Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
So, there was the month of October and it looked like this: (Insert photo of Christmas Tree). In fact, it looked nothing like that. But I can tell you for sure, Honest Reader, that I was busy with a good case of the fancy. Look, and in brief, enjoy:
I was head Sommelier for two events with the first round of wine-uh-mu-jigging for A Razor, A Shiny Knife’s (aka Michael Cirino) fancy-dancy-$325 per person-dinner at the super secret club (on 14th street and 8th avenue in an unsuspecting Brownstone) called Norwood. My good ‘n’ sour friend Markum Losingerum talked about me in this posting on his Wallace Steven’s insipid inspired blog. The wine folks donating the wine to the Norwood event sent a case for me to test-drive before the event. The wine tasted like fried chicken and day-old-ice-cream if you get my draft. Below is a photo of the dining room at Norwood.
Norwoooooooood
Later I joined Mark for an unforgettable evening in partnership with the Hapa Kitchen. As you can see by the happy people in the pictograph below, the evening was as I said already unforgettable, in every way. I poured wine and told people how to behave and have a good time. They listened and as a result I was asked to appear on Good Morning America, which is an absolute and unforgettable lie. Look at this fancy posting: here.
Photo by Cathy Erway of Hapa Kitchen. I poured these people wine all night long!
Please be seated. I’m about to explain KAMMERSPIEL!
This was a show that I performed on Friday, October 30th at Dixon Place in New York City. It was an amalgamation of theatrical spectacles, devices, ideas, themes, and nonsense that I have observed and scoffed at for quite some time. “Kammerspiel” was a German Theatrical movement of the early 1900′s known for its minimalistic presentations. A bare stage, a couple characters. I used that structure and warped the wood-knots out of it and turned it into a show about Jonny Cigar and his love of Whiskey. The subtitle was “(A parenthetical drama for the American Alcoholic).” There was no story, only slices of, or gulps of life as seen through Jonny Cigar’s eyes. Look: I’ll let the pictures do the talking from here on out. But let me say this, completely un-related to these past endeavors, that we, The Noble Rot, are planning for you the good people of this fine and paved earth an event of Italian Wines that will spice up your life just in time for the spiciest of all days: Thanksgiving. So: you’ve been warned.
Yes, my show was Sold Out and I've never had a review or given a thought to any press or anything like that. Eat your heart out all you theatrical gobble-dee-gooks.
Max Oglesbee at the piano - Max created original compositions and underscore for the entire show. He did an amazing job helping to set the tone: drunk.
Natalie Kim played the part of several different parts. Here, she slipped Jonny a powerfully theatrical rufie.
K.O.'d
We performed my own rendition of an excerpt from A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams ate his heart out, baby.
Tiger, tiger!
Abraham Danz thought it was wrong of me to choke Natalie to death. He probably didn't realize it was only fake choking.
Part Deux
Ariane Mnouchkine eat your French Heart out! Part Deux was a lengthy Monologue inspired by an actor friend of mine named Jim. I was pushed around the stage while I stood still delivering words with golden hues...
My kingdom for a fan.
I better see you there next time...
The bubbly in the pictographs was brought to us from our good friend Damian at Cabrini Wines. All photos courtesy of Brian Quinn of The Noble Rot.
Tags: A Razor, A Shiny Knife, ARASK, Jonny Cigar, Kammerspiel!, Noble Rot, Norwood, Whisk and Ladle
