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 Easts Meets Words Open Mic - 07/13/07 - Part 3 of 3 [23:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Today, it is almost 2 months since Yellow Rage was at the East Meets West Bookstore. There is only so much to say about a recorded podcast that was done almost 2 months ago. I must say however that I do have fond memories of the July 13, 2007 open mic. Almost one year to the day, I attended my first open mic. I know that in August 2007, when I hosted the open mic, I said that it was one year since August that I attended my first open mic. Well, I lied. Or maybe I’m losing my memory. To be honest, the first Boston Progress open mic I attended was on July 14, 2006 when Eli Kao featured.

People often say that they lose their memory as they grow old. Maybe you don’t lose your memories. Maybe, you just remember the most precious moments in your life and everything else, the less memorable moments, you forget. I know that when I become really old, I will look back upon the month of July 2007 with fondness. Being one year since I attended my first open is only one of many reasons why it will go down as one for the ages. Heck, why stop there? I know that when I become really old, I will look back upon the year 2007 with fondness.

This blog post is not supposed to be about me, so I’ll stop talking and instead introduce the third and final podcast of the July 2007 open mic. Yellow Rage brings their brand of anti-racist, anti-sexist spoken defiant word to Cambridge and Boston. Listen and reflect kids.

Tags: Open Mic, Podcasts.

 

 Easts Meets Words Open Mic - 07/13/07 - Part 2 of 3 [20:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

The second part of our first three part podcast bring us the first half of Yellow Rage’s performance at the East Meets Words Open Mic in July 2007. We’ll start off with something a little angry. Sometimes Catzie sounds a little quiet, but that is only because of the bad recording.

These three separate podcasts means three additional posts about Yellow Rage. That will probably raise the total number of posts about Yellow Rage significantly. Maybe I’m just artificially helping their ranking in our Artists Cloud over there in our sidebar. Or maybe I just want to maintain my comfortable lead on the number of posts written. I know I can’t write as eloquently as my friend Giles over there, so my consolation prize is to lead in the number of posts. You know, it is kind of like, if I can’t play in the World Series and get a chance to win the World Series, at least I get to hold the major league record for number of walks in a career. That’s a subtle dig for you non-baseball fans out there.

[The background static is still there. I apologize.]

Tags: Open Mic, Podcasts.

F. Omar Telan is a spoken word poet, an activist, a performance artist. I don’t know what to say about him. But he does some crazy stuff. His piece at the 2007 APIA Spoken Word Summit was insane, mindboggling, groundmoving, earthshaking. Crazy. He’s going to be at the East Meets Words Open Mic (sponsored by Boston Progress Arts Collective) at the East Meets West Bookstore at 934 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140. Cover is $3. Check him out on myspace too.

“He is the man your father always warned you of. He is the man your mother secretly dreams of. Call him and leave dirty messages.”

Public Performance by Chinese-Jamaican poetry slammer Staceyann Chin. Chin has been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998, presenting work at the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe and poetry workshops in Denmark and London. Chin was also a co-writer and performer in the Tony-nominated “Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam” on Broadway. Her provocative and well-received personal stage memoir, “Border/Clash,” brought to Culture Project the heart-pounding story of a young woman’s journey to womanhood as a gay, female, Jamaican-Chinese immigrant in America. Hosted by MIT Women’s and Gender Studies, the MIT Race-Sexuality Task Force, SLIPPAGE, and the MIT Caribbean Culture Club. 7pm, Rm 6-120. 617/253-8844 or e-mail genderstudies@mit.edu.

 

 Easts Meets Words Open Mic - 07/13/07 - Part 1 of 3 [21:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

When Yellow Rage came to feature at the East Meets West Bookstore in July, we recorded the entire open mic. It took me awhile, but I’ve finally managed to listen to it and snip it up into three thirty minute chunks.

In Part One, we have the open mic proper, hosted by BPR’s Delia, featuring pieces by some fine folks whose names I have forgotten. The recording has a nasty hum or hiss, so I apologize for that. I did my best to filter it out, but I really am a post production novice when it comes to handling audio. I hope that doesn’t deter you from listening and enjoying the open mic. Besides, you can’t miss Giles perform a song about his wife. Honestly, the lyrics brought a tear to my eye. Well, not really, but in my mind, I believe that I could have cried.

Tags: Open Mic, Podcasts.

 

 Interview with Yellow Rage [13:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

So it’s been more than a month since Yellow Rage came by and featured…. Maybe we should rename ourselves Boston Procrastinators Radio. ANYWAY.

I have to admit, after I youTubed Yellow Rage, I was a little reluctant to interview them. I mean, aren’t they angry?

As it turns out, they’re both fun to talk to. They clearly have a lot of passion for working with the Asian American community and speaking out on things, that well, make them angry.

Tags: Interview, Podcasts.

Another Native Guns post?

Yes, but this time it’s DJ Phatrick, probably the least vocal member - as DJs often are - of the once and future kings of API hip hop. You guys probably got so amped rushing out to buy the newest releases from Bambu and Kiwi (”…i scream bars for the children…” and “Summer Exposure”) that you didn’t think to check in on what Phatty’s been up to.

As you probably would have guessed, he’s still on his grind: DJing parties, producing tracks, reading BPRLive, and through it all, still working with youth, which is important because our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries.

If that didn’t make any sense to you, then please pretend the last paragraph never happened. If that did make sense to you, then we share the same taste in YouTube clips. Either way, read on for some real talk with DJ Phatrick.

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Tags: Interview.