Last Call for Hole in the Wall Cabaret Show!

Hi,
First--
More info about Davey G and the Keyboard at the
HOLE IN THE WALL CABARET!
(info courtesy of Hole in the Wall Cabaret blog)

“Saturday December 2nd, 10pm
Where? Hamilton Arts Collective!
How much? $5!
Booze? BYOB!

Capoera Males Mestre Curisco Johns Hopkins University in a demonstration of the Brazilian martial art!

Davey G. and the Keyboard to impress you with his song stylings!

And finally the bonafide (we mean it this time) return of everyone's favorite mentalist, Jason Linett!

Directions here!


More information, visit www.holeinthewallcabaret.com.”

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Second--with any luck, the special Holiday Surprise will be ready by then, and then unveiled to the rest of you…

Third--I am going away for my special someone’s birthday next week, to a destination no one knows--not even her. I am so excited, and so amazed at my ability to keep the destination secret for almost a whole year (I booked the trip in February). So I may post something on Monday or Tuesday, but then I will be out of the office, so to speak, til next Monday.

Secrets and shit I made up all by myself! Visit
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Tomou

While trying to practice, Tomou the Cat came down to the "studio", jumped up on the keyboard, and just started playing her own thing--something like “Atari Generation” with a more John Cage/Henry Cowell edge. I thought I’d go with it for awhile, but she wouldn’t listen to my suggestions (e.g., “get off the keyboard, Tomou,”). I wrote a half- baked little song about how Kitty Cats can’t play Keyboard. Ultimately, I decided Davey G. and the Keyboard will remain a duo (sorry, Kitty).

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

2006, a hint of something special...

This next show will be my 6th this year, which I think is a good amount for the Davey G projects. It averages out to be about a show every other month, not too much that it would lead to any burnout (which I may have posted about in my new revised Davey G history)
http://davecookson.tripod.com/daveyghistory.html
I feel that 2006 has turned out well--along with the shows, I have made t-shirts, a new zine, started this blog, written a zine’s worth of new stories, and have fair amount of new songs for a new album. And I’m still hinting at a special offer to be announced soon…people who come to this show should get first crack at it.
And now…off to practice!

The show:
this Saturday, December 2!
10:00pm - 1:00am
Hamilton Arts Collective
5440 Harford Road
Baltimore, Maryland.
(directions)
http://www.hamiltonartscollective.org/directions.html
http://www.holeinthewallcabaret.com/
http://www.myspace.com/holeinthewallcabaret
http://www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Davey G Announcements

1. The next Davey G and the Keyboard show (a one man lotion spewing fun-fest) will be:
Saturday December 2, 2006
10:00pm - 1:00am
Hamilton Arts Collective
5440 Harford Road
Baltimore, Maryland.
http://www.holeinthewallcabaret.com/
http://www.myspace.com/holeinthewallcabaret
I’m sorry there are not more details, but you can trust this will be an entertaining show for all!

2. There is a movement underway to cap parking fines in Baltimore city. Let’s hope common sense wins out.
http://www.examiner.com/a-409820~Relief_may_be_on_way_for_parking_scofflaws.html
3. I am officially hinting at there being a Davey G and the Keyboard/Davezine holiday special in the works…so keep your eyes peeled.
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Updating the Archives

My brain and eyes are a little fried from working on the web site. I am trying to improve the Davey G History (as some readers may know) which now has forced me to look at the previous diary posts (before I started using blogger and myspace) to try to improve things like loading time and just sheer navigability (that’s a word, right?). For some odd, fucked up reason my apostrophe’s turn to question marks on my site--I try to change them when I can but nonetheless, there they are. I hope that by using blogging technology I can eliminate these sort of problems, but for now I just want to spare any of my readers some of the pain when looking at my archives.
Anything prior to about April of 2006 can be found here:
http://davecookson.tripod.com/daveygshowdiary.html
Still flawed, but getting better…I don’t hate it as much now.
BTW, working on a great new story idea…
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

part 2, Davey G history

It’s an ongoing process putting this new history up, but for now it comes out in little dribbles. Here’s part 2.
http://davecookson.tripod.com/daveyghistorypart2.html

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

December 2 show!

My Next Show!
Saturday, December 2!

10:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Hamilton Arts Collective
5440 Harford Road
Baltimore
http://www.holeinthewallcabaret.com/
http://www.myspace.com/holeinthewallcabaret

Sounds like a fun place!
More details as I get them!
http://www.daveygandthekeyboard.com/

Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, is a new movie about an IRS auditor, Harold Crick, who suddenly realizes his life is being narrated as the main character in a novel that will end in his death. The sudden knowledge of his imminent death (minus the details, causing him to wonder as to the manner of it) results in the inevitable “Carpe Diem” approach as he breaks away from his number-oriented, regimented nature to finally live the life he always wanted, learning to play the guitar, and fall in love with the woman from the bake shop whom he is auditing, Ana, played Maggie Gyllenhaal.
There are some genuinely heart-warming scenes, notably the “cookie eating” scene between Ana and Harold, and the scene with Harold playing the guitar for Ana as a slow-building romance comes to a climax.
The idea of this movie is so fascinating to me, as we see the writer (played by Emma Thompson) stressing over how she will ultimately kill her hero, and seeing her hero trying to figure out if he is in a comedy or a tragedy (even at one point keeping score in a book as he initially fails at trying to land Ana). I have certainly stressed about how to end stories before, and there is not a creative person in the world who hasn’t experienced a form of writer’s block at one point or another. I think seeing Emma Thompson’s insanity, constantly envisioning ways to kill her hero, smoking cigarettes that she puts out mid-way, really drives home the frustration, and then the fear that you will “get it wrong” as a writer.
I enjoyed Dustin Hoffman (one of my all-time favorite actors) as the literary expert Crick consults to help him understand his predicament, who helps him bridge the gap between author and character. His constant coffee swilling and his chemistry with Will Farrell really worked for me. I just really kept hoping that the film would have a satisfying resolution, because it really kept a great premise going. I thought Will Ferrell was great--understated, not over-the-top. The film reminded me of Punch Drunk Love
crossed with
Being John Malkovich
only I enjoyed this much more. An existential dilemma? A plea to live life to the fullest? A goof on the voiceover as narrative convention? I just really liked it: Something quasi-tragic, sweet, and that makes people laugh--that has been my ultimate goal since I started writing.

New show announcement next week!
http://www.daveygandthekeyboard.com/

Davey G History, Part One is Up

Part one of the new Davey G History is up.
Check it out, see what you think--I make changes based on feedback, and I also will probably get more pictures. Working on the rest of it but I thought I’d share what I have done so far.

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Election Day!

11-7
Election Day! Finally, the day when I can vote for candidates who properly reflect my radical agenda. So far, nobody’s coming out against parking tickets and meter maids, so fuck it.
I’m sorry, I’ve been working at my Wash The Dish Job a little more than usual and haven’t spent any more time on writing stuff. But 1L and I attended the Center For Fawkesian Pursuits Celebration of Guy Fawkes Day People really ought to check this Conrad guy out--he has this party every year at his home in Linthicum.
So many links, I’m surprised I don’t have a nine-iron handy. (Sorry--it’s been that kind of week.)
Better Jokes Now! Vote for Me!
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

more Davey G History stuff

I wrote like an insane person yesterday, in part due to my new cat,
who gave me a reason to stay inside and keep her company. So here is a bit that talks about my dry spell in Davey G. The other stuff I wrote fleshes out my early days as I re-write the History of Davey G.

Part 3: 2002-2005--the drought
It was an expected part of the cycle. After the good 2 years of my rise, it was pretty much obvious that I couldn’t keep it going. I think I just got sick of doing what I was doing, or I ran out of ideas, or I lost some confidence. Whatever, I just decided to retire. I had sputterings of appearances, an open mic here and there. But nothing serious, no new material, nothing that really charged me.
I can’t say it was a bad time: I did so much in other areas of my life, traveled, finished college, wrote. But Davey G and the Keyboard was not a part of my life, and as I’ve come to realize, my performances may disappear, but the desire for them never does. It is what I do, it is who I am. I treat every show seriously, I put all that I am into every single performance. I don’t care if 5 people show up and hate me, I am still giving all that I’ve got. Because like it or not, for better or worse, I am a performer, and that can’t be snuffed out, not even by my own occasionally apathetic self.

I felt downright religious writing that. I hope it’s not too much.

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Davey G History

I’m thinking about rewriting the History of Davey G section of my site, to make it a little less cheesy and dated, and less “Mad Magazine” (“Bowling Stone Magazine”? Sheesh) To that end, here is the first paragraph, and the photo of the pile of crap from which my keyboard originated:

The last Lampstand show (2000) left a hole in my life that could only be filled with the thrill of solo performance. In the months that followed, the Kawai X20 from the pile that my brother brought to my house would provide me with the instrument I needed to light the world ablaze with my words.



Of course, there could be some spillover in the widely anticipated (and as yet, completely existing only inside my own head) Davey G. Biopic. It’s hard to be just one person, so much I want to do…

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com