Muumuu House: the day after

                Wow, what a party. I can’t believe how much fun I had hanging out yesterday at the Muumuu House reading. You ever heard the expression ‘You’re as drunk as a poet on payday?’ Well yesterday all these wonderful poets read at St. Mark’s Bookstore. And boy did they get paid. They got paid in the best form of payment: random blurbs in local newspapers, blogs, etc. 

                Tao Lin put the whole thing together. People looked up to him while he read, mostly because they were seated. Even if they weren’t seated, they were thrilled as heck to meet such a ‘polarizing’ or ‘inspiring’ figure. Take your pick which word you’d use. If you’re reading this on here you probably dig Tao Lin’s work. As an added bonus you can watch the whole video here courtesy of Tao Lin. The downside: the whole thing is sped up in a hyper realism style. I’m a sloth. I would have preferred a ‘slowed down’ method. That’s just me though. 

                Some glasses bro dug him too. His name is B. Michael Payne. You don’t wear glasses that thick without a certain degree of relevance. To rock those things you need a certain amount of ‘street cred’ or ‘hipness’. I don’t have either one of those things yet but I’m working on it. Mr. Payne might also gain additional cred (and perhaps money) from his gig as a writer for Capital New York. If Mr. Payne does in fact get money from his writer gig, can I say ‘Sup Payne! I write bro.’ 

                I think Mr. Payne’s editor asked him to ‘summarize the whole reading in the title’. People are busy. They don’t always have time to ‘analyze things’ or ‘read stuff’. If you’re attending a reading or reading about a reading you don’t have time for details like ‘What they read’ or ‘What have they written’. Check it out here. 

                B. Michael Payne did a good job with his piece though. I read it and felt he got the basic ‘gist’ of the whole reading. The tweet thing was heavy. I liked how he noticed the difference between readers and the different styles. My only concern would be with the tone of the Muumuu House readers: I know they are known for an affect-less style, but I didn’t see that yesterday. I felt everyone did a good job differentiating themselves from one another. This is a problem Muumuu House has encountered before with the simple statement that ‘All writers write and sound alike’ but I didn’t experience that much. I feel Muumuu House lately has been branching out to try new things and find new writers. 

                I’m still reeling from the crazy after party I had on the writers’ behalf of sitting in front of the computer writing about the experience. I am happy I went. I hope they have more readings.