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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10870116952061285332019-12-25T00:57:11.542-08:00Don't Forget To Write!A blog from your friend La JohnJoseph. La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-18511369185835361142019-05-01T03:35:00.000-07:002019-05-01T03:35:37.203-07:00A Warning from Socrates: Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019Last year, after Edinburgh, I purposely took time out to revaluate my practice, specifically to consider the weight I had given within it to performance. I decided to take a hiatus from live work and until April's shows at Schaubühne, I had been away from the stage for six months. This is a considerably longer break than at any other point in the past ten years. Over the last decade I have on average been onstage 2/3 times a month, at points several times a week, at others several times a night. What I have found during this time out, is that writing and devising is every bit as important to me as the live performance. This represents an interesting sea change for me as an artist primarily working in time based media. What does it mean in the long term then? In short idk rn, but the realisation has opened some intriguing new lines of research for me, including my upcoming residency project as part of Waltham Forest's Borough of Culture year.

 Entitled, "A Warning from Socrates", the project invites Waltham Forest knitters to participate in a new group artwork, looking at how we disseminate information, spread gossip, and share knowledge. The project will bring together knitters of differing ability, to provide skill-exchange and socialising, over tea and light refreshments. Across four sessions, the group will chat as they knit, play parlour games, and make some new connections. In this way the group will compare the knitting circle to other means of sharing information. The project will culminate in a visit from Socrates himself, who join to see what we've learned whilst knitting, and lead our final session. The conversations will generate a key idea, to be repurposed as a printed hoarding, to cover a building currently being regenerated by the Borough Council. Full deetz here: https://wfculture19.co.uk/events/a-warning-from-socrates

 I think this piece will represent a new way of working for me, which will hopefully allow me to continue to talk about the things which interest me, but without requiring me to centre my own body as the site on which all discussions take place. It's also nice to have the opportunity to make work which isn't focused on gender (for once!) Of course I haven't entirely given up the stage, in fact "A Generous Lover" will have a UK tour in September, details of which will be forthcoming over the next few weeks. La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-63309577382796955272018-10-11T04:21:00.001-07:002018-10-11T04:21:05.298-07:00Hacked Knits III: Sodomite Zionist
I'm showing another of my Hacked Knits as part of the group show Queer Art(ists) Now. A collaboration with Jack Randol, as part of an ongoing series, this scarf (the third) will be worn by the gallery invigilator.

Scarf mock up

 This particular iteration is a reworking of a classic Norwich FC scarf design, the team was chosen after I inadvertently stumbled upon a cache of Nazi memorabilia on sale (and lovingly displayed) in a vintage store in the eponymous town. The store owner was irate when my (then) boyfriend asked him if he had ever considered that selling swastikas and autographed portraits of Hitler alongside boot cut jeans and old Prince vinyls, might be considered just a little tasteless. "Oh go and protest somewhere else!" the shop keeper said sharply, when my (then) bf told him that he came from a family of Jewish holocaust survivors.

 So then, that's the impetus for the team colours. But what am I thinking about when I put these two words together? Well simply put, I'm musing in two identities (Jewish and homosexual) which can be thought of as having been forged in the same fire. We think of heretics burnt at the stake, we scratch the surface with a little research and these blasphemous warlocks, and unnatural sorcerers are often found to be...ja Jews and queers. Follow the line then to the Communist scares of the mid-twentieth century, down to today's right wing propaganda, and you see these two identities are repeatedly framed as being the "real" evil puppeteering society towards its doom.

 Both communities have experienced near constant threat of expulsion and exile, as expressed in the recurring banishment from European nations of Jewish people throughout the past two thousand years, or the eviction of gay and trans people from family homes as a rite of coming out passage, or the "queer flight" from home towns. The outcome of this continual dislocation and duress manifests in the justifiable need for homelands, whether that's Israel or Fire Island, neither of which are all that dissimilar from the far right fantasies of ghettoes for Jews, and abandoned islands for AIDS patients.

 Of course these homelands quickly become weaponized (sometimes literally) when the outsiders who stake claim and raise a flag õn the virgin territory of the safe space become the authoritative insiders. We think of the bloody persecution of the Palestinians in the name of Israel's nationhood, we think of vitriolic racism and transphobia of the socially mobile, new enfranchised, club-owning cis white gay me; are we dreaming the same dream of domination?

 A knitted sample

 I can no more understand a queer person identifying as a Zionist than I can understand them voting Tory or Republican, how is it possible that the victim is so ready to victimize, and even use their own victimhood as justification? This ultra conservative agenda has been made possible, I suppose by ridiculous sleights-of-hand like the Gays for Trump movement, by pink washing right wing policies so as to make them seem more liberal. Again, Israel's reputation as "the only democracy in the middle east" has been built in no small part on the fact that homosexuality is legal there, which for some people is enough to justify just about anything. The question I have to ask though, is "When did you start giving a shit about gay people?" When did we become the last sexy orangutang in the rainforest, the primates you are do desperate to defend after decades of decimation?

 Ultimately I'm not trying to assign any values to either the word "Sodomite" or "Zionist", both are worn as badges of honour by certain people, and used as pejoratives by others, as is the want of language. As with all of these scarves, I'm interested in ideas of identity, class, social power, and a sense of belonging. I'm wondering is it possible for their to be a gay homeland, a Jewish homeland, a homeland for any marginalized community really, that doesn't come at the cost of the destruction of some other oppressed people's basic humanity?

 This series of Hacked Knits has been for me, a way of unpicking identity, belonging, tribalism, and the notions (of class, sexuality, gender) that purport to offer us a sense of fellowship. As such it's messy and contradictory (as is identity), but I'm using it as a process to feel something out rather than to declare a definite position. La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-97550067689379312018-09-10T09:28:00.000-07:002018-09-10T09:28:04.732-07:00"A Generous Lover" comes to London

 Having earned ten ****/* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we're bringing "A Generous Lover" to Camden People's Theatre for TWO SHOWS ONLY on Oct 2&3. Singled out by the Scotsman as part of their Best of the Fest selection, the show is a very queer, very true tale of one troubled soul's journey into the underworld of mental illness to bring rescue their lost love.

 This is a small show so advance booking is advised. Tickets are on sale hereLa JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-44374927527419732542018-05-28T10:04:00.000-07:002018-05-28T10:04:00.178-07:00Hacked Knits II, Is That A Man?Artist Statment:

Hacked Knits is a series of scarves based on on football club merch (which I have reworked/compromised) bearing text from the sites of friction between my gender presentation and the inevitable daily pushback. They are of course, a nod to the sport's field/gym changing room, a site which figures as a central site of formative anxiety for many queer, GNC, trans* people.

 Last Summer I was at a bus stop a few streets away from VFD, making out with my boyfriend, when a bunch of kids started to give us a hard time. "Is that a man?" was one of their (highly unoriginal) attempts at harassment. As my bf is trans and non- binary, neither of us knew if these kids were questioning his gender or mine, which collapsed things in an interesting way. As hurtful and intimidating as it was, it also revealed so much in the linguistic-power play, as to become absurd.

 "Is that a man?" is an invective used to undermine a person's femininity/femme identity, by alluding to the masculine/male identity "beneath". Concurrently it functions to ridicule or emasculate male identities by questioning their authenticity. It raises our awareness of how gender is policed informally, on the streets, and simultaneously poses the questions, "Who then is a woman?" and more so, "Who gets to decide?"

 In our moment of TERF crusades to defend the Holy Land of Womanhood this sinister line of interrogation also opens up a timely reflection on the 100th anniversary of suffrage (which granted the vote to only certain women), as well as referencing the abolitionist Sojourner Truth's canonical line of thought, (recorded as) "Ain't I a woman?"

 Hacked Knits II, Is That A Man? was featured in FEMME an exhibition curated by Kat Hudson as part of the FEMMETOPIA festival at VFD. Pic borrowed form Hatty Carman's IG. La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-54041944868082723832018-04-28T08:51:00.000-07:002018-04-28T08:51:47.107-07:00Hacked KnitsLast year I showed this piece (Hacked Knits 1, All Art is Gay) in a group show called G0dbottom, (curated by Stevie Hanley at Condo Association, Chicago). I wrote this text to accompany it, and as I'm going to show the second scarf in the series (Is that a man?) in London next month I thought I should share my thinkings.

 Last Winter my Mother taught me how to knit, or she at least tried to. I sat on the end of her bed and she regaled me with all the tales that came to her mind when she started to knit, real working class stories of the women on Liverpool's council estates knitting for children, grandchildren, godchildren, and beyond. Coming as I do from a sizeable Irish Catholic family, these hand-knitted garments, cardigans, scarves, sweaters, and even booties, were passed between siblings and cousins. They were so well made, and knitted with such tender conviction, that their usage spanned seemingly impossible lengths of time. They often lasted in excess of a decade, worn by numberless different children, still in pristine condition, somehow as indestructible as any holy relic on occasional view in Rome.

 Knitting makes me think of all the knowledge (often domestic) passed down on the maternal line (and all of the knowledge which is sidelined/ignored), but also makes me ponder on what else apparently comes to us directly from our female forbearers. Several prominent theories of homosexuality/queerness look to the Mother as the source of inherited non-normative sexual identities, just as canonical thinking says Jewishness comes from her too. (Catholics however don't much mind how you find your way to church, they're the original evangelicals always looking to expand the fanbase).

 I can remember my Nan (my Mother's Mother) knitting me a Thomas the Tank sweater, which was later passed to my cousin (and so on). Thomas' big beaming blue face smiled out on all who beheld him until long after his fashionable heyday. My Nan was canny, knowing that as a child I wouldn't really know if the Thomas the Tank sweater was handmade or store bought, she in effect produced counterfeit merchandise, using Thomas' licensed image in her own production. (Coincidentally I recently bought an contraband East German "fake" Mickey Mouse scarf in Berlin). Hacked Knits I is likewise "counterfeit", it explicitly (and illegally) incorporates the Liver bird logo in its design.

 Whenever I tell someone that I'm from Liverpool, inevitably they will either say, "Oh like the Beatles?" or (if they're a straight man), "Like the football team?" The Liver bird is the city of Liverpool's emblem, originally a badly drawn eagle which has become synonymous with the town, and sits (in sculptural form) atop the city's famous Liver Buildings (built 1908). However, Liverpool FC, one of the world's most prominent soccer teams (currently valued at $1.5 BN), have preposterously owned the copyright on the Liver Bird since 2010. Liverpudlians have made appeals but the trademark remains.

 I have always abhorred soccer, to me it has always stood as shorthand for homophobic harassment, and ritualised acts of bullying as milestones in attaining masculinity. As the UK is still bewilderingly obsessed with class stratification, football retains its working class aura (unlike bourgeois games of rugby or cricket) and with it the irksome fetishisation of working class masculinity (and the ridiculous projection that all woking class men are sexually virile and indomitably heterosexual).

 This scarf was knitted by Jack Randall, I remain a lousy knitter.

 You could map the popularity of football, and the presence of soccer teams around the globe, and use your doodle as an at-a-glance map to see how far the British expanded their colonial rule. As the Empire swelled it exported cultural products (such as football), alongside the Protestant moral values, codes of behaviour, and laws which almost completely eradicated previously existing expressions and understandings of gender and sexual identity. Liverpool itself was a major hub or the Britain's slave trade, becoming enormously wealthy earlier in its history from the infamous trade of bodies. Liverpool's culture, architecture and (now depleted) grandeur was built on this. Contemporary culture cannot be excavated from the bloody history which birthed it.

 As a way of dealing with one small part of its exceptionally ugly history, in 2017 the UK commemorated the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, with a national series of exhibitions, commissioned performances, and discussions. With the exception maybe of "Coming Out" at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, these were almost all sentimental, majority white, cis focused, and male-centred; they sought to obfuscate the inescapable responsibility of the same institutions which hosted them in the anti-queer status quo, through blame off-loading and it-gets-better-isms. As if it's possible for galleries to wipe their hands in January 2018 and say, "Well that's gay art done with for a while - who's next for a fix 'er up?"

 This scarf is my reaction to 2017's endless year of gay art shows.

 What the much celebrated anniversary represents is a partial decriminalisation, the change which came in 1967 didn't bring an equal age of consent, it didn't allow any kind of public sex, nor did it allow more than two men to have sex with each other (women having sex has always been unimaginable in British legal codes). This was not queer liberation, that particular revolution was not handed to dykes and fags by the government, it was pretty much forced into being by them. The blithe statement, All Art Is Gay, is a directly descended from this propagandistic panoply of these shows, mocking the opportunistic and insincere marketeering behind many of them, whilst simultaneously giving a genuine nod of admiration to Gay Lib slogans such as, "Gay is Good".

 This scarf disrupts the gift shop.

 All Art Is Gay, underlines the presumed effeminacy of creativity in contrast to the masculinity of production, highlighting its lesser/lower status. Hacked Knits I was made with a hand operated knitting machine, a piece of kit which sits ambiguously between handmade and machine-made. It's standard, even rows mimic a mass produced garment and talk to how significant moments in cultural history are blindly celebrated in mass market souvenirs. The scarf's finish (following as it does LFC product design) also allows it to mimic its template (an official team scarf) more closely. When I wear it, witnesses familiar with soccer merchandise read it as a gesture of fandom (or sartorial subversion) without observing the actual text. I like to imagine that an unsuspecting straight dude might confuse his scarf with mine and leave the pub wrapped in my counterfeit. (This reverie puts me in mind of one of Twentieth-century's pop culture's most brilliant coups, in which Freddie Mercury lured his unwitting rock bro fans into wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the word QUEEN).

 Football teams have been the cause of much social violence, and even as this proportionally abates, dedication to teams can be almost tribal. (I am using "tribal" here as defined by Merriam-Webster; "solidarity that transcends all other loyalties or bonds"). This loyalty can dictate what a fan wears, or even where they can go when they are dressed in team colours. The songs, catchphrases, and heroes of the fans of particular clubs, seems to me to line up somewhat with the queer obsession to define community members. Being an Arsenal fan or a Juventus fan is almost the heterosexual equivalent of being framed as a bear, a twink, a butch, or a femme. Almost.

 This scarf is a moment of camp minimalism.

 I have tried to hack contemporary culture with this piece, as a way to carve a place for myself and my own impossible identity as a trans* underclass class queer. My obvious contempt for soccer, and my simultaneous inability to hand knit, flags up my own failure (and celebration of that failure) to be successful as either a man or a woman. I'm fabricating my own identity as I go on fabricating these scarves. (The others have texts such as, Is That A Man? and Sodomite Zionist, which refer more explicitly to the harassment queer people and I apparently provoke by walking the streets).

 Returning from Documenta in Kassel, I was with a friend, when we unfortunately came into proximity with a group of football fans who obviously took it as their right and duty to harass us as we changed trains. Five metres away from the mob stood four armed police officers who viewed the scene with disinterest. My friend and I acknowledged that the authorities had made their position clear enough, and we not likely to help us out if we were to fight back. This compliance between criminals and the authorities allegedly responsible for protecting the populace from them, is as for queer people (and for POC), as expected and unremarked upon as the identikit scarves the soccer fans wore over their shoulders.

 This scarf can be wrapped around your face for protection against tear gas and surveillance cameras.

La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-14307949773733025522018-01-15T14:47:00.000-08:002018-01-15T14:47:34.953-08:00Far Worse: Alexander Geist x Ben Jackson

In November of 2016 I started going through some old loops which my pal and frequent collaborator Ben Jackson had sent me. There was one that really struck my mood, and over the past 14 months we have laboured over it to bring you "Far Worse". It's a doom-laden gabber track inspired by heartbreak, low-class rave culture, and Dante's "The Divine Comedy". I'm obsessed with this track, I performed it as part of "Any Instant Whatsoever" back in October, and it felt electric.

 The video was shot in Berlin at Folsom (the fetish fayre) with styling by Tim Heyduck and Make-up/Hair by Sarah Hartgens. Fritz Schiffers directed it, and Ben himself edited it. All I really had to do was give me heart and soul and lyrics. Continuing our investigation into the role of a recording artist in the digital age, the "Far Worse" single is released as a telephone call via www.alexandergeist.com

Filming was quite a trip as I gave myself over to the creative team, and sort of said, "Do with me what you will." Normally I'm such a huge control freak, but with this video I wanted to see what it was like to be the pop star moulded by the image makers around him. I'm really pleased with the result, it's moody, it's erotic, it's enigmatic. I hope you get a kick out of it too.

 The video was premiered at AQNB and you can read their featurette on it, if you fancy.

Here's the full video:

La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-11032489184515929142017-10-20T04:48:00.000-07:002017-10-20T04:49:46.913-07:00Any Instant Whatsoever at And What? Festival
Gina in action

 ***If you click on these sexy pics you will get an enlarged pop up verzionne ***

 Oh the highs and lows of performance art. I don't remember the last time I had such a joyous experience making a piece. Maybe I never have had such a joyous experience; certainly not since the very early BoyfriendRobotique days (when we were basically just covering ourselves in jam and dollar store knick-knacks as a way to take the edge of a comedown). From the first day of rehearsal there was a shared electricity, and a feeling that something magical had settled somewhere in the room with us.

 I'd spent a year researching and writing, forming lighting ideas, costume ideas, working on the text that accompanies the show, and undertaking all of the arduous labour (booking rehearsal space, overseeing design, arranging contracts) which attends the making of a new work. To be frank I went into the first day of rehearsal with something like dread creeping over me, I didn't really believe that I had the skills to direct a show, let alone a contemporary dance piece, having zero experience in either department. I felt as though I was on the bullet train to disaster, and that I was going to take all of my smiling faced collaborators out with me. That was not the case.

My one true loves

 In large part because of the relentless commitment, dedication, and generosity of my co-performers Robert Hesp and Jonathon Luke Baker, and in no small way owing to the never ending efforts of our sound designer Philip Cornett, the process was an absolute delight. We laughed ourselves stupid, some days we'd be on the floor multiple times in hysterics. They were incredibly long, demanding sessions but I never once left without feeling elated. I learnt so much, about my capabilities, about my resourcefulness, about what it is I was aiming for, and all against a background of working with people who were pushing themselves every day to be better and bring it harder. Still now, a week after the show I'm almost tingling when I think about what a blazing time we had working together.

 I can't forget to mention the ineluctable Jack Cullen who handled PR and marketing, forever popping up in rehearsal and in our timelines, with audacious new publicity angles. Our Facebook Live video generated such a spike of interest that we were almost immediately assured the show would sell out. Jack's constant flow of showbiz gossip enlivened many a lunch time, regaling us as he does, with the ins and outs of scene politics over coleslaw sandwiches.

 Owen Parry's dramaturgical advice was prophetic and enlivening, his conceptual read blends so nicely with his unhinged sense of humour, and lead to such strokes of brilliance as the purchase of Gina, our beloved oversize yellow teddy bear, and team mascot. A very wise witch (well Aaron Wright) once told me that what I was indeed of was a dramaturge more than any other specific collaborator, and well, shucks, I guess he was right. I really feel like this is the right method for me, though an assistant would also be graciously appreciated. The closest I have is Mickey, who played our roadie, and whom I wouldn't change for the world; firstly because he's an undeniably crucial member of the team, and secondly because he really goes for it when he leans in for a kiss.

 And who could forget Dr Sharon Husbands as the voice of Joan Quigley, the voice in the darkness somehow underscoring our rock'n'roll desperation? Or the glorious suits from Beau Homme? Or Max Allen's incredible shoulder pads? Or Felix at Open Barbers' really terrific haircutting skills? So many people gave so much of their angel dust - like Taylor Mac says, there is no such thing as solo performance.

 Marty makes magic with visible light

 Special mention of course to Marty Langthorne, for his stellar lighting design. It's an incomparable experience to perform in one of his plots, the atmosphere he creates is thrilling, somehow he turns black box spaces into Madison Square Gardens. When I look back at the footage, it is all I can do to watch the performance rather than the lighting states.

 Of course none of this would have been possible without the support of Jen Smethhurst who produced it, and their stunt double Hannah Maxwell who took over on show day. (And what a challenge that was! Did Hannah know there would be obsolete computers and delayed set designs to deal with right up until curtain time? With fire alarms to come after….) I remain forever indebted to Andrew Ellerby for all of his support in getting the show up at Rich Mix, and on such a fortuitous date as Friday 13th too!

 Just your everyday local neighbourhood icon

 So yes, now what? Well there's the new Alexander Geist video for "Far Worse" to look forward to, and of course the potential 2018 tour. Also, the accompanying text from the show is available NOW, published by And What? festival, if you want to delve deeper into AIDS, stardom, and the multiverse. Until next time, take care of yourself, and each other.

 Pics by A.M. Hanson La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-54738667580525832512017-07-20T04:48:00.000-07:002017-07-20T04:48:03.438-07:00Poster Comes to Life
 Beyond Personae artwork by Kat Hudson

 Beyond Personae backstage pic by Alexander Geist

 If you've missed out on the BEYOND! salon series, then I am very sorry for your loss. This month we went BEYOND! Personae with Fancy Chance, GFOTY and ShayShay, my identical twin brother hosted. It was a very funny, very provocative evening, I'm really enjoying presenting these salons ESPECIALLY as we have a fully female/trans* line-up for the series. They have been a incredibly useful research tool, to think about how performance builds, to consider its limitations, and to reconsider the triangulation between artist - performance - audience. All of the material gathered in the salon series is going into the creation of a brand new piece for the And What? Festival in October, full details of which are coming soon...In the meantime there will be one more salon BEYOND! Noise to come =)La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-35097907512591821802017-05-05T04:33:00.000-07:002017-05-05T04:33:45.519-07:00Beyond (1) Gender
I'm BEYOND excited to announce that my new salon series BEYOND is coming to Hackney Showroom for three extremely glamorous episodes. The first is May 26 and will go BEYOND Gender with Victoria Sin, Travis Alabanza and Rhyannon Styles. Join us for a show...that's also a conversation...it's BEYOND!

 Artwork by Kat HudsonLa JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-46999148238884230382017-03-18T13:17:00.000-07:002017-03-18T13:17:33.034-07:00The Most Perfect Story Ever WrittenMy Mother told me this story earlier this week. I've written it down verbatim, I think it's storytelling perfection. (For context, she was 19 when she had me, she was unmarried and living in social housing with my Catholic grand parents, in Liverpool).

"My Mother hadn't knitted for years until I told her I was pregnant with you. She said,

 'Go over to number 27 and ask Margey McQueen for some patterns and some knitting needles.'

So I did. I went over to number 27 and I said,

 'Margey, me mum said, can I have some patterns and some needles?'

 She said, 'What do you want with them then girl?'

 I said, 'I just found out that I'm pregnant Margey.'

 Margey said, 'Friggin' 'ell! What did your Mother say like?'

 I said, 'She said "'Go over to number 27 and ask Margey McQueen for some patterns and some knitting needles."'

 Isn't that THEBESTSTORYEVER?

 Margey McQueen is a familiar spectre from my infancy. Though I don't remember her at all, she stalks through nostalgic remembrances like this one; council estate queen, kind-hearted, generous, tough as old boots. She was a cleaning lady and used to ride on the back of her husband's moped to work each day. Seems fitting for a McQueen to ride a motorbike, no?

I swear, on Spring days I can SEE her on that moped, whizzing by in her navy crimplene slacks, flat sandals, oversized cardigan with pockets stuffed full of fags and lose change, a pink round neck t-shirt over a bulging bra, hands full of sovereign rings, glinting like a magpie, decked out, necklaces upon necklaces spelling out MUM and MARGEY. Half Roman Holiday half Greaty market, partial to half a stout, a martyr to her back pains, handy with her fists when she needs to be, shoulder pads saturated with all the tears that had been sobbed on her shoulder over the years. I think about her saving up for Christmas, putting money in the toni, teary-eyed at her grand daughter's first holy communion, threatening to throw her husband out if he made a show of her one more time.

She couldn't have known that she'd be remembered decades down the line by someone who's first pieces of clothing came from knitting patterns she'd kept in plastic sleeves in the magazine rack at the side of the couch, for just such a situation to arise, could she? These every day acts of kindness, support without judgement, keep the world on its axis, and make me proud and grateful to have been raised by working class women. God bless you Margey McQueen! <3

La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-86435300965360928712017-03-03T05:36:00.000-08:002017-03-03T05:36:37.144-08:00Select Images from Performance

 Notorious Beauty, Dixon Place (NYC) 2008

 Practically Royalty, Hackney Attic (London) 2015

 That Girl (with Ming Wong and Bendik Giske), Ping Pong Galleria (Hong Kong), 2016

 Boy in a Dress, Oval House (London) 2012

 GEIST, The Arcola (London) 2016

Alexander Geist live! RVT (London) 2014

 Alexander Geist live! Paradise (Milan) 2016

Cover Her Face , BGWMC (London), 2014

What About Matriarchy? , The Old Police Station Gallery (London) 2009

 Everything Must Go reading, Raumsweiterlanghalle (Berlin), 2014

 La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-42340766607565552272017-03-02T15:55:00.000-08:002017-03-02T15:55:47.070-08:00StudioToday team 2D hit the studio in Heywood, "the Hollywood of the North, as it's known. We had a full 12 hours of filmic fun, as 2D Joan made her way into the world, bestowing her regal reminiscences upon the world. She talked us through the end of Francoism, sang us some Andrew Lloyd Webber, and even had time to visit a sick child in hospital, Lord love her. Yes it was a day of intense artistry, endless green screening, and a minor mix up with the butties at lunch time, yet somehow we made it through.

 Approximately 8 hours in, I remembered how horrible film making really is, how tedious and exhausting and frustrating. You know when the mic pack jammed into your undies is making it impossible to breathe in your frock, and you feel like you've been stood about since the dawn of time repeating the same (increasingly meaningless) words ad infinitum? Thankfully I had a very cheery team, and with the help of Bren's pep talks, and Grace's circular breathing techniques, we actually made it out of the studio alive.

 Highlight of the day? Perhaps it was working a can of Fanta into a scene in a very French and Saunders manner? Or maybe signing 2D Joan's name next to Cristiano Ronaldo on the celeb autograph wall? But probably it was the moment my sister fell asleep during her scene in the hospital bed and woke herself up snoring. That was encouraging.

A hospital bed

 Unknown woman on a couch

Unknown woman in a gorgeous chateau

2D Joan relaxing in her dressing room

The team hard at work

2D Joan's signature on the wall next to Roanldo's

 Now all I have to do is subtitle the film, colour correct it all, and edit in the music. But that's for next week. Tomorrow I'm off! I'll be spending the day catching up on all the films I've missed out on, with a can of Fanta in hand of course.

La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-63346578380047434702017-03-01T14:14:00.001-08:002017-03-01T14:14:05.117-08:00PreparazzioneHere in Manchester I've been busy under the tutelage of my drama coach, Colette (still not bored of saying it). Today we spent two whole sessions pulling the text apart to find the different voices (poised, relaxed, aspirational, and faux-apologetic), the accompanying physicality, and of course the subtext. I can exclusively reveal that 2D Joan is heavily stage managed and manipulated by those in the shadows, and unexpectedly sociable, almost effervescent in her love of sharing gossip with strangers (especially if they've been wheeled out for a photo op).

This is the script looking turbulent. My drama coach Colette, not pictured

 Also of note, my sister arrived today in preparation of her feature film debut. Having played a role in last year's documentary on Alexander Geist fans ("Hello Lover!") she's had some experience with the biz, but tomorrow marks a change in direction for her career. It's her first dramatic role, and she's changed her professional name to Bethany Rose, so look out for her imdb page and Best Supporting Actress nomination, coming soon. She's also been busy with a face mask, to get that picture perfect look

 Celebrity beauty treatment

 So that's all for today. I'm hoping in the bath tub with a bag of revels and Episode Two of "Six Degrees of Joan Crawford" to get in the movie star mode. Tomorrow we are making motion picture history on the set of "182 cm Queenie"!

La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-6778452659382128832017-02-28T15:28:00.001-08:002017-02-28T15:28:54.493-08:002D JOAN is being bornSo here I am blogging from my gorgeous suite overlooking the canal in Manchester, prepping to film "182 cm Queenie", my new mini-masterpiece commissioned by HOME for their new La Movida group show. The film is the central piece of a new work which will be unveiled in April, comprising sculptural, performative and video elements, collated to loosely rework three speeches given by Juan-Carlos I of Spain during his reign. Of course, the material has been run through a psychedelic filter, processed to enhance the subtext and gossipy overtones, and bent into a shape which questions some cherished notions of Western democracy. The text is to be presented by my newest incarnation, 2D Joan, herself a combination of Princess Margaret circa 1951, Joan Crawford, and a Liverpudlian council estate housewife. She is in equal parts horrifying and compelling, and these are her shoes (which I think are really the cornerstone of any given persona).

 Today her face also arrived, courtesy of Grace "the face" Oni Smith, Manchester's killer queen maquillage demon, who took an aristocratic template and blew it up to Hollywood proportions, via some classic Kabuki gestures. This is Grace with project producer (and tbh total ride) Bren O'Callaghan, enjoying a spot of tea after our make up tests at the top of the Hilton this afternoon.

And this is the first test for 2D Joan's physical manifestation through cosmetic manipulation (I.E. glued eyebrows).

 Tomorrow I meet my drama coach, Colette. I have said that sentence approx 1m times today already but I will never tire of it. Also my sister arrives in Manchester to make her film debut as a hospital patient lucky enough to receive a visit for 2D Joan herself.

 La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-81132222283534621282016-12-27T04:13:00.001-08:002016-12-27T04:15:34.105-08:00"So why don't we make a little room in my BMW babe?" or How George Michael can help us survive the Trump-Brexit era.

 The ribald gloss of "Too Funky", the disco satirical "Outside", that downbeat melancholy which built to a whirl of saxophonic melodrama, in "Careless Whisper", the pavement poetry of "A Different Corner", the rub of perversion and salvation oozing from "Father Figure." From such a slick, stellar catalogue who could pick George Michael's singular artistic achievement? And let's not forget the duets with Aretha, Whitney, and Mary J. Blige (though please DO let's forget the dire duet with Elton - nobody's perfect).

 Yet, I can't help feeling that until his sudden death on Christmas Day, that George Michael had in the popular cultural imagination at least, slipped into Norma Desmond territory. A diva in a mansion watching Wham! videos in the home cinema, fenced in by ever more scurrilous gossip. All those ever circuitous stories of upcoming comebacks, drug problems, sex parties, and legal troubles took him out of the zone of pop artist and put him squarely in the Lohan ruled domain of "hot mess". But to my mind, he hadn't lost his way as much as recognised all too plainly that the "wall-to-wall homophobia" (as he once put it) would forever define and confine his artistic efforts, and so, perhaps brattishly perhaps bravely, he simply refused to play. That is not say he just gave up all hope, as all of the now surfacing stories of his charity work and tremendous acts of generosity express. Rather he switched tactic.

 After offering 20 years of escapism to '80s pop pickers and (after his "outing" in 1998) to'90s non-conformists from atop his pop star pedestal, he stepped into a quieter, more direct mode, offering anonymous cash donations to strangers in cafes he overheard spilling worries over overdue loans. He worked in homeless shelters, and secretly donated royalties to AIDS organisations, gave free concerts to NHS nurses, and (I find this one strangely amusing) paid for a woman he saw on the TV show "Deal or No Deal" to have IVF treatment. Can it be said then, that in recognising the limitations of even his own mega-rich, mega-famous persona in the face of a homophobic, sex-phobic, scandal driven, sensation fuelled culture such as ours, his decision to withdraw from the all conquering, top-down Olympics of celebrity culture, and move towards an intimate horizontal economy of small but meaningful acts of kindness, that he presaged the kind of interactions which will be necessary for us to survive the Trump-Brexit era?

 The homophobia George Michael endured throughout his career, and which peaked to hysterical highs in 1998 after his arrest for lewd conduct, ultimately destroyed his commercial appeal. He and Rupert Everett are the twin patron saints of 90s fags doomed by sexual frankness, their kneecapped careers functioned for a decade or so, as the heads of traitors on pikes might, to deter any one else from such statements of heterodoxy. Thankfully now we have Frank Oceans and Beth Dittos, illuminating our still magnificently less than perfect landscape, but in the 90s being out as gay meant inescapable marginalisation. (Ironically of course now, in our new internet age of fracture cultures and impossibly niche markets, artists can maintain careers almost entirely outside of the mainstream - but 'twas not so in the 90s when a record label with the budget to buy every billboard and crowbar you onto every play list was essential to stardom). George Michael's legacy is the frankness that carried over into his refusal to complain about his lot in life, to recognise how fortunate he was, and to share that good fortune. He made his point clearly, concisely, but didn't become a martyr to it. As he told Oprah, "I'm not interested in selling records to people who are homophobic". If he wasn't what people wanted, too fucking bad for people. Because he refused to be part of the system of, "sexually unthreatening" gay people "comforting the whole of British society", and kept on smoking, drinking, fucking around, making it clear that his long-term relationships were open, non-monogamous.

 Speculation runs wild now, was it suicide, was it heroin, or a heart attack? That's not something I'm interested in digging into. Instead I want to celebrate his unabashed and wickedly subtle exercise of sexuality in his lyrics and iconography. Well, the 2nd half his career at least; the George Michael of Wham! happened mercifully before I had, "entered fully into subjectivity" (to quote an old lover). I know the hits of course, but I still don't enjoy them, much less the look. The blond highlights, stubble, crucifix earrings, mirrored sunglasses, and stone-wash jeans is to my taste so reprehensible, so Mumsy and embarrassing, but come mid-90s "Older" era George and I'm in. That blunt, pristine black cut, the graphic goatee, the boxy Versace suits, the leather pants and the wrap-around shades spoke to me. He seemed so urbane, always surrounded by super models, subtly giving "Fony" records (and on tracks like "Star People", his pop contemporaries) the finger. His approach to sex in his songwriting was neither as graphic as Prince nor as quasi-spiritual as Madonna, but there was something that seemed so disconcertingly dirty about prosaic lines like, "Why don't we make a little room in my BMW babe?" ("Fast Love") or "Well I guess it would be nice, if I could touch your body, I know not everybody has got a body like you," ("Faith"), or even the outré outro, "I'm Dancing on the D-Train" from "Outside".

 I wonder then why since his '98 fall from grace, he was never again classified alongside Madonna, Jacko, Prince, and Bowie as the superstar he should've been acknowledged as? Or maybe it's self-evident? Outrageous as the aforementioned four were, they all in some way came back to the fold of conventional morality. Prince, the most unstoppable of perverts became a Jehovah's Witness, Bowie the cross-dressing bisexual married a supermodel and fathered her child, Michael Jackson as eccentric as he was presented as a heterosexual family man, and Madonna (whilst still flashing her ass at sexism as she approaches 60) is not only matriarch to an ever growing brood of babies, but also unequivocally an agent of commerce (the world's true religion). What place then for a pop star who is outed in a traumatic, humiliating tabloid set-up (light years away from Bowie's stage managed "I'm Gay" NME interview) and who refuses to counterpoint the situation with a big gay wedding in Hello! magazine. No children either. Asked about fathering or adoption, he replied, "Can you imagine? No, thank God I didn't. Can you imagine being George Michael's son at school?" Instead of even flirting with a populist notion of gay fatherhood, he instead professed his love for smoking 20 joints a day, which kept him, "sane and happy." Worse yet, as early as 2004 he said, "I really don't need the public's money," and offered to make his music available online for free, with the option of a voluntary charitable donation. I suppose it's not hard to see why a man so uncareful with morals and business models alike would be only ever referred to as "Former Wham! singer", in spite of his 100m+ record sales.

Rather than getting all bo-hoo-hoo but it's Christmas  about it we should recognise George Michael as an artist whom even from inside the insanity of celebrity, saw the world for what it was and spoke truth to power. An artist who was grateful and generous, an artist gone too soon, but not a victim. Let us remember George Michael, for all the fucks he did not give, for the Prince-esque stance he took against his record label, for the inexplicable friendship with Geri Halliwell, and most of all for songs so insatiable that they brought pleasure to even the horrors of abdominal exercises.

La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-11839947208618837402016-11-16T14:40:00.001-08:002016-11-16T14:41:19.014-08:00Becoming
Alexander Geist's SPECULATIVE tour is well underway, so I have been spending a lot of time being him, and taking care of him lately. Just because he doesn't exist (or rather exists only in short but exuberant outbursts) that doesn't mean he doesn't have needs. The dry cleaning and ironing alone takes up half my life, but he will have his shirts pressed just so! Then of course there's the jewellery to polish and pack (Alexander only wears silver, while I prefer gold) and all the eyeshadows to organise for each gig (who knew a person could own so many shades of green?) The Balenciaga boots need a pre-show buff, and Alex needs his own preparatory cocktail of espresso, Coke, spirulina and a few muscle relaxants, served in his Garfield mug before he can step out into the spotlight. I'm also responsible for liaising with the venue tech staff, whilst he takes his power nap, and for briefing security, and any journalists as to the correct protocol. All in all it's a fairly challenging role.

 My sister (who does objectively exist) was at the show at HOME in Manchester last week. She and I watched a movie and ate a salad in the break between soundcheck and showtime, that agonising ever expanding, ever contacting period of rocketing anxiety, which threatens to go on forever (or at least until you have lost yr mind with nerves) and simultaneously to end violently, before you've even finished your kit-kat. My sister and I gossiped like a pair of grandmothers in the dressing room, amidst the warm up vocal trills and stretches. The 5 minute call never came, instead there came a thunderous knock on the door, and the squawk, "They've started!" My sister ran to her seat and I was escorted to the stage, barely buckling Alexander's boots before hitting my first cue.

 Afterwards she asked, "How did you go from that to THAT in 20 seconds?"

 "It's easier than you might think," I replied, "I just leave for a while and let him take over. Some people call it acting, but it's not me up there."

 "No," she acknowledged, "It's really not."

 I'm onstage, but just in a the capacity of supervisor, I'm there to make sure things happen as they should, but I'm not doing it. I suppose that's why he's called Geist isn't it? (Incidentally not a name I chose for him). Somebody compared the process to the way Patti Smith channels whatever she's tuned into when she's onstage, somebody else suggested it might just be high functioning schizophrenia, but to me it's something else.

You know how her co-stars have often described working with Sharon Stone, and how she has to wait until the character had possessed her before filming can begin? Well it's like that, just like that. Sharon screams, "She's here!", and cameras roll. Conjuring Alexander is a lot less laborious, but equally mystical, and he has always been (up to this point) good enough to show up. So maybe then there's a touch of Bambi Lake to the proceedings too. The iconic San Francisco torch singer, forever without a phone, a steady home, or an email address, who would reply to fraught promoters' pleas that she give them SOME way to contact her with, "Just put my name on a poster baby, and I'll be there."

 Et voila, look in the mirror and say ALEXANDER GEIST five times, or better yet, put his name on the poster, and he will appear.

 (PS This wk he's appearing at Hackney Showroom on Thurs Nov 17 and Tom Thumb in Margate on Fri Nov 18)La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-37138574037334683452016-09-17T08:14:00.001-07:002016-09-17T08:30:51.712-07:00GIANNI

 Oh LOVER! Here I am in Berlin preparing for the role of MEDUSA in GIANNI at Deutsche Oper. Here's a coupla sexy rehearsal pics of all the goings on. GIANNI runs for two weeks, and premieres on Oct 1st. TKTS hier

 La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-47106100291437010252016-07-06T14:12:00.003-07:002016-07-06T14:12:57.774-07:00GEIST gets ONSTAGE

Garfield was with us and we got GEIST onstage. What a mountain that was to climb! On Friday I did not believe it could be done but by the time we got to our FIRST dress rehearsal at 6pm on Saturday it was clear we had it in the bag. I'm immensely proud of what we achieved and very, very grateful to everyone who was involved in making it happen and to everyone who came to see the performances. Exhausted doesn't cover how I feel right now, so let me share with you a few production stills and a selection of our press coverage. Until next time lover!

 Production stills by Marco.

The Wharf, full interview here

 London Live

 East End Advertiser, full interview here

Loverboy, full interview here.La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-81009341158442886402016-06-26T09:10:00.000-07:002016-06-26T10:03:40.954-07:00GEIST WK 3 Rehearsal

 This is what the show looks like rn.

 Monday! So here we are back at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club (where loyal readers will remember I spent a lot of time performing "Cover Her Face" a few years ago). The carpet is stickier than ever, but the big tinsel heart has never looked better; that's sort of a metaphor for life.

 Tuesday! Act 1 was finally blocked and Act 2 became semi-freddo, the feeling emerged that there's a show in there somewhere. Also of note, a very productive production meeting in which we welcomed our new stage manager, Jo, into the fold, and this artfully decorated chair.

 Wednesday! Dear director Robert Chevara, and I hit upon a rhythm to the process, we were even visited by Marie Lloyd in the form of her familiar, this cat. Our system has been to unstitch the text and piece it back together, sewn up with cinematic & operatic references, which remain secretly stitched inside the piece, invisible but felt. A bit like McQueen chalking I AM A C*NT inside the Prince of Wales' jkt.

Thursday! Things got real when we started running in the tech (represented here by the screen and hand of Mickey). We went through both acts and suffered from the humidity (in a terribly Tennesse Williams manner).

Also big shout to this y2k coffee (haven't seen one like this for abt 15yrs). Wouldn't DJ Millennial Latte be a great handle?

 Friday! Suffering from the Brexit blues, big time mate. If it weren't for the brilliance of Sobranies I doubt anyone would have finished the day off standing.

 On week remains! How will it all pan out? Your guess is as good as mine la. Shows are July 2 & 3 at the Arcola, London. La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-12724878030703976082016-06-18T05:47:00.001-07:002016-06-18T05:47:30.320-07:00Geist Rehearsal WK 2
How have we come to the mid-point of the rehearsal process so swiftly, simultaneously so depleted and energised? Let's review the evidence.

 On Monday we were all still reeling from the killings in Orlando, the day was long and the queer content of the piece seemed to resonate in a different way. The week ahead of us seemed an insurmountable mountain, the summit of which could only be more disturbing still. Trying to find reason in an unreasonable tragedy felt futile, so we worked somewhat numb, almost as a distraction.

 Tuesday we broke out a new scene and a new set up, and with it came a sense of possibility, not of forgetting but of forward motion however staggered. We spent a lot of time in discussion around soft furnishings, trying to decide which pillows would most likely be found on the sofa of our central femme fatale Kate Peters. (Pictured are a pair which didn't make the grade - sadly they were just a tad too Costa Coffee but we wish them all the best for a long and fruitful career).

 Wednesday called for increased fire power in the form of liquid ginseng - it was just like being back in Hong Kong la!

The real star of the week was Fran Lima however, with whom we spent 3 days filming the central scenes for GEIST.

 Thursday was all about sound, mainly unwanted. We have been shooting opposite a building site which has slowed down the process by about 20%, an annoyance we had grown used today. However when the skip rolled in to town the camel that is my mind broke her back. We sat around gossiping until their was a moment of quiet and then hurled ourselves into action stations every time there was an audible lull. Somewhow we made it through 15 pages of dialogue, but just imagine what we could have achieved with budget for a sound studio.

So then came Friday as she does, when we had to reel in the biggie, the face off between Kate and Imogen, Frost .v. Nixon style. Food poisoning visited the cinematography dept. and the upstairs neighbour's washing machine harmonised beautifully with the builder's across the street at semi-regular intervals, but somehow we forged on. If I have made this week sound like nothing but a cheerless chore I apologise. Besides the vomiting, the noise bleed, and the spectre of constant violence, it was actually quite a lot of fun.

 This is what my head feels like rn.

 If you want to see how that translates onstage then BOOK HERE: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/geist/2016-07-03/ La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-87875305364438232602016-06-11T03:54:00.000-07:002016-06-11T03:54:12.193-07:00GEIST wk 1 Rehearsals

Well now lover, as you it's something of a signature of my practice to blog the rehearsal process, so here we are beginning a whole new journey together.

 Monday was the first time the cast came together, always a nerve wracking moment. Onboard are Fran Lima, playing Kate Peters, Helen Sheals as Imogen Hampstead, and Alex Theo as Nick Cumin, all of whom are all 'round good eggs and 100% fair-trade. We had the mixed-blessing of reading the show through a couple of times to get a feel for how it sounds when read aloud. This is the true test of a script, if it can leap from the page to the stage. With a few minor adjustments this one seems to have that ability. True Jedi that I am, I slugged through a light sabre full of green tea during the proceedings. You've gotta get those anti-oxidants lover, if you're going to slay the dark side (i.e. rehearsal fatigue).

 Tuesday was the day we realized that Agatha Christie was too much of an influence on the script, quite how she crowbarred her way in there idk, since I was aiming for Raymond Chandler really, but such is life. In order to ramp up the unhinged sex appeal of it all (and give the whodunnit angle a rest) we tried to channel Sharon Stone, the patron saint of stone cold foxes. We set fire to a Chanel 2.55 and in the smoke saw the face of Sharon, who revealed all her secrets to us. What did she whisper? Well, you'll have to come and see the show won't you?

Wednesday was a game of two halves. Firstly we recorded the lovely Helen Sheal's lines, during which she revealed several explosive secrets about her time as Mrs Wigan on Downton Abbey. Faves included the one about a certain unnameable lead actor who CLAIMS to be vegan, but insists on eating cartons and cartons of Dairylea Dunkers in between takes! (This is a lie).

 Thursday was sponsored by Nairn's gluten free oatcakes, in co-operation with Garfield the cat. Our director Robert Chevara and I ran through the blocking of the first few acts. For the first time, in the process, I got that wonderful feeling that this show was actually possible.

 Friday, that meanest of all beasts, roared as she rose, but she was no match for we fair maidens of the footlights. We spent the whole day filming Alex as Nick, no short order, as the script comprises 36 pages of fragmented single take speeches. Head chucklemeister and set-designer David Curtis-Ring was on hand to dress the stage, and make sure everything looked suitably cinematic. He even brought along a special tea that only successful people are allowed to drink, and gave us all a sip to help us on our way. What a gent! Happy to say we made a severe dent in the pages to be filmed, and after a minor slippage with the vol-au-vents set up a very productive rhythm which will carry us over into next week's adventure.

 Who knows what awaits us? More migraines and oatcakes I expect, but really, at this stage it's anyone's game. And if you fancy buying tkts, you can do so here: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/geist/2016-07-02/ La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-62820760719747574612016-05-30T09:15:00.000-07:002016-05-30T09:15:50.573-07:00GEIST Well, well, well. It's finally happening. GEIST  is coming to the Arcola July 2 & 3.

With nods to film noir, rock documentaries and conspiracy theories, GEIST explores my core themes of gender and identity, but from a brand new vantage point. A radical departure from my previous work, a move from absurdist cabaret and autobiographical performance, into interdisciplinary theatre. I have developed the alter-ego of Alexander Geist over a five-year period, culminating in this eponymous piece. Originally a live art performance, in the vein of Sophie Calle and Rose English, the persona of Alexander Geist was devised to externally examine my own place in the world, and to discuss notions of performative masculinity. Initially intended for presentation in gallery spaces and live art venues, the charisma of the character and the insistent quality the songs he wrote, led to requests for Alexander Geist to appear in nightclubs and at festivals, programmed on line-ups with iconic artists such as Peaches, Lee Ronaldo, and The Hidden Cameras. The success of these shows led to three magazine covers, four singles, and five-years of international touring, with Geist appearing everywhere from Tokyo to Rio. In GEIST the persona has come full circle, back to an experimental theatre setting, in which all of the materials, footage, images and videos created over the past five years are reworked into an nightmarish narrative, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.

 TKTS HERE: http://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/geist/2016-07-03/La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-75857009929685432682016-03-28T03:40:00.000-07:002016-03-28T03:40:02.050-07:00THAT GIRL
 Alexander Geist went to Hong Kong to work with Ming Wong and Bendik Giske. They released this song on repurposed 70s Hong Kong vinyl 7"s, and to celebrate performed two shows. The first was at Ping Pong Gintoneria for UBS and Art Review, the second was at House of Siren alongside Boychild. Here's the video, also shot at Ping Pong.

That Girl - Alexander Geist & Ming Wong (with Bendik Giske) from Alexander Geist on Vimeo.
La JohnJosephhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-7223950531449001122016-03-07T02:18:00.000-08:002016-03-07T02:18:12.626-08:00Do you remember.......all the fun we had last Summer at the Yo Sissy! festival in Berlin? (You can relive it here if you were too addled at the time). Well it's going to happen ALL OVER AGAIN, and all over Europe in fact - starting with London on March 19th. The line up is amazing and it's happening at everyone's favourite East End joint The Glory. It'll be just like someone lifted KreuzKoln up with a crane and dropped it off in Haggerston!

La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087011695206128533.post-43385962912280485542016-02-21T20:33:00.000-08:002016-02-21T20:33:26.535-08:00Geist Tour
Hello lovers!
I'm on the road again with my identical twin brother and occasional lover, Alexander Geist, this time we're in Tokyo!

We just performed a small, acoustic show at a hairdresser's salon in Daikanyama, which was quite a departure from the usual dandy-techno vibes we throw. It was pretty interesting to see how electronic music translates when it's stripped back, it tells you so much about your skills as a songwriter. Here's a couple of pictures, with thanks to the charming Boy Attic for having us!

 Next up, we'll be back to business (there's always business) at Tokyo's most famous gay party, Fancy Him. And lol of lols my old home girl Jodie Harsh from NY and London,is playing too!

 Back to Europe for a very special show in March! Ciao for now.

La JohnJosephhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Preparations are underway for the upcoming NATO summit to be held from November 21st to November 22nd in the Czech capital Prague. Interior minister Stanislav Gross told journalists on Tuesday that work was progressing according to schedule. Mr. Gross said he would take full responsibility and resign if the security operation failed in any way. Over 1,000 specially trained officers will be protecting the delegates during their stay in the city . An estimated 12,000 protesters are expected to converge on the Czech capital for the two day summit and at least 12,000 police officers will be out on the streets to deal with street riots . The army will also be helping out with over 2,000 soldiers assigned to patrol-duty at Prague's main international airport, hotels and the conference center where the summit will take place. The authorities have asked Prague inhabitants to restrict their movement around the city over those two days. This is the first NATO summit to be held in a former communist state and as such it presents a major challenge for the local authorities.
The Civic Democratic Party says that work on a constitutional amendment that would enable the President to be elected by the people will be ready by the end of this week. The center right Civic Democrats , who were originally against direct presidential elections, are now pushing to get such an amendment approved since they believe it will increase their candidate's chances of winning the elections. Although such an amendment would now receive overwhelming support in Parliament it is not clear whether it could be approved in time for the presidential elections in January.
Czech negotiators in Brussels say that consultations among EU member states on a common policy with regard to the conditions of the accession agreement for the Czech Republic have moved the talks forward. The competition chapter is expected to be closed at the end of next week and progress is also reported on the controversial agriculture chapter, where EU states have agreed to Czech demands for higher production quotas for sugar and potato starch. On the other hand, the EU states have shown little inclination to increase the number of seats which the Czech Republic will have in the European Parliament. The country has been allotted 20 seats and has complained that countries with a comparable population have at least two more.
Four British football rowdies have been charged with breach of the peace in connection with a brawl at a Prague nightclub. A group of around 40 British football fans on their way to the European qualifier match in Bratislava went on a drinking spree in the Czech capital and got into a brawl at one of Prague's nightclubs. They caused extensive damage and ten of them were detained for questioning by the police. In the Slovak capital Bratislava two British football fans were shot and wounded by private security guards when a group of about 60 fans refused to leave a pub at closing time in the early hours of Saturday. The incident is being investigated. After England's victory in the qualifier match against Slovakia the atmosphere is reported to have calmed down.
The Prague police is questioning a dozen British football rowdies in connection with a pub brawl on the eve of the European Championship qualifying match between England and Slovakia. Some 40 British football rowdies got into a brawl at the Atlas pub in Prague close to midnight on Friday , just hours before they were supposed to board a train for the Slovak capital Bratislava, where the match takes place. They demolished much of the pub's furnishings causing an estimated 100,000 crowns damage. There were no serious injuries. Another 300 British football fans boarded the morning train for Bratislava without incident. The situation was far more serious in the Slovak capital where two British fans were shot and wounded in the early hours of Saturday.
The Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda and the Austrian Environment Minister Wilhelm Molterer have agreed to set up a joint team of experts which would debate controversial issues relating to the Temelin nuclear power plant in south Bohemia and nuclear energy in general. Since coming to office the Czech Foreign Minister has made concerted efforts to diffuse tension over the Temelin controversy and to de-politicize the issue. The Austrian Environment Minister has expressed appreciation of these efforts, saying that it was important to debate the issue of nuclear energy on broader scale from the point of view of a sustainable energy policy for the whole continent.
The Civic Democratic Party has nominated the party's outgoing chairman Vaclav Klaus for the post of President. The party also expressed support for direct presidential elections, saying that it was undignified for parties to haggle over who should be the next head of state. Mr. Klaus announced earlier this week that he would not run for re-election as party leader but would accept a nomination for the presidential elections. Mr. Klaus' chances of winning the elections are meager since none of the parties of the governing coalition, which has a slim majority in Parliament, are likely to support him. The Civic Democrats believe that in a direct vote Vaclav Klaus' chances of success would be much higher.
The European Commission has earmarked 24 million euros / 720 million Czech crowns/ for flood-relief projects in the Czech Republic. Half of the money is to be used for repairing damage to the country's infra-structure, the rest will be used for environment-related projects. The August floods devastated large parts of the Czech Republic, damaging nine out of thirteen regions. The overall damage estimate is close to 80 billion Czech crowns. Industrial dryers are still working around the clock and town halls are using available finances for the construction of new homes before the onset of winter.
The Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, who on Saturday ended a three day official visit to France, has received assurances that France fully supports Czech membership in the European Union. The French Premier Jean Pierre Raffarin said during talks with Mr. Spidla, that the two countries had traditionally good relations and that even if the final stage of EU negotiations proved tough the Czech Republic could count on French support. The CTK press agency notes that according to opinion polls the French public is the least enthusiastic about EU expansion and the French government is preparing to address the issue in a broad information campaign later this year. The Czech Prime Minister's three day official visit to France focussed on bilateral ties, EU expansion and the upcoming NATO summit in Prague.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will not take part in the upcoming NATO summit in Prague, the country will be represented by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Both the former Czech Foreign Minster Jan Kavan and the country's President Vaclav Havel have invited President Putin to the summit. A decision should be made at the summit over whether seven post-communist states, including the three Baltic will be accepted in the Alliance, a scenario which has been opposed by Moscow.
Jana Ciglerová: Americans say their lives are fantastic, Czechs say everything is terrible – neither is true
Study: Demand for new flats in Prague set to keep outstripping supply
"There is good, better and then there is the USSR." – New book depicts life in communist Czechoslovakia through memories of people who experienced it
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'The fat lady sings': Prague's State Opera marks restoration to former glory with gala concert

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Trend is a true testament to how experienced racehorses can have a leg-up in their second careers from their time on the track. At 12 years old and with 44 starts under his belt, Trend is a "been-there-done-that" kind of guy.
He is quiet but personable in the stall and has impeccable ground manners. He is totally unfazed by new environments and happy to stand, even ground-tying for grooming/farrier work/bathing, etc. Trend has also had several years to adjust to the post-track lifestyle. After his last race, he started living a retiree's lifestyle, but his previous owners realized that he might be happier still having a job aside from grazing!
Trend was remarkably easy to get back going under saddle. From the get-go he was eager to work and uncomplicated. Trend is the kind of gentleman that will stand quietly at the mounting block until you're safely on his back and ask him to move forward. He is responsive but not at all spooky—indoors or out! Trend has balanced gaits both directions and no issues picking up leads.
He has no known injuries and possesses all the basics he needs to go many different directions with even an intermediate rider.
Trend is a cribber in his stall, but he will pick one spot (never wood with us) and doesn't deviate from that spot. His cribbing is controlled with a cribbing collar, but he does not wear it when he is in turnout. He doesn't crib when he's outside.
Trend is 2020 Retrained & Remarkable Challenge eligible. As such he will be invited to vie for $5,000 in cash and prizes at the 2020 New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show at the Kentucky Horse Park, in Lexington, where he will receive a free stall and free entry into R&R Challenge classes (which include English and Western pleasure, hunter hack, trail, driving and in-hand classes).
New Vocations' adoption fees are intentionally set lower than the cost of buying most Thoroughbreds or Standardbreds through a private seller. In today's market, it's not unusual for horses coming right off the track to be listed for sale at a price between $2,000 and $5,000. At New Vocations, we set a fee that will ultimately help each horse find a home quickly. The program's facilities are always at full capacity, which means we cannot take in an additional horse until one is adopted. Adopters should be encouraged to know that by adopting a horse through New Vocations, they are actually helping two horses transition to careers outside of racing.
Additionally, adopters get great value for their money: The majority of the horses have been in the program for a minimum of 60 days. During that time, horses are rehabilitated (if needed), socialized with other horses, fully evaluated, and in work with a professional trainer. New Vocations fully discloses each horse's history and provides all available medical records, many of which include X-ray and ultrasounds.
While adoption fees are low, it should be noted that costs associated with ongoing care and additional training for each horse after adoption can be high. New Vocations hopes that by helping an adopter save money upfront, he or she will have more funds available to cover the continuing costs of properly caring for a horse.


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Up to £21,000 per annum
Making sure our customers have the best experience in our innovation centres is a real team effort and as a member of the centre management team, you'll be a key part in this. This is an exciting opportunity for a Customer Experience Assistant to support two of our innovation centres in Oxford – our head office, Oxford Centre for Innovation, and One St Aldates. In addition there will be the opportunity to get involved in other activities supporting the Assistant Centre Manager and Centre Director.
Oxford Innovation's Innovation Centres division operates a network of centres that provide flexible office, workshop and laboratory space and business support services to companies throughout the UK. Our customers are start-ups and high growth SMEs, who have specific business support needs on top of the space we provide. We now manage over 25 centres across the UK for a variety of public and private sector clients, providing space and support to nearly 1,000 exciting, innovative and growing companies.
This full time position will report directly to the Assistant Centre Manager and is the person who makes the difference. Our customers are busy entrepreneurs, building their own businesses, so should expect from us great service, a warm welcome and a freshly brewed tea or coffee when they need it.
That's why we are looking for someone who can convey energy to our customers, a sparkling, enthusiastic, proactive person who feels part of the centre community and is willing to go the extra mile. Happy working in a team or on your own you'll show pride in your work, making sure the innovation centre always looks the part and always looking for something new to challenge you.
About the role
There'll be plenty of variety so you'll never feel bored, here are the main responsibilities you will have:
- Be the first and last point of contact for our customers and their guests
- Welcome all our customers, visitors and meeting room guests with an authentic enthusiasm and smile in a friendly, professional natural manner
- Responsible for closing the centre at the end of the day
- Manage keys and passes (activation/deactivation) for customers
- Handle all daily incoming and outgoing mail for customers
- Answer all incoming questions and requests via phone, email or at reception
- Booking and recording all requests for meeting rooms and events, arranging refreshments and other support needed
- Support the Assistant Centre Manager with event planning and hosting
- Monitor the meeting room agenda and act as a host for our external events
- Keep our social media feeds and pages such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn up to date with all the exciting news from OI, the centre customers and events we are hosting, engage and build relationships online
- Make sure the Oxford Centre for Innovation and One St Aldates websites are up to date with all the latest news and views
- Ensuring all centre equipment is in good working order – including for example coffee machines, printers, photocopiers and AV
- Maintaining and monitoring of useful consumables and stationery, so we never run out of toilet roll, paper, coffee and paperclips
- Record any chargeable ad hoc services customers or their guests need
- Support our customers with tasks varying from arranging a courier, using the coffee machine, print jobs, ordering office supplies or even booking a restaurant for that important meeting
- Maintaining tidiness of the community areas in the centre
- Support customers with local area knowledge – restaurants, bars, events etc…Act as back up for the Assistant Centre Manager and Centre Director for all kinds of administrative tasks
- Help us with your ideas on how we can keep improving our services
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What are you like?
- A confident and enthusiastic person able to mix with all types of people and to provide a friendly, natural professional public image
- Pro-active
- Great IT skill with experience of using a range of technology
- Conscientious and efficient with an eye for detail and pride in their work
- Great as part of a team as well as working on their own when the need arises
- Flexible – willing to do what it takes to make the centre a success
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- Salary of up to £21,000 per annum (£10.77 per hour)
- 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Flexible benefits package comprising:
- Contributory pension
- Ability to increase or decrease amount of annual leave
- Ability to increase or decrease amount of life assurance cover
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Bicycle purchase
- Charitable Giving
- Friendly, informal and flexible working environment – so you can make the most of your home and your work life
- We want you to have chances to progress to Assistant Centre Manager and so we will support you in learning new skills and taking the next steps in your career.
- We've also got access to a whole load of discounts so you can save money on high street favourites and holiday providers.


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In the UK it's usually between £10 and £15 per budgie, so between £20 and £30 for two.
You can get them for $30 US in Guyana, thats $6000 Guyana dollars.
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In the UK it's usually between £10 and £15 per budgie, so between £20 and £30 for two.
Varies here - anywhere from $5-$30 each ... depends on where you get them, how tame, what mutation etc.
WOW that's a REALLY open ended question! Like what do cloths cost?
What are you looking for? What quality of bird are you looking for?
A person can get free budgies on Craig's list.
A person can go to a pet shop and spend $10 to $30 a bird.
A person can go to a champion exhibition budgie breeder and buy their way to the top bench spending as much as $1,000 a bird.
This is all US dollars.
Again what are your goals / what are you looking for in a budgie?
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Lucille's BBQ Restaurant Partners with "Round It Up America" to Celebrate Military Family Month !
Please visit Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ restaurants along with other Hoffmann restaurants to help them reach the goal to help our military during November. It's a good cause and a great way to give back while having some amazing food! I know it is because I love Lucille's for it's great bbq food!
Family-owned, award-winning barbeque destination Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que is celebrating Military Family Month by teaming up with Round It up America to raise funds for Operation Homefront's Holiday Meals for Military program.
During November, Lucille's will donate to Operation Homefront the Round It Up America contributions – in which guests "round up" their purchases to the nearest dollar – at 23 participating locations throughout Arizona, California and Nevada. Team members at Lucille's restaurants will wear buttons to show their support. Throughout November, for each donation of $5 or more, Lucille's will give guests a $10 bonus card good for a return visit. (One per table, please.)
Lucille's will also be serving up a 'Louisiana Lemonade,' a refreshing drink that combines Bacardi Raz, Chambord, fresh blueberries, lemonade, Lucille's fresh house sour and topped with a light beer, all served in a 22oz mug.
For each drink sold, Lucille's will donate an additional $1 benefitting military families.
In honor of all those who have served in the military, Lucille's will be providing 20% off the bill for active duty or veteran military personnel.
"At Lucille's we value the men and women who have dedicated themselves to our country," said Brad Hofman, president of Hofman Hospitality Group, parent company of Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que. "This Veterans Day, we are honoring them throughout the month of November and providing support for those who may need an extra hand this holiday season. Together with our guests we can make a difference in the lives of those who do so much for our country."
Lucille's Restaurant – as well as the other Hofman Hospitality Group restaurants– have set a donation goal of $25,000 to Operation Homefront. For more information, visit lucillesbbq.com.
"We are very grateful to Lucille's and the Hofman Hospitality Group team for helping to raise funds to support our mission to build strong, stable, and secure military families," said Jack Chirrick, senior director with Operation Homefront. "Through our Holiday Meals for Military program we have an opportunity to thank military families for their service to all of us and help them to truly thrive in the communities they work so hard to protect. Key partnerships like those with Lucille's and the Hofman Hospitality Group make a huge difference in our ability to do that."
Lucille's restaurants are reminiscent of a Southern roadhouse with a distinctive Southern décor that features reclaimed wood outline doors and windows for a rustic yet contemporary look. Lucille's features blues-inspired art throughout the restaurant and the Flying Pig lounge. Lucille's has been participating in Round It Up America, a platform that encourages restaurant guests to donate change. Over the past ten years, Round It Up America has collectively raised millions of dollars for charitable organizations and programs across the country.
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About Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Signal Hill, Calif.-based Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que (lucillesbbq.com) offers award-winning, savory, Southern-style food in 23 full-service, high-energy restaurants throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Signature slow-smoked barbeque, flavorful appetizers, soups, salads, burgers, sides and desserts are served with a large helping of down-home, friendly service. Lucille's restaurants are reminiscent of a Southern roadhouse replete with its distinctive front Southern decor, and select locations offer live blues entertainment at the Flying Pig Lounges. Family-owned, Lucille's has plans to expand its unique brand of Southern hospitality to more locations in the future.
For more information, visit lucillesbbq.com, facebook.com/LucillesSmokehouseBBQ or twitter.com/Lucilles_BBQ.
About Operation Homefront
Founded in 2002, Operation Homefront is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to build strong, stable, and secure military families so that they can thrive – not simply struggle to get by – in the communities they have worked so hard to protect. Recognized for superior performance by leading independent charity oversight groups, 92 percent of Operation Homefront expenditures go directly to programs that support tens of thousands of military families each year. Operation Homefront provides critical financial assistance, transitional and permanent housing and family support services to prevent short-term needs from turning into chronic, long-term struggles. Thanks to the generosity of our donors and the support from thousands of volunteers, Operation Homefront proudly serves America's military families. For more information, visit OperationHomefront.org.
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Schneider Electric Announce White Paper Examining TCO of Prefab Data Centres
Standardised, scalable, pre-assembled and integrated data centre modules could provide a total cost of ownership saving of 30% compared with traditional approaches to data centre infrastructure.
By: Schneider Electric
While the benefits of prefabricated, pre-assembled data centre modules have tended to be focused on the reduced time taken to design and deploy using modular architecture, as well as the predictability in performance, white paper author Wendy Torell demonstrates how significant savings up to 30% can be achieved.
Avoiding overbuilt capacity and scaling the design over time contributes to a significant percentage of the savings. The use of prefabricated modules enables the rightsizing of infrastructure to actual data centre loads. This, in combination with current power and cooling distribution technologies, results in a TCO savings 27.2% in capital cost and 31.6% in ongoing operating costs.
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This conservative approach often results in higher upfront capital costs and a chronically inefficient data centre. The proper deployment of prefabricated modules, on the other hand, eliminates this wasteful over-sizing tendency, because its standardised, modular architecture makes adding or reducing capacity to meet real-world, dynamic demand much easier. This, in conjunction with efficient, integrated power and cooling technologies, results in significant savings.
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The new white paper is available for free download from http://www.apc.com/
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BOOK FAIR FEB 3 -7 in North Corral
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Welcome to the Wilson Library!
Our library is dedicated to providing educational and recreational reading needs in print and electronic formats for students and teachers in our school. The library has nearly 8000 square feet to house 25,000 books and audiovisual items. We are in the process of creating a Maker Space with Chromebooks, manipulatives and building materials.
The library's mission is to provide a welcoming and enriching environment that includes resources which foster a love of reading, represent a diversity of ideas, and promote critical thinking and 21st Century skills.
Schedules and Hours:
Elementary students visit the library weekly with their classroom teacher, and middle school students visit the library on a flexible schedule according to the research and reading requirements of their teachers. The library hours are the same as the school day.
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March 7, Fineko/abc.az. A well-known opera singer, dramatic tenor and People's Artist of Azerbaijan Yusif Eyvazov gave a video-interview to TELLMANN SHOW.
In the interview, the singer has shared his impressions of the childhood dream, spoken about parents, creativity, personal life and relation of little-known episodes of his biography to Azerbaijan. "My father was the only person who believed in me from the very beginning… He believed in me and began supporting, and for that, I will be grateful to him all my life", he said.
Yusif Eyvazov spoke about a personal friendship with one of the greatest tenors of modern times Placido Domingo: "He is a very considerate person. He does remember when you have a premiere, so he will either call you or send you SMS wherever he is, and give advice.
In reply to the traditional "You are at an audience with the President" question, Yusif Eyvazov spoke about the wish to thank Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and first Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva "for everything they are doing for the country and for their support to the culture figures".
Particular importance in the interview was given to attractive tourist regions and the national cuisine of Azerbaijan. The singer spoke about his joint plans with a well-known Azerbaijani opera singer Elchin Azizov to travel together with their families by car across the little-known parts of the country. He advises foreign tourists to visit Azerbaijan's sights to which he took a fancy.
Yusif Eyvazov finds the return of the National Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev to power in the 90s one of the most important moments in Azerbaijan's history: "It was a salvation for Azerbaijan… At a time when Azerbaijan was practically sinking, and when these criminals were simply devastating and tore the country apart, he came as a savior and people followed him".
A video-interview is available at https://youtu.be/d67L5p8NyCk
Deputy Chairman and CEO of the Caspian European Club Telman Aliyev is an author and manager of TELLMANN SHOW. TELLMANN SHOW is a joint project of the Caspian European Club and Narimanfilm studio, involving Gate 25.
The creative team of TELLMANN SHOW is looking to cooperate with companies and organizations wishing to take part in this project as sponsors, partners or advertisers.
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This blend of 17 grape varieties is as dazzling to the senses as it is fun to drink. With the first sip, the rollercoaster ride through the fields of the Weinvertel begins, revealing a potpourri blend of dried white citrus peel, pumpkin spice, dried grasses, almond, freshly harvested wheat, and scratched bronze metal. The palate gets its undeniable structure from the help of a seven-hour maceration on the skins (without the stems) before it's pressed and aged in stainless steel. Its intense streak of a citrus-like acidity goes straight down the center and the outer edges of your tongue, reminiscent of old Spanish whites from the Rioja.
This wine, grown on limestone-rich conglomerate (hard-packed pebbles mortared together by limestone), falls somewhere between a white and orange wine, and is exquisitely crafted. It's a wine that paints a beautiful picture of the place (beyond the vineyard itself) and the time of year it was harvested—kudos to that.


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Course Description: The Arts in Every Classroom: A Video Library, K-5 showcases art specialists and classroom teachers using the arts in a myriad of activities. The fourteen half-hour videos are grouped into four content categories: Introducing Arts Education, Art Specialists at Work, Arts in the General Classroom, and Organizing for the Arts. Each section offers new ideas for the veteran teacher as well as the newcomer. Principals, visiting or resident artists, parents, and members of the community also participate in the planning and implementing of programs. Not only will this course demonstrate skills for teaching various aspects of arts education, it is also useful for meeting learning goals defined by the National Standards for Arts Education.
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