check this out. very cool! i had heard the name of it before but didn't have a clear idea of what they do.

the next circuit is this month, Aug 13-20, midwest to east coast (including some in canada), but it looks like they alternate between east & west coasts.

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from the website, www.nomediakings.net:

"The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003 -- running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline."

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the aug 2005 rundown looks like this:

"This month features zinester Andrew Mall from Chicago, IL, crafty poetess Jessica Manack from Pittsburgh, PA, and rock ‘n’ roll novelist Kevin Hainey from Toronto, ON. The tour runs from Aug. 13-20th, doing 7 shows in 8 days:

CHICAGO, Saturday Aug. 13., Mojoe's Cafe and Lounge, 2256 W. Roscoe St., (773) 388-1236. With punk rock storyteller Brian Costello. 7:30pm

CINCINATTI, Sunday, Aug. 14. Hobo Books, 4040 Hamilton Ave., (513) 542-2418. With Nathan Holscher and Diamond Doug. 6:30pm

PITTSBURGH, Monday, Aug. 15. Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave., (412) 802-7096. With electronic experimenters Life with Beardo and Humans Are the Worst Invention. 7pm

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday, Aug. 16. Junnos, 64 Downing St., (212) 627-7995. With Ken Wohlrob. 7:30pm

MONTREAL, Thursday, Aug. 18, La Petite Gaule, 2525 rue Centre, Pointe-St-Charles, (514) 931-1919. With poetic comedian DeAnne Lyn Smith. 8pm

OTTAWA, Friday, Aug. 19. Mercury Lounge, 65 Byward St., (613) 789-5324. With poet Wanda O’Connor. 6pm

TORONTO, Saturday, Aug. 20. Art Bar (in the Gladstone Hotel), 1214 Queen St. W., (416) 531-4635. With puppet-packing satirist Jeff Cotrill. 8pm"