- Who Unit?, Pittsburgh, US@ - April 30, 2017
"DiVenti": If you can manage it, I highly recommend being able to live long enough to be able to reflect on decades of your life. I 1st met Tommy DiVenti around 1977 in Baltimore. Tommy & our mutual friend Billy Moriarity were exploring performance poetry, they were against academic poetry & had a raw, aggressive, somewhat shocking style that appealed to me. Along with David Franks, CoAccident, & myself, Bill & Tom were pushing the boundaries the hardest. Most of the other writers around town were content with presenting their poetry in a very straightforward way. Tom & Bill went on to found Da Moronics in 1977, one of Baltimore's 1st punk bands. Tom also founded the Apathy Project, a gallery/performance space, &, in the 1980s, Apathy Press - which published, amongst many other things, the 1st edition of my book entitled "How to Write a Resumé: Volume II: Making a Good First Impression" (1989).
Tom spent most of the 1990s in NYC, breezed briefly through California, & returned to his native Baltimore for the 2000s. From 1989 he's had a band under his band-leader name of T. T. Tucker. In general, Tom's led an anarchistic life, full of recklessness & counterbalanced by thoughtfulness. In the long run he's a nice guy more capable of honesty than most. May he enjoy an even longer run. - May 4, 2017 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
[Some of the interviews I've conducted have been audio recorded & transcribed for print. Others have been video recorded & incorporated into a movie &/or been uploaded to my "onesownthoughts" YouTube channel or the Internet Archive. It seems appropriate to make a link to these latter also available through these "Interviewer" & "Interviewee" webpages. Clicking on the interview title should link to the onesownthoughts movie. - May 8, 2017 note from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE]
Tags: Tom DiVenti, Bill Moriarity, Paula Gillen, John Waters, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Baltimore, Da Moronics, Apathy Project, Apathy Press, T T Tucker, performance poetry, poetry, punk
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to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as Interviewer page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as Interviewee page
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)