Showing posts with label digital life jackets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital life jackets. Show all posts

5.1.09

On...uninsured art, The Omega cafe' and Portland, Oregon 1989



...another washed up on my beach the other day.
Have'nt herd from that minor God in awhile. Long while.
he sends this foto of a peice from 88 or 89, maybe 90
could'nt say...

...In the Omega cafe one day, which was beside the Omega
watch shop, I hung this painting on their
trend setting walls. A string was hanging,
the canvas was streched by myself, and crudely
made... I was a young painter, had control of the infamous
Hand Gallery, on the top floor of 333 S.W.Park ave Portland,Oregon,
and a shakin' everybody up, from the phone company to the
Seceret Service...shook up.

...." I'm just gonna burn this little string,
and go home for awhile...I'll be back with another..."
I said to Terry of the Omega...

Terry called about an hour later asking me to come down...
I walked in to an Omega filled with a haze of smoke
and a small crowd gathered about this
painting. I felt good. People were looking...and people
were talking.
Terry said..." do you alway burn uninsured art ?"
the crowd parts and indeed, the painting was on fire.
Smoldering really.
The string was a wick or a fuse that set off the charge
that had this poor, but famous artist sittin'
here in that weird and beautifully complicated country 
some years later. It started the freak show, so it did.

" Do you always burn uninsured art ?" asked Terry.

Today I don't as a rule.
Today I've the foto and this cool memory...
We were minor Gods back then, so we was...

The freakshow continues....


Be well todo mundo.

J.Level

...and you there CJ, thanks and welcome back
can I help ya off with that life jacket...there
ya go...lift your hand alittle...there ya go...
...man, glad ta see ya...

8.10.08

...In reply to you there Ms.Styl666



07.10.08
Vashon, Wa

...in reply to your comment 12.06.08...

I have, if you'll ask some folks,
have proven to be unafraid of many things.
Blindly, sometime as an idealist,
sometime a romantic,
often times an immigrant...
but still unafraid of...

Getting off airplanes
Application without direction
Mean dog's
Mean girls
Evolving cat's
Snakes
Mountain's ( both emotional and physical)
Spiders
Rat's
Earthquakes
Volcanos ( MT. Saint Helens )
Langauges
Goverments
Cop's
Judges
Lawyers
Traitors
The Portugees
The French
Andaluz, (as a dialect of castellano)
The word's " si, otro dia..."
...and the word " NO ".
strange old lady's on the 3rd floor
Taxi drivers
Amy Winehouse
Drug dealers
Bartenders
Punk's
Heavy's
Old and new rocker's
I used to afraid of communists,
but I got over that once somebody competent
explained it to me....then I became a socialist.
Money
Steppin' on toe's
My three ex-girlfriends
and one wife.
..and pokin at volcano's,
they's already smokin'
why not ?

I am afraid of little.
Like the Indiana frickin' Jones
of blind faith,
steppin' off into the dark,
and trust...
I have learned many thing's...
I learned that you gotta trust someone,
usually turns out bad,
but the list is and alway's has been a
long one,
room for more...

Good day on Vashon,
and another day in Amerika...


Fear little there Styl666.
I do.
See you soon.

Be well todo mundo,

J. Level

foto:©spl2007 " Manolin" 23x16cm ink, watercolour on paper (Stolen)

11.8.08

falling up...



11.08.08
Seattle,Wa

Boss is leaving today.
Been a long week
and now back to some peace
and this quest to center again.
He's leaving with Roux and Premdon
going to do hippy stuff
in the Humbolt nation.

We ate with the Mexicans
the Austrailians
and the Capitol Hill kings
stories and smoke rolled
Marpa turns 51
another fine feast at the lounge,
the last for awhile...

...I spend alittle time at Enoy
on sunday.
They are chamans who've
reeled this poor, but famous artist
in.
Many words shared
over that Mirror Pond
the words of Jack always get me
teared up
he finds the good in things
where I see none.

It is a world I find myself in
that eased the free fall
I felt some 2 months ago.
I aint fallin' down anymore
I am falling up.
All good.

28 days...


Be well todo mundo...

J.Level