Last Tuesday Society, North Melbourne Town Hall, 29th Sept

A chunky
cheesy
mash
of local talent.

If I was funny
I'd want
to be in this show
too.


Melbourne Fringe Festival

The Cat's Paw, Carlton Courthouse, 27th Sept

Complicated set:
the lighting is made clumsy
performers break out of character.

A tech in the audience
is distracted.


Hoy Polloy

SPG, Noise Bar, 26 Sept

After the show
the lead singer tells me
"It's deathly serious
rock and roll."

But the next day
I haven't stopped giggling.

The Second Annual Pan-Brunswick Car Wash Interpretive Dance Championships, Blue Elephant Car Wash, 26 Sept

Equal parts
dodgy costume
dodgy choreography
dodgy judges
and laughter.

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The Taxidermists, Brunswick Hotel, 26 Sept

Some bands make you see double.
Unconsciously dressing
to mirror one another
they fill the stage
with the intimacies of their friendship.

Two Taxidermists dress for folk-rock
chequered shirts and skinny jeans.
Two dress for metal
black shirts and long hair.

Safety In Art, Guildford Lane Gallery, 19th September

talent = passion
for new friends
at the pub.

Catacomb Creative

Class Clowns, Malthouse Theatre, 15th September

Jokes about awkward teenhood
from kids who can improvise
in front of a crowd of 200.

Class Clowns

National Poetry Week and Overload Poetry Festival, Melbourne, 31 August through 13th September

Ignoring the program
I go to all the regular gigs
that I usually make excuses
to let go.

Overload

National Poetry Week

Hatched 09, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, 12 September

Let's Play War

Forms of entertainment
about apocalypse, murder, and bureaucracy
confirm my world view.


My Big Gay Indian Wedding

I watch three short plays
but my favourite is
the one my friend wrote.


Gitmo

It's too soon for a retrospective
on Guantanamo Bay
too late to inform and analyse.

St Martins Youth Arts Centre

Spaznuts, Williamstown Mechanics Institute, 11th September

For an hour
Damian Callinan
talks about his nuts.

The audience laughs,
but if they were at a dinner party
they would probably
walk away.

Damian Callinan

Poetry Idol, BMW Edge, 30th August

On the stage -
nervous poets.

In the crowd -
nervous poets.

Paradise Anthology