Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Thanks, you guys. truck--I loved what you wrote. Both parts. I tried to look up Javine, couldn't find, but I guess it doesn't really matter if I know the exact child you're talking about; (what am I trying to say here?) I mean that it's heartbreaking, the world and people and what they do and don't ...

some part of grey
day, red-brick neighbor
cues "methadone clinic"

and a woman found
at the threshold of under-
ground garage, huddled
dead as a derelict

another intaglio print; he died not long after I did this, and it seemed prescient. the looseness of the marks and the space under his image are important.

Another friend; less death-like than the one of Rick. I intended her posture, the holding of herself, to show self-enclosure, protection; the space that she occupies in this is part of it, how it's restful yet confining.

I like the ghost-buildings in this. Cool, Arcadia!

I LOVE the banners, just one stunner after another, Doreen.

Breathtaking, inspiring or sustaining, yes, thank you mnaz. These remind me of seeing mountains for the first time, riding the bus from Ohio to CA, and not realizing at first that those things on the horizon weren't clouds...

I finally finished reading all of them, and the note that they were being written as it all happened confirmed the feeling I got. Very immediate; I like the visceral nature of these. It's interesting to see what other people chose as favorite lines/parts; I chose a lot of the same ones. This is very...

This is probably pretty obvious, but your poem reminds me of Tom Waits' I Don't Wanna Grow Up: When I see the 5 oclock news I dont wanna grow up Comb their hair and shine their shoes I dont wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I dont wanna put no money down I dont wanna get me a big old loan...

YOW!!! I love this site. Went to your "i" thing, stilltrucking; man. That was pretty good. And westcoast, I like this poem. I agree w/ LR; feels like biography to me.

Thanks, guys. L Rod, I'm thinking about it. I may try out a different structure. This was sent to a friend as prose, and he then sent it back vertical, and then I changed it some more, and, and--insecure, yeah, maybe, I did let someone mess with my story. The last part, "Is poem there somewhere" was...

I lived briefly in SF--are you north or south west westcoast? (I like your "so like totally"--that sounds like my CA friends)

Thank you! You've got to catch them before they move, right? I like to see, in a drawing, evidence of the moving hand; something about working fast makes it more responsive. I stumbled on this woman's how-to-draw site; she turns out hyper-detailed drawings (cute animals and "beautiful" women). The o...