AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

For earlier Chapters and an explanation of this dreadful story, see blog: The Cardiff Grandma. WARNING: This novel contains fake Welsh.
In the previous episode, everything seemed to be going well then, but was really going “Well, then…??”. Now, along with Erm the erstwhile Cornishman, we must ask: Beer? -- and encounter Short Mat Bowls.

The Cardiff Grandma Chapter 49

The search continued. The disheveled and unkempt academic may be losing his faculties but he remained single minded.

‘Beer?’ he’d enquire with increasing desperation and growing frequency as he ambled along. Most people he had encountered so far either shrugged and scurried away from the tall figure or decided that maybe what he really needed was alcohol. The latter type of people would then seek to offer alcohol in various forms – typically a quantity of warm liquid in varying shades of brown in a volume approximately equal to 568 milliliters.

Last night I headed out to the San Fernando Valley - Northridge, to be exact - to see AMP Member James Hurley's
3-man, 3-song-at-a-time house concert at Gayle's Perks (his announcement was here on AMP: http://pluginamp.com/network/node/698). What a good show! It was really a pleasure to meet James and his friends, and really a pleasure to hear the songs of a very skilled group of songwriters as well. James is getting together a tour in the UK for this fall, and would love to meet some promoters there! Know anyone?

In 3 days, I'll be in Amsterdam for a night, probably seeing AMP Members creative resources and Anthony, as well as future AMP Member Nancy P.

For earlier Chapters and an explanation of this dreadful story, see blog: The Cardiff Grandma. WARNING: This novel contains fake Welsh.
In the previous episode, Wolfcastle comes to, while far away an over-the-hill clairvoyant named Madame Pom de Terre... Now, a briefing on the telephone exchange exchange student exchange.
The Cardiff Grandma Chapter 48

It had seemed to be a better life, a way out of the poverty and servitude often associated with such roles as poor servant or quality controller in one of the many foreign owned embroidery factories that were becoming the only viable source of employment in the less unfashionable parts of Bangladesh. The ‘reps’ would arrive each month with suitcases full of glossy brochures and mouths full of tales about how wonderful it all was back in Cymru and how great the lives of those ‘chosing’ to attend the Welsh university would so clearly be if they did just that – chose to attend the Welsh University.

Anyone wants to read some poems I've posted some of them here: http://www.myspace.com/outernet

keep well in here

chris

Just wanted to test the blog interface so I thought I'd post an image of a bracelet I made a while back.

For earlier Chapters and an explanation of this dreadful story, see blog: The Cardiff Grandma. WARNING: This novel contains fake Welsh.
In the previous episode, Rhoda Crwys cracks the bullshit code. Next, Wolfcastle comes to, while far away an over-the-hill clairvoyant named Madame Pom de Terre... Hey! Where the hell did she come from?
The Cardiff Grandma Chapter 47

‘I’ve always had a fear of being buried alive.’
‘Mmm, Taphephobia…do go on…’

‘That and being wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.’
‘Yes. Of course! How could you be wrongly convicted of a crime you did commit? I think you should be clear about just how unlikely such a situation is. I mean I don’t actually know of any legal system which imposes living burial as a sentence for any crime.’ ’

Dear Friends on Pluginamp,

Happy to share some great news with you!
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(1) Ljova's debut CD, VJOLA: WORLD ON FOUR STRINGS - released at last! Preview show at JOE'S PUB and CD Release party to be announced.
(2) Original film score for feature documentary THE TEAM (produced by BBC, directed by James Marsh and Basia Winograd).
(3) Collaboration with MATMOS, new release "The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast" on Matador Records
(4) Ljova's compositions' premiere at Carnegie Hall with Edgar Meyer Workshop, and with "In A Circle" at the Angel Orensanz Foundation
(5) Shh... More to come!

Jeff Merchant with full Band

Monday June 12

The Echo
1822 W. SUNSET BLVD. (IN ECHO PARK)
LOS ANGELES, CA 90026
opening for Languis

Free
admission
9:00 pm *SHARP!!

LIVE BAND featuring:
PROBYN GREGORY (Brian Wilson/Negro Problem) - Horns, Electric Gtr, etc.
REBECCA LYNN (WACO/Bibs) - Vocals, Viola
ADAM MARSLAND (Chaos band/Negro Problem)- Piano, Keyboards
TERESA COWLES (Chaos band, Dream School Diary) - Bass
NELSON BRAGG (Brian Wilson Band/Negro Problem) - Drums, Percussion
SANDRA BEANE - Cello
EILEEN LUCERO (Saticoy, PG-13) - Recorder

I like blueberries. I read in a magazine a long time ago that the reason that Boo-Berry cereal didn't sell well was because humans are instinctually afraid of eating blue objects. Evidently blue objects found in nature are always poisonous with the exception of the blueberry. When I eat blueberries it terrifies me to the soul and thus they are delicious.

When I had the idea for this community, I was envisioning the great pleasure of connecting my friends. Somehow I hadn't realized that I'd be in line for a great personal benefit as well: meeting my friends' friends, not to mention their friends too! AMP's very young, existing in its fledgling website phase for only a few short months, and already I've begun meeting fellow AMP Members that I had never met before. suebird13 is so cool! I just met Sue on Monday, as she was visiting LA from Massachusetts and wanted to say hello. What a lovely and talented person! Meeting Becky in Amsterdam and roxy in Berlin was great too! I knew this could be good, but I had had no idea of the variety of ways in which we could all help each other. I'm going to try to get out to one of James Hurley's shows, Laurie Notch might visit Los Angeles soon, and baldeep might be here from India in July. More to come, I'm sure. If you're in Los Angeles (or even if you're not), drop me a line by visiting my profile, clicking on "contact" at the top of the profile, and sending me an email - I'd love to hear from you.