LGOE: Interviewing artists and discussing art in Toronto via Blog. Only Love! <3
I’m excited! February is looking to be a great month for the LGOE! 3 brilliant poets and a great musician to be interviewed. Tomy Bewick, Ritallin and others! Also talked to an Art Curator and others! Pay attention and stay tuned! Only Love! <3
Quick Thought: Metro – Poetry isn’t dead on stage
There is a news article about Poetry Slamming in today’s Metro (Toronto)!
Might want to check them out!
The article: “Poetry Isn’t Dead on Stage“
@Rittalin: An interview with Matt Miller aka Lip Balm, the founder of arguably Canada’s hottest new spoken word series, the Mississauga Poetry Slam. The show goes down tonight. Read it on the Cytopoetics Events blog:
Check out the article, here:
Quick Thought: I just Interviewed surrealist experimental short film artist Nathaniel Fox-Pappas about his latest three short films, one of which has been selected by Bach Modern Project to be exhibited in an experimental video art screening in Saulsburg, Austria, according to the artist himself.
Unfortunately, the screening of the three short films was cancelled due to technical difficulties. I look forward to watching the films at a later date and posting the interview and my own interpretation of the films at that time.
Only Love for Nathaniel Fox-Pappas! <3
And Only Love for www.foxtheatre.ca for being a venue that brings us such wonderful artists and films.
Only Love! <3
Stephen M. Miniotis,
Last Gentleman On Earth.
Quick Thought: After giving blood today, I bumped into two ruffians from the Amnesty International cause. I signed up and will be supporting them on this blog. You’ll see a neat little yellow sticker-button go up, and a relevant explanation in a longer post is eminent, along with a poem entitled: “Ode to a Candle: for Amnesty International”
I support Amnesty International’s fight for freedom of expression. And although I don’t “wax political” on this blog, I might have to remind my readership that some things are worth fighting for, and freedom of expression is of the utmost importance to all creative artists, myself included.
It reminds me of a quote from a poem I wrote, which I’ve begun to explain in a critical literary essay that I’m working on:
“All art is art without form and void, like the sea;
We are the ones who give it shape, and form”
-from “You Nymph of my Memories” by: Stephen M. Miniotis.
I will be posting an “Ode to a Candle: for Amnesty International” tommorow. It is based off of an older, different poem which I wrote, called “The Candle”.
I think that creating art to support freedom of expression is the highest gratitude one can give to a cause which is pure of heart. Please support Amnesty International, too.
Only Love! <3
Stephen M. Miniotis,
Last Gentleman On Earth.
Hello world! Thanks for checking out the LGOE Blog!
The LGOE blog is your one-stop shop for interviews and information about artists and events in the poetry and can-lit scene in Canada! My bus tokens only get me around downtown Toronto at the moment, but I’d love to do some interviews in various other urban centres in Canada, over the course of my blogging career! Here’s to starting!
My mission then? I’m hoping to interview some bright minds and help them social network online by blogging about them and their work. This will typically take the form of an interview and/or a discussion of their work. This blog pushes to a fanbase based off of two main social networking sites, where the multitude of my fans await: that is to say, Facebook and Twitter! By interviewing and discussing/critiquing artists, I can hopefully help their star-spangled dreams come true. Every interview helps! Only Love! <3
As previously stated, I live in Toronto, so if you want to do this over brunch or coffee, get at me, but be in and around the greater Toronto area (GTA), else I probably won't travel to you! Unless you're REALLY impressive! Else, let's keep it online or over the phone! 
Now allow me to digress. This is my first post! I’m excited to get started. I’ve been working on the “bells and whistles” of the LGOE blog for about two days now, and what you see before you are the skeletal remains of a carnivorous appetite for blogging. All paths lead to Rome, as they say, so here’s to hoping that the can-lit artists get interviewed here first!
As previously stated, this blog was created with the intent of interviewing aspiring poets and authors in the Toronto area about music, art, can-lit and poetry, not to mention any other kind of art or artist I can get my seedy little hands on. I will also, (quite possibly) review books, magazines and anything else that I’m reading, as it pertains to the art-scene in Canada, with the odd off-hand remark about other irrelevant topics. However, I keep it clean and safe, and don’t wax political, historical or religious on the blog. And neither should you. I am very, very, statistically speaking, polite!
So please, when commenting at, on or about the blog, anywhere, even in person, at events, please do keep your comments clean and orderly, and remember my slogan, “Only Love!”. Be polite when commenting! And the LGOE will be polite back to you!
Another one of the LGOE blog’s intented purpose is to showcase my creative writing, my dogged will-to-power in the can-lit scene, and my deepest, dirtiest fantasy, (shhhh! very secret!) of one day being a nationally syndicated Blog (or heck, why not dream big? a nationally syndicated column or gig somewhere that pays the bills), with the LGOE visiting various other cities in Canada, such as: Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa in particular, so that I can talk about all sorts of art with all sorts of various Canadian artists!
If the blog whets your appetite for knowledge about the LGOE and you want to know more about who I am, I’ve posted a brief bio in the “LGOE about me!” tab. Get at me!
As it stands today, I’ve taken one step away from self-publishing and one step toward considering publishers. Blogging is the next logical step in my writing career. Hopefully this blog will change how I publish and why. And no matter what happens, I will be a writer, in my own heart! And home is where the heart is!
“And Home, where is that mythic moat?
We each search for Ithaca alone,
Each on our leaky boats”
-LGOE
Misquoted for truth, by my own hand!
-Stephen M. Miniotis.
PS: At this early stage in my writing career, I need all the help I can get. As such, it is very important that you help me with social networking. If you have about 30 seconds to spare for a good cause, read on!
Please bookmark the blog and spread the word about the LGOE blog far and wide, so that we can make ripples in the tiny ocean that is the can-lit scene! Tell your grandmother, email your aunt in Tuscany.
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31 January 2012
LGOE: Last Gentleman On Earth!
