Thursday, September 3rd, 9 p.m.

The Hive/The Apiary (map)
1402 Micheltorena
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Tomorrow night/tonight I’ll be taking a much-needed break from reading contest entries and packing — we just moved to a new apartment, if I haven’t mentioned it, and for some reason we decided to do it on the hottest, smokiest, busiest week of the year.

The cool thing about this reading is, I think it’s actually going to be a cool reading.  The truth is, I haven’t really paid much attention to it, with so many other things going on — it’s a new series, and the last of a long string of them for me.  At the end of a hectic month, it’s kind of like a let down game, like beating your arch-nemesis and then losing to the Dolphins, who are actually a pretty good team, despite having Chad Pennington at QB — like I have victory disease, the poorly named tendency to get too cocky and lose after a big win, which Megan pointed out, is exactly what happened to my softball team last weekend in the championship game.

My point?  This reading is going to kick ass, and not just my own, because it’s not your typical reading.  It’s not just poetry, followed by some golf claps and melodramatic sighs — it’s poetry followed by a comic and a short film.  Hosted by the ultra short 5-Second Films.  Plus dollar beer.  In case you didn’t get all that, here’s the line up:

1. Me
2. Comedian Barry Holiday
3. Short film by Nate and Sara Kathryn Harrison
4. Jon Worley of 5-Second Films
5. Dollar beer

One of the organizers even did an interview with me, which you can read here.

But the best part for me is that I haven’t done a reading in about a month, and the last month has felt like two months — so I think I’m officially out of the bore-myself-to-tears phase of the reading schedule, and might actually be able to find my poems interesting again.  At the last couple readings I really felt like a space cadet.  And what a strange phrase, “space cadet.”  You’d think someone training to be launched into space would have to be really focused…