Mad Swirl Needs Your Help!

Hello Fellow Mad Ones!

We're posting this blog because Johnny and I feel that you have been supportive of Mad Swirl as it has grown into the enigma that it is, someone that 'gets it' when it comes to the arts and the importance of creative expression!

Johnny has been working very hard on the 6th print edition of Mad Swirl, the Blue Note Issue, and he is so excited and very close to being ready for printing.

This issue is going to DYNO-MITE… a full-color issue, with a bonus CD of readings and will no doubt be his best Mad Swirl yet, a collector's edition in the making! See attachment for a sneak preview of the cover.

That's where you come in! Up til now, every Mad Swirl expense has been covered by us, including production time, supplies and printing expense. This issue, being full color, with CDs etc. will be our most expensive to produce yet, and we are asking for help, in our first print run of 1,000 copies.

There are three ways to help get Mad Swirl VI published. We kindly ask you to consider getting involved in any or all of the following manners:

1. Donate a prize for our Live Auction to take place at Mad Swirl Open Mic on Weds. 5/7/08. Tickets, gift certificates, cool collectibles, etc. will be greatly appreciated.

2. COME to Mad Swirl Open Mic's first LIVE AUCTION to bid on cool stuff, Weds. 5/7, 8:30-10p, Absinthe Lounge!

3. Donate directly to Mad Swirl through PayPal, by sending money at www.paypal.com to madswirl@gmail.com. Your donation (any size!) will go directly into our printing and assemblage costs are veeeery appreciated!!

We can't pull this one off without your help, so please, please (pretty please, with sugar on top, even!!) consider how you can help support Mad Swirl and the arts and poetry movement in Dallas.

You will become an important part in bringing the coolest issue ever into fruition and will be one of the first to receive your limited edition, numbered collectible copy.

Our targeted production date is May 31st, so time is of the essence. Please help in whatever way you can and again, we are immensely grateful for the support we have gotten and the support we trust we will get to make this dream reality.

To check out Mad Swirl on the web, visit www.madswirl.com.

THANKS SO MUCH for your support.

With deep gratitude,
Lisa and Johnny

"The whole mad swirl of everything that is to come begins now."

Mad Swirlin' Audio from 04.02.08!

Hello Fellow Mad Ones,
Were you there on April 2nd? You know, at the monthly madness aka Mad Swirl Open Mic Night? Yes, the 1st Wednesday insanity held at Absinthe Lounge. Well if you were or if you weren't, we got a treat for you...

...thanks to the mad mad recording man Chris Zimmerly, we have audio proof of the insanity that was this past month's Mad Swirl Open Mic Night. Click here to get an ear-full of these mad ones on the mic...

Opening / Johnny O / Opalina Salas / Paul Sexton / Daniel Candiotta / Chris Zimmerly / Gordon Hilgers / Josh Weir / Desmene Statum / Ledroc Smith / Roderick Richardson / John Kelley / Audacious / Jolee Cloudy / Joey Cloudy

Join us again on the next 1st Wednesday as the whole mad swirl of everything to come continues to swirling thru Absinthe Lounge on 05.07.08! Come early and be a part of mad swirling history as we record the featured artists of mad swirl issue six for posterity's sake soon to be followed by the usual unusual open mic madness!

"The whole mad swirl of everything to come began then" - Jack Kerouac

Mad Swirlin' Grats to ALL the Mad Ones, Beatniks, Hipsters & Ca-razy Cats from 04.02.08

On 04.02.08 we called all you mad ones, beatniks, hipsters & ca-razy cats out there to dig on the Mad Swirling Open Mic action at Absinthe Lounge and you came...in record numbers!

30!, yes 30! wailin’ poets, musicians, rappers and a couple miscellaneous mad ones for good measure came gatherin' 'round to turn the mic on!

Swirve started wailin’ & playin’ ’round 8:00. Your mad host Johnny O and April's guest co-hostess with the mostest Opalina Salas woke the mic up ’round 8:45-ish & the mic closed when we run out of gas & it was time to cut out.

Mad Swirling gratitude to ALL you mad ones who made this past 1st Wednesday one for the record books, both in numbers and in the levels of intense insanity...

(in order of appearance…pics coming sooner then later)

1st Mad Round:

Johnny O (host)
Opalina Salas (co-hsot)
Paul Sexton
Daniel Candiotta (with Brandon on mandolin)
Chris Zimmerly
Gordon Higers
Josh Weir
Desmene Statum
Ledroc Smith
Roderick Richardson
John Kelley
Audacious
Jolee Cloudy
Joey Cloudy
Michael Clay

2nd Mad Round:

Mister Natural
Stefan
Kerseymere
Michael Anthony Lagoki
Tim Thomason
Max Earl Blair
Gomez
Wesley
Poet Echo
Amy
Susanne
Crystal
Jennifer
Johnny Big
Todd Buckley

Huge Mad Swirling gratitudes to Swirve's amazing wailin' trumpeter Chris Curiel, anachronistic vocalist Tamitha Curiel & mad man G-Man Gerard Bendix on skins for setting the tone, the rhythm, the momentum & for keeping us movin' & groovin' all night long!

And, as always, the deepest grats to Absinthe Lounge owner Kevin & the fine Lounge staffers, for keeping the light on for us mad ones.

We know you don’t want to be a square & miss the action coming on 05.07.08 as we once again call all you mad ones, beatniks, hipsters & ca-razy cats out there to turn us on!

For more info about Mad Swirl go to www.MadSwirl.com

For more info about Absinthe Lounge go to www.AbsintheLounge.net

For more information on other open mics in the DFW area go to www.DFWOpenMics.com