Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

“Listen, when I was in Vietnam, I killed more people than the Manson family, so let’s cut the s---,” Apsche says he told the murderer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-killers-mind-counselor-found-the-roots-of-a-new-way-to-treat-troubled-youth/2012/10/21/cdae1fda-0f14-11e2-bd1a-b868...

Two consequitive dreams I can't remember how they transitioned from one to the other. In The first dream was the only woman in this world for me. Who I have not seen in 50 years so I am not sure is she is still in this world or not. There was another woman in the dream. She was sitting on my lap but...

down a dusty road
to a fishing village
besides still waters

may those who are born after me
never travel such roads of love — Hitomaro

tranquility base to mother nature
send more rain
we need the mud


something clicked
what ever it was
forgotten in the flood

haiku therapy
brings me
haiku mind

star shine
obscured by clouds
slow moving dreams

Every time I read a bit about Argentina I think about clipping it for you. Some of what I read is good, other I don't know. I read that Beunos Aires has established a pension for old writers. I liked that a lot. You could be right I don't know my memory so spotty these days. Uncle Sam got so much bl...

I am sick of the disease called man Where is the G dess in the bible Obama Geronimo Patton Rommel what the world needs now is love where are the market place ladies I am tired of war I am tired of national anthems I am tired of tribes and nations I want to rock and roll with the abomination on the m...

I give it some more thoughts about what it is about, maybe end of life issues, I can see how despair could be a comfort. But for now my hope must rise above my despair. Yes I am the great pretender, imagine that.


I hope that helps
this the summer of my content at 72 years young

Good to hear you are on the mend and can paint again I am sorry about Brooklyn, I could have been a better friend. Kind of a shame he can't come here and talk philosophy. Kerouac a good teacher, just the one I needed along. Beautiful book to listen to, the actor reading it does a good job, sounds li...

The curious bobcat on the scent I wonder what it wanted so bad beyond that fence was it merely curiosity that drove him. The porblem with my grand design is you and dame, all my best threads on studio eight are twisted togeher with yours like three strands of a nucleic acid. intellectual property an...

Oh yeah, I would go hear him play live in a heartbeat Into The Mystic mindless ramble and turtles from here on dwn>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seven come eleven twice 22/7 is Pi day moving on another year Wow 7/22 already I will remember it as Pi day, when the picture of the world with the real world, the tu...

ash ashes everywhere
still I take to my keyboard
ah, the drive to survive

I'm sitting on the dock of the bay reading your poem and thinking

“Music is not a matter of life or death...
It's much more important than that.” - Unknown