As we travel through the valleys of the Mojave Desert, I sit, listening to
Nas & Damian Marley- Africa Must Wake Up. I reflect on the past 3 days...
After arriving in Oklahoma City, we met up with Lauren, a kind-hearted local poet. Discussions of BNV, life in Oklahoma and deep metaphysical concepts acclimated us to where we would be spending the night. While we talked, a talented, young, abstract artist by the name of Briem gave me a piece of fan art he made for me.
Finally settled in, we went to a local burger joint to dine before the night's activities.
Unfortunately, we were not able to perform a show that night, however we did workshop with the local poets, Lauren and Collin, who helped us tremendously with our performance techniques. Posture, inflection and projection were the focus of our workshop.
We slept well that night and woke up early to hit the road again.
Passing through Groom, Texas (population 587), we ended up in Albequerque, New Mexico. Upon our arrival, we surprised John 'Survivor' Blake, former coach of Slam Richmond as well as Slam Dominion.
That night, Slam Dominion performed a few group pieces for an audience of approximately 20 people. We were followed by Albequerque's adult slam team who played a game of "poetry tag" which resulted in a plethora of amazing group pieces! They traded a few CDs with us and we left to rest.
The morning after, we visited a historical part of Albequerque known as "Oldtowne". It is primarily a place where artistic expression is still appreciated and it gave us hope for the future of art. For more detail on this part of our trip visit
. I won't be able to upload the videos on Blogspot right now, but on my Tumblr,
Bluntville (tumblr), videos of some of our individual performances along with two videos showing a tour of the Saint Felipe church and an explanation by Survivor of it's origins, will be posted immediately after this blog post.
That evening we met the Albequerque youth slam team and performed with each other sharpening our skills for the national competition only 48 hours away. One of the team members, Devonte, left us with his rap mixtape, which I might post online at a later date.
Dinner was at the Route 66 diner and shortly afterward we hit the road through the night. Listening to Devonte's mixtape, nervous about our next destination, San Fransisco, we rode into the desert night.
Show everyone you know the Kickstarter widget on the right side of my blog! Slam Richmond still needs donations to send the adult slam team to Boston for NPS (National Poetry Slam). Keep checking my blog for more updates!
PS- Why does the Holy Water look like toilet water?
