3rd Annual Halloween Reading
10.31.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (singing The Misfits’ “Astro Zombies”)
The late ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (singing Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”)
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Reading #25
9.26.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing They Might Be Giants’ “Birdhouse in Your Soul”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Kermit the Frog’s “Rainbow Connection”)
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Reading #24
8.15.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance):
ALIBI JONES (singing Green Day’s “She”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Nico’s “These Days”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Elvis Costello’s “[What’s So Funny ‘Bout] Peace, Love, and Understanding”)
photos by Alibi Jones & Joseph P. O’Brien
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Reading #23
6.27.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing the theme from Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown)
ALIBI JONES (singing Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”)
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Reading #22
5.23.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing The Magnetic Fields’s “The Dada Polka”)
KEEGAN LESTER
MELISSA MESKU
MARY BOO ANDERSON
ALIBI JONES (singing Tom Waits’ “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”)
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Reading #21 / Issue 17 Flight Party
4.4.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Doris Day’s “Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps”)
JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (storytime reading of MT Anderson’s “Strange Mr. Satie”)
ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (singing Cracker’s “Teen Angst [What the World Needs Now]”)
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Reading #20 / Year Four Flight Party
2.21.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Deee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart”)
JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (performing “Agatha’s Library”)
ALIBI JONES (singing The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”)
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Reading #19 / Issue 16 Flight Party
1.10.2018
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing The Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin”)
JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (singing Ezra Furman’s “Lousy Connection”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City”)
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Reading #18 / 2nd Annual Halloween Reading
10.25.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance):
ALIBI JONES (singing Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”)
ALIBI JONES (singing The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”)
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Reading #17
9.27.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence”)
ALIBI JONES (singing Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”)
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Reading #16
6.28.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance):
ALIBI JONES (via satellite, singing LCD Soundsystem’s “New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down)
LELAND CHEUK
ALIBI JONES (via satellite, singing Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”)
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Reading #15
5.31.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down”)
the late AESOP
ALIBI JONES (singing Johnny Cash’s version of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage”)
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Reading #14 / Issue 13 Flight Party
3.22.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Nirvana’s “Lithium”)
the late KURT COBAIN
ALIBI JONES (singing The Beatles’ “Across the Universe”)
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Reading #13 / YEAR 3 Flight Party
2.15.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing “Theme from FLAPPERCHEERS“)
THE DOTTIE PARKERS (Alibi Jones & Joseph P. O’Brien singing “I’m Gonna Fucking Love You”)
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Reading #12 / Issue 12 Flight Party
1.4.2017
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire”)
the late LEONARD COHEN
ALIBI JONES (singing Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire”)
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Reading #11 /
Halloween Reading
10.26.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
hosted by
the late ROD SERLING
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES‘ opening song (The Doors’ “People Are Strange”)
ALIBI JONES’s mid-show song (Screamin Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell On You”)
DARLEY STEWART
STEPHEN LANGLOIS
ALIBI JONES’ closing song (Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”)
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Reading #10
9.21.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES‘ opening song (“We’re Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes)
the late EMILY DICKINSON
ARMANDO JARAMILLO GARCIA
MONICA LEWIS
ALIBI JONES’ closing song (“I Wanna Be Sedated” by The Ramones)
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Reading #9
8.3.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing “Ain’t We Got Fun”)
BILLY ROBISON
the late JACK KEROUAC
ALIBI JONES (singing Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta”)
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Reading #8 / Issue X Flight Party
6.22.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
photos by Alibi Jones
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES (singing Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness”)
the late OSCAR WILDE
closing song: Green Day’s “Jaded,” performed by Joseph SW Hasan & Joseph P. O’Brien
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Reading #7 / YEAR TWO Flight Party
5.25.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
photos by Alibi Jones
starring (in order of appearance)
ALIBI JONES singing Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”
the late DOROTHY PARKER
closing song: REM’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” performed by Alibi Jones & Joseph P. O’Brien
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Reading #6 / Issue #9 Flight Party
3.23.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
starring (in order of appearance)
opening song: David Bowie’s “Starman,” performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
WILLIAM LESSARD (“Transmission,” “Grandmother’s Tea,” “Weather” “Advice from Spirit Eater”)
STEPHEN LANGLOIS (“Redfield”)
CHRISTINA M. RAU (various poems, including “Leah Davis and the Velvet Underground,” “What it Means to Remain,” “Colony Collapse,” “Flight Log,” “Liberating the Astronauts,” “Washerwomen,” “The Office Mermaid”)
LEONA GODIN (an excerpt from “Likenesses”)
T. MAZZARA (three chapters from novel-in-progress)
JOANNA C. VALENTE (various poems, including “The Witch,” “In This Dimension You Don’t Exist Except Everywhere,” “Body Within Body,” “Those Around You Will Die When You Aren’t Ready”)
the late CARL SAGAN (announcing the launch of the next Voyager Golden Record in 2017)
ANTHONY MICHAEL MORENA (excerpts from THE VOYAGER RECORD)
photography by Alibi Jones ; complete recording in FLAPPERHOUSE Podcast #2
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Reading #5 / Issue #8 Flight Party
1.6.2016
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn,NY
opening song: Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Two Headed Boy,” performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
starring (in order of appearance)
JOANNA C. VALENTE (various poems, including “Chapel of Sacred Mirrors”)
JON SAVAGE (various flash fictions, including “Alpha Males on Planes”)
SHAWN FRAZIER (“How Emma Jean Crossed The River”)
the late FRANZ KAFKA (“The Mobile Skater”)
J.E. REICH (“The Werewolves of Anspach”)
closing song: The Handsome Family’s “So Much Wine,” performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
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Reading #4 / Issue #7 Flight Party
9.23.2015
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
opening song: PJ Harvey’s “50 Foot Queenie,” performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
starring (in order of appearance)
BUD SMITH (“Reviews of the Corner Bodega” from Tables Without Chairs)
SHANNON MOORE SHEPHERD (various poems, including “Creature Feature: Caligynachtmare: Dread the Beauty”)
DAVID X. WIGGIN (“Armed & Fabulous!”)
the late F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (an excerpt from the forthcoming sequel to The Great Gatsby)
ANNA MEISTER (three poems from Nothing Granted)
MICHAEL DÍAZ FEITO (an excerpt from “Ewart”)
closing song: “Is That All There Is?” written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, made famous by Peggy Lee; sung by ALIBI JONES
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Reading #3 / Issue #6 Flight Party
6.25.2015
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
opening song: George Gershwin’s “Summertime,” sung by ALIBI JONES
starring (in order of appearance):
JEFF LAUGHLIN (“A Night Without Peace at Bowman Gray,” + various poems, including “What Really Drives You to Drink”)
BUD SMITH (“Dust Bunny City”)
KAILEY TEDESCO (various poems, including “Her Goodies Are Her Own” and “Emily Dickinson’s Dorm Room”)
STEPHEN S. POWER (“Who Else Would Make a World Like This”)
closing song / reading: “Coming to Our Senses” by Neil deGrasse Tyson + “Knowledge” by Operation Ivy, performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
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Reading #2 / YEAR ONE Flight Party
2.18.2015
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
opening song: Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush,” performed by ALIBI JONES & JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN
starring (in order of appearance):
BUD SMITH (various poems, including “Reset Your Heart”)
JASPER LO (various poems, including “During a Sandstorm, in a Heat Wave, at Fort Bliss” and “The Burning Moon”)
ERIC SIEGELSTEIN (“Ghost-Sick Jarvis”)
LAUREN SELIGMAN (various poems, including “Dare”)
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Reading #1
8.26.2014
Pacific Standard, Brooklyn, NY
opening song: “St. James Infirmary” by Louis Armstrong
starring (in order of appearance):
MILA JARONIEC (novel excerpt from “Desperate Strangers”)
JOSEPH P. O’BRIEN (“Reaper Taps”)
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