27.2.09

On..." The Freak show and it's passing thru thr Valley of the Shadow of Death" part 25 " Another resturant with Jesus ..."

( for Dabs, enjoy. And for all 25 chapters click on " The freakshow" in "things you may find"
this will be almost the last entry of the freak show. I'm planning a book based on the stories
so download them now. They be valueable later. The freak show will pay off. Worry not. The world is good.)

"...!! Will you get this dog offff meeee, damn !!!" , yelled Wayne B.
Lil' Mocos had reacted poorly to Wayne B's comment on intelligent
design, Darwin, and the existence of God. The reaction was a strong one,
Lil' Mocos trying, and trying to gum his way thru to Wayne B's jugular.
Calmly Jesus scooped up Lil' Mocos off poor Wayne B's neck,
and holding him up to his skinny face he said, " You will behave
yourself ", plopping a small kiss on the dog's curly head...

The waitress dropped the brimmin' plates.
Corned beef hash for Wayne B. Biscuits and sausage gravy
for Jesus, who broke off a chunk o pork for Lil' Mocos.
As Wayne B wiped the slobbery goo from his neck with a
napkin holder napkin, he said... "... Now what in the hell was that ? ",
" You crossed the line sir, grrrrrrrrrr-....hack -cough-wheeeeeeze-
wheeeeeez-grrrrrrrr... ", growl-wheezed the little, old, toothless
Lil' Mocos nearly up on the table, growled.... " Im Jesus's Dawg muther fu*%&#."

" Both ya'll stop !!!! ",
Jesus hissed. The guy in the next booth, Steve Manowit,
an out of work screenwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina
sunk a little lower in his seat. "...I will tell you a secret if you'll both
mind the peace...", offered Jesus to Lil' Mocos and Wayne B',
whom nodded suspiciously...

Jesus chomped a biscuit. Wayne B
and Lil' Mocos hung on every chomp... and Jesus said, " You ever see
an orchid ?. Frickinly weird and obscenely curious, I have a friend
Ed, lives in Washington, the guy grows the most fascinating orchids.
Sez they, " ...come from a mix of all the beautiful women he had ever known.
That they left behind their essence and the flowers played on it..."
What it really is, is a creation of Neil Blim. God's R & D guy.
Just after the beginning, more or less. I saw him running up the hall
towards Dad's office one day with this alien looking plant mumbling something
about Venus and Granada and some thing named Dali...
Neil's also responsible for that little bug with
all the legs...ahhhh? Damn !??? ...". " ... A centipede ? " offered Wayne B,
" Right ! Neil Blim ", said Jesus, soppin' up some gravy and feeding it to
Li' Mocos... " So, your saying " Created ", asked Lil' Mocos.
" Yep ", said Jesus. And little Mocos jumped up and looked Wayne B
in the eyes and said, " HA! I TOLD YOU SO ! ", beginning to roll around
on his back singing..." na-na-naa-na-na-na naa-na hey hey....", so he did.
And Wayne B said " Git out...the rib, the apple, and of course the hot babe
Eve, man I tell ya..." and Wayne went on, and Jesus explained, and
Lil' Mocos fell asleep, content. " So this crawlin' out the mud and monkey's
to man posters... I like the one where it's a monkey evolving into G.W. Bush
that was funny as hell..." Wayne B went on...

" Damn !!! ", said Wayne B.
" Damn !!! ", said Steve Manowitz in the booth behind Jesus, Wayne B,
and the contently serene Lil' Mocos sleeping with his head touching
Jesus thigh...
so he knew he was there.


to be continued...

be well todo mundo,

J. Level

©jpl2009 " On.. "The freakshow and it's passing thru the Valley of the Shadow of Death" pts1-25
foto: Mich Timmins

26.2.09

A-Bloody-gain

It snowed again.
This is indeed
gettin' old.
If you live
somewhere warm
invite us on over.
We'll do yer window's
and ya'll can watch the
big dog...
Come on anybody ?
Anybody ?

Be well todo mundo...

J.Level

25.2.09

And it begins...




Worked today in windy rainy
industrial Seattle
Steel and I
Roux
Kris with a "K"
Good.
We all need much this year
got plans for the winter
and the minds are one
just get it done
watch yer edges...

be well todo mundo,

J.Level


fotos:©jpl2009

22.2.09

6:33 am Sunday





be well todo mundo,

J.Level

21.2.09

Friday 7:33 am


nothing today.
sittin'
smokin'
playin'
guitar
on the balcony
and smilin'...
We're smilin'.

be well todo mundo,
J.Level

foto c jpl2009 detail " Los Picaros "

18.2.09

A tale of love, strife, adventure & beer..My three girlfriend's and one wife..." part 3

( 3rd and final snippet from the book )


Bobby was an Amerikan and one of the three people I knew
that spoke english. He sold cheap earrings to cute girls on
Calle Pintores , in tie dye and patchouli was also with a girl
named Venus...
" You gotta learn the langauge. They'll eat your soul if you don't..."
said Bobby...
The two cops coulda fooled anyone in that weird little town.
To me they looked like your typical mid day drunks walking up
to us standing there... " su documentos por favor..."
They wanted to see my papers... which I didn't have...
See, it happens to everybody, some beautiful spanish girl
comes up to you one day and sez " so do you want to see Spain ? "
and the next thing you know , your being arrested and ....

The cops walked me to the commisaria slowly.
They were intrested in this Amerikan, living in the
house of the good Doctor, and was Amerika really that large...
" So, you are the husband of Venus...", the short cop asked...
Walking by that little bar, the cop, that's the tall one
he's a hankerin'..." beer ? ", he sez to us.
No handcuffs that time. We sat for an hour
talking about Spain, as opposed to Amerika...
It was the great satan in 96'
what must they think now...?

Venus shows at around 2:00 at the commisaria.
There's laughing and hugs all around.
I'm in a cage, doors unlocked.
I am told there will be an expulsion hearing in the morning
Venus told the fat cops with the white beard to
" treat him well...", they talked a minute more then
laughed, looking at me.
" te quiero mucho mi amor no te preoccupies "
The fat cop asked if I was hungry, then shared his dinner from home
with me. We watched the Simpson's then the news
and like Ottis, I walked back to my cell and closed the door.
Tommorow would be a freak show...cop, lawyers, inturptures...
100 day's in Spain, I had already summed the place up
" Mayberry "


be well todo mundo,

J.Level

©jpl2008

16.2.09

Had a Bill Papas dream...




Ran acrossed this print by Bill stashed between
some pages of Luis Rafael Sánchez's book
" Macho Camacho's beat ", yesterday.
Bill came to me in a dream last night...

...there was a building that I wanted to live in
on the N.W. park blocks in old Portland round
1989-90. Big loft. Big.
Had more light than bein' outside.
Needed a place for the big painting's...
Bill's building was perfect.
Waitin' around in the bar that connects
with the Chetwynd-Stapleton gallery,
I sat 12 day's runnin' from 2:30 - 4:00
waiting for my moment with Bill.
It came in the form of a blessing,
Bill had seen my painting's and said this,
" ...why would you want to waste such quantities
of paint and canvas son...? ".

The move to telling stories with painting's,
The painting's within the painting's thing
I always thought had come
from my love for Diego Velázquez...
an influence that actually came from Bill Papas.
He was there last night in the little bar
next to the gallery, a bright and cloudy day
blowin' the trees around outside a smile on his face.
I show him some paintings from a roll...
He likes the arched windows and the bricks.
He likes the dog chasing the cat piece,
and the "Big gallery of the giant's " , for the
shadow's of the little people
and the painting's inside the painting...
" Brilliant ", he said in my dream.
That's what I remember .
All a dream, and though he's not with us
today, he was here last night
smilin' and smokin', leg's crossed and drinkin'
coffee tellin' me a story a greek girl, a bar
and the rest
of his life...
I didn't get the loft, Bill steered
me towards another that was wonderful
and my life took a different path altogether...
Thank's Bill.


Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto: Avid Brickman ( artbyavid.com)
print: "The Mexican sheep seller's" by Bill Papas



12.2.09

...and that was Wednesday in mi barrio



...so all seem's well
dog
Styl
an
me.
was given this 
to close out
another Wednesday
in Amerika....

be well todo mundo,

J. Level



10.2.09

A tale of love, strife, adventure & beer..My three ex-girlfriend's and one wife..." #2


( snippet from the book # 2)


...Venus said she was going to the store at the bottom of the hill.
I did'nt see her again for a month. A long weird month.
" ...guess you lucked out brother..." said the Jerry " el Gillipollas ".
I lost Venus. She drove off with no fone number to the house.
No address.
No clue as to where she was...

The weird stress of losing a person. No, no break up. No harsh
fight, she simply did not know where she lived, in Seattle.
Never been there. At a total loss, I made a few calls to Spain,
I didn't speak spanish.... Luna, another gillipollas, speaks for me...
..." Yeah missing... Kidnapped ?, well I couldn't say that exactly...? "

3:00 am a month later fone rings...

" Jess ?... Dan here..., hey listen I have this strange
Spanish chick standing in front of me sez she knows you and is lost....
No, I don't think she's totally nut's,
but she's got these eye's...."
I get Venus on the fone, and am amazed by the story...

...Venus drives down the hill to the store and got to talking. Forgetting
which street to take leading back up to the house. She drove all night looking and crying.
Nothing. She sleeps in the car in downtown Seattle, and of course, she finds the cafe Zeitgeist.
One thing leads to another, Venus finds a gig house sitting for a famous artist
with a bonus, two big happy dogs... Yeah she was like that, taught me to be like that
"...there is no defeat when you sleep on clean sheets and have good coffee in the morning,
the rest, we find or no?... ".
Venus said that.
I had forgotten that as of late,
so I have.

We returned to the house on the lake
and stayed about a month.
Eating, painting, and preparing
me for España, and all that would occur
over the next ten years...
We get on the plane in a week.


Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

9.2.09

Monday 6:33 am



So, Got woke up, which is weird in it's self
those who know me know sleeping and eating
man I could use those hours, wasted.
So, got woke up with 
" It's snowing. It's snowing...".
we stood and watched from the window
smoking...
" never gonna stop Styl, never...".
" Good ".
End of the New Year,
and another Monday in Amerika...

be well todo mundo,

J.Level


6.2.09

on .." The freak show and it's passing thru the Valley of the Shadow of Death " part 24 " Jesus gone a missin' !!! "



"... and he was really a walrus ? ", asked Lil'Moco...
"... No. Well, yes, but not really.... well ...,
he said " I am the walrus ", but he was really Paul
and he turned out not to be dead...", said Wayne B...
Lil' Moco and Wayne B talked all night.
It's like they had known each other all their lives.
Therater, music, art, books...
Wayne B was amazed with the little dog...
Jesus slept soundly.

" HE'S NOT IN THE VAN !!!!!! ", screamed Death.
Dawn and Venus, " who caused all this really ",
ran about the property " JESUS HONEY WHERE ARE YOU ???? ", that was Dawn.
" DON'T YOU DO THIS TO ME YOU CRAZY LITTLE HIPPY MUTHAFU...",
that was Venus, " who caused all this really ", wracked with concern.
Warren was running around in circles, " Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God..."
Domingo had started a ceremonial fire to Tzacol the Mayan sky god,
and talked to his friend Miles of last Saturday's tennis match...
" wicked backhand. The guy never sez no, always thank you..
Yeah the Austrailan open ...your going ???? OH I wanna go..."
I'm on this freak show instead..."
Dave slept oblivious to all and everything.
And then there was John Kline, looking out the window
at the freak show...'" JESUS HONEY NOW YOU COME ON OUT NOW HEAR !!!"
that was Dawn again.
" Gotta sit them all down and tell um ", yeeeeeeeeeish....", said John Kline.
Death was in tears.
Warren spun.
Venus " whom caused all this really " hissed.
Domingo chanted.
and Dave slept on...

John stepped into the kitchen and reached for the bottles.
Martini's would probably make this easier looking out
the window at Death and his sad face...
" Where could he be ?..." , sighed Death.

" Yaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnn ", yawned Jesus just waking up.
They were still talking Wayne B and Lil' Moco,
" ... so considering their size and the amount of food they would need
JUST to support it's self thru an ice age...", explained Lil' Moco
to Wayne's opinion on global warming ...
...Jesus looked out the window at the leaves turning red and gold.
" Commin' up on Greensboro who's hungry ? ", asked Wayne B...
taking the 70 off hiway 85...

...to be continued

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto: Tracy Mobley-Martinez
©jpl2009 " on.. The freak show and it's passing thru the Valley of the Shadow of Death" pts. 1-24

5.2.09

6:33 am



Styl sez I think too much about Death.
" You really do think alot about Death..." she said.
" Death the concept or Death the guy with a van,
a station wagon and cats ?, or the Death with the condo
in Century city ?... " I asked.
" ..........................." a smiling Styl stares...
" You've got alot of time on your hands ...", Styl smiles.
" Yeah, I've got alot of time on my hands ...", I said.

It's gettin warm again here in this rainy
snowy windy place. We will all have much to do 
soon enough...


be well todo mundo,

J.Level

3.2.09

Death and Dave's kitchen




" ...Your bringing me down with that tune stop !!! "
" What ???? "
" Thats " The Death march" your humming, no ? "
" No."
"...your not humming ? "
" HUH ? "
"...another beer ? "
" Yeah.... "

Death waited in the kitchen. He was reading an ad for the Eroski market
and commenting on what a good price they were asking for a glassed
topped diningroom table, with 6 mathching chairs....
" What ? The chairs are glass topped too ? ", Death laughed....
" Oh ! and a small rug as a gift...Hummmmm ", Death read on...
" Maybe it's time to paint the diningroom...", Death thought, turning to
the hardware section...
Dave enters the kitchen.
" !!! BLUE !!! Satin finish ?. No matte, with white trim !!! Yes !..." thought Death...
" Your pretty good at painting diningrooms eh Dave ? ",  said Death, looking around Dave's kitchen.
Dave looked worried comparing paint chips at Eroski's with Death...




be well todo mundo...

J.Level

1.2.09

sunday 7:45 am





be well todo mundo,
J.Level