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                                             April 15, 2014

  The New Year's Eve custom creates an
  interesting void in the calendar...
  one is *expected* to be indulging
  in a nasty chemical binge that's going
  to leave you incapacitated on the
  following day, so that day is a holiday        That's an interesting
  of necessity--                                 phenomena in itself:
                                                 it's not a religious or
  But since few people of any sense              political observance of
  have much interest in New Years                any sort.  Is it the
  Eve, there's a large number of                 only such American
  alert, intelligent individuals                 holiday?  Not even
  with a free day to play with.                  Halloween is an
                                                 official day-off...
  There are a few events that make
  use of this, but very few...                       I suppose the Thanksgiving
                                                     nationalistic overlay on
      ST_MARKS_CHURCH                                the harvest celebration is
                                                     lighter than it might be.
         I've often toyed with the idea
         of trying to do something like
         a west coast version of the
         Poetry Project event, though my
         my idea was to invert the
         ratio of music and words...
         it would be a marathon of
         performance of contemplative,
         ambient music of various sorts,
         with some touches of poetry
         and song, where people would
         be encouraged to come and go,
         hang around, work on different
         things...

             But at the moment,
             I have no venue
             in mind for it.



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