Lestat Slipping Into Darkness ~ Stoops to Nuts @ May 8th

I’ve invited the vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt, to our "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts" storytelling show this coming Tuesday, May 8th @ Cornelia Street Café @ 6pm. He gave me a call after picking up his mail yesterday and seeing our show listed in this week’s Time Out magazine. He said:

"Pryor, you crazy, S.O.B., I'll be there."

My problem: getting Lestat there before sundown. I’ve arranged a full eclipse of the sun shortly before six, the moment the creature leaves his crypt he'll be wrapped in a black velvet “no peeking” blanket and pushed into his horse drawn carriage on fashionable 10th Street just west of Fifth.  When the carriage arrives at the Café, Lestat will be whisked downstairs into pitch darkness. 

I hope you can join us and if you do, bring along one of those circus lights you used to swing at the Old Garden when they turned the lights off. It will be dark inside the Cafe, but that’s when storytelling and song are at their best.

Our May artists are:  Randee Mia Berman, Meredith Meyer, Stephanie Parello, Thomas Pryor and Elizabeth Rowe.

Admission is $7 and that includes one free drink. Hope you can make it, it's gonna be a good one.

Losers Lounge Carole King Tribute & Next Stoops to Nuts Show

The Losers Lounge tribute to Carole King was terrific. Ms. King's career, voice and body of work are breathtaking and respect was well paid by all the wonderful artists. I took pictures at the late show on Saturday at Joe's Pub. My seat was not ideal for my camera's eye so a few performers in the right light got my attention.  Here are photographs from Joe's Pub and a link to a photo album of the show.

The next "City Stories: Stoops to Nuts," storytelling show at Cornelia Street Cafe is seven days away, Tuesday, May 8th @ 6pm. Our May artists are: Randee Mia Berman, Meredith Meyer, Stephanie Parello, Thomas Pryor and Elizabeth Rowe.

Admission is $7 and that includes one free drink. Hope you can make it, it's gonna be a good one.

The Ghost in You

Inside you the time moves, and she don't fade.

Last night, I'm walking home from the radio show along Lexington Avenue with three of my guests, Eric, Alex and Marie. We're talking, we're laughing, enjoying the glow from the show. As we hit 96th Street a crosstown bus flies by going west and Marie takes off with her arm waving like it's a religious revival and Eric and Alex are close behind. I'm left on the corner alone, I smile to myself and keep walking.

The radio show was in the past, but my mind didn't know that. My four spontaneous guests, Marcia St. Clair, Marie Sicari, Alex DeSuze & Eric Vetter kept the spirit of "let's see what happens next?" going strong with exceptional support from Betty Eng when my laptop and music took an unexpected swim and sunk deep below the sea down to Davey Jones Locker and we improvised.

I didn't get a chance to play "The Ghost in You," by the Psych Furs last night before the accident, but I hummed it all the way home.

The ghost in you, she don't fade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmA8PsTvPA

Thank you, folks, for a great next to last radio show.

Mia Berman, thank you for my amazing red striped socks from Oz that turned my dungarees into knickers. Smooch!

Please come down next Tuesday for the final Yorkville show, it will be a house party. My scheduled guests are John Lewis and Mary Crowley & Matt Knapp. I assure you others will join us to say goodbye.

hugs, Tommy