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Shuffled! Jason Bayani
Shuffled! is a new feature on BPRLive, in which we ask some of our favorite people on the scene to set their mp3 player of choice to random, and tell us about the first few songs that they hear. Follow this link to see past editions of Shuffled!
Today’s Shuffler: Jason Bayani
Born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 (though he has claimed in interviews to be born in 1967 and 1969) in Big Bear City, California is an American prop comedian famous for his red hair. According to his official site he spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas… I’m sorry that’s Carrot Top’s bio… Born in San Francisco in 1976, Jason Bayani is a Filipino poet/other stuff, known for his funktagious imagery and splendiferous use of metaphorical metaphors and line breaks and allegory and enjambment and a whole host of other literary terms that he uses in writing poems. He writes other stuff too and was once an actor, but it’s been such a long time since he’s attempted a play or a short story that he kinda feels that if he tries to claim all that, he’d just be frontin’.
Jason graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in English and Theatre Arts. Originally he went there to run Track and Field and after losing race after race he realized he was a whole lot better at the arts than he was at being an athlete. In college he began doing spoken word and also did shows with Filipino theatre troupes Teatro Ng Tanan and Tongue in a Mood.
After college, Jason started participating in Poetry Slams; he is a member of five National Poetry Slam teams and won a Bay Area Grand Slam championship in 2003. He has performed across the country and started a Filipino spoken word collective along with Mesej 1 and Jaylee Alde, called Proletariat Bronze. His work is emotionally gritty and makes constant references to drinking whiskey. Plus he hardly ever rhymes. He counts amongst his biggest influences; Charles Bukowski Paul Beatty, Audre Lorde, William Butler Yeats, Carlos Bulosan, Jose Garcia Villa, people who smile at me, and of course, Carrot Top.
Currently, Jason works as a Counselor for Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco. He continues to perform spoken word across the country whenever he has accrued enough vacation time, is a big Bay Area sports fan, even though all but one team sucks right now (Go Warriors!!), and loves watching MMA. Plus he likes to dance. And one day he’s going to have a website, and maybe a CD and possibly a book he didn’t make himself and print at Kinko’s. In the meantime you can check him out on his myspace and facebook pages.
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