Poems, performances, photography, productions, stories, prose, music, journalism, band, songwriting, videos - surviving despite the odds. Is it all true? Yeah. Maybe. Sometimes. Mostly. Creation is transformative. I collaborate with amazing artists and musicians, primarily with my band, Puma Perl and Friends. Books available as well: knuckle tattoos, Belinda and Her Friends, Ruby True, Retrograde, Birthdays Before and After. Photo, Len DeLessio
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
PUMA PERL'S PANDEMONIUM*****IT'S QUIET*****
Video by Bicycle Joe Tomasello, Bowery Electric, Puma Perl's Pandemonium, 09/27/13. Walter Steding on violin, Joff Wilson on guitar.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Puma Perl - For A Minute - from Knuckle Tattoos
While the band warms up, 09/27/13, Puma Perl's Pandemonium at the Bowery Electric, video by Colleen Whitaker, Starliner Productions.
Puma Perl - 20 Years and A Day
09/227/13 Puma Perl's Pandemonium at the Bowery Electric with Walter Steding, Joff Wilson, Jeanne Carno-Rosenberg, and Sam Harris. Video by Colleen Whittaker, Starliner Productions.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Puma Perl performs "Welfare Heroin" and other poems 2013Sep27
Thank you, John Winer! At the Bowery Electric Map Room, 9/217/13, Puma Perl's Pandemonium, performing with Walter Steding, violin, Joff Wilson, guitar, Sam Harris, bass, Jeanne Carno-Rosenberg, percussion.
Welfare Heroin
Another view of Welfare Heroin. Make Music New York meets DDAY Productions outside the Bowery Poetry Club on 6/21/12. Introduced by DDAY partner Big Mike.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
PUMA PERL*****Coney Island Saturday******
Published on Dec 7, 2013
Coney Island Saturday's from Puma Perl
Puma's work, like many artists, owes a debt to Lou Reed for his influence.
Puma wrote this Poem long ago, but it seemed especially poignant to her on this day.
Joining Puma Perl are her friends, JOff WilsOn on Guitar and Danny Ray plays Saxophone
Poem Copyright © Puma Perl 10/27/2013 all rights reserved
as part of Great Weather for Media Sunday Poetry Series presented by David Lawton
If you Share Please ALWAYS credit Bicycle Joe Tomasello — with David Lawton, Angello Olivieri, JOff WilsOn, Puma Perl, Walter G. Steding, Danny Ray and Cyndi Dawson at The Parkside Lounge.
Bicycle Joe has been Pedaling his Ass around NYC to see and hear great Musicians, Bands, Poets and Performance Artists and recording them Live in genuine Low-Fi Color and Sound. ALWAYS give Bicycle Joe Tomasello credit for the Video
subscribe to my NEW channel
www.youtube.com/user/BicycleJoeTomasello Lots of New Music and Poetry to come
All Videos are Copyright © Bicycle Joe Tomasello September 8th, 2013
All images, lyrics and music remains the intellectual property of the original artists, performers, composers, lyricists, musicians and writers and all rights are reserved for them into perpetuity and shall remain their intellectual property over any other agreements imposed by YouTube, Google, Facebook and their Parent companies and their subsidiaries for using their forums and releasing said artists work here
Puma's work, like many artists, owes a debt to Lou Reed for his influence.
Puma wrote this Poem long ago, but it seemed especially poignant to her on this day.
Joining Puma Perl are her friends, JOff WilsOn on Guitar and Danny Ray plays Saxophone
Poem Copyright © Puma Perl 10/27/2013 all rights reserved
as part of Great Weather for Media Sunday Poetry Series presented by David Lawton
If you Share Please ALWAYS credit Bicycle Joe Tomasello — with David Lawton, Angello Olivieri, JOff WilsOn, Puma Perl, Walter G. Steding, Danny Ray and Cyndi Dawson at The Parkside Lounge.
Bicycle Joe has been Pedaling his Ass around NYC to see and hear great Musicians, Bands, Poets and Performance Artists and recording them Live in genuine Low-Fi Color and Sound. ALWAYS give Bicycle Joe Tomasello credit for the Video
subscribe to my NEW channel
www.youtube.com/user/BicycleJoeTomasello Lots of New Music and Poetry to come
All Videos are Copyright © Bicycle Joe Tomasello September 8th, 2013
All images, lyrics and music remains the intellectual property of the original artists, performers, composers, lyricists, musicians and writers and all rights are reserved for them into perpetuity and shall remain their intellectual property over any other agreements imposed by YouTube, Google, Facebook and their Parent companies and their subsidiaries for using their forums and releasing said artists work here
PUMA PERL******WALKING TO CONEY ISLAND*****
Recorded at Parkside Lounge, 10/27/13, by Bicycle Joe Tomasello, subscribe to his youtube page here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BicycleJoeTomasello
With Joff Wilson on guitar and Danny Ray on saxophone. Part of a set in tribute to Lou Reed, who had died that morning.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BicycleJoeTomasello
With Joff Wilson on guitar and Danny Ray on saxophone. Part of a set in tribute to Lou Reed, who had died that morning.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Puma Perl and Bettie Rage "Insomnia" Rew & Who? NYC Nov. 20th, 2013
This was filmed at the Rew and Who show on 11/20/13 (Rew Starr with Gregg Bielski as "the Who" or co-host.) Gregg sent me the music and I created a piece to go along with it. You can find Gregg and his new band, Bettie Rage, here: https://www.facebook.com/TheBettieRage
Puma Perl Punk Poet at Parkside
Too bad this video was cut off - Parkside Lounge, with Joff Wilson on guitar and Walter Steding on violin, Check Meghann Wright's page on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/grindethos?feature=watch
Puma Perl -- You're the Heroin in my Needle ---- 2013 Café Wha? NYC
Video by Colleen Whitaker, with Joff Wilson on guitar, Walter Steding on violin, Cafe Wha.
Colleen's Youtube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/StarlinerLive
Colleen's Youtube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/StarlinerLive
Lou Reed: Looking Back
Lou Reed: Looking Back
Sunday, October 27, 2013,
was a most Perfect Imperfect Day. Everyone had gotten the news. Lou Reed songs
were playing everywhere. I walked to my poetry feature at the Parkside Lounge
listening to the banana album. I always listened to the banana album - it had been
injected into my bloodstream in 1967, and it had never stopped flowing through
my veins.
I was backed up at my
feature by Joff Wilson on guitar and Danny Ray on sax; Walter Steding, the
violinist who was closely associated with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol and the
Factory, was out of town or would have been playing with us. After the poetry
set, they closed with a sing-along to Sunday Morning and Pale Blue Eyes. As
always, they were my brilliant and simpatico crime partners. Strangely, I had,
earlier in the week, decided to do an old Velvets-inspired poem, Shiny Banana, a piece that I had never before
read in public. The previous month, I had written a new piece, Riding With Heroin, directly inspired by Lou Reed, and we did that one, too, as well as some Coney Island poems. The guys ended the set with Sunday Morning and Pale Blue Eyes.
One of our friends in attendance, "Bicycle Joe" Tomasello, was kind enough to video some of our performance and post on his youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm95S5VvZPA
Check out Bicycle Joe Tomasello's page for more videos.
Puma Perl - Riding With Heroin, with JOff WilsOn & Danny Ray
Video by Bicycle Joe Tomasello, check your his youtube page. Joff Wilson on guitar, Danny Ray on Saxophone, Parkside Lounge, 10/27/13, RIP Lou Reed
Bicycle Joe's page:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bicycle+joe+tomasello&sm=3
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
PUMA PERL'S PANDEMONIUM
BOWERY ELECTRIC MAP ROOM
327 BOWERY
NY NY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013, 7 PM
WHERE POETRY MEETS ROCK N ROLL
PERFORMANCES BY
PUMA PERL
JOFF WILSON
WALTER STEDING
JEANNE CARNO
JOE STZABNIK
JEFF WARD
RICK ECKERLE
DAVID LAWTON
NICCA RAY
ACOUSTIC SETS BY:
BLACK IRISH
BOWERY BOYS
FREE ADMISSION
ENJOY HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS 5-8
SHOWTIME AT 7!
CONVENIENT TO F TRAIN, 2ND AVENUE
D, B, BROADWAY LAFAYETTE
6, BLEECKER STREET
M15 BUS
http://www.theboweryelectric.com/?m=20130927&cat=6
Puma Perl & Friends at Manitoba's: A Review
Pictured: Rick Eckerle, Walter Steding, Puma Perl, Jeanne Carno, Danny Ray, Joff Wilson
Photo by Alan Rand
Read the review of the August 24 show at Manitoba's here:
http://www.examiner.com/review/puma-perl-and-friends-at-manitoba-s-8-24-13?fb_action_ids=10151897661624188&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
*ReW & WhO?* at Otto's Shrunken Head WeD JuNe 26 {bYe Bye JuNe} 4pm ... here's the link to watch LiVe... & SPREAD...
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rew-who
Steve Krebs is the WhO?
4:15... Kindnesse
4:30... The Vivisectors
4:45... Puma Perl
5:00... Iconicide Nyhc
5:15.. Pamela Drake
5:30... Journey Dance with Rachel Frank
5:45... The Midnight Sessions
STREAMS LIVE:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rew-who
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rew-who
Steve Krebs is the WhO?
4:15... Kindnesse
4:30... The Vivisectors
4:45... Puma Perl
5:00... Iconicide Nyhc
5:15.. Pamela Drake
5:30... Journey Dance with Rachel Frank
5:45... The Midnight Sessions
STREAMS LIVE:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rew-who
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
PUMA PERL’S PANDEMONIUM!!!!
THE HO AND THE MO PRESENT
PUMA PERL’S PANDEMONIUM!!!!
FRIDAY,
JUNE 28, 2013
BOWERY
ELECTRIC MAP ROOM
327
BOWERY @ JOEY RAMONE PLACE
NEW
YORK, NY 10003
(212) 228-0228
SHOWTIME 7-9:30
ENJOY HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS 5-10 PM
MR. TIM & RAFFAELE ARE YOUR HAPPY
HOUR HOSTS!
SHOW PRODUCED AND HOSTED BY PUMA
PERL!
NO COVER – NO MINIMUM – 21 PLUS, MUST
HAVE ID
FEATURING SPOKEN WORD BY:
VERLESS DORAN
RONNIE NORPEL
PUMA PERL
MUSICAL GUESTS:
JOFF WILSON - DANNY RAY -
WALTER STEDING - JEANNE CARNO - RICK ECKERLE - ALLISON GORDY
JOE SZTABNIK - JEFF WARD - DUNE BABY
SURPRISE GUESTS!
http://www.theboweryelectric.com
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