Last Thursday I went to hear Buckwheat Zydeco at Turner Hall; in an attempt to warm up a bit; and also get in synch with our friends in NOLA. Didn’t quite work out. As a huge Clifton Chenier fan I’ve been watching Buckwheat for the past decades; hoping he may pickup where Clifton left off. Alas, […]
Category Archives: Music
Wishing wells and mandalas
listen to warm thaw watching egos dissolving into a sea of compassion [qt:/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mz000034.mov 480 10] (click on images for larger view)
Poetry, Pictures ‘n Politics
Headline about sums up my life. Forty (or so) years ago poet Philip Whalen wrote: Our main difficulty: fear and distrust of freedom In America we’ve been fighting each other 100 years We pretend we’re unimaginably rich But we’re poor and afraid of the poor who must become The Army to defend us against right […]
event: you ally — yesterday
yesterday my 62nd year ended today my 63rd begins the day before yesterday I found this fellow, and song eventually
Careless time
some days people flock to the edge where water meets sand they sculpt, toss things back and forth, and mingle with birds A dad, sculpting sand on the beach with his daughter, Mia, said to me, “It’s all about the kids.” I think, perhaps, it’s all about returning to childhood for a brief, careless time. […]
Spider John Koerner at the UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall
“The photographic image… a message without a code.” — Roland Barthes Last week McKim Stropes phoned to inform me that Spider John Koerner would perform at the UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall. Memories flooded my mind. Back in the mid sixties some part of my awakening as a young man occurred at the Avant Garde listening to “Blues, Rags […]