SoUPFest X: The Resurrection
Wednesday October 1, 2003
from Troy Teegarden of the Society of Underground Poets in Lexington, Kentucky:
“Break out those Halloween costumes and your funky clothes and prepare your ears for an evening of good reading, good music, and fresh fun.
“SoUPfest X: THE RESURRECTION takes place on Saturday, November 1, 2003, at The Dame, 156 W. Main Street, Lexington, Ky., beginning at 7 pm. Featured readers include Christina Abraham, artcat, Sherrie Bennett, Amy Templeton Buckley, Sherry Chandler, Michael Crossley, J. Todd Dockery, Mark Flanigan, Holly Haufler, Peter Heyneman, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Amanda Johnston, Lexington Poetry Slam, Jason Mabry, Brian Manley, Ed McClanahan, Jude McPherson, Brooke Salisbury, Doug Saretsky, Bianca Spriggs, Troy Teegarden, Kristen Roach Thompson, Katherine Ware, Bill Widener, Nicole Wilson, Jeff Worley and many others, with music by Miss Kittytwister & Her Hot Dogs, Post-Haste, The Smacks!, The Touched, The Voodoo Organist and others. The evening is hosted by Charles Whittington. The cover charge is $5.
“Featured reader Ed McClanahan was born in 1932 and grew up in Brooksville, a small rural town in Northern Kentucky. Ed's been all over the place, running around with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and getting into his own pranks. One of his most famous books, The Natural Man, was published in 1983 to unanimous praise. In 1985, he published his comic memoir, Famous People I Have Known. In Newsweek, reviewer Malcolm Jones Jr. wrote: ‘McClanahan lightens not merely your wallet but your heart as well. Quaff of this literary elixir. You won't regret it.’ Ladies and Gentleman, the Rose of Bracken County himself, Mr. Ed McClanahan, will be reading at 9 pm.
“And you’ll want to stick around until the end of the evening. Imagine that your favorite one-man cheeseball lounge act eschewed his usual pre-show Vegas ritual one night. Say he laid off the chilled Stoli martinis before his set and instead hoovered a couple of lines of crystal meth, gave himself an icewater enema and tossed back a couple of cans of Red Bull. And then let's say he hit the floor and, instead of performing lame versions of ‘Angel Eyes’ and ‘Come Fly With Me’, he slammed into full-throttle organ-grinding riffs and bellowing vocals.
“Folks, say hello to the Voodoo Organist, a 21st century schlockmeister who wants to rock your world. Exotic Demonic Blues is a premier bizarro exotica record. This album, solely the work of Los Angeleno Scott Wexton, sounds like the devil stole the Reverend Horton Heat's guitar and dumped him in hell's recording studio with organs, synthesizers and a sampler. The result simulates the ghosts of blues shouter Screamin' Jay Hawkins and lounge maestro Esquivel teaming up to perform the soundtracks of vintage Italian slasher flicks. The frenetic opener, ‘I'm Going Down,’ is a revival tent roller fit for introducing an evangelist. ‘She's Got Soul’ sounds like bizarro trance music topped off by Wexton's circus barker vocals. The highlights are ‘New Mexico’ about romping with a sex kitten and losing your mind, and ‘Joe’, a bossa nova ditty about searching for a strung-out drug buddy: ‘Hey, man... let's go / Hey, man... where's Joe?’ (--Jim Bialek).”
Sounds like fun!
Related articles:
Our review of SoUPFest 1998
“Break out those Halloween costumes and your funky clothes and prepare your ears for an evening of good reading, good music, and fresh fun.
“SoUPfest X: THE RESURRECTION takes place on Saturday, November 1, 2003, at The Dame, 156 W. Main Street, Lexington, Ky., beginning at 7 pm. Featured readers include Christina Abraham, artcat, Sherrie Bennett, Amy Templeton Buckley, Sherry Chandler, Michael Crossley, J. Todd Dockery, Mark Flanigan, Holly Haufler, Peter Heyneman, Jeffrey Scott Holland, Amanda Johnston, Lexington Poetry Slam, Jason Mabry, Brian Manley, Ed McClanahan, Jude McPherson, Brooke Salisbury, Doug Saretsky, Bianca Spriggs, Troy Teegarden, Kristen Roach Thompson, Katherine Ware, Bill Widener, Nicole Wilson, Jeff Worley and many others, with music by Miss Kittytwister & Her Hot Dogs, Post-Haste, The Smacks!, The Touched, The Voodoo Organist and others. The evening is hosted by Charles Whittington. The cover charge is $5.
“Featured reader Ed McClanahan was born in 1932 and grew up in Brooksville, a small rural town in Northern Kentucky. Ed's been all over the place, running around with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and getting into his own pranks. One of his most famous books, The Natural Man, was published in 1983 to unanimous praise. In 1985, he published his comic memoir, Famous People I Have Known. In Newsweek, reviewer Malcolm Jones Jr. wrote: ‘McClanahan lightens not merely your wallet but your heart as well. Quaff of this literary elixir. You won't regret it.’ Ladies and Gentleman, the Rose of Bracken County himself, Mr. Ed McClanahan, will be reading at 9 pm.
“And you’ll want to stick around until the end of the evening. Imagine that your favorite one-man cheeseball lounge act eschewed his usual pre-show Vegas ritual one night. Say he laid off the chilled Stoli martinis before his set and instead hoovered a couple of lines of crystal meth, gave himself an icewater enema and tossed back a couple of cans of Red Bull. And then let's say he hit the floor and, instead of performing lame versions of ‘Angel Eyes’ and ‘Come Fly With Me’, he slammed into full-throttle organ-grinding riffs and bellowing vocals.
“Folks, say hello to the Voodoo Organist, a 21st century schlockmeister who wants to rock your world. Exotic Demonic Blues is a premier bizarro exotica record. This album, solely the work of Los Angeleno Scott Wexton, sounds like the devil stole the Reverend Horton Heat's guitar and dumped him in hell's recording studio with organs, synthesizers and a sampler. The result simulates the ghosts of blues shouter Screamin' Jay Hawkins and lounge maestro Esquivel teaming up to perform the soundtracks of vintage Italian slasher flicks. The frenetic opener, ‘I'm Going Down,’ is a revival tent roller fit for introducing an evangelist. ‘She's Got Soul’ sounds like bizarro trance music topped off by Wexton's circus barker vocals. The highlights are ‘New Mexico’ about romping with a sex kitten and losing your mind, and ‘Joe’, a bossa nova ditty about searching for a strung-out drug buddy: ‘Hey, man... let's go / Hey, man... where's Joe?’ (--Jim Bialek).”
Sounds like fun!
Related articles:
Our review of SoUPFest 1998
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