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Personal Interests

This page details various projects that don't directly relate to my academic training or current professional work.


Event Promotion

Downbeats, organized and promoted a one-off "microRave" at The Power Company, featuring DJ Wally and 3 other DJs, Albany, NY, 1996

Dagobah, organized and promoted a one-off microRave at The Launch Pad, featuring Dose the Alien among others, Troy, NY, 1997

Cabaret Manana
, organized and promoted a weekly acid jazz night at The Power Company featuring Chillfreeze of famed NYC's famed Giant Step and Marcos Udagawa among others, Albany, NY, 1998-1999
Pulse, organized and promoted a weekly trance night at The Fuze Box, featuring Electric Indigo among others, Albany, NY, 2001
What the Heck Fest--coordinated a song share event, Anacortes, WA, 2003

Indie Media Club,  promoted concerts, and spoken word and slam poetry events featuring local and nationally known artists, such as The Blow, Karl Blau, Gift Machine, Juha, and many others. Cortland and Ithaca, NY, 2003-2005


Performances

Dispatching Monsters, wrote and performed a one-act at See Spot Gallery, Ithaca, NY, Oct. 2004

Tearing a Hole: A One-Act Play About the Writing Process, wrote and performed a one-act play for SUNY Cortland's Scholar's Day, Cortland, NY, April 2005


Recordings

Smash the Face of the Adult World, 90-minute cassette compilation that I produced and distributed featuring Pansy Division, Gunk, Blanks 77, Six Cents and Natalie, FYP, White Trash Debutantes, Abalienation, and 13 other bands, 1993

Hardcore's Dead...and You're Next!!!,90-minute cassette compilation produced by Mike Dickinson of Binghamton punk legends Abalienation, which includes two tracks from my band, blabbermouth!, namely "Concessions" and "GG Allin Sucks," 1993

Drunk on Green Tea
, vol. 1, includes a recording of my short story "Just Desserts" along with tracks from Dub Narcotic Sound System, and 18 other bands, 2003

Echoholic, a compilation by Belgian feminist publisher Echo, includes my track "Desire" along with 13 others including Violent Vickie and the O.G. Panty Complex, 2003 

Nevermind the Microphones...It's the KBBS Comp!, produced and distributed a CD compilation featuring The Solvents, The Kallikak Family, The Tale of Elphin, and 23 others, 2003

Turning Tutu, Turning Leaves, a CD compilation culled from the fall tour of Karl Blau and Gift Machine, containing an excerpt from the live performance of my one-act play Dispatching Monsters, as well as live recordings from Mount Eerie, YACHT, and a number of other bands, poems, and sound recordings, 2003


Zines & Zine Events

Words and Smiles, 3 issues, 1991-1993
  • Issue 1
  • Issue 2
  • Issue 3

    Archived in...
           Duke University, Rubenstein Library
           NYU, Fales Library, Riot Grrl Archive
           Five College Archive
           University of Iowa, Special Collections
           Zinewiki

    
    Gallery Shows
        "You Are Her," 2009
            Art LA Contemporary Fair, LA, CA  
            NY Art Book Fair, NYC
            Goteblud, SF, CA
           
        "Yes I Am, But Who Am I Really?," 2009
            Goteblud, SF, CA

Odd Fag Out, 1 issue, 1995

Boyfunk, 3 issues, 2002-2003
   Archived in...
        Denver Zine Library
        Queer Zine Archive
        Roberts Street Social Centre
        Queer Zine Archive Project
        University of Miami Library

    
    Reviewed in...
       Ponyboys
       Queer Zine Explosion
       Razorcake


Portland Zine Symposium, invited talk on "Queer Zines and Culture Panel" with Larry Bob of Holy Titclamps and Nicole of Invincible Summer among others, Aug. 2003

Words and Smiles, 2020
  • Issue 4
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