December 2009 Archives
I just sent this message to my mailing list. It applies to all of you blog-readers as well! Happy Solstice, one and all!
Hello Dearest Mailing List,
2009 has been a satisfying but insensitive lover. It never listened to my safe-word. It brought me presents, but promptly broke most of them. We had some great laughs, but it's time to move on! And so. I've decided to break up with 2009. Just in time for 2010.
Thanks for sticking with me these past 12 months, dear readers and friends and audience members. In April, after two years of development, we finally produced "You Will Experience Silence." People liked it. Over the summer, I started developing new plays at The MacDowell Colony where I met many amazing people. This fall, we skeered up a reading for my new musical, "The Material World," a prequel to "You Will Experience Silence."
Meanwhile, the Cheese On Bread album "The Search for Colonel Mustard" was released in Japan by Moor Works Records. My own song "Some Boys Are Bullies" was featured in the film "Hollywood, Je'Taime." And my band Old Hat started its own religion.
2010 is promising to be no less bizarre. Here's a sneak peak at what's gonna happen...
January: THIRTYNOTHING
I'll be reading new work as part of Dixon Place's "QT (Queer Text) Reading Series," along with my soul sister Max Steele. My piece will include fragments and notes from my new work-in-progress, thirtynothing, a solo show about growing up in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.
That's: Tuesday, January 26th, Dixon Place (161 Chrystie Street), 8pm, $6, QT: Dan Fishback & Max Steele
February: CHEESE ON BREAD
My band Cheese On Bread will be reuniting on the West Coast for a month of songwriting and performing. You can catch us....
February 11: SAN FRANCISCO: Dolores Park Cafe (501 Dolores Street) with Malcolm Rollick & Pablo Das!
February 13: SANTA BARBARA: Biko Garage (6612 Sueno Road, Isla VIsta)
February 16: LOS ANGELES: Echo Curio (1519 Sunset Blvd)
February 20: PHOENIX, AZ: Trunkspace (1506 Grand Avenue)
Feburary 25: LOS ANGELES: The Silverlake Lounge (2906 W. Sunset Blvd)
April/May: YADDO
For the spring, I'll be tucked away at the Yaddo Artists Colony in Saratoga Springs to continue writing "The Material World!"
Summer: THE MATERIAL WORLD
My time at Yaddo better be productive, because this summer "The Material World" goes into workshop. It'll be just like "Guys & Dolls," except it's about Jewish socialists, gay porn and Madonna.
Somewhere between those things, I'll be releasing my third solo album, "Mammal" - a record Casey Holford and I started recording in 2005.
I won't be doing much performing in the next year, but if you crave my presence, you can order cds by me or Cheese On Bread at Olive Juice Music Distribution: http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/ojstore.html .
Or, if you're feeling financially secure and wanna sneak in another tax
write-off before the year is over, you can donate to the ongoing
project that is me at Fractured Atlas*: https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/1311 .
It's a privilege making things for you. Let's all have a beautiful new year, no?
Much Love
Dan
http://www.danfishback.com
*Dan Fishback is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Dan Fishback may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Hello Dearest Mailing List,
2009 has been a satisfying but insensitive lover. It never listened to my safe-word. It brought me presents, but promptly broke most of them. We had some great laughs, but it's time to move on! And so. I've decided to break up with 2009. Just in time for 2010.
Thanks for sticking with me these past 12 months, dear readers and friends and audience members. In April, after two years of development, we finally produced "You Will Experience Silence." People liked it. Over the summer, I started developing new plays at The MacDowell Colony where I met many amazing people. This fall, we skeered up a reading for my new musical, "The Material World," a prequel to "You Will Experience Silence."
Meanwhile, the Cheese On Bread album "The Search for Colonel Mustard" was released in Japan by Moor Works Records. My own song "Some Boys Are Bullies" was featured in the film "Hollywood, Je'Taime." And my band Old Hat started its own religion.
2010 is promising to be no less bizarre. Here's a sneak peak at what's gonna happen...
January: THIRTYNOTHING
I'll be reading new work as part of Dixon Place's "QT (Queer Text) Reading Series," along with my soul sister Max Steele. My piece will include fragments and notes from my new work-in-progress, thirtynothing, a solo show about growing up in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.
That's: Tuesday, January 26th, Dixon Place (161 Chrystie Street), 8pm, $6, QT: Dan Fishback & Max Steele
February: CHEESE ON BREAD
My band Cheese On Bread will be reuniting on the West Coast for a month of songwriting and performing. You can catch us....
February 11: SAN FRANCISCO: Dolores Park Cafe (501 Dolores Street) with Malcolm Rollick & Pablo Das!
February 16: LOS ANGELES: Echo Curio (1519 Sunset Blvd)
February 20: PHOENIX, AZ: Trunkspace (1506 Grand Avenue)
Feburary 25: LOS ANGELES: The Silverlake Lounge (2906 W. Sunset Blvd)
April/May: YADDO
For the spring, I'll be tucked away at the Yaddo Artists Colony in Saratoga Springs to continue writing "The Material World!"
Summer: THE MATERIAL WORLD
My time at Yaddo better be productive, because this summer "The Material World" goes into workshop. It'll be just like "Guys & Dolls," except it's about Jewish socialists, gay porn and Madonna.
Somewhere between those things, I'll be releasing my third solo album, "Mammal" - a record Casey Holford and I started recording in 2005.
I won't be doing much performing in the next year, but if you crave my presence, you can order cds by me or Cheese On Bread at Olive Juice Music Distribution: http://www.olivejuicemusic.
It's a privilege making things for you. Let's all have a beautiful new year, no?
Much Love
Dan
http://www.danfishback.com
*Dan Fishback is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Dan Fishback may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
It is no secret that I think my Close Personal Friend Max Steele (who you may have seen in my play or on television) is pretty much the best. Today he was generous enough to put his gorgeous solo show "Lover, Ferocious" on YouTube, in its entirety. Listen: this is sort of required reading. If you want me to think you're cool, you should memorize this:
I know, right?
Love
Dan
Love
Dan
Did you see Rachel Maddow's rigorous coverage of the really upsetting anti-gay legislation happening in Uganda? I was particularly struck by this interview she did with "ex-gay" leader Richard Cohen - a man I've been familiar with ever since my dad started doing LGBT activism in our home town. Check out the interview here:
Yeesh! After that interview aired, my mother noticed something totally weird - namely, that Cohen's book, "Gay Children, Straight Parents," bore a remarkable surface resemblance to a book she read when I first came out - "Straight Parents, Gay Children." While the latter helped my mom come to terms with my sexuality, and eventually to become an activist in her own right, the former is totally bogus "ex-gay" propaganda, denounced by every major medical and psychiatric institution in the country. Check out the covers:
Weird, right? When you google the good one, the bad one comes up second! I hope no one makes a terrible mistake and accidentally buys the bad one for their parents!
Happy Chanukah.
Love
Dan
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Weird, right? When you google the good one, the bad one comes up second! I hope no one makes a terrible mistake and accidentally buys the bad one for their parents!
Happy Chanukah.
Love
Dan
Tax Deductible Donations
Dan Fishback is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Dan Fishback may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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