Mercury Cafe feature, 06/20/08

poetry readings from the Fortune featurette on June 20^th, 2008

Janet Kuypers was the first impromptu feature at the Mercury Cafe (1505 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago) on June 20^th of 2008, due to the inability of the original feature (Cathleen Schandelmeier) to attend this evening.

Kuypers originally planned to read 4 poems from her custom-made poetry fortune — remember those folded paper fortunes girls would make when they were little? Well, inside this enlarged paper fold-out “fortune” was 4 poems, all dealing with problems relating to relationships. But because of the space for this evening of poetry, Kuypers was asked to read additional poems. So, from her books she happened to have on hand (the poetry book etc. and the 2004 collection book Oeuvre) she found additional poems to read for the group. Enjoy these video and mp3 file clips from the performance below.

enjoy the full video
of the entire show

(13:33)

This film is from
the Internet Archive

...on to the poems:
(in the order they were read during the show)

You Feel More

Order the LIVE track on CD 4
of the CD set Live: (1:49, live)

studio vocals, 2:01, recorded 04/21/07

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(2:01) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Who You Tell Your Dreams To

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of the CD set Live: (1:01, live)

vocals track: old time radio filter; :45, vocals track May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

with vocal presence delay; :45, vocals track May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

(0:48, vocals track 04/23/06)

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(1:13) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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You and Me and Your Girlfriend

Order the LIVE track on CD 4
of the CD set Live: (1:25, live)

1:08, vocals track 03/24/08

with vocal presence delay; 1:17, vocals track May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

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(1:34) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Only a Year

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of the CD set Live: (2:06, live)

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(2:15) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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the Kitchen

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of the CD set Live: (1:30, live)

:50, vocals track 08/14/07

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(1:36) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Private Lives Two

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of the CD set Live: (1:18, live)

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(1:26) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Before I Learned Better

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of the CD set Live: (1:19, live)

(0:57, vocals track 04/23/06)

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(1:26) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Making Sense out of the Insane

Order the LIVE track on CD 4
of the CD set Live: (1:27, live)

vocals recorded 10/08/06, 1:23 read for the book Balance

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(1:34) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Pressure On Me Again

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of the CD set Live: >(1:00, live)

(0:51, vocals track 07/04/06)

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(1:06) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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Never Did The Same

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of the CD set Live: (:42, live)

:28, vocals track 03/24/08

with vocal presence delay; :27, vocals track May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

(0:25, vocals track 07/04/06)

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(:47) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 06/20/08

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