Los Tenedores

it's trite, but I am experiencing a writing dilemma. surprising to many that are close to me, I am a creature of habit. I make up rules for the most inane things and stick with them... unless I change my mind for a specific reason. I think how this neurosis manifests itself in my writing is through my decisions regarding capitalization. for blogging or personal emails with people I know, I tend to not capitalize the beginning of my sentences. proper nouns and "I" do get the big letter, unless for some reason the name is stylized to be lower case (for instance, frē.)... actually, to be completely nitpicky, these are the rules I have for typing. for handwriting, it really depends on what I feel like looking at while I'm in the act. yes, I think about it pretty much every time I write. not a whole thought, it's just a part of the process.

there is a point.

lately, I've been writing a lot of emails to people I do not know, and I generally follow standard written English rules in those, minus some of the most overt formalities. I capitalize where I should, complete my thoughts as sentences, etc. as I've been doing this, I've wondering if I might switch to doing it all the time, except maybe in poems. the lack of big letters is an extension of my identification as a poet, I think... and I think in those terms a lot, even in my daily bits of typed communication.

I'll try not to over-analyze such things, and obviously I haven't made a switch yet. I guess it could be a situational decision. sooo... moving right along...



I've been gone for a bit, lost in the adult world of instructing little humans. I have since written a play, and had a music benefit show for a New Orleans reconstruction trip... I leave Saturday morning! I'll be missing most, if not all, of Artscape; I'm rather grouchy about this as I really had hoped to see all of my friends' installations, and I had so many opportunities to perform that I simply could not take.

no fear, I'm touring dear!

Perform some, tour some, foursome! Los Tenedores are troubadours of the modern age, present to commit individual and collaborative acts of passion. A pronged quartet, these escape-from-Baltimore artists alternate reality by being fully participatory... through divergent paths they seek truth, joy and reflection with each other, and you! All this born from the urgent nature of life and art -- language, performance and social. A conscious action decision, they create an abstractly tangible experience, designed to bring water forth from stone, transform overgrown souls into manicured infants, break down misery into revelry, and turn aurora borealis into crystal heaven; anything can happen and the senses are hyper-real. Through divergent paths, Theresa Columbus, Andy Herschberger, Freda Mohr and Elisa Urtiaga converge to comprise Los Tenedores. Los agarradores, Los Tenedores, agarran de la presente. The graspers, The Forks (The Possessors), take hold of (grasp) the present. "It was a passionate moment we were groping for..."

venues and other details are still being arranged, but it's looking awesome. this is our itinerary:

Friday, August 22 - Baltimore
Saturday, August 23 - NY
Sunday, August 24 - Providence
Monday, August 25 - Boston
Tuesday, August 26 - NY
Wednesday, August 27 - Baltimore? (we're focusing on getting a send-off, but it would be so nice to have B'more bookends, no?)

then, we do Philly Fringe, Saturday and Sunday, September 6 & 7 (booked! A Space, and The Walking Fish Theatre, respectively)

there will be more to this schedule that isn't particular to the tour... I will have so much performance come fall... and more plans in the works.

if you glance to the right, there is a link to the sparse for now blog for Los Tenedores. I'll keep it safe there.