These musicians played a tribute to Keith jarret last night at the Jazz station.
Isaac and the Awkward Situations
Comics, Vaudeville, Art Education, and Music
Squiggly vaudeville recap
Tunami Books in collaboration with me, Isaac Paris productions put on this show! Squiggle time! (maybe I was considering the name squiggles the clown because it sounds less dangerous than sketchy the clown, and I like tentacles.)
Jon Deline’s brave volunteers. 
Ausla the ok is very enthusiastic!
Invincible Vince amazed us!
Ari and her banjo played us beautiful music! 
One of our clowns had her head turned 360 degrees! Child abuse, right? 
We had a great time! There will be future vaudeville shows in town! Next time I hope to have a belly dancer, an accordion a player, and do live art creation, drawing audience members! What else should we have? I’d love to find a contortionist, and a puppeteer or marionette artist.
Trek theatre
There is a theatre troupe in Eugene who puts on episodes of Star Trek as stage plays! Read more about them here!
They asked me to open because I play theremin. So for four performances I did some sci fi poetry and played some music.
Here are my drawings of the cast.
I wasn’t able to draw everyone, some people had very little stage time.
If you are interested in the lyrics to my Star Trek rap, which I will perform this Friday at Nerdlesque at cowfish, here you go!
Mugatu had some wicked horns
the metrons made kirk fight the gorn
after they destroyed the outpost on cestus 3
lursa and btor had a cleavage party
the salt vampire was SCARY
Lazarus was CRAZY
The game made everyone lazy
in the time war fight the ZINDI
wesley crusher was a clever bloke
general changs ship could fire while it was cloaked!
gotta love soren and his crazy theories
arex and mress were only in the animated series
the writers were forbidden to have conflict among the crew
so lets think up some villains to give us something to do
like the apes with spears from taurus 2
romulans, ferengi and klingons too
whats a day at work without a fistfight or two?
the federation is against violence
our mission is peaceful, our goal exploration
we report to our superiors at the space station
we never strike first, not even checkov
but we have been known to kick some ass when someone ticks us off
bog queen had a chilling grace
species 8472 was from fluid space.
squire of gothos what a tool
your a spoiled little kid don’t try and play me for a fool
Janice Lester switched bodies with kirk
commander shran was a major jerk
q’s hungry for mischeif
he could eat anything among the stars
but he’s got crow on the menu if he messes with Picard
look out for data’s evil brother
lava monster horta turned out to be a mother
they first met the bog when q sent them out far
bastard armus killed Tasha Yar!
The crystalline entity consumes civilizations
omicron theta was a tasty little snack
it was destroyed by dr Marr
who wanted vengeance after an attack
For a peaceful mission, there sure were some epic fights
Repeat after me, there are four lights
If topless robot were still a thing, I’d submit this to impressive acts of nerdery!
Drink and draw with art city eugene
I made drawings today at art city Eugene! The event was held at Sam Bonds Brewing hosted by Barbara for art city Eugene!
Follow her at. http://www.twitter.com/Marb_Art
I did stand up comedy and drew some of the artists as well as the model.
Music was provided by this cool electronic artist, impercept.
Marco Benevento with Andy Borges and Dave Dreiwitz
Marco’s music is amazing. His keyboard chops are solid. He plays a piano into pedals that make the sounds shimmer! Andy and Dave lay down danceable grooves. I found this set to be his best I’ve seen, as he played accessible familiar covers and kept a high energy for a firm two hours. I include these photos because Andy had such funny expressions as he played, he really gets into the music. I like that Marco has cheesy Casio keyboard sounding tinny drum machines sometimes, and then there are such huge pounding drums as well. Listen here! Or look him up on Spotify or Apple Music.
I drew him and reviewed his cd before, you can see it here.
Mikaela Davis
Wow, here is a talented musician! Mikalea plays intricate beautiful harp music and sings haunting melodies. I had just been listening to a podcast about the Manson murders ( you must remember this) and eerily, her lyrics seemed to be about murder and a creepy manipulative figure who means to do the listener harm! It gave me shudders. Here’s a drawing. 
And of course a microphone is blocking her face. Ah well. Look her up if you like Ruth Acuff, Bjork, or Joanna Newsome, ov!
On her record there are synthesizers, bells, strings and a drum set but live she played just the harp. (Into a delay pedal) wow! Great stuff!
Jay Shingle and Jesse whitehead.
Two comics who made me chuckle at a local comedy show, both are Oregon based. Jay shingle and Jesse whitehead. Jay is something different, punching comedy to the limits of performance art! Follow him @jayshinglefunny on Twitter!
The Red Elvises!
Your favorite band! Wait, your favorite band too? They are MY favorite band! Igor’s original band has gone their separate ways but he still tours with a younger roster of talented beautiful people including Dejah on bass, Tim on keys and trumpet, and Jasmin on drums! Check out their history, discography and tour schedule here.
Comedians
I went to two comedy shows in one day! Here are my drawings.
There was a graduation celebration for Leigh Anne Josheway’s comedy writing class. Jeff, Bernie, Susan and Bethany were all doing comedy for the first time! Susan is an aerobics instructor and had us cracking up with her stories of her childhood. Bethany claimed to be a “feminist flight attendant” who enjoys keeping people from accessing airline bathrooms with the beverage cart. The pepper haired man in the bottom right is Jeff Jaesch.
Then I went to the wayward lamb for “The Best F*cking Comedy Show Ever” with Alex Rios, Seth Milstein, George Baltzer, Caitlin Weierhouser and Beth Pinkerton.
George recently returned from New Zealand.
Beth tells erotic stories and claims to “love offensive humor.” She won Eugene’s best stand up comedian in 2015.
Caitlin is a total pro, full of silliness, rage and absurdity. She creates her own genre of performance art comedy. She is unique and ferocious.
Alex is Portland based. He’s not afraid to weird an audience out and make us laugh out of awkward embarrassment. His Twitter is @RiosHoneybear
Evan Greer, Ari and her Banjo, Beat Alice
Evan plays intelligent folk music: about unions, the importance of sharing, environmentalism and peace. They played a Phil Ochs cover, “love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal.” I have had that song stuck in my head ever since, especially the chilling final line, “now I’m older and wiser, and that’s why I’m turning you in.” Check them out online at evangreer.org
I enjoyed Ari and her banjo, she is playing at my vaudeville show In April. She plays fingerpick style with great control! Beat Alice was a very confessional and humorous songwriter.
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