Month: September 2007 Page 1 of 2
From: Stephen Emanuel
To: Frank Moore
Subject: la gigs
hey kids just wanted to tell you all how much I enjoyed myself at the last performances…especially sat night…felt we had a good groove with the music and can’t wait to see the video…plus you had me make a political speech which I just love to do…I wanna be your secretary of state ok? love stevil
From: Frank Moore
To: Stephen Emanuel
Subject: la gigs
Hey, Steve, I want you for my Chief of Staff … so you’ll be close to me. I am thinking of Godfrey Reggio as my Secretary of State … most people know him as the director of Koyaanisqatsi, but we knew him long before that. For my Secretary of Defense, i’ll tap my old friend James Fallows, who is now The Atlantic Monthly’s National Correspondent. I’ll create a new cabinet post of Culture and i’ll ask Martha Wilison of Franklin Furnace to head it.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: steve davis
To: Frank Moore
Subject: Re: la gigs
hi- you got it!!!
I’ll do anything you want…
some advice for the sec. of defence: disband the army..send all bombs into space forever.
I hope all is well…
love-steve
From: Frank Moore
To: steve davis
Subject: Re: la gigs
Hey, steve +dog+ … I want you to start and head something I am calling the Service of Caring … sort of a Peace cCrps for community service … including attendants for the disabled, seniors, sick, etc. Basically people in their 20s will be expected to put in 2 years in the service. People who need help can call the service for help.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: steve davis
To: Frank Moore
Subject: Re: la gigs
hi sounds good..here at the clinic we do alot of that already..mainly folks w/ mental illness and some physical ailments..
it sounds great!
gotta run.
take care-
steve
From: Frank Moore
To: steve davis
Subject: Re: la gigs
I know! That’s why I’m tapping you for the Service of Caring! Although everyone would have the civic duty to give 2 years to the service in their 20s, a lot of people would make it their life. Others could re-enter the service when they “retired,” etc. service would be a life time thread. So will education…something that you can go in and out of your whole life, rather than something you “graduate” from. colleges and universities will become again centers of community and personal resources and enrichment.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Stephen Emanuel
To: Frank Moore
Subject: la gigs
well allrighty then…I’m up in Portland right now hanging out with my new granddaughter…cute cute. Allways a gas to perform with you guys and I’m glad the campaign is getting legs…probably time for some sort of you tube message setting up sleeper cells of radical enlightenemnt in the heartland of this wastland…love and freedom are truely the weapons of mass compassion…love Stevil
From: Frank Moore
To: Stephen Emanuel
Subject: la gigs
yep, i do believe it is time for our sleeper cells to wake up!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Stephen Emanuel
To: Frank Moore
Subject: la gigs
ok i’ll do it (Chief of Staff) …i suppose i can come up with some interesting people to redo history in the making…we have a big job reinventing an entire world…about time for the yin to become yang…Stevil
From: Frank Moore
To: Stephen Emanuel
Subject: la gigs
hey, at the core my platform is re-inventing/reshaping our society.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
We had your show (The Reverend Is In) on here today as I was getting up…yep, I’m a night person. so I heard your kind words as I was in the john. I dare the other candidates to be this direct! Yep, I’m you! That is the common reaction when people read my platform…“This is what I think and want!”
In freedom,
Frank Moore
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Ah, I’m slowly recovering from the L. A. leg of our Enough Campaign Tour. Other bands do tours to support their latest cds. The Cherotic All-Stars tour to support our presidential campaign! It was fitting that it was a part of the on-going Dung Mummy Music series curated by the hop-frog kollectiv at Il Corral…through the hard work of Carl Off…fitting because the Dung Mummy, the hop-frog kollectiv, and Il Corral are all successful models of the collective community focused on living and creating with one other with passion which I want to bring to the country. It was a luxury to play at the nest that is Il Corral 2 nights in a row so that the performance could evolve over that stretch…which was why at the end of Friday’s jam I announced “TO BE CONTINUED.” Friday Suzy Block, my running mate, came to introduce me to the packed room before I gave my speech. On the sidewalk outside of the club we talked deeply with Suzy about the state of the nation, about how I will depend on her as my vice-president to keep the congress in line by seducing them, how we will replace fear with joy, etc. Saturday my best friend of 40 years Steve Emanuel gave a fiery passionate introduction speech for me. Both nights the crowd eagerly, seriously, and intensely went into the new possibilities for our society that this ticket is demanding. It wasn’t a far away dream for the people in that room, but a very real, very doable reality that is already taking roots.
The Spit set Friday was very emotional and raw. So the jam afterward sucked that energy in as its starting point as I did a 3-minute vocal solo. Then Linda and Erika joined me for a nude “Explosive” [which is Carl Off’s adjective!] vocal/physical/sexual dance. The rest of the band soon joined us… Gary Ponder, drums, Jackie and Vinnie Santino on percussion, Steve Davis on bass, Steve Emanuel and Leo Coronado on guitars. This jam explored small intimacy, quiet details growing intense, melting into tides reaching out to one another, pleasure building and transforming. Now don’t you want to live and play in this always?
Saturday’s show was made up of bands for whom…just like for Vinnie the night before…music obviously is a way of life, of transformation, of community. So after each band played, I added to my already formidable core band by inviting the other bands to join the all-stars. At one point it looked like the band would crowd the audience out of the room. But it worked out. It wasn’t the biggest all-stars in terms of numbers of members (the record is 20…sorry, Carl). But we did have more instruments and cords than ever before! Steve E. on guitar and harmonica and I doing vocals began the jam with a duet, a nonverbal musical conversation under a projection of my video Reality Shaping History of a Performance Artist in Dirty Pictures (photos of our past performances of the last 30 years). After a few minutes, nude Linda and Erika led the charge of the rest of the band into the strobing lights. Stane Hubert, the pop of Il Corral, did amazing things as the sound guy. Christie Scott, the mom of Il Corral combined her punk operatic vocals with Linda’s, Erika’s, and my voices. Steve Davis and Jeremy Morelock laid down deep bass grooves into the heart of darkness, which then exploded firecrackers of guitars of
Steve Emanuel and Leo Coronado. The great tidal wave of noise of the synthesizers of Patrick Rodriguez, Justin Cassidy and Eddie The Floater pressed deeper into intimate passions, beating with the juicy tribal heart of the percussion of Eric Baughn a.k.a. Hermit the Flog, Sandor Finta and T-eem. Carl Off added a sweet cherry of warm color with his melodica/looping to the pleasure rubbing inside that lasted about an hour. Powerful stuff, especially in the political context. It could change everything, bringing deep joy to the nation…the deep joy we released at Il Corral!
People feel this deep joy through the campaign. Sunday night we ate at Hugo’s for the first time. We had one of those hip, cool waiters who make recommendations before you ask…who get blown out at how much we eat! As is our way, we started telling him about the campaign, the performances, our life…giving him the button, the platform, etc. At one point he looked like he was about to cry. He said we knew how to “do it up.” It filled him up with hope for the country. At another point he brought another waiter to the table. He had shown her my platform. She said what we were doing was very important. Of course we gave her a MOORE/BLOCK button. She put it right on and wore it all night! The campaign releases hope, joy, and excitement.
Of course Mikee videoed both entire nights. But as I was writing this I got the word that somebody had put on YouTube.com a 20-minute segment of the Saturday jam. (Hey, Elizabeth Monk…I was wrong…YouTube does allow nudity.])Part 1 is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUK0xYLU_k and Part 2 is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGAxj1lHssY&mode=related&search. Ah, we are at a whole new level when a video is on the web even before you get home from your event! It’s an extremely intense, well-done video.
And now I will continue my recovery!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
yep!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
To: Frank Moore
From: Michael LaBash
Subject: An Article From www.aarpmagazine.org
Mikee thought you might be interested in this page on AARP.org, AARP’s web site:
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reminds me of your “village” idea in your platform….
“In fact, if Portland has a calling card, says the Portland Housing Authority’s Steve Rudmond, it’s a community-wide commitment to alternative means of transportation. “The blocks are smaller, which adds to the European feel and makes walking places easier. And we’ve got good buses and a light-rail system. It does provide a competitive advantage.”
Howard sums it up in a single word: renaissance. “Portland is one of a few cities that’s really rethinking the way the world works, creating great architecture, and planning for the future,” he says. “Hopefully, long living comes out of that.”
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Great! We’ll get you more. those buttons are turning out to be our major campaign expense. PEOPLE, BUY THE CAMPAIGN SWAG AT http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com/store/index.html! suzy, are you coming to friday’s l.a. show? if you are, we can give you the buttons then.
We have a couple in their 80s down the street who have become family over the years. Betty is a church lady…but is very open. She keeps giving Linda and Erika her pearls and jewelry for their performance costume. We always give them videos of our performances to watch. Betty gets tickled seeing her pearls on the nude girls! Betty and Joe just watched the 2+-hour video…watched it twice!…of the labor activist grilling me on the platform. she called us and said “Frank could win! It’s about time for a decent president!”
People are hungry!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
From: Dr Susan Block Institute
To: ‘Linda Mac’
Cc: ‘Frank Moore’ ; ‘Michael LaBash’
Subject: RE: Bonobo Way 1 & 2
Hey Linda, Mikey and Frank,
The Moore/Block buttons are fantastic! Nice design! We got them yesterday, and I’ve already given away most of them (only one per person), and people are wearing them!
xo Suzy
DA BOYZ:
“Jamie came home and Alexi gave him a platform brochure at some point. He started reading it, and said, “Tell Frank that with his platform, he’s a slam dunk!”
“Back here, there were 3 emails from a woman with the Secretary of State’s Elections office in Wyoming. Corey had been corresponding with her about what a write-in Presidential candidate in the 2008 General needs to do to have his/her votes counted. Her emails were in response to several questions from Corey, but they still didn’t get to the actual process … there was still a form missing … so Corey just gave her a call, and she was the one who answered! As they talked more, she began to realize that what she thought Corey had been asking about was not really it, and that she actually did not know what the procedure was for a candidate outside of the major parties, without the money it would take to get signatures in the state of Wyoming to get on the ballot … to simply be a write-in candidate and have his votes counted. She said, “What does this say about our country, and this democracy” that she didn’t know how this can work in Wyoming, that they were not set up for a candidate outside of the political machines … she should be the person to know, if anyone knew. She said, “But I am going to find out! And I’m going to call you!” “
In Freedom,
Frank Moore