ITL #12 - Resistance and Revolution

Orbit might be the only constant in an unstable Imagined Therefore Limitless world. What is it that you resist or revolve around? Bring a reading or your listening self to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Resistance and Revolution
Sunday, May 15, 2011
3:30pm

Thanks to Molly Zenobia for the theme!

Imagined Therefore Limitless #11 - The Underworld, What We Heard

Thanks to all for an abundance of delicious food and interesting words!

Jack Miller - excerpt from Pilgrims by T.J. Beitelman
Dann Brown - excerpt from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; and "Not all vampires suck blood" from The Satanic Bible by Anton Szander Lavey
Erin Ailworth - "A Colorado Life: Saving Memories of Tiny Agate" by Jim Sheeler
Maithili Jha - excerpt from Get Capone by Jonathan Eig
heather hughes - "Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney; "A Myth of Devotion" by Louise Gluck from Averno; and "In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema" from The Guardian, September 8, 2004
Simeon Berry - "Total Eclipse" from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Megan Grandmont - excerpt from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A. Nora Long - excerpts from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Molly Zenobia - excerpt from Scavenger Punks; and excerpt from Ghost Rider

ITL #11 - The Underworld

Take yourself down to the depths with 2011's first Imagined Therefore Limitless. Gangsters, dead people, perhaps something else sketchy or shady? Bring a reading or your listening self to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
The Underworld
Sunday, February 13, 2011
5pm

Thanks to Simeon Berry for the theme!

Imagined Therefore Limitless #10 - Home, What We Heard

No one ever had a better home-warming than ITL. The range of ideas about home - from outer space to a fish's mouth, from poetry to fiction to drama to sports writing - just, wow. It feels like Imagined Therefore Limitless has found its place, which is a true gift. Thank you to the readers and listeners who crowded together on a cold night to share these.

Gonzalo Plaza - "We're Going to Spain!" by Story Musgrave from Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years and excerpt by Michael Collins from Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts by Robert Jacobs

heather hughes - "If you're a Super Bowl tourist, do NOT go outside" (Feb. 3, 2010), "I take it all back: I love you, Miami" (Feb. 5, 2010), and "Living under the influence of the Underground Weirdness Magnet" (Feb. 23, 2007) from The Miami Herald by Dave Barry

Jack Miller - "Shrunken Heads" by Nina Alonso Hathaway and "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving" from hyperboleandahalf.com by Allie

Maithili Jha - "The Gentle Traveller" by Henry van Dyke, "Sky" by Anzhelina Polonskaya, "The Little Vagabond" by William Blake, and "Summer Song" by William Carlos Williams

Katherine Rose - excerpt from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Dann Brown - excerpts from When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon

Robyn Gesek - "Cymothea Exigua" from cracked.com

Roxanne Halpine Ward - excerpt from Gilgamesh translated by David Ferry and "Each Night Before Going to Bed" from No Other Life by Gary Young

Susanna Lamey - excerpt from Watership Down by Richard Adams

Simeon Berry - excerpts from Post-Moxie by Julia Story

Fritz Ward - "The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert

heather hughes - "The Surreal Life at Fenway" (Oct. 19, 2004) from espn.com by Bill Simmons

Sarah Ernst-Edwards - excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Nora Long - "The Red Dancer" by Anne Sexton and excerpt from The Metamorphosis by Mary Zimmerman

Molly Zenobia - excerpts from Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson and from A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

ITL #10 - Home

Share the comforts of a winter's night with Imagined Therefore Limitless. The notion of home is intimately tied to place and identity, people and perceptions. Bring a reading that conjures up your idea of home to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Home
Sunday, December 5, 2010
5pm

RSVP here or on facebook for location details. Some snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own home cooking.

Imagined Therefor Limitless #9 - Poetry Picnic, What We Heard

Dann Brown - "Sheep Passing," "The Wren," "The Stranger (After a Guarani legend recorded by Ernesto Morales)" by W.S. Merwin from The River Sound
Jack Miller - "Cicada Shell" by Kevin Prufer and "Apple" by Denise Duhamel
Anya Miller - "Felt Hat" by Jon Agee
Gonzalo Plaza - "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats and "The Lamia" by Genesis
Aaron Devine - "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth and "Accounting for the Wren," "Lightweight Champ of the World," "For Ebele," and "Steel Valley Songbook, Volume 1" by Daniel Johnson
heather hughes - "Valentine" by Frank Bidart from Watching the Spring Festival
Susanna Lamey - "In the Village" by Derek Walcott and "In Country Sleep" by Dylan Thomas
Justin Hardy - "Versailles," "Storm Warnings," and "The Tree" by Adrienne Rich
Christine Cooper - "Be Drunk" by Charles Baudelaire
Maithili Jha - "Ode to Future Time" by Pablo Neruda, "The Soul of Wine" by charles Baudelaire, "Sleep" and "Wind" by Anuradha Mahapatra, and "Put Something In," "Strange Wind," and "Hippoes Hope" by Shel Silverstein
Erin Ailworth - "Hippos on Holiday" by Billy Collins, "Archipelago of Kisses" by Jeffrey McDaniel, and "Jeremiad for Spring" by David Camphouse
Robyn Gesek - "Impeccable Conception" by Maya Angelou

Imagined Therefore Limitless #8 - Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, What We Heard

Much merriment was had in the cozy confines of the Dot. Here's a little taste:

Dann Brown - chapter on "Accidents," sub-heading "Food Poisoning" from Cause of Death: a Writer's guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine by Keith D. Wilson, M.D. and "How to Boil and Egg (with hints on further uses for boiled water)" from Rising to the Occasion by Edith Hazard & Wallace Pinfold
Maithili Jha - "Johnny Appleseed was an American Dionysus" excerpt from The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan; Bottom quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream; and excerpt from "Your Radio" by 50 cent
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks: Leonardo Da Vinci's Notes on Cookery and Table Etiquette by Leonardo da Vinci, Shelagh Routh, Jonathan Routh and excerpt from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
heather hughes - retelling of the Cherokee story of the origin of corn by Marylou Awiakta from Selu and excerpt on cannibalism in the House of Atreus from "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus
Dara Grabowska - "The Sixth Sense" by Gary Shteyngart from Eat, Memory, Great writers at the Table, A Collection of Essays from The NY Times edited by Amanda Hesser
Gina Heeren -

Imagined Therefore Limitless #7 - Inspiration, What We Heard

Is there anything better than wine, cake, challah, and reading? No way.
We were inspired by amazing readings from:

Nora Long - excerpt from Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Gonzalo Plaza - Gustave Flaubert quote, read from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Ochiogrosso
Maithili Jha - "The Image of Your Body" by Rumi
heather hughes - "nothing false and possible..." by E.E. Cummings
Dara Grabowska - "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Azu Rocha - excerpt from Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
heather hughes - tenth anniversary introduction by Dave Eggers to Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Dann Brown - excerpts on Black Flag and Beat Happening from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Gonzalo Plaza - foreward by Paul McCartney to Les Paul - In His Own Words by Les Paul and Michael Cochran

Assorted recordings to come - promise!

thank you to Jason for providing recording equipment, and for bringing an awesome and inspiring birthday card (kids are pretty inspiring).

ITL #7 - Inspiration

Imagined Therefore Limitless wants to shake off the winter blues with you. The first reading night of 2010 is on a theme near and dear to my heart: inspiration. We've all encountered some piece of writing that moved us to be a better person, to create something, to follow our guts, or to make change. I can think of no better way to get through the dark days of waiting for spring than to be reminded of how motivation and creativity can come together. Share your stories.

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Inspiration
Sunday, February 21,2009
5:00pm

Please RSVP in the comments, on facebook, or at imaginedlimitless at gmail.com. Location information will be provided. As always, snacking contributions are welcome but not obligatory.

Imagined Therefore Limitless #6 - Ghost Stories

ITL would like to extended its warmest fireside thanks to everyone who came out to Belmont for a spooktacular night, listeners and readers alike. No thanks can properly express my gratitude to Jason, for co-hosting and support.


Aaron Devine - "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats and "The Hairy Toe"
Amy Stepsis - "The Hampshire Street Horror" from Ghosts of Boston Town by Holly Nadler
Dann Brown - excerpt from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
heather hughes - "Dybbuk Jewish Wine Cabinet" auction item from eBay, 2004, and "The Velvet Ribbon" by Ann McGovern
Tom Stepsis - "The Dead Hand" and "Such Things Happen" from Scary Stories 3 by Alvin Scwartz and Stephen Gammell
Ronny Preciado - William S. Burroughs reading "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe
Jack Miller - The Hallo-weiner by Dav Pilkey

ITL #6 - Ghost Stories

One of the inspirations behind ITL was my love of spookiness. Fortunately, Imagined Therefore Limitless knows someone with the perfect place for an evening of haunting tales and flickering firelight. Maybe we'll play "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" or "Bloody Mary" before the night is out...

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Ghost Stories
Friday, October 23, 2009
8:00pm


Please RSVP in the comments, on facebook, or at imaginedlimitless@gmail.com. Location information will be provided only to those who RSVP. Festive snacks to share are most welcome -- ITL will provide hot cider and firewood.

Thanks are not enough for the ever-supportive host of ITL #6. Jason, I appreciate your generosity in ways I cannot adequately express.

ITL #5 - Nature Writing Picnic

This fantastical annual picnic adventure included:

Dann Brown - a selection from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
heather hughes - "The 59th Bear" by Ted Hughes and "Beach Whispers" by John Hollander
Jack Miller - chapter on the Kakapos of New Zealand from Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams


There's nothing quite like reading outside!

ITL #5 - Nature Writing

Celebrate the annual ITL picnic! This year's theme: nature writing.

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Nature Writing Picnic
Saturday, July 18, 2009
4:30pm
The Esplanade
on the Boston side, to the east of the Mass Ave Bridge,
near the small island

Please RSVP in the comments, on facebook, or at imaginedlimitless@gmail.com so we know if you're missing. Bring something to share at the picnic!

ITL #5

The topic will be nature writing. We'll picnic on the Esplanade, just to the east of the Mass Ave Bridge on the Boston side. A poll will be open through Sunday evening, June 23rd, to vote for the date and time. A note will go out next week after the poll closes. Please feel free to comment below with any thoughts regarding the next readers' event.

May 31, 5:30pm - Brendan sends his MLK project out into the world!

You may recall, or be sad that you missed, Brendan's amazing performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. It's a project that has been well over a year in the works, and its debut outing occurred as part of ITL #3 - Oratory. Since my bedroom is close to his, I can testify that a lot of work has gone into the project in the past six months.

Get out next weekend to see this! Brendan will blow your mind.


The Music of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On Sunday, May 31st, Brendan Burns will present an honors class on the profound underlying musicality of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speeches.

Just like a master musician, King used melodic, rhythmic, and dynamic tension to emphasize and captivate his audiences. Brendan will showcase King's "I Have A Dream" speech - where he speaks tonally, with influence from western harmony, blues, and gospel music.

The presentation will include a transcription of "I Have A Dream" in musical notation, a performance of the entire speech on fretless guitar, and analysis of the speech's key points. There will also time for Q&A.

Open to the Public
Brookline Music School
Studio A (2nd Floor)
25 Kennard Road
Brookline MA 02245
Sunday, May 31st 5:30pm