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
Review of Cottonmouth Kisses — Bizarre Magazine (UK)
July 1, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · Leave a Comment
April 2001
[ Many thanks to Cathi Unsworth —
and, of course, to Bizarre magazine ! ]
Salt Lake City: Beware!
June 5, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 3 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
∞ ∞ ∞
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:
∞ ∞ ∞
∞ ∞ ∞
(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…
∞ ∞ ∞
And speaking of dangerous territory:
This collaboration with comrades Paris Sadonis
:: who didn’t give me a recent photo, so hee² ::
∞ ∞ ∞
∞ ∞ ∞
& the lovely Zoetica Ebb
Is breakneck behavior at its most unpredictably brilliant (and vice-versa).
∞ ∞ ∞
∞ ∞ ∞
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 · 2 Comments
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 · 7 Comments
Beats, Blips & Spoken Word—Here It Is
in
Volume Four of Hiccup, the theme of which is
∞ ∞ ∞
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
∞ ∞ ∞
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)
“Flouncing About” — Spoken Word Text by Clint Catalyst; Narration by Pauley Perrette
December 11, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
with the aural fixations/visual manipulations of
P. Emerson Williams (from Veil Of Thorns)
the artwork of—and special appearance by— Joshua Petker
as well as portrayals by Dirk Mai and Julia Romanenko.
Aldo and Clint “Do” Olympia! (Personal Appearance this Fri., Nov 13th)
November 9, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
Short notice? Who, me?
(O.K., so maybe I’m not the best at feigning innocence…)
At any rate, this Friday evening, the 13th of November 2009
at 9:30 p.m.
My chum/ “co-star” Aldo Vento and I
will be making a personal appearance at the screening of
“Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman”
at
(Among “Delphinium”‘s roster of November Screenings…
This one is paired in conjunction with a live performance by Steven Severin
of Siouxsie and the Banshees and
The Glove,
Seattle, WA: A Cause Célèbre
November 4, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
Double-Fisted
Happenstance
:: which,
in grand detail
is… ::
August 2009 Clint Catalyst Readings/Performances
July 23, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment
August 8, 2009 (San Francisco, CA)
Clint Catalyst adds a few words of his own to a stellar line-up of authors at Charlie Andrews’ “Writers With Drinks,”the Bay Area’s highly-acclaimed ‘Spoken Word Variety Show’
08/08/09
Other magazine presents Writers With Drinks
(with featured wordsmiths Dorothy Allison, Adam Savage, Clint Catalyst, Mary Miller, Steven Barnes and special guest host Beth Lisick)
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA
7 p.m.
Writers With Drinks Website
*This Event Is 21 & Over
$3-$5 sliding scale (all proceeds benefit non-profits)
Reader/Performer Bios:
Dorothy Allison is the author of the National Book Award finalist and Ferro Grumley prize-winning Bastard Out Of Carolina, the Lilian Smith prize-winning Cavedweller, and the short story collection Trash, plus the forthcoming She Who. She was an award winning editor for Quest, Conditions, and Outlook, early feminist and Lesbian & Gay journals. Her story “Compassion” was selected for both Best American Short Stories 2003 and Best New Stories from the South 2003. She’s been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University and a writer in residence at Macondo in San Antonio, TX, and Columbia College in Chicago.
Adam Savage is a special effects expert who hosts the show Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel. He’s also worked on Star Wars Episodes I and II, Space Cowboys, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, the Matrix sequels, and A.I. among others. I’ve done R&D for toy companies, acted in commercials and films, and done props and sets for Coca-Cola, Dow Corning, Hershey’s, Lexus, and a host of New York and San Francisco theater companies.
Steven Barnes’s novels include the Aubry Knight series, the Insh’Allah series, plus Shadow Valley, Great Sky Woman, Charisma, Iron Shadows, Blood Brothers and the Kundalini Equation. With Larry Niven, he’s written the Dream Park Series, The Descent of Anansi, Achilles’ Choice and Saturn’s Choice. With Tananarive Due and Blair Underwood, he writes the Tennyson Hardwick novels. He also wrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novelization Far Beyond The Stars, and the Star Wars novel The Cestus Deception, plus two Assassin’s Creed novels. He’s written for The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Stargate: SG-1 and Andromeda, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Cable, Ace and Endeavor awards.
Clint Catalyst is the author of Cottonmouth Kisses. He’s served as contributing editor with Swindle Quarterly and Surface, a managing editor of Permission magazine, and editor-at-large of three literary journals: Praxis, Psychodaisies, The Aeonian. With Michelle Tea, he co-edited the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache. He’s won the Isaac Andrew Campbell Memorial Prize for Poetry and the Congress/Bundestag Scholarship, the literary journal CFF deemed Catalyst both “Renaissance Man of the Year” and “Author With Most Anticipated New Release.”
Mary Miller is the author of Big World and the chapbook Less Shiny. Her work’s appeared in Storyglossia and elsewhere.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won “Best Literary Night” from the SF Bay Guardian readers’ poll five years in a row and was named “Best Literary Drinking” by the SF Weekly. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format. The event has been going since April 2001.
About Beth Lisick:
Beth Lisick has published poems, essays, a short fiction collection, and also wrote a weekly nightlife column for SF Gate for eight years. Her stage and screen collaborations with writer/performer Tara Jepsen have yielded some uncomfortable moments, the most recent being a short film called Diving for Pearls which played the international film festival circuit. She also co-organizes the Porchlight Storytelling Series, a monthly show for amateur storytellers in San Francisco. Her book Everybody Into the Pool, was a New York Times bestseller and made Entertainment Weekly’s list of Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2005. Her latest book about her adventures in the self-help biz is called Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, 10 Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone.
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Thanks!
August 14, 2009 (San Francisco, CA)
Clint Catalyst performs a multi-media spoken word performance at Homo-A-Go-Go!
08/14/09
SOMArts
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA
415-552-1770
7:40 SHARP! (Immediately Following Hunx and His Junx)
Homo-A-Go-Go Website
“Homo For A Day” Pass: $10 for Those Under 21; $20 for 21+
All Ages
(Please Refer To Website for Full Benefits of the Day Pass! Truly: The Talent + ‘Perks’ = FTW…)
Info listed at Homo-A-Go-Go Site, Click Through To “Readings/Performances”
Hope to see y’all there– I performed at H.A.G.G. three years ago in Olympia and had a wickedawesome time!
“Pained And Painted” — New Video Post
May 13, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment
Spoken Word by Clint Catalyst,
Visual Manipulations/Aural Fixations by Nicholas Wolfkind
featuring portrayals by
Audrey Kitching
Lorraine Caley
Kaiden Blake
Kat Lee
Hilary Goldberg
& CCx
Hair Artistry by the Almighty Irene Urias of HairroinSalon.com
Shiny Latex Yumminess by Syren.com ♥ (COVET…LOVE.IT) ♥
(accompanying text available on The ‘Tubes, if interested—
Clint Catalyst’s Channel; Click “More Info”)
Spoken Word Text
February 17, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · Leave a Comment
“To Push Away Or Clutch” — Spoken Word by Clint Catalyst
August 28, 2008 by Clint Catalyst · 24 Comments
ART FAG ALERT!
No, I don’t hit every line in the prose-poem verbatim.
Yes, I wrote it. It’s ancient history, actually…but I chose the piece as a ‘sampling of my wares’–so to speak–because it’s self-contained and just under the 10 minute mark.
BACKGROUND INFO: this monologue was filmed on the day that basically determined whether or not I’d have a sample of my art hanging in the Andy Warhol museum. By “hanging,” I mean via 50 inch flat-screen monitor and bitchen sound system with my monologue on endless repeat (entering the room on ‘Opening Night’ and hearing my far-from-soothing voice bouncing around the pristine white walls? SURREAL… and something I’m still processing.)
That Once-In-A-Lifetime pressure +
5 1/2 single-spaced pages of text?
I’m just glad I pulled it off…
And of course, exponentially more grateful to glenn kaino for including me as one of his “Uberstars” in the 8-year retrospective of his sculpture/photography in the reknown Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh!
Catalottalisp was “served, and proper” from May 3 – August 31st, 2008, thanks to Mr. kaino and the curators’ hospitality.
This clip would not exist without the camera skills of Nhat Nguyen and editing prowess of Diego Garza.
In this video clip:
Wardrobe by Jared Gold
Hair cut and color by Luis Payne of Hairroinsalon.com
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Hairroin Salon, Hollywood’s white-hot epicenter of cool, is owned and run by scissormeister Janine Jarman.
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For the image on exhibit, however?
Hair styling/color by Irene Urias of Hairroin;
make-up by Stacey Hummell.
(Watch for the “end result” of Kaino’s portrait of Clint, as taken by Polaroid Big Shot
in the compendium
The Work of Glenn Kaino: Communicating Rooks,
scheduled for an June 2009 release through the premier art publishing house, Hatje Cantz:
Effing PROPS, all y’all!
x o x
C C
May 12, 2008 — “Black Static Fades; The Focus Returns (Last Weekend: Part Two)” (Archived Blog re: Work Displayed in Warhol Museum)
May 12, 2008 by Clint Catalyst · Leave a Comment
