Success

So last night was pretty fucking awesome. I don't know if I've mentioned, but I started doing a poetry/music collaboration with this dude Victor who I'm pretty sure is god, because he has a big white beard and knows everything about guitar. If there is a god I'm sure he knows everything about guitar. Anyway, we recorded some stuff on Saturday, and at the end of it he was all, "Hey, let's go out and make a name for ourselves," and I was all, "Hell to the yes!"

Last night we had our first performance together. We went to an open mic at "The Cafe" in Lincoln Square. There were about 25 people in the audience and only four or five readers, so it worked out nicely. Also a lot of my friends came out for support which was nice! We kicked ass, basically. I read my coleslaw poem as an encore. After the reading was over, the owner of the open mic came up to me and asked for my email. Another dude came up to me and invited us to perform at his open mic, which we're doing this Monday (Waiting 4 the Bus @ Jak's Tap, 901 W. Jackson -- fellow Chicago poets should feel free to come and read as well, it would be cool).

The guy who ran the open mic sent me an email saying he's interested in booking me and Victor for a feature. AWESOME.

Also, my sister is probably going to get in on this project with some cello action.

So this is really exciting. It's the first open mic I've read at in Chicago and it went exceedingly well, and I did a lot of networking to boot. I'm really fucking pleased about this. I feel like we might actually make a name for ourselves. And that would be sweet.

I've been insanely busy for the past couple days and haven't read my friends page since last week. Sry. It will probably be a while, because I'm going up north for the weekend, hopefully making a stop at the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Anyway. Gotta get going. Just wanted to drop a line about stuff. And, again, I hope some of you other poets will be able to make it to the open mic, or future mics.