Performance Reviews

[Cassie Carter]

So . . .

I think the Performance Reviews section of the website is actually the second biggest part of CatholicBoy.com. Second only to image galleries, which are ginormous! As I work on moving the Performance Reviews section over to the new website, I realize it is one of the most important to me. To me, people writing about Jim Carroll performing is only second to actual recordings of Jim Carroll reading his work. 

Right now, reading these reviews I haven't seen in 20+ years brings me tremendous joy, makes me cry, makes me laugh. And I remember seeing them for the first time.

I have been converting over reviews from people ID'd only by their AOL email addresses.

Just makes me sad this stuff has not been available for so, so, so long, and that others have not experienced this joy.

I just finished moving Jane Gilday's review of Tin Angel in Philly (1995) to the new website. Made me laugh and cry. So many others newer than Jane's did too. (I have been working chronologically backward,)

Well, anyway, if you want to start reading performance reviews, I guess I'm about halfway through it, with some of the earliest one completed too, I welcome you to it. If you find broken stuff, please let me know. The ones with X's aren't done yet.

https://www.catholicboy.com/WP/research/performance-reviews/

Cassie

[Cassie Carter]

There are a lot of really weird things!

[Cassie Carter]

OMG there are some crazy things!

[Sandra Ludwig]

Cassie, I am reading your review of the first time you met Jim (jumping between that and the 1974 poetry reading). Was very surprised because he said he had a son. I have read the poem about his son's birthday but never took it literally. I'm a writer too, and I'll never forget one of my college professors telling the class, "Just because the narrator is in the first person, doesn't mean the author is talking about themselves. Don't make that mistake." So of course I did not assume Jim really had a son. I don't know why I'm so surprised--probably b/c this is the first time I've heard about him. :)