FRANK MOORE FOR PRESIDENT 2008 BLOG

Dr. Suzy at Il Corral, Los Angeles

Dr. Suzy & Frank Moore at Il Corral, L.A. Campaign Stop

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

An Article From www.aarpmagazine.org

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/best_places_2007.html

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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:

———– Message from Mikee ————

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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Please click the address below, or copy and paste the URL into your browser:

Moore/Block buttons

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

Our campaign is already forcing changes!

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

On the SEXY campaign trail!

DA BOYZ:

“At the bank, the guy at the tellers window as we wrote up our banking was Richard Schwartz, a local builder and local historian/author who wrote “Berkeley 1900”, and of the crews Bob had come into BNG to fix the back warehouse floor. Corey recognized him. He was giving the tellers these new buttons he had made to publicize his new book, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, http://www.richardschwartz.info/Eccentrics.html and he gave us one, “I’m A Berkeley Hero”. Corey showed him his buttons, “Moore/Block” and the first FM for Prez button, both of which he was wearing, and Richard was curious. Corey told him that it was Frank Moore, and described him … “Oh, the guy who is on TV?” Yeah! He gave a knowing look … he had obviously seen his share of BTV late night, because he also knew who Dr. Suzy was, and he smiled, chuckled … Corey gave him Frank’s platform, and he read the first few lines. He looked up and said, “Thanks! This is gonna be interesting!”

Then we were up at Zazu’s window. We had given her a platform a while back, but she said apologetically that she hadn’t read it, but had just come across it again the other day … we showed her the new Moore/Block button … “Who is that?” Dr. Susan Block, do you know who that is? She turned red and looked down and started miscounting our money … yes, she knew … she and her boyfriend watch her show all the time … For the rest of our transaction, she was like that, miscounted another time! She never miscounts ever. And then she gave us cookies before we headed out! We gave her a Moore/Block button, and she said she was definitely going to tell her boyfriend about this. “

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Bonoboway.com

On September 8, 2007