Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
There is something about watching Glenn Beck remark to former Green Party mayoral candidate Rev. Billy: “You strike me as someone who is not entirely serious,” in the video above that seems as if you are watching a black hole develop in the studios of Fox News.
Rev. Billy leads the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir—a radical performance community dedicated to the earth, justice, a fair economy and the return of free expression to public space—who believe that Consumerism (with a capital C) is overwhelming our lives. They advocate for less shopping, less corporatism, less consumerism, and more community. Trav S.D. in the Downtown Express wrote:
I’ve presented this man, I’ve interviewed him, I’ve talked to him, I’ve watched him perform – and I still don’t know what the hell he is. He’s kind of a cross between Andy Kaufman and Abby Hoffman. While he seems to be portraying a Jimmy Swaggart-esque preacher, everything he says could be coming out of the mouth of Michael Moore — and onstage or off, he never drops character.
Next Sat, Feb 6, you can see it for yourself at 92YTribeca when Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir take over our stage. “ If you don’t dig his politics,” Trav continued, “his weirdness alone is sufficient spectacle — plus his gospel choir is amazing.”
Coming up at 92YTribeca:
Damon & Naomi’s 1001 Nights: An Evening of Music, Film and Conversation with Special Guests Michio Kurihara, Sharon Van Etten and Haden Guest: Jan 30
On Jan 26, Mediaite’s Panel Nerds (@PanelNerds) came by for the Garry Trudeau program. On Jan 27 they were here again for Andy Borowitz and last night for Justice Ginsburg. Their reports are fantastic, informative, and comprehensive, offering analysis, quotes, and thoughts. We have suggested they take up residence here, and while they probably aren’t going to take us up on that, they do agree that we serve up the most-and-best talks in the city, and all three talks got a Thumbs Up. Here is a quick recap of their reviews:
Panel Nerds on The Andy Borowitz Report: Obama’s First Year (video here): “Here we have a president who only escalated one war and he gets the Nobel Peace Prize. Think about how low the bar was set by President Bush.” - Jeffrey Toobin makes us wonder what escalating no wars would earn.
She said it was crucial to have more than one woman (she was the sole woman on the court for three years between Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement and Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment) so that people don’t think that women are all identical in thought and approach. Having multiple women express different opinions is a way to demonstrate diversity. In an argument for further diversity, she said that during the time she shared the bench with O’Connor, once a year a lawyer would call her “Justice O’Connor” or call Justice O’Connor “Justice Ginsburg.” No one has called her Justice Sotomayor so far.
The Things That Happen Bewteen 92YTribeca and the 92nd Street Y
You might have heard about the man and his chicken on the 6 train, yes? A passenger casually rode the train all the way uptown while laying on the floor with his chicken. And no, it was not Ernie Anastos. Finally, at the 86th Street station, New York’s finest took action:
“Easy way or the hard way, pal,” one of them said. “You can’t be on here with that [pointing to the chicken], with this [pointing to the cart] or in the state you’re in [either an assumed drunkenness or an implied mental instability].” After some back and forth, they all left. “You’re going to secure that bird too, right?” one of the cops asked him, to a mumbled reply.
That’s the account from one of our patrons, writing on the blog Inverted Soapbox. He was on his way to the Adam Golfer photo exhibit , (y’know, the one with a photo of Snoop Dog) at the 92nd Street Y and happened to be on the train from Canal to 96th, because he traveled to 92YTribeca by an accident!
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