Declaration of Mad Swirl Open Mic and Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Edition Release Celebration!

CONGRESS OF MAD ONES, JULY 2, 2008







This is the unanimous Declaration of Mad Swirl Open Mic and Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Edition Release Celebration on the 1st Wednesday of this month of July.

When in the Course of Mad Swirl events it becomes necessary for all poets, musicians, singers, storytellers, comedians, and performers to dissolve the mental and physical miles between them and gather together for the madness which will connect them with one another. And to assume among the powers of the host of this madness, the separate and equal time in front of the mic to which the Laws of Booze and of Nature's Tea entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of Absinthe Lounge patrons sometimes sloppy scrutiny. Fortunately, this celebration also requires that they should declare the release of Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Issue, which causes us Excitation.

Soooo...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all poets, musicians, singers, storytellers, comedians, and performers are mostly created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Poems, Songs and the pursuit of Happiness, this 1st Wednesday at Absinthe Lounge...and declare that all Men and Women have the Right to Purchase a Limited-Edition, Numbered print edition of Mad Swirl Six for $5.

For more information about Mad Swirl go to...madswirl.com

For more information about Absinthe Lounge go to...absinthelounge.net

And for your support of Mad Swirl Open Mic and Issue Six, with a firm reliance on the protection of the Mad Ones, we mutually pledge to you our Words, our Tunes and our Sacred Madness.

"So, come on iconoclasts, forward! Already the foreboding sky grows dark and silent!" - Renzo Novatore Arcola

Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Issue Begins Swirling 07.02.08

Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Issue



The long-awaited, much-anticipated upcoming full-color 28-page collection of poets and musicians will be released at Mad Swirl Open Mic Night on 07.02.08 at Absinthe Lounge. This Blue Note Issue is Mad Swirl's ode to the insanity that is Mad Swirl Open Mic Night featuring the poetry and music of the most maddest of the mad ones...

Johnny Olson
Lisa Olson
Cheyenne Gallion
Paul Sexton
Opalina Salas
MH Clay
Desmene Statum
Josh Weir
Roderick Richardson
Chris Zimmerly
Swirve

We are currently accepting pre-orders for this upcoming issue of madness. What would you be willing to pay for this limited edition, numbered copy of Mad Swirl? Don't answer yet!

As a bonus with this mad zine will be tracks laid-down live at the last Open Mic, complete with Intro, Outro and bridge songs by the amazing trio Swirve! Now how much would you pay?

$20? Well worth it! What if we said $10? That sure would be a great deal! For this limited time we are offering Mad Swirl Issue Six: The Blue Note Issue for the low low price of $5*!

What's the catch? You must pay thru PayPal to get your name on the list to be one of the 1st readers of Mad Swirl Six. And also we need as much funds as we can get to offset the cost of producing this mad mad collection of poetry and music by 07.02.08!

1. Go to PayPal.com

2. If you don't already have a PayPal account, you must set one up. If you already have an account go to "send money" in the top menu bar.

3. Enter "madswirl@gmail.com" into the "To" field and hit "Send Money"

4. We get an e-mail saying we got your money & we think of how wonderful you are. We put your name on the list of wonderful peeps to receive one of the first numbered copies of MS6:BNI

5. Sometime on or soon after 07.02.08 you get your copy of Mad Swirl Six: The Blue Note Issue!

It just doesn't get an easier then that!

Why WOULDN'T you order one, two, five or ten now?

(* please add $1.50 for shipping and handling costs)

Where the Mad Ones Were!

On the past 1st Wednesday night Mad Swirl had its open mic and we made mad mischief of one kind, and another, and our mothers called us "Mad Ones!" and sent us to Absinthe Lounge without our supper.

And on this night, the number of Mad Ones grew, and grew, and grew 'til Absinthe Lounge was filling and spilling with swirling Mad Ones all around and the couches filled with people and the drinks just flowed and flowed.

And a mic came floating by for all the Mad Ones - the poets, musicians, actors, singers and performers, and we sailed off to the place where the Mad Ones are!

And when we were at the place where the Mad Ones are were the Mad Ones read their swirling poems and sang their mad songs and snapped and clapped their hands and howled their howling howls and they called us the most maddest ones of all!

And so the madness began...

1st Round:
Johnny O
Vince Olson
Opalina Salas
Paul Sexton
Gaila Bell
Kollective Objective
Roderick Richardson
Devorah
Daniel Candiotta
Gordon Hilgers
Chris Zimmerly
Desmene Statum
Mac Probst
Brandon
Michael Clay

2nd Round:
Lisa Ohhh
Josh Weir
Victory
Max Earl Blair
Bear
MM Harris
Kerseymere
Mister Natural
Zack
Alexcie
Poet Echo
Todd Buckley
Kathryn Weir
Luigi
D'Anson

Grats to Swirve, the most mostest mad maddest ones of all. Hats off, as always to the amazin' wailin' trumpeter Chris Curiel, anachronistic vocalist Tamitha Curiel & mad man G-Man Gerard Bendix on skins. They got the wild rumpus started and kept us movin' & groovin' all night long!

And, as always, the deepest grats to one of the maddest cats of all, Absinthe Lounge owner Kevin & the fine Lounge staffers Jennifer and My for keeping the drinks fillin' and swillin' for us mad ones.

If you missed the boat to where the Mad Ones are, don't fret. When the next 1st Wednesday rolls around, go to Mad Swirl Open Mic at Absinthe Lounge. Don’t wish you were there, BE THERE on 07:02:08, same Mad Swirl time (8:30), same Mad Swirl place (Absinthe Lounge), same Mad Swirling mad ones (you?).

The whole Mad Swirl of everything to come begins NOW!