.." impluse " Impulse this !!!!

29.05.07
uvieu,Insanya
Impulse: An impelling force; driving onward or inducing motion.

... Arizona>Mexico >Seattle>Madrid. that's three impulses,landing this poor artist, in THIS weird and beautiful land . i aint regretin' it. was a good move... eventually. Have learned and seen much... Proving, impulse, is the beginning of all things great and small.... and if they blow up...for the least, we have created impulse.menos mal. 8 years and 216 days later... i'm with the girl, i am loved. The impulse worked true to its definition... all good....Next problem...
Be well todo mundo
J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

Aqui estas usted...Asturias

29.05.07
uvieu,España
9:50am, in the rainy city. the phones off,the girls asleep, the banks are closed, and its another, of this weird and beautiful countries fiestas..." Dia De Bollu".. we will all drink sidra and eat sausage filled bread ( bollu)..and sing things like " en el campu con mi moza y las vacu....." giatas, and cool hats, wooden shoes and more bollu
there are exactly 124,643,728 fiestas a year in España... i think. a la campu todo mundu.... i love this place. it's a freakshow, and the freakshow continues....
j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...Monday, and we're goin' forward

28.05.07
uvieu, España

Censor-ship? fine, i'll sail this ship to the far side of the city, tying up up the hill aways and the view will be much better from there....on a rainy monday like we've going today. wine and cigarettes and little contact.... wonder if there anything in the fridge on the S.S. Censor-ship?

Be well todo mundo...Say NO!!!! to censorship.

see Yamlaranas.blogspot.com...cool stuff
J.Level
(jlevel77yahoo.com)

...my critics

27.05.07
uvieu,España
So, the paintings are up in Olivar, And they have been critizied by those whom have historically, done nothing. spelled the name right though...LEVEL....menos mal. i am again, a famous painter. menos mal.
thats sunday, and you are there.....

be well todo mundo... and it's L E V E L...
j. level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...on elections, Little Tommy, dogs and big ham sandwiches...

25.05.07
uvieu,España
...the elevator in the building is like a time machine, and theres always a smokey vision of who you will be when the doors open out onto the public floor... today i was Level, cheif of the supream court, and i declared peace in España. Everybody went home and put on their best clothes, washed the dog and went to the palza de la constituion, where there was beer and big ham sandwiches...and not a politicion to be seen. Oh, i outlawed them too, did i say that? a fine time was had by all , execpt for little tommy whom wanted to be a politician when he grew up... he cryed but a minute, and then forgot all about it and was seen dancing happily, and when asked why he said he did'nt know. happy is the kid whom dances for no reason he can explain. And the day ended, kids and dogs collected, the leftovers sent to Madrid, and all was right with the world... it good to be the cheif of the supream court...No?

Be well todo mundo. Change something that desperately needs changing today.
J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

the Patio about 9:30 pm... "Capuchino" Malaga

25.05.07
uvieu,España
you should fly to Spain and see this exposition. its cheap, and you'll probably end up wantin' to stay....
be well todo mundo.
j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

notes from the emotional minefield....

23.05.07
uvieu,España
i now know why i remain in this weird and beautiful country... it's to not be in that other. as i see it, and thats from here, i'm fine. there is all one needs to call it a cool life a cool place a cool future... Cool. i do invite those tired and more creative of you to consider leaving.... and leave the dogma where it belongs... there. vamos todo mundo a España....

been a weird and beautiful day. today i am NOT the arrogant american. my soul feels better. will try this again tommorow ... you should too maybe...no?

be well todo mundo.
j.level
(jlevel77@ yahoo.com)

Manoline en vivo no. 2, kiddnapped !!!!!!!!!!

...in therapy with Don Quijote, a work in progress

22-05.07
uvieu,espana
" Soooo!! what do you want for your birthday ? "
" ...a year of therapy...
" NO !!! ha ha ha ! thats funny jess. no, really...hee he hee...A year of therapy ! no, really, what do you want?
" DAD !!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!..."

be well todo mundo. Don' be an arrogant american today... and go se my show at the Olivar, that in oviedo, and thats españa
8 yrs. and 199 days, thats real time friends...
... j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

¡¡ COMPRA ALGO TIO !!!!! no.12

21.05.07
uvieu,España
...have painted everything, and have found yet another strange soul from that past floatin' in this our new digital world. brothers been around, and found his place ...havent we all. Sunday spent stayin dry and smokin' and readin of this world fallin apart... but here, my friends, in uvieu... nothing ever happens. We live in a mall, the girl and i. So clean, so, fashionable... An open air mall. I long for a little filth. some broken beer bottles or a doorless refrigator sittin out there in the plaza de la Fontan... some cigarette butts, at the least. Nope, not one.
...Sunday, and the mistory of the missing chunk is solved. found in the most unlikely of places... but found . we are with chunks... god is good. its Monday... Coffee, cigarettes, my lawyer Carlos, whom looks like Mcartney " LeT iT bE " , Picassos on the tv news again, bulls and bullfighters... Picasso. not breathin' and still gettin' paid..., we should all be so talented , more coffee, and hey Marco !!! the bacon IS workin'...Thanks...

... And then theres you there Jamie Hayes... i do hope life has treated you well over these odd and surreal years.
there are very few left from that old crew. you were the most man. I have missed and spoken of you... you know where i'm livin' and heres a number for you and all , 034.636 54 68 25, i'm good, despite the words, and adventures and traps trippped, i'm good. I will wait for you to show up here, at the mall...

And thats another Monday in Uvieu, and another day in España...8 yrs and 198 days. thats real time Friends...

Be well todo mundo...smoke somthing worthy of comment today, it's monday.


J.Level
(Jlevel77@yahoo.com)

On emotional body armor...

20.05.07
uvieu,españa
"...Do you have a plan B ? of course you do..."
" ....No. "
" ...and this? how do you remain in such bizzar situations, all mind warpin' and soul drainin' without
a plan B ? "
" ... I trust. "
" ... you trust ? "
" ... I've little choice..."
" ... And you've played with the fire, the lawyers and judges all of whom are drenched to the skin with
the weird and dark histories of the Moors, Dali and El Cid **...What makes you think you'll come out any
cleaner ? Hummmm..."
" ...i close my eyes and climb the ramp to the waitin' plane and somewhere over somewhere it will open its
doors and deposit this poor artist into a scene based on things solid.... and barring firm ground, peace,
and something resembling life...i will surely be taught to fly..."
" ...You are a strange person "
" ...So I've been told..."
" ... Another glass of wine Jess ? "
" ... I never say no, I say " Thank You..."


be well todo mundo... J.Level
( jlevel77@yahoo.com)

** words of Marco Fuoco

saturday in the barrio....

19.05.07
uvieu,España
saturday in the barrio, the kids on calle Rosal have been washed away and the silence returns. the girl sleeps and we are dog-less this saturday in the barrio....
very little responce to the new peices, " Beside the freeway with Don Quijote no.2 " and " Manoline, in another moment of contemplation, 18 may 1998 " that they have'nt gone up on the walls yet, " i can't believe i've so much storage space..."
there is good news though, they sold a lot of paintings in sothbeys yesterday, 21,000 €... a lot of paintings by a monkey. dali was a fan, picasso, and ernest hemmingway. Monkey paintings, and a dead monkey at that. huh... if the brothers at sothbyes are so hard up as to have to drag out the monkey paintings ... hell boys, i've a whole shitload of paintings stored all over the country... gimme a call... 034 636 54 68 25... another saturday in the barrio, and another day in this weird and beautiful land....

be well todo mundo, watch " Dumpster Gods", by marco fuoco in youtube... a work of art...

j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...si, robamos Meninas/ Jlevel77.blogspot.com

17.05.07
uvieu,españa
" another perfect fuckin' day " said dave.
" we can count on your participation, surely Dave ?? " asked jon kline
" ... count on my " particaption "... could be taken in various ways ... no?, jon?
" Yes Dave, it could be taken in various ways..." smirked jon, smirkingly.
" then i take it we have a deal, jon ?..."
" yes Dave, we have a deal... i'll call you at 7:00 and tell you where they are to be delivered..." said jon.
" the usual payment? " asked dave..
" the usual..." said jon.
" another perfect fuckin' day... no jon ?... "

... somebody turned up the gravity today...no?

15.05.07
uvieu, españa
today i took off my glasses at the insistance of a bum in the park, I was ready to destroy this poor brother... the state is winning today. the girl is mad and this dry summer day aint nothing like the dry summer day a year ago... i could be alittle calmer, so i could. i know. i'm a brother on hold. a pawn of the state, whom has this weird plan for me... but they aint sayin' what nor when nor how nor.... the life of am inmigrant... not the easiest thing i've ever tried, so it aint'.
I'll be fine. i'm loved and protected, and for the moment this will do. but, lemme tell you, ( the state) i'm watchin' what these locals are takin for granted, and it's pissin' me off.... but they know that, their THE STATE. thinkin' of california, where everyday is new and without all the heavy history... your probably right Marco, your probably right...

be well todo mundo. manaña mas y mejor...

j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

... My little things

13.05.07
uvieu, España
" the world is a tiny place. we are all trying to do so much, in the space we've been alotted this time around. our little things. im paintin and writting my book on the concentration camp trip. cookin', cleanin', and hangin' out the wash, walkin' " freely " amoungst my fellow humans here in this weird and beautiful country....just doin' my little things.
Sunday in the windy city. suns a shinin' and there's a mild breeze a blowin' outta the northwest... and it's a great day for baseball !!!!!!.. and doin' little things...outta the norm. little things. It' all i got..." workin ? " yeah, i've been known to produce alittle more than lately... yeah, i know. dry days in a tiny place with the lists of nessessary creations gettin' longer every minute in our little digitally connected instant worlds on hold, and doin' all the little things i possibley can. like we all are...... yeah, i said " Worlds ". Livin' in one thats totally different from month to month. with much to do, and paint and say...

fromthemindofacaliforniaartist.blogspot.com. another addition to the tiny place, where we are all doin' what we can, in the space we've been alotted, this time around.......thats another Sunday in the barrio, and another day in España... 8 years and 187 days... thats real time friends.... and it will be the little things that liberate me from THIS currently running freakshow... so it will.
I ve little doubt.

be well todo mundo. do big things....

J.Level
( Jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...And the freakshow continues... part 4

11.05.07
uvieu,españa
.... and nobody said that ant of this was gonna be easy, sure. But now the freakshow goes into the waiting fase, and we're wonderin' What the hell are we gonna do until NOVEMBER !!!!! , waiting for the state to make up their minds.
November. I said, November. In January the decision will come down, yeah, i said January, and it will have been over a year we've been dancin' to this tune. Tired of the dance ? the dance to remain here in this weird and beautiful country...? there have been some questioning my reason, " smells alot like they don't want ya there Level..." yeah, i know. nothing new.
So, the girl is a bit freaked. The lawyers are happy though, say this is the best that could occure. yeah, the state, they'ev spent 100,000 € , and all the paper, all the vailed threats, and more paper... only to forget about this poor artist, marroned on this weird and some what senceless, yet beautiful desert island called España... thank god i have this dark sence of humor, and this immortality, or this freakshow would be no fun at all...

be well todo mundo, hug a inmigrant today...

J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...Meninas #3

10.05.07
uvieu,españa
So, with california in flames the summer begins. Not that the Cort Ingles had'nt already said so, the fires make it official. The Popes on vacation in Brazil, and the italians down at the Gondola, well their gone too, was'nt a porsche to be found in the garage yesterday... and they say i'm on vacation... wanna go to Moldavia, and i wanna go now. laptop, digital camera and all... workin' in other words. in the winter i'm wantin' to go to Nigeria, then Bolivia, then Moscow... yep, the bug is alive and lookin'
So, the TV news just told us the fires are " apparently " under control. i was worried there. And with that ends summer, it will soon be cloudy and brisk in the mornings, and being Asturias, it will be raining or snowing at any moment...ahhhh think i'll put on a sweater....

be well todo mundo. Think " cold ".....

J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...and the cat freaked

09.05.07
uvieu,españa
... having a few lite thoughts, like for instance..." what the hell am i supposed to be doing with myself while waiting for the state to make up their minds ? ". painting ,writting , and cleaning the house, i wait. if i had criminal tendencies... would be a little less boring, but i don't possess these qualities. thank god. No, friends im just gonna wait it out. be happy, be rich, be creative with this limbo i've been handed. some people would consider this a blessed vacation, then again, theres folks that say i've been on vacation for the past 10 years... huh.
I finally speak to marco fuoco, been some 20 years or so. sounded the same, and in Youtube, if yer looking, por fin," The Tourtured Poet " ... look it up. we were minor gods back then, and are planning the next fase... stay tuned. could be really weird, 70's children, so we are... cover you eyes and hair...

be well todo mundo. smoke somthing really good today...

J.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

....the bubbles have floated away

06.05.07
uvieu,españa
So, we lose Don Ho. grew up with Don Ho, and it is'nt until now i give him his worth. the bubbles have floated away, and now i've to buy " the complete Don Ho "... little by little we're loosing um', our heros. we need more...
i've mine, and you ? i'm thinking of Jim Wilson, the neibhour next door on Kukui st., in Huntington Beach, Ca. my families first home. Jim taught me to play chess, to paint, table tennis, and the first naked woman i saw in life ...? yep, jim's lovely wife ______, don't remember her name. he had the first mercedes i'd seen, and could shave his head without a mirror... a hero of mine, Jim Wilson.

Vaya con dios Don Ho....

Be well todo mundo. im sportin a hawaiian shirt today, i suggest you do the same...Don Ho.

J.Level
( jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...Heros # 2...70x54cm oil on canvas

05.05.07
uvieu,españa

A man approached me on the street and asked " your not going to show those paintings of the concentration camp...are you ? " i said " yes. yes i am." the brother then said this, " your lucky your not in America, talking this shit...maybe you should go back to Mexico, where you came from..." . " Wo", i said... "i did'nt think my spanish was that good, thanks."
i spent some months in a village in north Mexico , Bahia Keno, 1996. it was a different world then, but they did,nt know it there in the village at the end of the road. Had other worries, like food and clean water, and a real doctor to come and install himself in that little paradise... at the end of the road.. every year someone leaves for good, a funeral, of sorts, is held for the absent ones, as none return...they go to start over in america, where the streets are paved with gold, and this poor artist, is nowhere to be found...yep, gonna show the paintings of the concentration camp, so i am...My impression of Heros...

be well todo mundo...look it up.. Bahia Keno , Mexico DF, and costa de marfil, thats africa, friends....

J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...and lucy's spanish was perfect

04.05.07
uvieu, españa

Ever wonder what Ricky was screaming in spanish
durning all those years we sat watching, absorbing the information
of life?...

Nothing much really.

We are all Ricky's and Lucy's...no?

be well todo mundo
j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...thinking of Istambul

02.05.07
uvieu,españa

i've two friends living in Istambul. They have invited us to come and explore...why is it every country i prepare to visit busts out in civil unrest?