From the AV-aerie in Chicago, come the voices of Malcolm, Geof, and Gabe, as well as the occasional sputter of 45 or mp3. We are feeling the chills, miss the beach, and will talk about favorite witch-hunts this week. Could the political correctness of the 90’s be considered a witch-hunt? Eisenhower smoked corn silk? Gabe always feels there are people with stakes out there waiting to drive them through his chest. Frankenstein is like a disease that kills the pure innocent child and the diseased. In episode twelve of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies we learn a little more about Handyman Jack and his dark past. Just to clarify, Wiccans are in no way related to cannibalism. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is read for Book You.
Me Time
Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff
A curtain is furled under a pipe that runs just beneath the ceiling, and a spotted cat wanders in. On the makeshift stage there is a ripped couch, a battered metal file cabinet labeled “This Was Your Life,” and a swath of green shag carpet.
Sporting long sideburns and blue Chuck Taylor sneakers, Gabriel Boyer takes the stage and launches into a reading of “Dracula.” The spectators arrayed on the performer’s bed are less than comfortable: The slats beneath his mattress aren’t nailed in, so they tend to shift whenever somebody moves too much.
This is “Bedroom Theater,” freewheeling performances that take place in Boyer’s Jamaica Plain loft every eight days. Boyer, 26, is a frequent actor and the author of some of the plays and skits that have been staged in his bedroom for the past year. He and a friend have even published a guide, “Seven Short Plays for the Bedroom.”
Read MoreWhat fond memories of Brazil?
Geof is a guest dj again for our Brazilian-music-only podcast this week like harpies tearing at Gabe’s flesh, but a beautiful tearing at the flesh. Oyvind Fahlstrom was born in Brazil, although ethnically Swedish, and the author for this week’s segment of Book You. Geof and Malcolm tell of their fond memories from Brazil, as well as the seedy underbelly neither one had anything to do with, but have learned much of through the wonder of such films as City of God, and of course, the next episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. The steam radiator was invented to heat greenhouses, but Malcolm finds the negative association of the term greenhouse gasses unfortunate. Also, Gabe’s Guide to Goiter Removal.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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The Manifesto of Negativity
Harry Polkinhorn
1. Prescript: I have nothing to say.
2. Nothing counts any more; nothing ever did.
3. Culture is dead. It committed suicide because it had become successful.
4. The liberation of language, a poetics of freedom of the word, the Futurists’ parole in liberta, the jouissance of schizophrenic discourse, the transrational zaum of the Russians, all fit perfectly into their preordained boxes, gagging them forever.
Read MoreIs our train indeed coming round the bend?
Who is this new face? Geof is the guest dj for the week. Bed-wetting is discussed, and Gabe describes potential scenario involving crystalized tears. Be glad Gabe never owned a gun, Malcolm has to learn to love the machine, and Gabe admits he would never date anyone who ever knew Frank Sinatra. Are we in the cold part of hell? Geof says it is like riding in a giant marshmallow made out of wicking fabric. There’s murder, and then there’s jail, and there’s love in both of them. This week for Book You, Gabe reads from The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione to ring in the new administration, the inauguration being this week of course, which is very exciting. Obama is a Chicagoan after all. Also, Mutable Sound’s first official product is to be released on February 14th, Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues, by old friend Animal Hospital, and also in the next month, the 965 page book, A Survey of My Failures this Far, by Gabe himself. Gabe’s Guide to Good Vibes is this week, in which he tells you how to have fun without actually having fun, and of course episode ten of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. Listen to Gabe loudly crunching corn chips.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Pavol Janik
NEW YORK
In a horizontal mirror
of the straightened bay
the points of an angular city
stabbing directly into the starry sky.
In the glittering sea of lamps
flirtatious flitting boats
tremble marvellously
on your agitated legs
swimming in the lower deck
of a brocade evening dress.
Suddenly we are missing persons
like needles in a labyrinth of tinfoil.
Some things we take personally —
stretch limousines,
moulting squirrels in central Park
and the metal body of dead freedom.
In New York most of all it’s getting dark…
The glittering darkness lights up.
The thousand-armed luster of the mega city
writes Einstein’s message about the speed of light
every evening on the gleaming surface of the water.
And again before the dusk the silver screen
of the New York sky floods
with hectolitres of Hollywood blood.
Where does the empire of glass and marble reach?
Where do the slim rackets of the skyscrapers aim?
God buys a hot dog
at the bottom of a sixty-storey street.
God is a black
and loves the grey color of concrete.
His sun was born from himself
in a paper box
from the newest sort of slave.
(Original Slovak translated by James Sutherland Smith)
Pavol Janik, was born in 1956 in Bratislava, where he also studied film and television dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Drama Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VSMU). He has worked at the Ministry of Culture (1983-87), in the media and in advertising. President of the Slovak Writers’ Society (2003-07) and the Secretary-General of the SWS (1998-2003, 2007—). He has received a number of awards for his literary and advertising work both in his own country and abroad. The below poem was originally published in the Indian literary review, Kritya.
Where is the astral plane?
Where is the astral plane? If you have an answer to that question, please feel free to email us at mail@mutablesound.com. It is not titular. Jason Allen, is once again a guest, and on Book You, this week Gabe reads the introduction to a treatise by Giordano Bruno called Cause, Principle, and Unity. Burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600, Giordano Bruno was very influenced by Hermes Trismesgistus according to Frances Yates, though Hilary Gatti tells a different story, while in another story altogether, i.e. episode nine of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, a dark cloud has consumed the school, and what has happened to Archibald the Professor of Arcane Knowledge? Jason recommends yelping beavers to be used for sound effects afterwards, while Gabe wants to discuss occult cinema, but no discussion of occult cinema can occur without discussing Jodorowski’s Holy Mountain, which none have seen, so instead they talk of Santa Sangre. This leads to a discussion of gnosticism. This leads to another question. Are there any heavy metal bands called, Pantheon? Gabe talks about zen and anti-zen. Who’s going to join Gabe in falling apart out there in listenerland? And speaking of lands, we forgot to announce, “The Greatest Taste Around,” by Negativland.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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How do you spell that?
We are all about the sound of the future, here in the first week of 2009, and the last year of the ots. Did anything happen in the ots of the 1900’s? Perhaps something epic will happen in the next decade, like Armageddon as the Mayans predicted. That would be awesome, but focusing on more mundane matters, the question for this week is, How do you spell that? We do got a new president and a new depression, and welcome to Jason Allen once again. Gabe wants to know how Jason feels, and Jason wants to know why he’s being questioned, that he’s a good-feeling person. If only we had some pig in here, Gabe would go cut its throat.
Gabe reads from The Futurist Cookbook, for the weekly segment Book You! Gabe does some impromptu analysis of Jason, suggesting that perhaps Jason’s psyche might perhaps be waxed, and whether perhaps there is something beyond the warm well-waxed fuzziness within, which apparently resembles a five-dimensional hyper-cube. This is a subjective fact according to Jason, while according to Joseph Campbell, people aren’t looking for the meaning of life, they’re looking for the experience of being alive. Gabe tries to get his cohorts to hone their mouth muscles through various tongue-twister exercises. The most idiotic thing yet, says Malcolm. That and also, we forgot to announce song, “Nah mix nah mingle” by Lady Saw.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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This is Not a Review: of George MacDonald, David Lindsay
Gabriel Boyer
We here at Mutable wanted to commemorate George MacDonald this week, and his esteemed lineage. Though he, along with several of his more interesting intellectual progeny are no longer well-known to the world at large, I would suggest that MacDonald is essential in any “secret history” of the industrial and post-industrial mind, not entirely dissimilar to Greil Marcus’ own secret history of the twentieth century, Lipstick Traces, that when we consider the history of revelation in relation to the culture industry and the prefabricated visions it has produced in the form of lighter allegorical fair such as Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within and The Matrix, what we are seeing is a similar degradation of this unacknowledged literary tradition as filtered through Alan Watts’ watered-down buddhism.
It should be obvious to anyone who has read George MacDonald why he has not retained whatever renown he had in the nineteenth century. As vivid and fabulous as the worlds he created are, the message is unabashedly Christian, and not the sort that can live in a suburban library either—like C. S. Lewis would be—a man who called George MacDonald his master. MacDonald is just a little more restrained than Blake in terms of his sometimes bizarre imagery—note the hawthorne tree as an old man in chapter four of Lilith below—and not surprisingly, because Blake was one of his key influences, as well as Novalis, and Swedenborg.
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 — 18 September 1905) may no longer be well-known in the world of fantasy, but besides being the “master” of C. S. Lewis, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll, it being both Macdonald’s advice, as well as the hearty reception of his daughters, that convinced Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) to publish his manuscript, Alice in Wonderland. MacDonald was admired by W.H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence”. Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, eventually befriended him. (As if genius were solely dependent upon likability.)
Read MoreWhy now?
A pretty good year for music, not great. Jason Allen guest dj’s on this podcast. Gabe reads from the writings of William Burroughs, from a collection entitled Interzone, in the weekly segment of Book You! Rod Blagojevich is sexy, possibly more than Sarah Palin. Gabe doesn’t have issues with peanut butter, but does have issues with many other things. What happened in 2008? Besides Barack Obama being elected, Gabe went to Alaska, he and Malcolm formed a band, and Jason played a good friend’s wedding, utilizing the theme from Twin Peaks even. Great shows we saw in 2008: High Places (at the AV-aerie), Akron / Family (also at the AV-aerie), Deerhoof (at Metro), The Residents (at Lakeshore Theater), and The Ex (at Millenium Park). Here we are. Why? On the cusp. There’s the past. Why? An allegorical painting? Standing on the threshold, fist raised. Why now? But it is kind of answering itself in a way, because it’s now. But there is always then, which is in my mind, which is not real, but that’s only Jason’s opinion, whereas Gabe believes living in the past is kind of like living in the future.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Fake is the new real
Fake is the new real contains the artwork and photographs of Neil Freeman. We just liked it, and thought others should check it out. Please do! Some samples below.
In the Mutableye is a segment that sometimes showcases something interesting that is happening somewhere in the world at this moment, and sometimes showcases some fad or person from the past that we here at Mutable acknowledge is still cool s**t.
Where are you going?
What is the most unchristmasy place in the whole world? Maybe Darfur. It’s christmas at ground zero, and we are focusing on journeys of the physical and transcendental variety this week. Malcolm Cowley is most famous for discovering William Faulkner, but is also the author of a book entitled Exile’s Return, which Gabriel reads from during a segment fast becoming a tradition, and titled Book You. The question for the week is Where are you going? Any responses to this question (or any question for that matter) can be mailed to us at mail@mutablesound.com. We also sample the music of Animal Hospital, whose album, Good or Plenty, Streets and Avenues, will be out soon. The Scripted Cocktail Party was a complete success, but for the unclean underwear, after which another episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. Gabriel attempts to explain said episode afterwards in a long, rambling, and flustered monologue, Malcolm butchers a few scandinavian names, and Gabriel reports on his journey to Jacks and Jill’s Sunshine Retreat Center to meet with guru Colin Jacks. Gabriel attempted to make a world made entirely of marshmellow because he is shackled by his absurdist sense of humor. More than he has ever stared into the eyes of a woman, Gabriel stared into Colin’s eyes, which was a frightful occurrence, but what did he learn? To create a world within is to create a world without. Next thing you know, we are going to be wearing diapers and making googly sounds. Merry frickin christmas.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Whatever happened to Freud and his quaint Oedipal Complex?
Welcome. Perhaps we are implanted in your brain. Our first set of music is like lying back on a therapists couch, which brings on the question for the week, which is, Whatever happened to Freud and his quaint oedipal complex? Then Gabe reads from Oedipus the King, after which point Malcolm and Gabe are overcome, so much so that Malcolm comes close to suggesting they call it quits right here and now, but really only implies it through his musical selection. Does Malcolm eat the ears off living pigs? Of course not. Gabe pumps his scripted cocktail party, which will be friday the 19th, at 2206 N. Rockwell, at around 8. For more directions email him at mail@mutablesound.com, or call at 773-384-4642. You can also write to mail@mutablesound.com if you have a response to this weeks question or any week for that matter.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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What's black and white and red all over?
Bloody snow rocks, among other things. Gabriel reads from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay on a new segment titled Book You! The man died of a tooth abscess. Gabriel attempts to recount what has happened in past episodes of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, but only succeeds in confusing Malcolm further. Then we revert back to 1903 and the actual radioplay itself. All that talk of smoking and drinking has Gabe smoking and drinking. Then Gabriel reviews 2012: Doomsday, in which mayans attempt to save the world for christ, because obviously the whole of mayan civilization is dependent upon the work of christian missionaries from the third century ad. Gabriel advises to eat only lettuce and celery on his segment, Gabe’s Guide to Better Health. Malcolm is not so certain because we all are dying in the larger scheme of things, instead believing in a balanced meal, and Gabriel pumps the scripted cocktail party that will be taking place at his house at 2206 N. Rockwell St. For more information, email mail@mutablesound.com, or call 773-384-4642.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Josh Glenn
Friend of Mutable Sound, Joshua Glenn, has recently released a book entitled, The Idler’s Glossary, with Canadian publisher, Biblioasis, in which he explores idleness from every angle, with a comment concerning The Situationists here and Hannah Arendt there, he runs the gamut from playful to informative. Throughout, within the confines of his premise, that what he’s offering us here is an amusing glossary of arcane and everyday terms to denote the idle, he has created a very powerful critique of the work-a-day world. From Aestivate and Flazy, to Labor and Dissolute.
Glenn made his name as editor-in-chief of Hermenaut, a subversive magazine of ideas couched in readable and engaging prose. It was inspired by the teen magazine phenomenon, full of intriguing profiles and wry correspondence, and a distinctive world-view cultivated during his time at the Utne Reader. Having surrounded himself with a close circle of editors and authors often groomed by himself into maturity, Glenn went on to capture the imaginations of burgeoning elite everywhere. He rose from the zine culture of the early nineties (along with The Idler and The Baffler, among others) to achieve national reknown at the cusp of the new millenium, going on to develop the Ideas section of the Boston Globe, and continue his forays into the effluvium of culture as a freelance writer, pumping out some truly inspired pieces for N+1, a periodical itself inspired by Hermenaut. As well as continuing his cultural discourse on hermenaut.org, a blog aggregator he runs, he has put out Taking Things Seriously with Princeton Architectural Press, and of course, The Idler’s Glossary.
Mark Kingwell’s introductory essay offers a playful defence of the idler as homo superior, and it is here in this alternate universe, that Glenn has always soared. Idleness is the cornerstone from which this cultural critic has spun a collage-like discourse, his prickly critiques into everything from fake authenticity to camp, all stem from the bedrock of a simple ideology, that there is nothing more revolutionary than doing nothing. Much of his kaleidescopic learning is apparent in miniature within this book, perhaps the nicest example of which being his note about Joe Bousquet in his definition for Beautiful Loser. “My life is externally the life of a reject, and I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Bousquet is famous for saying, his own idea of the homo superior being one in which persons are excellent at what they are born to do, but failures at everything else.
Mr. Glenn paints an amusing, poignant picture, that I personally find proves more emotionally charged than Ambrose Bierce’s classic, The Devil’s Dictionary. More enlightened, less Child of the Enlightenment.
In the Mutableye is a segment that sometimes showcases something interesting that is happening somewhere in the world at this moment, and sometimes showcases some fad or person from the past that we here at Mutable acknowledge is still cool s**t.
For our first ever Is Still Cool S**t, we wanted to showcase an author with a profound sense of the worth of leisure, Josh Glenn
What is life? (Biologically speaking)
With guest Marshall, the man behind the experimental venue, AV-aerie. The great Bee Gees’ tragedy discussed, while Marshall defines biological life, and Gabriel wants to go on a search for the fountain of youth in the sewers of Chicago, but Studs Terkel’s passed away so how could he? How Malcolm and Marshall met, which transitions smoothly into a consideration of doom metal, those who play it, and what wonderful people they are. All this gingerly interspersed with melodies from out the leaves of the scrapbook, as well as another episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, and many more mystical moments. Listen to Gabe smoking very loudly while Marshall is speaking…
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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When will this kick in?
Live at the AV-aerie and sounding like some sort of smooth jazz dj, only to then let loose some orchestral maneuvers and discuss zeppelins covered in sequins. Gabriel is most obviously drunk and perhaps twinkling with hidden knowledge, the question for this week being when will this stuff kick in, and breast implants for George W., ultimately making it to episode 2 of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, then on to amateur victorian beat-boxing, to symbols of human hubris, to the sexiest industrial corridor, to where we have been, the past and the future, imagining our lives as graphs or pie charts, and everywhere in between.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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What Are Friends Really For?
Imagine you forgot how to speak, but got to address the local planning committee. You test the microphone, look off to your left, but eventually some sound must be emitted. This is us.
We played records and made small-talk. A cover of a Syd Barrett original caused Gabe to sputter and coo. Malcolm wanted to showcase other lights, of both yesteryear and today, though as to tomorrow he was reticent about making any definitive statement. We did, however, make mention of our upcoming releases, such as a A Survey of My Failures This Far, and what friends are for, and also introduced Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, episode one.
This was in the Kinsey Industrial Corridor, and the two of us were smoking furtively, attempting to work the other up into a frenzy so as to awaken interest in an otherwise bored and (at the time at least) nonexistent audience. Marshall popped in to clean up from a private party of the evening previous, occasionally stopping to listen when something funny was said, or a choice side brought silence and admiration.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Welcome to Mutable Sound
Mutable Sound was originally Mutable Press, a company founded with Zachary Katz and the publication of a small book titled Seven Short Plays for the Bedroom. We had it printed at Kinko’s. We bound them ourselves using a saddle stitch on the floor of my bedroom at 180 Green Street where the plays themselves had been performed. We had discussed it in Brooklyn over eggs.
Read MoreLofty standard they perform 'Bedroom Theater' in one of JP’s dwindling artist spaces
Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff
A curtain is furled under a pipe that runs just beneath the ceiling, and a spotted cat wanders in. On the makeshift stage there is a ripped couch, a battered metal file cabinet labeled “This Was Your Life,” and a swath of green shag carpet.
Sporting long sideburns and blue Chuck Taylor sneakers, Gabriel Boyer takes the stage and launches into a reading of “Dracula.” The spectators arrayed on the performer’s bed are less than comfortable: The slats beneath his mattress aren’t nailed in, so they tend to shift whenever somebody moves too much.
This is “Bedroom Theater,” freewheeling performances that take place in Boyer’s Jamaica Plain loft every eight days. Boyer, 26, is a frequent actor and the author of some of the plays and skits that have been staged in his bedroom for the past year. He and a friend have even published a guide, “Seven Short Plays for the Bedroom.”
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