Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

What's next on your agenda?
You go first.

OK. Since you're not here, I'll go first.

Here's what I wrote on another board in answer to the question, "What do you want?" ... with the topic-starter asking something about "what about publishing together?" type question

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I've self-published a few poetry books and it's worked ok other than the fact that I can't give 'em away.

Want one? LOL!

I don't know what others want to do but what I want to do is create community. People at the same place at the same time getting inspired by each other. Plus, I want to see a combination of arts... music, spoken word, visual arts, theater, and all that coming together to do more than what it could do before when it was all by itself.

The internet is a perfect vehicle for this and this forum, "Black Market Dreamers" can be a viable part of all of that... It's about connection, inspiration, touching each other with words and art, getting inspired by others.

One of the things I want to do is continue with live meetings because the internet can't do it like meeting each other and creating together in person. I want to make CDs of spoken word poetry and music, collaborating with others both on the net and in person. I want to create books, yes, but what I'd really like to do is leave the self-publishing behind and move forward to finding established publishers to print anthologies or personal collections from writers who are worthy. I have thought of starting my own publishing business but haven't yet had the time or the finances to do it properly, though I have started by publishing some on my website.

What do I want to do? More Cabaradios, more shows, the dream of weekly poetry performances combined with music and theater and visual arts.... to meet as many people as I can who I originally met on the net... to meet them in person and create more recordings, combine our talents, perhaps form a roving troupe in real life, just as we are forming on the net... writers and artists who go from website to website together, yet separately, but in person, to do it on stages all over from small towns to large cities...

I want to create. I want to draw and paint and dance and sing and write lyrics and perform them and have others perform my work just as I am performing their's and it's starting to happen... it's been happening actually for a long time and it's starting to become something solid but I want to make it more solid.

I want to retire from my day job and open up a hotel... an artists colony... with theater space and painting and drawing space and a little club where we sell our poetry books... yours, mine, ours, combined... Wednesday night readings, Friday night shows, jazz music and blues.... a place to take off your worn down shoes and make something new.... together.

That's what I want.

I want it right here right now right in my own living room shared with you and others...

and we've been doing it... We've created 2 cabaradio shows and have had quite a few other performances where people who we've met from the internet have come to meet us in person and performed with us and we've done a cd long distance over the net, with us in virginia and the producer in california and it's all pretty damn cool.... We've had art shows at the cabaradios and had it recorded for TV and it was just so damn cool but dammit!!! i

t's hard to have enough time and enough money to continue with creating websites, making connections, encouraging each other, publishing each other, interviewing each other, collaborating with each other.... all while holding down a day job and taking care of kids...

so...??? what do I really want? I'm a dreamer.... and now I'm a Black Market Dreamer! I want to BET it ALL... on the life... I want a world of arts and I want to find somebody to fund it because we have so many connections, it is really stupid to sit here and continue tapping away without publishing more and performing more and while having to go to work every day at 9 am ...

What do YOU want? tell me... please!

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I just got an apartment. It's nothing, really, but I haven't had a place to call home for ten-plus months. I'm going to cherish that humble place. I'm going to get drunk and finish the account of my time-shifting, mythical sojourn on the Black Rock flats. And then I might offer my impressions of the lost souls who first pioneered the Lassen Trail through that particular stretch of oblivion. I stumbled across their watering hole on my last foray, the only one for 25+ miles in any direction. And then, I might stitch my writings together and call it a book.... at least for now.

After that, I'm going to retire, for there's not much future in this sort of thing... at least for a good while, or maybe next Thursday. Actually, rockabilly's making a huge comeback in this town. I'm going to the Shack Shakers show next week. Maybe I'll write some hellfire-and-brimstone twisted Bible lyrics. I'll contort verses worse than a Southern Baptist preacher. I'll spread the word!.... 'cause that's how we do it in the country....

Uh.... yeah. Actually Doreen, I hadn't thought about it that much.
I'll end up with some kind of 9-5 thing, and quietly fade out, most likely. I'll post a few lines, now and again. And I'd like to start painting again....

btw...
I'm going off line for awhile after tomorrow.... 1-2 weeks or more, most likely.... Thanks for all you've done with this great place.... I haven't said it in a while-- needs to be said. It's been fun...

I want to finally get HepKat over here and join this here group because I miss her and we all miss her.
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doreen peri wrote:What's next on your agenda?

Oh boy! Funny you should ask.

Where to start?

Dor, I'm so excited and happy to share my excitement with you. First on the agenda is getting through the rest of this semester successfully so that I may move on to the next stage of life unhindered.

After that, well...

Planning on landing in London in early December and going for a trip to snowboard for a week (France or Austria, not sure which yet). Then the plan is to rendevous with a beautiful and amazing person with whom I just may be falling in love (you know her, by the way) and spend ten days or so getting to know each other as we travel around a bit and see some sights and live some adventures together. Then I'm not sure where that is going to go. It all depends on how it all goes, I suppose. But I've registered with a few teaching agencies and plan to stay on in or around London and teach for a while, maybe stick around those parts of the world for some time, depending on the circumstances.

Life is a dream, Dor. It really is, and I'm becoming more lucid of it all the time. I don't really know what exactly is in store but I'm sure it will be amazing no matter what.

Oh yeah, almost forgot....

I'm actually, well.....exercizing a lot more, these days.

I figure I gotta take a little better care of the machine, y'know, or eventually nothing much else will matter...



I suppose I still haven't found my "calling". Maybe I spent too much time wandering. Maybe I wasn't listening intently enough. Wherever I end up and whatever I do, one thing seems clearer to me. I need to be more involved in my community than I have been in the past.... I think I'll be up to that challenge.

Your Grand Art Hotel is a great idea, Doreen.

I would like being an occasional guest, but not a resident.

Finally, the idea of an art community, in my experience, is ennervating for me, not enlivening. Much as I admire your internet version of such a community, and love the idea of community in the abstract ( and its other noun form: communism), I am too thorny and set in my ways to be anything but a short-term guest.

I suppose "guest" is the key term here, and also a partial answer to your questions about expectations, hopes, dreams and ambitions.

At sixty with some major icy fingers of mortality temporarily pushed aside, I'm making more decisions about where I want my work to go. I've always been the perpetual beginner, and while I feel that's by far the healthiest and most fecund state of mind, I'm also forced to make a few choices.

I've been writing poems again, new ones, after a ten year hiatus. And, technically speaking, I've returned to some of my first successes in terms of media: drawing and watercolor.

I suppose, in the ten or so years remaining to me ( if I'm lucky and everything stays in remission), I want the tiniest sliver of recognition: some of the sort of attention your boards and exhibition spaces have given me.

But, I will not surrender, not yet.

Like Zorba the Greek: for the moment, "I fight!"




--Z

Well I want a website I can read. You know kind of like this one with black text against a gray back ground. Black market dreams is just a little to avant guard for me. Why not just do it with black text on a black back ground.

Z I am five years ahead of you, If I could pray, well I will pray I hope you get another forty. I was hoping for five myself, but I am going to be optimistic and hope for ten to.

I want another god dam cigarette
I want to get stoned
I want to live forever
I want to dance
I want to quit smoking
I want to see the ocean one more time before I die
I want to see billelectric
I want to see collaboration between litkicks and studio eight
I want to see every member of the Bush administration out on their asses
I want to stop wanting.