Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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Here is a link to a new major work by S8 member Barry Gremillion.

The Obama Trilogy

Job Application I couldn't make it as an anarchist so I decided to sign up for the Antichrist I owned the job description, dashing, rude seething, indolent, vain a general pain and Pride, yes Pride my most valiant qualification My early reading convinced me that I was nothing special a late bloomer...

Medly of music from Marat/Sade
performed by Lrod with special thanks to that famous post-revolutionary diva, Mz. Doreen Peri

This goes out to our friends in Egypt
Viva La Revolucion

I think I wrote this tune, not so long ago

Lrod Solo

http://soundcloud.com/lrod11/c-fake-path-riverofsouls2

Robert Shelton on guitar
Lrod on the rest

words and music by Lrod

Party Under the Pyramids -- Wiki-Coups Revolutions run on many fuels. They can run on guns, diamonds, cocaine or poppies, technology, charisma. But all revolutions depend on two things, oppression and ideas. We could probably reduce those two to one because oppression is itself an idea. The first t...

Thanks for reading my little fable. I had fun with it. It's just a little sketch of the contemporary. As usual I'm trying to let the particular evoke the general. Either that or I'm watching too many Nora Ephron movies. :D Old woman to old man: "Whay do you like young women?" Old man to old woman: "...

Said December to May "Dad," said Jayne through her mouthful of tofu lasagna, "don't you see that you'll have Alzheimer's before she can sign up for AARP? Besides, I don't want a big sister who thinks she's my mother." Jayne was glad that her father had found some version of love at this stage of hi...

thanks dadio
I'll take Burroughs and Bukowski
(I guess I'm that tranparent. They are among my favorite writers_it's hard for me not to cop a feel on them)

interesting observations the problem with words meaning different things to different readers is something every writer must resolve in his own way. It's a fact of life, though. You can't be sure that whatever tone and inflection that you hear when you see a group of words is going to be even vaguel...

(The gall bladder is where we store our bile. Bile is bitter, bitter as gall. Yet we have a special organ in which to carry our bitterness. We carry it around so long that it sometimes turns to stone. Gall bladders should all be removed at birth.) All your bitterness and bile is put into a pile a re...

this is one of your best, steve
a real magic trick

(I think I've watched the movie The Prestige at least six times. It's a different trick every time.)

Thank you for your comments. This piece is just a simple parable with a picaresque setting. It's a moral fable really. The drug stuff is just stage business. It has only metaphoric relevance to the story but it's what carries it along. That, and the question. The device of using a picaresque setting...

I didn't mean to make you cwy doeween. I was sort of going for gallows humor on the other hand, you can be very beautiful when you cry. But more beautiful when you smile. Thanks for the link, Jack This article is beautifully written and it talks about things we all have been thinking about. I can to...