There was an article written about our show in The Concord Journal. Please check it out. It’s rather well written.

That’s right!

The People’s Improve Theater has asked us to do another show, and we have graciously accepted.

The show’s on Saturday, May 9th at 11pm. Directions to the PIT can be found here.

We have written a brand new episode, packed with great guests. Show three features:

Molly Knefel
Zachary Sims
Comedian Brent James Sullivan
Guitarist Jon Clarke

Who knows, maybe even the Hipster Grifter will show up.

Tickets are only $10, and are for sale at the door or online from Brown Paper Tickets. Use this link, or click the little box on the right side of the main page. It’s a sweet image made by Zeke Shore, and clicking on it will let him know you appreciate him.

It’s mother’s day weekend, so bring your mom, she’ll love it! She couldn’t have asked for a better present.

Come watch Transcendentalist Television. Make something of your entire life.

(I’m not a graphic designer. Usually, that’s Zeke’s job.)

Transcendentalist Television
Saturday, May 9th
11pm (run time: about an hour)
Live at The PIT
154 W 29th St # 2
New York, NY 10001
(212) 563-7488

Say hello to the shiny new limited edition run of the official Transcendentalist Television posters for the first ever live show. These biddies were designed and screen printed by your’s truly, and are hot off the drying rack today. There are only 20 prints in the run, so you may need to throw some elbows to get your hands on one. Prints are 2 color screen prints on 12″ x 20″ archival paper, and are $5 each (bargain!).

I went to the Guggenheim’s The Third Mind (a term invented by William S. Borroughs, a member of the Beats, who, could we consider to be an old New Transcendentalist?) exhibition on Friday. It was a great show, focusing on East-meets-West art in the 20th century. At the exhibit, there was a generous amount of mention of the Transcendentalists, specifically Henry D. Thoreau, for the similarities between The Movement, and Zen Buddhism. Both focus on transcendence through self reflection, especially through an understanding of nature.

My favorite pieces –
The Sound of Ice Melting: two large blocks of ice are amplified by 8 surrounding microphones, discussing a common theme of ‘when you think there is nothingness, you are usually wrong.’

Tibetan Prayer Bells: They lay a track around the spiraling museum rotunda, upon which they would periodically send down a shuttle that rang Tibetan Prayer Bells as it way its way to the bottom. It sounded nice, everyone would gather around to watch, filling the atrium with heads. I’ve recently been interested in Tibetan prayer, because it is passive, rather than active – the wind blows the prayer flags, the bells sound by movement, a prayer wheel is also spun by the wind, all activities which please the gods mechanically, without direct involvement from the one praying. This Guggenheim piece was extra interesting, because it was a mechanical device, an added extra level of artifice, even more east-west, with the addition of technology to passive prayer,

Unfortunately, the exhibition closes in the next few days, so you have to take my word on it.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.