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John Junk

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FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« on: August 20, 2007, 08:53:53 PM »
I want to promote things I do on here because there are some people that might be into it, and so I offer this thread as a place where you can self promote without feeling like an asshole.  And so it goes:



It's this Saturday!

Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 04:08:32 PM »


Looks very cool, John Junk.  I belong to Big Cheap, a Los Angeles theater list- if you can zap me a text-only version of the info at jason at jasongrote dot com I'll forward it there.

I'll jump in as well - I have an Off-Broadway play going up in October (20, to be exact) - the info will be up soon at http://1001nyc.com .  I'm looking into whether the producers will let me offer free or discounted tickets to FOTs (besides ughwhy, who once interned for them, that is).

Also, I'm an uncredited freelance blogger for Comedy Central's Indicision 2008 site - I've had 2 entries posted so far, here http://www.indecision2008.com/blog.jhtml?c=v&m=62481 and here http://www.indecision2008.com/blog.jhtml?c=v&m=68032 , with two more (that I know of) to come.

Lastly, I think I have a monologue going up in the Edmonton Fringe Festival (I got paid for it, anyway) but I can't find evidence of it online, and I have a play going up with some nice youngsters in Austin in October, info here: http://www.vestigegroup.org/ .
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Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2007, 04:41:40 PM »
Oh, and I almost forgot: a friend and I are doing a short vaudeville sketch based on Werner Herzog's My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski in front the window of an abandoned former porn shop on 38 Park Row in Manhattan.  The info is here: http://omfm.org .  I think we'll only be there on a few night but actually it looks like a really interesting public art event in general.
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John Junk

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2007, 06:38:41 PM »
Oh, and I almost forgot: a friend and I are doing a short vaudeville sketch based on Werner Herzog's My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski in front the window of an abandoned former porn shop on 38 Park Row in Manhattan.  The info is here: http://omfm.org .  I think we'll only be there on a few night but actually it looks like a really interesting public art event in general.

Thanks jasongrote!  I'll try to get that info to you ASAP, and mayhaps join that site.  This intriquing Herzog Vaudeville nugget was my inspiration for this thread, actually!  I guess you posted it somewhere else...

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2007, 06:46:51 PM »
Thanks jasongrote!  I'll try to get that info to you ASAP, and mayhaps join that site.  This intriquing Herzog Vaudeville nugget was my inspiration for this thread, actually!  I guess you posted it somewhere else...
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Yeah, whenever you want to send it!  I'm a little nervous about the Herzog thing - my friend and I are both too busy to do it, and are trying to strike a balance between not committing too much energy on it while still doing enough so that we don't embarrass ourselves.  We do have kind of cool ideas, though - ideally, my friend (dressed as Kinski in Aguirre) will be able to get off a city bus in costume, though it's never a good idea to use something as unpredictable as public transportation as a design element.

I'd actually be really interested in what this crowd is up to - it's probably a real nexus of interests between comedy, entertainment, music, art, and weirdo outsider stuff...
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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2007, 11:27:33 AM »
For any NYC FOT, my band is playing Mercury Lounge on Monday.


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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2007, 10:08:01 PM »
do you know my friend luke?

he plays music too

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2007, 11:16:29 AM »
Can't say I know anyone named Luke...but we're always looking for cool people to play shows with.

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2007, 04:37:06 PM »
For any NYC FOT, my band is playing Mercury Lounge on Monday.



Last chance for awesome rock tonight!!

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2007, 01:04:01 PM »
OK - so I'm not just plugging this for my own sake, because (1) the piece I'm in is maybe 5 minutes of a 45-minute event involving about 100 people; (2) I'm only in tonight's perfs, at 7 and 9, and not Sunday's, but you should go anyway, because with or without me it's awesome; (3) I'm not even really an actor; (4) I'm not being paid; and (5) I have no plans to turn My Best Fiend into a play - this is just for fun.

But all of those disclaimers aside, if you want 45 minutes of free, public, pure joy, I really really recommend this One Million Forgotten Moments thing.  For the past three weeks I've been lamenting my involvement because I'm busy as hell with other stuff, but after doing it last night I was nothing but pleased that I was a part of it.  The director/curator, Yehuda Duenyas, is a genius, and has created a carnival that it never dull and manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of events like these - the acts are placed in such a way that, if you don't like something, something else cool will come along in a minute or two, and it's thankfully free of hippie sentimentality or performance-art indulgence.

And it's free.  So come if you can tonight and introduce yourself (I'm Werner Herzog) or go tomorrow and just enjoy yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/theater/15mill.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/OnTheAir/in_the_papers.jsp
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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2007, 04:06:42 PM »
Great thread! It's cool to see what other FOT'ers do and  I missed out on a lot of that introductory period since I've only been posting really for about a year.

I work at a small southern gospel radio station in St. Paul Minnesota. We're not streaming or anything, but it sounds like we're getting a website soon. So, I have nothing to show you. It's a pretty crazy gig.

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2007, 01:55:49 PM »
Right on, Gilly.  Anyone else?  Anyone?  If I can post something about running around Lower Manhattan like a clown with a bad German accent, surely some of you FOTs are up to something more legit.

In case anyone does go tonight, I want to amend my earlier statement: there is a little bit of hippie sentimentality at the end of the show, which I tried to alleviate by yelling out Nietzsche quotes.
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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2007, 06:53:33 PM »
John and Patrick, how did your things go?

Am I the only one posting on this thread?  And does that make me an asshole?

Well, it's not like anyone goes to theater anymore anyway, so fuck it.  Seriously, it's like telling people you make pocket watches.  But I've long agreed with critiques like Teddy Rockstar's and Jonathan Franzen's and I can promise you that I have tried my very best not to add to the big steaming pile of lame theater.  Feel free to ignore or ridicule, but if you do feel like going, they're selling the first 101 tickets to my play 1001 for $10.01 (get it?).  It would be great to see any of you there.  Laurie, the show opens during your trip here, but you might want to pay full price for yourself and your bodyguards and let the proles have the cheap tix.  We might even be able to find box seats for you so you can heckle like Statler and Waldorf on the Muppet Show (please don't).

Also, one of the voices from the Venture Brothers is in it.  Anyway, read on:

Page 73 is thrilled to announce that tickets go on sale today for our production of the New York City premiere of 1001 by Jason Grote, directed by Ethan McSweeny! Jason was Page 73's 2006 P73 Playwriting Fellow.  This will be his first New York City production.

This very limited engagement will run from October 22 - November 17 at the Nagelberg Theatre at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue (corner of Lexington and 25th Street). Performances are Mondays - Saturdays at 8pm and Saturdays at 3pm.
 
Tickets to 1001 are just $25 for general admission and $35 for reserved seating. But Page 73 is making a special offer to the first people to get their tickets!

The first 101 tickets for 1001 are just $10.01!
 
This offer is good for any performance, but yours must be among the first 101 tickets sold!!
 
(Limit of 2 tickets per order).
 
DON'T MISS OUT!
 
Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.1001nyc.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Use discount code EB1001 to take part in this very limited offer.
 
Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, 1001 hyperlinks Scheherazade's tales to contemporary Manhattan.  Time blurs and reality is fractured and reconstructed in a world inhabited by characters whose identity shifts unpredictably and deliriously.  With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century.
 
The amazing cast of 1001 includes Mia Barron (The Coast of Utopia), Drew Cortese (NYSF's As You Like It ), Roxanna Hope (Frost/Nixon), Jonathan Hova (Sixteen Wounded, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife), Matt Rauch (Roundabout's Prelude to a Kiss), and John Livingstone Rolle (The Unmentionables at Woolly Mammoth).
 
The scenic design for 1001 is by Rachel Hauck; the costume design is by Murell Horton; the lighting design is by Tyler Micoleau; the sound design is by Lindsay Jones.  The entire play will be underscored by New York-based DJ Arisa's fusion of electronica and Middle Eastern music.
 
For more information about 1001, visit www.1001nyc.com.
 
For more information about Page 73 Productions, visit www.p73.org.
 
1001 is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Greenwall Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency, and the Off-Broadway Angels. 
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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2007, 06:51:25 PM »

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Re: FOT Extra-Curricular Activities Bulletin Board
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2007, 07:49:06 PM »
Jason!  You are not an asshole.  I am an asshole for starting a thread and then abandoning it.  Do you know a playwright by the name of Michael Batistick by any chance?

Anyhow, my thing went well.  Here is a link to the gallery's website.  They made a nice little page about it.  Someday I will have video from this event posted somewhere. 
http://www.davidpattonlosangeles.com/hogan_performance.html

Oh yeah, and another thing, the bassist from the Tokeleys started a band called Future America and he asked me to join it recently.  He writes all the songs and I just do what I'm told on the axe, but it's a lot of fun.  Sorta just rock-out-with-your-cock-out stuff.  We're playing at The Scene in L.A. next Thurs., Oct. 18th, and it's F-R-E-E!
www.myspace.com/futureamerica

Yay!!