Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Poetry Performances


At Yours & Owls poetry slam in Wollongong (Hosted by Lorin Reid and Sherry Landow)

Hear the News (Frank Herbert’s Boys Brigade)
Published in The Delinquent Issue 12

S. T. Picard

War, What is it Good For? (A Gen-Kill poem)
Forthcoming in The Delinquent Issue 19

The Bacterium that Hated Eskimo Joe
Published in The Delinquent Issue 12 and SpeedPoets 11.7

Oyster (Written by Bryan Lewis Saunders)

The Machingeon
Published in Establishment Issue 1

Care Bears
Published in The Delinquent Issue 12

George Clooney can do anything
Forthcoming in The Delinquent Issue 19

Thanks to Gordon Knyvett for the recordings and thanks to Lorin and Sherry for having me there to perform.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

These worlds are procedurally generated


Much care was given to maximum compactness of code.

and

The last part added was the 3D radar display fitted into the last few unused bytes in their computer.

Then I received this from The Delinquent Magazine:

Hi Andrew,


Will you marry me? Thank you for your submission. The delinquent is pleased to announce that we will be printing ‘War, what is it good for? (A Gen-kill poem)’ and ‘George Clooney can do anything’ in issue 19.

We have specially ‘borrowed’ this plane to contact you because, although we are unable to pay contributors, or even provide them with a free copy, we honestly believe that, where your writing is concerned – THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!!”

Photographs of this message can be viewed at:

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Please set your browser not to accept cookies. To view your message correctly you will need one of the following: (1) a mirror; or (2) photo-editing software – please select flip image horizontal.

Alternatively for a 7” x 6” glossy print of your message, please send your passport and a recent utility bill, together with a banker’s draft for $30 to the following address: The Secret Government of Earth, #REDACTED#, #REDACTED#, Isle of wight. Please remember to clearly mark your envelope ‘Top Secret’.

Please note all highly classified aerial surveillance images will be automatically recorded over within 12 hours of receiving this email, so don’t delay!

Now it is time to let the docking computer fly the Cobra Mk III: 


Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell

Friday, November 09, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! takes on the Australian Poetry Slam


BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! ran the Australian Poetry Slam this year in the Australian Capital Territory.
The Hand says Stop at The Phoenix Pub
This is the second time we have run the Canberra contribution, the previous being 2010. These are the only times there have been heats and a final.
CJ Bowerbird and Calum Reid at NewActon
Something I think BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gets right is balancing respect for individual performers and their efforts.
The Master of Conflict
puts Jesh in the Corner
With healthy disregard for competitive outcomes from the poetry slam format.
The audience at NewActon
Part of that is having heats, so poets can have more than one shot to get through, but heats that are fun for everyone: audience, poets, organisers, judges, sound people, the staff at the venue, random people caught up in it.
CJ Bowerbird
And ensuring that the heats are accessible. 
People having fun at The Front
To that end we had heats in both locations that host poetry slams, The Phoenix Pub being the best of those, and in a non-poetry slam venue: Smiths Alternative Bookshop, which is a great venue for fun poetry events.
The audience at Smiths Alternative Bookshop
One of the things I like about both Smiths and The Phoenix Pub is how supportive the staff and owners are and always have been of us running poetry events in their venues.
Feature act Drew Walky
and bottles of wine
We had not asked Smiths to be a sponsor but they supplied multiple bottles of wine for our poetry lucky dip and door prize, which helped us raise money to pay our feature act.
Calum Reid and Erica Mallet win prizes at The Front
Getting the prizes right for a slam is important. Absolute Watchmen, from Impact Comics, a sticker from The Games Capital, along with a voucher for their store, and stuff BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! could not sell at a garage sale. 
Pete Huet looks with intent at the prize
Duncan Felton claims
These are all the best prizes since our last BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! best prizes.

The shirts of First Prize were won.
Melea Vera wears her Garage Sale First Prize
This is a happy poet winning First Prize.
First Prize from Impact Comics and The Games Capital
A poet won a bag. 
Aaron Kirby
wins First Prize
And the bag insert. 

Then things got serious.
A poet has a bag on his head because he won First Prize
And Julia Johnson rocked out.
Julia Johnson rocking out




All photos by Adam Thomas, thanks Adam Thomas. All prizes by Impact Comics, The Games Capital, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, The Elimatta Street Garage Sale, and thanks too to sponsors NewActon and The RiotACT.

Saturday, November 03, 2012

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! on 21 November @ The Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix Pub

In November we provide you with a stage, an audience, five judges, The Score Adder, two microphones, and two minutes on stage, for prizes, FIRST PRIZES from Impact Comics, The Games Capital, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, and from underneath the back office desk.

And of course we provide you with the Master of Conflict to arbitrarily judge the poet amongst poets to claim one of our many many first prizes and quite likely the best of the first prizes.

So we want your words on stage to perform poems, be scored, be judged, care or not care about the judges, and drink some cider and or whiskey and or something else.

And this month we have two features acts:

One feature is Emilie Zoey Baker.

Poet and spoken word performer Emilie Zoey Baker is the winner of the 2010 International Slam Review as part of the Berlin International Literature Festival, she also toured and performed in Paris, London and Singapore ending at the 2010 Ubud Writers festival in Bali. She toured North America in 2009 following an invitation to perform at Montréal’s Festival Voix d’Amériques. The tour included New York, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.



And returning to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! as the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! house band is Bacon Cakes.

Bacon Cakes is a solo thrashing fuzzy headed garage punk cosmonaut! Birds Like Fighting Records describe him and his music as “...perfect for a quick drive downtown, all fitting within the limited 15 minute space on the A side. His charisma on stage (and in life) is carried through onto the tape in this fuzzed out pop love live recorded session.”


Bacon Cakes @ BMA

So join the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at The Phoenix Pub for poetry, and remember, no props, no music, YOUR ORIGINAL WORDS, on stage, signup at 730pm, for prizes, for glory, for a peg leg.