....Jamie

30.08.08
Vashon,Wa

... This brother is an old old
old friend of mine.
We were the loop
Jamie
Dixie Brown
and Casy the bartender.
Wrote
and said to
look at the new work...
I did.
ya'll should see it too.

He sold me on the
word " Good "
It became the infamous
soap company,
then a gallery in Portland, Oregon
that they still speak of in
the faithful and aged circles
The word "Debauchery"
has been used.
' New idealisim "
I liked to say....

He got wiped out in Katrina,
is back, and pray he get's out again,
as there's another hurricane blowin' in
ta New Orleans
around Tuesday next week...

Go see his site...
http://www.jamiehayes.com

all's
well.
Had to write something,
you know...


...be well todo mundo,

J. level

foto: Jamie Hayes( Jamiehayes.com)

...another day in Amerika

22.08.08
Vashon,Wa

...dog woke me up early
and ran towards the beach.
I followed, and look what
was there...
This could be what you wake up to
everyday...


17 days...


think,


J.Level

...Dinner with Steel

15.08.08
Vashon,Wa

...The message said...
" You are now John Kline
dinner at Roux's
sunday. Your cooking
I like fish..."

Cool.

Roux's is on the other side of the water
has a veranda some tables
a giant Weber barbaque
those Ikea umbrellas
The little xmas lites are nice
and theres talk of tiki torches
but this is Seattle
and it could snow tommorow
so...

Dinner with one of my faveroit
people in this large town
He's playin' the part of the german
philantrapist on vacation from
Munich, and is named
Gunter Grith...
should be a trip.
we're filming it...
the highlites go on the youtube channel
I'll let you know when...

The dog's up and fillin' the room
damned huge dog, so she is.
Going to the beach,
gonna be hot like Africa today
in middle earth.

23 days....


be well todo mundo
J.Level

I can't stay, I gotta iPhone...

14.08.08
Vashon,Wa.

Styl666 my faithful reader and fan,
I looked up your village yesterday
tiny little dot on the big screen.
The damned thing is a marvel,
signed a two year contrac with Death Star
to get it...
So, I've gotta come back from the weird
and complicated land...
worry not.
It's all here now.
you know...

Sittin waitin for the ferry to take me
back to the Island,
did a weird session with
the brother,
we eat and smoke
and he told me secrets
we rode over to the Ibeam
and played iPhones til 12:00am

" what are you gonna do with your fone
when you don't come back...?" he asked.
I rolled my eyes.

So, all ya'll, stop.
This aint' a life changing thing.
That happened already,
survived it well enough.
I'm closing out a part of my life.
comming back and going to work again
just like normal.
I seek closure.
Just got to let it go..

So I'll email the brother now
and tell him so...
" Hey D, You don't get the fone, forget it !!!!!"

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level


...wrote this from the fone, amazing.

...Few words

13.08.08
Vashon,Wa.

...The hand sits out there waitin' for ya
It looks towards the water
which never stops moving
never stops making that sound
that make's ya say...
" ...it's really nice, sitting here...".
Everybody does.
Same thing.
Everytime.
"..Really nice here."

Heard 4 distint voices
from over waters
yesterday.
I couldn't find words.
I will.

26 days...


...and to you there Styl666,
I can't stay...
i gotta iphone.
Go figure...

Be well todo mundo,
J.Level

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

Guess' we needed this....

05.08.08
Seattle,wa

...Spent two days with a traitor.
The brother tripped a trap
and took the incentive to act
under bad and possibily
biased advice...
no, totally biased advice...
trap tripped.

I forgave him.
He's a friend of 30 years whom
didn't know who I was,
went blind and crazy.
Didn't see
that nothing, is as it was.
I have seen many things
and been
squeezed
soul squeezed...
tryin' to be one that I wasn't,
for a decade...
Then I created
a love for someone....
and sabotaged it,
pure and simple.
I got angry.
My fault.
I came back here
to start again....
I have done so.
Nothing nuts about that.

So, walk a mile in my boot's, people,
find the valuable,,
valuable things
I left behind. Their still there...
I don't call,
I'm ashamed.
I've many regrets... I, fucked up.
My choice.
I live with it
me alone.
Ain't nothing nuts about that,
just another romantic
another emotional hiroshima
maybe it'll work itself out
but probably not.
The damage is done...
the brother agreed.
He's a true brother.
who has sabotaged...
and now understands.
I am blessed.
He is blessed.
We're fine now.
like brother's again.
I love him very much.

Next problem...

...and Blessings to my Lawyer,
Carl Stineburg...
...you'll take a painting for what I
owe ya, no...?.

All good ?
All good.

be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto©slp 2007 " The studio in Portland, as I remember it... "

...the end of a scene

03.08.08
Vashon,Wa

.... thats the warehouse.
I am closing it down today.
It was a place I first painted big things
Really big things...
we shot how many films ?
plays and gatherings...? Tons.
The birthday party for Dani.
Myas and Steves wedding.
Myas and Steve's divorice party,
which was better than the wedding really,
they really fought like dogs, they fixed it.
They are still togeather, and happy.
Have a son named Kile, and he's 13 WO !
A happy, smart, handsome kid, they are blessed....
The guy 's from New Orleans that showed
up at 4;30 am to rehearse before their show
with Pearl Jam... long time ago.
I loved Tanisha in that warehouse
and she went away to become a great artist.
I loved Suzanne in that warehouse,
she went away to marry a millionaire
and is happy. The millionaire died,
and she's,
well,
a millionaire, living in France
with her son, Deamon.
My dad came there once for a week,
I smoked pot, and carried on with the plan.
He had a blast. We had a blast.
And I fell down the stairs once and busted
my knee up really good...
I took the first spainsh girl Pilar there...
She didn't get it.
Thought that living in a warehouse was too
primitive... she didn't get it.
She too married a millionaire
and is living in new Caceres,
that's Spain, and a good place for that one...
" too primitive..." indeed.

I'm moving the last stuff out today, giving back the keys
and am gone for good after 15 years.
Pulled out much treasure...
it's going out to the island.
Some to the girl, in Spain...
some to my brother...
spreadin' the stuff around...

The Island...
It's nice.
Everybodies nice.
It's nice.
I won't miss that old place.
Made me who I am today,
I don't need it anymore.
It's for rent again starting tommorow
I'll give you the number...
Going to the beach with the dog...

all good?
All good.

be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto ©spl2008 " the warehouse 619 second ave. Seattle Wa. "

my strange artist friends...

02.08.08
Vashon, Wa.

... My friend Sara makes knife holders.
She was also in therapy for seven years.
Came by the house in middle earth
thinks it'd be a great studio...
Looking for more space
to fit in another artist
here on the ranch
We're makin' freakshow
it seems to have already started...
or has it simply never stopped ?

...33 days til this poor, but famous artist
returns to that weird and complicated land
Tickets booked
dates set
judges and lawyers
and cops waitin'
Gonna be a nightmare, friends
I am not looking forward
to being treated like a leaper
again... got run off once before,
the place and it's people mean little to
me anymore... I wish this would all go away.
33 days til I return
there will be an exit though
menos mal.

...here in middle earth
they will be waitin'
its better here.
all good.

COOL, the dogs up,
" Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's up brother.....? "
that's the dog talkin'...
Blessed ?
Probably.

...what next lord?

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level


...and you there Styl666, thanks. I will return. It's all here now.
and I feel like I am alive again. The new painting sez it all...
You can call the number when you want, starting 20.08.08.
You are gettin' it. Don't push. I bite... JL

...talkin' dogs

31.07.08
Vashon,Wa.

a little sad today.
have all this beauty
all around,
and nobody to share it with...
don't seem fair,
so it does'nt.

Oh, here comes the dog...
ok so I'm not alone
but i need to teach this one
to talk...

another day in middle earth,
going acrossed the water again
the airport is spewing out
another long distance
traveler
got beer
got smoke
fridge is full
gas in the Jeep
and all should be right with the world...
I know whats missing,
and theres nothing I could do
to fill the void.
Good thing the dogs
a good listener...
would be better if she could talk though...
wish the girl would call...

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

be well todo mundo,

J.Level

...the dog saw it before I...

28.07.08
Vashon,Wa.

...the sister Dog yowled right next
to my hand and then ate the biggest
got damed bug I had ever seen
She looked up at me and smiled
my tiny little 150 pound hero Dog
Got's my back, so she does.

So, there was nothing left to do but
smile
smile
smile today
We crossed the water to the other side
hot like Africa
to return to
middle earth's
cool
and shady jungle
another world.

...The dog split
I watered the jungle
and the other little dog
the flowers and emense weeds
smoked a bit
and smiled.
Was another day transforming
a west Seattle
view
from scuzz
to crystal clear...
everybody smiled today.
It's not as alarming nowaday's
as it was there in the beginning.
weird creatures so we are to adapt
and overcome with just some smiles...
smile, Neng


be well todo mundo,

J.Level


... and to you there Styl666...
I'd say thats about enough babe.
you'll be nice.
or I will start writtin' about YOU.
I am lookin for a villin to include...
Don't make me put my literary foot
in yo ass...
All smiles..., JL

..I just clean windows

25.07.08
Vashon,WA

... I just take my shoes off

and go in barefoot knowing all this will
look different in about 2 hours
The dog wanders around
and I have wonderful conversations
with whoever's there...
When I leave the light is different
and who evers there sez
" wow ! look at the light !!! "
I've cleaned the windows
not more. Just alittle attention
was all they needed to shine,
to let in the light that was there,
but covered with some stuff...
Like everything
and everyone...
I put my boots on.
The dog jumps in the Jeep
I tie the ladders on,
and we drive that lovely
drive back town
Earl
Don and Mike at Bishops...
then ,
to the house...
I made 324 bucks.
The dogs happy.
The windows are happy,
and all is right with the world,
in middle earth.

I'll share.
you always have a place
in middle earth, Neng...
always.


Be well todo mundo,

J. Level

....Just a small, gentel, well behaved 150 lb dog...

22.07.08
Vashon,Wa.

...Who'da thunk it ?
I call her " Dog ".
You'd love her, Neng...

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

... the house in middle earth

21.07.08
Vashon,Wa.

... the dogs always waitin' at the door when the truck pulls up.
gots yer trees and bugs and things
that just grow ten feet taller
when your not lookin'...

I have never much cared
for that sorta thing before
yer bugs
as big as my hand,
trees,
or things that grow outta control
Camping ?
un pension de la mala muerte
sin tele...

Middle earth,
It's good for the dog
good for the art
... It's good.

Tommorow, a foto of the beast...

Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

Steel...

18.07.08
Vashon,Wa.

...The brother's
asked if I could come over to the other side to work on a special house...
" ...well, aint' this the most beautiful house we've done yet..." i said.
Spent the day tellin' Steel,
and listening to Steel
a huge guy,
as delicate as anyone I know.
taught me much,
this sensitive
enlightened man.

We ate on Alki beach,
then sat on the balcony of the most
beautiful home we've done to date,
smokin' and confessin'
I try not to confess....
but I do...
I am workin' on NOT
apoligizing
or critizing
or judging.
These Steel words,
"...don't judge
don't critizize
don't apoligize...".
All right
and just
to those around
and distant...

We ended at the home of a saint.
She had lived her life in India,
careing for those
without,
she said,
" ... You'll be fine...",
over her glasses.
I had said nothing,
she was reading
and I am used to doing
my Zen thing
without a sound
more than a
"Squeeeeek...",
rubber on glass...
and moving on to the next room.
"...You'll be fine..." she said.
"...I know...",
I said.

I think alot about the choices
and the words.
The thoughts
that were as loud
as the screaming ever was...
I won't do that again, Steel.

" ...you missed a spot
riiiiiiiiiighht there..." I pointed.
He gave me an evil,
but loving stare...

I am blessed to have these people in my life,
I know.
I know...

Another good day
transforming things...


Be well todo mundo,

J.Level

foto:c 2008 spl " my painting's on the front lawn of El Prado, Madrid. March 2008