Ray (drawing by Michael Arthur)

drumming, writing, music making, husbanding, acting, fooling. artistic director of Motherlodge

T'wit...

• Raskizz: "...also, I don't know if Cornnuts are such a good foor to serve at a theater."

Blogs

  Under the Flood
(Ray's Blog)

• Dinner Break (18th night pt.2)
  I'm eating the loneliest slice of pizza in New York.
  
  The second loneliest, I guess. The first and most lonely slice was a little further north on Columbus. Eating it gave me some energy and immediately I didn't feel so much. But when i finished, I was still hungry, and I decided if I was in for another lonely slice, it should be Ray's.
  
  This one is much better.
  
  On the radio is Sheryl Crow singing, "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes you happ... Read more...

  The Book of Steve
(Steve Trimboli of Goodbye Blue Monday)

• ….and no fireworks for brooklyn, queens or east-side manhattan
  i’ve NOT been posting. obviously. i’ve been – figuratively – staggering around like a drunk here on this blog, though i don’t like to call it a blog, but for the moment, i need to keep it simple and to the point, so blog... Read more...

  Bullseye
(Paul Megna of Oxygen Ponies)

• Friday Night Secret Show Series in Dumbo!
  Hidden Target is hosting a FREE Friday Night Secret Show Series in Dumbo in preparation for the Oxygen Ponies UK Festi... Read more...

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an arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time"

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The Manifesto of the Day is this: until I can pay off my awesome dentist in the LES, I am going to give thanks for her and advertise her services here: Dorota Podlinski, D.D.S.

Shakespeare in Central Park's Twelfth Night runs until July 12th!!!! COME!!!!! I'm tweeting and posting on my "Under The Flood" blog.

Sundown Monday Night at The People's Garden in Bushwick - 7 to 10p.m. (July 6th - Eric's Birthday!)

***The People's Garden will be featured this Saturday July 4 between 2:30 and 4:00 on Dred Scott Keyes' show on WBAI 99.5fm*****

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"Center Of Hope Radio", a work-in-progress established in April 2009 by ML, Chef Tim Tucker, and The Salvation Army. centerofhoperadio.org.

For more shows from Motherlodge Louisville Spring 2009 and updates on the Fall 2009 Motherlodges (Brooklyn and Louisville) go to motherlodge.com.

Rough mixes from Corporal's first recording, out in Fall 2009.Corporal is Michael Shannon and Ray Rizzo with Rob Beitzel and Kevin Meeker. corporalband.com

The Moose Lamp adorns the shelf above an eight channel Tascam recording console in the back room of a Bushwick apartment in Brooklyn. It's light reaches as far as Louisville, Freedonia, and the white noise between the stations. Wattage is provided by drummer, writer/producer Ray Rizzo and creative teams that include musician/producer Kevin Meeker, bassist/webmaster Matt Scobee.