" ...And all was right with the world... FIESTA!!!!!!!!....oh"

15.08.07
Uvieu,España
Another un known fiesta in the rainy city today. There are something like 6,453,987 fiestas a year in España....If one does'nt wish to work, this is the place.
America, Los Angeles, specificly, is now at this moment blessed with the presence of my mother in law "Menchu", a hell of a gal. The leader of that pac of Duarte's, a powerful bunch of woman. Glad their on the side of this poor artist, so i am. She'll stay until the birth of Salvador, my second nephew.Should be any day now....
And with the yard cleaned up, and the emotional hiroshima blowin some where over Xixon, i reached another conclusion... there is no way to predict the reaction of a spaniard....in España. Theres something in the water, Im sure of it and have my experts studing the situation as we speak...don't worry. I'm not.

Thats my dumb entry. I promise something with alittle more bite tommorow....
be well todo mundo...
and to Avid, Brother, i'm sooooo happy your back. Don't ever drift away again...j
J Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

the painting: "Manoline indirecto" 70x63cm oil on canvas 1400 euros
©jpl 2007

Today...

14.08.07
uvieu,españa
...A friend said,
" I've never been more happy with my life, as i am now..."
I have great envy of a person
that can say that, so i do.
Here, The freakshow continues.
not worth envy...forget it.

Gotta go clean up the front yard
Sorry. I am a passionate person.

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

"...HEY !!! COMPRA ALGO WOODY, POR DIOS !!!!!! "

12.08.07
Uvieu,España

The fourth time i'm snubbed by Woody Allen
the press screamed WOODY
WOODY
WOODY
" Woody ! tio ! compra algo !!!!!"
" Woody, I've paintings for the movie..."
nothing
nothing
the security guys were
very nice
and well Woody did'nt buy anything
Marco brought up Chuck
Ground Chuck
I Thought of him
A Punk/orignal/weird/ possibly
brain damaged
or near prophet Ground Chuck
Should be a movie Ground Chuck
or social study....
i'm afraid to ask
" hey whats up
with Ground Chuck????
afraid he rich sucessful and taller,
so i am...
" You'll be tall one day Jess..."
thanks man...
The girls asleep it's sunday
in the rainy city. Snow and cold
but the gitanos will set up
in the campillen,Domingo,
and i will find a Ground Chuck doll
to add to the collection of
dashboard saints....
You should be here marco
bring your ski's
it's summer in the Mall
thats oviedo
and thats España
8 years and 321 days later...
The Freakshow continues....

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

painting:©jpl2007
" Compra algo Woody, por dios coñjo" 30x40cm oil

Man in bottle building a ship outside........

11.08.07
uvieu,España

Somewhat lost in my own
world
the ship aint gonna build it's self
and if the gods were to smile
on this poor artist, Domingo....
Thinkin' of wrapped
taped and mailed
thinkin
next time i'll include a note
or a script
or just some jumbled word
like these...
we're lost, I think, Domingo.
why don't you roll us up another
I've got some thinkin'
and some laundry to do...
out here in the sunlit shade of Asturias...

Be well todo mundo...
J.Level
(jlevel77yahoo.com)

...on warm days in oblivian,Harleys,The Good Gallery and Home....

10.08.07
Uvieu,España
Lookin around yesterday i find Avid. Such and old friend .I cannot begin to tell ya'll. The first to show in the Good Gallery, in those trendy Everet Lofts back in 90'... He showed the Harley guy fotos, and we learned patience and new words and the sight of this cool old guy always made it a warmer day in that rainy, cold town... Thats Portland friends, a long time ago. He's still takin' fotos of kids and dogs. Theres nothing like a portrait by Avid. No big smiles and all perfect black and white... We fell apart on a raven day i surfed off to oblivian where the sun did'nt shine, and the brother grew and changed..it took this poor artist a little longer.... All good now Avid, livin'in a weird and beautiful place, with the girl and the dog, we're happy, feisty and prepared for the ambush, or the peace, which ever comes first.The art is flowin' and after all the giant waves that have washed alot away...when i think of that place ,long ago, i think of Avid....You can call,my Brother
034-636.54.68.25... always around, so i am.

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

When washin' up on the beachs of Madrid part 1

06.08.07
uvieu,España
An old memory......

Walked down the ramp smoking. No firemen thinkin' I was aflame
no cops
all overzelous with those clipped
pittbull ears
waitin' to interogate me into the hospital
The hotel Europa
a plate of jamon and some beers later
I quit the life jacket beginning to notice
just exactly where i've washed up...
Puerta del Sol
And thats Madrid friends
" Hey man, you gotta 1000 pesetas for some wine ?"
Pesetas?

There were hippy protesters in Puerta del Sol
" FACISTA"
the cute hippy girl yelled at me
pointin' to the car
pointin' at me
pointin' at the BIG
white Jaguar
The sound of the trunk closin'
wooosh-thunk silent with my backpack
50 paintings
and 50 drawings all dry now
My rumpled white shirt
a 2 day beard the hippy idealist
" FACISTA" she yelled
I look to the driver....????
No help. All good
It enters fast
Puttin' 2 x 2 = 5
" A hippy like me gettin' into a car llike this.....
Washed up in a weird and beautiful place
I realized " This aint' Kansas brother... "
The freakshow begins.....

To be continued.......

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

...The valley of the shadow of Jess... Part 1

05.08.07
uvieu,España
My friends, the long ride ends. the circle completed. I'm on the couch.Its Sunday. A-Team's on the tube, Hannibal's Spanish...is perfect. Madrid my friend, Madrid. Hot like Africa hot. Hot. Fuckin' hot. Hot. The attitude of the indigenous was indignantly madralaina'... all snarly and apathetic. I love the place. Has no effect on this American, them peoples like dat all da time in America...or no? Madrid. Indian food in Lavapies a barrio with ten cultures and languages goin all at once...we sit in a cool breeze in a cool plaza, the African brothers the Arab brothers those Bolivians and Colombians Chinese and Russians Moldavians Bosnians Romanos Cubans Dominicans..... seemingly all getting along in that little palce.... the rastro in the Latina nearly got me ...Hot? like Sahara hot. Leaving that weird island called Puerta del sol, and underground, we ride on to that Museum Reina Sofia... I watched a tear flow from the right eye of the girl as she stood quietly before " La Gurnica" de Pablo Picasso... it 's quite a piece. I'v a little more respect for the brother. A little. The same effect with the few Dali's, and the Miro's , the last painting being the three dot's ... i hope that the evolution of my own work and its final pieces will be more than just three smeared dot...ya know what i mean..? To the garden and another Miro, we smoke and talk... The girl was truly beautiful sitting there next to that fountain....surrounded by art and "Art ? " Beautiful, so she is.
Rode on to Salamanca the next day....

more in part 2 " The valley of the shadow of Jess "

be well todo mundo
j.level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)
foto.©jpl2007

" The Freakshow continues...Pt.10"

26.07.07
Uvieu,España
" .....dude, you ok? "
" .....Yeah. Why ? "
" ..... you don't paint,you don't eat, and yer alittle green, so you are..."
" ..... I working with what these folks have given me, and tryin to deal
in a place where everyones on vacation. Everythings closed and
i'm wonderin' , again, whos runnin this gig...????
" .... And, ya'll are marchin off to Madrid, no? "
" .....Yeah. I'm goin to madrid....."
" .... This is a pretty boreing conversation...."
" .... It's a pretty boreing time....
jlevel
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)
the painting: Manoilne de Somiedo no. 16 54x45cm oil on canvas

...on Madrid,Harvey,and healthcare professionals in a strange and beautiful land..."

24.07.07
Uvieu,España
The freakshow continues....
Thinking alot about Harvey. We used to be so close... thats befor the weird spanish chick entered the game. She was indeed was the strangest thing we'd ever seen, and we're talkin' in Seattle 1997. Weird ? you bet. I've found temporary replacements. Spanish Harvey's, that in the end had nothing to compare. Harvey is a state of mind. Harvey is a goal. Something to strive for, "To be like Harvey...." I miss throwin around those odd yiddish words, and the ever present cats, the good smoke..." No , only a little...." he'd say, then smoke the whole thing...Harvey said nothing... a smile.

We are 6 days and counting. We're going to Madrid. Still almost below zero in Asturias, and skiing yesterday was a blast. Today i'm cuttin wood for the stove, and mendin long underware...next week lookin for shade amougnst the fauna de Puerta del Sol. Kilometer 0, Madrid....

Little more. Got papers, and am looking for a real job.This should be.....? Have'nt had a "real" job in about a decade...The freakshow continues. The doctor, he advised.... " Smoke and drink heavely this weekend. Say and sign nothing, and ,here, smoke this now..."
Thinkin of Harvey, he'd enjoy Star Trek where Capatin Kirks spanish...is perfect.

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

...Summer again in Asturias oh....

18.07.07
Uvieu,España
About 10,000 degrees in Madrid.... but i'm puttin' on another sweater. It's summer in my barrio, that's Asturias, and that's España friends....
My fifth summer in this weird mall of a town. The state conceeds the papers. The girls happy. The lawyers, in Marbella, and there really aint' much more to do but go outside and shovel away the snow from the driveway... There are some folks sweatin though, SOS Racismo. They did not show up for our meeting yesterday, probably snowed in and incommunicado...surely. Nope , not mad, just keepin a an eye on ya'll...lettin' everyone know that Level's thinkin' about ya, hooking up the poodles to the sled, to deliver that fat subvention check to your prestiges organization...aint nothing to be done...It's summer in Asturias you know....I'm goin' to Maddox.xmission.com... The best page in the universe. You should too. theres reason and warmth, but bring a sweater...just to be on the safe side.

Not more.
Be well todo mundo.
J.Level
( jlevel77@yahoo.com)

..." on beer, white clothes and girls from california..."

11.07.07
uvieu,espana
the freakshow continues.... It's another fiesta in this weird and beautiful land ...San Fermin.
It's in Pamplona, and it's about beer and much wine. White clothes and girls from California following the Hemmingway path. It's about running shoes and red scarves... ambulances and cops all over the palce. Music of Navarra, food, more beer and that ever present thought... ", next year, I'm gonna find a gallery to rent in Pamplona and sell some paintings....". San Fermin.

We watch from bars and the couches. Blurry eyed and gettin ready for work, it's 8:00 am and the tv blazes with searing white and rolled newspapers... as that bell rings on and on and for about 2 minutes we are all "oooooooooo" and "aaaaaaaaaa"
Later on the tv news we will be shown time after time, time after time on all the channels the white clothed California girls drinkin' wine and beers, with their white Gucci running shoes....sitting in cafes, ooooooo-ing and aaaaaaaaaa-ing..".Waiter!!!!!!! more beer and some of those little sausages ? Thanks, your a dear Paco.....ooooooooooooooo"

San Fermine.
Oh, and there bulls. did I say that before?

be well todo mundo...

Be well S.D.Fried

J.Level

...07.07.07...our experts are studying the situation...

07.07.07
uvieu,España
777...Jo !

weird day. lots of talk of luck...good luck. bad luck. people are talkin', for the least. me ?
i've got our experts studying the situation as we speak... don't worry. I'm not.

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

...The Freakshow continues...Pt.7 "Mi Asturias"

05.07.07
uvieu,España
Welp, as of yesterday, sez the lawyers, i am " free to live my life normally ", translated literaly. The State conceeds and all is supposedly right with the world... Good. i have said it many times, " Brother, why even waste the energy tryin' ? " This all started with The Moors, Dali and El Cid...Marco informed me, add now to that heavy history, J. Level....whom has witnessed ineptness, and confusion, and of course, look WHERE this strange tale of love, strife, adventure and beer, is occuring.... Ahhh, it's a weird and beautiful country, so it is....That's España, friends.
.
The ID card should be commin along "soon", the word "soon" is thrown around pretty freely around here, and it's summer in the rainy city, so with anyone whom can do any paper movin' outta town till about September, tending their little gardens in their little houses built with money of dubious origen, in Marbella, where all the mayors since i arrived here in 97' are, or have been imprisoned for fraud, money laundering and or bribery and extorsion....a different set of priorities around these parts, and what with the accepted level of corruption at heights never before considered, they've got alot goin' on, they'll get around to this poor artist "sooner" or later, surely. Don't have a house in Marbella... yet. So I'll be here waitin' aroun' here for ya'll to get back, in Asturias. All good oh....
... And with that behind us, we start again. 8 years and 245 days later, i begin again. The Freakshow continues.
i'm cool. All good. got three words to begin with this new era..."COMPRA ALOG TIO !!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Be well todo mundo. Good things commin '.......
J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com)

...on Manoline,automatic tellers,cheap red wine and near prophets..."

03.07.07
uvieu,españa
The freakshow continues... Sundays usually a calm sorta day takes on yet another face, i am at a loss to explain... passing the palza jammed with brutal old ladies, and large, yet short men, roundin that corner at Calle Rosal, and there it is 40 € hanging out the mouth of the automatic teller machine..." how could that happen ?" asks the girl, up at 10:00am. On a sunday none the less...
The rastro of the Gitanos down in the Campilline... i hope they got along ok with out us, for we didn't make it that far this last sunday. 40 € hangin out of the teller machine... how could that have happened? some one with out patience? a drunk brother ? a drunken prophet ?... we buy something great to smoke and and its about 90º in the shade..... so we go to the house of the mother of the girl the familys there, a strange and powerful group of woman... we eat "Pote Asturiana" a powerful mix of basically collard greens, white beans chorizo morcillia pig bones and cheap red wine... escencilly a bomb. The girl is still feelin' it...and i say " I know now why theres a ambulance sitting out front of that weird Asturian resturant in Madrid in the summer, 90º in Madrid and the tourists are palyin' with bombs of "Pote Asturiana"

Things i have learned: Never eat Pote Asturiana when its 90º you'll probably die... thats why the ambulance.

nothing more. It's 5:00 am on tuesday , and i'm going back to bed. heres a painting in progress. Manoline and friends...
be well todo mundo.
J.Level
(jlevel77@yahoo.com

"when i turned around..."

01.07.07
uvieu,españa

"... when i turned around, there with that strange wife of his, Joan, and Carl Stothmenburg...."

" He's the arch enemy...No? "

"... Carl, what can i say about Carl? Tall, handsome, rich. Carl..."

" You'll be tall one day brother..."

" Thanks man..."

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