New Project: Ties

Okay… here’s my new thing.  I make ties.  I started with cute short girl ties (pictured below) and over the weekend I made my first full scale version (that’s me wearing it right there.)   I really like the short ones but the standard length is fun too.   Who wants one? I’ll make one special just for you or the person/thing of your choice.

Drop me a line at angela.alverson (at) gmail     

Woohoo! More Sunday Night Improv! July 3rd!!!

The lovely folks behind Sunday Night Improv invited me back…

This Sunday night July 3rd at 7pm – Soter/Lee Blackbox Theatre – 236 W. 78th Street  RSVP – 212.353.7716  Tix are $10

Episode 3…

My friend Larry has started filming some episodes of his story “Whose Life Is This Anyway?” and I am in episode 3 playing a real estate broker who is trying to get her hoarder friend Marc to empty his apartment so it can be sold.  We had not planned on filming the episode that day but everyone in the scene happened to be at Larry’s store so with some coaching from Larry we improvised this.  I hope you like it.

Episode 3

zombies in brooklyn

so many zombies!!!   see them swarm Bedford Ave here.

My next gig : Sunday Night Improv

Get thee to the Soter/Lee Black Box Theater at 236 W 78th Street (just off Broadway)
this Sunday night – May 1st at 7pm

Tickets are $10 – RSVP: 212.353.7716

more info at: www.sundaynightimprov.com

John Keel Drunk at MoMA in “On Exhibition”

This gem of a film made by John Keel and Ed Lord follows John Keel (notorious teetotaler) playing a drunkard staggering through the streets of Manhattan and through MoMA.  It’s god-damned-brilliant!  Coming in at just over 12 minutes, we chopped her into two parts.

For more on John, please visit his tribute site here.

John Keel and Doug Skinner

Blowhole part trois – Make a wish

Okay…one more Doug Skinner cover.

See me play it here

See Doug play it here

A fish postcard in Alaska!!!

One of my fish postcards has a new home… on the refrigerator of Ms. Linzi Corbett of Anchorage, Alaska.

with a very cool sock monkey magnet no less…

Blowhole Revisited – Flake Food

A few days before the show I took out a stopwatch and timed myself to see how long my set was (I needed to fill 15 minutes)…well I was horrified to discover that it was a mere 2 minutes and 24 seconds long.  I had a mild panic attack but then realized that I know the words to most of Doug Skinner’s songs.  His lyrics are so lovely they don’t need music so I figured I could improvise something and fake my way through the show.

Doug will be coming out with an album so you’ll be able to hear this song played properly…and oh so beautifully soon.

Until then, click here for my cover of Flake Food…. by my dear friend…the talented, wonderful Doug Skinner.

This is Doug Skinner. You can see some clips of him playing here.

Other Doug links:

The Ullage Group   (his blog)

Jalopy (where he teaches uke)

me and my uke and a ditty called gnocchi

I played a few songs this weekend at Freddy’s Bar in Park Slope at the annual Blowhole Theater show.

You sample a bit on youtube  here

This is a picture of me and my uke at the Vortex…. but you get the idea.