----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- The Marsh presents Roy Zimmerman in "Faulty Intelligence"
Thursday June 21 - Friday June 29 7.00pm $15-22 Sliding Scale ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- "FAULTY INTELLIGENCE" PLAYS WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY JUNE 21-23 & THURSDAY AND FRIDAY JUNE 28-29. Armed only with a guitar, a strident baritone and wicked sense of rhyme and ridicule, "FAULTY INTELLIGENCE" includes a love song to the sexiest man alive, "Dick Cheney," a lesson in "Creation Science 101" and a portrait in song of "Jerry Falwell's God." Roy Zimmerman has been writing satirical songs for twenty years. He's shared the stage with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner. He also played a series of shows swapping songs with The Pixies' Frank Black. While living in LA, Zimmerman wrote the semi- autobiographical song "I'm Fired" for the Los Angeles Theatre Works production of "Fired!" and performed the show in Los Angeles and Off- Broadway at New York's Second Stage Theatre Zimmerman founded and wrote all the material for the satirical folk quartet The Foremen, who recorded for Warner Reprise throughout the Nineties. As a solo artist, he's released four albums, and there's a fifth, "Faulty Intelligence" which came out in(May, 2006. "I hope it gets good reviews," he says, "but mostly I hope it gets denied under oath by Karl Rove." "Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." Los Angeles Times. "I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on reintroducing literacy to comedy songs. And the rhymes actually rhyme, they don't just 'rhyne'.'" Tom Lehrer ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ The Marsh, Berkeley 2120 Allston Way near Shattuck Berkeley 415-641-0235 www.themarsh.org See Website ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-826-5750 www.themarsh.org ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small organizations The Squid List is licensed under a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
