Happy New Year...

Happy New Year...I'm sober and I don't care who knows it!!!

warm feeling yesterday...

Talking to a lot of old freinds on the solistice gave me a real warm feeling...

Winter solstice 2008

Winter Solistice 2008
another year
made it
with pictures
video
beer to cut the dread
shortest day of the year
longest night
Giants playing the Panthers
Madden doing the analysis
so it goes

Videopoem Diann Burro Moving Strength Yoga

My continuing investigation of Diann's Yoga Instructioin...

birthday party...

Yesterday was Lewin's birthday party....it provided me a scenic excursion through the wax musuem and ghosts from the past....

Night In the 'Qua...

Night In the 'Qua... from robert dene on Vimeo.

memory in the 'qua
so fashionable these days.
Here was a time
when I was rotted
deep to the soil
with no freedom to live.

Your narrative becomes the details
you pick
to describe what you remember.
How ever, you don't live there
so by definition it is
a false construct
as accurate as it may be
to you.

new york city...

Sitting in Jeff's apartment in New York City working on a Motion opening for a new Videopoem....

Videopoem Presents Pandaleon's Prines

Tom playing the classic John Prine song with the Greeley Woods layered in the background...

before the yoga interview...

sitting in starbucks before the yoga interview...

John Doe and Kathleen Edwards

John Doe and Katleen Edwards reviewed in No Depression...http://www.nodepression.com/…icles.aspx

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Videopoem Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards really captures it on this tune. With John Doe backing her this tune evokes deep feelings of emotion...

John Doe and Kathleen Edwards

John Doe at Carnegie Hall...what a trip!...a far cry from the punk days of X..or so it would seem...John Doe was always an excellent craftsmen who sang with great soul and insight into the joys and foibles of modern love and his performance on Friday night was no exception.. Joined at times with Kathleen Edwards, an equally excellent singer songwriter from Canada who also voroicious talents in this area, the two put on a warm energized evening of songs...

John Doe and Kathleen Edwards

John Doe and Kathleen Edwards played fantastic set on November 7th, 2008 at Zankel Hall in New York city.

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doe/edwards...

Working on a new show. I was lucky enough to see John Doe and Kathleen Edwards last Friday, November 7th, 2008 at Zankel Hall in New York City. Both performers put on a fantastic show full of emotion and artistic craft...

fall...coffee...images...

drinking coffee in the morning while having a spirit and looking at the yellow leaves outside and grooving on the indian summer...

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studs terkel...

Listening to a an interview from Studs Terkel from four years ago...it's amazing...makes me recall when I listened to a tape of him interviewing jerry garcia from sometime in the 70's when I was back at Clark, in Wyman, the roar of Main Street nearby...

poll inspector...

I'm working in Briarcliff at the moment...it's such a small world...one of the women here with me is the mother of someone I used to know....

time...

time releases you from its bony hands
and your spirit flies in the silent night
jerry sings cold rain and snow
soon it will be time to don the costume
of the machine and make your way
past the snickering indifference of death
and human greed

the dead...

listening to a great version of "Here Comes Sunshine." and so it goes...

fall...

the leaves turn yellow...winter sneezes its cold breath...where in full bloom in fall now...sound of leaf blower in the air...time undistilled disolves fast...the young twenty somethings searching frantically to search body fluids with someone else..pink hair...tattoos....cell phones...gum....earrings....indie rock...indie this...indie that...public relations...the bombs dropping...somewhere all the time...working...collapse of value...lies...self importance...parnoia...self consciousness...

"did you forget you were going to die?" the writer said through an impish smile, the smoke curling up in swirls from his clove cigarette...

Outside, the rain...

Outside the rain howls madly...ego seems so irrevelant now...everything I have perceived the world to be has not been remotely close...does this make me a loser?...seems pointless now the the stock market has lost a quarter of its wealth in a month...all those boys and girls who wear acting so large aren't acting so large now...

L.A....

I went to L.A. this weekend to see the Breeder's Cup. It was a lot of sun slipping into the California world of horse racing...

The Radio Dream...

Experimental prose...

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Videopoem does Jorma Kaukonen

the underlying spiritual nature of the 'qua...

Bill Defazio on ghost capital...

Listening to Bill Defazio on WBAI on ghost capital-capital that has no roots to the means of production such as hedge funds and derivatives. He has guests on that are saying that there is at least 62 trillion dollars in such funds, three trillion which is admitted to be toxic.

Racists...

Listening to racists on CNN say how they can't vote for Obama...

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South Park...

Watching the new South Park...pretty sick...!!!...lol...

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In the 'Qua of My Imagination...

Up on Vimeo..

http://vimeo.com/1859674

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reading blogs

reading blogs while the plumber does his thing...

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NYC At Night...

The magic of New York City at night...

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the plumber...

the plumber is taking way too long...

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the magic of light...

working with mixed media...

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Football and social media..

Watching football and entering info to the different social networks I belong too...

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the debate...

watching the debate...

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seasonal changes...

on the way to white plains today driving on 22 I got into a good groove on the impending fall change. I had the Byrds greatest hits on and they were singing "Turn, turn, turn."
Somehow it fit. I have been color correcting pictures in photoshop on the changing nature of the landscape...

autumn...

enjoying the feel of autumn...

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http://zote63.tumblr.com

just posted a picture to my tumble site

http://zote63.tumblr.com/

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cross platform

configuring utterli to post on various platforms and seeing if it works...

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Videopoem Presents Patti Smith

social media...

Wondering why my tweeter posts don't show up properly and what this means in my social community...watching different episodes of Videopoem on the site videopoem.tv. Right now The Man Only Was A Face...I am trying to get an objective feel on how people will be impacted by this material. My impression is that it's too dense for them and the shows are way too long...it is shame because it is their loss...I know it's wrong to toot your own horn but if one gives these shows half a chance they can take you to a place...they are Videopoems after all...honest expressions of the surreal nature of life...

So many blogs, so many cell phones, so many websites, so many social web 2.0 communities so many voices saying listen to me so many ways to do IT RIGHT like get the correct copy and tags and everyone's got thier own music station and tv station and it's all so easy and it ain't no work and how am I going to make an impact in this situation and the answer comes in from the crickets and jack kerouac and david amramm and that answer is I have to write and create because I have to do it and if it doesn't make an impact it doesn't make an impact becasuse how can one make an impact with all this noise and information splashing around in an insatiated world of consumption and greed but it feels good to let the words roll like how I use to make them roll here in the cocoon of my parents house light reflecting in the dark night with the show on a poet rapping kerouac ol' angel midnight so it goes...time to write yourself into the movie...

Videopoem Presents

Diann's yoga class...

Videopoem Presents

Bird

Bonsai Tree

Moving Strength Yoga

Videopoem Presents Patti Smith in support of Ralp Nader

I had the honor and privilege to tape Ralph Nader at Cooper Union in May and Patti showed up and did this excellent poem...

The little boy warrior...

Ah yes, George loves playing his games...President, War Hero, Baseball enthuisast....he shares our values, right?...Yeah, I think I'm going to get sick....

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Videopoem shows Dead Rock West at the Knitting Factory

Dead Rock West combines a traditional authentic voice with contemporary rock n' roll to produce a unique soulful sound...

X at Irving Plaza

Saw X at Irving Plaza last night on May 24, 2008. Their driving sound over the tight melodies and emotional lyrics over love gone wrong never gets old...

watching the Mets...

Watching the Mets blow another game...sounds of the street drift up from the lower east side...warm breeze blows through the canyons of Manhattan...honking horns, laughing drunks, tight asses on the make...it's Memorial Day Weekend...the fleet is in town...

more pictures...

added more pictures of the chappaqua landscape which can be found at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/videopoem
on may25 i will have had my camera for exactly a year...I took over 23,000 pictures...it's been quite the trip...at the moment mixing frankie and cindy of dead rock west for the next Videopoem...

Videopoem Presents the Grateful Dead's

This is a video I made utilizing the music of the Grateful Dead and thier emphasis on the Buddhist point of view of how life is big wheel. To underscore this theme, I was fortunate enough to have video footage of my sister's children when they were one and two hence showing how the wheel had come around from us to them.

It had been fun kissing her...

It had been fun kissing her...somehow I was making out with this chick at the Patti Smith show...she was drunk...I was drunk...it didn't matter...for that moment we had connection...it had been fun...we met one more time after that...I bought her to a Sprinkle Genies show...before that we had met Benny's Burrito's...I had even bought her a rose...later when I talked to her, she said she had the rose in her room...

that was the last I heard of her..

chappaqua orchestra

watching the chappaqua orchestra presents on ncctv...rain outside...beautiful green leaves lick the trees...

they don't call anymore...

They don't call anymore...when did the needs of the pussy become tied to the interests of the state?...they used to be turned on by his rebel stance...it seems so silly now...and pointless...but here he was...there was nowhere else to turn....it was time to write himself into the movie...