EVENT: Consumatron.com 1st Annual Revue!

Event: Consumatron.com 1st Annual Revue!
Location: Subterranean / 2011 W. North Ave. / Chicago, IL
Date: 10/15/2006

Review: This review will be a little different. I'm too biased and out of my mind pleased with all of you that came out to celebrate this event. I hope we can do it again next year, only bigger and better! As for the reviews, I'm leaving it up to any and all of you.

Anyone who would like to contribute to the memory of this great event, please send your reviews, photos or video files to me at consumatron[@]consumatron[dot]com and I will add your content to this post.

Thanks again to everyone who came out, making this a night to remember!

First, a bit of what you missed. Here is a video clip of Lord of The Yum Yum's set from Mariapaz:

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We met interesting people---saw amazing people perform--
and witnessed OUR son host an event that made us "Proud"...
A job well done...

Consumatron's 1st year Party.
Rating 5/5

-review submitted by my parents, who made the trip down from Milwaukee just for the show. (I think I made Lord of the Yum Yum fans out of them!)

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Let's see - this is why I don't have a blog: I've got nothing to say normally.

Got there about 9:00 as Kevin was introducing the first(?) act, Charles Blackstone. I was hoping Charles would have read from his book, not someone else's, but the reading was still good. Seemed more like overhearing a conversation than the written word. While Charles was reading, I was close enough to the bar to hear the ringing of the cash register, which was interesting, given the fact that this was a celebration of consumerism.

DJ Oh Shinobi filled the gaps nicely, and the thing I was impressed with most was the fact that the music was not too loud. You could actually carry on a conversation, a rarity these days. Well done, Mr. DJ. Good tracks too.

Up next (I think) was Dan Solomon with a good riff on the three types of poems and 'poets' you get at poetry slams, an observation on 'angry' poetry, and why his Dry poem about New Orleans was not the angry, F*** Bush, F*** Dan Brown, F*** FEMA poem he expected it to be. His set was very well thought out, and actually ended on an angry note, which was kind of nice :)

DJ Oh Shinobi once again...

Then came Lord of the Yum Yum, but I think his placard initially identified him as "Maximimum Happy" or maybe I imagined that. Anyway, his frantic set was unlike anything I had ever seen, with a nice ode to consumatron.com to get us started, right in the middle of the crowd. I happened to be right next to him when the drum sticks started flailing. I don't even know how to describe what he does. I think it would be best to just go listen to a couple of pieces or view a video of a performance at his media page.


I hung out for a little more DJ Oh Shinobi, grabbed a consumatron poster, had it signed by Kevin and Peter, and skated out before the next act.

All in all, a good time for $5. Can't wait for the next one.

-review submitted by Chris Hajer

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great party last night...don't stop

-review submitted by Oh, Shinobi, who DJd the party

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I had a great time on Sunday! I cannot wait until the next one.

-review submitted by Shannon

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Hey Kevin. I think the night went awesome, except for the fact that am I therapist and work with people with disabilities and had a few friends from work there...not so hip on the comedian who went on before Adam. But, nevertheless, we are all entitled to tell our story in any fashion deemed so.

Congratulations on your first year and a great party. Let's do it next year.

-review submitted by Meghan