Re: TOM MILLER TO BEGIN NEW TOM MILLER SHOW IN 2013 - FORM GAINESVILLE'S NEWEST LEGITIMATE CHURCH - MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRESS CONFERENCE COMING SOON...‏

For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release

ITEM: The Tom Miller Show, the longest running variety/performance art show in the history of Gainesville, begins a new incarnation at a soon-to-be-announced secret location for January of 2013.

WHAT WE CAN SAY: The show will be hosted in a legitimate new Church: The Tabernacle of Hedonism [The Reverend Angeldust will preside]. It will have an open mic component, an independent video component, there will be bands, performers, entertainers, there will be a Little Rascals vintage episode before each evening's sermon, it will be podcast, it will have a multimedia-integrated web presence, it will benefit society, we will petition the City Commission to allow the Reverend Angeldust to provide a benediction for one of the future City Commission meetings [if they do not allow this, we will sue], we will demand the release of classified government UFO secrets, and we will abide by the primary tenet of the Church: "DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT". All are welcome, except parishioners of the Dove Outreach and The Rock. It will be like a Holy Church collided with a children's morning TV show. There will be puppets and glitter. Maybe a drag queen or two...who knows.

There will be membership cards for those deemed worthy by the "Secret Council of Society Deacons".

We will perform fund-raisers for the community. We will support freedom of expression. Nobody will be censored on our stage [except for the Dove Outreach and The Rock].


DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NOW. THIS IS NOT THE PRESS RELEASE. THIS IS THE HOLY WORD OF JAMBA.


May you be blessed by the Goddess, Jamba. May you find a quarter-pound in the dumpster, from which all sustenance cometh.


http://millerworks.weebly.com/the-reverend-angeldusts-tabernacle-of-hedonism-with-your-host-tom-miller.html



Questions: Tom Miller - [email protected] / 386-295-0090  ==================   
COMING JAN. 2013

TOM MILLER on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_%28performance_artist%29


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Hi Howard,

big fan.

Look, I have to make this movie and my legion of fans in Gainesville Florida are just not coughing up the dough. If I write about politics on my blog, 2000 of them chime in with their comments. If I need fifty bucks, crickets. Freaking crickets.

http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog


So since 3 grand couldn't be all that big of a deal to you, especially to make a skunk-ape movie...and think of the press you could derive for sponsoring some weird performance-art guys' little movie, I think it would be worth it. I could ride on on your coat-tail and you could promote and fund some subversive art from a real-deal art wacko. Look: I have a wikipedia page, so I'm for real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_(American_Performance_Artist)

So the story is a coming of age thing. It's the fourth in a series. The first one shut down Cincinnati's public access channel because they accidentally aired it in prime time. There's a clip on this fund-raising crapo site here with the details. Anyway...look. I know this deal is going down the toilet but on the off chance that human beings read the emails...I promise I will make a movie. Yes, I will squander some of the money on my living expenses. I enjoy lobster and martinis. So yeah...some of that. But I promise I will make a film. And if you will lend your name to this movie, I think it will become a true piece of work in the cult arena. A real chunk of crap! Gootis crap. (Gootis is the Indian name for Skunk-Ape...or at least that's what we're saying.)

3 grand. Genius!

http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog



Howard, you've never let me down before, and that's because I have never asked for anything. Now I'm asking. And if you refuse, I will be mortified. Because for three-thousand dollars, you could waste that on a bad meal in some stuffy English haunted castle, and you won't even get a movie out of it.

Your fan,



-- Tom Miller (Performance Artist, Bohemian, Master Film Maker (and by Film, I mean video)...and I'm 47 and live in a garage. I just need a chance.

Here's the link to the fund-raiser for the movie. There is a link to the previous couple of Gootis movie previews...the Cincinnati thing...the one-page screen play...I already have this thing cast. Wanna' be in it? No problem. Think about it. At least let me know you got it and maybe send a comment like, "Hell no..." or "Get this guy outta' here" so I can use that in the credits. Thanks, Howard.


http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -


Date: Monday, July 23 2012
Cover: $3
Time: Pre-events begin at 7pm. Official show start for Puppet Slam is 9:39 pm sharp!
Location: The Laboratory -
818 W. University Ave
Gainesville, FL 32601
(352) 505-5337

TITLE: The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles Presents:
           Gainesville's First Puppet Slam!

Description: This Monday, Gainesville's staple alternative open mic, The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles will honor the minority group of disenfranchised members of our community known as puppets. These beings will assemble, with special guest puppets from Orlando and the surrounding area, for Gainesville's first Puppet Slam! All regulars who typically perform in the show will be required to incorporate a puppet into their act in order to be permitted to perform. There will be scheduled feature puppet performances, puppet videos, and there will be man-sized puppets in the form of aliens, monsters, and puppets that look almost exactly like human beings. This production is being presented in cooperation with Tom Miller, Daniel Timothy Ballard (local puppeteer and monster maker), and The Laboratory (a Cafe of Science). It will run until 2am.

Pre-Event: Prior to this show, there will be auditions for the Alachua County Rapscallions theatre company which are open to the public at 7pm. This event has been incorporated into the Miller show because for the first time, puppets will be allowed to participate in Gainesville theatre auditions. This has never happened before in the city of Gainesville. Progress!

The open mic list will be limited to 15 lucky participants. There is a randomly drawn prize: a twenty-five dollar bar tab good for any drinks and food at the Lab and this coupon does not expire. There is a three dollar cover charge at the door, but with paid admission, the customer has a three dollar voucher at the bar for a drink.

Participants include Big Heads from local theatre director Gregg Jones, special appearance by Dolphin Wizard, and members of IBEX Puppetry (Orlando). Gainesville has never seen anything like this.

WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN. WHEN LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES, PUPPETS HAVE REMARKABLY OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIORS.

Facebook Link to the Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/137924893012594/



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