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  • North Beach, San Francisco

    summer midnight
in the city
    and
the bridesmaid
just walked past
without her shoes on.

  • x-post: all swift boat vets, all the time

    Been yearning for a rant about how much air time those darn Swift Boat Vets for Truth have been getting? Well yearn no more. You’ll find one: here.

  • Brown hair

    It's a
young man's
game.

  • A thin slice of terror

    Here’s a wee thing (voice talents: eb and xian) — 26 seconds of sound, a 415K mp3. It’s a scrap. A found object. A thin slice of terror. And, as an added bonus, it’s also an almost entirely misleading trailer for an upcoming Monkey Vortex Radio Theater feature entitled: “I, Baby Robot.” Enjoy. And watch the skies, -CV
    Press Play to play.

  • Open thread — a call for your submissions

    I’ll be gone for a couple of days, so I thought we’d try something a little differemt this morning — an open thread. The idear is that you folks keep the site crackling in my absence — overflowing with woosh! — by adding your own snippets of dialog, slices of lyric, poems, demi-poems, stories, or rants as comments to this very entry. Whaddya think? Itto? Heroic Imp? Captain Marsupial? other Dan? Folks unknown? Shall we give it a shot?
    More than one entry welcome, nay encouraged! No need to be shy, it’s just us chickens. Click comment below and…let ‘er rip.
    Enjoy! And watch the skies, -Cecil

  • August, 2004: note to self

    Waiting around for
    election day
    doesn’t count
    as an activity.

  • Poison

    She has a hard, twisted smile
    like she’s just taken poison
    and if you say
    one more word
    well, she’ll let some of it leak.
    Her jaw, it will slack
    and the venom will bubble
    oh there’ll be lots of trouble
    when she opens up that beak.

  • Advice for Travellers

    Never chew
    gum in an
    airplane bathroom.
    Because if you do
    your gum will taste
    like an airplane bathroom.

  • x-post: And the lotus eaters, and the poetry, and the monkey of it all

    Are you like me? Love spoken word poetry? But maybe not so crazy about hanging out with, you know, poets? Well fear not — help is on the way! Monkey Vortex Radio Theater had folks just like you and me in mind when they created Poet Makes a House Call — in which real live poets record their actual poetry and then transmit those poems into your brains. Using electricity.
    Today’s sampling: The Lotus Eaters, written and performed by Dan Mummert, and backed by a trio of faux hep cats. Enjoy! -CV

  • Till It’s Light

    As we ramp up production here at the house of Vortex, I’ll be aiming to post a tune every week or two. Today’s is a collaborative effort recorded a few months back and written in the key of Leon Russell. As ever, it’s on the fairly small side (1.3 mb), download-wise.
    TV’s Yaniv Soha contributes all manner of haunting notes and noises. Be sure to drop by his site for more of that distinctive Yaniv-Soha-style rock ‘n roll goodness.