Musical theatre is an entirely new affair with the wildly electric words & riffs of Scottish, Jewish composer Paul Scott Goodman. Featuring family friendly topics like sex, alcoholism, religion, neuroses, night clubs & RockN’Roll, brilliant insanity only begins to describe his skill & inspiration.

“The madness feeds the music feeds the words and then back to the madness .. define madness? .. Hmmm, the roiling repetition of the inner demons clashing with the angels to produce off kilter harmonies, reappearing melody, form, structure and rhyme from inside the insanity which ultimately leads to a raging calm which then passes again into the next approaching storm. Is there any other way to live? [The madness] led me to write “Bright Lights, Big City” and “ROOMS: A Rock Romance”, so I would say the whole mad thing needs more nurturing, loving care & raw red meat, kosher of course. x.” PSG.

For info on all of his shows, check out: http://www.paulscottgoodman.com

Red Grooms’ massive cartoon-like 3D paintings and lithographs are kinetic and inspiring. His perspective is so unusual that his pieces seem to fall in upon themselves and to explode outwards simultaneously. His depictions of other great artists: Pollack, Dali, Picasso and of bustling metropolises: Chicago, Nashville, New York have been enjoyed by international audiences.  He has been described by Lois Riggins-Ezzell as “a social Historian with a hot glue gun.” An oddly apt view of a wildly inventive artist.

An odd and inventive warrior of the anti-folk genre, Eric Wolfson spews politically informed, harmonica accompanied, melodic excellence all over NYC. Eric in Action: Sleeping is a Sucker’s Game & Obama Song

A few lines on insanity:
‘TRUE!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’
‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘otherwise you wouldn’t have come here.’
Said the Fool to Lear: ‘He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf…’
Says I: ‘Madness makes kings of us all.’”
For more of Eric’s music and madness, visit: Myspace.com/EricWolfson  or www.EricWolfson.com              (and for more antifolk, check out our Artist Showcase archives, re: Lach!)

      A bit about Tim Robinson: “I started out trying to be a painter but the NYC artworld was no place for me… I drifted into songwriting and found it just as visual, in a way more so. That clicked and I became a bit obsessed, writing hundreds of songs [though, oddly] recording none. I scaled down the painting to small collage work, made from junk, mostly stuff I picked up off the ground around the city. Sometimes I would do it block by block… a piece might be called “Schermerorn, between Court and Henry”, that sort of thing. As the computer crept into my life, I discovered the business of internet junk picking and began experimenting with digital collage. I grab things, mess with them a bit and just start throwing elements together. Magical things happen then, what was an engine diagram suddenly seems soulful next to a bird. Anyway, it’s an ongoing experiment. I hope folks find something to pivot on in all of it.”
      To see more of Tim Robinson’s art and to hear his music, visit: Myspace.com/TimRobinsonSongs

i just can’t get enough of Tom Otterness’ 14th street subway sculptures.

Songwriter/Performer/Ringleader/Poet/Comic-Artist/Innovator Lach is streaming his entire new album  ”The Calm Before” on his website: www.LachToday.com                                                                            While you’re there, check out his gigs, pics, ponderings, and comics (soon to be featured here!)                    Read Lach’s exclusive “iAmSlowlyLosingMyMind.com” poem below (and click HERE to submit yours.)

“The day I went insane was today
And I’m a mad, bad, sad, lad crouched inside my name and age
Raging at the nineties recovery zombies
Who threw me a lifesaver of the wrong flavor
Behavior sanctioned into boxes too small for
my psychedelic soul and I want out
And I want to be demon and angel both
Don’t divide me! Don’t divide me!
Don’t divide me!” © 2009 Lach

NYC has always had curious ways of fixing problems.

These tree houses, for example, are supposed to be pure “art” but I think, the city commissioned them to deal with our enormous squirrel issues. Yes. These are giant squirrel houses for our giant squirrels…. or they’re just pure art…. I leave that debate up to you.

Tom Otterness is a profoundly awesome and odd artist whose work enhanced my commute to no end:

I was planning on doing an intellectual post today, about the life and times and lack of mental stability of Edgar Allan Poe.  However, that was overridden when, on my walk to work, I was passed by a pink and purple plaid Hummer limo.

Take a moment to ponder that: a PINK and PURPLE PLAID HUMMER LIMOUSINE at 9:35 a.m.

Did you EVER expect to hear all of those words describing the same object?  Anyway, Poe isn’t going anywhere, so intellect will be postponed and you should check back this evening to see my low-in-quality but high-in-zaniness camera phone pic of this morning’s monstrosity.

It exists!!!