stacey's new dartboard up while we were at dinner, a feat quite spectacular considering they had started some happy partying a wee bit early, if you know what I mean, and Stacey had some concerns about how her wall would look by the time she got back. But they came through--hooray!]
These folks down front are Lamar and his friends who came right from another show that hadn't ended just to make sure they didn't miss our first poem - Listen Asshole. That's what we call dedication. [Lamar claimed he knew all the words to Listen Asshole --we should have pulled him on stage with us to prove it! Sike!--hey, don't laugh at me for still saying "sike"--we wouldn't put him on the spot like that. We're very happy he and his friends came to our show instead of that other one. Shout to my Jersey girl from Newark and even though the Giants stomped the Patriots, lol to the girl from Boston who talked all that pre-Super Bowl smack. We love you guys and, ladies if you read this, please email me so we can get your names up.]
One of them had on the De La Soul Dunks. Had to flick that.
Stacey and another lovely lady--that I cant remember her name, sorry--giving us intros. [Her name is Amanda Andrei and is the director of the IPAX show "Twilight"--see below]
This is Eddy Hong blessing our show with a solo performance from a show about the LA Riots. [Eddy is one of the founding members and Producing Director of a performance group on campus called the International Performance Arts eXchange or IPAX. The show they're working on this semester about the 1992 LA Riots is called "Twilight." Really wonderful work Eddy is doing--watch for him 'cause you're going see a lot of him real soon]. He was so great. We couldnt believe that his first time performing in front of a large crowd.
Thanks to Daniel, a sweet Colombian from ODU, who came all the way out from VA Beach to take a picture of my fabulous purple boots.
Somewhere in this mix of lovely people is Andrella, Emmy and Janae who let me use her keyring sharpee.
Shout out to Jennel from Vtech who came all the way out here to say hello, get the Volume 2 CD because her friend Aaron was on one of the interludes and to remind me of the fond memories of sharing a fried calamari with her and Bobby Lee. [And special thanks and apologies to the young lady on the left for her patience waiting for me to stop running my mouth and sign her CDs--ugh, I felt so bad!]
The down-front-audience-members [Lamar and his friends] make their way on stage.
And special thanks to Stacey's mom for giving us these lovely beaded bracelets that come in a pretty satiny silky pouch. Yep, Stacey's mom has got it goin on. [The funniest thing about Stacey's mom is that after watching our Def Poetry video clip on YouTube, she told Stacey that she "laughed and laughed." I thought that was great and so funny. Oh, and please stop to admire Catzie's nails].
Ok so extra apologies for anyone and everyone we couldn't remember the names for, and for eveyone like Angeline and Shawn from ODU whom I cant remember faces for but I'm sure we took your picture. We try to get QT with everybody but sometimes it becomes a long lost blur once we get back to Philly, especially if we're going to sleep past midnight and waking up super early like 7am.
-Catzie [and Michelle in brackets]
posted by Yellow Rage at
3/03/2008 09:00:00 AM
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