May 2012
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A Finger, Two Dots Then Me
So last year Derrick and the Holecheck Brothers made a short film out of Derrick’s poem “A Finger, Two Dot Then Me” and it spent last fall sweeping every festival it went through. It plays on May 25th at the Seattle International Film Festival which is awesome for two reasons:
1. Those in Seattle and the extended NW get the opportunity to see a truly beautiful piece of...
this is how I feel on some days
on some days. just not today.
by Paul Octavius via thiscitycalledearth
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April 2012
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I think I love this poem
CHICKEN STORM by Jeremy Radin
Musta been like a thousand chickens come flyin’ up from the other side’a
that hill. I spent my whole life knowin’ them chickens couldn’t fly & then
here they come, a sunrise’a crazy brown feathers, up from the other side’a
that hill. Ain’t no explanation for it, I know that. My wife, well, she stood
next t’me, squeezed my hand & said oh kinda soft, as...
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March for Babies
The family my wife nannies for just had twins and unfortunately the twins are having a rough go of it. So we’re doing the March of Dimes’ March for Babies on this upcoming May 5th. Amazingly we already met our initial small goal and it would be great to be able to raise even more for the thousands of children in need. Anyone who is able to sponsor our team please do consider it and...
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NaPoWriMo 6/30
The shadows of the trees click keeping time on the highway. Nothing ever on the radio. Different city same afternoon sun sparkling heavy like costume jewelry. Poetry what a dirty river. But I will bathe in it bathe here in the place where my hair became gold horns where the enamel of my teeth found honey and became that. Where the camels carried the swaths of silk under the bored and naked...
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NaPoWriMo 5/30, #2
Peter was in the other room with his thing in a girl. Oscar was passed out on the piano, spilling his brain. There was a bright chandelier in the big room hanging like a painting made of light and everyone at the party was passing their molecules between paper cups, trying to walk through walls with words but not doing it very well I had on a pair of old school Reeboks I had found–the Pump....
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NaPoWriMo 5/30, #1
I love my moons better than myself I love my Dr John better than myself the girls dressed in jeans and teeth better than myself the sunlight pouring through the cracks of the afternoon falling between the slats I love the music more than myself love the leaves twisting their thin bodies in an orange chorus the tongue of my wife’s heart the electric fence of its touch how it puts the palms of God...
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NaPoWriMo 4/30
Walking past the manor a light in a third floor dormer window on with music coming out of it singing out to find me below like a serenade in reverse a slight draw over the violin strings like a thin knife across the metal hands of the moon a slow pull of the bucket out of the well with some other collection of strings perhaps a harp perhaps a cello perhaps another violin being plucked like drops...
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NaPoWriMo 3/30
Being a poet that doesn’t drink there are not a number of instances where I have the opportunity to pee outside after a show. But while exploring the grounds and with a long circle back to the little red house on campus I am staying in and with 500 acres of this school in Vermont with dark fields surrounding the light of the buildings in the distance and the curve of the road bringing me past...
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NaPoWriMo 2/30
I wish either my wife was on this plane with me or we were cutting a rug on earth somewhere or finding some street and some corner of wind to push our bicycles faster and further into the warm afternoon How close the land can look when one can see so much of it I wonder how many flagpoles set top to tip would fit between the earth and this flight A hundred thousand? I suppose it depends on how...
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NaPoWriMo 1/30
These bodies we are in for a short while a bowl of soup tomatoes on a vine before dropping and returning somewhere to be going some place else. How like a pot of tea open for the steam to carry itself out and bring with it pieces of the leaves.
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March 2012
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D.C.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
A History Of Silence: What Year Was Heaven... →
Watching the news about Diallo, my eight year-old cousin, Jake,
asks why don’t they build black people
with bulletproof skin? I tell Jake there’s another planet, where
humans change colors like mood rings.
You wake up Scottish, and fall asleep Chinese; enter a theatre
Persian, and exit Puerto Rican. And Earth
is a junkyard planet, where they send all the broken humans
who are stuck in one...
“This continues to make the rounds being attributed to me, but I didn’t...”
– Anis Mojgani. Jeffrey Stuckel (via blindbonesbradley)
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I get numerous shout outs from people to come to their schools or suggested cities to visit. I wish I could come to them all but unfortunately I’m not able to, and alas it’s not always so simple as an individual telling me of a town to come through. It can be simple just not that simple :)
My website thepianofarm.com has all information one needs to help with putting on a show with...
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From Blue Chips, the new mixtape from Action...
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photo by Burton Wilson
“The purity of human expression and experience is not confined to guitars, to tubes, to turntables, to microchips. There is no right way, no pure way, of doing. There is just doing.”
Do yourself a favor and listen to Bruce Springsteen’s keynote address from this year’s SXSW, here
“From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry...”
– Teju Cole (via deantrippe)
February 2012
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Otis Under Sky-in your house!
The film I co-wrote and starred in Otis Under Sky, which premiered last year at SXSW, now has online distribution from IndiePix, and starting today is available for on demand streaming, download, and dvd orders. Please do check it out. My friend Anlo Sepulveda made it and I spent three years traveling down to Austin to work on it with him, and it’s pretty good. Films that honestly deal...
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Bellingham WA! Tonight!
Show tonight at Western Washington University in Bellingham WA! The site of where I first met my wife! Come tonight and perhaps meet your future spouse! With Jared Paul! BOOM!
January 2012
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Trash Items Found Most Frequently In The Ocean
unconsumption:
nprfreshair:
1) cigarette butts 2) paper pieces 3) plastic pieces 4) styrofoam 5) glass pieces 6) plastic food bags 7) plastic caps and lids 8) metal beverage cans 9) plastic straws 10) glass beverage bottles 11) plastic beverage bottles 12) styrofoam cups
— Plastics in our Oceans