A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip, the re-hash, what to avoid, and taxes. Bonus "Reserve Stock" included in the book, which details excellent methods of performing certain tricks.

Busking as a Mercenary Art: or How to Hustle a Bar, Restaurant, or Street

Arts & Photography

King of the Street Conjurors, Alfie

Moore, J Paul

Performing Arts

Ion Drive Publishing

The Demented Chauffeur & Other Mysteries

Literature & Fiction

Michael C Ford

Poetry

Written over an extraordinary twenty-two years, Ariel & Electra draws on R.Merlin s experience as a laser artist, working Druid, and occult initiate with a passion for the Eleusinian Mysteries.  And, while he wryly suggests it be listed under sex, drugs, rock/n/roll, lightshows and magic in space, (and, truth be told, all those things are in there), the novel is really about the evolution of consciousness. Set in a hopeful near/future time, Ariel & Electra covers the adventures of a ship-full of visionary artists and, ultimately, the world-changing shamanic temple drama that they create. Within the framework of the story, we find ourselves in the later stages of the Great Migration, the widening-out of the human drama into the planets and moons of our solar ecliptic plane. And with this, our newly expanded point of view, humankind s perspective has widened as well. Some of the more evident changes can be seen in our Earth, now a garden spot, with a restored atmosphere and many natural wonders preserved and restored likewise. A less evident (though more relevant) consequence of the Great Migration is a system-wide rise in our collective desire for the evolution of human consciousness. This blooming of sanity brings about a rampant rise in popular shamanism and the attendant altered states that ensue. This, in turn, leads directly to the emergence of a Spacer Culture, characterized by the conscious use of technology, and more importantly, the technological enhancement of consciousness... Envision along, if you are so inclined...  What would your world be like if the pursuit of entheogenic experience were celebrated and encouraged? If new forms of mind/expanding experiences (and chemistry) were generally lauded and praised, were a vital part of the cultural landscape? If the internet carried sites with coded keys that ultimately led you to a secret magical society on the Moon? If personal body mods could be achieved solely through visualization? What would it be like to awaken every day to the wilds of volcanic Io, the orange sulfur moon of Jupiter, beautiful beyond recounting...  Into this world we will now toss a spray of greeny crystals, a mind-altering substance an order of magnitude more powerful than anything extant hitherto, leading the crew of the Ariel to plan an evolutionary leap, embark on an unprecedented adventure of the mind, and frame up the greatest and most shamanic temple event in the history of humankind...

Ariel & Electra; a wyrding lucination in thirty/nine parts

Science Fiction & Fantasy

R. Merlin

Science Fiction

Springhorn Fairy Tales & Verse

Religion & Spirituality

David Springhorn

New Age & Spirituality

Guerilla Theatre is a nuts-and-bolts approach to the kind of interactive environmental theatre found only at Faires, and is a superb handbook for both the beginner and advanced street/improvisational actor. Written by J. Paul Moore, a forty-year Renaissance Faire performance veteran and a master of improvisational theatre, the book guides the reader through the crafting and performing of a wide variety of ways to entertain Faire-goers, singly and in groups. The book is edited by Phyllis Patterson, the creator of the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura, California. Different than any other kind of theatre, the streets of the Faire are the actor's stage, and the flowing ever-changing crowd their audience. In Guerilla Theatre, Mr. Moore supplies a how-to guide for mastering the required skills for playing to this audience, along with exercises, illustrations, a generous number of gambits that worked for him, and a goodly helping of war stories. What is Guerrilla Theatre? Guerrilla Theatre for Faires is an interactive style of improvisational performance allowing audiences to become actual players in the show. The experience is by turns aggressive, passive, intimate, distant, obvious and covert. There are as many approaches as there are people to approach it. It is a broad, colorful, and captivating way of approaching the Faire canvas. Although a passion and/or talent for improvisation will prove invaluable in Guerrilla Theatre, the technique of creating distant visuals and hatching covert operations require little or no such calling. In fact, one can oft times recruit players from the audience to join your merry band on the spot - some more willingly than others. As a lone wolf or member of a group, one can create an exhilarating and compelling under-current of village life in Shakespeare's England. About the Author A Theatre Arts major at Los Angeles City College, Mr. Moore began a forty year affiliation with the Southern (California) Renaissance Pleasure Faire in 1967. Over his tenure, Mr. Moore has taught pre-faire workshops in Elizabethan Language, Swashbuckling 101, and Guerrilla Theatre. In addition to writing and directing many stage shows he has portrayed major theme characters, including Robin Hood, Sir Francis Drake, the Lord Mayor, Captain and Sir Tristan Hawkins. A co-founder of several theatrical and environmental groups, Mr. Moore has also directed a covert band of theatre guerrillas, The Lord Mayor's Players, and much of the material detailed in the Compendium of Bits chapter evolved from the talents of these troupes. A magician as well as an actor and author, Mr. Moore has appeared on numerous occasions at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, as well as in many films. In addition to Guerrilla Theatre, he has also written Busking as a Mercenary Art and Swash-Buckling 101. His colleague at the Southern Faire, the highly regarded David Springhorn, has this to say about Mr. Moore and his new book: "What we have here is a battle manual made by a Captain in the trenches, and I highly suggest you follow it. J. Paul Moore taught me more than "gorilla" theater: he gave me the gift of communicating Magic to an audience; how to alter their reality and my own; how to destroy the thin membrane between actor and spectator; how to put myself on the line so I could draw the audience into the Faire's communal soul. Think I am laying it on too thick? Well, pal, if you're not having this same intense personal experience with the crowd, you ain't doin' it right "

Guerrilla Theatre for Faires and Festivals

J. Paul Moore

Dennis Jakob met Jim Morrison in 1964, they becoming fast friends and eventually college room mates. This book details some of the many experiences they had together just prior to and during Jim's early fame with The Doors, including several conversations between them which reveal many of Jim's early philosophies and attitudes. Included are several candid photos of Jim taken by the author.

Summer with Morrison: The Early Life and Times of James Douglas Morrison

Biographies & Memoirs

Jakob, Dennis C.

Arts & Literature

Noted actor and author Greg Bell’s long-awaited collection of poetry and short essays, Looking for Will: My Bardic Quest with Shakespeare, encompasses his life-long relationship with the Bard, Shakespeare’s works and the times in which he lived, as well as rare insights into Bell’s quest. Due to his long exposure to all aspects of Shakespeare’s works and his decades-long inquiry into Shakespeare’s life, Bell feels he’s been mentored by the Bard himself. This is evident in the work of Looking for Will, where that same intimacy that graced his multiple-award-winning and critically acclaimed solo stage show, Alms for Oblivion, comes through to the reader. In describing Looking for Will, Bell says, “This book is a haunting – both a séance and an exorcism. It chronicles a lifelong (and poetic) journey through the ghosts of the past toward William Shakespeare.” Bell rightly calls himself “Archaeologist of the Invisible,” and the book includes a preface that admits to digging up the past, and maps the trajectory of his quest. In the body of poetic works are free verse, blank verse, original sonnets and some excerpts from his Alms, in which Bell masterfully conjures up the Bard of Avon. “Be prepared for paranormal phenomena!” says he.  

Looking For Will: My Bardic Quest with Shakespeare

Bell, Greg

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