Cecil Vortex

Open thread — a call for your submissions

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I’ll be gone for a couple of days, so I thought we’d try something a little differemt this morning — an open thread. The idear is that you folks keep the site crackling in my absence — overflowing with woosh! — by adding your own snippets of dialog, slices of lyric, poems, demi-poems, stories, or rants as comments to this very entry. Whaddya think? Itto? Heroic Imp? Captain Marsupial? other Dan? Folks unknown? Shall we give it a shot?
More than one entry welcome, nay encouraged! No need to be shy, it’s just us chickens. Click comment below and…let ‘er rip.
Enjoy! And watch the skies, -Cecil

Poison

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She has a hard, twisted smile
like she’s just taken poison
and if you say
one more word
well, she’ll let some of it leak.
Her jaw, it will slack
and the venom will bubble
oh there’ll be lots of trouble
when she opens up that beak.

x-post: And the lotus eaters, and the poetry, and the monkey of it all

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Are you like me? Love spoken word poetry? But maybe not so crazy about hanging out with, you know, poets? Well fear not — help is on the way! Monkey Vortex Radio Theater had folks just like you and me in mind when they created Poet Makes a House Call — in which real live poets record their actual poetry and then transmit those poems into your brains. Using electricity.
Today’s sampling: The Lotus Eaters, written and performed by Dan Mummert, and backed by a trio of faux hep cats. Enjoy! -CV

Till It’s Light

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As we ramp up production here at the house of Vortex, I’ll be aiming to post a tune every week or two. Today’s is a collaborative effort recorded a few months back and written in the key of Leon Russell. As ever, it’s on the fairly small side (1.3 mb), download-wise.
TV’s Yaniv Soha contributes all manner of haunting notes and noises. Be sure to drop by his site for more of that distinctive Yaniv-Soha-style rock ‘n roll goodness.

They’re chatting

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they're chatting
in front of the register
lit softly   by streetlight
and if you only saw
the look on his face
her back   to you
   her hands
on   her hips
     straight black hair
sliding over
     casual
tilt
   you'd never guess 
she was an
eighty-year-old widow.

x-post: And the monkey, and the vortex, and the money of it all

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There’s an all-new audio-fun episode ready for your easy-downloading goodtimes over at ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. Drop by and check out The Winsor McCay Sketchbook: Money, written by Tony “King” Jonick and starring Bill “also King” Cassel” and Alana “Lady-King” Guy Dill. And remember: “It’s the most fun you can legally pack into a 2.2 MB mp3!”