NEWS ARCHIVE FROM May 12, 2009 TO
JANUARY 17, 2012
ASPHYXIATED BLUE PUBLISHED IN ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE
Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Andrea's poem Asphyxiated Blue was published in Issue 117 of Zygote in My Coffee on May 11th.
This is what the editor Brian had to say - "Great piece! I'd definitely like to run it in issue #117 of the online edition of Zygote in my Coffee (due out 5/11/09). Sound cool with you? I really dig your style! Keep firing those poetic gems our way!"
Andrea is beaming all the way across the caffeinated universe.
Update 2019: like much of the internet this page has evaporated BUT you can read it here in the interweb wayback machine
SHINY AND NEW ON 50 TO 1
Monday June 15, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Andrea's flash piece "Shiny and New" was published on 50 to 1.
Andrea was inspired by 50 to 1's guidelines to actually write this little story.
More about 50 to 1 below:
In the course of human events it eventually comes to pass that one must make a blog. Glen has finally come up with the greatest idea ever born to modern humankind: an ezine that posts only 50 word stories and first line inspirational sentences that are meant to get the reader hooked into the rest of the story. By limiting the readership to these conventions we hope to liberate them from the terror of writing a short story or a novel and get more stories out into the collective unconsciousness and share the experiences that make us human. Any and all kinds of good stories will be accepted. We(I) update at least once a week and always enjoy reading submissions whether they are published or not. For more information see the submission guidelines.
Check out 50 to 1.
And in case the internet makes this disappear, here it is archived.
I HATE MY JOB HAS SURPASSED ANDREA IN DIGITAL SALES
Thursday June 25, 2009 at 7:57 pm
No, we are not talking about selling Andrea as an actual digital download, we're talking about the song that Mark wrote for her.
So does that mean Hate surpasses Love?
hmmm....
Well, Andrea (the actual Andrea not the song) dreams of fans one day singing "I Hate You" back to MAKAR at gigs. So it all depends on how you view it.
NIKKITA PUBLISHED IN MONKEYBICYCLE
Friday June 26, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Andrea's one sentence story "Nikkita" was published in Monkeybicycle.
She is so excited about this, she is off to ride a bicycle.
Monkeybicycle is an online literary journal which is updated on Mondays and Fridays. It is also a print journal, publishing two issues per year. Founded in 2003 in Seattle, WA, Monkeybicycle has continued to publish the absolute highest quality in a wide range of literary categories. Twice, works they have published were selected for inclusion in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies.
Perma link to Andrea's story: http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/OneSentenceStories/june2009.html
Update 2019 - sadly this link is not so permanent afterall
SEPTEMBER IS OVER WAS PUBLISHED IN FROSTWRITING
Saturday June 27, 2009 at 2:44 am
Andrea's poem September is over was published in Frostwriting.
Please check it out and the other contributors' work.
About Frostwriting: "We publish outstanding emerging writers, welcome writing from anywhere on any subject, but have a special place in our hearts for cross-cultural experience, especially when such experience somehow involves Sweden."
Someday MAKAR will tour Sweden. ;0)
Andrea's note: What is so funny about this poem is it has transformed from three bare stanzas, the 1st, 2nd and last to something more fleshy and personal. Frostwriting wanted me to lose the first stanza –
That unpublished 1st stanza read:
and the fall is coming
on the heels of hurricanes,
what is it like to always be underfoot?
I’m very glad they suggested this omission because that stanza always felt too pat and generic to me.
I only added the latter stanzas (3rd and 4th) after having a spat with a friend, a spat that just won’t end and still hasn’t ended. (Not sure if it will ever end although I picture us finally talking again this winter.) That current third stanza Frostwriting really found powerful. And as I read it again, it really is the meat of the poem.
But the poem was inspired by a songwriter’s news email saying “September is over…” I just found that phrase ominous and interesting.
SEPTEMBER IS OVER FEATURED IN FROSTWRITING
Thursday July 16, 2009 at 2:19 am
Andrea's poem September is over is now featured in Frostwriting's Postcards section.
Woo-hoo!!!
Again if the above link is broken, click here.
MUSSOLINI’S MINDS PUBLISHED IN THE KAKOFONIE
Thursday July 23, 2009 at 3:04 am
Andrea's poem Mussolini's minds is published in the very first issue of The Kakofonie .
Be sure to check it out and the other creative peeps!
You can also download the PDF from our site or theirs.
About The Kakofonie
The Kakofonie is the ever growing site of Broken Dimanche Press.
In their own lovely words:
"We plan it as a PDF print on demand revue dedicated to the experimental and challenging. We're particularly interested in visual artists' writing and drawings, experimental writing that other publications don't know how to publish and considered political writing on current affairs."
SLAMMED DRUNK IN ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE
Thursday August 13, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Andrea's poem Slammed Drunk was published in Issue 122 of Zygote in My Coffee on July 20, 2009.
Check it out!
And now for some Arcana:
Brian, Zygote editor said: Howdy Andrea, Just read "Slammed Drunk". I love it! If it's cool with you, i'd like to run it in issue #122 of the online edition (due out 7/20/09). WOW! Keep 'em coming! You rock!
This type of response makes Andrea terribly excited.
Mark P. says: You've reached a new level in that your writing is consistently making sense so I don't know what's going on.
Andrea: And Mark would know since he has read much of my stuff in its earliest amoeba-like stages
Update 2019: like much of the internet this page has evaporated BUT you can read it here in the interweb wayback machine
ANDREA'S POEMS PUBLISHED IN THE BATTERED SUITCASE'S AUTUMN ISSUE
Thursday September 10, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Andrea's poems - Atonal, The Rememberer and The Forgetting Curve have been published in The Battered Suitcase's Autumn 2009 issue.
Check it out online or you can download the PDF here.
Or just click here to be taken deeper into our archives.
The Battered Suitcase called her verse poignant. :0) Andrea is thrilled to be in their publication. Please read more of the contributors and their work.
The Battered Suitcase
The Battered Suitcase is the flagship publication of Vagabondage Press and is an online literary magazine that promotes intelligent and imaginative art and fiction.
Aimed at new directions in the exploration of art and literature, it is published online on the first calendar day of the month.
MAKAR PLAYS THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND ON OCTOBER 17TH
Friday September 11, 2009 at 1:21 pm
MAKAR be rocking the house at THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND(DOWNSTAIRS) on Saturday, October 17th at 8pm!
The National Underground is located at 159 E. Houston Street (between Allen and Eldridge Streets).
Closest Subway: F, V Train to Lower East Side-Second Avenue.
Remember we're playing downstairs.
Admission is $10 (and our eternal gratitude)
21+ w/id
We hope to see many of you there!
More details (and creative siren calls) to come closer to the date...
ANDREA'S STORY DUMB-DUMB BIRD IS UP ON MUD LUSCIOUS!
Monday October 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Andrea's story Dumb-dumb Bird is up on Mud Luscious!
Check out Issue 9.
And yes, this story is about some nutter on the train and it may even be about you!
Please read more about Mud Luscious here.
Update 2019: Yet again, the internet proves to be ephemeral. So all these links are dead-ends. Sigh!
TWO POEMS OF CHILDHOOD PUBLISHED IN WRITERS' BLOC
Monday October 5, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Andrea has two poems of childhood - Double-Spacing Curiosityand Grays of Memory - published in number four of Writers' Bloc.
For the direct link to Andrea's poems click here
Writers’ Bloc Four | Two Poems of Childhood
but please check out the other contributors' work.
Andrea's head is still spinning over the fact that she was accepted in this publication and about what the Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Dickinson wrote --
"I have to admit, these were a pleasure to read out loud — and especially in conjunction, which is why we want to publish both in Writers' Bloc 4. Your reflections on a childhood held by tenuous strings of memory are absolutely fantastic. Congratulations!"
Update 2019: Alas, the internet and time has recycled this lovely magazine as well. So these links go nowhere and not a nowhere where you want to be a la The Talking Heads. Someday soon, Andrea hopes to do a chapbook.
LULU IN CHICAGO PUBLISHED IN GALLEYS ONLINE'S PREMIERE ISSUE
Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Hot off the press!!!
Andrea's poem Lulu in Chicago (Lilith) is published in Galleys Online's Premiere Issue.
You can check out the issue by clicking here.
Notes on this submission:
Andrea: With this submission, the editor asked me to provide an abstract for my poem which I found really helpful to do. So here is that abstract in all its gory glory:
This poem is about Lilith and a woman similarly named who lost her daughter and somehow she is to blame or is blamed for her death. She eventually lost her husband from neglect and the death of their child and runs away to Chicago to try to rebuild her life.
A more in-depth overview –
Each numbered section of the poem addresses different names and entities for Lilith except for part IV. Lilith is best known as the first wife of Adam in the Bible. She is a much maligned mythological and biblical figure. Alu is an asexual demon that took on the female attributes but later reverts back to a male demon. The speaker in the poem toys with the idea of becoming a man to overcome her grief and to make her life easier (or so she believes). Lamia devours children because her own children (the result of an affair with Zeus) are killed by an enraged Hera. But Lamia can never get the image of her own dead children out of her head. She can’t even close her eyes. Part IV addresses the fluidity and irrevocable nature of life. The speaker’s nickname, Lulu is a nod to Louise Brooks and her raw and unrepentant sexuality.
I try to play with gender and gender roles and mythology but mostly this poem is a story of unquenchable loss - the loss of a child and the horrifying question are you still a mother if your child is dead. Of course, you are but society makes it difficult.
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More about Galleys Online: Upon submitting this poem, I received a note from the editor giving me in-depth feedback on this poem. He helped me see it in a new light allowing me to revise more thoroughly than I would have been able to without his critique.
In case you didn't realize this -- it's highly unusual to receive any feedback when submitting (especially in regards to rejections or pieces just not quite there). Galleys Online seems to be one of those publications that fosters a dialogue with the submitting writers. And that is amazing and probably amazingly time-consuming.
PENNYROYAL PUBLISHED IN DENVER SYNTAX
Saturday October 10, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Andrea's poem pennyroyal is published in Denver Syntax's Issue 18, Fall 2009.
Or you can click here, if you do not wish to leave our musty archives.
Denver Syntax is Denver literary, art and music ezine filled with rich, poignant and humorous writing
MAKAR SET TO ROCK THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND THIS SATURDAY!!!
Thursday October 15, 2009 at 3:32 am
MAKAR be rocking the house at THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND(DOWNSTAIRS) this Saturday, October 17th at 8pm.
Basic American bar food available, burgers, grilled chicken, hot dogs, etc.!
The National Underground is located at 159 E. Houston Street (between Allen and Eldridge Streets). Closest Subway: F, V Train to Lower East Side-Second Avenue.
WE'RE PLAYING DOWNSTAIRS!!
Admission is $10
21+ w/id
Hope to see you all there!
MAKAR's followup album Funeral Genius due out this Winter some time!!
Love & Peace
A UNIVERSE OF LEAVES ON BOLTS OF SILK
Friday November 6, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Andrea's poem A Universe of Leaves was published on Bolts of Silk.
You can read it here at the permalink.
Or archived here.
Background on A Universe of Leaves:
Andrea: The picture below inspired this poem. That picture was taken during an impromptu trip to Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
See doesn't it look like a universe of leaves? There's a sadness to the fall, I always feel compelled to address. But I love the fall.
This poem went through many phases of revision which some of you have read and critiqued. It was much longer but spooled out of control so then I whittled it back down. The feedback was vital because I got rid of a dead leaves stanza that was weighing down this poem.
Then the Editor of Bolts of Silk, Juliet Wilson, had some further tweaks. It's odd how you can look and look at a piece and still miss the obvious like grammar! Like reconciling the noun with the verb in the last stanza and getting rid of an adverb.
It is so helpful and inspiring when an editor writes back to you and offers you suggestions to make your piece better.
So this poem has been through a lot of changes since I wrote it in March 2008! And now finally I feel this poem is finished. Funny how long just a few stanzas take.
About Bolts of Silk:
Read what others are saying about Bolts of Silk
from One Night Stanzas:
"The motto of the Bolts of Silk blogzine is “beautiful poetry with something to say,” and it never fails to deliver vivid, thought-provoking poems from poets all over the world. Juliet Wilson - also known as Crafty Green Poet - is another hardworking editor, running the zine single-handed and dealing with heaps of submissions quickly and without fuss. Her emails are always friendly and if you send her a poem she likes, you can expect to see it up on the blog relatively quickly."
AFTER AUTUMN (POEM) PLAYED ON MIDNIGHT'S MUSE PODCAST
Friday November 20, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Andrea's poem After Autumn was played on Midnight's Muse podcast.
(MAKAR's song was based on this poem among a few others).
Please check out the show.
Red Hook November 2017 - old train car - by Andrea DeAngelis
ANDREA PUBLISHED IN GINOSKO LITERARY JOURNAL ISSUE #9
Friday November 20, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Andrea is excited that her following pieces were published in Issue 9 of the Ginosko Literary Journal:
Poems:
Rooms
Askew
Short Story:
Raw
You can also download the PDF of Issue 9 here.
Now you have something to read over Thanksgiving. :0)
DREAMLEAK PUBLISHED IN PARADIGM
Friday January 8, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Andrea is very excited to have her poem Dreamleak published in Paradigm's More issue.
Click archive link to read.
This particular poem originated from a very strange dream. But when is a dream ever normal?
Update
Unfortunately Paradigm is no longer. So many of these literary publications are labors of love and the burden becomes too great for these wonderful editors and creators. Paul Fuhr's message to contributors and readers follows below.
Dear Readers and Contributors,
This is a hard message to write, since you have become something of an extended family to me. I am proud every time I see your names appear in other journals and publications and, likewise, I have been honored to include your work in our "pages."
That said, it is with much sadness that, after five years, I have decided to retire Paradigm. It is simply become too difficult for me to have a family, a job, and a literary journal. I no longer have the energy and time to do all three well.
Paradigm has been much more than a labor of love. It has been a forced reflection of what interests me and what challenges my perspectives on art.
Since 2006, we have published more than stories and poetry. We have published voices. Part of what made Paradigm different was that we had feature artists who do not necessarily belong together: golf course architects alongside concept artists; celebrated chefs next to meteorologists. We have published high schoolers and retirees alike. There is nothing quite as rewarding as reading grateful e-mails from those artists we have selected, saying how proud they are to be considered "good enough."
As our tagline goes, art is everywhere. And while you will not find it new pages of Paradigm, you will find out there in other journals, books, a song lyric, an oil hanging on a restaurant wall, conversations with old friends, or a passing moment shared with someone new. Paradigm has been a constant reminder to me that there is always someone with a story worth telling and, in turn, a story worth hearing.
Thank you for everything.
Sincerely, Paul Fuhr
SUMMER AMNESIA (ANEMIC WINTER)
Friday January 8, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Andrea's poem Summer Amnesia (Anemic Winter) is now live on The Blue Jew Yorker.
(FYI - this site may not be workplace appropriate as writers tend to curse a lot. Not that Andrea's poem is inappropriate - at least this one isn't).
2019 Update - sadly this publication has also been eaten by the internet and time. No archive available - eventually a chapbook of poems will be sewn together but until then you will have to wait…
Notes:
Ad's beanie swelled when the editor said this "Thanks so much for contributing this wonderful poem!"
This poem is about living in Williamsburg in 1997 with a volatile roommate who eventually threw all of her stuff out the window on Bedford Avenue.
About The Blue Jew Yorker:
The Blue Jew Yorker reads submissions year round in search of poetry, essays and other expressions which expose the raw human voices that you do and do not hear on a Manhattan bound F-train. Excavating all stages of transformation in the Melting Pot, from uncooked whole carrots to potato-meat amalgamations where the original object is indecipherable, most attitudes and genres are considered. Penetrated husks peeled down to thumping toes with reverent screaming and irreverent whimpering is encouraged. Non-Jewish welcome. Tourists accepted.
TWO POEMS PUBLISHED ON CALLIOPE NERVE
Wednesday January 20, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Two of Andrea's poems - Second Sight and Winter Lust were published in December in the lovely publication Calliope Nerve.
Click here for the direct link to both poems but please check out the entire eloquent zine.
Also in case the internet eats this wonderful zine here are the archived links - Second Sight & Winter Lust.
A little about Calliope Nerve from the muse's mouth...
"Calliope Nerve is a web log, informal zine, and publishing company focusing on high quality poetry and short-lit with a bent for dark, sur-real, and experimental pieces. All submissions must be sans the snobbery of other publications. Art must be shared with the world, it belongs to all. Our zine has published everyone from accomplished writers/poets, to retired pest exterminators, to seventeen year old cheerleaders and people from all walks of life in between. We do not care whether the world gets us or not. Most importantly, each issue strives for as much originality in content as possible."
And in case you're wondering Calliope was the ninth and chief muse of eloquence and epic poetry.
TWO POEMS PUBLISHED IN CLOCKWISE CAT
Thursday January 21, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Two of Andrea's poems - Again Again and Cyclone Cellar - were published in Issue 15 (October 2009) of Clockwise Cat.
Notes: Andrea: These are strange ones. Archived Copy here.
Again again
I know perhaps that the line "sugar in that meatpie of hair" may not make sense but it makes sense to me. Mark asked me what this poem was about and I couldn't tell him. But now that I think of it for me, it's more about period in-between waking up and dreaming, that half disoriented state overfull of regrets and the volatile subconscious than anything.
Cyclone Cellar came about quite oddly. I was equally fascinated by silverfish and cyclone cellars. I mean who wouldn't want to be secured in a storm cellar?
Just the words themselves go so well together - cyclone and cellar. You hardly ever hear that word cyclone anymore (well, except on Coney Island) and as an additional boon it conjures up The Wizard of Oz.
Then there is the silverfish imagery. They're a nasty looking bug.
I mentioned that bug to Mark and friends having coffee and everyone squirmed. They are the last thing, you want to see stepping into the shower, right?
What is fascinating about silverfish is what they feast on - glue, book bindings, paper, photos, sugar, hair, and dandruff. Their feeding can actually damage photographs and I always think of photographs as memory so it wasn’t too much of a leap to go from feasting on skin to the skin’s memory.
Although, photographs as memory isn't truly right. (But very few of my poems are exact). I guess photographs to me are more of an external proof of memory although you can make up any story you like behind a photograph. But people take photographs as evidence, evidence of you knowing certain people, being certain places, of friendships you had but the conundrum is that the photograph doesn't prove it or it can all be so different than displayed or you may have felt. So if silverfish eat away the physical record of your memory than what is left? And perhaps all of our unique memories serve to isolate us from each other.
But silverfish have no real effect on human health beyond people being spooked by them, because you always find them in the most vulnerable place – the bathroom where they commonly graze on cellulose. I always thought they looked like ghosts’ embryos.
I also liked the idea of the silverfish being sexually immature, that phrase resonated. I'm not sure how the satyrs came into it, perhaps because they are somewhat of an image of sexual ferocity? I don't know it just sounded right. But then again, I use that excuse all the time.
THREE POEMS IN HEAVY BEAR ISSUE #4
Thursday February 4, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Andrea had three poems published in Heavy Bear Issue #4, February 2010!
Self-Portrait
Gadjo
trip-wired jaw
Click on this direct link but please peruse the entire issue.
Archived Copy
Notes:
Andrea: Self-Portrait went through so many incarnations, I can't even begin to count them though there is evidence somewhere. For me the image of broken type is visual, a portrait made up of actual broken type.
Gadjo was inspired by this film Gadjo dilo that Mark and I saw years ago at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema. I think the film's title loosely translates to crazy outsider. Around the same time, I was also reading Bury Me Standing. I had happened across this book because I'm always on the look-out for books my mom would like (she reads 5 books at a time). My mom is fascinated by the mass human migrations and nomadic movement. She always talked about the gypsies so when I saw Bury Me Standing in the bookstore, I knew it was for her.
Unfortunately, she wasn't that taken with this book (she didn't like Devil in the White City either) but I was and hence this poem.
trip-wired jaw - I'm really not sure how this poem came about. When I read it now, the only memory I pull at is a childhood story my paternal grandma told me about a neighbor down the street from her, who contracted lockjaw and his whole body shut down until he was dribbling on himself (that was how my grandma put it). I'm not sure what that has to do with this poem but that's all I got for now. :)
LEAKAGE FROM THE MAKAR VAULT
Wednesday February 24, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Once again, we have pried open the vault and have discovered some crazy banter from past MAKAR's gigs.
Listen if you dare...
MAKAR IS ROCKING RIVERDALE MARCH 27TH
Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 10:09 pm
MAKAR is set to rock Riverdale on Saturday, March 27th at 9pm!
We're playing An Beal Bocht Cafe which according to the Irish Times is "an oasis of creativity and music in the Bronx"!
Woo-hoo! Looks like a cool place, makes MAKAR want to have a Guinness or two!
An Beal Bocht Cafe is located at 445 West 238th St. (between Greystone and Waldo Avenues) in da Bronx!
Directions:
Take No. 1 train to 231st Street then No. 7 bus to 238th Street.
Walk west 2 blocks on 238th Street.
Tel: (718) 884-7127
site: www.anbealbochtcafe.com
And it's all for a a Bronx School Benefit, there will be a contribution bucket!
Attached is the flyer for your viewing pleasure!
THANK YOU!!
Friday April 9, 2010 at 1:51 am
A long over due thanks to all of you who came out to our wee show on March 27, 2010 at An Beal Bocht Cafe up in Riverdale.
We surely appreciate it!
If you missed the gig, you can see some multi-mediastic evidence
Check out the videos
http://www.makarmusic.com/video/
Check out the photos
http://www.makarmusic.com/site/page2333.php
Read the damn blog
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=2480047&blogId=531791049
We're playing again in May. Details to come!
MAKAR IS FINALLY ON TWITTER
Tuesday May 4, 2010 at 8:22 pm
yes, we broke down and got on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/MAKARMUSIC
We really, really didn't want to do this. Not that we have anything against twitter, per se...
But that we don't understand what Twitter is...
Help us understand it by following our overly caffeinated tweets...
MAKAR LIVE AT CONNOLLYS 45 KLUB MAY 29TH @ 9PM!!!!!
Monday May 17, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Friends, Romans, Countrypeople, lend MAKAR your ears,
MAKAR will be playing the 3rd Floor at Connollys 45 Klub on SATURDAY NIGHT May 29th at 9PM, so bring your friends, family and anyone you find at the Forum Romanum who likes music and head on over for good music, Caesar salad and beer!
$10 admission - 21+ w/ID
CONNOLLY'S KLUB 45 is located at --
121 West 45 Street
between 6th Ave. & Broadway
Connollys Link: http://www.connollyspubandrestaurant.com
Hope to see you all there!
Mark, Andrea, John and Mark
Connolly's is a family owned and operated traditional Irish Pub & Restaurant located in the heart of Midtown. With four convenient locations in Midtown all Connolly's offer a welcoming staff and relaxed atmosphere.
Connolly's is the official home of BLACK 47, playing live on Saturday Nights at 121 WEST 45 STREET.
UBER COOL RADIO CRYSTAL BLUE BROKE OUT SOME MAKAR
Tuesday June 15, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Radio Crystal Blue played Honey-Colored Time on their 5/23 show. Woo-hoo!
Check it out!
http://www.bigcontact.com/radiocrystalblu/radio-crystal-blue-5-23-10-playlist--audio
It's around 1 hour 10, if your fingers are twitchy and your ears are itchy.
Dan Herman said we have the "elements of the quieter folk rock of velvet underground". Yeah!
But sadly, Dan we did not open for Black 47!
Dan said, that you've haven't heard from us in awhile!
What ARE we up to?
Recording and re-calibrating...phase 3 or phase Z of MAKAR depending on who's doing the counting...
LONG AWAITED PICTS FROM CONNOLLY'S GIG
Friday August 20, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Yeah, so we got a little distracted, so what?!
It's summer and our brains are fried, fried like bacon and eggs.
So here is the linkage to pictures from Connollys. (http://www.makarmusic.com/site/page2345.php)
We would say "Let's go to the video tape" but the video tape didn't work...but I think this online convo about sums it up.
Mark Purnell: Makar played after a heavy metal, screamo, thrash band...just WOW! I had post traumatic stress disorder by the time Andrea and I hit the stage, but our indie folk punk crushed their skulls all the same.
Andrew Conroe: Sounds like it was a great gig!
Andrea DeAngelis: Unfortunately, we do not have a video of this one. The camera went on standby (ugh)
Mark Purnell: God we should have had someone shoot the last song of the Screamo band and then segued into the Country Song. That would have been awesome. Oh well. Next time I'll get it.
Mark Purnell: It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n roll my friends. The entertainment business isn't just about magic fairy dust being sprinkled over our dreams. It's hard work and sometimes you can get PTSD just from watching a thrash, screamo, heavy metal, scream core band and dealing with the world's worst sound guy who couldn't mic a keyboard to save his own life nor find the pot 'O gold in the bottom of a lucky charms box...it's not unlike fighting in Iraq. My hands were shaking so hard I could barely play the ivory and my spine was curved from the sonic pressure and the deadly effects of the bends...in short I felt violated.
Then this other band...which our friend Tricia said: I don't know this guy but his hat is sucking the life out of me
ANDREA'S POEM "MIS-SEEING" PUBLISHED ON DITCH POETRY
Thursday September 23, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Andrea's poem, mis-seeing, has been published in Ditch Poetry.
Check it out -- here
If the above permanent link, doesn't work - just click here for the archive.
Did you know that Andrea is considered an international poet in Canada? :0)
Ditch,
ditch, is a Canadian online poetry magazine celebrating the innovative, the non-conforming, the radical, the alternative, the surreal, the avant-garde, the non-linear, the abstract, the experimental.
IT'S TIME TO LAUNCH THE MAKAR JUGGERNAUT ONCE AGAIN
Friday November 5, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Dudes,
It's time to launch the Makar juggernaut once again. I know you've all been diligently practicing your musical craft for just such an event. Honing it and forging it like CROM forged unbreakable steel for Arnold the barbarian.
The fifth incarnation of Makar shall rise from the ashes like a fiery Pheonix to scorch all that stand in our way. The virtuosity and tightness of this band shall be unparalleled and shall lay waste to all bands across the land that dare try to match it.
But in order to achieve such greatness and back up my bombast we first need to commune in musical union at Montana studios where we will forge the eternal fire over the next few months.
Are you with me?
If so please let me know which days work the best for you from September 15th to the end of the month and I will schedule a rehearsal.
In ROCK we trust!
Good day gentlemen.
M&A
MAKAR GIG AT BAR EAST ON SATURDAY, MAY 7TH AT 8PM!
Thursday March 31, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Join Makar for our first gig back in a while. We'll be rocking Bar East on the Upper East Side with newest members, Timo Lipping (bass) and Erin Hydrabadi (lead guitar) joining us. Bring your family bring your friends!
Saturday, May 7th at 8pm
Bar East is located at 1733 1st Ave between 89-90th Street on the crazeeeeeeeeee upper east side, yo!
Take the 4,5, or 6 to 86th street
Website: www.bareast.com
Cover is $10 bucks.
Hope to see you all there.
Love Makar
but if you don't show, the birdie in the flyer might come and getcha!
2019 Hindsight - this incarnation of MAKAR did not last very long
MAKAR PLAYED ON RADIO CRYSTAL BLUE
Friday June 3, 2011 at 2:53 am
Check it, check it OUT!
One of MAKAR's old school tunes was played on Radio Crystal Blue!
Radio Crystal is an indie freeform program you should all be listening to!
Check out the week of 5/1/11 podcast to hear and heart MAKAR...
http://sites.google.com/site/radiocrystalblue/archive
Big thank you to Dan Herman for playing "What Can I Tell You" and announcing our May gig at Bar East in his highly original manner -- "I didn't know there was music on the Upper East Side. It's a weird place."
ANDREA'S POEM "TAKE" PUBLISHED IN RED FEZ
Monday September 19, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Andrea's poem "Take" was published in the latest issue of Red Fez!
Check it out
MAKAR AT BAR EAST SATURDAY OCTOBER 22ND @ 8PM!!!!!!
Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 1:44 am
MAKAR will be playing as an acoustic duo from now on. Our first gig back is at Bar East (located on the corner of 90th street and First avenue) on Saturday October 22nd at 8pm ($10)!
No more drums, no more bass, no more hasslin'. Just straight ahead rock 'n roll played from the mind, heart, vocal chords and fingertips of one Andrea DeAngelis and Mark Purnell.
Our 2nd album, Funeral Genius, might be back from Discmakers by then so it may be a CD release party as well. Three years in the making and not a minute too soon!
Hope to see you all there!! XOXO MAKAR
MAKAR'S NEW ALBUM FUNERAL GENIUS IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday November 17, 2011 at 3:36 am
Dear friends,
After three years of recording, Makar's follow up album, Funeral Genius, is finally here for your listening pleasure!! Yay.
Get a physical copy with band pictures and cool cover art at CD Baby (digital available as well here):
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
or get a digital copy sans cool artwork and pics of Makar on Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639
Stay tuned for Funeral Genius CD release party!! Love Makar
and remember, Makar® is a registered trademark, y'all.
MAKAR returns to Bar East Saturday, January 14th!!!!!
1/17/12
Hi boys and girls,
MAKAR will be rocking the upper east side acoustically! Woo-wee our first gig of 2012!
Saturday, January 14th
8:30pm sharp!
(We only have a 30 minute set so get there on the dot! Or you might miss it!)
$10 admission
Bar East is located at 1733 1st Ave which is on the corner of 90th and 1st. Downstairs!
Get our new album, Funeral Genius, hot off the presses!
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/makar3
or get a digital copy sans cool artwork and pics of Makar on Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funeral-genius/id480216639
Hope to see you all soon!
love, MAKAR
MAKAR is Band of the Week on Ear to the Ground!!!!!
01/17/12
We met a cool blogger named Joe Wolfe-Mazeres on Twitter. He's the blogger on a groovy music site called Ear to the Ground in Tenessee and he gave Funeral Genius two thumbs up! Thanks for the kind words Joe!!
"Makar, I'm told, is a 15th Century Scottish term for poet. Makar is also this really killer duo from New York City. We already recommended them based on a couple of tracks I heard from their 2005 debut 99 Cent Dreams. Now, I've had the chance to hear their long awaited follow up Funeral Genius, and it's time to start shouting from the roof tops. Actually, I just like shouting from rooftops, but Makar is worth shouting about.
Makar is husband and wife Mark Purnell and Andrea DeAngelis. They play piano and acoustic guitar driven alt-rock. It's intelligent, catchy and unique. In short it's everything, got me into this type of music in the first place. The bands list of influences reads like a playlist off my MP3 player, and includes Nick Drake - so bonus points there.
If you remember from the Ear to the Ground recommends post (and I know you remember everything I write), this is the band that does my anthem of late - Hate My Job. Go check out that video."
Band of the Week - Year 2 Week 6 (or something) - Makar
Joe Wolfe-Mazeres
Ear to the Ground
Friday, January 13, 2012
http://ear2theground-music.blogspot.com/2012/01/band-of-week-year-2-week-6-or-something.html
