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Tapestry

About Me

I call myself a poet, but in all honesty I don't think I fit the description. When people think of poetry they usually think of beautiful word play and imagery. When they think of poets, they usually think of collage types using big, descriptive words with a healthy dose of ego. My work doesn't fall into either of those categories. I prefer the term "spoken word performer" but that doesn't fit the bill either. The best description I can think of for what I do is organized shit talker and part time joke teller. Bill Hicks (the comedian) described himself as a "social critic", and I like that, but Bill was a comic genius and I'm more of a braying jackass. I've been performing for about ten years now here in OKC and on a very microscopic level I'm famous. I've been on three poetry slam teams representing OKC at the National Poetry Slam and have been attending the National Slam religoiusly since 1999.As far as subject matter, I tend to be drawn to things most people don't like to talk about. It's become my form of therapy, writing my demons down on paper so they no longer roam freely in my head. On the flip side of this darkness is a class clown cracking jokes at the things I see that make no sense. I can make you laugh, and I can make you think. Which I think is the mark of a good performer."Nothing about Tapestry has anything to do with holding back or candy-coating the truth as he sees it, whether you want to hear it or not, whether you need to hear it or not, the only requirement is that it is his truth turned to 11 and he's got two choices: let it burn him from the inside out or reach in with the bloody tip of his pen and yank the fucker out crimson and wiggling and splattering the room, the car, the restaurant, the street corner, the bar, the coffeehouse with words you can ignore at your own risk."-Big Poppa E

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/11/2005
Band Members:
Influences: SLAM POETS: Lord of the Vibes, Spontaneous Bob, Geoff Trenchard, Jamie De Wolf, Shane Koyzan, Mike McGee, Rupert Estanislao, Buddy Wakefield, Ed Mabrey. COMEDIANS: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Patton Oswalt, Dave Attel, Joe Rogan, Eddie Izzard, Doug Stanhope. MUSICIANS: The New Bomb Turks, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Saul Williams, Nine Inch Nails, King Missle, Tiger Army, Wu Tang Clan, Bob Marley, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, A.F.I., The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Vonbondies, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Motorhead, At the Drive In, Sparta, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, The Reverand Horton Heat, Clutch, Marilyn Manson, Bad Brains, Tool, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steel Pulse, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Concrete Blonde, Husker Du, The Pixies, Patti Smith, Sunny Day Real Estate, Helmet, Soundgarden, Slipknot, Slayer, The Toasters, Archers of Loaf, Picasso Trigger, Geezer Lake, Fugazi.....(obviously I like a lot of different stuff)
Sounds Like: Unrequitted Love Poem 1, Single Bullet Theory, and Lust
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Wednesday night

Tomorrow night there is NO READING AT GALILEO's!!!!!So what the hell should you do with your Wednesday night? Come down to The Looney Bin comedy club and watch me perform on the open mic. There are so...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:44:00 GMT

Notes on the show...

The show was my attempt at doing something a little different. I was trying to blur the line between hard core spoken word and poetry. It was recorded live, no edits, no pauses, and completely off pap...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:51:00 GMT

FRIENDS! POETS! EVERYONE ELSE!!!!

Sorry for the all caps...Here's the deal, I've decided to release the show I recorded a week ago virally. That means all you need to do my friends is go to the link below and download it. It is unedit...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:50:00 GMT

I need some tech help...

Greetings friends,I have a technical problem I'm looking for help on. I have an audio file(mp3) I wish to post on the net for free download. The file is the show I recorded last week. I would like to ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:02:00 GMT

New audioblog...

This one covers the GPPP and the local school shows I did last week. Comment if you like... Love you all, Tap
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:44:00 GMT

Audio Blog

So... I haven't posted in any of my blogs for a long ass time. Basically I hate typing. If I'm going to spend all that time pecking away at a keyboard, I feel I should have a new poem at the end of i...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:37:00 GMT

When we last left our intrepid hero....

Well friends, it's been a long time since I updated, so for the benefit of the one or two people who actually read my blog, Here's what's going on.The Wayward Poets are once again at Gailieo's. I am n...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:37:00 GMT

NO MORE READINGS AT GALILEOS.

Last night I was pulled aside by two of the owners of Galileo and informed it was the last night of poetry at Galileo. This was not that big a surprise to me because our crowd draw lately has been lac...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:36:00 GMT

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Been brooding more than a bit lately...Maybe it's just my emotional cycle, maybe there actually is something wrong...Only time will tell.In the mean time, this is a poem Spontaneous Bob wrote for and ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:23:00 GMT

Drinking at 'Nats, Tips and Tricks...

Greetings my poet friends. With 'Nats looming on the horizon andknowing there are more than a couple teams out there who do not allowtheir members to drink with the Oklahoma City team(a.k.a. Team Live...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:35:00 GMT