Adding Psychic Wounds to The Art of Bleeding
September 20, 2011 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
October 2011 : Clint Catalyst
Readings/Spoken Word Performances
Saturday, October 29, 2011 (Hollywood, CA)
with
MARGARET CHO (Drop Dead Diva, The Cho Show)
KIM FOWLEY w/ NOIZEE & BRIANNA GARCIA
JIM TURNER (Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre, 2-Head Dog)
TOBY HUSS (Carnivàle, Adventures of Pete & Pete)
SELENE LUNA (The Cho Show, My Bloody Valentine 3D)
CLINT CATALYST (Cottonmouth Kisses, 1000 Ways To Die, The Adonis Factor)
MICHELLE CARR (Velvet Hammer, The Berber Show)
Emcee: BIENO SVENGALI (Svengali Magic)
The Vitals:
PLEASE NOTE : THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW (8-10 p.m.)
10/29/11
“Halloween Highway 2 : Art of Bleeding and Guests”
Art of Bleeding
Steve Allen Theatre
4773 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m.
Linkature: Facebook Event Page , Facebook Group
All Ages (Though Not Recommended for Children)
$10 Admission
Contact: comedy@artofbleeding.com , abram@artofbleeding.com
❧ Or via Facebook (Please see links above)
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About Art of Bleeding:
“The Art of Bleeding is a uniquely non-accredited educational institution offering powerful and ego-destabilizing lessons in health and safety. Our presentations (often staged from an ambulance) utilize live performance, film, puppets, music, animation, and thinly veiled medical fetishism to explore the topic of catastrophic health emergencies within the framework of children’s television programming.”
Hemoglobin Hotties
Also, here’s a little
Bloody Cool ? Reverend Al Ridenour’s Antics Define ‘Sick’ In The Best Sense Of The Word
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Though I digress. More about
The Last Saturday of October!
“This Halloween weekend, The Art of Bleeding will once again transform the Steve Allen Theater parking lot into a ghoulish carnival of entertaining catastrophes featuring a SPECTACULARLY REAL MULTI-VEHICLE CAR-CRASH TABLEAU.
Against a smoldering backdrop of twisted cars, you’ll have the opportunity to hear TRUE STORIES OF MEDICAL HORRORS and ACCIDENTS from a rotating line-up* of storytellers including MARGARET CHO, ANDY DICK, JIM TURNER, TOBY HUSS, EDDIE PEPITONE, SELENE LUNA, DON BOLLES, STEPHEN HOLMAN, CLINT CATALYST, MICHELLE CARR, KIM FOWLEY, DUKEY FLYSWATTER, DANNY SHORAGO, KIM STODEL, BIENO SVENGALI, and more.
Providing dubious educational counterbalance to these tales of trauma will be THE ART OF BLEEDING’S “Magic Ambulance Theater,” a tragically misguided children’s show featuring gore-drenched actors, pedantic Safety Ape, bickering robot, and an ample array of attendant nurses in less-than-ample wardrobe.
FEMALE BLOOD WRESTLING, and a frighteningly live sound-performance installation by the enigmatic medical miracles of BOUNCEHAUSEN round out the evening.
And by all means, feel free to come in your Halloween costume! Doctors, nurses, and ESPECIALLY accident victims encouraged. Prizes for outstanding achievements related to our theme.”
(Again, there’s a high likelihood this show may not be appropriate for children.)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA:
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*Please note: this event takes place three separate evenings. I’ve listed the the night in which I’m a participant, for reasons that should be obvious— but hey! Maybe you’re not super-saturated with information on a daily basis, nagging like a steady succession of pop-up ads programmed to auto-start with a You-Will-Watch-Me insistence so gauche, your keyboard locks, a carcinogenic hue plagues your screen and sweeps it dark as
Oh, #whatever
I’m sure any of the nights will be fun. I just hope to see you when I’ll be there, so we can . . .
Insofar as caloric value? Of that I’m not certain
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AUTOMOBILE SCULPTURE: Clod Wrinkleman, Al Ridenour
ART OF BLEEDING MAGIC AMBULANCE THEATER: Randy Horton, Phil Glau, Al Ridenour, Eric Ridenour, Auriana Borealis, Jezebelle X, Harmony Rose, Tayler Jones, B.J & Eileen Winslow, Erin Robotmachine.
BOUNCEHAUSEN: Jason Hadley, Elizabeth Herndon, Joe Borfo, Cathy Gingerly, Rev. Mook, Rev. Dak J. Ultimak, Kel, Nicole Arneson, Matteo Oettam, Tim Wheeler, Esther Napastick, Michel Cicero, Todd Sterling
BLOOD WRESTLING: Auriana Borealis, Snow Mercy, Chrystal Skye
Projections by LUCID PROJECTIONS.
CADILLAC AMBULANCE AND GEAR courtesy NIK WHITE
Hey Bay Area! Tomorrow Night. Whatever Your Other Plans Might Be . . .
July 15, 2011 by Clint Catalyst · 3 Comments
Well, clearly they’re exactly that : plans other than
me, in the role of ‘ D.J. ‘
& you, hangin’ at
where there’s no hassle re: a cover, lover. . .
[ Unless you arrive after 11 p , at which time a fee of two dollars is requested.
As in, like : two dollars . ]
Just make it happen, O.K.?
O . K .
☿
Ah! & Not only/but also :
I’ll be serving the WORLD PREMIERE
of a special release from I†† !
L O S ± △ N G E L E S . W E D N E S D △ Y ± J △ N U △ R Y ± 2 6
January 24, 2011 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment
Disaro .&. Zane Landreth
of Killing Spree
D.J. the opening night of △ Ꝉ ☾ Ħ ƹ ṃ ¥ —
an event for people who don’t like nightclubs;
a nightclub with couches & a salon ambience;
a salon for guests averse to seemingly ‘stodgy’ spoken word performances;
two dramatic readings for an audience not accustomed to
—or necessarily fond of—the medium;
a medium that’s indeterminate in nature & degree.
▴ ▴ ▴ combine, transmute, begin/again: a circle ▴ ▴ ▴
[ C H E C K . I T ]
A D D I T I O N A L ± C O V E R A G E ± A V A I L A B L E
as well as for those who engage in
T H E E ± F A C E B O O K E R Y
—thanks!—
Elemental and Essential
January 17, 2011 by Clint Catalyst · 9 Comments
I T ‘ S ± Δ L L ± H Δ P P E N I N G
. . . Δ R E ± Y O U ?
Rich Royal ▴ Zoetica Ebb ▴ Clint Catalyst
Image: Brian Landes of Ready Aim Fire Photography ▴ Make-Up: Annah of BelleFace.com
▴ Jillian Lauren ▴
▴
Zane Landreth ▴ of
▴ Killing Spree ▴
Salt Lake City: Beware!
June 5, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
Didja notice how the previous blog post (“Mark Your Calendars…”)
Began with the phrase
✷ EVENT ONE of TWO ✷ ?
Well, it just so happens that
✷ EVENT TWO of TWO ✷
is an “out-of-town”er, which I’m stoked about:
S A L T † L A K E † C I T Y
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Oh, SLC—you sizzling center of the DI ♡
Over the course of the last decade, I’ve descended upon you as a spoken word performer, actor,
M.C.—for Black Chandelier/Jared Gold, as well as for the Dark Arts Festival—but never,
never this:
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(Dare we venture use so audacious a phrase as ‘performance artist’?)
Well, considering I just referred to myself by the Royal “We” (Pluralis Majestatis)—
a nosism employed by a person of high office, like a monarch, earl or pope—I figure
I’m already dallying around with dangerous territory
as it is…
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And speaking of dangerous territory:
This collaboration with comrades Paris Sadonis
:: who didn’t give me a recent photo, so hee² ::
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& the lovely Zoetica Ebb
Is breakneck behavior at its most unpredictably brilliant (and vice-versa).
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I’ve got mad admiration for both of these multi-talented artists, and
collaborated a few times with Paris back in the haze of my ‘S.F. daze’
Oh Yes: Mark Your Calendars, I Said!
June 3, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment
June 2010 Clint Catalyst Readings/Performances
✷ EVENT ONE of TWO ✷
Saturday, June 5, 2010 (West Hollywood, CA)
Catalyst and the stunning Julia Voth are the “featured readers” for Los Angeles’ incendiary new spoken word series: The Poetry Brothel.
This month’s theme is “The Best Little Whorehouse In Los Angeles.”
The Vitals:
06/05/10
“Clint Catalyst As A Commodity: Verbiage For Sale”
The Poetry Brothel
House of Blues, Foundation Room
8430 West Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Doors at 8:00 p.m.; Event Concludes at 11:59 p.m.
Linkature: The Poetry Brothel via Facebookery
This Event Is 21 & Over, With A Valid I.D.
Entry Will Be $15 At The Door, $10 With RSVP via thepoetrybrothelrsvp@gmail.com
❧ Or via Facebook (link posted above)
And Now For Further Enticement, In The Words Of Madam M:
“Join us on June 5th for steamy readings, cold drinks and lovely ladies performing burlesque for your titillation. In the old fashioned style of everyone’s favorite Dolly Parton flick, dress to the nines and get ready to be sauced and saucy.
All of the resident ‘whores’ are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course, any good brothel need a furtive ‘front’ or cover; ours is part saloon and part salon, offering a full bar with music, burlesque dancing, fortune-tellers, and installations from our poets and other artists at each event. [In addition to the featured readers], each night we will also introduce several “New Girls”…[performers] who punctuate the evening with a few special public performances.”
Music provided by the ever spectacular Daniel Ribiat.
Featured visual artists: Joshua Burian Mohr and Zoetica Ebb
“The cornerstone of The Poetry Brothel is the event series. Bringing a new twist to the tradition of poetry reading, The Poetry Brothel showcases a diverse roster of emerging and established poets.
However, our events are also interactive performance art pieces based on the concept of the prewar brothels in the United States and Europe.”
“As Far As Therapy Goes” by Clint Catalyst :: (the “Hiccup” remix/visit) ::
April 10, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 6 Comments
Beats, Blips & Spoken Word—Here It Is
in
Volume Four of Hiccup, the theme of which is
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Hiccup is a live, multi-media performance series in the L of A, curated by wordsmith Eric Layer—
Each ‘happening’ is accompanied by a literary magazine on-line, complete with a down-loadable podcast of Mr. Layer’s infamous
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Verse-slingers in Los Angeles—or traveling troubadours in search of a rad venue to ‘do [their] thang’—forthcoming themes are posted on the
Hiccup website, including a section on the where & how to submit…
April 2010 Clint Catalyst Readings/Performances
March 14, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 5 Comments
April 6, 2010 (Conway, AR)
Clint Catalyst is a guest speaker/performer for the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language series. This year’s theme is “Word and Image.”
04/06/10
“The Writer as Image: Words, Personae, and the Media Between”
Hendrix College
Reeves Recital Hall
Conway, AR
7:30 p.m.
Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Campus Events
All Ages
FREE and Open to the Public
“Clint Catalyst, a Hendrix alumnus, further examines this year’s theme with a presentation of the idea of personal image as relating to the writer.”
* Media Coverage in Arkansas Online, in association with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. *
“Under The Influence” At HICCUP—Saturday, March 13, 2010: 9 PM
March 12, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
A new spoken word series in Los Angeles
(…& it’s long overdue)
ShowWX Presented by MicroVision at The Sundance Film Festival, 2010
January 14, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 8 Comments
So, I’m going to Sundance.
Remember that gorgeous independent film I’m in? You know, “Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman”? The one I yammered about a while ago. Well, it’s screening at Sundance, and…yeah. As an Angeleno transplant, over the years I’ve acclimated to the freon-tinged climate shady people imbue this brightly-lit place. To fair the “whether,” the most important reaction I could have is: act as if this news isn’t very important at all.
It’s a tricky thing, this More-Jaded-Than-The-Orient sense of feigned indifference—because if “reality” T.V. cameras are added to the equation? Flip it. Be so real it’s Faux Real…and it will be: on film.
Semantics and human behavior are complicated. But how I feel? How I feel, for once, is pure and simple and precise. I’m so excited; I’m spinning around like tinsel on a majorette’s baton at half-time.
That being said, the vitals are:
Friday, 22nd January, and Saturday, 23rd January 2010, 2pm
ShowWX Presented by MicroVision at The Sundance Film Festival
Cinema Lounge at 333 Main Street, Park City, UT
Curated by Shade Rupe,
The program includes new work by
Floria Sigismondi, Sean Pecknold, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Rodrigo Gudiño
and
More Info “Beneath The Jump”
