OnDecember 4th 2010 (12/04/10) Janet Kuypers held the first hour-long performance slot at the "Visual Nonsense" event at Swing State (a hookah lounge) in Lake Villa, IL. Because the vening was visual, all of Kuypers' performance included video. This is the video of the entire performance (with the ending cut off in the main camera view because it was such a long live performance), which included the poems "trying" (accompanied with Monica F. vocals, with video footage of Kuypers reading into two microphones wearing a blue tank top), "i want love" (accompanied with Monica F. vocals, with video footage of Kuypers in a dark room for the "Christmas Eve" video as Kuypers reads at a Christmas tree), "too far" (with video footage of Kuypers' original video for "too far" playing in the background), "how to please a woman" (with video footage of Kuypers, sampled from New Orleans 12/22/08 of "the Burning" video and "the Bridge to New Orleans" video), "i'm thinking about myself too much" (accompanied with Monica F. vocals, with video footage of Kuypers in the "He Make Me Think About These Things" Video, recorded 02/10/08, the day the poem "He Make Me Think About These Things" was written), "raped with words" (read by John with video footage of Kuypers drinking tea at the Starbucks), "women's very existence" (with video footage of a shower running), "white knuckled" (with video footage of Kuypers in the 2007 White Knuckled video, filmed at a Chicago Lopp el stop), "driving by his ...
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