100 Days of Art – Day 18: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation

Shakespeare was not nearly as prim and proper as we think. In fact, much was written in what would today be called blue-collar accents. Click on the link below to listen to the 14-minute interview. (Check out the Studio 360 article for the full interview.) Interview (click to open sound file): //www.studio360.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.studio360.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F362392%2F;containerClass=studio360 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet…

100 Days of Art – Day 9: Luv Pomes

Roses are red and violets are blue. die, bitch. “To the Girl who works at Starbucks down the street from my house on Del Mar Heights Road; I swear to God, I’m not a stalker.” It’s not that I don’t love you more that I can’t remember where I end and you begin. I love…

100 Days of Art -Day 6: Lágrimas y Risas

2011 1982 teardrops from a blind eye winter awoke to the sounds of shrill crying and decided not to leave a child with familiar hunger mouth searching for a withered breast spouting mother’s milk long-since soured and turned to powder teardrops that stream from a blind eye form miniature waterfalls roar over brown cheeks dash…

I hate to see you go …

… but  I love to watch you leave. These were shot in Granada, Spain. The first is the approach to La Alhambra. Come back, Maria, come back. Ah. That was worth the wait, wasn’t it? Thank you, baby.

Light Years Away

Today’s mood: Joe Satriani, with “Light Years Away.” Kill ’em, Joe. Shoulda gone to Venice. “Wind in the Trees”

longer the way

though long is the way she never forget, never forget, never forget she never forget stories of ancestors heat of her tears, unrequited anger appears impenitent ruin negligence sears grandmother cries, but never you fear, (along the way, the longa the way, you stronger today) i once heard her say (she never forget, never forget,…