THANKS FOR A GREAT TIME LAST NIGHT!
Thank you to everyone who came out to Subterranean last night for Consumatron.com's 1st Annual Revue! I think everyone who came out witnessed something they had never seen before and I hope you found it interesting!
An extra special thanks to DJ Oh, Shinobi, Peter Klockau, Charles Blackstone, Dan Solomon, Russell Williamson, Lord of the Yum Yum and Adam Fitz for performing!
An extra extra special thanks to everyone who tried their hand in the raffle! We were able to raise just over $100.00 for 826 Chicago. I'm throwing in $50.00 myself and will be sending off the check later this week.
I won't be reviewing the show due to personal bias, but I urge, encourage and otherwise endorse you all to write up your own review of the show! There are three ways you can do this:
An extra special thanks to DJ Oh, Shinobi, Peter Klockau, Charles Blackstone, Dan Solomon, Russell Williamson, Lord of the Yum Yum and Adam Fitz for performing!
An extra extra special thanks to everyone who tried their hand in the raffle! We were able to raise just over $100.00 for 826 Chicago. I'm throwing in $50.00 myself and will be sending off the check later this week.
I won't be reviewing the show due to personal bias, but I urge, encourage and otherwise endorse you all to write up your own review of the show! There are three ways you can do this:
- Edit the Wiki
- Leave a comment on this post.
- Send me your review in an e-mail (consumatron[at]consumatron[dot]com)
Any and all reviews or comments will be collected and published on Mediatron.
Also, if anyone has pictures or video, I'd love to see them!
Finally, if anyone has any interest in holding a similar show, please get in touch. I'm always excited to see different creative scenes coming together to celebrate and collaborate!
Thanks again everyone!
You are all rated 5/5 in my book!
-Kevin
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We met interesting people---saw amazing people perform--
and witnessed OUR son host an event that made us "Proud"...
A job well done...
Consumatron's 1st year Party.
Rating 5/5
Let's see - this is why I don't have a blog: I've got nothing to say normally.
Got there about 9:00 as Kevin was introducing the first(?) act, Charles Blackstone. I was hoping Charles would have read from his book, not someone else's, but the reading was still good. Seemed more like overhearing a conversation than the written word. While Charles was reading, I was close enough to the bar to hear the ringing of the cash register, which was interesting, given the fact that this was a celebration of consumerism.
DJ Oh Shinobi filled the gaps nicely, and the thing I was impressed with most was the fact that the music was not too loud. You could actually carry on a conversation, a rarity these days. Well done, Mr. DJ. Good tracks too.
Up next (I think) was Dan Solomon with a good riff on the three types of poems and 'poets' you get at poetry slams, an observation on 'angry' poetry, and why his Dry poem about New Orleans was not the angry, F*** Bush, F*** Dan Brown, F*** FEMA poem he expected it to be. His set was very well thought out, and actually ended on an angry note, which was kind of nice :)
DJ Oh Shinobi once again...
Then came Lord of the Yum Yum, but I think his placard initially identified him as "Maximimum Happy" or maybe I imagined that. Anyway, his frantic set was unlike anything I had ever seen, with a nice ode to consumatron.com to get us started, right in the middle of the crowd. I happened to be right next to him when the drum sticks started flailing. I don't even know how to describe what he does. I think it would be best to just go listen to a couple of pieces or view a video of a performance at his media page.
I hung out for a little more DJ Oh Shinobi, grabbed a consumatron poster, had it signed by Kevin and Peter, and skated out before the next act.
All in all, a good time for $5. Can't wait for the next one.
--Chris
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