Mouth and Thistle Reading, Circa 2008

Mouth and Thistle Reading, Circa 2008 from Erik Leavitt on Vimeo.

I stumbled across this video of a reading that I did of my poetry thesis back in Idaho. Frankly, I dread watching myself too much to actually review the video myself, but I figure it might be an artifact of interest. Also, it's probably the only reading I'll ever get to do while using a flip chart of astrological woodcuts. Let's hope for that much, at least.

"Hive" up at Alice Blue

I recently pulled one over on the publishers of Alice Blue and hoodwinked them into publishing a short essay of mine. Presumably when they come to their sense like someone awakening from a chloroform rag they'll do the reasonable thing and remove the piece, but until then you can read it here: http://www.alicebluereview.org/main.html

UPDATE

Fiction Daily just reposted "Hive" for all their readers to fawn over like a coffee pot at an AA meeting. You can have a look at it here if you're too good for Alice Blue: http://fictiondaily.org/2010/05/24/short-121/#comments

Brooklyn Storytelling: Duluth

Duluth, Platey, and the best Thanksgiving ever. from Erik Leavitt on Vimeo.

A few months ago I took my first crack a public storytelling where a crowd was involved and a case of beer wasn’t. I called it a practice run for getting on stage at the Moth. Fortunately, my buddy Sean took a fine toothed comb to the recording and made me sound funnier and more professional than I was within the performance. You have to listen really hard to hear the audience booing me off stage.

This is just a segment of that little event. You can have a listen on the originating site here.

Mayor of Iggy's Lounge

Mayor of Iggy's Lounge from Erik Leavitt on Vimeo.


After spending a year blousing about Iggy's Karaoke Lounge in New York, I finally decided to put my "research" to good use and write a profile on one of the regulars. What follows is a recording of a reading I did for the Columbia Gallery Reading series in December of 2009.

Intro for Your Skull My Closet

The band Your Skull My Closet has consistently given me a chance to make an ass out of myself at the beginning of their shows, so it was only a matter of time before someone made a video of it.

They say that ending up naked on the internet is a bad thing. After this I'm not so sure they're wrong. Fortunately the band is good enough to wash away the bad taste of all that pasty, screaming meat.

Also, seeing as this performance is an homage Mister Charles Bernstein, here's one of CB's countings:

http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/Class/Bernstein-Charles_02_1-100_1969-remastered.mp3