We’re back!! Come witness the madness as Grudge Match returns to Marfa/Lucky Cheng’s! Comedians and musicians battle it out for your hearts! Winners go home with the trophy and the glory while the losers are taken out back and shamed, and somehow have to face themselves in the morning.

NB special comeback show has sick lineup!!

Music by Joe Yoga, Dustin Edge, Bamboo, Mike Milazzo
Comedy by John Murdock, Paulina Princess of Power, Princess Diandra, Molly Knefel

Hosted by Mo Diggs

**SHOW, AS ALWAYS, IS FREE**

an (a)muse collective production
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Facebook event, if that’s how you roll:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238335583756

but! new yoga album! new yoga album! again, comments on the song, mix, etc encouraged.

[right click and SAVE AS to download]

http://goyogago.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/easy-rider-2.mp3

new Joe Yoga album Life Out East coming Spring 2010!

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http://goyogago.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/paper-thin-walls.mp3

Lyrics

I gotta send what I can’t receive home
I’d have it made were it not for these old

paper thin walls

We understand it could all be breached, though
You would not believe
What could pass through these old

paper thin walls

It’s been a long, hard year. A year of hopes, dreams, triumph, surprises, love, agony, music, theater, partying, new friends, old friends, loss, sleep (well, maybe not sleep)…

WELL FUCK IT. It’s that time of year folks…

The 2nd annual A VERY YOGA CHRISTMAS!!

We are blowing all that shit out the water, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and we are ONCE MORE going to rock like it’s 2009 (cause it is).

Featuring:

House band led by Mike Milazzo! Martin Stroh on drums!
A Coach reunion set!! (that’s Yoga’s old band! Andrea Dangerously on drums!)
Comedy by God Tastes Like Chicken! John Murdock! Tim Warner! Jen Perney!
The Musical stylings of Michelle Leona, Alabaster Rhumb, Beezy Douglas and Bamboo!!
The dark and beautiful weirdness of Penny Pollak and Sara Gaddis!
A Holiday Man-Pain poem by Umberto MacDougal!
and much much more!

Special Guests, Surprises, Raffles!!!

FREE CUPCAKES!!

a double-blind Secret Santa: bring a gift/get a gift… they all go in a big box and then pick one at random later on in the show! This was one of the biggest hit at last year’s Yoga Christmas so be sure to participate!

Drunken, rambling, I-love-you-man intros all night by your host: Joe Yoga!!!

produced by yr friends at (a)muse collective! lights and sound & boothwork by luckydave!

$5 suggested donation OR bring food for our potluck!!!

i finally got the full video (filmed in HD by Tim Warner), all 9.9 gigs of it, and have it, after nearly crashing my computer twice, snugly nestled on my hard drive. It looks incredible! Should have DVDs available by the end of the week. So please look at Nick’s video to whet your appetite!

“the sixty one” is a music site for artists to post songs and for listeners to find new shit to listen to. much like last.fm. except the sixty one seems to have a bigger focus on independent artists and is pushing creative commons hard (haven’t looked into creative commons a lot, it appeals to me but I’m still wary for reasons that are hard to articulate, but have something to do with the fact that if you leave yourself unprotected, people will abuse and exploit you to the extent they’re allowed to).

returning to my song though… it was pretty cool to see that. The song got 320 “hearts” (think facebook “likes”) which is awesome to think that over the last week or so 320 random people heard my song and liked it.

my point being… why not try to get all my songs voted up? so here i am asking you to… well… I’m not going to ask you to sign up for an account just to vote my songs up, but how about this… you go visit the site and peek around for a minute or two, and if it looks like something you might use more than say, five times, then by all means sign up for an account and go to http://www.thesixtyone.com/joeyoga/ and heart my little songs into oblivion. But only if you really like them! I don’t want to cheat. All twelve songs that make up my album The Dreamless Sea are up there and available to stream and download for free.

Here's my song, on the front page!

I’m not sayin… I’m just sayin.

So… Scratch is done. For now, anyway. I’ve still got to get the full video, there’s a review I hear is coming, and I have yet to fully decompress. But people keep asking me: How do you feel about it?

Well the short answer is I feel incredible. I’m thrilled with my performance, and with the hard work and dedication of Penny Pollak in the booth and Mike, Natalie, and Murdock at rehearsals and in their performances. It was truly a team effort, and against a LOT of fucking odds, we pulled it off and made it really special for the people in the audience. But why take my word for it? Here’s notes from Nick Courage, who was in the audience that night: http://amutualrespect.org/words/2009/11/20/scratch-clip

A word to all who came (and to all who would have come): You are amazing. Your support, encouragement, and friendship are so important to me. What happened on Nov 15th does. not. happen. without. all. of. you. That is fucking gospel and I will never forget it.

There is a section of about 20-25 lines in “Audition” that were written in 1999, and there are another handful of lines from that scene that I wrote about a week before the play went up. This was truly a journey or ten years for me, and it will be, when I die, one of the singular events of my life, that first performance. and it was a god damn triumph.

Here’s a video of me covering Radiohead’s “Black Star” at the October Grudge Match. Thanks to Dustin Edge for the video!

Grudge Match is every third Wednesday of the month (except December) … featuring the best in NYC’s underground music and comedy. produced by (a)muse collective. Next show is Jan 20! WITH HUGE GUEST STARS!!!

RESERVE TICKETS: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=SCR10&GUID=5790e1a2-f0ee-4fc4-a6ca-10296bfca633

see the Facebook event herehttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189738140165

**ONE NIGHT ONLY**
Sun Nov 15 2009 – 8pm
@ Theater Under St. Mark’s
$12

SCRATCH is a play in verse and song, written and performed by Joe Yoga.
Direction and Lighting Design by Penny Pollak
Produced by (a)muse collective and Horse Trade Theater

Part of (a)muse collective’s Six Deadly Miracles series of solo shows by its members, Scratch tells the story of a man trying to decide whether or not to leave New York City in the wake of his failed engagement. We follow him through what could be his last few hours in New York, sifting through his psychological Lost and Found to try and make sense of what was lost and to stock up on supplies before moving on to what’s next. A dramatization, condensation, and re-imagining of events from the author’s life, Scratch is a meditation on loss, expectations, motivation, and home. A life in the night of a tough call.

produced by (a)muse collective and Horse Trade Theater

a joe yoga primer, thanks marsha for the video!