A Bird In the Hand Is a Really Good Idea
Wednesday, April 5
The Metacafé (103 W. Chicago Rd., Sturgis, MI)
* Wonderful to see coffeegrrl23, and to hear her, Diana, and Steve-O read again. It’s been about a year.
* Things started off squirrelly, but Steve-O rules his crowd with an iron fist ... or at least a stainless-steel chair ... and clearly there was a lot of energy in the room, which rawked. He also finally got rid of the reverb in the PA -- huzzah!
* GREAT CROWD! And a packed (smoky) house. The open mic and slam were solid. A younger but attentive and supportive audience. They were friendly, approachable, and inquisitive, too. The Meta is a great room. There was talk of moving to a bigger space, which would make it even better.
* The back-and-forth presentation was the way to go, rather than each of us doing longer sets. It just kept things moving. Once again forgot to time our set, so I hope we did at least 25 minutes (that was the plan). It felt shorter than that, but then time is a construct, not reality.
Set List
Pre-open mic openers:
To a little patch of snow (TB)
Beautiful (Joe)
Feature:
Stats (TB)
Burning Desire (Joe)
The Devil Is My Prey (duet)
Do-It-Yourself (TB)
The Worst Poet I Ever Recorded (TB)
Flammable (Joe)
It’s Not In Me (Joe)
Budding (TB)
Cicada Blues (TB)
The Sound of Poisons (Joe)
Kisses Should Always Be So Powerful (Joe)
How to Write a Political Poem (Taylor Mali cover/duet)
Slam calibrator:
House Poem (Joe)
* The drive home was an uneventful 4 hours: Bright half moon through thin clouds. Semis pulling three trailers should be banned. I saw a shooting star. Joe saw two stars collide (which I saw as a plane flying in front of a star, but I’m an optimist).
* Thanks again, Thea and Metacafe-ites!
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