Costello is the Noir World alternate of Alan Matthews from As Time Goes By. He always seen near Fez-Head, and people talk of it. Even though both Costello and Fez-Head don't want people to, they are still always together. At one point, Costello frustratedly knocks the fez hat off Fez-Head's head.
Francis Stechino, Sr. (stage name Vader) is a very large man who works as a professional wrestler. He has trouble staying out of character and often bellows at people and threatens them with physical violence.
I’ll be taking part in a reading/performance and panel at the Seattle Metamodernism Summit on September 10th, 2022 (live and online). Is my poetry “metamodernist”? How does my creative process, as well as that of other poets and songwriters, connect to the ideas of irony, sincerity, or even perhaps “ironesty”? That’s some of what we’ll be exploring in this panel conversation between artists, academics, and artist-academics. Come for the performances, stay for the heady ideas!
SEATTLE METAMODERNISM SUMMIT: Conversations on the Arts in an Age of Ironesty!
Dates: September 10: Live & Online; September 11: Online Only
Live Location (Sept 10): Ballard Homestead, 6541 Jones Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117, USA
Tickets: Options to watch online or attend in person; also an option to just attend the Songwriters and Poets Panel.
SONGWRITERS & POETS PANEL: Sept. 10th (5:00pm-6:30pm PST) Songwriters John Van Deusen (The Lonely Forest), Costello (Pretty Broken Things) and Greg Dember and poets Sierra Nelson, Antony Rowland and Scott Thurston and will perform songs and poems in the round while engaging in a curated discussion about how metamodern tropes factor into their creative work and their lives – how they 'respond' musically/poetically to e.g. dualities such as: irony/earnestness, skepticism/belief, fragmentation/unity.
More Info & Full Schedule: https://www.seattlemetamodernismsummit.com/
About the Seattle Metamodernism Summit:
What’s “metamodernism” and what do metamodern art and literature look like, sound like, feel like? Why are individuals and artists—even marketing and branding agents—increasingly drawn to it? Metamodernism is a name given to a sensibility emerging in the recent decades that grapples with our irony-soaked, context-dependent, everything-is-uncertain times by simultaneously embracing postmodern uncertainty and a sense of earnestness, even hope and commitment. How exactly does the current moment inspire artists of all sorts to create in a different, what some call metamodern, register? The Seattle Metamodernism Summit is a public-friendly event taking place Sept 10-11. Part symposium and part performance, with time for discussion built in, researchers in metamodern arts, TV and film, architecture, literature, video games, marketing and more are coming together, presenting their ideas to each other and the general public at the Ballard Homestead on Saturday September 10. A live poet and songwriter panel includes locals Sierra Nelson, John Van Deusen (The Lonely Forest), Costello (Pretty Broken Things) and others. The public may attend the Summit in person or online (Zoom) on Sept 10th. The event continues in online only format on Sept 11th. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit our website at SeattleMetamodernismSummit.com.
Event sponsored by AHRC Metamodernism Research Network, What is Metamodern? and Abbey Arts.