Fahrenheit: Five Minute Storytelling

If Time Out New York Likes It, You Will Too

2008-05-04T07:00:00.000-07:00

Be as cool as Zeke. Tell us your story.

The monthly Fahrenheit reading -- as featured in Time Out New York -- will be held on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Black & White bar.

You get five minutes on the mic to do your thing. Tell us story, make a joke, throw whatever you want at us, but if you do poetry, we'll throw something at you. Those are rules, but then again rules are meant to be broken, so do whatever the hell you like.

The show begins around 10:00 at Black & White, located at 86 10th Street, New York, New York (between 3rd and 4th Avenues). For more information and virtual sign-up, email joe.antagonist [at] gmail [dot] com.

Photo of Zeke comes from Uncoolkids.

Antagonists Offer Post-Valentine's Day Relief

2007-01-22T07:29:00.000-08:00

After a packed reading that combined the powers of The Antagonist Art Movement and special guests from Smith Magazine, the Fahrenheit storytelling night will return next month--just in time to recover from the sappiness of Valentine's Day.

The Antagonists present the Fahrenheit reading on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at the Black & White bar. If you need inspiration, the theme for the night is virginity.

You get five minutes on the mic to do your thing. Tell us story, make a joke, throw whatever you want at us, but if you do poetry, we'll throw something at you. Those are rules, but then again rules are meant to be broken, so do whatever the hell you like.

The show begins around 9:00 at Black & White, located at 86 10th Street, New York, New York (between 3rd and 4th Avenues). For more information and virtual sign-up, email joe.antagonist [at] gmail [dot] com...

Fahrenheit Returns with a Vengeance

2006-12-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

You get five minutes on the mic to do your thing.

Tell us story, make a joke, throw whatever you want at us, but if you do poetry, we'll throw something at you. Those are rules, but then again rules are meant to be broken, so do whatever the hell you like.

The Antagonist Art Movement presents the Fahrenheit reading on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at the Black & White bar. If you need inspiration, the theme for the night is string theory. Since string theorists want to unify everything into a big mystical equation, you can write about anything you want.

The reading will feature special guest readers from the pages of Smith Magazine, including Anna Lappe, Mary Elizabeth Williams, and the dominatrix diarist, Mistress Y. The show begins around 9:00 at Black & White, located at 86 10th Street, New York, New York (between 3rd and 4th Avenues).

For more information and virtual sign-up, email joe.antagonist [at] gmail [dot] com...

Bryan Middleton

2006-12-04T13:28:00.000-08:00

Sleeping On It
By Bryan Middleton
Fahrenheit Founder
(Taken from Undecide Everything)

He looks like the combative fire-flung type –
that small bit of Aries retardation that makes it all the more stomachable.
Engines that idle sill use gasoline, and most of us rev them up at stoplights
just to reassure ourselves we are still alive.

hotter and hotter until you burn holes in yourself

Most days are crowned with a smile - a silly little grin you would associate with rose colored glasses bliss - if you really wanted to prejudge that much. But he still knows that most things will be all right. That some things will not is keeping him awake for two hours too long, and there is this point when listening to the sleeping CD ...at about track 5... a high point will jar him awake from
that disassociative state when the music is drifting right above
and mixing with thoughts that have voices of their own in that mush
like his friends are talking to him about things he worries about
in the back room of the Crocodile and he is just nodding at them.

Awake, he knows the sleeping CD is anything but.
He flings over, hits the power switch, and flops down as dead still.

humming of white noise dies out
screech of pink noise fade in
waver
hum
frown
blink
hum

Brother Mike Cohen

2006-12-04T13:08:00.000-08:00

Somewhere Between a Punch and a Handshake
By Brother Mike Cohen

Buy it here.

59 pages. Digest size. Color cover. A collection of works done by Brother Mike Cohen from the Antagonist Movement writers night. We took his writing and had our artists illustrate to the stories. Gut busting, sick and twisted humor. You must be 18 years or older to buy this. Adult humor for the hardcore. Antagonist Manifesto on the last page. Artwork by Ted Riederer, comic strip by Andi Mags and other antagonist artists.

Ted Riederer

2006-12-04T13:00:00.000-08:00

Ted Riederer Profiled

An Antagonist-produced video about artist Ted Riederer--another Fahrenheit reader.

Zeke Terwilliger

2006-12-04T12:48:00.000-08:00

I have just returned from the future with this classified information about a new project...
By Zeke Terwilliger
Fahrenheit Host

Father Terwilliger and I will have a conversation in June, four years from now. I was just there, so don't make a face, or shake your head in disagreement! We will discuss father's childhood, when he entered movie theaters with other teenage young men with the express intent to cause mischief.

I will share with father Terwilliger that I, too, recalled the time when I roamed the streets of NYC with other young men--mostly out of sexual frustration--to frolic in the chaos of minor property damage and ridicule of starchy, ostentatious, or remarkable pedestrians. He will reveal the design of the fart machine that he produced with his friends; it consisted of the wooden department store handles that his and other mothers in mid-20th century NYC outer-boroughs stored in cupboards for later use in gift wrapping. Other integral components were rubber bands, and metal washers. The rubber bands were cut and strung through the washers, then retied to the wooden handle; the washer was wound many times to create tension that, when released, emitted the familial flapping noise, ergo, fart simulacrum.

The fart machine operator would hold the tightly strung contraption in place and sit on it in a chair, preferably in a public place where people are quiet (e.g. movie theater, library, courtroom, etc.) At the operator's discretion, one may ease off the seat and produce a slow, oozing fart noise or rise quickly, which emits a machine gun blast. Father Terwilliger will use a nostalgic tone of grandeur; he will luxuriate in the joy of that past, when he and his comrades orchestrated a symphony of flatulence by following an established cadence of setting off their individual fart machines. We will laugh--I will laugh longer and louder than he--and then I will become inspired to come back to 2006 and post this request for all who might be interested in developing this ancient technology that I discovered in the future with father Terwilliger. It's fucking hilarious, so laugh...NOW!!!

Soon, my film about last summer's covert project: SOAPBOX ARMY will emerge...Until that time, visit often, comment religiously, and stay human. (We need projects like this for the people, like a young woman I saw, who walked her cell phone on a leash while she held her dog up to her ear, and all of the EMO/SCREAMO or whatever this kind of ersatz punk music is that has no passion or substance.) There are many other problems to solve, but I'll address those at our next conference. Thank you for being there, where you are, right in front of my words.

Jason Boog

2006-12-04T12:41:00.000-08:00

A lo-fi video version of a story originally told at the Fahrenheit reading: involves saunas, nudity, and foul-tasting liquor.

Ethan Minsker

2006-12-04T12:20:00.000-08:00

Mark of the Ninja
By Ethan Minsker
Founding Antagonist

The trailer for Ethan Minsker's documentary about the Antagonist Art Movement. Disillusioned with the contemporary art world, a group of east villages artists commit crimes to perpetuate their art.

Filmed on location at the Fahrenheit readings...