Sunday, October 22, 2006

Perpetual Motion Roadshow #37 - Oct. 20 in Ottawa

I finally made it out to a Perpetual Motion Roadshow. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I'd have been happy to hear more from each of the people who performed, read, spoke or sang.

sketch of Luna Allison - straight auburn hair - green jacket over a black top - microphone in front of her mouth

Luna Allison from Montreal gave us thoroughly engaging poems. I especially liked her love gone wrong pieces. Excerpts I jotted down:

Love is a project, and I'm a workaholic.

... as long as you're here, you're taking the place of someone who could actually love me.

A coloured sketch of Dave Fried wearing a red and blue cap and a black hoodie with gaged earlobes and saying "Flying unnatural being gay - totally awesome and ok" and "Everything I touch seems to turn gay"

Dave Fried from Chicago: punk, gay and funny. He brought the house down with his comparison of the naturalness of being gay compared to the artificial, not-what-God-intended, nature of flying in airplanes.

sketch of Ocho - bright red toque - red beard - blue jacket over a t-shirt with a logo "She's got a black belt in beating herself up"

Ocho and his songs made a nice break. I also enjoyed his sound check. Instead of saying "check one two", he sang Bryan Adams Summer of '69.

[2025 edit:  A detailed interview from Voyage Minnesota: Meet Ocho]

Eliot Harmon sketch - curly red hair and beard - wearing black top and reading from black book - Elliot is actually tougher looking than I drew him.

Elliot Harmon does his research. I'd forgotten all about Joust, the arcade game from the early '80s. I wound up dreaming about playing Joust later that night (or early the next morning.)

 [2025 edit:  It seems that Elliot went on to have a powerful career with the fantastic Electronic Frontier Federation but sadly passed away in 2022. 

 

Sketch of Jenn Whiteford smiling while she looks at a reader

As an added bonus, I got to sit behind Megan, who was sitting with excellent, erect posture, and not leaning back against the backrest. [Because of this apparently.]

And I also had an excellent angle for drawing a profile of the famous Jenn Whiteford

2 comments:

  1. Jennifer Jane Whiteford10/23/2006 6:16 pm

    Hey! Thanks! Don't think I've ever been drawn before (by anyone other than myself, that is!)

    J.

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  2. David Scrimshaw10/23/2006 10:18 pm

    You might have been drawn without your knowledge.

    Just last Wednesday, I was on the 95 Bus reading my Provincial Offence Prosecutor's manual when I noticed that a young man across from me was sketching something in a pad and frequently looking up at me.

    I figured it wouldn't be fair of me to do anything to stop him so I tried to pretend I didn't notice what was going on.

    Then I thought, wait, I should take his picture.

    Then just as I switched on the camera, I thought, no, I should sketch him!

    Then just as I got my notebook and pen out, he stood up, pulled the yellow cord and went to the doorway where I couldn't see him.

    But back to you, Jenn, how is that possible? Do you only date writers and musicians? No visual artists?

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