welcome to the virtual perfect room, a companion to the actual perfect room, once a weekly and now an occasional performance and poetry showcase headquartered, once upon a time, in an old brick and wood building at the head of the duwamish industrial area, the DIA.
that building was known far and wide as the Romaine Electric Building, and for ten years it was home to the raggiest taggiest group of wierdos, artists, and bums like me. its rooftop was full of pigeons and starlings, and inside several dogs and quite a few cats.
through it all, performances radiated from the building throughout the lowlands and high of seattle washington of the recently deceased USA.
now the perfect room lives the way the temptations papa did - wherever it lays its hat is its home.
more shows to come, in various locations.
allen bauer 21 may 2006
it was the last perfect room at its original home - poetry before sheriffs
harmony borax works
eli huntington on computer, stefanie diricco on bowed bass and monte merrick on d-tuned slide guitar (james hughes not pictured)
o perfect room why are you so strange
alan sutherland, vanessa skanse and others perform march 24 2005
perfectly empty
the view from TPR when it was our living room
at benham gallery
harmony borax works (eli huntington not pictured) - the house band of the perfect room plays at opening for erin spence
ah the old blackoard
june 9 2005
jay wesley harrison
9 june 2005 sings and sings
brent arnold
opening for monica schley 28 jul 05
monica schley and host monte merrick
28 july 2005 the last of the weekly series
poet/harpist monica schley
and her paper dolls
me your host
8 april 2006, kozy kino
robb kunz shows us a movie
kozy kino was a regular feature at the perfect room
andru bemis
31 march 2006 a perfect room favorite
andru bemis
31 march 06
andru bemis and friend
31 mar 06
rachel ries and danny schmidt
the famous blackboard of the perfect room a la corsiglia
rachel ries
next to last RE show 14 may 2006
danny schmidt
the next to last perfect room at the old RE building 5/14/2006
rachel and danny
after palying separate sets, rachel ries and danny schmidt play a few songs together
me, again, your host
the perfect room came out of hibernation at the tashiro kaplan building this last january - the first show in seven months - o how i missed everyone
alan sutherland, poet
alan reads new work - jan 27 at the TK
sheri brown, of the dance
sheri right before perfoming with marron, paul rucker, and more more more at the perfect room at the TK jan 27
paul rucker
chatting after the perfect room at the tashiro kaplan artist's lofts jan 27 2007 - paul played marron, of kyoto, and rosalynn deroos, of seattle, with poets laura corsiglia, and me your host.
3 comments:
hooray! hi monte! hello laura! good luck with this project and i'll see you both at the next P-Room with any luck!
pol
Please, more pictures of the old chalk board - a gallery if you have them!My favorite was the Kozy Kino transformed into Wozy Wino for the hiatus! Tee Hee! What fun we had!
I love you, The Perfect Room. But most of all, I love yer perfect people. They's some of the kinderest, fullest o' wonder folks on the planet. Mebbe someday some will find their way to South Haven, Michigan, and we can have a perfect room here.
Love -- Andru
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