Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Overheated Flushed cheeks not necessarily by the sun I jumped into the water to stay in peace Yogatastic meditation on the leaves changing in color as much as his fake tattoos We know it is fall when the mountains turn into yellow and red And the trees roar into sleep It is so pretty the tourists sa...

Through the snow flakes
I see forms
Grasping at wooden sticks making their way home
To mine
Warm up with words
And exchange karmic gifts

Present you are
Tonight
Hold on
Don't melt yet!

Well, I dont have a full 5 foot shelf of books, I had to sell a lot of my books, but I have a lot of Kerouac waiting, what I have (aside from what I already read) is Maggie Cassidy, Desolation Angels, Windblown World, and Satori in Paris and Pic (cant wait to read that) some by Alexander Solzenitzyn...

I agree. I read this about a year or two ago, when I finally got a chance to buy a bunch of "beat" books and have time to read them. The one part I couldn't get over was how he said something along the lines of he thought he was healthier becuase of junk. Anyway, the book was as good as everyone eve...

Searches missing art
Hidden distraction so found
Eyes of past cold war

Shadow hills down below
Covered in sparse flecks of snow
Sun melts for future

Books covered in word
Mind is magic for learn yearn
Present collides now

3 or 4
With a dad out to sea or war

(didnt even plan on the rhyme, or did I?)

I havent yet. I have read some of Joe Sacco's graphic novels about Bosnia. These are good, too, but probably for adults. Informative, enlightening, sad, interesting way of drawing and writing mixed to tell or teach a story, this form of novel..

I have been reading Gogol (Diary of a Madman and then Dead Souls) I like it, I like the commentary he makes on social class diffs and religion and the humor it was back then. I'm trying to read more "classic" lit (like Dickens and such) since I've been reading so much modern stuff. If anyone else kn...

I put kindness as the #1 thing (as it can be rare) but I think honesty is a distant but important second. For if there is not honesty, what is the point? (Unless the lies are really good. Someone told me once they hitchhiked across the country at age ten to Nevada for a Dead show. he subsequently be...

Hello!

and thanks judih, that's some of the best advice I have had in a long time.
(just need to finish that "first" degree.)

namaste
and now must tea

Can I write an intro w/out it being a life story- probably not. I visited SF when I was 6. I saw a homeless person try to get on the elevator with us. I didn't understand why the staff made him leave the hotel. I guess this is when I started getting curious of life. I lived in that state and Fl, and...

i want it back
but now it moves forward
ticking is gone
when I can't hear it
moves on
sliding on the land
falling up the foothill
floods pulled into the air
it stood still
my imagined moments
laughing nervously gazing
toward the
dimensional
clock
dimension-less

The only teacher I liked in college taught a class on zen in america, and me and another student got to lead a class on Dharma Bums for two days. We learned some on the beats, we read Being Peace, and other stuff. I used to think this guy was offbeat and was lucky to teach in the curriculum. He was ...

Yep, it's nice. A good postcard from on the road. I liked the part about feeling like you were in a cinema on California. When my best friend J and I were young we stayed out all night, our parents were looking for us, we went to 7-11 and ate hotdogs on the curb at 4:30 am. Some cops rolled up in th...

I'm liking a band called Redneck Manifesto right now. It's a jam band from Ireland, mostly instrumental guitar-y stuff. And I'm listening to some older stuff (to me anyway) Led Zepellin, I finally have gotten into Zappa and King Crimson and did not know why it took me so long to get there. I want to...