On 07.01.09 Mad Swirl continued the swirling up of our open mic...this time with a twist and a grind! We featured the Dallas slam poets from The Poetry Grind and they brought some slammin' madness to the open mic! These grinders brought their slam to the Mad Swirl stage and along with Tidbits (2/3), served us a heaping plate of flowing, glowing, poetry! Sincere gratitude to the following mad ones from The Poetry Grind...
"Konnichiwa" Zach Schrotter (feature host)
Eric Breland
Victory
Trayce
Jason Carney
Amy Weaver
Bob "Whoopeecat" Stephenson
Then it was on to the usual unusual open mic madness as Johnny O & co-host Konnichiwa called all the mad poets, musicians, singers, comedians & performers to come & strut their mad stuff! They came. They saw. And well...we all went mad!
Mad Swirlin' thanks to the following mad one's that made this past 1st Wednesday open mic yet anotha' to rememba':
Johnny O (host)
Lisa O
M.H. Clay
Opalina Salas
Chris Hamilton
Joel Pipkin
Gordon Hilgers
Cabe Lindsay
Hammer
Bear Rodehaver
Desmene Statum
Devorah Titunik
Chris Zimmerly
Cricket Taylor
Poet Echo
Masked Camouflagee Guy
Brig (not pictured)
A very special swirlin’ thanks to Tidbit's (2/3) amazin' mad man G-Man Gerard Bendicks on skins and Kenny Withrow on wailin' guitar for keeping us movin', groovin' and steppin' all night long! And an extra special thanks to special musical guest Cricket Taylor for sharing her AMAZINGLY beautiful voice and chords with us.
Wanna sample of what Cricket Taylor, Kenny Withrow and Gerard Bendicks sound like live? Well then we're hear (pun intended) to hook you up...
song 1 / song 2 / song 3 / song 4
And HUGE thanks to Absinthe Lounge owner Kevin for allowing us mad ones to go with our flow for well over 4 years now. And a shout-out to the fine Lounge staffers My and John for keeping the mad spirits fillin' and swillin' for us mad ones.
More HUGE thanks to Mike Brooks for snapping away with his camera and sharing his photographic madness with us. Check out Mike's pictures right here.
And finally we would like to thank ALL the appreciators who freely shared their hand claps, finger-snaps, hoots and howls with all the mad ones who got up on this sacred mad swirlin' mic.
