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Perpetual Motion Roadshow #37 - the last Roadshow to hit Montreal until next May!
Thursday Oct. 19, 8 PM (doors at 7:30)
Bibliograph/e, 6091 du Parc (corner Van Horne)
pay-what-you-can

Featuring :

recovering slam poet ELLIOT HARMON from San Francisco!
irreverent guitarist OCHO from Minnesota!
zine-making punk DAVE FRIED from Chicago!
and from Montreal, PAUL BEAULIEU!

About the Roadshow:
The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003 -- running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline. www.perpetualmotionroadshow.com

About the performers:
Elliot Harmon is a poet and, more sporadically, an actor, a musician, a playwright, a teacher, a graduate student, and a director. He grew up in South Dakota and developed national recognition through the Omaha poetry-slam scene. Since then, he's been featured at numerous readings and slams across the Western U.S. His allusions to Brecht and Chekhov (not to mention his San Francisco street address) do little to hide his true country-boy poetic sensibilities. His backpack includes several copies of his two chapbooks, Luke, Don't Settle! and Summer of the Pterodactyl, and his CD, But You Don't Understand.

Ocho has been performing original songs for almost ten years. His songs reflect a mind that's upbeat, thoughtful, irreverent, frustrated, and inspired. They give the listener something to laugh at, like the futility of survival in the modern world, and the lack of answers to important life questions: "What's our ultimate purpose?" and "How can I make money without really DOING anything?" At 16, he unwittingly started a punk-rock scene in a rural South Dakota town that still thrives. He recently received his Master's degree in counseling psychology. His latest CD, "GoriillaBuddha," explores the stupidity and healing power of that science.

Dave Fried has lived in Chicago, Illinois for the past nine years. His favorite things in life include (in some order of importance): eating tacos, riding bikes, d-beat punk, and bowling. He'll most likely want to try the regional food in your area. He made his first zine in 1994 after reading about Riot Grrrl, making the connection between punk and zines. He writes the queerpunk perzine Black Carrot and helps fill the void with Grilled Tuna Tape distro. If you ever want to get his blood moving, put on some Finnish Hardcore, offer a coffee and take him bowling.

A Montreal Paul is a Montreal writer and performer. His poems, songs and monologues are sometimes ridiculous, sometimes sublime, and often unsure of where they're ending up on that spectrum until it's too late. Topics include: paper, coffee, the Kyoto Accord, absent-mindedness and the philosophical implications of recieving serial silent phone calls from a charity.