tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84865917112620472142011-08-02T20:42:39.416-05:00Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.comBlogger1411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-91418231749389437002010-10-12T14:39:00.000-05:002010-10-12T14:39:30.553-05:00

Coming back to Milwaukee to perform at UWM thanks to Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous. Sat Nov 13th, Milwaukee, WI UW-Milwaukee, Union, Rm 280, 8PM We're going to try and book a few shows between here and there. We've covered this ground a couple times, so it's kind of difficult finding somewhere new to play. Who knows anyone in Indiana?

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-20216831284962373772010-08-09T10:20:00.004-05:002010-08-09T11:25:12.732-05:00

Hey! We're home! This tour went pretty damn well. We ordered new shirts to start things off, then we went up to Toronto for the People's Summit, which was well worth going to, and performing there almost paid back our travel costs. Then we drove to Wisconsin, met up with Peter, got in his van, the USS Gerald Holiday, and hit the road for weeks, and THEN we drove to Buffalo to play the

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-37615382019784011052010-08-09T09:52:00.005-05:002010-08-09T10:10:38.775-05:00

TURNOUT: 40 MONEYS: $105 all going to Toronto G20 Arrestees. You should donate more!INJURIES: unscathed!STORIES: This was a great homecoming show. A nice big turnout, fucking awesome music from Realicide and Ryan Jewel, the awarehouse is an amazing space, it really makes me feel good to be home. It was also a pretty decent fundraiser. I wish we'd earned a bit more, but times are tight, i guess.

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-75333366254041100922010-08-02T15:50:00.004-05:002010-08-02T16:37:14.785-05:00

The first theatre festival we performed where we didn't lose hundreds of dollars!! After 3 weeks of touring to the west coast and back we dropped Peter off in Milwaukee (or he dropped us off at our car, actually) and headed to Buffalo for three days of DIY theatre goodness. First, we stopped at my mom's house where I made the grave error of jumping in a nearby lake, invoking a terrible allergic

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-62505362415274113132010-07-29T22:23:00.003-05:002010-08-05T22:57:17.561-05:00

In place of a pic from Madison, cuz the camera battery ran out, here's some from the No Show in Fargo.TURNOUT: 10MONEYS: 75INJURIES: NoneSTORIES: Nice show in Madison. Theatre people turned out for this one. I got someone some water while they waited for the show to begin. This, all in all, was quite the solid last show. Fuzzy feeling and all. An aww show. Folks were great, both Pete's and our

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-39427497582652077422010-07-28T22:06:00.002-05:002010-08-05T22:45:44.275-05:00

TURNOUT: 17MONEYS: 62INJURIES: Unscathed!STORIES: I've always wanted to play this place and now we've done it. Was a little disappointed by the organization but whatever, we heard some music, did the show and then got to hear some more music. There were also a lot of girls in dresses-- that always freaks me out. Got to stay with Brice of Ice Volt which was great and much much much

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-14886956867983847082010-07-27T15:05:00.007-05:002010-07-27T20:45:54.152-05:00

TURNOUT: 12MONEYS: $50INJURIES: I fell on my head. Normally, I'm supposed to fall on one knee, then my butt, then my shoulder, but instead, for some reason i can't remember, this time my head went directly to the floor. Hard. Hard enough that i saw stars.STORIES: Why not Minot? Probably because everyone assumes that a little town in the middle of North Dakota is a dumb place to try and make an

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-78233661167013043902010-07-27T14:48:00.003-05:002010-07-27T20:45:00.051-05:00

TURNOUT: 12MONEYS: $70INJURIES: Cranial Drill smashed his knuckle bloody during his set, but we got out unscathed, in spite of starting the show with being thrown down blindfolded with hands tied behind my back onto a few cement steps in the doorway. That's right, I'm nimble!STORIES: Drove straight to Billings from Seattle, 13 hours for a 5:00 start time. Peter and Kate did all the driving, and I

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TURNOUT: 12MONEYS:$61 + $17 merchINJURIES: My kneecaps, the caps of the knees as the caps of soda bottles, has been spurred.STORIES: (This was dictated while I was tired and driving, but not too tired to drive, as, I was driving successfully, not that that should be used as the measure of what's alright.)We played next to a strip club. The line up was showgirls, dream girls, columbia fire

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-56412357578556631742010-07-27T14:01:00.000-05:002010-07-27T14:48:57.146-05:00

TURNOUT: 7MONEYS: $55 +$5 merchINJURIES: Unscathed!STORIES: Stump house has cats! Two matching black cats that'll lick and lick and lick your fingertips! I was terribly exhausted and kind of sucking the mop before the show for some reason. Layed on the couch trying to sleep through high-volume sound checks. Once the show started I was feeling better, mainly because the local music was awesome.

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-28725586536406161802010-07-27T14:00:00.000-05:002010-07-27T14:41:52.533-05:00

TURNOUT: 21 MONEYS: $50INJURIES: I felt like there were bugs crawling all over me all day. I kinda still do. What the fuck?STORIES: Great show! A little bit of everything, good music, real discussion, good times hangin out. Seems like a good mix of people came out for the show, noise folks and anarchists, even some who're into theatre. I don't have much more to say about the show. It was good and

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TURNOUT: 13MONEYS: $42INJURIES: I pinched Ben's armpit, visciously. (Ben wrote that)STORIES: We got to the venue somewhat worn out from spending the earlier part of the day in the mountains, hiking around in the river. Chefkirk played with us which was nice. Pete played his quiet set for a nice audience whom he was familiar with from previous shows in Eugene. I felt somewhat dirty during the show

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-5360535358470114172010-07-22T04:09:00.002-05:002010-07-22T04:16:16.337-05:00

We forgot to bring the camera! Uncle Dan took us out to hike around a creek and climb a mountain near Eugene. It was a really good time.Picture us in your minds eye... we're frolicing in a cold mountain stream... we're sitting on the edge of a small waterfall... we're trudging up a thin mountain trail, accompanied by a half-black lab half-rottweiller named "Bubba"... we've reached the top of the

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TURNOUT: 12 MONEYs: $40INJURIES: Kate pulled me up by my fingers, which sorta hurt.STORIES: Best California show of the tour! Tons of kick ass bands! Lots of fun. The performance felt a little lacking, maybe because the venue was hot little room and there was a really loud fan, when combined with the ear-ringing from the loud noise music, made things a bit hard to hear.Peter was back on the

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-48490682781305603212010-07-21T19:17:00.004-05:002010-07-22T04:04:52.472-05:00

TURNOUT: Questionable. If you go by the money, 5 people. If you go by the people, 15 or more. MONEYs: 25INJURIES: Ah, none, there was carpet.STORIES: So we went from playing a house called women to playing a church actually filled with women. I've had the experience when gathering information for the Intentional Community of looking at different cities' statistics, like what is the average age of

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-10731077103492669302010-07-21T19:16:00.000-05:002010-07-22T04:01:39.638-05:00

TURNOUT: 15MONEYS: $15. merch $9INJURIES: That spot where Kate slaps my head at that one part, it's starting to kind of break out in acne. Also my hair is getting too long and needs shaving. In other words my personal appearance is suffering some injuries.STORIES: This place was punk rock. That's about all I want to say here about that.On a positive note: a couple radicals with some who just

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-88520218103294077332010-07-21T19:15:00.001-05:002010-07-22T03:59:18.166-05:00

TURNOUT: 6 in the beginning about 3 at the end.SMELL: Fairly fresh. Smelled mildly of lavender.BENCH PRESS: About two hundred. Not bad for such a scrawny place. MONEYS: 20INJURIES: It hurts, it hurts, oh god it hurts in my soul. (This is ben being slightly overdramatic)STORIES: There were two skirted and pantsed people who walked into the space right before we were about to start which made me

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-64868994616666106232010-07-15T13:00:00.004-05:002010-07-22T03:56:41.868-05:00

TURNOUT: 9MONEYS:INJURIES: Unscathed!STORIES: There was some press coverage for this show at the Trunk Space so some theatre folks decided to come out. Which was nice as it turned out to be a great performance, thankfully. This space was the hottest yet. It's amazing how fast the human body can generate sweat. I love it, it makes me feel like a seal just gliding through the performance like

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-84521324126650634492010-07-14T17:16:00.011-05:002010-07-15T12:50:49.278-05:00

TURNOUT: 9MONEYS: 71 + 46 in merchINJURIES: Someone's ears. Cops were called during Pete's booming set. Nothing happened. Brian who owned the place was very excited about wasting the cops time.STORIES: Bisbee is a small mountain town in Arizona that houses the happiest man ever, one noise dude and a few old men with facial tattoos. This town is great. The noise guy who'd contacted Peter about

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-54150174161516470372010-07-14T17:04:00.006-05:002010-07-15T12:50:15.227-05:00

HOLY SHIT! Check out this goddamn NATURE! Here's Peter pointing at a peak we're gonna climb! WOW!Here we are on top of that peak! In our undies (or not) and VICTORIOUS!This is where we gave up on following the hidden canyon to the beating heart of Zion. The terrible green rope rock thwarted our efforts.HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THAT SANDSTONE!NATURE WITH STEPS BUILT IN!!We just took a dip in a hot spring

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-58890495558806052662010-07-14T17:00:00.000-05:002010-07-14T17:14:29.112-05:00

TURNOUT: 15MONEYS: $56 + $10 merchINJURY: I will not cease to hit Ben in the head with the gun, on the other hand, he does not cease turning his head the wrong way right into the gun. Also, someone gave Ben a noogie at the end of the show.STORIES: So, we pulled into catalyst infoshop, dropping Nicole off, and met some very friendly folks. This trait seemed to persit throughout the night. I always

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-40614963803610702332010-07-14T16:59:00.003-05:002010-07-15T12:55:26.287-05:00

TURNOUT: 36MONEYS: $72 + $40 fundraiser CDs + $36 merchINJURIES: Kate can't seem to stop hitting me in the head on this tour. STORIES: Very adventurous drive. Just outside Salt Lake City there were signs warning of a three hour traffic delay telling us to take "an alternate route" without clear suggestion of exactly what alternate route. So we just got off the interstate and proceeded to get

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-87755518559377871602010-07-14T16:55:00.004-05:002010-07-15T12:58:07.069-05:00

TURNOUT: 5MONEYS: $20, +$10 merchINJURIES: Kate's loose pants led to a loose gun, which led to repetitive elbow bruising. Time to punch a new hole in her pants. STORIES: We were in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time. Basically, there was a "lady-centric" experimental music and art festival accross town called Tit Wrench. We started booking tour too late to get

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-86813738259447294142010-07-14T16:44:00.005-05:002010-07-14T16:58:28.283-05:00

Here are two pics from Nebraska, the top one is slightly more interesting.TURNOUT: 23MONEYS: 98INJURIES: Ben reeled his head back hitting my chin leaving it all novacainy feeling. Also, I scratched Ben's head in one part by acciddent leaving two red streaks. Another also, the metal clasp holding up Ulysses' pants was torn asunder and needs mending.STORIES: Our first Cafe show of the tour. Shane

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-22267985477518001822010-07-08T19:36:00.000-05:002010-07-14T16:55:20.915-05:00

TURNOUT: 12MONEYS: $16 door, $9 merchINJURIES: Kate found a dying cockroach in the hallway, thought it was a junebug, felt compassion for it, attempted to recessitate it with small droplets of water, which it heartily drank, stood up and became more lively until her efforts were foiled by the janitor who swept the dying thing up and threw it away while she was elsewhere.STORIES: A slightly

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-3072399118542139872010-07-08T19:00:00.000-05:002010-07-14T16:54:49.136-05:00

We're on our way! Also, the Buffalo Infringement Festival on July 30 - Aug 1!MADNESS!View Larger Map

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-89557964764660044142010-07-08T17:21:00.002-05:002010-07-08T17:26:38.173-05:00

This is just a breif note to acknowledge the success of the Solidary Showcase. We raised $222 for the AVL11 legal defence and brought together a diverse array of performers and audiences, had fun, shared talents, and raised awareness of prisoner support, the Columbus ABC, and radical action in general. Also, I emceed the event dressed as a cop named Officer Acab, which was silly. I left the

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-87398879506148974252010-07-03T20:49:00.003-05:002010-07-08T17:35:40.197-05:00

TURNOUT: 17 MONEYS: $57INJURIES: Kate hit me with the gun, fortunately, it was a gun she'd fashioned out of sticks and duct tape, cuz we can't take the real gun accross the border. So it wasn't really injurous.STORIES: That was a really good show. Performance felt great. Audience was great (if a little small). Attended some wonderful workshops on Venezuela, Empowering Women within activist

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-4915506411902020902010-05-27T20:59:00.007-05:002010-06-23T23:11:59.640-05:00

We've got some exciting things going on this month. First, we're setting up a Solidarity Showcase for the Asheville 11. If you're in central Ohio and want to juggle for freedom or something, contact me. Insurgent.ben@gmail.com 414 305 9832. We've got a script or two looking for actors, no experience necessary. Second, Columbus folks have started a monthly critical mass ride to an illegal food not

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-57625500832915013162010-04-23T13:27:00.004-05:002010-04-23T13:59:13.176-05:00

Holy shit, that was quick. We've gotten used to being on the road for months at a time, two weeks was short! It was also a pretty economically shaky tour. Before we left town we did another hundreds of dollars worth of work on the car. CV boots and tie rods were in bad shape. If we drove em til they failed we'd likely be stranded, or that shit would seize up the steering while moving 70 MPH. We

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-80051954004501905072010-04-22T17:43:00.005-05:002010-04-22T21:37:39.619-05:00

Turnout: 11Support: $18Injury Report: Kate no longer massages my hands at that one part. For some reaons she now squeezes and rubs them, like she's trying to grind my knuckles, or pull my skin off.Show Description: We're back from tour and it feels great. Sally Louise and Alec haven't seen the show yet, so we decided to do a homecoming performance after the weekly Tuesday potluck at 64 King. Alec

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-83646282185124269812010-04-19T21:59:00.003-05:002010-04-19T22:26:46.790-05:00

Turnout: 7Donations: 10Personal Injury Report: I almost smashed the radio in furiousness.Show Description: Living room show at the Patchwork House. The Patchwork house is an Intentional Community that we'd visited and gotten to know before, so going back there was a treat. Most everyone was out of town so it was a small crowd, which led to a great discussion. The performance on my part was one of

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-1040160693243769392010-04-16T18:08:00.008-05:002010-04-16T19:33:51.494-05:00

Turnout: 22Monetary Votes of Support: 87.50 (7 in merch, 20 to The Night Heron)Personal Injury Report: In one of the few parts where Ben is supposed to be responding to what I say, he forgot and just sat there. Fortunately, immediately afterward was the part where I slap him around, so I gave him some extras. Show Description: Woo! There was a small child in the crowd. Wildcard. This kid has

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-26726952482439764392010-04-16T18:03:00.005-05:002010-04-16T19:17:22.421-05:00

Turnout: 22Monetary Support: 126 (106 door, 20 merch)Personal Injury Report: Ben lost his shoe and I broke my sweatshirt zipper.Show Description: The firefly hosted us in this great ceilingless room outside that I, sadly, didn't take a picture of. In place of a picture of the nicely graffitied cement walls with mango tree branches shading the open roof-hole to the windy sky. I offer this humble

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-6449502001691461162010-04-15T16:13:00.005-05:002010-04-15T16:22:57.955-05:00

Turnout: 40Monetary Support: $88 ($3 merch)Injury Report: Someone went partway through a wall during one of the bands.Description: We got into Sarasota a few hours early and jumped in the ocean (well, the gulf, technically) which was a lot of fun. We're not really used to swimming down here and found ourselves having irrational visions of sharks and other large mean critters whenever we got in

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-58362728992332757702010-04-12T15:22:00.006-05:002010-04-12T16:20:24.027-05:00

Turnout: 10Monetary Votes of Support: 24 door, 47 merch, 25 donationPersonal Injury Report: I slapped Ben's head too hard he tells me. It sounded good though.Show Description: Back in Gainseville at the Civic Media Center for the second time. I really like the wide openness of the CMC, makes you want to jump around in it, play tag or something. Glad to be back.We had a smaller turnout than last

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-68097690737959168322010-04-08T12:16:00.004-05:002010-04-08T12:40:40.302-05:00

Turnout: 13Monetary Support: $55.07Injury Report: Kate decided to change the "she holds the gun to touch his chest as he stands" part into "she holds the gun to ram his head as he stands" it was a bad idea.Description: First show of a ten day tour, a Tuesday in Knoxville, where we've never been before. We played the Birdhouse, which is an old house converted into a sort of community center that

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-52405483956034100912010-04-04T22:26:00.010-05:002010-04-08T12:46:08.719-05:00

Turnout: 20Monetary Votes of Support: 69.92Personal Injury Report: none mentionableShow Descriptions: So we drove 10 hours there, played the show and then drove 10 hours back. It is confirmed: We prefer to present ourselves straightforwardly and say what we mean bluntly, and it works, well.Did you see this show? If you did, write a review, ask us some questions or comment. We'd love to hear it

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-18672411064357951992010-03-11T15:20:00.005-06:002010-03-11T20:48:53.390-06:00

These economic reports exist for two reasons. First, to provide full transparency and disclosure of our financial matters. Second, to summarize and document the progress of our experiment in alternative economics. We've now been conducting this experiment for 6 months, performed the show 72 times and traveled some 42,000 miles. To be clear: we do not think touring theatre is going to bring the

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-82404201385441108112010-03-06T14:28:00.007-06:002010-03-06T15:24:11.343-06:00

We continually fail at getting people to come out to shows in Philly. Hurns.This is a pic of a burnt and abandoned house's stairway in Youngstown PA. A house that ours in Philly is now aspiring to.Turnout: 7Monetary Votes of Support: 48Personal Injury Report: If you count hopes as personal...Show Description: The Rotunda was a big old space to perform in. Nice lighting and high, high ceilings.

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-88083169350809356802010-03-04T16:01:00.004-06:002010-03-06T14:22:26.769-06:00

Turnout: 40Money: $10 merch, $690 (honorarium and travel assistance)Personal Injury Report: Kate's shoes have started to lose their soles.Show Description: We enthusiastically accepted an invitation to perform at the Campus Anti-war Network's national conference in Urbana, IL. After attending workshops on Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan/Pakistan, we led the student activists to a classroom we'd

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-43581035872667874682010-02-26T19:12:00.003-06:002010-03-06T14:19:10.260-06:00

Turnout: 12 or so...Monetary Votes of Support: 42Personal Injury Report: Rough night for joints that start with vowels, ie, Ben's elbow and ankle.Show Description: Back in goddamnrapids! Small show, Jay (Blessed Sacrifist) from good old Milwaukee, Extra Vomit and Hegemonicide, posi hardcore spazz action fun. Smaller turn out, but good conversations and good times. Some folks there making a

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-46028507595564147442010-02-25T14:51:00.006-06:002010-02-28T22:28:40.139-06:00

Turnout: 22Monetary Votes of Support: $82.25 (30 merch, 32 hat, 20 donation)Personal Injury Report: Kate kept pulling out her hair during the show.Show Description: A solid show at an awesome space. The Trumbullplex is two big old houses (biggest and oldest punk houses I've seen) and a theatre space. It's amazing. We played in the dining room so they wouldn't need to turn the heat on in the

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Turnout: 30Monetary Votes of Support: 177 total ($33 merch, $144 Suggested PayWhatYouCan Donation) Canadian money is about the same as US, a tiense less. Personal Injury Report: Unscathed Again! man... the Pittsburgh ear incident must have done it.Show Description: Thor, who we knew from Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis set up an outstanding show, falafels and all, at Sky Dragon Center, a cafe

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-28378797834916752882010-02-22T15:14:00.006-06:002010-02-22T17:35:58.065-06:00

Turnout: 13Monetary Votes of Support: 58.16Personal Injury Report: Unscathed! We're finally getting good at this.Show Description: This time we used a stick for the prop gun to avoid border crossing troubles. It worked alright, fell out of the holster a couple times but was better than the rolled up piece of paper we'd used in Pittsburgh.I liked Canada right off the bat and thanks to Kelly we

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-69132543369737449832010-02-22T15:01:00.003-06:002010-02-22T17:34:03.212-06:00

Turnout: 11Money: $24 (our cut)Personal Injury Report: Reverse! My back was really sore before the show, and felt great afterward. Maybe I'll create a new form of tie-yourself-to-a-chair yoga!Show Report: Rust Belt Books is an awesome huge bookstore, full of old rare and radical stuff. They've got a beautiful little intimate space in the back for performances. It's really nice playing the show in

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Turnout: A whole bunch, 35 ishMonetary Votes of Support: 68 (40 hat, 28 merch)Personal Injury Report: Unscathed!Show Description: Labrynth Press is a kick-ass locally owned coffee shop and show space. Playing there was a great time, lots of people turned out, young and old, which was a very welcome sight. The whole space seemed to bustle during the show, people were pretty lively. It kind of

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Turnout: 14Money: $17 ($2 from merch)Personal Injury Report: Unplanned non-consensual ear peircing 30 seconds into the show. Best injury yet!Description: Hadn't done the show for a good six days, Kate didn't even run through the lines, but it all went pretty well. Of course, as usual, the only real mistake was in the section where the audience is also reading along with the lines. Hurns. This was

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Here's a little list of 5 potential future shows (well, 4 shows and one comic) to whet your appetite. Financial support (see previous post) will enable us to focus more energy on making these things happen. Otherwise, they'll be competing at a financial disadvantage with earning enough money to live and fund the projects ourselves, reading a lot of Antonio Negri and participating in this

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That's the chart of how we did from Jan 1st until today. It's been an exciting ride. The first big drop around Jan 11th, was an oil change, radiator flush and drive from NC to Savannah, GA. The big incline afterward was kick ass shows in Florida. The huge drop off on Feb 3rd was when we realized that we'd worn our tires down so far that there's no way we could safely drive in the snow and

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Here's a link to the zine I mentioned below. Looking forward to comments feedback.

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Turnout: 7Monetary Votes of Support: 42 (32 door, 10 merch)Personal Injury Report: Unscathed!Show Description: Snowstorm everywhere! This made for exciting driving and a very intimate show for those who came out to the Wooden Shoe. The discussion afterward was lively and, much like the experience of driving in the city, it swerved about often. I really liked this performance, one of the better

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-34370017436903914062010-02-12T16:37:00.004-06:002010-02-12T17:09:22.946-06:00

Turnout: 15 Monetary Votes of Support: $20Personal Injury Report: unscathed!Show Description: Well, there was this great preview in the City Paper, and some really cool music playing with us. Then there was this huge blizzard. For a little while it looked like we'd be playing for the bands + 1, but within the first five minutes of the show a handful more turned out which made us happy enough by

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Turnout: 22Monetary Votes of Support: 101.80 (57.80 donation, 44 merch)Personal Injury Report: Ben swallowed a mouthful of sock saliva down the wrong tube and had to hold it, silently, in his bronchia for an uncomfortably long time.Show Description: Great noise set by Dr. Rhomboid Goatcabin, solid turnout, great space, excellent. Bozarts had pretty much all their wall space covered with art,

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Turnout: 9Money: 56.50 (35 door, 21.50 hat)Personal Injury Report: After the show we drove our car into the ditch, then into a corn field, then finally our battery died and we were pulled out by a nice man with a truck at 2 in the morning.Show Description: We played amongst pink hearts and red string. See that big thing on the wall in the picture, that is a giant heart. I made the performance

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-57054627728223872742010-02-05T15:20:00.002-06:002010-02-05T15:34:34.605-06:00

Turnout: 35Support: $101.51Personal Injury Report: Kate gone and slapped me upside the head for reals. Also she landed funny a bruised her butt a little.Description: Couches! GREAT music! Solid turnout. Some friends and family members seeing the show for the first time. Made enough money to keep us in the black after spending $350 to replace the tires we've traveled almost halfway across the

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-76540672635438966112010-02-05T14:53:00.009-06:002010-02-05T15:18:52.294-06:00

No picture of the show space, camera died. Here's the street view though.Turnout: 10Cut of hat: 35Personal Injury Report: Ben keeps getting pinched by his zipper.Show Description: We played in the basement of the Alchemist in a tiny room that worked quite well, extra creepy, and also carpeted--that was new. I was really glad that some people who hadn't seen the show yet came out and also that

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-91580008613763325882010-02-01T17:31:00.009-06:002010-02-01T18:16:32.614-06:00

Turnout: 30 or so.Cut of Donation Jar: $18.22 ($4 from hat passing)Personal Injury Report: I decided to bang my head on the floor like I meant it.Show Description: Whoo-Hoo! This is what I had always expected from Chicago that we'd never quite gotten a hold of until now. Besides my expressions of victory, there's little to say. The performance was dead on--largely due to the number of people

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-19120720394174448322010-01-31T19:00:00.004-06:002010-01-31T20:03:38.380-06:00

Turnout: 21 Monetary Votes of Support: $66Personal Injury Report: nothin'Show Description: I felt really good about our performances, and really enjoyed having a larger audience than we have in the past when performing in Urbana. Also, the opportunity to see our friend Mark perform was priceless. Great playful yet heavy experimental acoustic stuff. We're always glad to come to Urbana, there are

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Turnout: 9 Support: $97 ($50 donation, $26 hat, $21 merch)Personal Injury Report: Some doors don't have functioning pneumatic slow-closing mechanisms. Kate slams these doors on her thumb.Description: A good show in the Brycc House, a DIY community center in Louisville. Between trouble with circuit breakers and a small late-coming audience, things were looking rocky at first, but ended up working

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Turnout: 18 Support: $55.14Personal Injury Report: Freezin cold toes, for us and probably lots of the audience. Description: Enthusiastic show! We got to play with Word Up! Poetry Collective and Little Chicken Music. The place was cold, and there was a manniquin that scared the shit out of us when we walked in. Playing with people who seemed to really like what they were doing put me in a great

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-79657382835965458632010-01-26T17:21:00.003-06:002010-01-28T12:56:42.269-06:00

Economic report! At the last reporting we had just finished a successful set of shows in Florida. Since then we've ventured into Texas and back. We're glad to still be in the black. For detailed numbers on this stuff go here.Our gas milage has improved 26.47 mpg at last recording, and of course remains the highest expense. Longer drives in the last week, and some low attendance shows combined to

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Turnout: 15 ishMonetary Votes of Support (some house donation): 37Personal Injury Report: Ben tried to impress me with his match lighting skills and fried his thumb. He also banged his elbow within the first few seconds of the performance later that night. These things will heal but the stare of the giant eyeball pictured below will not.Show Description: Another living room show! I really enjoy

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-40821994894285955682010-01-24T16:53:00.004-06:002010-01-24T18:31:28.920-06:00

NO PICTURESECURITY CULTURE!Turnout: 9 Support: $17Personal injury report: A mysterious and annoying flesh wound on the middle knuckle of my middle finger on my right hand.Description: Another disappointing turn-out in New Orleans. Maybe we need to incorporate a marching band into the play. Or at least a banjo. Kate channeled her frustrations (pre-show quote: "presbyterian housewives who've done

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-79229212063924080742010-01-23T14:45:00.003-06:002010-01-23T14:57:49.859-06:00

We're about halfway done with tour (as far as number of booked shows go) and so we're presenting this collection of stories and humorous anecdotes for you to get curious about. If you'd like to hear the full story behind any of these teasers, ask us! We can be reached via cafe, bar, sidewalk or public park nearby any venues we're playing, or via cellular telephone at 414 305 9832 (but we don't

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Turnout: 9Door: 50 Merch: 6Personal Injuries: Ben's gag got all crooked and now his jaw hurts.Show Description: Back to the Salvage Vanguard. We played with the Waco Girls who did this piece that sort of followed on or drew off of the themes we were presenting. This turned out to be them blockading the door people would normally exit through with chairs and making them agree to and promise that

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-84369782268817438882010-01-22T12:40:00.006-06:002010-01-22T14:11:44.301-06:00

Turn out: 14 Monetary Votes of Support: $112 ($82 hat, $30 merch)Personal Injury Report: Kate pinched me uneccessarily at least 5 times, once when I was supposed to be unconscious and therefore could not yelp. Show Description: Great show! The evening started with good spoken word about shooting Shakespeare from a poet named Alex (we lost his last name and contact info), followed by strong

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-18792696713826858352010-01-20T09:30:00.005-06:002010-01-20T10:27:27.835-06:00

HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Nature in a goddamn boat! BOAT IN NATURE!!We got out of the boat cuz Kate likes rusty junks. There were all these birds sounds, like giant flock of birds. But then, between the birds and us were all these gator ponds and tracks, so instead we scared a rabbit, who jumped out of the rusty junk and fruck us out.We got back in the boat and we saw this thing. It's a woodpecker. Look

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Turnout: 9 or 10Door: 66Personal Injury Report: My funny bone turned serious.Show Description: Nearly the opposite of last time we were at Zeitgeist. This time there was a small audience and bands that were, again, completely on the other side of the spectrum from last time's bill with Evolve, Self Help Tapes and Illusion Fields. Epic, naive beauty and less epic more ignorant rock opened up the

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Turnout: 20Suggested Don. at Door: 38, Merch: 20, Hat: 24Personal Injury Report: Just the standard bruises and welts.Show Description: Oh, before I talk about the show, I should mention that today was the day that we brought a large, huge, owl-bird to death by tire. It swooped down from the trees in the rainstorm that we were making our way through and wacked the windshield of the van in front of

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-24427208519293174702010-01-16T19:34:00.003-06:002010-01-16T20:00:08.385-06:00

The Ulysses' Crewmen tour (and all such tours) is not just an artistic endeavor or a conversation starter, it's also an economic activity. We try to make our economic activities transparent, and consider what we're doing a sort of survey of alternative economics around the country. For more on this see this post. For still more see these posts.INFORMATION ON THIS TOUR:That's a chart of our

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Turnout: 30Support: $69 1/2 of door (CMC also got $69) $26 donations, $81 merch. I think this is the most we've made on a single show. Personal injury report: I figured out that the strange welt on my left wrist I got in St Augustine was a rope burn, because I got another one right next to it at this show. Concrete floor #6 in a row, but Kate's knees are fine, so it doesn't really matter. Look

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NATURE!!Nature on Monday in Savannah!Nature, for only 30 minutes because we'd driven all day and the sun was setting. This is the area labelled "alligator ponds" on the map.Nature when the sun sets. This is also when the alligators get ready to eat people. And when we leave.What else other than nature is there? HISTORY!!!History on Wednesday in St Augustine!! This is a really old city! The OLDEST

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Turnout: 18Monetary Votes of Support: $24 (door) $2 (donations) $27 (merch)Personal Injury Report: Bizarre tender lump on my left wrist. No idea how it got there. Other slight bumps and strangeness. Cement floor #5 in a row. Kate's voice hurt a bit afterward, due to shouting the whole show over the bar crowd. Ben's soul hurt after seeing a small sample of what is on television these days. Show

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Turnout: 20-ishMonetary Votes of Support: 38Personal Injury Report: 4th cement floor in a row, no harm done.Show Description (by Ben): Fun show in a HUGE new art gallery space in the very Baptist town of Jacksonville. Performed with ambient guitar drone from Carlos Andujar and romantic singer songwriter Michah Davis. JD (the gallery owner and our enthusiastic host) took a ton of really great

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Turnout: 10 to 4Monetary Votes of Support: 20Personal Injury Report: Nothing much, third show on concrete in a row, not bad though.Show Description: Bar Show on a Monday Night. One of the guys was from Reinlander, then he moved to Savannah and then he left our show. All around, this was a pretty good performance. The people were nice but some had to leave because it was getting too late. We ended

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Turnout: 12 for the first show, 18 for the second.Monetary Votes of Support: 51 and $40.16Personal Injury Report: No injuries first night. Ben got shot dead with a banana on the second night.Show Description: Most challenging discussions ever! Between the post show discussions and the Internationalist Books meeting, I can't really think of much to say much about our actual performances. People

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Turnout: 35 ishMonetary Votes of Support: 67Personal Injury Report: Ben: Elbow bruises, kicked in the head twice (once by audience, once by fellow actor), indigestion, Kate needs to be reminded how to do stage punches in the gut and she um kinda caught Ben in the zipper a little.Kate: Knee cap accumulated more scrapes and is still all loose.Show Description: This show was brootal! In addition to

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Turnout: 10/20Monetary Votes of Support: $21 Merch: $2Personal Injury Report: Nothing!Show Description: Play play play. Part of what we're pursuing on our adventures is experiments in alternative, non-capitalist forms of life. Sometimes such experiments can take the shape of emphatically non-productive activities, also known as playing. Our show in Charlottesville, coincidentally near our always

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Well, last nature day was eclipsed by Philadelphia. We spent it making copies of our merch, flyering and getting a parking ticket. 36 Bucks. Hurns. This Nature Day was better. We got to tour Twin Oaks, an Intentional Community in Virginia near Charlottesville. They've been around since the 70's. 85 adults and 15 kids live there. The tour was quite informative and I have a lot to say about it

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Turnout: 18Our Cut (3/4) Door: 71Personal Injury Report: Hmm, Kate rescued herself from having to act the whole show with her contact slowly and sneakily making its way into the depths of her eye. Also, she made sure the second gun hit looked and sounded really good by really doing it.Show Description: This show went very, very well. The best part though, was the discussion afterwards. People

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Turnout: about 20 watched the whole thing. Money: $30 door, $3.10 donations. Personal Injury Report: We sat directly in front of SETH's fog machine, which was used somewhat excessively given the small space, our eyes were still itchy the next morning. Show Description: Our first multi-media performance of the play! One of the 13 Thames guys hooked up a camera and video projection of us on the

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Turnout: 35 Monetary Votes of Support: $43.45 (Bluestockings passed a hat for themselves as well)Personal Injury Report: None for us. There was a very attentive and excited 7 year old who might have gotten nightmares. Show Description: Great turnout at the wonderful Bluestockings bookstore. Excellent people, great selection of books, very friendly atmosphere, attentive audience, some of whom just

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So, if what you do on New Year's Eve defines what you'll be doing for the whole year, we've got a busy year ahead, cuz we've spent New Years Eve preparing to leave for a two month tour. Actually, we spent the last three days doing little other than rehearsing, cleaning our room (we're subletting for two months, so we'll be living rent-free again) printing, doing some last ditch booking efforts,

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We're gonna run this play everywhere and anywhere for as long as we can! Here's our plans for January, including the holes in our route (as noted by ?). If you know anyone in any of these cities, please ask em to turn out. If they're a radical musician or other type of performing artist ask them to contact us, we're looking for locals to play with us in many of these places. Full details for most

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-18969242848680318002009-11-19T16:04:00.006-06:002009-11-20T11:41:15.311-06:00

Turnout: 60Door: $75, Merch: $29, Donation: $36Personal Injury Report: You know that part where Kate wrenches Ben's head backwards, covers it with her hands and then while shouting "you shit!" slaps him across the face? Y'know, where she's supposed to swing her right hand past 2 inches in front of Ben's nose and actually only hit her left hand to make the SMACK sound? Yeah. She decided to make

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Turnout: 14, some of which had already seen it.Monetary Votes of support: 82, Our cut: 57, Merch: 8Personal Injury Report: Ben foolishly made his left eye the target of the first gun hit.Show Description: We were too busy (Hames-Drake wedding!) to remind everyone to come out for a play the day after Halloween. Even though Russ Bickerstaff mentioned the show, and Snap Milwaukee published Kurt

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-88099928120686655122009-10-30T16:24:00.003-05:002009-10-30T16:37:51.182-05:00

Kurt Hartwig wrote this fucking amazing review of the play we are doing. That makes me so happy. Please read this, comment about it here, share your experiences with the play, whether they align or depart from Kurt's. Or just talk to us. We'd love to hear more from people.

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Turnout: 10Monetary Votes of Support: 141. Merch: $12Personal Injury Report: Ulysses' pants have developed a crotch hole that won't seem to stay sewed. MLS (the car) has similarly developed a hole in her fuel tank. New suit: $12 at value villiage. New fuel pump: over $600. Show Description: A small but very supportive crew at a Unitarian Church. We played in the middle of the floor, right in

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Turnout: 8Monetary Votes of Support: 32 Merch: 28Personal Injury Report: That old lady's feelings.Show Description: Second time at Spore. The first time had a much better turnout, this time was kind of weird, between the two guys at the computer who were kind of distracting, to the older woman noting whenever someone came in late, it was a bit hard to concentrate. Nonetheless, the discussion

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-6697394734431276032009-10-23T17:33:00.009-05:002009-10-24T01:06:18.154-05:00

HOLY FUCKING SHIT LOOK AT THIS NATURE!NATURE!!!!Head first into NATURE!!This leaf never hit the ground! I caught it mid-fall!! Holy SHIT!THIS IS SNOW!! COLD WET NATURE!Here's a map, Charlottesville is up by my big toe, Johnson City is below my finger, and Asheville is right by the camera, in between? NATURE! Yep. Fucking MILES of it. We coulda done an all nature leg of the tour, 45 MPH max!

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-29878055619023843742009-10-21T22:07:00.006-05:002009-10-21T23:14:47.216-05:00

Turnout: 1Monetary Votes of Support: 6Personal Injury Report: Our feelings were hurt.Show Description: Everyone whose hands are not above their heads in the above picture left during the first ten or fifteen minutes of the show, also another dozen or so people were hanging out in the cafe on the other side of the curtain. I could say something about the peculiar kind of complacency that seems to

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Turnout: 13Door: 40, Merch: 38Personal Injury Report: Someone got their tits cut off with a hedge clippers. Oh, no, that's the video.Show Description: Bar show. There was this great video projection slash noise act before us, Compulsion Analysis 7, with pictures and, of course, video of how fucked up our world is and that that's obvious and that it's been fucked up for a long long time. (etc.)

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-79276338470688129902009-10-19T12:44:00.004-05:002009-10-19T13:37:07.565-05:00

We forgot the camera again. Here's a picture i found of Cindy (our host) online. At least I think that's her.Turnout: 60Door: 158 Hat: 34 our take: 122 Personal Injury Report: Ben strained his lower lip. The gag slipped out at the beginning of the show and he spent a good long time trying to half-swallow the dirty sock and repress the gag-impulse in order to get his tongue and teeth around the

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Tomorrow we begin our second tour (7 shows in 13 days, from philly to milwaukee via birmingham and points south). We've already begun booking our next month-long tour (going south in January) find dates and plans in the calendar to the right side of this page. These events make the final economic report quite overdue. THE CAR! We paid over $5500 for the car, got $394 in donations put toward

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-81012955871378168572009-10-10T15:06:00.001-05:002009-10-10T15:07:38.738-05:00

Here it is:http://www.therapidian.org/ulysses-crewmenThanks George!

Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-72105432082783686262009-10-10T14:43:00.006-05:002009-10-10T16:06:26.816-05:00

Turnout: 4Door: 19Personal Injury Report: Ben was unable to breath due to the gag and hood's twisted choking positions and nearly died on the floor.Show Description: Chicago! We made it there just in time. Without road rage. Stefan, who set up the show at the Prop was great and our few audience members were enjoyable too. The performance went well and the space was fitting. There was one

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-87179450686951786892009-10-08T14:11:00.004-05:002009-10-08T15:11:11.091-05:00

This tree was not green when we were there.Turnout: 7Monetary Votes of Support: 9, Merch: 20Personal Injury Report: EverythingShow Report: Um... there is nothing to say really. We're disappointed that we've been to Bedlam five times now and still have not managed to built an audience base. Waiting for people to show up before the show was pretty sad and made us feel pretty pointless. The show

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-18339650658578403412009-10-01T16:14:00.009-05:002009-10-03T01:51:15.133-05:00

It might be 2 in the morning, but we find this picture quite hilarious. Please look closely. Turnout: 25-30Cut of Door: 62Personal Injury Report: Nothing really.Show Description: Our homecoming! And leaving! In the same show.A lot of people showed up that we were very happy to have see it. Overall, things went quite well. All Tiny Creatures played some awesome music I was very glad to finally

Kate Pleusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10909273487941570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486591711262047214.post-43564760182250733612009-09-30T09:05:00.004-05:002009-10-01T18:02:47.177-05:00

Turnout: 25Monetary Votes of Support: 91 AND A CAN OF PEAS, Merch: 6Personal Injury Report: Unscathed!Show Description: We were very happy to be at Broom Street Theater. The arrangement was great and we got to hear Tim Morgan play another awesome set, this time with acoustic guitar, cymbals, butter knives, drum sticks, and lots of other stuff, throw in a pencil or two. Performance-wise, Kate

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