The reading party for Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels Saturday night at Bowery Poetry Club was an amazing success. Katie Degentesh, Shannon Holman, K. Thor Jensen, Luis Jaramillo, Mark Lamoureux, Daniel Nester and Mauren Thorson all turned in fabulous readings. Drew Gardner did an absolutely wonderful sound piece using sampled audio from a game called Gravitar (I've never heard of it either). Very Eno-esque and gorgeous. Dan Nester and I performed some musical comedy numbers, much to the delight of a mysterious fellow that I dubbed "Doctor Who" because of his long coat and even longer scarf (I'm only glad no one was injured). As Dan, Maisie and I were leaving, he stopped us to say how funny we were, and that he was on mushrooms. Let me say that I certainly would not have wanted to witness our act while on mushrooms, so I think this likely lad deserves more than a little praise. Especially given that the sound man was operating the soundboard in very masturbatory fashion, pushing the reverb levels to a uniquely dangerous level. Had Tom Ridge been on the job, he'd have raised the reverb threat grade by at least a few Pantone colors.
All in all, a wonderful evening. If you haven't yet, buy the Gamers book. It's, as they say in Sweden, "a book." A terrific fun read as well.
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