Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

(originally published by OpEdNews ) [/i][/size] Limited by Words “Why are you getting all dolled up?” “Don’t you remember? I told you we’re going to a social this evening. It ought to be fun.” “Mr. Smith, you’ve been a model prisoner during your incarceration. The board sees a man before it who’s p...

Unless Something Important Comes Up (originally published at OpEdNews ) [/i] I belong to the Alliance for Democracy . It's a wonderful organization that is trying to get, to use an antiquated phrase, power into the hands of the owners of America, the people. They are one of many organizations who h...

(originally published at OpEdNews ) [/i][/size] I'm reading a book entitled The Bending Cross. It’s the biography of Eugene V. Debs. I was a integral part of The Corporatocracy for 25 years. They threw the union out at the Dow Chemical site in Connecticut in 1972 and I was 22, had pretty much given...

Thank you, Doreen.

It's getting to be that just feedback from people, especially musicians like your own self, are all I really need.

To friendship,
Michael

On July 15, 1960, John F. Kennedy said the following words in his acceptance speech, “If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their sch...

Actually, that's where I think it belongs, Doreen, so thanks, m'lady.

And thanks for the compliment.

To friendship,
Michael

I Need You Near (For What You Are).mp3 This song, “I Need You Near (For What You Are)”, was voted as my second best song by some friends and me. It’s from a CD called From The Heart. I Need You Near (For What You Are) [/b][/size] I’m not looking for a friend, I’m not asking you to send money that y...

Here At The End Of The Day [/b][/size] Both of us watching this pastel sunset here at the end of the day. Soon you’ll be gone, but our love will go on even while you are away. I like to hear that you’ll come back to me- come back and next time you’ll stay. So we can be watching this beautiful sunse...

This is a song I co-wrote with Jamie Redhead. It's called "Storm Front". Storm Front (lyrics by Jamie Redhead) I saw the death of freedom and liberty on TV today Searching for the answers I get down and pray Fearing that no one is worthy to be saved Nightmares thunder on I’m still staying strong No ...

Steve, your writing that I’m “way off base” is part of the 1st amendment. I can’t get the government to make you write something other than that. Nor would I want to do so. I disagree with it, of course, but I’d die defending your right to say it. What yesterday’s so called election proved is that o...

I’m going to post two songs today. I know, I know, I’m old fashion and I still adhere to the old, some may say worn out, formulas with which I’ve grown up (or gotten older - 5′4″ is hardly in the up direction, vertically speaking). I haven’t done Electronica. I’ve done one song that’s more a rhythmi...

feel a fear of facing future
views, vain and vacuous;
as abject absence
feigns friendship,
turning terra firma
into a
simple sinkhole?

I do.

Touching piece. Reminds me a bit of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle , which, of course, doesn’t take place anywhere near a real jungle. this is what had been its greatest hope in all that life ordains. I’m not sure if this is satire, but it seems like the best for which the beast could hope. Either that...

My little girl hates me now; and like the trash, I've just been tossed Ah, but isn’t that part of the joy of parenthood? You make sure you take care of yourself and, in doing so, you increase your ability to take care of others. However, when your “little girl” sees you’re taking care of yourself, ...

Hey, don’t I know you from someplace? Hmmm. I wrote, someplace else, I think, that the President is in a position to make things happen. I mentioned FDR and LBJ. I believe I mentioned filibustering and the fact that it in no way is it protected by any law. Barack Obama is the leader of the Democrati...