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Paul Gilbert

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me



Seriously. Calm in the afternoon. Doesn't hate Sacramento. Pass the arsenic. Enjoys sight-seeing from a cafe table. Lacks answers but earnestly listens to your burning questions. Cherry stems are for knots?

My Interests



Socializing, creativity, thinking, flirting, laughing and egging others on into excess in between short fits of mildly indulgent moodiness.

I'd like to meet:



Ever raised an eyebrow or gave tremendous eyerollings?
Shoulder shruggers need not apply.

Music:


"dancing, drinking, laughing, loving"
is on permanent hiatus, but tune in to The PRA anyway.

Old set lists are condensed into the 27 November 2005 blog entry .

I returned Gnarls Barkley and got another Beautiful South cd instead.

Movies:

Barcelona, The Hunger, Margo, The Zero Effect, The Cement Garden, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Thin Man, Santa Sangre, Scent of Green Papaya, Martin, Monster From Bikini Beach, The Sting

Television:

I don't watch any TV so I thought I'd drop a partial resume in this field.
2nd Saturday Cabaret
(A Monthly Vaudevillesque Revue)
2006, 2007; Sacramento, CA
Stage Manager/Production Assistant
Invisible Fashion Show
2005, 2006, 2007; Assorted Venues (Devil's Point, The Fez, Hippodrome, etc); Portland, OR
Stage Manager
Societas Insomnia I - IV
(fetish-circus performance troupe and then some!)
2004, 2005, 2006; Portland, OR
Stage Manager
EAST:MEETS:WEST
(Annual dark-underground-bellydance extravaganza)
2006, 2007, 2008; Portland, OR
Stage Manager
ONE - The Musical
(Insight Out Theater Collective @ Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR)
September 2005
Run Crew: Dresser, Flyman, Props
"dancing, drinking, laughing, loving"
(My radio show on Portland Radio Authority - www.praradio.com )
May 2004 - December 2005
Disc Jockey, Co-ordinator of special content and booking
Rocky Horror Show
(Triangle Productions @ TheaterTheatre, Portland, OR)
June - August 2005
Run Crew: Dresser, Automation, Props
Cirque de Fetishe Spectacular
A Three Day Fetish Fashion/Performance Spectacular
September 2003; Venom Studios, Crystal Ballroom; Portland, OR
Assistant Production/Stage Manager
Movie: Blue Angel
Directed by Andrew Warnecke
Summer 2004; Portland, OR
Art Department/Set Dresser
Roughly Every Six Weeks
(A Private Memebership, um, Lifestyle Club)
January 2003 - July 2004; Portland, OR
Creator/Director
Dante's "Sinferno"
(A Weekly, Late-Night Cabaret @ Dante's, Portland, OR)
2001 - 2006
Stage Manager, Dresser, Booking, "Heavy Lifting"
2nd - 6th Valentine's Day Fetish Masquerade Ball
(Annual live music / performance art spectacular, through 2004 @ The Roseland, Portland, OR)
Asst. Production Manager, Booking
2nd - 5th Annual Queen of Halloween Ball
(Annual live music / performance art spectacular, through 2003 @ The Roseland, Portland, OR)
Asst. Production Manager, Booking
2 Gyrlz Performative Arts Inc
Various venues in Portland, OR
2000-2005
Videographer of performance art events and/or Stage Manager
Portland Fashion Incubator Spring & Fall Fashion Shows
@ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
March & 2003
Asst. Stage Manager
& NE Portland Chairperson for Portland Fashion Week (2004)
"A Wrinkle In Time"
September - October 2001 @ NW Children's Theatre, Portland, OR
Prop Master
Cracher Caption / Marquee Sign,
2000 - Present, Portland, OR
Owner, Sales, Creative, Production:
Stage/Prod. Management for numerous fashion/variety/cabaret shows & arts events
Sign Maker 1990 to present: Signage /Murals/Window Painting. Also: Stage Set/Prop Design
If you do the kind of events/productions listed, I'm available for hire or collaboration in the Sacramento/Bay Area. Portland, too.

Books:

Seems like I read the same five books over and over.
(Nancy Mitford, Jeffery Eugenides, Colin Wilson, Brion Gysin, Chuck Palahniuk)
They're comforting?
Magazines, though...The Believer, Vanity Fair, screen printing and promotional product trade rags. Whatever catches my eye.

Heroes:


Miss Mona Superhero . I don't know any others.

My Blog

This isnt your daddys Embers

I’ve been left alone for the last week here at my parent’s house. My folks took off for a week’s cruise somewhere around Central America.Left with tasks here at the house I grew up i...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:57:00 PST

My Birthday on Friday! Starring Uni & Her Ukelele w/ The Ding! String Trio and Mark Growden!!

Particulars: 6 PM - 12 PM Friday, 4 April 2008 @ 2553 27th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818, Performances starting at 9PM: Uni And Her Ukelele with The Ding! String Trio and Mark Growden. Hot Dog/Not Dog...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:02:00 PST

White Trash

I stayed overnight at a friends house last night.It took me a while to get to bed once I got there because there were too many books in the guest room / fun room to choose from.So, after standing ther...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:15:00 PST

Joe Frank Excerpt

Excepted/quoted from the Joe Frank radio show Somewhere Out There / "Justine" ============================= Yesterday I met Jenny for lunch. She said men had this crazy idea that women wanted to be p...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:25:00 PST

Death to False Chai?

Of another 'add' request this morning, I listened to one of thier posted songs. It was a metal band and these are not the words to the song, but the lyrics I thought I heard: "Luppa, Luppa Loud! / Clo...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:13:00 PST

Pop Quiz

Pop quizes are not very popular.I was asked a few weeks ago by Miss Christy Savage to help out with the Trash Film Orgy that some of you hmight have seen me forward bullitens about.It's complicated, b...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:14:00 PST

Angels and Signs

I'd like to thank the people in Portland, my friends, really (and Mara and Henry in Ashland) who took me in / let me crash / shared there space and lives. You know who you are. It was soberi...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:32:00 PST

The YGMG on SRP

We not only distiguish philosophy from art and religon, we also know when to let go, particularly when we're faced with so many possibilities - college, travel, a summer job away from home. If he deci...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:35:00 PST

M/F

I was talking to this woman. I think we were dicussing some survey in a magazine article. One of the questions asked in the survey was along the lines of getting to be another sex (really just male or...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:40:00 PST

Thanks for a great last show.

Last Saturday was the last "dacning, drinking, laughing, loving" radio show hosted by, myself, DJ Piaf. I'd like to thank the evening's special musical guests (in order of appearance): Dorien Campbell...
Posted by Paul Gilbert on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:51:00 PST