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Noah

EVEN WHEN YOU AND I AND ALL THAT WE LOVE ARE LOCKED AWAY IN CAGES I SHALL NEVER SURRENDER THE GEMS I

About Me

as the
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- Charles Bukowski
I do shows. It is the only thing I do, and I never stop doing it for more than a few hours.
Yes, I do want to help you put on your crazy-ass show in Portland.
Right now I'm principally producing and performing in a panoply of shows under the banner of Portland Circus Works, with my partner Nick the Creature. Closest to my heart amongst thes projects is Batty's Hippodrome , a Victorianesque lowlife circus ensemble I founded in 2006. http://www.myspace.com/battyshippodromeWe're also doing The Wanderlust Circus http://www.wanderlustcircus.com and all manner of themed parties and theatrical events throughout Portland
For much longer than that, I've been making music with the free post-asiatic ensemble Nequaquam Vacuum. http://www.radoncollective.org/artists/neququamvacuum/home.h tml
and plotting in secret for the next Societas Insomnia show, which is going to require considerable funding. http://www.societasinsomnia.com
I'm on the board of directors for 2Gyrlz Performative Arts, with whom I'm working presently on the coming CINEPLEX video art show.
This Summer, I'm playing Oberon in Mizu Desierto's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. We're working on the thing right now, and it's going to be amazing.
Without particularly meaning for it to happen, I find that I'm spending a considerable amount of time as a professional MC and announcer (or "talker", as we're known in circus tradition). I talk most Sundays at Dante's Sinferno Cabaret; and have taken on similar assignments for The Bite of Oregon, The Vampire's Masquerade Ball, The Hive Anniversary Parties, The Drunk Puppet Show, Convergence 13, and numerous events at all levels of respectability. Other noteworthy projects, troupes, and affiliations past and present include, but are not limited to:
The Radon collective
http://www.radoncollective.org
The Steve MacKay Ensemble
http://www.radoncollective.org/artists/mackay/home.html
P.A.N.
http://www.prettyartnumb.org/
Soriah
http://www.soriah.net/
Implied Violence
http://www.impliedviolence.com/
The Villainaires Academy
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=121737
36 Invisibles (on hiatus)
http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=1 4002
The 999 Eyes Of Endless Dream (relocated)
http://www.999eyes.com
Cicuri Curajul (defunct)
http://www.fireninja.com/circus.html
Aside from producing shows independently, I've also worked as the in-house booking agent for four nightclubs - Someday Lounge, Rotture, Branx, and the regrettably short-lived Hippodrome.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

My maker.

Music:

3 Leg Torso, Amps for Christ, Anticon, Louis Armstrong, Baby Gramps, Barbez, MC Paul Barman, Basic Fix, The Beatles, Beck, The Better To See You With, The Birthday Party, Blackalicious, The Black Heart Procession, The Boredoms, David Bowie, Buck 65, Buena Vista Social Club, Butthole Surfers, Cab Calloway, Caroliner Rainbow, Benny Carter, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Chicks on Speed, Childhood Friends, Circus Contraption, Clan of the Bleeding Eye, Clang Quartet, Cock ESP, Jean-Louis Costes, Crash Worship, Cult of Zir, dk pan Trio, Dahlia, Miles Davis, Day of the Zombie, The Dead Science, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Djinn Teeth Fangs, Dresden Dolls, Bob Dylan, Einsturzende Neubauten, Duke Ellington, Extra Action Marching Band, Extra Life, Faggot, Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra, Freestyle Fellowship, Frog Eyes, Funkadelic, Diamanda Galas, Get Hustle, G/L/A/S/S C/A/N/D/Y, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Gooferman, Gravediggaz, Woody Guthrie, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Hop-Frog, Bill Horist, Hungry March Band, Ilias Malorum, Inkwell Rhythm Makers, Skip James, Jane's Addiction, Robert Johnson, Spike Jones, Louis Jordan, King Gee-Do-Rah, King Oliver, Koonda Holaa and the Beetchees, Kronos Quartet, Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, Last of the Juanitas, Latyrx, The Lawn, Little Claw, Lovage, Steve MacKay, Madame Chao, Magick Daggers, March Fourth, Massive Attack, The Master Plan, Matmos, Paul Mercer, MF Doom, Charles Mingus, The Miracles, Miss Murgatroid, The Moe!kestra!, Thelonius Monk, Rebecca Moore, Mortal Clay, Naked City, Nation of Ulysses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Nouvelle Vague, OOIOO, Obe'Skupla, Palace Brothers, Parenthetical Girls, Harry Partch, The Pixies, Power Circus, Louis Prima, Prince, Public Enemy, Pussy Galore, Radikal Satan, Radiohead, Rasputina, The Red King, Redbird, Redman, Marc Ribot (with or without Los Cubanos Postizos), Ripit, The Rolling Stones, Romulus/Remus, Paul Rucker Large Ensemble, RUDEment, Samba Soul 70, Sardonik Grin, Jimmy Scott, Shoehorn, Sikhara, Simon and Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Skeleton Key Orchestra, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Smegma, Solo Dos En Tijuana, Soriah, Soul Coughing, Soup Purse, Sour Mash Hug Band, Sparks, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Moe! Staiano, Stalking Jane, Stella Marie, Stolen Babies, Sun City Girls, Synchronicity Frequency, Talking Heads, Taraf De Haidouks, That Damned Band, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Tiger Lillies, Thirstin Howl III, Jill Tracy, Trash Band, Tres Gone, Truman's Water, Try My Cabbage, Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, Sonny Boy Williamson (2), Wu-Tang Clan, Xiu Xiu, Y La Bamba, Yellow Swans, Dusty York Trio, Zahir, Z'ev, Zohar

Movies:

Prospero's Books, The Lovers on the Bridge, Topkapi, Gozu, Brazil, Stop Making Sense, Barbecue Sauce: The Movie, City of Lost Children, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tetsuo: Iron Man, Crash, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Gummo, Kids, Happiness, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Killer, The Hour of the Wolf, Fando y Lis, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Impostors, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers, Ichi the Killer, Audition, Pennies From Heaven, Miller's Crossing, Lost Highway
Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead 1-2, Dead Alive, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, 28 Days Later, Zombi 1-3, Return of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead 3, Dead and Buried, Wild Zero, Planet Terror
Return of the Five Deadly Venoms, Wu-Tang Swordsman, Invincible Armor, Shaolin Master Killer, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Zu Warriors, Zu Warriors of the Mystic Mountain, The Bride With White hair, Hero, Shaolin King Boxer, Shaolin Chastity Kung-Fu, Method Man, The Seven Golden Vampires, Legend of the Red Dragon, Once Upon A Time In China 1-3, Once Upon A Time In China and America, Old Dirty Strikes Back, Fantasy Mission Force, Burning Paradise, Kill Bill, Big Trouble in Little China, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, Crippled Masters

Books:

J.G. Ballard, Samuel Becket, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Umberto Eco, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Eugene Ionesco, Carson McCullers, Terrence McKenna, China Mieville, Frank Miller, Yukio Mishima, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Neal Stephenson, Dylan Thomas, William Vollman, William Butler Yeats

My Blog

Water in the Desert - seeking Volunteers

Hey gang.As you may have heard, I'm working with Mizu Desierto and a most impressive cast of dancers, actors, and technicians to create this year's Water in the Desert Festival.  It's going to be...
Posted by Noah on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:27:00 PST

Hosting Sinferno Tonight

That's where I'll be.  Once the sun goes down, come out and play.At Dante's, Burnside and 3rd, downtown.  11pm - 2am.  Exotic Dancers, Circus, and Fire.5000. - N.
Posted by Noah on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

CINEPLEX video art & New Media feast w. POTTER-BELMAR LABS, NOTENDO, CHRIS KUBICK, and more

WEDNESDAY   MAY 21st   8pmCINEPLEXNew Media Art Feast FeaturingPOTTER-BELMAR LABS(San Antonio, TX)http://www.potterbelmar.org/NOTENDO (Brooklyn, NYC)http://audiovideo.sevcom.com/f...
Posted by Noah on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:26:00 PST

FREAKSHOW A-GO-GO Drag Carnival w. THE GENDER FLUIDS, THISWAY/THATWAY, CATTITUDE, & tons more

315 SE 3rd Ave, Portland, OR (under Rotture, 2nd Ave Entrance) $10 in advance, $15 at the door 7pm Doors. 8pm-10pm Show After-show Dance Party 10pm-2:30am DJs Mr. Charming & Kinetic Smoke-fr...
Posted by Noah on Wed, 14 May 2008 04:31:00 PST

EAST:MEETS:WEST 2008 - THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! w. Serpentine, Asphodel, Gypsy Caravan, me, etc.

FRIDAY     MAY 2nd   8pm SHARPSerpentine presents... EAST:MEETS:WEST Our 5th Annual Dark Bellydance Showcase At Mt. Tabor Legacy4811 SE HawthornePortland, Oregon. $15&nb...
Posted by Noah on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

Auditions for Midsummer Night’s Dream May 4th

Reposted from my dearest Mizu Desierto:"my merry mischief ways are getting me into a heap of trouble and fun this season....and i am looking for people, movers, shakers and fellow mischief makers in a...
Posted by Noah on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:09:00 PST

EMERGING ILLUSIONS Fashion Show - San Francisco - Gibbous, Bad Unkl Sista, Ashley Knight, & me

I'll be in San Francisco roughly 5/5 - 5/9 to do this amazing fashion show with Gibbous, Bad Unkl Sista, Ashley Knight, Nezzy Idy, and a third gentleman whose name I can't recall.It's Thursday night a...
Posted by Noah on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:40:00 PST

THE WANDERLUST CIRCUS Sunday 4/27 at The Mt Tabor Theater

Portland Circus Works Proudly PresentsTHE WANDERLUST CIRCUSSunday, April 27thMt. Tabor Legacy, 4811 SE Hawthorne21+ w/ID$10 Pre-sale$12 at the doorDoors at 7pmShow at 8pmhttp://www.wanderlustcircus.co...
Posted by Noah on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:55:00 PST

EDIBLE danceparty delicacies and live body buffet at 2410

EDIBLESaturday, April 26th 20082410 N Mississippi Ave21+Event, Full Bar10pm - 4am $10 - Limited Tickets Available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/33312 Join us for a night of delectable adornment a...
Posted by Noah on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

CINEPLEX video art feast with POTTER-BELMAR LABS, NOTENDO, CHRIS KUBICK, and more

WEDNESDAY   MAY 21st   8pmCINEPLEXA Multimedia Art Feast fromPOTTER-BELMAR LABS (San Antonio, TX)http://www.potterbelmar.org/NOTENDO (Brooklyn, NYC)http://audiovideo.sevcom.com/fra...
Posted by Noah on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:51:00 PST