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archives 2011 january - june



Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:02:36 -0800 (PST)


JUDY BONDS, Appalachian Gandhi by Nancy Bruner Wilson


JUDY BONDS

 

Appalachian Gandhi

 

by Nancy Bruner Wilson

 

 

she came from coal black deep underground

dark bituminous coal coal her essence who she

was coal decades centuries of family genes dna

 

dark black soft high sulfur bituminous coal running

black deep river in her veins blood heart soul aunt

daughter granddaughter sister mother spouses of brave

 

miners year after dangerous monotonous uncompromising

year went dutifully without complaint deep into mother

earth's womb risking always their lives endlessly relentlessly

 

tirelessly working long lethal hours extracting life sustaining

coal to earn an honest meager living breathing eating coal

dust getting home barely safe one more thankful night

 

blackening black covered in grime breathed drenched seeped

soaked deep into lungs skin every atom cell molecule pore

only whites of eyes deep sunken eyes buried eyes barely

 

nakedly showing on hollow ever rapidly hollowing faces gaunt

ghostly coal permeating everything under fingernails buried deep

in ever increasingly black emphysemic lungs despite danger threats

 

bring on the threats bring them on she looked JUDY BONDS

Appalachian Gandhi she looked them smack dead center straight

deep in the eyes never blinking fearless spirit warrior woman

 

standing her ground ground of her people when you're right

there's no backin no steppin down only fearlessly standin yer ground

she came from appalachia west virginia backwoods mountain mama

 

hard shuffle coal miner's daughter woman holler home only home

she'd ever known strong courageous knew where she came from proud

no puttin up with makeshift shifty lyin pitiful puny words pretense falsehoods

 

explanations west virginia hillbilly by God damn proud to be when you mess

with tried true through and through real deep blood pure hillbillies there's no

steppin down no chicken shit backslidin only fearless eyeball to eyeball

 

truthtellin no need for shame only onward upward to where diamonds be made

to where stars burn bright in deepest night high up on the appalachian hillbilly

home mountains indigenous appalachian hillbilly dedicated determined proud

 

unwavering refusing to ever bow down when you're right by God there's nothin

to lose no matter the odds you'll win when you're right you have to no way you'll

ever lose even if they whoever they be the liars greedy powermongers whoever

 

they be if you're by God right even if they kill ya and kill ya they might if you're

right by God you're forever eternally right you have to win never ever back down

mountaintops appalachia my our home sweet home generations centuries millenia

 

beautiful fierce gentle ancient old younger than old mountaintops oh sweet friends

mountaintops now removed sliced exploded broken wide open naked exposing

coal filled entrails guts hangin out waitin for cheap easy coal owner predator bastards

 

thieves rapists pillagers murderers greed powermongers reckless careless corporate

government companies darkhearted evil bandits sinister government paper pushers

bought off cheap turn their heads sign permits for 30 pieces of silver sell their souls

 

not JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi fearless powerful little woman stands strong

stands tall not quite five feet but she's taller than them all she stares them stares death

in the face eyeball to eyeball death threats spit on every form of intimidation but

 

JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi is always undeterred strong will grows stronger

more determined resists all resentment death threats none turn her away she never

steps down brave defiant frontline warrior woman fighter Mother Jones reincarnated

 

she refuses to bow down to be turned away from whatever filthy trap they attempt to

lay sludge dirty polluted mountain debris filled creeks toxic chemicals dead floating

fish frogs sick children people all ages dying cancers unheard of unknown debilitating

 

killing diseases growing rampant topless mountains ruination coal sludge down down

mountainsides mowing down houses schools filling blocking stopping streams destroying

people families generations ancient histories communities dying murdered gone forever

 

not forgotten but now unseen but one powerful little woman JUDY BONDS Appalachian

Gandhi modern Mother Jones JUDY BONDS JUDY BONDS fierce gentle JUDY BONDS

stands tall taller refusing to bow down to ruthless coal company owners JUDY BONDS

 

willing to sacrifice her life and she did but her sacrifice her life now neighbors families friends

stepping up not turning back anymore heeding JUDY BONDS' call now she calls from the

grave JUDY BONDS JUDY BONDS never once turned away she had to lead to show the way

 

now the people her people will not be denied will not bow down will not turn away they're all

becoming truthtellers JUDY BONDS inspired them when you're right no one can defeat you

even if when you die you win and JUDY BONDS died but she won Appalachian Gandhi

 

JUDY BONDS she won nothin else matters when you're fearless when you're right stand tall

gainst ruthless might even when you die they lose you win JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi

fearless little woman relentless tall she stood frontlines led the way stood long as she could

 

she died JUDY BONDS died but they lost in her death yes JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi

led the cause showed the way when you're right you dare stand alone or not you stand straight

stand tall and she stood that little woman JUDY BONDS stood tall they couldn't back her down

 

cause when you're right you're gonna win warrior woman JUDY BONDS walked her trail of tears

you won dear sweet woman JUDY BONDS thank you you won you showed us the way no matter

what anyone says JUDY BONDS won yes let's now go go tell it on the mountain every mountain

 

round the world on every once pristine majestic holy sacred God's gifts mountains now abused

mistreated ravaged raped wounded hurt destroyed tops removed killed murdered sail on

JUDY BONDS your job done now eternity bound your mission here on earth done you won

 

your sacred message forever intact safe beloved blessed JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi

hillbilly warrior woman JUDY BONDS gave her all her fire heart soul life she taught us how to

stand tall so now we sing farewell and thank you sweet woman JUDY BONDS thank you for

 

giving all we thank you JUDY BONDS with all our hearts we sing thank you sing your praises

your song thank you JUDY BONDS Appalachian Gandhi we thank you God bless you

sail on sail on sail on JUDY BONDS thank you farewell you'll always be remembered sail on

 

Nancy Bruner Wilson

1/17/11

 

copyright (c) 2011 Nancy Bruner Wilson

 



 

stigmata

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 




Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:48:54 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: announcing 1st ever International STORM GENERATION FESTIVAL Iceland June 21st/22nd


for official release announcing the 1st ever International STORM GENERATION FESTIVAL

Storra Klopp/Big Rock Iceland 3 miles outside Reykjavik majestic beauty beyond words beyond compare

 

midsummer day night daylight 24/7 june 21st/22nd  2pm to 2am 12-hour non-stop music poetry all arts festival

 

free camping raven's perch short walk away crystal river in valley below cross the crystal river is

historic The Viking Mountain at 2am end of festival co-producers Olafur Gunnarsson (Iceland's leading novelist) and

Ron Whitehead (Kentucky's outlaw poet) co-authors of revolutionary The Storm Generation Manifesto birthing

new generation The Storm Generation we all already be in The Storm at 2am june 22nd Olafur and Ron along with

Nick Storm & film photo crew & whoever else wants to join us will climb The Viking Mountain at top of which

Olafur & Ron will co-read their already historic already translated into several other languages poem The Storm Generation Manifesto all of which will be included in Nick Storm's independent feature length 90-120 minutes cinema verite bio documentary

on Ron Whitehead as they travel cities cross usa and countries round the world. for more info on the film project check

out Nick Storm's Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead bio doc facebook site. many have already signed on including Nappy Roots, historian/author Douglas Brinkley, Anita Thompson, NY Mets Poet Frank Messina, Iceland Parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir, and numberous other individuals and companies round the world. this bio doc on Ron Whitehead will be a masterpiece unlike any other on any poet ever.

 

start booking your flights. remember free STORM GENERATION FESTIVAL CAMPING in one of most majestically

exotically beautiful locations on Mother Earth. and. if you want to perform (poet/writer/artist/singer/musician/band/photographer/filmmaker/dancer/all arts contact Ron Whitehead at tmopinsight@yahoo.com or ron@tappingmyownphone.com cell phone 502 475 7772 website www.tappingmyownphone.com (looking for new

webmaster) plus facebook and facebook fan clubs plus remember to sign up on Nick Storm's facebook bio doc site.

thanks. hope to see all of you there and everywhere else too. love. Ron, outlaw poet and forever damn happy proud to be
 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"We have what we seek it is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us not that we discover a new unity we discover an older unity we are already one but we imagine that we are not and what we have to recover is our original unity what we have to recover is what we are."  Thomas Merton

 

"The greatest blessing granted to [human]kind comes by way of madness, which is a divine gift."   Socrates, on the Oracle of Delphi

 

"I do not admit that  if every saloon was closed up and every dive and den of vice suppressed, and if laws of perfect righteousness were upon the statutebooks, and if they were strictly enforced I do not admit that it would be a good thing.  On the contrary, I am inclined to believe that the body politic is all the healthier for its boils."   Dr Frank Crane

"The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day." Aeschylus

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 


 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"We have what we seek it is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us not that we discover a new unity we discover an older unity we are already one but we imagine that we are not and what we have to recover is our original unity what we have to recover is what we are."  Thomas Merton

 

"The greatest blessing granted to [human]kind comes by way of madness, which is a divine gift."   Socrates, on the Oracle of Delphi

 

"I do not admit that  if every saloon was closed up and every dive and den of vice suppressed, and if laws of perfect righteousness were upon the statutebooks, and if they were strictly enforced I do not admit that it would be a good thing.  On the contrary, I am inclined to believe that the body politic is all the healthier for its boils."   Dr Frank Crane

"The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day." Aeschylus

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:18:06 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Outlaw Poet: A documentary film on Ron Whitehead


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The cinema verite story of Outlaw Poet and king of the underground Ron Whitehead. This feature length documentary film will be a journey through Ron’s life; from driving 60-miles an hour at 3 a.m. through the streets of Louisville, in reverse, with Hunter S. Thompson, to his relationships with Beat Generation juggernauts, complete with an introspective look at his childhood growing up on a farm in rural Ohio County western Kentucky where Bill Monroe birthed Bluegrass Music, Ron & Johnny Depp both birthed in Owensboro Kentucky.

Through images, interviews, and Ron’s own words, the story of Ron Whitehead will be documented as he travels to Iceland to share his latest book The Storm Generation Manifesto and on parting, the wilderness poems (produced by Gill Scott Holland’s Holland Brown Books www.hollandbrownbooks.com). He’ll read “The Viking Mountain” and “The Storm Generation Manifesto” atop The Viking Mountain plus readings from San Francisco crossing the USA to New York City to Ireland and Scotland and England and The Netherlands and Belgium and Italy and Germany and India and Nicaragua and Argentina and Beyond.

The film will include interviews from: Anita Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Frank Messina, Birgitta Jonsdottir, and many more. Plus music from the Nappy Roots, and other major bands/musicians.

Whitehead scorches the earth with his own brand of poetry, prose, and ancient wisdom. The visionary icon has lived life on his own terms. Leaving his family farm at the vulnerable age of 17, Ron struck out to discover the world – his world, his way. Through his inventive gifted hard-earned use of poemed verse, prose, and fire-breathing talks/readings performances and his unique raw indigenous force of nature lightninged spirit, Ron Whitehead’s journey through life has become a road map for the rest of us. As Ron enters his sixth decade of the journey, he seeks to continually perpetually eternally relentlessly uplift and inspire all he comes in contact with to comfort and heal all who suffer to awaken all and everything to the awareness that ultimately essentially forgiveness is amazing grace that peace love and understanding and fearlessly being our dream whatever our dreams might be and that regardless of the odds of the circumstances that ultimately life is a terribly beautifully gifted adventure an opportunity to grow our souls. Via his spectrum of creative works which include the spectrum all genres of the arts in his world travels he encourages everyone to come out of whatever closet(s) they’re fearfully hiding in and to find and be their dreams.

Ron is a gentle soul. His enlarged heart is bigger than he is. He respects and honors everyone’s beautiful differences while recognizing that we all regardless of any cultural, social, sexual, economic, political, ethnic, religious, spiritual, and creative differences we all have more in common than different. He is always searching for and finding that common ground. He recognizes that open honest dialogue – sharing the poems, stories, songs, events of our lives we come clean we find our own voice at every level of being and expression we become our ever changing evolving growing transforming true selves. We no longer have anything to fearfully hide. No matter where we’ve come from or what we’ve done no matter how many times we’ve failed. By saying that failure has been and is his greatest success he adds that everything is our teacher every experience event person good bad ugly and that if we pay attention to our so called failures, which are our best teachers best opportunities to grow, then eventually we’ll quit missing the mark, which is what sin meant originally, before guilt and shame were added, so whatever powers that be could can control, if we pay close attention to our failures we will recognize that they are gifts and by developing our determined will power we can and will inevitably grow from them.

Don’t ever mistake Ron’s kindness for weakness. He is a fierce warrior who has no fear of anyone and regardless of any and all circumstances all odds and while simultaneously paradoxically understanding that love really is that truth really is a pathless land and we all have to find our way to what that means for each of us that being a fierce fearless front line spiritual creative lightninged spiritual creative warrior relentlessly taking it to the streets homes individuals round the world leading guiding himself and whoever else is bold fearless enough he perpetually embarks into the unknown and he won’t take any shit off anybody. He was raised by a 10th degree bad-ass 10th degree smart-ass, his Father, who taught him how to fight and to kill before the age of 10 none of which Ron wanted to have any part of understanding that there must be a better more peaceful loving way. And simultaneous to his Dad’s teachings, the use of which are still too often necessary, his Mother provided the teachings of forgiving of giving (without anticipation of reciprocation) of tolerance of peace love and understanding. Ron loves both his parents with all his being and is thankful in every way for both of them. His Father crossed over a year and a half ago.Within three months 15 of his friends crossed over. All of which pulled the emotional rug out from under him. But he’s been an outsider an underdog all his life and regardless of how many times he’s fallen refusing to bow down refusing to ever never give up he works (he prefers to call it lightninged passion) relentlessly 24/7 to heal himself and rise again. He’s back on his feet and back in the ring. The phoenix rises again. Higher than ever. Miracles abound. He’s back in Louisville in his Cherokee Road hermitage while traveling the world more than ever. Breathing fire breathing alchemically crucibled lightninged poems. One of the last great truth tellers. Having been blessed with an army of angelic mentors and mind blowing miracled experiences he has mentored thousands and continues to.

Ron's website: www.tappingmyownphone.com

Ron's life and work has been recognized praised by: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. & Anita Thompson, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Oracle of Tibet, William S. Burroughs, Yevgeny Yevteshenko/Russia, Seamus Heaney/Ireland, Wendell Berry, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Hunter/The Grateful Dead, Jim Carroll, Bono/U2, Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore/Sonic Youth, Cameron Crowe & Nancy Wilson, David Amram, Vassar Clemens, Frank Messina/The Mets Poet, Tony Broy, David Thomas/Pere Ubu, Al Aronowitz, A3, Carolyn Cassady, John Cassady, Jerry Cimino, Gerald Nicosia, James Grauerholz, John Giorno, Marc Smith/founder of SLAM Poetry, Miguel Algarin/Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe/NYC, Bob Holman/put SLAM on global map/Bowery Poetry Club/NYC, Steve Cannon/Gathering of The Tribes/NYC, Charlie Newman/Chicago, Steve Dalachinsky/NYC’s Jazz Poet, Richard Hell/Television, George McGovern, John Sinclair, Nick & Helen Forrestor (Etown), Bob Edwards, Chief Arvol Looking Horse/Chief of The Lakota Nakota Dakota Great Sioux Nation & Bearer of The Sacred White Buffalo Pipe, Gregory Chaney/creator of The Revolutionary Theatre of The Divine Imagination, Jonsi & Sigur Ros, JHilmar Orn Hilmarsson HOH/Iceland’s High Priest of World Paganism/Masters most of Bjork’s CDs, Jim James/My Morning Jacket, Bragi Olafsson/Sugarcubes, Geir Svansson/Iceland’s main translator, Olafur Gunnarsson/Iceland’s leading novelist, Michael Pollock/Utangardsmenn/Outsiders voted Iceland’s Best Rock Band of 20th Century, Oli Palli/Program Manager Radio Iceland Voted Iceland’s Most Important Radio Personality of 20th Century, Theo Dorgan/founder Poetry Ireland/creator of THE BOOK OF IRELAND, Eithne Strong/Matriarch of Irish women poets writers, John Fitzgerald/Director Boole Library Cork University, Eimear O’Connor/multi-media artist has done art for many of her sister Sinead’s record covers, Tigh Fili/Cork’s main cultural centre, Sean Callahan/Ireland, Frank McCourt, Rand Brandes/Head of English Dept Lenoir-Rhyne College/Seamus Heaney biographer, Maria Ines Mogaburu/Argentina/psychiatrist/translator of Ron’s work into Spanish, Blanca Castellon/Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal/Nicaragua, Lucia Loureiro/professor scholar Portugal, IRIS/Portugal’s leading world dancer, Edwin Salinas/Nicaragua, Nicasio Urbana/Nicaragua & professor Modern Languages Univ Cincinnati, Jeremy Dixon, Merle Travis, The Everly Brothers, Jeremy Podgursky/composer/The Pennies, Christopher Seal/composer/The Dancing Nobody Movement, Peter D. Pecere/composer, Suzette Henke/world renowned author scholar on James Joyce Virginia Woolf Women’s Studies, Delinda Buie/Director Rare Books & Archives Ekstrom Library Univ Louisville main repository of Ron’s work past present future cataloguing thousands of works already held six exhibits working towards major exhibit with feature full length catalog, Tom Johnstone/Shaman of The Wolf Clan, Michael Fitzpatrick/cellist/COMPASSION CD/tours performs with The Dalai Lama/Oracle of Tibet & more, Ken & Sheila/The Rudyard Kipling, MEGAS/Iceland’s legendary singer/songwriter/like Haldor Laxness (Iceland’s only Nobel recipient/Ron has read in Iceland with Laxness’ granddaughter) MEGAS & Olafur Gunnarsson both deserve Nobel in Literature, Jan Pankow/The Netherlands, Troy Teegarden, Bart Droog/Netherlands, Marlon Pollock & Tonya Pollock & Ivar Orn/Iceland/3 of best electronica techno rap hip hop dj graffiti artists on planet, Lorena Lobita Wolfman/translator of many Ron’s works into Spanish/artist poet dancer healer/San Francisco, Annie McClanahan, Birgitta Jonsdottir/world activist/member Iceland Parliament/her mother Bergthora(sic) Arnadottir legendary folk singer songwriter Iceland, Thor/one of Iceland’s alltime greatest poets, Casey Cyr/Connecticut, Rich Martin/Rhode Island, Denis Mahoney/Tariq Zayid/Black Pig Liberation Front/Boston, Mike Watt/Minutemen Porno for Pyros Iggy & Stooges & more, Rinaldo Rasa/Italy, Annalisa Papaleo/Italy, Rob Zoschke/Chicago Wisconsin, Norb Blei/Chicago Wisconsin, David Minton/California, Louis Bickett II, Ray Rizzo, Dean McClain, Danny O’Bryan, James Still, Tyrone Cotton, Jackie Sheeler/NYC, Ralph Stevens/NYC, Mike McHugh/NYC, Ekayani/NYC Miami, Hersch Silvermann/New Jersey, Jeremy Hogan/California Indiana, Gurney Norman, Tim Krekel, Dan Reed, Steve Ferguson, Warren Zevon, Todd Autry/Poet Laureate of Bluegrass Music/just completed brilliant play and screenplay of Ron’s BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON (which he’s gonna film), Jack Shea/produced most brilliant brutally compassionately honest film on Kerouac yet WHO OWNS JACK KEROUAC/founder director of Scotland’s film school out of which TRAINSPOTTING birthed, Colin Shaddick/one of England’s leading poets, Keith Armstrong/Newcastle-on-Tyne England, Richard Deakin/author playwright film director producer/London England, Kevin Ring/Beat Scene/world’s best monthly BEAT Generation mag/England, Valentine Cunningham/author/Head of English Literature Oxford England, George Ella Lyon, Patti Brand/California, Billy Bob Thornton, Muhammad Ali, Bubbi Morthens/one of Iceland’s most popular singers & main boxing announcer, Geir Svansson/Iceland’s leading translator/Director Iceland’s New Museum of Art/Professor Author Scholar, Jon Cook, Russel Hulsey, Shelley Vaughn Hora, J. B. Wilson, Scott Mullins, Michael Young, Leslie Lyons/NYC Kentucky, Paul K/Godfather of Rock/Detroit NYC Kentucky, Christian Hansen/NY Times photographer/filmmaker/Brooklyn Kentucky, Zoe Artemis/NYC Greece, George Wallace/Long Island NYC, Jeffrey Lee Puckett, Gill Scott Holland, Sarah Epstein/Washington DC/world’s largest private collection of work by Edvard Munch donated to Smithsonian/women’s rights activist, Harald Naess/former Head Scandinavian Studies Univ Wisconsin author editor focus on Nobel author Knut Hamsun/Norway, Joe Slavin, Leon Driskell, Jordan Green/North Carolina, James Baker Hall, Richard Taylor, Gray Zeitz, Frederick Smock, Brother Patrick Hart, Robert Lax, Xavier Noel/France Portugal Greece, Wilfred Holdenen/Finland Norway Portugal, William Sovern, David Daley, Thomas Nord, John Rocco/author scholar music critic has reviewed many of Ron’s work nominated him for Nobel/NYC, President Jimmy Carter, Cia White, William McKeen/Head Journalism School Univ Florida author of best bio yet on Hunter S. Thompson: OUTLAW JOURNALIST: The Life & Times of Hunter S. Thompson, R. B. Morris/former Poet in Residence Univ Tennessee poet singer songwriter extraordinaire/toured with John Prine Lucinda Williams man more, Tom House/one of best original voice singer songwriters on planet/many cds/Nashville, Duncan Barlow, Rob Pennington, Tyrone Cotton, John King, Scott Shuffitt, Scott Mertz, Andy Cook, RAMU, Frank X Walker, Crystal Wilkinson, Mike B, Mama Yaa, Truth B Told, Divinity Rose, Matthew Wallace/Lotus Blake, John Gage, John Yarmuth, J. K. McKnight, Gatewood Galbraith, Dea Riley, Leah Maines, Gene Williams, Dan Barth/California/City of 10,000 Buddhas, Dan Roberts/California, Randy Wayne White/NYTimes BestSelling author Doc Ford Series/Florida, Virginia Thompson, Juan Thompson, Sargent Shriver, Rachel Kapitan/Florida, Joe Pasquale/Florida, Joseph Petrolloni III, Jim Irsay/Indianapolis Colts/Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD scroll/poet musician, Jim Canary/Bloomington/restorer caretaker of Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD SCROLL, Sallie Moore, Didi de Paris/Belgium’s leading poet writer, Mark Reese/award winning filmmaker author/Los Angeles, Christopher Felver/internationally renowned photographer documentary filmmaker/California NYC, John Updike, Douglas Brinkley, Amiri Baraka, James Laughlin, Richard Kain, Richard Ellman, Gary Olson & Frannie Naess, Yoko Ono, Rita Dove, Brother Paul Quenon, Julius Friedman & Cheryl Chapman, Brother Patrick Hart, Robert Lax, Jim Carroll, John Tytell, Ed McClanahan, Jim Wayne Miller, Kent Fielding, Jean Ritchie, Johnny Depp, Rani Newman, Dylan Whitehead, Michael Madsden, John Ventimiglia, Sarah Elizabeth Burkey, and many others.



Project location:Evansville, IN


 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:54:43 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: God Bless small communities by Ron Whitehead


God Bless small communities Bless Centertown School

Lord knows we can all use a little mercy now

 

by ron whitehead

for book, on remembering the precious gift

of growing up on a Kentucky farm small community small school

and the sad disappearance of the usofa

 

i have thousands and thousands of fondest heartbreaking beautiful memories of Centertown School kept hoping that State of Kentucky specially since governor gave what 38 million in tax incentives to joke of creation museum theme park that surely he'd give couple hundred thousand to restore Centertown School as historical museum similar to beautiful job State had done deservedly so to restoration of Old Monroe Homeplace beautiful beautiful but no too much to ask and big part of ruination destruction of heart and soul of usa came as result of consolidation which i saw and was against from day one and feel even stronger about today it was beginning of end of usa of heart soul of our small communities and finally albeit too late some leading educational thinkers are finally having the courage to say exactly what i just said what i've been saying from day one to hell with consolidation and to hell with walfart i believe i cherish with all my heart and soul small communities small schools small classrooms after Daddy crossed over then within three months i lost over 15 dear friends i'll never forget riding my bicycle for miles backroads wandering railroads dirt roads of my youth re membering re calling living my past my life overwhelmed by all the beauty yes often terrible beauty but beauty ain't beauty less it's blemished if it ain't real it ain't no freakin deal so i'm so way way beyond thankful for the precious beyond precious beyond words gift of growing up in Centertown on farm outside Centertown oh my it tears my heart apart just thinking bout it recalling all the amazing beautiful memories and i think bout all the young people i grew up with and went to school with who went on to have way beyond successful careers happy lives without well hell we'd never heard of computers when i was 12 years old freshman i took typing learned to type on old manual Underwood typewriter typed 95 words per minute 3 mistakes wish to hell i had one now that's all i'd use my oh my the beautiful memories the wonderful real life original characters i was blessed to know to be friends with what a gift a gift from God a gift beyond all measure and well even if they're tearing that sweet Centertown School down it will live on forever in all our hearts our souls our dreams i'm so thankful for the gift of growing up the way i did i'm thankful beyond all measure for the gift of having attended the best school in the world Centertown School. i have no complaints only thanks and as tears roll down my face they're tears of gratitude of joy a river of tears tears of joy so thank you all of you each and every one of you my dear sweet friends all of us who were given the precious gift of entering those hallowed walls of attending the glorious Centertown School. Thank You. whew. my goodness. life. this is the strangest most precious life i remember. and i'm so thankful for it. thank you. all of you. i love you. amen. ahwomen. Ron Whitehead, farmboy rebel (Jesus being the greatest rebel of alltime) poet. thank you. God Bless all of you. Lord knows we can all sure use a little mercy now.

Ron Whitehead, ah aha

1/27/11 
 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 




From: Joseph Coleman <ecoleman79@att.net>
To: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, January 26, 2011 9:12:16 PM
Subject: from Edie

Ron, Do you have a fond memory of Centertown High School you would like to share. Ben Ashby, Ron's son is making a little book called Spotlight with some old pictures since the school is being torn down as soon as possible. If you would send it to me I will get it to him. This is his 3rd book he has put together.Hope all is well, Love you, Edie




 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man

 

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:54:39 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: etching ourselves into being, for jen mitchell by ron whitehead 2/03/11




etching ourselves into being

 

  for jen mitchell

 

     by ron whitehead

 

 

let us dear sweet beloved let us

start now in this breathless moment

this fleeting already forever gone

moment eternal presences every

 

breath the last eternal presences

every moment the last beloved

dearest sweetest lover we've

already gone vanishing vanishing

 

gone breath breathe deep relax hold

briefly slowly sweet lotus rose ah

aha your lotus rose scented sensuous

breath hair your translucent lotus rose

 

petal incense sandalwood soft nature

scented sensual sandalwood incense

sandals wood barefoot walking wandering

sandy beaches wild grass snake charmers

 

we lotus poppie rose petal shanai cobra

rattlesnake charmer mesmerizers dance

at our feet cobra rattlesnake shanai dance

swoop weave make love birth blue racers

 

shanai whirling hypnotic spice cobra

rattlesnake blue racer charmers we be

real magic spice eyes turquoise desert

sea see deep into our eyes believe we

 

are we be lotus poppie rose petal incense

candles aromaed ah aha yes we drift float

down down gently caress down rose aroma

erogenous zones all bleed rose petals heart

 

flowers bloom wild roses fill the room

pandemonium wild roses full whirling

dervish wild roses dance over round

pandemonium shanai cobra rattlesnake

 

blue racer midnight full flush labia shanai

pulsing labia pandemonium lotus moon

full wet throbbing dripping moaning singing

egyptian moroccan desert moon sands

 

oasis crystal clear water coconuts palm trees

palms sweat wet naked desert breeze gentle

moaning her pulsing moon full night we waltz

down the holy mountain down we go van gogh's

 

almond petals soft breeze waltz go down the

mountain oasis bound your crystal river found

we swim there naked rose beings translucent

night caress the full moon shines through us

 

dive further waltz on down kiss the scented wet

air between rainbow thighs we dance the eros

thanatos bone dance of love of death death lovers

bone woman bone man we dance circles round

 

your subterranean almond lotus poppie rose

labia layered meditation pool of garden love

we waltz the first the last supper last supper

voluptuous meal crumbling we whisper down

 

whisper strange flower words never heard

nor spoken ever before we love whisperers

we don't know this strange fruit ripe language

love overflows your labia drips runs to our

 

toes into desert sands oasis mysterium land

this occult unknown language dark undiscovered

till now our hearts explorers scouts fearlessly

going beyond all boundaries seeking finding

 

new languages love our hearts cry tears rivers

of pain of ecstasy of joy happiness beyond

all measure meer dan woorden indeed pools

emerge our hearts converge our rivers now

 

a pearled sea translucent moondance mystery

rhythmed palm trees breathe sway waltz this

fleeting orchestral pandemonium nature symphony

night gone moment night bright undecipherable

 

language poems songs words fractaled fragments

six foot womanly vases with bird and animal heads

dance waltz the night only our hearts comprehend

the deep significance of this unknown dream tongued

 

beauteous desert night oasis pandemonium full

palm tree almond lotus poppie rose petaled sandalwood

incense pulsing labia desert night now no words no

whispers aboriginal indigenous i kiss i lick your leprosy

 

i eat i drink your sins on this desert night we come clean

we communicate telepathically through the deep pooled

touch of our broken fingers with blind eyes we know

understand this strange language our hearts speak dance

 

our twisted fingers bleeding tongues move waltz without

speaking uttering blind we see clearer than ever we feel

without touching deaf we listen hear without hearing and

though we stand apart two souls singing hearts two bodies

 

two beings we are more one than any two have ever one

been one one almond lotus poppie rose petal drift waltz

gentle touch fleeting breath kiss salty sea spring breeze

let go release your last gasp pink breath let go gently

 

go now this moment gone the time finally arrived closing

time come birthing breathing gasping living the journey

dying vanishing here gone here what terrible beauty hold

me let go hold me go stay i love you goodbye dark blue

 

mystery paradox river alchemical crucible ferrymother

ferry flow river of fire go synchronous moment gone dear

sweet beloved lover friends let us join hands begin love

arms love embrace dance breathe softly whisper breathe

 

gasp gasp sing sing whisper poem song lullabies rejoice

redemption resurrection songs rejoice beloved celebrate

break empty wine glasses bottles celebrate every fleeting

moment this precious bejeweled final fleeting levitating

 

naked over the open sarcophagus upper chamber of the

great crystal tipped golden pyramid already gone bone dust

dance now oh gift of life here gone lightning waltz slowly

never touching the floor let us sweetly hold each other

 

gently kiss drink the holy sacred wedding feast red wine

from our tender pale pink red lips the kiss eros thanatos

let us etch ourselves in this final already gone closing time

last waltz last call last dance drink savor this purple sunrise

 

angel song kiss last holy ghost spirit chant sacred dance

the last kiss a breathless gasping moment let us etch ourselves

disappearing lines molecules atoms energy patterns whirling

sufi dancing love lighting up dark space heavens rainbow

 

night let us dance etch ourselves into being let us explode

one last time stars we are lightning lightening the night sky

let us dance be take my hand let us dance dance my dearest

sweetest almond lotus poppy rose petal darling i love you

 

let us dance into and beyond the night waltz embrace waltz

without touching the desert floor let us kiss softly the last kiss

as we sail on sail on beyond all beyonds cross all deserts all

seas together sail on sail on sweet sweet rose sweet rose sail on

 

 

ron whitehead, aha

2/03/11 

 

copyright (c) ron whitehead

 

kentucky, where diamonds are created

 

 

 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 


 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 


 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:47:52 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: APOCRYPHA poems by JOE COSTA Downing Press



APOCRYPHA

poems by

JOE COSTA

 

Downing Press

p.o. box 2104

Lexington, Kentucky

40588-2104

USA

 

"dreams never die they are always passed on and continue to grow in and through new dreamers. A new dreamer has been birthed. His name. Joe Costa. His beautiful brilliant new book. APOCRYPHA. Each poem a masterpiece. A taste. 'The Bloodless Coup Bleeds Helvetica: Wombs echo in battered women. Two hearts beat as one black eye. A salmon ascends the falls. The drum ovulates the ear. Moses surrendered and was still left behind. Drones are killing civilians on this mountain Of decaying fish and fertilized eggs.' Joe Costa. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey. Now resides in Lexington, Kentucky. Kentucky, where diamonds are created. Joe Costa. A diamond. Newly born. A new voice. Crying. In the wilderness. Brilliant. Blue. True. Joe Costa. A reckoning. His gorgeous new hardback book. Dedicated to his friend. Internationally renowned artist Louis Zoellar Bickett II. Luscious hardback design, composition, printing and binding by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press. APOCRYPHA. Joe Costa. remember."
 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 









Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:31:32 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: ron doin 3 shows 2nite: The Monkey Wrench, Glassworks, Zazoo's St. Matthew's



ronnie boy doin 3 shows 2nite 2/11/11: 7:30-7:50pm Amanda Arnold's ron doc @ The Monkey Wrench; 8-8:20pm ron reads accompanied by Sons of The Black Widow; 9pm ron reads "Dangerous Places to Have Sex in Kentucky, The Black Mink Ballet" @ Glassworks Annual JazzyBlu JazzPoetry Happening; 10pm-2am Onward Pilgrim
w/ron @ Zazoo's St. Matthews. hope... to see y'all at all of um. thanks. yer friend. ron


 
 

"The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."  Albert Camus

 

"the bone man dances circles round the subterranean gloom paints pink and blue and purple until he fills the room with the smell of roses and a pandemonium mooon"   the bone man

 

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

"Love has no expectations no conditions. Love is conditionless. Love is. Love." the bone man 

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:01 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron Whitehead & Eye of The Fucking Storm playing avant-garde festival



Hello everyone,

 

I want to thank all of you for your interest in performing at the concert series that I’m organizing to bring together Louisville’s avant-garde music community. It’s my notion that this aspect of Louisville music too often goes unnoticed. My intention is to exhibit some of the wonderful talent in this area to the local community at large. In addition, I hope that through this coming together you all will make some new connections that will subsequently spark more activity like this in Louisville.

 

Presently, the following artists are confirmed to play or have expressed interest in playing:

 

The Cosmological Constant

Dan Dutton

Jon Silpayamanant

Keenan Lawler

The New Minty Crystals

OK Kino

Ron Whitehead and Eye of The Fucking Storm

Softcheque

Straight A’s

Thaniel Ion Lee

Zanclopera Trio

 

The tentative dates for the shows are June 23rd - 25th. I’m waiting to hear back from several more artists, therefore depending on the final number of bands I might add the 22nd and 21st as well. I’m figuring five bands will perform per night, each having a 45 minute/hour time slot (I know that some of you normally perform a shorter time length than that, which is completely fine). 

 

I’m planning to have at least three different venues to host the shows, all in The Highlands and downtown areas. Derby City Espresso has already agreed to host one night, and it’s my goal to confirm the other venues in the next couple of weeks. I will keep you posted.

 

In the meantime, please let me know if the dates are good for you (especially if you are available on only one of the dates, etc.). Once you’ve confirmed, I will put you on the confirmed list of bands (also, please let me know if you prefer to be billed by a different name than the one that I have listed above). Finally, if you haven’t already, please send me your contact phone number and e-mail so that I can keep everyone updated as details develop. 

 

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and thanks again to all of you!

 

Best,

-Douglas

Phone: 270.307.2869

E-Mail: camaro1984@hotmail.com


 

Suddenly Dean stared into the darkness of a corner beyond the bandstand said Sal God has arrived I looked George Shearing & as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand all ears opened listening to the American sounds mastering them for his own English summer's night use They urged him to play He did He played innumerable choruses amazing chords mounted higher higher till sweat splashed the piano everybody listened in awe fright They led him off the stand after an hour He went back to his dark corner old God Shearing the boys said There ain't nothin left after that

Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

Suddenly Dean stared into the darkness of a corner beyond the bandstand said Sal God has arrived I looked George Shearing & as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand all ears opened listening to the American sounds mastering them for his own English summer's night use They urged him to play He did He played innumerable choruses amazing chords mounted higher higher till sweat splashed the piano everybody listened in awe fright They led him off the stand after an hour He went back to his dark corner old God Shearing the boys said There ain't nothin left after that

Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 









Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:34:20 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: new Ron 15minute video produced by brilliant Amanda Arnold







Okay Ron,
hot off the press! it's currently unlisted because i wanted you to check it out first and i do have a couple things still that i need to do. i need to confirm names spellings for jerome people so i can put them in the credits. i want to put some kind of filter over it to make it look more like film. and, last but not least i want to figure out how to put an animated lasso in the title screen--i want the lasso to come in and rope out the "along the trail production" (which i'm going to change to "an along the trail film")  i think that's all. i'm going to send it to a couple other people too before submitting to festivals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drgB74f4xec

enjoy my friend!!!

amanda 

 

Suddenly Dean stared into the darkness of a corner beyond the bandstand said Sal God has arrived I looked George Shearing & as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand all ears opened listening to the American sounds mastering them for his own English summer's night use They urged him to play He did He played innumerable choruses amazing chords mounted higher higher till sweat splashed the piano everybody listened in awe fright They led him off the stand after an hour He went back to his dark corner old God Shearing the boys said There ain't nothin left after that

Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 







Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:34:50 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on by ron whitehead (from his next book/cd)



purple orchid dawn

endless river sail on

 

for joni

 

purple orchid dawn

falls of the ohio

oh great river

skeletal supplies

bottom of our emerald

canoe lavendar oleander

peach sunrise sets

kentucky indiana wildflowers

ablaze we've set sail

ohio mississippi the mississippians

gulf of mexico heaven bound

into and beyond the deep

blue unknown we go

a band of angels

wings shimmer glow

on the shoreline sing

the most glorious

amazing grace we've

ever heard a murder

of crows join the

angel song us too

we slow briefly

then emerald canoe

blue green water

paddle sail on

down down down

magnolia moss cypress

swamp alligators

blue heron water

mocassins seagulls

the time of convergences

closing time has arrived

we are transformed

by choice intentionally

become paradoxarians

miraclearians we eat

paradoxes we drink

miracles we are now

the new tao yee shing

we sing unknown

poems songs sail on

purple orchid dawn

to heaven we go

deep blue sail on on on

 

ron whitehead, aha

february 2011

 

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

from ron's next book/cd

 

PRAYERS FOR THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

to be released late spring/early fall 2011
 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:26:04 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER, the last great truthtellers (new book/cd by Ron Whitehead)



PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron's 21st book & 31st cd

 

projected release date mid-April 2011

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

production notes = book & cd design minimalist mystery mythological symbolic abstract expressionist surrealist psychedelic runed

 

new book and companion cd design, layout, art, graphics, text all as similar as possible

 

Atticus Coleman (& I) will provide most if not all the musical accompaniment. my voice being, as in any musicial arrangement, the main instrument.

 

book and cd = 23 tracks. some tracks have more than one poem. musical accompaniment for every track should be thematically connected but distintively different. rap/hiphop/freestyle/electronica/techno/dance floor big beat.

 

main players = front cover (book & cd similar design) Russel Hulsey's "Song for Whitehead."

back cover plus inside plus front cover actual cd all done by Howard Wilson.

Shelly Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead = "Kentucky Reclamation"

Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead = "greyhound into and outta tennessee"

Christopher Felver = inside brief bio page include Chris' Ron photo portrait "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California, December 2008"

Divinity Rose = photo of Ron = "Ron Whitehead, zombie war paint" lay this photo over Howard's art

Jeff Carpenter Al Fresco Studio sound engineer record mix master

book layout design graphics printing Instant Publisher Memphis

cd layout design graphics printing We Make Tapes Nashville

1,000 copies of each. release tween last week March and 1st or 2nd week April

pay/barter each participant with copies of book/cd

 

 

(front cover/center all)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

(Russel Hulsey portrait "Song for Whitehead" title and Russel's name directly under portrait)

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(bottom front cover)

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance

& The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

 

(inside front cover)

BLANK page

 

(1st title page)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

(Christopher Felver photo portrait of "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California 2008"

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(bottom 1st title page)

 

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance

& The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

(copyright acknowledgments page)

 

First published in The United States of America by Published in Heaven Books & CDs 2011.

 

Ron Whitehead

Published in Heaven Books & CDs

919 Cherokee Road

Louisville, Kentucky 40204 USA

 

tmopinsight@yahoo.com. 502 475 7772. www.tappingmyownphone.com & facebook

 

 all texts by Ron Whitehead except "greyhound into and outta tennessee" by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead,

"Kentucky Reclamation" by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead, & "Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time" by John Tytell & Ron Whitehead

 

Copyright (c) 2011 Ron Whitehead (Book & CD)

 

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

$25 plus shipping ($10 USA, $25 International) for book/cd package

 

ISBN (book):

ISBN (cd):

Library of Congress Control Numbers (for book & cd):

 

CD recording mixing mastering by Jeff Carpenter Al Fresco Studio

book & cd front cover art "Song for Whitehead" by Russel Hulsey

book & cd back cover & cd disc cover & inside book & cd "Whirling Dervish Whitehead by Howard Wilson

book & cd back cover photo "Ron Whitehead zombie film war paint 2010" by Divinity Rose

book & cd inside front cover photo "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California 2008" by Christopher Felver

 

The moral right of the author has been reserved. All rights reserved. No part of these publications may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which they are published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Book and cd both typeset and printed in The United States of America.

 

(2nd title page)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(no art)

(bottom page)

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

(inside 2nd title page)

 

BLANK

 

(right side page from BLANK page)

 

full page color photo of "Ron Whitehead, war paint zombie film, 2010" by Divinity Rose 

 

 

(next page, left side)

CONTENTS

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

1) I Will Lick Your Leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

7) Oh Nameless

8) a thief

9) surrender and serve

10) Searching for Frank Messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) Kentucky Reclamation by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico

16) a ruin i

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond

20) oh

21) the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time by John Tytell & Ron Whitehead

 

 

(right side page from CONTENTS page)

 

Howard Wilson marbleized art with book/cd title laid on top

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

 

(inside next page, left side page)

 

BLANK

 

 

(right side page, dedication page)

 

marbleized art by Howard Wilson over which print dediction =

 

dedicated to

my dear friend and Brother Mark Reese who a year ago suggested this book by saying

"Ron, nearly all your poems are prayers. How bout writing a book titled PRAYERS for

THE MODERN TRAVELER." After nine months of creative gestation this new book & cd

be birthed. Thank you my Brother Mark for the inspiration.

This work is also dedicated to my dear friends Hunter S. & Anita Thompson, to Howard & Nancy Wilson,

to my Brothers & Sisters David Amram, Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Tony Broy, Russel Hulsey, Shelley Vaughn Hulsey, Casey Cyr and Bill, Denis Mahoney/Tariq Zayid, Rich Martin, Bob Holman, Steve Cannon, Miguel Algarin,

Gill Scott Holland, Stephanie Brothers, Amanda Garvey, J.B. Wilson, Andy Cook & Kelly Craig, Scott Mertz,

Michael Dean Odin and Danny Pollock and their entire Viking Hillbilly Clans, Olafur Gunnarsson and his entire Clan,

Oli Palli, Geir Svansson, Bragi Olafsson, Birgitta Jonsdottir, GAK, MEGAS, Jonsi and Sigur Ros, Jim James and

My Morning Jacket, Mike Martinovitch, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth, Mike Watt, Colin &

Linda Shaddick, Rob & Joie Zoschke, Norb Blei, David Minton, Dean and Susan McClain, Dan and Mary Barth,

Dan Roberts, Jan and Conny Pankow, Tommy Gaffney, Kent Fielding, John Keller, Attila Gyenis, Joni Lofton,

Jen Mitchell, Richard Deakin, Kevin Ring, Rinaldo Rasa, Annalisa Papaleo, Kurt Maddox and Clan, Lorena Wolfman,

Maria Ines Mogabura, Patti Brand, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christopher Felver, Brother Patrick Hart, Brother Paul

Quenon, Bettye Brookfield, Jeremy Hogan and Yelena, Jim Irsay, Jim Canary, Sallee Moore, Tom House, R.B. Morris and Karly, Helina Berryman, Jen Burks, Lightnin Luke Powers, Lisa K Worley and Austin, Jyn Yates and Carla, Myron Koch, Yoruba, Ken and Sheila and everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, John Timmons and everybody at earX-tacy records, everybody at Old Town Liquors, Nick Storm, Todd Autry, Amanda Arnold, Cynthia Norton, Douglas Brinkley, Nappy Roots, Sean Callahan, John Fitzgerald, Seamus Heaney, Rand Brandes, Theo Dorgan, BONO, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Lay Low, Kyle Anne Citrynell, Mark Bacon, Nanine Henderson & Che & Thayne, Pip Pullen, Brett Jeffreys, Jeff & Mary Carpenter, Kevin Ratterman & Wax Fang, everybody at The Monkey Wrench, Pete & everybody at The Bristol, Lynn & Nick Boone at Leatherhead, Sarah Burkey, Gregory Chaney, Gene and Natasha Williams, Jordan Green, Max Albright, Dan Stone, Dan Pope, Louis Bickett II, Danny O'Bryan, Divinity Rose, Ed McClanahan, Annie McClanahan, Cia White, Richard Taylor, Severn Edmonson and Onward Pilgrim, Matthew Wallace and Lotus Blake, Matthew Dace Landen and Derby City Espresso, Mike Mays and Heine Brothers, Wendell and Tanya Berry, Rachel Kapitan, Joe Pasquale, John Ventimiglia, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko, Ekayani, Hersch Silverman, Michael McHugh, Chief Arvol Looking Horse and the Lakota Nakota Dakota Great Sioux Nation, His Holiness The Dalai Lama and all the Tibetan people everywhere, all my email website and facebook friends and fans round the world, to all my guides angels allies teachers mentors students friends family loved ones seen and unseen, to my dear children and grandchildren and their families. May everyone find the courage to build the bridge from where you are to where you want to be to be your dream. If I can do it, which I've done for nearly 25 years, then you can too.

 

 

(back side dedication page)

 

BLANK

 

 

 

track/poem #1 (3 parts)

 

I Will Lick Your Leprosy

 

without a penny

 

the bulb breaks

 

 

track/poem #2

 

greyhound into and outta tennessee by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead

 

 

track/poem #3 (2 parts)

 

the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night

 

purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on

 

 

track/poem #4

 

i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

 

 

track/poem #5 (2 parts)

 

 

soon as we're born

 

one flame

 

 

track/poem #6

 

riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

 

 

track/poem #7

 

Oh Nameless

 

 

track/poem #8

 

a thief

 

 

track/poem #9

 

surrender and serve

 

 

track/poem #10

 

Searching for Frank Messina

 

 

track/poem #11

 

etching ourselves into being

 

 

track/poem #12

 

the time of the feminine has arrived

 

 

track/poem #13

 

Kentucky Reclamation by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead

 

 

track/poem #14

 

zero tolerance, a sermon

 

 

track/poem #15

 

new mexico

 

 

track/poem #16

 

a ruin i

 

 

track/poem #17

 

my beloved

 

 

track/poem #18

 

our broken clay cups runneth over

 

 

track/poem #19

 

what is beyond

 

 

track/poem #20

 

oh

 

 

track/poem #21

 

the last great truthtellers

 

 

track/poem #22

 

philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

 

 

track/poem #23

 

Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time by John Tytell and Ron Whitehead

 

 

(brief bio page)

 

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, activist, scholar, professor, world traveler,

hillbilly farmboy outlaw poet and damn happy proud to be. Not only do we have to fight for the right

to party we have to continually perpetually fight, even while living being our dreams, for the right to be

ourselves. Ron grew up on a farm in Ohio County western Kentucky where Bill Monroe birthed Bluegrass

music. Ron and fellow Kentuckian Johnny Depp were both born in Owensboro Kentucky where the last

public hanging in the USA was held. Ron attended The University of Louisville and Oxford University's

International Graduate School. He is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards

including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize and The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. He was

nominated, twice, for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2006 author scholar Dr. John Rocco, SUNY Maritime,

nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. He was recently inducted into his high school's (Ohio

County High) Hall of Fame representing his 1968 graduating class. Ron has edited and published over

3,000 titles. He has produced over 3,000 global music poetry all arts happenings including many 24 and

48 and 72 and 90 hour non-stop music poetry all arts Insomniacathons. He has presented over 6,000

performances of his own creative work round the world. Tens of thousands of his works, all genres,

have been published in a spectrum of publications round the world. His work has been and continues

to be collected, placed, and presented in museums, libraries, private collections, and numerous other

venues round the world. In 1997 The University of Louisville's Ekstrom Library Rare Book & Archives

requested (Delinda Buie, Director) to be the permanent repository for all Ron's work past present future.

Ron is presently getting more and more involved in film work. PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER,

the last great truthtellers is his 21st book and 31st cd.

 

 

 (page after brief bio page, left page)

 

a partial listing of Ron's books:

 

THE WANDERER

BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON

THE THIRD TESTAMENT: Three Gospels of Peace

WESTERN KENTUCKY: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered (with Sarah Burkey)

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

 

a partial list of Ron's cds:

 

I WILL NOT BOW DOWN

I REFUSE

THE SHAPE OF WATER (with James Walck)

SWAN BOATS @ FOUR (with Paul K)

KENTUCKY BLUES (with David Amram)

WALKING HOME (with Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Andy Cook, Sarah Burkey)

TAPPING MY OWN PHONE

FROM ICELAND TO KENTUCKY & BEYOND (with Michael Dean Odin Pollock)

THE VIKING HILLBILLY APOCALYPSE REVUE

KENTUCKY (with Sarah Burkey)

KENTUCKY ROOTS

Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

DAVID AMRAM JAM (with David Amram, Lee Ranaldo, Casey Cyr, Rich Martin, Ron Whitehead. projected 4/11 release)

 

Ron Whitehead's books cds dvds are available at: earX-tacy records, www.tappingmyownphone.com,

facebook, and www.hollandbrownbooks.com.

send $25 (USA) plus shipping ($5 usa, $15 international) via cash, check, money order, or paypal to

Nancy Bruner Wilson, Published in Heaven, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40204 usa.

www.tappingmyownphone.com, Ron Whitehead facebook, 502 475 7772.

 

we are THE STORM GENERATION

 

 

(a few testimonials regarding Ron and his work, left page, after books/cds page)

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall

heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

 

Yevgeny Yevteshenko (Russia): "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest

poet prophets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read at Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival."

 

Carolyn Cassidy (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard

him read at The Ocean on the last night of the London International Poetry and Song Festival I

understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

 

Frank Messina (New Jersey/New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of

wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But,

in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side in the trenches

of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

 

Blanca Castellon (Nicaragua): "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our 2009 Granada Nicaragua

International Poetry Festival."

 

Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson (California): "Ron Whitehead is a genius."

 

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his Elders to be

a Major Literary Figure and the epitome of the work ethic! Ron and I have collaborated, recorded

and performed at major festivals and universities all over the USA and Europe. Ron Whitehead is

an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work

tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of Classic Literature while remaining

Creative. At 73, I continue to learn from him."

 

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): Ron Whitehead transcends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times

and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts through the chaos that comprises our

chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich?

Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead,

can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

 

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of

Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

 

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

 

Paul K (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

 

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

 

Rober Hunter (California): "Ron Whitehead's energy and important work never fails to amaze me."

 

Douglas Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and

literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

 

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full

drawl, magnolia sweet, and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post

in the American ear."

 

Allen Ginsberg (New York/Heaven): "Ron Whitehead is energetic, Bodhisattvic poetic spirit. Happy

to see and read so much poetic energy."

 

(inside back cover)

 

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(back cover)

 

Howard Wilson's marbleized art covers entire page. mid to lower right side is Divinity Rose's photo of

"Ron Whitehead, war paint zombie film 2010." bottom right corner small as possible is bar code & ISBN &

$25 for book/cd package.

 

top page = PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

                   the last great truthtellers

          Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

then

Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado/Heaven): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons

and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

then

1) I Will Lick Your Leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus

7) Oh Nameless

8) a thief

9) surrender and serve

10) Searching for Frank Messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) Kentucky Reclamation

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico

16) a ruin i

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond

20) oh

21) the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time

then

(center) a Published in Heaven Book & CD

          for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

         a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 


 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:22:40 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: revolutionary changes/PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER, the last great truthtellers (ron's new book/cd)



PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER (change everything to lower case. reduce punctuation much as possible)

the last great truthtellers

 

street revolution/making it free again/barter/no more government labels

 

give me freedom honesty liberty or give me death. ron whitehead

 

Ron's 21st book & 31st cd

 

release date for new book/cd no later than last week March 2011

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

production notes = book & cd design minimalist mystery mythological symbolic abstract expressionist surrealist psychedelic runed

 

new book and companion cd design, layout, art, graphics, text all as similar as possible

 

Atticus Coleman (& I) will provide most if not all the musical accompaniment. my voice being, as in any musicial arrangement, the main instrument.

 

book and cd = 23 tracks. some tracks have more than one poem. musical accompaniment for every track should be thematically connected but distintively different. rap/hiphop/freestyle/electronica/techno/dance floor big beat.

 

main players = front cover (book & cd similar design) Russel Hulsey's "Song for Whitehead."

back cover plus inside plus front cover actual cd all done by Howard Wilson.

Russel Hulsey w/Ron Whitehead = "In The Waste Land"

Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead = "Kentucky Reclamation"

Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead = "greyhound into and outta tennessee"

Christopher Felver = inside brief bio page include Chris' Ron photo portrait "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California, December 2008"

Divinity Rose = photo of Ron = "Ron Whitehead, zombie war paint" lay this photo over Howard's art

this gonna be revolutionary work of old/new school DiY Do it Yourself street art

gonna hand print hand make hand record copies of book and cd and give them out for free

100 limited copies of book/cd for each printing. all this will not only start new revolution but will also reduce production costs by thousands.

release no later than last week of March 2011

barter each participant with copies of book/cd

 

 

(front cover/center all)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

(Russel Hulsey portrait "Song for Whitehead" title and Russel's name directly under portrait)

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(bottom front cover)

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance

& The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

 

(inside front cover)

BLANK page

 

(1st title page)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

(Christopher Felver photo portrait of "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California 2008"

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(bottom 1st title page)

 

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance

& The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

(copyright acknowledgments page)

 

First published in The United States of America by Published in Heaven Books & CDs 2011.

 

Ron Whitehead

Published in Heaven Books & CDs

919 Cherokee Road

Louisville, Kentucky 40204 USA

 

tmopinsight@yahoo.com. 502 475 7772. www.tappingmyownphone.com & facebook

 

 all texts by Ron Whitehead except "greyhound into and outta tennessee" by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead,

"Kentucky Reclamation" by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead, "In The Waste Land by Russel Hulsey w/Ron Whitehead, & "Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time" by John Tytell & Ron Whitehead

 

Copyright (c) 2011 Ron Whitehead (Book & CD)

 

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

book/cd package free cept for $10 usa shipping & $25 international shipping

 

CD recording mixing mastering by Atticus Coleman @ upcoming Live show

book & cd front cover art "Song for Whitehead" by Russel Hulsey

book & cd back cover & cd disc cover & inside book & cd "Whirling Dervish Whitehead" by Howard Wilson

book & cd back cover photo "Ron Whitehead zombie film war paint 2010" by Divinity Rose

book & cd inside front cover photo "Ron Whitehead, Sausalito California 2008" by Christopher Felver

 

The moral right of the author has been reserved. All rights reserved. No part of these publications may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which they are published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Book and cd both typeset and printed in The United States of America.

 

(2nd title page)

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

(no art)

(bottom page)

a Published in Heaven Book & CD

for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

(inside 2nd title page)

 

BLANK

 

(right side page from BLANK page)

 

full page color photo of "Ron Whitehead, war paint zombie film, 2010" by Divinity Rose 

 

 

(next page, left side)

CONTENTS

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

1) I Will Lick Your Leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

7) Oh Nameless

8) a thief & song of the whippoorwill

9) surrender and serve

10) Searching for Frank Messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) Kentucky Reclamation by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico & stevie fell out

16) a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond & jessi

20) oh & talk to me

21) In The Waste Land by Russel Hulsey w/Ron Whitehead then Ron's the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time by John Tytell & Ron Whitehead

 

 

(right side page from CONTENTS page)

 

Howard Wilson marbleized art with book/cd title laid on top

 

PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

the last great truthtellers

 

Ron Whitehead

and

EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

 

 

(inside next page, left side page)

 

BLANK

 

 

(right side page, dedication page)

 

marbleized art by Howard Wilson over which print dediction =

 

dedicated to

my dear friend and Brother Mark Reese who a year ago suggested this book by saying

"Ron, nearly all your poems are prayers. How bout writing a book titled PRAYERS for

THE MODERN TRAVELER." After nine months of creative gestation this new book & cd

be birthed. Thank you my Brother Mark for the inspiration.

This work is also dedicated to my dear friends Hunter S. & Anita Thompson, to Howard & Nancy Wilson,

to my Brothers & Sisters David Amram, Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Tony Broy, Russel Hulsey, Shelley Vaughn Hulsey, Casey Cyr and Bill, Denis Mahoney/Tariq Zayid, Rich Martin, Bob Holman, Steve Cannon, Miguel Algarin,

Gill Scott Holland, Stephanie Brothers, Amanda Garvey, J.B. Wilson, Andy Cook & Kelly Craig, Scott Mertz,

Michael Dean Odin and Danny Pollock and their entire Viking Hillbilly Clans, Olafur Gunnarsson and his entire Clan,

Oli Palli, Geir Svansson, Bragi Olafsson, Birgitta Jonsdottir, GAK, MEGAS, Jonsi and Sigur Ros, Jim James and

My Morning Jacket, Mike Martinovitch, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth, Mike Watt, Colin &

Linda Shaddick, Rob & Joie Zoschke, Norb Blei, David Minton, Dean and Susan McClain, Dan and Mary Barth,

Dan Roberts, Jan and Conny Pankow, Tommy Gaffney, Kent Fielding, John Keller, Attila Gyenis, Joni Lofton,

Jen Mitchell, Richard Deakin, Kevin Ring, Rinaldo Rasa, Annalisa Papaleo, Kurt Maddox and Clan, Lorena Wolfman,

Maria Ines Mogabura, Patti Brand, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christopher Felver, Brother Patrick Hart, Brother Paul

Quenon, Bettye Brookfield, Jeremy Hogan and Yelena, Jim Irsay, Jim Canary, Sallee Moore, Tom House, R.B. Morris and Karly, Helina Berryman, Jen Burks, Lightnin Luke Powers, Lisa K Worley and Austin, Jyn Yates and Carla, Myron Koch, Yoruba, Ken and Sheila and everybody at The Rudyard Kipling, John Timmons and everybody at earX-tacy records, everybody at Old Town Liquors, Nick Storm, Todd Autry, Amanda Arnold, Cynthia Norton, Douglas Brinkley, Nappy Roots, Sean Callahan, John Fitzgerald, Seamus Heaney, Rand Brandes, Theo Dorgan, BONO, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Lay Low, Kyle Anne Citrynell, Mark Bacon, Nanine Henderson & Che & Thayne, Pip Pullen, Brett Jeffreys, Jeff & Mary Carpenter, Kevin Ratterman & Wax Fang, everybody at The Monkey Wrench, Pete & everybody at The Bristol, Lynn & Nick Boone at Leatherhead, Sarah Burkey, Gregory Chaney, Gene and Natasha Williams, Jordan Green, Max Albright, Dan Stone, Dan Pope, Louis Bickett II, Danny O'Bryan, Divinity Rose, Ed McClanahan, Annie McClanahan, Cia White, Richard Taylor, Severn Edmonson and Onward Pilgrim, Matthew Wallace and Lotus Blake, Matthew Dace Landen and Derby City Espresso, Mike Mays and Heine Brothers, Wendell and Tanya Berry, Rachel Kapitan, Joe Pasquale, John Ventimiglia, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko, Ekayani, Hersch Silverman, Michael McHugh, Chief Arvol Looking Horse and the Lakota Nakota Dakota Great Sioux Nation, His Holiness The Dalai Lama and all the Tibetan people everywhere, all my email website and facebook friends and fans round the world, to all my guides angels allies teachers mentors students friends family loved ones seen and unseen, to my dear children and grandchildren and their families. May everyone find the courage to build the bridge from where you are to where you want to be to be your dream. If I can do it, which I've done for nearly 25 years, then you can too.

 

 

(back side dedication page)

 

BLANK

 

 

 

track/poem #1 (3 parts)

 

I Will Lick Your Leprosy

 

without a penny

 

the bulb breaks

 

 

track/poem #2

 

greyhound into and outta tennessee by Olafur Gunnarsson & Ron Whitehead

 

 

track/poem #3 (2 parts)

 

the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night

 

purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on

 

 

track/poem #4

 

i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

 

 

track/poem #5 (2 parts)

 

 

soon as we're born

 

one flame

 

 

track/poem #6

 

riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

 

 

track/poem #7

 

Oh Nameless

 

 

track/poem #8

 

a thief & song of the whippoorwill

 

 

track/poem #9

 

surrender and serve

 

 

track/poem #10

 

Searching for Frank Messina

 

 

track/poem #11

 

etching ourselves into being

 

 

track/poem #12

 

the time of the feminine has arrived

 

 

track/poem #13

 

Kentucky Reclamation by Shelley Vaughn Hulsey & Ron Whitehead

 

 

track/poem #14

 

zero tolerance, a sermon

 

 

track/poem #15

 

new mexico & stevie fell out

 

 

track/poem #16

 

a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

 

 

track/poem #17

 

my beloved

 

 

track/poem #18

 

our broken clay cups runneth over

 

 

track/poem #19

 

what is beyond & jessi

 

 

track/poem #20

 

oh & talk to me

 

 

track/poem #21

 

In The Waste Land by Russel Hulsey w/Ron Whitehead then Ron's the last great truthtellers

 

 

track/poem #22

 

philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

 

 

track/poem #23

 

Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time by John Tytell and Ron Whitehead

 

 

(brief bio page)

 

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, activist, scholar, professor, world traveler,

hillbilly farmboy outlaw poet and damn happy proud to be. Not only do we have to fight for the right

to party we have to continually perpetually fight, even while living being our dreams, for the right to be

ourselves. Ron grew up on a farm in Ohio County western Kentucky where Bill Monroe birthed Bluegrass

music. Ron and fellow Kentuckian Johnny Depp were both born in Owensboro Kentucky where the last

public hanging in the USA was held. Ron attended The University of Louisville and Oxford University's

International Graduate School. He is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards

including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize and The Yeats Club of Oxford's Prize for Poetry. He was

nominated, twice, for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2006 author scholar Dr. John Rocco, SUNY Maritime,

nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. He was recently inducted into his high school's (Ohio

County High) Hall of Fame representing his 1968 graduating class. Ron has edited and published over

3,000 titles. He has produced over 3,000 global music poetry all arts happenings including many 24 and

48 and 72 and 90 hour non-stop music poetry all arts Insomniacathons. He has presented over 6,000

performances of his own creative work round the world. Tens of thousands of his works, all genres,

have been published in a spectrum of publications round the world. His work has been and continues

to be collected, placed, and presented in museums, libraries, private collections, and numerous other

venues round the world. In 1997 The University of Louisville's Ekstrom Library Rare Book & Archives

requested (Delinda Buie, Director) to be the permanent repository for all Ron's work past present future.

Ron is presently getting more and more involved in film work. PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER,

the last great truthtellers is his 21st book and 31st cd.

 

 

 (page after brief bio page, left page)

 

a partial listing of Ron's books:

 

THE WANDERER

BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON

THE THIRD TESTAMENT: Three Gospels of Peace

WESTERN KENTUCKY: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered (with Sarah Burkey)

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

 

a partial list of Ron's cds:

 

I WILL NOT BOW DOWN

I REFUSE

THE SHAPE OF WATER (with James Walck)

SWAN BOATS @ FOUR (with Paul K)

KENTUCKY BLUES (with David Amram)

WALKING HOME (with Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Andy Cook, Sarah Burkey)

TAPPING MY OWN PHONE

FROM ICELAND TO KENTUCKY & BEYOND (with Michael Dean Odin Pollock)

THE VIKING HILLBILLY APOCALYPSE REVUE

KENTUCKY (with Sarah Burkey)

KENTUCKY ROOTS

Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE

THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems

DAVID AMRAM JAM (with David Amram, Lee Ranaldo, Casey Cyr, Rich Martin, Ron Whitehead. projected 4/11 release)

 

Ron Whitehead's books cds dvds are available at: earX-tacy records, www.tappingmyownphone.com,

facebook, and www.hollandbrownbooks.com.

book/cd free add shipping $10 usa & $25 international, Published in Heaven, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40204 usa.

www.tappingmyownphone.com,

Ron Whitehead facebook, 502 475 7772.

 

we are THE STORM GENERATION

 

 

(a few testimonials regarding Ron and his work, left page, after books/cds page)

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall

heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

 

Yevgeny Yevteshenko (Russia): "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest

poet prophets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read at Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival."

 

Carolyn Cassidy (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard

him read at The Ocean on the last night of the London International Poetry and Song Festival I

understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

 

Frank Messina (New Jersey/New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of

wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But,

in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side in the trenches

of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

 

Blanca Castellon (Nicaragua): "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our 2009 Granada Nicaragua

International Poetry Festival."

 

Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson (California): "Ron Whitehead is a genius."

 

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his Elders to be

a Major Literary Figure and the epitome of the work ethic! Ron and I have collaborated, recorded

and performed at major festivals and universities all over the USA and Europe. Ron Whitehead is

an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work

tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of Classic Literature while remaining

Creative. At 73, I continue to learn from him."

 

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): Ron Whitehead transcends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times

and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts through the chaos that comprises our

chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich?

Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead,

can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

 

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of

Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

 

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

 

Paul K (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

 

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

 

Rober Hunter (California): "Ron Whitehead's energy and important work never fails to amaze me."

 

Douglas Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and

literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

 

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full

drawl, magnolia sweet, and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post

in the American ear."

 

Allen Ginsberg (New York/Heaven): "Ron Whitehead is energetic, Bodhisattvic poetic spirit. Happy

to see and read so much poetic energy."

 

(inside back cover)

 

BLANK

 

(back cover)

 

Howard Wilson's marbleized art covers entire page. mid to lower right side is Divinity Rose's photo of

"Ron Whitehead, war paint zombie film 2010." bottom right corner = book/cd free add shipping $10 usa & $25 international.

 

top page = PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER

                   the last great truthtellers

          Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUCKING STORM

then

Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado/Heaven): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons

and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

then

1) I Will Lick Your Leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus

7) Oh Nameless

8) a thief & song of the whippoorwill

9) surrender and serve

10) Searching for Frank Messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) Kentucky Reclamation

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico& stevie fell out

16) a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond & jessi

20) oh & talk to me

21) In The Waste Land & the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) Calling The Toads, The Antinomian Fire This Time

then

(center) a Published in Heaven Book & CD

          for The Global Literary Renaissance & The Moving Mystery Theatre

         a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 





 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com



 

yesterday recvd copy of my friend Chris Felver's (www.chrisfelver.com) 81-minute bio documentary on my friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books/Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue North Beath San Francisco 94133. It's a masterpiece and I hope it's shown round the world including here in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It's so important for every freethinker on the planet, especially in these new Dark Ages. Ron Whitehead, 4th i said 4th person singular poet

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:18:24 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: revolutiona street theater live performance 2 weeks outrageous ron's new book cassette



good sunday morning comin down!!!! woke up 3am couldn't go back to sleep. vivid dreams visions directions from angel realms. so. now 4am. doing morning prayers spiritual practices exercises cleaning my hermitage here on Cherokee Road with view out window over computer of meditation garden. beauty everywhere. had long meeting with nephew Atticus yesterday. he's genius musician. runs in Mama's side of family. he can play anything by ear and plays everything. he's doing sound for new cassette. i've decided to go old school street revolutionary with new book and cassette (instead of cd). it'll make big powerful statement in bringing phoneyass lying ivory tower down plus from pragmatic point of view will cost much less which is good since i don't have any money. here's the plan. gonna go to dollar store and buy 100 spiral notebooks. thick as many pages well enuf to handwrite entire book in. buy bunch of Sharpie ultrafine black pens. then gonna handwrite entire book in 100 spiral notebooks. sign and number all 1 of 1-100 etc. then gonna find some cheapass goin outta business store and buy 100 cassette tapes (cassettes hotter than pancakes now with hip outsider underground outlaw artists movers shakers. Atticus got big boombox and recording equipment. in 2 weeks we're gonna do live street performance on Bardstown Road in front of now empty earX-tacy records. gonna spread word by mouth phone calls and email and facebook (exact day & time will be sent out 24 hours advance of live street theatre moving mystery theatre performance recording. gonna mock front cover of famous rap album by both Atticus and me dressing up wearing all gold g-strings, tiny bras, high heels, wigs, red smeared lipstick, ton of gold chains, earrings. all gold. Jen Burks gonna body paint me while we perform entire book/cassette. Atticus performing music while i read. gonna open with rap song by Atticus. everything we have on will be gold. you get it. what's gold. what is art? gold exchange for the rich? i've sent you piece i wrote titled What is Art, Ron Whitehead's Artist Manifesto which gonna be final Bonus Track in book on cassette. statement that needs to be heard made especially today. gonna have photographers and filmmakers there. gonna notify press & everyone as to exact day and time 24 hours in advance 2 weeks from now. if cops run us off we'll go peacefully to another already selected location and complete the performance. i'll have the 100 handwritten books done. Atticus will record the 100 cassettes within 2 weeks after performance then the folks who got the books can give their address and shipping money ($10 usa and $25 international) and cassettes'll be mailed. folks who can't make it but want one of the limited edition (this'll be only copies gonna produce of new book/cd make it more limited handmade editions) please mail asap, cause since there's only gonna be 100 copies handmade limited edition total/ever, please mail shipping money, $10 usa, $25 international, via check or money order or international money order, to Nancy Bruner Wilson, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40204. my cell is 502 475 7772. emails tmopinsight@yahoo.com & ron@tappingmyownphone.com. website www.tappingmyownphone.com (still looking for new webmaster) plus yes facebook & facebook fan clubs. if i can get pistol and 100 bullets i'll sign each book with bullethole. now that's what i call making a fucking statement. we'll put at least taste of filmed event up on youtube (if Amanda Arnold chooses to and i think she will) and include the film in 2-hour bio doc Nick Storm is making on me (if Nick chooses to and i think he will) and plus photos by Jen Burks and others up on facebook. ok. that's the news from the frontlines. carry on. i've got to get back at it. got 100 pushups and situps and curls and other exercises to do plus finish all the other things i mentioned earlier. have a fun sunday. Brother Ron
 

 

prayers for the modern traveler 

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm (see fubuyoma's the end of history & the last men)

 

street revolution/making it free again/barter/no more government labeled intervention

 

give me freedom honesty liberty or give me death. ron whitehead

 

ron's 21st book & 31st cd

 

release date for new book/cassette March 2011

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

production notes = front cover photo of ron & atticus dressed in all gold performing live. will run 100 copies and paste photo to front of handwritten spiral book. same for cassette. back cover yet to be determined.

 

new book and cassette design simple and same.

 

atticus coleman will provide all the music. i'll read & atticus will do all music including 1st rap track plus some freestyling.

 

book and cd = 23 tracks (plus bonus track: can art matter? ron whitehead's artist statement) some tracks have more than one poem. musical accompaniment for every track will be thematically connected with each track being distintively different.

 

 

russel hulsey w/ron whitehead = "in the waste land"

shelley vaughn hulsey & ron whitehead = "kentucky reclamation"

olafur gunnarsson & ron whitehead = "greyhound into and outta tennesse

this gonna be revolutionary work of old/new school diy do it yourself street art moving mystery theatre

gonna hand print hand make hand record copies of book and cassette and give them out for free

100 limited copies of book/cassette. these will be the only copies, ever. all this will not only start new revolution but will also reduce production costs by thousands.

release march 2011. live stree performance mid-march. location. in front of now empty earx-tacy records, bardstown road, louisville, kentucky. day and time will be spread word of mouth and email and phone calls and facebook 24 hours advance to performance.

 

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

a published in heaven book & cassette

for the global literary renaissance

& the moving mystery theatre

a diy do it yourself production

 

(1st title page)

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

(bottom 1st title page)

 

a published in heaven book & cassette

for the global literary renaissance

& the moving mystery theatre

a diy do it yourself production

 

(copyright acknowledgments page)

 

 published by published in heaven books & cassettes 2011.

 

ron whitehead

published in heaven

919 cherokee road

louisville, kentucky 40204 usa

 

tmopinsight@yahoo.com. 502 475 7772. www.tappingmyownphone.com & facebook

 

 all texts by ron whitehead except "jabber jaw" by atticus coleman, "greyhound into and outta tennessee" by olafur gunnarsson & ron whitehead,

"kentucky reclamation" by shelley vaughn hulsey & ron whitehead, "in the waste land by russel hulsey w/ron whitehead, & "calling the toads, the antinomian fire this time" by john tytell & ron whitehead

 

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

a published in heaven book & cassette

for the global literary renaissance & the moving mystery street theatre

a diy do it yourself production

 

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

book/cd package free cept for $10 usa shipping & $25 international shipping

 

cassette recording mixing mastering by atticus coleman

 

the moral right of the author has been reserved all rights reserved no part of these publications may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which they are published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

book and cassette handwritten recorded in usa

 

(2nd title page)

 

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

(no art)

(bottom page)

a published in heaven ook & cassette

for the global literary renaissance & the moving mystery street theatre

a diy do it yourself production 

 

 

(next page, left side)

contents

 

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm

 

1) jabber jaw by atticus coleman & i will lick your leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee by olafur gunnarsson & ron whitehead

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn, endless river sail on

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

7) oh nameless

8) a thief & song of the whippoorwill

9) surrender and serve

10) searching for frank messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) kentucky reclamation by shelley vaughn hulsey & ron whitehead

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico & stevie fell out

16) a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond & jessi

20) oh & talk to me

21) in the waste land by russel hulsey w/ron whitehead then ron's the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) calling the toads, the antinomian fire this time by john tytell & ron whitehead

 

 

(right side page from contents page)

 

 

prayers for the modern traveler

the last great truthtellers

nada

 

ron whitehead and eye of the fuking storm

 

 

(inside next page, left side page)

 

blank

 

 

(right side page, dedication page)

 

dedicated to

my dear friend and brother mark reese who a year ago suggested this book by saying

ron nearly all your poems are prayers how bout writing a book titled prayers for

the modern traveler after nine months of creative gestation this new book & cassette

be birthed. thank you my brother mark for the inspiration

this work is also dedicated to my dear friends hunter s & anita thompson to howard & nancy wilson

to my brothers & sisters david amram frank messina & vanessa blakesly & clan tyrone cotton tony broy gill scott holland & holland brown books & everyone @ the green building russel hulsey shelley vaughn hulsey leslie lyon casey cyr & to all my guides angels allies teachers mentors students friends family loved ones seen and unseen to my dear children and grandchildren and their families may everyone find the courage to build the bridge from where you are to where you want to be to be your dream If I can do it which I've done for nearly 25 years then you can too

 

 

(back side dedication page)

 

blank

 

 

 

track/poem #1 (3 parts)

 

jabber jaw by atticus coleman then ron's i will lick your leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

 

 

 

track/poem #2

 

greyhound into and outta tennessee by olafur gunnarsson & ron whitehead

 

 

track/poem #3 (2 parts)

 

the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night &

 

purple orchid dawn endless river sail on

 

 

track/poem #4

 

i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

 

 

track/poem #5 (2 parts)

 

 

soon as we're born & one flame

 

 

track/poem #6

 

riding with rebel jesus the wanderer

 

 

track/poem #7

 

oh nameless

 

 

track/poem #8

 

a thief & song of the whippoorwill

 

 

track/poem #9

 

surrender and serve

 

 

track/poem #10

 

searching for frank messina

 

 

track/poem #11

 

etching ourselves into being

 

 

track/poem #12

 

the time of the feminine has arrived

 

 

track/poem #13

 

kentucky reclamation by shelley vaughn hulsey & ron whitehead

 

 

track/poem #14

 

zero tolerance,a sermon

 

 

track/poem #15

 

new mexico & stevie fell out

 

 

track/poem #16

 

a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

 

 

track/poem #17

 

my beloved

 

 

track/poem #18

 

our broken clay cups runneth over

 

 

track/poem #19

 

what is beyond & jessi

 

 

track/poem #20

 

oh & talk to me

 

 

track/poem #21

 

in the waste land by russel hulsey w/ron whitehead then ron's the last great truthtellers

 

 

track/poem #22

 

philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

 

 

track/poem #23

 

calling the toads the antinomian fire this time by john tytell and ron whitehead

 

bonus track = can art matter? ron's artist manifesto

 

 

(brief bio page)

 

ron whitehead is poet writer editor publisher organizer activist scholar professor world traveler

hillbilly farmboy outlaw poet & damn happy proud to be not only do we have to fight for the right

to party we have to continually perpetually fight even while living being our dreams for the right to be

ourselves ron grew up on a farm in ohio county western kentucky where bill monroe birthed bluegrass

music ron and fellow kentuckian johnny depp were both born in owensboro kentucky where the last

public hanging in the usa was held ron attended the university of louisville and oxford university's

international graduate school he is the recipient of numerous state national and international awards

including the all kentucky poetry prize and the yeats club of oxford's prize for poetry he was

nominated twice for the pulitzer prize in 2006 author scholar dr john rocco suny maritime

nominated ron for the nobel prize in literature he was recently inducted into his high school's (ohio

county high) hall of fame representing his 1968 graduating class ron has edited and published over

3,000 titles he has produced over 3,000 global music poetry all arts happenings including many 24 and

48 and 72 and 90 hour non-stop music poetry all arts insomniacathons he has presented over 6,000

performances of his own creative work round the world tens of thousands of his works all genres

have been published in a spectrum of publications round the world his work has been and continues

to be collected placed &presented in museums libraries private collections & numerous other

venues round the world in 1997 the university of louisville's ekstrom library rare books & archives

requested (delinda buie director) to be the permanent repository for all ron's work past present future

ron is presently getting more involved in film prayers for the modern traveler,

the last great truthtellers, nada is his 21st book and 31st recording

 

 

 (page after brief bio page, left page)

 

a partial listing of ron's books:

 

the wanderer

beaver dam rocking chair marathon

the third testament: three gospels of peace

western kentucky: lost & forgotten, found & remembered (w/sarah burkey)

the storm generation manifesto and on parting, the wilderness poems

 

a partial list of ron's cds:

 

i will not bow down (w/michael dean odin pollock)

i refuse

the shape of water (w/james walck)

swan boats @ four (w/paul k)

kentucky blues (w/david amram)

walking home (w/frank messina, tyrone cotton, andy cook, & sarah burkey)

tapping my own phone

from iceland to kentucky & beyond w/michael dean odin pollock

viking hillbilly apocalypse revue (w/michael dean odin pollock)

kentucky (w/sarah burkey)

kentucky roots

ron whitehead & southside

the storm generation manifesto and on parting, the wilderness poems

the david amram jam (with david amram, lee ranaldo, casey cyr, rich martin, ron whitehead. projected 4/11 release)

 

ron whitehead's books cds dvds are available at: earx-tacy records, www.tappingmyownphone.com,

facebook, and www.hollandbrownbooks.com.

book/cd free add shipping $10 usa & $25 international mail and make payable to nancy bruner wilson, published in heaven, 919 cherokee road, louisville, kentucky 40204 usa. cash check money order international money order.

www.tappingmyownphone.com,

ron whitehead facebook, 502 475 7772.

 

we are the storm generation!!!!

 

(a few testimonials regarding ron and his work, left page, after books/cds page)

 

lawrence ferlinghetti (california): "ron whitehead, out there in kentucky, out there where the tall

heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

 

yevgeny yevteshenko (russia): "ron whitehead is a prophet. he is one of the world's greatest

poet prophets. what an inspiring honor to hear him read at nicaragua's international poetry festival."

 

carolyn cassidy (england): "i had heard people talk about ron whitehead for years so when I heard

him read at the ocean on the last night of the london international poetry and song festival I

understood why. his poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

 

frank messina (new jersey/new york): "ron whitehead is one of my closest allies. he is a man of

wisdom and tolerance. ron and i debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. but,

in the end, we're still friends. there is only one man i want to fight along my side in the trenches

of life and his name is ron whitehead. he is one of the last warriors left in america."

 

blanca castellon (nicaragua): "ron whitehead was the hero of our 2009 granada nicaragua

international poetry festival."

 

cameron crowe & nancy wilson (california): "ron whitehead is a genius."

 

david amram (new york): "ron whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his elders to be

a major literary figure and the epitome of the work ethic! ron and i have collaborated, recorded

and performed at major festivals and universities all over the usa and europe. ron whitehead is

an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work

tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of classic literature while remaining

creative. at 73, i continue to learn from him."

 

casey cyr (connecticut): ron whitehead transcends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times

and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. he cuts through the chaos that comprises our

chattering thoughts. ron whitehead asks: can art matter? is it merely a gold exchange for the rich?

art IS the holy grail. and at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. only a few, like ron whitehead,

can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

 

annalisa papaleo (italy): "ron whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a king of

words...i am honored to translate his work into italian."

 

theo dorgan (ireland): "ron whitehead is a one man atlantic bridge."

 

paul k (kentucky): "ron whitehead is america's greatest living poet."

 

michael dean odin pollock (iceland): "ron whitehead is the world ambassador of poetry."

 

robert hunter (california): "ron whitehead's energy and important work never fails to amaze me."

 

douglas brinkley (texas): "ron whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in america. Ppet and

literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

 

bob holman (new york): "spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. ron's combination of full

drawl, magnolia sweet, and wendell berry's mad farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post

in the american ear."

 

allen ginsberg (new york/heaven): "ron whitehead is energetic, bodhisattvic poetic spirit. happy

to see and read so much poetic energy."

 

(inside back cover)

 

blank

 

(back cover art to be determined)

 

 

top page = prayers for the modern traveler

                   the last great truthtellers

                               nada

          ron whitehead & the eye of the fuking storm

then

hunter s thompson (colorado/heaven): "i have long admired ron whitehead. he is crazy as nine loons

and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

then

1) jabber jaw & i will lick your leprosy & without a penny & the bulb breaks

2) greyhound into and outta tennessee

3) the moon my shadow and i drink sing poems dance in the meditation garden every night & purple orchid dawn

4) i no longer have anything to prove to anyone

5) soon as we're born & one flame

6) riding with rebel jesus the wanderer

7) oh nameless

8) a thief & song of the whippoorwill

9) surrender and serve

10) searching for frank messina

11) etching ourselves into being

12) the time of the feminine has arrived

13) kentucky reclamation

14) zero tolerance, a sermon

15) new mexico & stevie fell out

16) a ruin i & he dreams for the desert

17) my beloved

18) our broken clay cups runneth over

19) what is beyond & jessi

20) oh & talk to me

21) in the waste land & the last great truthtellers

22) philologically pseudo-hieroglyphic

23) calling the toads, the antinomian fire this time

bonus track = can art matter? ron's artist statement

then

(center) a published in heaven book & cassette

          for the global literary renaissance & the moving mystery street theatre

         a diy do it yourself production

 



 

yesterday recvd copy of my friend Chris Felver's (www.chrisfelver.com) 81-minute bio documentary on my friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books/Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue North Beath San Francisco 94133. It's a masterpiece and I hope it's shown round the world including here in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It's so important for every freethinker on the planet, especially in these new Dark Ages. Ron Whitehead, 4th i said 4th person singular poet

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



















Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:04:58 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: barter donations revolutionary live performance street theater 2 weeks outrageous ron's new book cassette



barter or take donations for following so i can complete revolutionary street theater live performance in two weeks releasing new 100 copies only limited edition all handmade handwritten 21st book 31st recording (no cd gonna be cassette this time). i'll barter copy of book/cd depending on what you've got to barter. ok. here's list:

 

1)g-string

2)bright red lipstick

3)wig, preferably big afro

4) gold spray paint

5) fake gawdy huge gold necklaces and clip on earrings

6) skimpy small see thru bra

7) high heels 101/2 men's size don't know what that translate in women's size

8) pistol and 100 bullets to shoot each of the 100 books and place to shoot

9) 100 big thick any condition spiral notebooks. a few here a few there will quickly add up to 100. i'm gonna handwrite number and sign each book. only producing 100 books (in this format) all handwritten (whew/fuck) and 100 cassettes. no more will be made/created. so. extremely limited edition. be worth fortune within months. many of my titles going for hundreds thousands round world. check google.

10) 100 blank cassettes. in working condition. Atticus gonna record our live performance which happening in 2 weeks in front of empty old earX-tacy on Bardstown Road. we're gonna do entire book start to finish. Atticus gonna open with rap song then do music for each track plus record on boombox then by end of month he'll have the 100 cassettes recorded. i'll have the 100 spiral notebook handwritten signed numbered books at the reading performance. if police ask us to leave we'll leave peacefully and go to another already decided upon location to finish the performance recording all of which will be filmed and photographed. Jen Burks will body paint me while i read.

11) black mascara

12) ultra fine black Sharpees. gonna take days nights nonstop writing to do this by hand.

13) red wine

14) maybe hit or two

15) Divinity if you'll add Bone Man war paint i'd sure appreciate that

and i reckon that's it whatever doesn't come thru i'll somehow figure it out. already talking with angels asking for their assistance.

thank you all in advance.

oh. the 100 books/cassettes gonna be free cept if you live somewhere else you'll need to send shipping, $10 usa and $25 international, cash check money order international money order. make them out to my friend Nancy Bruner Wilson, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, kentucky 40204 usa. and i suggest you order quick cause these babies gonna be gone quick. thanks! y'all have fun. your friend, Ron


 

yesterday recvd copy of my friend Chris Felver's (www.chrisfelver.com) 81-minute bio documentary on my friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books/Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue North Beath San Francisco 94133. It's a masterpiece and I hope it's shown round the world including here in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It's so important for every freethinker on the planet, especially in these new Dark Ages. Ron Whitehead, 4th i said 4th person singular poet

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

yesterday recvd copy of my friend Chris Felver's (www.chrisfelver.com) 81-minute bio documentary on my friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books/Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue North Beath San Francisco 94133. It's a masterpiece and I hope it's shown round the world including here in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It's so important for every freethinker on the planet, especially in these new Dark Ages. Ron Whitehead, 4th i said 4th person singular poet

 

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:18:50 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: decided to not diminish value of this important new work so shifting major gears one final time



hello my dear friends and thank you for your patience thruout this naturally conflicted creative evolutionary birthing of my newest book and cassette. heeding advice of close dear friends and still small voice of my own creative heart and soul i've decided to shift gears one final time regarding release and performance of new work.

i've decided to not create a spectacle, as much as i'd enjoy it, regarding the release of this important new book, my 21st, and cassette recording, my 31st: prayers for the modern traveler, the last great truthtellers, nada

by yes ron whitehead & eye of the fuking storm.

i'm sticking with the handmade handwritten handproduced 100 limited edition signed and numbered spiral notebook versions of my new book (which i'll be writing all week starting in morning) matched with the 100 lowfi boombox Atticus recorded cassettes. 100 limited editions (orders from round the globe flooding in. they'll be gone quickly). book/cassette. free. cept for shipping. $10 usa. $25 international. yes gifts are welcome. i've lived been my dream for 25 years. a gift. no complaints only thanks.

this work is revolutionary in many ways combining multitudinous revolutionary rightontime diverse spectrum of statements colloquial political sensual apocalyptic prophetic hopeful devastatingly terrible beautiful dark light. you'll understand better when you hear see the work. Atticus Coleman, my nephew, a musical prodigy, is handling all the music. we'll be performing live a handful of times. first time will be in midMarch at a private or public location. deciding now where when exactly to do that. eventually a second edition will come out (maybe while i'm alive maybe not. either ok). polished production. book and vinyl album.

at our Live performance in midMarch we'll have the 100 handmade book and cassette copies. some will be dispensed before the Live performance. i'll start tomorrow handwriting numbering and signing the 100 copies. Atticus and i will record the cassette so he can run copies within week. some folks have offered to pay various amounts for the copies. i appreciate and with gratitude accept those gifts. if you google my work you'll see that it sells round the world for hundreds and thousands of dollars so these 100 limited handmade handwritten copies will within a year be worth hundreds if not thousands. that's no bullshit. i don't bullshit.

even tho i was offered a 9mm (which i appreciate) to shoot the copies with i decided that the 9mm would do too much damage so i've been loaned a .22 pistol which i'll shoot one bullethole in each copy as extra bullet stamp signature which, like my friends Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs, will make the 100 copies more valuable for collectors.

so. that's it. i'll decide within 24 hours whether to have the Live performance of entire text, with Atticus' musical accompaniment thruout, at either someone's private abode or at a public venue. open to suggestions.

alright. that's it. any questions let me know. thank you. your friend. Ron Whitehead, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40204. cell 502 475 7772. tmopinsight@yahoo.com. website www.tappingmyownphone.com. facebook and facebook fan clubs.

2/27/11

11pm EDT
 

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." Che Guevara

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." Che Guevara

"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 







Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:45:18 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: An Evening of Film Music Spoken Word Mayhem w/Ron Whitehead & Eye of The Fuking Storm



for Immediate Release

 

An Evening of Film Music Spoken Word Mayhem

featuring

Kentucky's Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead
and
Eye of The Fuking Storm

 

Saturday, March 19, 2011
8pm to midnight
Derby City Espresso
East Market, Louisville, Kentucky
no cover, $ & red wine donations welcome

 

showing of Amanda Arnold's
Jerome Arizona/Ron Whitehead 15-minute documentary
showing of Christopher Felver's,
www.chrisfelver.com,
81-minute FERLINGHETTI documentary (just shown @ The Louvre)
followed by World Premiere Live Music Spoken Word performance
by Ron Whitehead & Eye of The Fuking Storm
of Ron's new book (his 21st book) & cassette (31st recording)

 

prayers for the modern traveler
the last great truthtellers
nada

 

Ron is handwriting signing and shooting 100 copies of his newest book. his nephew musical prodigy Atticus Coleman is performing recording cassetteing all the music for this new work which is unlike anything Ron's ever done. orders for the handmade limited edition 100 copies new book/cassette are speeding in from round the world. Ron will hold onto a handful of copies for the show. if you're interested in copy ahead of the show Ron accepting donations of $50 (more welcome. or free if you're broke. or barter. if outside Louisville need to add $10 for shipping usa & $25 for international. cash, check, money order, international money order payable to Nancy Bruner Wilson, 919 Cherokee Road, Louisville Kentucky 40204. Ron's email tmopinsight@yahoo.com. cell 502 475 7772. website www.tappingmyownphone.com. plus facebook and fan clubs. see you there!
 

"i consider myself a road man for the lords of Karma."

my friend Colonel Hunter Shaman Thompson

 

"The charging restless unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power." Jack Kerouac

 

"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls." Walt Whitman

 

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." Che Guevara


"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 


 

"i consider myself a road man for the lords of Karma."

my friend Colonel Hunter Shaman Thompson

 

"The charging restless unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power." Jack Kerouac

 

"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls." Walt Whitman

 

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." Che Guevara


"vex the world"  Jonathan Swift

 

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on, I'll be mad."  Rumi

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 



Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:48:41 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron Whitehead's words @ yesterday"s Westboro demonstration



thank you Tim Druck, demonstration organizer, for asking me to speak a few words on peace and love at anti-Westboro Baptist Kansas church everybody's goin to hell demonstration yesterday 3/06/11. here's couple excerpts from today's COURIER-JOURNAL (Kentucky's main newspaper) related to the demonstration. they are followed by the piece i presented:

 

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Monday, March 7, 2011

5 from Westboro face hundreds of local foes

 

Protests held at St. Lawrence Catholic Church

 

By Ben Zion Hershberg (abbreviated)

 

   Five demonstrators from the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas - known for picketing soldiers' funerals across the nation and saying their deaths are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality - faced about 400 counter-protesters in front of St. Lawrence Catholic Church in southwest Louisville on Sunday.

   The Westboro messages/placards included "God Hates the Pope" and "The Jews Killed Jesus."

   Referring to Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld Westboro's right to protest using "hurtful speech" at military funerals, Jonathan Phelps, a lawyer for Westboro and an organizer of Sunday's picketing, said "Jesus Christ has put a megaphone to our lips called the Supreme Court case."

   Tim Druck, a Navy veteran (who invited me to speak) with the counter-protesters, said he helped organize Sunday's demonstration against Westboro with messages to friends on Facebook.

   He said he wanted to demonstrate the public's support for the nation's troops.

   "Our message is peace and tolerance," Cruck said, adding he believes Westboro "has the absolute right to be here."

   ...(leaving out much now last paragraph from Courier-Journal then what I presented)

   The Supreme Court ruled that incendiary rhetoric is protected by the First Amendment, overturning a $5 million verdict against the church in a Maryland verdict after members picketed a soldier's funeral with such slogans as "God hates the U.S.A."

 

(now here's what i read)
 

April in the railroad yellow green

   Kentucky rain jonquil spring

 

                    for Joni

 

railroad tracks Jerusalem Ridge

cedar cane carved long

walk coal train whistle

blows far away lightning

distant thunder rumbles rolls

mist fog angel song

purple sunrise dawn brings

jonquils yellow green beauty

Mother Earth plowed fields

cows moo roosters crow

fragrant birth Kentucky spring

April in the yellow

green jonquil Kentucky rain

homeward bound Kentucky spring

 

"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in they brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Matthew 7:1-5

 

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:14&15

 

"...Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you..." Matthew 5:44

 

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

  Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

  Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

  Blessed are ye, when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you, for my sake. Rejoice and be glad: for great is your place in heaven, for so persecuted were the prophets before you." Matthew 5:3-12

 

"...when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadduccees to silence, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This the first great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Matthew 22:34-39

 

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1st Epistle John 4:18

 

I Have A Dream This Time

 

inspired by one of my heroes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Forgiveness is the Amazing Grace which washes away all karma all sins.

 

Black Blue Green Purple Red Yellow White Rainbow Dark Light

All People of All Religions Spiritualalities Political Parties Ethnicities Sexualities of All Persuasions All Belief and Non-Belief Systems All World Views and Non-Views

All People All Beings Are Precious in God's Great Spirit's Yahweh's Creative Forces of The Universe's Sight

I Have A Dream

 

We have come to this hallowed ground to remind each other everyone ourselves of the fierce urgency of now. Silence is golden. Silence is also complicity. There is a time and a place for everything and now is the time to speak out to speak on behalf of all people regarding the equal rights we all share to speak for all people from all walks of life to speak for acceptance for love for tolerance for all people all beings everywhere regardless of politics of religion of spirituality of ethnicity of sex of sexual preferences to speak out for peace for the beatitudes to speak against violence to speak for non-violent creative spiritual resistance to speak out for the right of all people everywhere to be themselves to be their dream to speak against hurting others to speak for honest open discourse for heated debate for honoring for respecting our beautiful unique differences while recognizing that we all have more in common than different the time has come to recognize that no one is better or worse than anyone else that we are all dirty potatoes floating in the same tub of polluted water and the more we bang into each other by sharing the poems stories songs events of our lives and letting go of the hard shells we create around our hearts falsely believing those shells will protect our soft hearts from any more pain the more we remove those self-constructed hard shells and open our soft gentle kind caring hearts the more we come clean

I Have A Dream

I Am My Dream

and I Pray the same gift be granted to all who are open and ready to accept and receive it.

I Have A Dream

 

Lord forgive us for we know not what we do.

 

I Have A Dream

 

Ron Whitehead

March 6, 2011

 

 

ron whitehead, AHA, 3/05/11

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 

 


 

April in the railroad yellow green

   Kentucky rain jonquil spring

 

                    for Joni

 

railroad tracks Jerusalem Ridge

cedar cane carved long

walk coal train whistle

blows far away lightning

distant thunder rumbles rolls

mist fog angel song

purple sunrise dawn brings

jonquils yellow green beauty

Mother Earth plowed fields

cows moo roosters crow

fragrant birth Kentucky spring

April in the yellow

green jonquil Kentucky rain

homeward bound Kentucky spring

 

ron whitehead, AHA, 3/05/11

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:56:56 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson launch new Published in TAO Press



for Immediate Release

 

Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson have launched a new publishing endeavor

 

Published in TAO

 

for Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, and The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

all publications will be handmade limited edition highest museum quality unlike anything ever produced.

each of the limited run 126 (only) posters will be uniquely original and each totally different than all the others.

each run limited to 26 lettered (A to Z) and signed plus 100 numbered (1 to 100) and signed.

 

the 1st poster will be available March 15, 2011 but we are accepting orders now.

our goal is to establish a list of 126 paying patrons literary arts collectors, from round the world, who will receive

1st notification of all new titles so they can order each title in advance so shipment will take place day of completion of each title.

 

each Published in TAO poster will include Howard's original art (he's Master of all Art Mediums) and

Ron's original poetry plus work by other world famous/infamous poets and writers, all friends/acquaintances of Ron's.

 

the 1st Published in TAO poster, completed 3/15/11, is "Never Give Up" by His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Ron Whitehead. the poster includes beautiful artwork by Howard all on highest museum quality uniquely produced and displayed papers/packaging.

 

we've intentionally kept prices way below reasonable for museum quality limitied edition works (Ron's work goes for hundreds and thousands of dollars round the world and is inc luded in the collections of major museums libraries galleries and private collections).

 

A to Z lettered signed editions are only $99. 1 to 100 numbered signed iditions are only $69.

please add $10 for usa shipping and $25 for international shipping.

 

any questions email Ron @ tmopinsight@yahoo.com. cell 502 475 7772.

 

please send cash or check or money order or international mondey order payable to:

Nancy Bruner Wilson

919 Cherokee Road

Louisville, Kentucky 40204

land phone 502 456 6168

cell phone 502 263 9172

 

the 2nd poster, we'll release one each month, is a new poem by Ron titled

"April in the railroad yellow green Kentucky rain jonquil spring" and features a beautiful yellow green bouquet of jonquils painted by Howard.

 

the 3rd poster is Ron's "The Shape of Water" poem accompanied by an amazing full color painting by Howard Wilson.

 

the 4th poster is Ron's "listen" poem (updated) accompanied by an incredible original howard tao sand painting mandala.

 

ok. that's it. word has already started to spread. orders coming in. make sure and be one of the lucky 126. we appreciate it. have fun.

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet, aha

3/09/11

Kentucky, where diamonds are created


 

listen

 

the roaring city

is the buddah's golden speech

the waves in the distance

are the buddah's pure luminous body

how many thousands of poems

how many songs

will flow through us tonight

and when the songbird sings at dawn

we won't be able

to repeat even one word

to repeat even one word

one word

listen

listen

listen

 

ron whitehead, aha

3/09/11

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:10:36 -0800 (PST)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: 1st ever International STORM GENERATION FESTIVAL ICELAND midsummer june 21/22/11



for Immediate Release

 

the 1st ever (maybe the only ever) International STORM GENERATION FESTIVAL

 

produced by Iceland's leading writer Olafur Gunnarsson (who i'm working to get nominated

for The Nobel Prize in Literature, Iceland's only other winner Haldor Laxness, i've read with his

beautiful wonderful poet grandaughter, and visited his beautiful historic home, i'm also working to get MEGAS, Iceland's genius singer/songwriter nominated, both of them deserver it, as do Kentucky's Wendell Berry & the most important living poet on planet today yes my friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti who, with my friend John Tytell's help, i got nominated for Nobel and he sure deserves it as do all of the aforementioned) 

and Kentucky Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead

 

tuesday/wednesday, june 21/22, 2011 midsummer, daylight 24/7

2pm to 2am Iceland time

Storra Klogg/Big Rock = 3 miles outside of/within view of/Reykjavik/busline runs there

also big beautiful beyond amazing view of Raven's Roost of Crystal River of The Viking Mountain

no cover, free camping

sign up asap to perform, this only 12-hour non-stop music spoken word all arts festival

sound system provided, tent and hot dogs too, byob & whatever makes you feel good

 

at end of 12-hour concert 2am i'll we'll whoever wants to join me will climb The Viking Mountain

the view is way beyond spectacular

at top of which, regardless of weather, i'll we'll read "The Storm Generation Manifesto" on spot

where this poem was fully birthed in May 2008

entire event will be filmed by Nick Storm & crew who be producing minimum 2-hour cinema verite

bio doc on me possibly entire 8-12 1-hour series for HBO (uncensored) & PBS (censored) plus

photographed, by Jen Burks & Jen Mitchell & Chad Erdley, for coffee table size book/cd/dvd all of which will be wrapped up in september with

tour performances throughout Ireland last of which will be Ron & Band featured at Clonkilty @ their Annual Guitar Festival where my

Sonic Youth friend Lee Ranaldo performed last year where Sarah Elizabeth and I performed a few years ago. 

such a beautiful place town club. meer dan woorden. more than words can describe. the beauty of

the people the place. same as Iceland.

 

on June 23rd i'll return to Louisiville, Kentucky to my homebase hermitage 4 doors from entrance to

Cave Hill Cemetary, 919 Cherokee Road 40204 cell 502 475 7772, so i can perform on september 24th

at new Avant-Garde Music Festival now working on putting together new group group that is ready to

go in all directions simultaneously spontaneously only rehearsals be live on stage listening be the greatest

are of all voice as David Amram, www.davidamram.com, has taught me over past two decades, is the #1

primary instrument all other instruments accompany the voice, that is of course if the music isn't all instrumental

and that fine too.

 

before Ireland, conclusion of filming photographing for Ron bio doc, Ron will be touring performing throughout]

USA Europe Africa India World coast to coast ghost to ghost interviewing performing reading presenting talks all for new

Nick Storm cinema verite bio doc on Ron.

keep up with constant updates on Nick Storm facebook Ron film site on

Ron's soon to be updated website www.tappingmyownphone.com and on his

facebook site and facebook fan and anti-fanclubs or email him at

tmopinsight@yahoo.com & ron@tappingmyownphone.com or

cell 502 475 7772 or visit practice hangoutology with him at his hermitage

(bring him red wine & whatever makes you feel good) at

919 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky usa, his homebase when not traveling

thanks. y'all have fun

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet and damn proud to be

 

 

 


 

listen

 

the roaring city

is the buddah's golden speech

the waves in the distance

are the buddah's pure luminous body

how many thousands of poems

how many songs

will flow through us tonight

and when the songbird sings at dawn

we won't be able

to repeat even one word

to repeat even one word

one word

listen

listen

listen

 

ron whitehead, aha

3/09/11

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 

 


 

listen

 

the roaring city

is the buddah's golden speech

the waves in the distance

are the buddah's pure luminous body

how many thousands of poems

how many songs

will flow through us tonight

and when the songbird sings at dawn

we won't be able

to repeat even one word

to repeat even one word

one word

listen

listen

listen

 

ron whitehead, aha

3/09/11

copyright (c) 2011 ron whitehead

 

Ron's newest book(20th)/cd(30th)/dvd(1st)/videos(4) THE STORM GENERATION MANIFESTO and on parting, the wilderness poems now available @ www.hollandbrownbooks.com

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

 





Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:30:40 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Fw: Hot Spring Fares and Other Cool Offers






 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 



Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:40:02 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: 3/19/11 FERLINGHETTI film/Ron performs/3 bands



saturday 3/19/11 7:30pm premiere FERLINGETTI 81-minute bio doc followed by brief Q&A w/Ron then 9-9:50 Ron performs works from new book PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER w/musical prodigy Atticus Coleman (cassettes available $12 each) event filmed & photographed Derby City Espresso then bands/Pumpkin Deathbelt/KOJI Says Run For Cover/The Foxery
 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 





Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:09:50 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron's 3/19/11 DCE show lineup &



saturday. march 19, 2011. derby city espresso.

7:30pm. 81minute Ferlinghetti bio doc followed by brief Q&A w/Ron.

9-9:50pm. Ron Whitehead & Eye of The Fuking Storm (music never heard before) perform works from

Ron's new PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER, the last great truthtellers, nada (Ron's newest 21st book 31st recording) plus handful of other works.

followed by 3 bands.

9-9:50 performance list:

1) i will lick your leprosy

2) greyhound into & outta tennessee

3) riding with rebel jesus, the wanderer

4) oh nameless

5) a thief

6) etching ourselves into being

7) new mexico

8) a ruin i

9) he dreams for the desert

10) zero tolerance, a sermon

11) talk to me

12) the storm generation manifesto

13) give me dark rum

 

45-50 minute set.

hope to see y'all there. gonna be wild intense lightninged passion
 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 

 


 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 





Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:38:34 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Japanese Waltz by Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson w/Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King



Japanese Waltz

 

by Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson

with Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King

 

I was waltzing with my darlin' to the Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear meltdown waltz

when an old friend I happened to see,

I introduced him to my loved one,

and while they were waltzing

my friend stole my sweetheart from me.

 

I remember the night and the Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear meltdown waltz.

Now I know just how much I have lost.

Yes I lost my little darlin' the night

they were playing the beautiful Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear meltdown apocalypse waltz.

 

I was waltzing with my darlin' to the Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear meltdown apocalypse

   pole shifting waltz

when an old friend I happened to see.

I introduced him to my loved one,

and while they were waltzing

my friend stole my sweetheart from me.

 

I remember the night and the Japanese earthquake tsunami nuclear meltdown pole shifting

   earth changing slow dancing never touching the ground with my dearest sweetheart

      lover never touching the ground slow dance floating gliding living loving dancing

         last call last dance apocalypse closing time Japanese nuclear meltdown poles

            shifting hold me my love my lover hold me tighter hold me close my love

               for our last waltz our last waltz let's waltz without touching the ground

Now I know just how much I have lost.

Yes I lost my little darlin' the night

they were playing the beautiful final last breath last Japanese waltz.

 

Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson

 

copyright (c) 2011 Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson with Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King
 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 


 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 





Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:57:50 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron films featured @ Logan Art & Film Festival/schedule/info





Hello fellow dreamers!
  LAFF is coming up and here is the film schedule.  This is the best
line-ups for the film festival ever.  The submissions are such a
variety that, unless you are a Kung-fu fan, you'll find something to
like.
  The festival is
April 30, starting at 1 p.m. on the Square in
Russellville, KY.  The films will be shown at the Democratic
headquarters starting at the same time.  I haven't listed the times
because I have been lazy.
  LAFF has a facebook page.  Just search for Logan Art and Film
Festival.  If you have any problems or any other questions let me
know. If you can make it to the festival, let me know as well so I can
plug.
  Thanks for submitting.
  Mark

    1. “This Too Shall Pass” by music video Mark Mitten (last year’s
Best of Show)
    2.  Shelia, the Dog Who Influenced Art  – Clyde James Aragon,
director -- Comedy about an Australian sheep dog who served as a muse
for the greatest artists.
  3.  Doctor Time Travel to the Rescue  – Clyde James Aragon,
director -- Comedy about  a doctor who discovers how to travel back in
time and cure many famous people allowing them to live longer than
they had before.  Aragon makes some of the cheapest films ever but
that isn’t a reflection on the quality.
  4.  Lilith – Erin Kelly and Jesse McDonald, creative force – A
Western about a bounty hunter who locates a young woman who may not be
mortal.  You’ll hope someday it will be expanded into a feature film.
  5.  A Mind Beside Itself – P. J. Starks, directors -- Drama about a
man who prefers living in a dream world than face reality.  Winner of
best tattoo on a lead actor.
  6.  Underserving – Craig Dehut, director -- Christian Science
Fiction parable of a man, with the ability to teleport, learning to
help a friend despite his heinous actions.  Filmed on location of the
much missed Shutterbug photography studio in Bowling Green, KY.
  7.  Love Naturally – Kim Kookendoffer, director – All of Darlene’s
friends and families are worried she’ll become a spinster and Darlene
makes the mistake of listening to them.  Very Steel Magnolia.
  8.  Films of Kristofer Rommel, director of the controversial
Waiting for Dopeman.  Only one of this talented filmmaker’s shorts has
been banned from playing in Russellville but see the rest.
    A Conservation – Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead in a discussion about art
with another Louisville poet in only the way Whitehead can.
    The Absurdist in the Café – pure enjoyable nonsense
    Last Winter – Thoughts of love and snow.
    Book Bindings:  Part Deux – Finding love through books.  Not just for
librarians.
    Happily Never After – Drama/comedy of a woman tried of her boyfriend.
He thinks of foreplay; she thinks of murder.
    Force of Will – A man comes to face the fact his best friend died.
    9.  Storm Generation Manifesto – Ron Whitehead, creative force --
Behind the scenes of Louisville Outlaw Poet Whitehead making his
latest book/CD.  Is this his last will and testament?
  10.  The Ghosts and Legends of North Logan County, KY – Musician
Charles Crafton recounts old tales around his home and plays a few
songs.  Crafton will be present to take questions or to question his
sanity.
    11. Hell is Full – Big Biting Pig production -- Horror/comedy
about zombies and those they bite.  If you haven’t seen a Big Biting
Pig film you are missing out on one of the hidden wonders of life.
Any filmmaker would kill to have its cast.
  (If time allows other films from Big Biting Pig will be played)


Mark Griffin
Logan County Public Library
201 West Sixth Street
Russellville, KY 42276
(270) 726-6129
www.loganlibrary.org

 

drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 















Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: sharing/private/from musician friend: yo Ron!



 

song of the whippoorwill

whippoorwill sing leave the world

of madmen live in the forest the forest forest

ron whitehead

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 





Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: sharing audio video more info on what's going on in Japan



Re-Edit of video Rage versus Tomodachi ~ sharing uodate.

From:

Roxanne Brousseau-Felio <spreadartrox@gmail.com>  View Contact

To:

Roxanne Brousseau-Felio <spreadartrox@gmail.com>

Hi, I received an exceptional request this morning which was honoured w/utmost respect for the artist re: the video Rage versus Tomodachi .

 

A sentence expressed by the artist in the sound bite needed to be deleted, unspoken concern on their behalf.

 

I have since re-edited and posted anew. The previous original has been deleted.

 

I only share with you as an example of the political climate we are witnessing that is ever changing in the moment. As artists and guardians of freedom of expression, we have the capacity to transcend limitations imposed on us and keep moving together creatively in a manner that affects positive directions for the greater good.

 

On a lighter note, I am happy to say, the original video had the most hits in the fewest days. Now re-posted with a re-newed version, counter begins at 0 and any comments that were made were also lost..

 

This is a small measure, still, If you can, I invite you to watch again, and consider sharing the newer version with likeminded people as time affords you. I know that for Takaki and José and their colleagues and loved ones, this film had a heartfelt and hopeful impact.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTBd4x2Qi8

 

Have a great day/night.

lv,

rX

 
Roxanne Brousseau-Félio, M.Ed, OCT.


 

letting go of all and everything

letting go

 

www.tappingmyownphone.com

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 





Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: sharing/private: Got the package!!





THANK YOU MY BROTHER & SISTER FRANK & VANESSA!!!!!!! i treasure your friendship and look fruward to all & everything!!!!! i'm ready cocked loaded as i know U R 2. love and friendship always, Brother Ron, in the terribly beautiful trenches of life of poetry.

p.s. gonna set up NYC shows for june 9th/10th/11th/12th then head to Iceland on 14th, from NYC, for interviews/performances/filming/photographing for new Ron bio doc & coffee table book then june 21st/22nd 1st ever International Storm Generation Festival. the NYC gigs gonna include Black Pig Liberation Front and Emilia Filocamo (from Ravella Italy. who has Messina Sicily connections. she'll be there w/her fiance) and possibly one other person. sure hope you all and Tyrone and Tony can make these gigs. we can talk. gonna cc all other folks involved on this email. call anytime. 502 475 7772. go Mets!!!!!!! Brother Ron
 

"It was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the Nation's wounds."" - Mark Twain, quoted in New York Times, January 13, 1907" 

502 475 7772 
tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 www.tappingmyownphone.com

facebook & fan clubs

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 




From: Frank Messina <frank@spokeface.com>
To: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 11:04:49 AM
Subject: Got the package!!

Ron,

 

I received the package. A horn-of-plenty of creativity!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much for sending this gift, a timeless gift we will cherish forever. Vanessa and I dug through its contents like kids around a Christmas tree. Everything from the grassroots note written on the water-colored paper, the beautiful Never Give Up scroll, with Howard's artwork. Great design, haven't seen anything like this since I was in Florence, Italy, where a group of artisans still use the ancient papyrus methods to print their books, poems, stuff Dante would use. Or might have been when I was wandering, in another life, by the Ponte Vecchio. This is just great! And the book, well shit  Prayers for the Modern Day Traveler is pure genius, pure rugged Kentucky down home Americana genius. In an age when people are saturated and quietly annihilated by the garbage heap that gets passed off as technology, this book is BANG-BANG shoot em up refreshing. Because when the shit hits the fan, when the lights go out, when the music's over and God casts his hand and wipes us clean from the great big ball spinning spinning free, people won't have a blackberry, a laptop, a Global Positioning System, a twitter account, just smoke signals, maybe a candle, and through the nuclear war fallout dust, Prayers for the Modern Traveler will shine as a beacon of light. And it does!

 

 

Your Ancient Friend,

Frank Messina

 

 

ps: these gems go into the permanent Messina Archives.



Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:01:36 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Beat News You Can Use! including info on four new films



Beat News You Can Use!

1).  Ralph Metzner at The Beat Museum
Wednesday Evening 4/6/11 - 7-9 pm
2).  Eric Drooker at Five Points Art House
Friday April 15th - 7:30 pm
3).  Free University Classes at The Beat Museum Start
Sunday April 10th
4).  Movie News - FOUR Upcoming Films!
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1).  PSYCHEDELICS, CONSCIOUSNESS and COUNTERCULTURE with RALPH METZNER
As a graduate student, Ralph worked with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) on the Harvard Psilocybin Projects. He co-wrote The Psychedelic Experience, and was editor of The Psychedelic Review.  Today Ralph maintains a part-time psychotherapy practice and conducts numerous workshops on consciousness transformation, both nationally and internationally. His books include The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology, and two edited collections on the science and the phenomenology of Ayahuasca and Teonanácatl.

Wednesday, April 6th 7-9pm - Free
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
San Francisco, CA

See our events page for more info:
http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/events.htm
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2).  ERIC DROOKER at FIVEPOINTS ARTHOUSE IN SOMA SF - Friday April 15th 7:30
Beat fans know Eric Drooker as a friend of Allen Ginsberg's who illustrated Illuminated Poems back in the 1990s and most recently as the animator for the film version of Howl released last year.  Outside the Beat world Drooker has a tremendous body of work as painter, graphic novelist and illustrator.  His distinct style has graced the cover of the New Yorker magazine many times.

Eric will be a guest of Free University at the Fivepoints Arthouse.  There will be a slide lecture titled "The Magic Realism of Eric Drooker" and he will accompany himself musically.

Friday, April 15th - 7:30 pm
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama Street
San Francisco, CA

http://www.drooker.com/
http://freeuniversitysf.org/
http://fivepointsarthouse.com/
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3).  FREE UNIVERSITY CLASSES START THIS SUNDAY at THE BEAT MUSEUM - 5-9 pm

The Beat Museum has partnered with Free University SF to bring you two terrific offerings.  The sessions will run back to back for five Sundays in a row.  Come for one of come for both.  It's Free University so, of course, it's Free!

AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
540 Broadway, North Beach

OUTSIDER WRITERS FROM DOSTOYEVSKY TO BUKOWSKI
An examination of the outsider in literature from the French avant garde to The Beats to Bukowski  Examines Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Alfred Jarry, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg and many others.  Also includes student writing experiments.
Instructor Alan Kaufman
Sundays, 5-7 PM, April 10-May 8

WRITING BEYOND THE INFLUENCE
A participatory workshop style environment where attendees will explore radical new modes of writing in both poetry and prose.
Instructor Bobby Coleman
Sundays, 7-9 PM, April 10-May 8

http://freeuniversitysf.org/classes/
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4).  UPDATES ON FOUR UPCOMING MOVIES!
There's a lot of moviemaking concerning The Beat Generation happening these days.

    - Love Always, Carolyn
    - Big Joy
    - On the Road
    - Kerouac Slept Here


4a).  LOVE ALWAYS, CAROLYN PREMIERS AT TRIBECCA
A few years ago two Swedish film makers, Maria Ramström and Malin Korkeasalo, came to The Beat Museum to film a Carolyn Cassady event.  Turns out they were making a documentary on Carolyn and the 70 minute film will be premiering in New York later this month and then screened again a week later in Toronto.  The entire Cassady family is in the movie and the trailer looks great.

Screenings:  New York April 23rd, 25th, 26th
                  Toronto May 3rd, 5th, 8th

Love Always, Carolyn website:
http://www.wgfilm.com/english/productions/productions/LoveAlwaysCarolyn/
Tribeca Film Festival website:
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/love_always_carolyn-film36325.html?c=y&3301=170181&curView=browseDetail&sortBy=title
HotDocs Toronto website:
http://www.hotdocs.ca//film/title/love_always_carolyn_-_a_film_about_kerouac_cassady_and_me
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4b).  Big Joy -
The Big Joy Project is a film about the power of art to change lives.  It uses the life of poet and filmmaker James Broughton as a lens.  Broughton wasn't a Beat but he certainly influenced the Beats.  He was a Kenneth Rexroth type character, already established on the scene in SF by the time the Beats showed up in the early 1950s.  Take a look at the trailer - Ferlinghetti, Armistead Maupin, Jack and Adelle Foley are all in there.  I attended a fund raiser recently where they screened some of the footage and this movie is going to be great.  Visit their Kickstarter site and make a donation if you're inclined.

Big Joy website:
http://bigjoy.org/
Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525443340/big-joy-project
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4c).  NEW ON THE ROAD MOVIE STILL RECENTLY RELEASED.
MK2 just released another promotion still for On The Road.  It's gonna knock your socks off!

'Nuff said.

http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/otr-movie-photos/cassady-mexico-whorehouse.html
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4d).  JACK KEROUAC SLEPT HERE PREMIERS IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA
David Amram sent us an email a week ago alerting us to a new documentary that will be having it's world premier this weekend.

"Jack Kerouac Slept Here" is the untold story of the writer's life in Orlando, as well as the next generation of writers who will sleep where Jack once slept. Film makers Gus Mollasis and Mark Reese capture the spirit of the house in Orlando, Florida where Kerouac lived and which today functions as a writer's retreat.

Per David Amram:  "I am happy that my participation as the  composer for the score and as an interviewee enabled me to be a small part of a fine work that I can show to my grandchildren some day!  They will be able to see Joyce Johnson, Carolyn Cassady and Lawrence Ferlinghetti speak about a great artist and wonderful man with whom they had a real relationship, and also hear from Bob Kealing and poet Frank Messina who are new voices sharing their feelings about the work of an artist they respect and champion."

Two Screenings In Sarasota, Florida
Saturday, April 9th - 2:00 pm
Sunday, April 10th - 2:00 pm

Details:
http://filmguide.sarasotafilmfestival.com/tixSYS/2011/xslguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=1033
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Whew!

- Til next time!

Jerry Cimino
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
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http://www.kerouac.com/homepage.htm



 

"It was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the Nation's wounds."" - Mark Twain, quoted in New York Times, January 13, 1907" 

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 05:53:04 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: decided to move Storm Generation Festival to Kentucky's Natural Bridge still summer equinox





hello folks! for various reasons i've decided to move 1st ever International Storm Generation Festival to Kentucky's Natural Bridge State Park. still be summer equinox. time change. june 21st noon till midnight.
still plan on doing NYC shows june 9th & 10th & 11th & 12th. working today and tomorrow to set those up. gotta figure out place to stay.

still doing Florida shows April & May. soon as i get word from Frank Messina i'll get word out on those.

also. Jen Burks (possibly one other) will be taking six week canoe trip from Louisville Kentucky to New Orleans. Ohio & Mississippi Rivers. working to set dates.

also. April 21st to 25th. Nick Storm and I (& possibly couple others) headed to Denver/Aspen/Woody Creek/Owl Farm to film various locations plus film/interview Anita Thompson for bio doc Nick's producing on me/my work.

also. planning at least one Europe Tour. september. maybe some of august. that should wrap up Nick Storm's film work for bio doc. which he's already way into. any questions/comments please let me hear from you. thanks. have fun.

Ron, outlaw poet and damn proud to be

  

"It was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the Nation's wounds."" - Mark Twain, quoted in New York Times, January 13, 1907" 

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:56:52 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Steve Earle & others honor Lawrence Ferlinghetti



Tom Waits And Other Artists Honor Poet Ferlinghetti



(pic by
Cynthia Wood)
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival kicked off its 2010 festival by honoring the original paperback bohemian,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (and City Lights Booksellers), with its Barbary Coast Award for his contribution to Bay Area Arts and letters on Saturday, October 2. Those lucky enough to get tickets to the sold out night at the Herbst Theater enjoyed an unforgettable and only-in-San Francisco style event that featured poets, writers, illustrators, beat-era survivors like Michael McClure, as well as musicians Patti Smith, Steve Earle and Tom Waits.
While Steve Earle gave a heartfelt thank you to Lawrence for allowing him and others of his generation to be born into a world that never had to exist without the poem Howl, both Patti and Tom performed. Smith began by tipping her hat to Lou Reed’s Coney Island Baby, before segueing into her own composition, Wing, while Waits performed Ferlinghetti’s Coney Island of the Mind, sung while he played the piano, accompanied by the
Marcus Shelby Quartet. In the green room prior, Smith and Waits reminisced about when they last saw each other, agreeing that indeed it might have been 1975. From left to right, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, and Steve Earle. Photo credit: Cynthia Wood Photography. More info at www.litquake.org


 

"It was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half way between the lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton planter, regarding the distant Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother and brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the evil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in its hardly less baneful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew how human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. And this man, sprung from Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to an Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the Nation's wounds."" - Mark Twain, quoted in New York Times, January 13, 1907" 

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:33:01 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron Whitehead's gigs/tours/films abbreviated



hitchhike 4/20-26 Owl Farm Colorado film Anita Thompson/Tyrone Cotton&I Florida 4/30-5/08 nonstop performances w/brother NY Mets Poet Frank Messina Tyrone & I recving award Jack Kerouac House Orlando filmed The Southern Discomfort Tour 6/9-12 NYC shows 6/21 Storm Generation Festival Natural Bridge/6?27 6-week solo Ohio/Mississippi/Gulf of Mexico canoe trip/AugustSeptember Europe Tour complete filming Nick Storm doc
 

"We have what we seek it is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself

known to us not that we discover a new unity we discover an older unity we are already

one but we imagine that we are not and what we have to recover is our original unity

what we have to recover is what we are."   Thomas Merton

 

"The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day."

Aeschylus

 

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:06:48 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: announcing The Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Anthony Broy/Ron Whitehead


5/1 Timucua White House, Orlando, FL. Live Concert featuring Blues great Tyrone Cotton, Kentucky legend Ron Whitehead and Frank Messina with Special Musical Guests. 7:30PM. Timucua White House, 2000 S. Summerlin Avenue, Orlando FL. Don't Miss this special event. Limited Seating & Standing Room. This show will sell out. Early Arrivals suggested. 407-595-2713.
 
5/4 WPRK 91.5 Radio, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. Frank Messina, blues great Tyrone Cotton, Kentucky legend Ron Whitehead and former SEC Examiner & Wall Street maverick Anthony Broy discuss why art matters in a world of greed, bad politics and revolution. Hosted by Front Porch Radio, Rollins College Campus.
5/7 University of Hangoutology Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com

 

5/8 University of Hangoutology, Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. Cape Coral Florida. Limited Seating. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com .


more dates to be announced in next couple days. hope to see y'all there. have fun.

thanks


 

"peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" Thomas Jefferson

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible...Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of [the world], entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of [world] ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?" George Washington

 

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:06:41 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: introducing the Published in TAO Poster Series 26 handmade limited edition $20 each


introducing the Published in TAO Poster Series 26 handmade limited edition art uniquely different on each poster all signed and lettered only $20 each bringing out one edition per month sign up now get on the list filling up fast 

 

Ron Whitehead & Howard Wilson have launched Published in TAO

 

for Published in Heaven, The Global Literary Renaissance, & The Moving Mystery Theatre

a DiY Do it Yourself Production

 

all publications are handmade limited edition highest museum quality unlike anything ever produced.

each of the limited run 26 (only) posters are uniquely original each totally different

each run limited to 26 lettered (A to Z) & signed

 

the 1st poster, Never Give Up by His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Ron Whitehead with art by Howard Wilson, was released  March 2011. we are now filling & accepting orders. the list is filling up fast. we want 26 folks who agree to be on the list for each month's new release. many of the poems will be by Ron Whitehead. all the art and handmade museum quality poster production will be by Master Appalachian Kentucky Artist Howard Wilson. each poster, altho worth hundreds/thousands, will be priced at $20 plus shipping. we want everyone to be able to afford these works of timeless art.

 

the 2nd poster, just completed, is titled The Shape of Water. poem by Ron Whitehead, artwork by Howard Wilson.

 

many of the posters, in the Published in TAO Poster Series, will include work by some of the world's most famous/infamous poets/writers/musicians/cultural leaders. 

 

we've intentionally kept prices reasonable for museum quality limitied edition works (Ron's work goes for hundreds and thousands of dollars round the world & is included in the collections of major museums libraries galleries & private collections round the world).

 

any questions email Ron @ tmopinsight@yahoo.com. cell 502 475 7772.

 

please send cash or check or money order or international money order payable to:

Nancy Bruner Wilson

919 Cherokee Road

Louisville, Kentucky 40204

land phone 502 456 6168

cell phone 502 263 9172

 

word has started to spread. orders coming in. make sure & be one of the lucky 26. we appreciate it. have fun.

Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet, aha

spring 2011

Kentucky, where diamonds are created

 

p.s. besides the $20 for each poster please include $5 for USA shipping and $15 for international shipping. thanks.


drivin w/left knee big sky country desert winds windows down beautiful naked woman straddlin my lap music vibratin our atoms car's atoms never slower than 110mph jackrabbits tumbleweed purple mountains dry lightnin distant thunder moonshine daytime coast to coast ghost to ghost flyin till wheels fall off & burn headed big sur listen fish talk

   ron whitehead 


 

Joe Costa (Kentucky): "My God. I do wonder and admire how Ron Whitehead writes without injury? Such a constant frenzy. Such disregard. Whitehead is the lumberjack of American poetry. He writes with a chainsaw!" 

 

Marty Messex (Kentucky): "You know I love my WFPK (91.9fm www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville), but the best radio station in the world is right here on Brother Ron's facebook page, by gawd! Always love your tuneage, Ron. And keep on throwing those thunderbolts."

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Joe Costa (Kentucky): "My God. I do wonder and admire how Ron Whitehead writes without injury? Such a constant frenzy. Such disregard. Whitehead is the lumberjack of American poetry. He writes with a chainsaw!" 

 

Marty Messex (Kentucky): "You know I love my WFPK (91.9fm www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville), but the best radio station in the world is right here on Brother Ron's facebook page, by gawd! Always love your tuneage, Ron. And keep on throwing those thunderbolts."

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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:14:33 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Press Release for Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Ron Whitehead



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

Date: April, 2011
Subject: Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton, Frank Messina, Ron Whitehead
Dates of Events:
May 1-8, 2011

 

Legendary Kentucky poet Ron Whitehead once again teams up with New York spoken word artist Frank Messina and blues great Tyrone Cotton for a stretch of performances deep in the Sunshine State.

 

Ron Whitehead is one of the most famous poets in America in the world. He is the author of 21 books including Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon and Western Kentucky: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered and 31 CD titles including the classic "Tapping My Own Phone" and "I Will Not Bow Down."

 

Crowned "a classic" by the New York Times, Frank Messina is the author of Disorderly Conduct, and Full Count: The Book of Mets Poetry which sold over 60,000 copies since 2009. He's performed his signature spoken word and music performances in over a dozen countries and all across America. 

 

Tyrone Cotton is steeped in the blues, mixing folk, gospel, jazz, and pop to make American music which has been compared to Tom Waits, Dylan, Ray LaMontagne, and Johnny Cash. He has shared the stage with the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama, Johnny Winter, Jolie Holland, and Grammy nominated artist James Hunter.

 

The three artists hit the road together in 2006 for their Wanderer Tour to packed venues and rave reviews. The Southern Discomfort Tour in sunny Florida will be joined by special guest poets and musicians including former Wall Street maverick and poet Anthony Broy with dates in Orlando, Gainesville and Cape Coral.

 

Dates:

 

May 1, Timucua White House, Orlando, FL., 2000 S. Summerlin Ave, Orlando, FL, 7:30PM 407-595-2713

 

May 3, Dandelion CommuniTea Cafe, 618 Thornton Ave, Orlando, FL., 8:00PM

 

May 4, WPRK 91.5 Radio, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. Hosted by Julie Norris, Front Porch Radio, Rollins College Campus. 4:00PM.

 

May 5, Civic Media Center, Gainesville, FL. 8:00PM. 433 S. Main St, Gainesville, FL, 32601, 352-373-0010

 

May 7, University of Hangoutology, Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com.

 

May 8, University of Hangoutology, Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com

 

here are a few Testimonials regarding Ron Whitehead and his work:


Ron's poetry, prose, and multitudinos other writings have appeared round the world in a spectrum of journals, magazines, anthologies, newspapers, posters, CDs, cassettes, vinyl, chapbooks, zines, books, literary, music, videos, documentaries, films & arts publications. Below, you will find a few, of the many, quotes and testimonials, from folks round the world, regarding Ron and his work:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights, San Fransisco): "Ron Whitehead is a real visionary!"

Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado): "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia): "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest poet prophets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read here at Granada Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival!"

Cameron Crowe & Nancy Wilson (California): "We love Ron and Sarah Whitehead's WESTERN KENTUCKY masterpiece...and Sarah Elizabeth's stunning music...Ron Whitehead is a genius...Ron and Sarah are quite the inspiring couple..."

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead is already acknowledged by many of his Elders to be a Major Literary Figure and the epitome of the work ethic! Ron and I have collaborated, recorded and performed at major festivals and universities all over the USA and Europe. Ron Whitehead is an extraordinary motivator who inspires young people to pursue the highest standards, to work tirelessly and to celebrate the intellect by constant study of Classic Literature while remaining Creative. At 73, I continue to learn from him."

Blanca Castellon (Nicaragua): "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our 2009 Granada Nicaragua International Poetry Festival."

 

Frank Messina (NYC/New Jersey): "Ron,I received the package. A horn-of-plenty of creativity!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much for sending this gift, a timeless gift we will cherish forever. Vanessa and I dug through its contents like kids around a Christmas tree. Everything from the grassroots note written on the water-colored paper, the beautiful Never Give Up scroll, with Howard's artwork. Great design, haven't seen anything like this since I was in Florence, Italy, where a group of artisans still use the ancient papyrus methods to print their books, poems, stuff Dante would use. Or might have been when I was wandering, in another life, by the Ponte Vecchio. This is just great! And the book, well shit  Prayers for the Modern Day Traveler is pure genius, pure rugged Kentucky down home Americana genius. In an age when people are saturated and quietly annihilated by the garbage heap that gets passed off as technology, this book is BANG-BANG shoot em up refreshing. Because when the shit hits the fan, when the lights go out, when the music's over and God casts his hand and wipes us clean from the great big ball spinning spinning free, people won't have a blackberry, a laptop, a Global Positioning System, a twitter account, just smoke signals, maybe a candle, and through the nuclear war fallout dust, Prayers for the Modern Traveler will shine as a beacon of light. And it does!

Your Ancient Friend,

Frank Messina

ps: these gems go into the permanent Messina Archives."


Joe Costa (Kentucky): "My God. I do wonder and admire how Ron Whitehead writes without injury? Such a constant frenzy. Such disregard. Whitehead is the lumberjack of American poetry. He writes with a chainsaw!" 

 

Bruce Hodder (England): "all you people out there with an interest in poetry as it's being written NOW by people who are bringing style and passion and innovation to the craft would do yourselves a BIG favour if you googled the name of Ron Whitehead and had a look at what he's been doing these past few years." 


Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead transends even the devestatingly hard lessons of our times and speaks to the only true lessons, the eternal ones. He cuts right through the chaos that comprises our chattering thoughts. Ron Whitehead asks: Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich? Art IS the Holy Grail. And at the deepest primal level, everybody knows it. Only a few, like Ron Whitehead, can perceive it as clearly and communicate it while in his incarnate human being."

Frank Messina (New York): "Ron Whitehead is one of my closest allies. He is a man of wisdom and tolerance. Ron and I debate over political issues, and sometimes he's even right. But, in the end, we're still friends. There is only one man I want to fight along my side in the trenches of life and his name is Ron Whitehead. He is one of the last warriors left in America."

Carolyn Cassady (England): "I had heard people talk about Ron Whitehead for years so when I heard him read at The Ocean on the last night of the London International Poetry and Song Festival I understood why. His poems, and his reading of them, are pure genius."

Annalisa Papaleo (Italy): "Ron Whitehead is an alchemist of language, a magician of poetry, a King of Words...I am honored to translate his work into Italian."

John Rocco (New York): "In BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON: fragments of a lost text, Ron Whitehead is 'the great rememberer' and 'the great experiencer'...a scintillating portrait...a Bildungsroman...in which each memory becomes charged with his history and the embrace of his subject...capturing the memory of what Ginsberg calls 'Mortal' America...and Whitehead's new CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a mercurial collection which features some of the 'fragments' that appear in the novel."

John Tytell (New York): "With The Declaration of Independence This Time: Selected Poems 1996-2000, Ron Whitehead has a brave powerful book and the voice to carry it."

Zen Master Dae Gak (Korea): "Ron Whitehead is Angry tender hearted Poet lover Who, Ripped open by life's Sharp, diamond caesarean Edge, Emerges, awake, alive, Shaking blood and tissue. Howling at the, with a shriek, Morning sun AAAAAGH!!!!!!!"

Theo Dorgan (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead is a one man Atlantic bridge."

Marty Messex (Kentucky): "You know I love my WFPK (91.9fm www.wfpk.org Radio Louisville), but the best radio station in the world is right here on Brother Ron's facebook page, by gawd! Always love your tuneage, Ron. And keep on throwing those thunderbolts."

 

Eimear O'Connor (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's words travelled at high speed Along the Liffey and out into the sea...mesmerised By the motion Of emotion...Something magic Happened over the Winding Stair Above the streets, Closer to the stars."

Vincent McWilliams (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's poetry is like a fast train coming."

David Amram (New York): "At the dawn of the 21st Century our young people have few role models of distinction and even fewer people close to their own age to look up to. Ron Whitehead gives hope to our artistic and intellectual future and gives our young people someone to look up to and emulate. Having worked with Ron many times, round the world, I can only share my amazement at his genius-level ability to organize and create memorable events that make all involved feel inspired to do their best. His own brilliance as a poet is matched by his dynamism, integrity and ability to communicate with anybody and everybody. I am honored to work with him anytime he ever needs me."

Lee Ranaldo (New York): "Ron Whitehead's TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is superb!"

Michael Pollock (Iceland): "Ron Whitehead is The World Ambassador of Poetry."

Karel Srp (Czeck Republic): "The ARTFORUM '98 Exhibition of Ron Whitehead's important work, both his and his work as Director of The Literary Renaissance, was a big hit and a huge success. It is very important for us to see, through poetry and art, the situation in USA and round the world. Through Ron's work we see. Now all his work is in our archives. The people of Prague can continue to see. We are proud. It is important for us. Thank YOU!"

Lana Witt (California): "Ron Whitehead is amazing. I've seldom known poetry to rise to the honesty, stubborness, and energy of what came charging straight at me in his CD TAPPING MY OWN PHONE."

Frank Messina (New York): "Listening to TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is like tapping into an oil well of inspiration; a poetic horn of plenty where the flavor of American political angst and true Kentuckian local color shoots its way straight to the soul. Ron Whitehead is at least Chaucer's equal. The BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is a Masterpiece better than THE CANTERBURY TALES. Three cheers to Ron Whitehead!"

Kevin Ring (England): "Ron Whitehead explodes in a tirade aimed at pulling down all the garbage that society holds dear: rampant commercialism, couldn't care lessism. If the President thinks he's got trouble with Ms Lewinsky then he'd better watch out for Ron as he gives us the REAL AMERICA."

Frederick Smock (Kentucky): "BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON achieves an urgency and immediacy that is truly poetic."

Jordan Green (North Carolina): "Ron Whitehead is the incantatory, subversive bard of Kentucky. He is a poet with higher vision and higher frequency tuning. He has a performance style learned from his Pentecostal preacher grandfather but which also takes the best from the oral poetic style of the Beats. Ron is an energy force that encourages articulation and voice, that makes young people proud to be part of something. His voice cuts through the rough reality of his western Kentucky coal mining roots and reaches for a higher cosmic grace. Ron has produced over 400 readings and INSOMNIACATHONs and has read all over Europe and the USA. At the age of 48, with a family to support and complete commitment to his craft, Ron Whitehead will get in a car or on a plane anytime and travel anywhere he's asked to give a reading."

Miguel Moors (Belgium): "Ron Whitehead dissects American Society with a butcher knife."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."

Bob Holman (New York): "And now it was like a cyclone hit that stage - Ron Whitehead is screeding a poem with an 8-piece orchestra toodling out sounds by Jeremy Podgursky, amazing, high energy, a battle for soul!"

Anastasios Kozaitis (New York): "Ron Whitehead is the most engaged poetry activist in the United States of America!"

Al Aronowitz (New York): "An autobiographical gem that marks compassion and defiance as the touchstones of heroic myth in the coming-of-age of a young man in the western Kentucky coal fields. Ron Whitehead is one of the greatest poets of our time."

Paul McDonald (Indonesia): "Ron Whitehead has the gift of perceiving the divine in the ordinary. His work is always at least exciting if not magical. It is simultaneously hard-bitten, stark and urban while containing a gentle, pastoral lyricism all of which is always compelling. His work is a dharma gate that must be entered, a magnificent Zen koan where the question and answer lie hidden in the experience."

Rene Hendrix (The Netherlands): "William S. Burroughs and Ron Whitehead, in a series of dreams, taught me how to save the world."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead has been working so hard all his life, has climbed the equivalent of a hundred Mount Everests for poetry, music, integration, inclusion, non-specialization, LOVE and the advancement of humankind. No one else who I know has the endurance and capacity and generosity of spirit (except for David Amram who shares these qualities) to achieve what he is achieving. Ron is clearly chosen for the work that he is doing, and it is a ray of clarity and grace that shines from his being. HIS GIANT HEART IS SINGING!"

Jan Pankow (The Netherlands): "Ron Whitehead's poems are a magnetic field of poetry energy: encounters, viewpoints, and facts of life mingling with emotions, dreams, and visions."

Robert Lax (Greece): "Ron Whitehead's "Moxley and Eirene" worked its way into one of my just-before-waking dreams last night. The whole story. And yes, naturally I'm ready to endorse all he says in I Will NOT BOW DOWN, too!"

Douglas Brinkley (Texas): "Ron Whitehead is one of the most exciting poets in America. Poet and literary activist, he is one of the great poets of his generation."

Tenzin Geyche Tethong, Secretary to His Holiness The Dalai Lama (India): "Ron Whitehead, His Holiness The Dalai Lama thanks you and offers his blessing and permission for you to create a poster of his message to you which you have written in the form of a poem. I would like to express my personal appreciation to you. Your poem for of His Holiness's message is extremely powerful and moving. I am confident that it will inspire many."

Robert Hunter (California): "Ron Whitehead's energy and important work never fail to amaze me!"

Diane di Prima (California): "Ron Whitehead, Fellow traveller riding the winds of change between worlds, in the thick of the creative process, Bon voyage! I enjoyed EVE AND THE OPHIDIANS. "White Horses" is really strong!"

Bob Holman (New York): "Spoken word at its purest and most fulfilling. Ron's combination of full drawl, magnolia sweet and Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer's blue hot rage, vitally fashions a new post in the American ear."

Jim Carroll (New York): "Love, Angelic Orders, and Blessings on Ron Whitehead's good work!"

David Amram (New York): "There were over 300 poets and musicians. Ron Whitehead was the highlight of the New York City festival. When he read I was knocked out! I marveled at the talent he possessed! He captures the spirit of the South in his poetry!"

Eithne Strong (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead's dazzling energetic work, his poetry and his prose never cease to impress and astonish!"

Allen Ginsberg (New York): "Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!"

Harper Tobin (Washington, D.C.): "Ron Whitehead's BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON is no cheesy nostalgia trip. Anyone familiar with Whitehead's work knows better. He gives achingly real portraits of Beaver Dam's inhabitants, offering up the disturbing as well as the beautiful, the ugly as well as the quaint. His style shifts from page to page always capturing the reader, evoking the spirit of defiance and hope that is the heart of this literary treasure...Why isn't Ron Whitehead already a household name?! His TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is a gem. Ron reads as if any breath could be his last. He captures the world in all its beauty, corruption, and potential. I cannot recommend his work highly enough!"

Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is the most extraordinary teacher-scholar it has been my great good fortune to know over a career spanning thirty seven years. His success in encouraging students, to express themselves and grow as students, is unrivalled."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (California): "Ce Ron Whitehead est un brave type! Il a ecrit un poem autobiographique que est epatant...sur San Francisco et un certain fer-ling-g hetti...Qui est? Ron Whitehead is Bodhisattva in Kentucky!"

Seamus Heaney (Ireland): "Ron Whitehead, the only begettor of all this, is here for good!"

Colin Cooper (England): "Ron Whitehead lives at 100 miles an hour judging from his book of poetry...like Ferlinghetti...he's a rabble rouser and wildly romantic and we need plenty of those...the book is illustrated by full colour paintings by Ferlinghetti...Fit him alongside Gary Snyder for wit and insight...certain to shake up the old guard."

Bob Edwards (Washington D.C.): "I LOVE Ron Whitehead's "The Coal Miner(I & II)" and "Moxley and Eirene!"

Denis Mahoney (Rhode Island): "These past months I have read Ron Whitehead's BLOOD FILLED VESSELS RACING TO THE HEART: Beyond Chaos is The Ocean of Consciousness several times. What a remarkable work it is! It's subtle (and not too) back and forth gestures and movements and openings and its Placement! I wish he would continue this work! This is the direction that people need to See towards, be, at least, opened to. Thank You Ron Whitehead for The Work!"


Danny O'Bryan (Kentucky): "The Great White Light, Whitehead that is, swept over The College last night with a round of passionate posey mined directly from his ever raucous life. Mentioning notables like Amiri Baraka and The Dalai Lama - illustrious heroes many of the role-model-starved students probably never heard of - the poet quickly had them under his spell. The man, who always wears his life on his sleeve for everyone to gawk at, flexed his tattoo covered arms at the scribes "I might be skinny but look at those muscles!" and spit out tales of Kentucky rocking chair competitions and wild family antics that made "Do You Want To Be A Millionaire" look life watching paint dry. Certainly all present learned an important lesson: It doesn't hurt to celebrate life in all its painful and joyful manifestations!...Ron Whitehead, a virtual P.T. Barnum of Poetry, is on a one-man crusade to change the consciousness of the world through poetry and music...Whitehead and his non-porfit organization The Literary Renaissance launched a series of multimedia INSOMNIACATHONs (Temporary Autonomous Zones): 48-hour marathons of poetry and music and art and film (all the Arts), similar to Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters minus the bus, attracting large audiences and worldwide attention...This led Whitehead to take his traveling magic mystery theatre on the road to New York City and New Orleans (where the TIMES-PICAYUNE named his INSOMNIACATHON 1996 "Arts Event of The Year") and The Netherlands and numerous other cities states and countries...Never one to separate art from show biz or politics (or newcomers from old-timers) Whitehead assembled an odd cast of characters for his Hunter S. Thompson "This is Your Life" Tribute which the NEW YORK TIMES called "a beautiful literary last waltz." The event included actor Johnny Depp, musician Warren Zevon, socialite Roxanne Pulitzer, historian Douglas Brinkley, world musician composer David Amram, the Sheriff of Pitkin County (Aspen), former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane, Hunter's Mother Virginia, his son Juan, and a host of others including a bluegrass band. Everyone at the SRO event closed out the night standing singing "My Old Kentucky Home."

Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "I got to know Ron Whitehead's I WILL NOT BOW DOWN: Selected Poems 1990-1995 well and from it I feel an understanding for some of what Ron has been doing in the world. The physicality of which is astonishing - but that doesn't even compare with what kind of alchemy is happening on the mental levels. Ron Whitehead is Shaman and Shamas (the candle that lights other candles) contributing to, directing, promoting, integrating, expanding, and possibly healing the consciousness of an artistic body of thought that sure does need help to go to the next level, which I believe has something to do with the heart region. And if I might prophesize, I think that Ron will be seen as one of the great poets of our generation, which I believe spans about 50 years. The kids of tomorrow's wasteland are really going to need him. Just like we need Patchen and Kerouac. Those guys changed and saved my life."

John Tytell (New York): "Ron Whitehead reminds me of Corso...early Yeats in the Celtic Twilight...Ferlinghetti...Ginsberg...spontaneous transcription emerging in a tumultuous rush...infused with Whitehead's belief in the magical transformations implicit in poetry, with the music of the poem serving as chant, incantation, ultimately pagan prayer...the same can be said for the poetry rants (Insomniacathons) Whitehead has been organizing around the country, non-stop marathon readings."

David Amram (New York): "The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt."

Thomas Nord (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead eats, sleeps, and breathes poetry."

Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland): "The London International Poetry & Song Festival's response to Ron Whitehead's I WILL NOT BOW DOWN was Incredible POWERFULL it felt like a bomb hit The Ocean...people were yellin, clappin, sayin YEAH others riveted wide eyed to their seats...i stood at the back of the room up on some stairs to get an eagle eye view of this poem which I consider along with LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman and HOWL by Allen Ginsberg and THANKSGIVING PRAYER by William S. Burroughs to be one of the GREAT American poems of All Times. I WILL NOT BOW DOWN and ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER capture the voice/heart/spirit of later 20th Century and on better than anything I've heard!"

Nick Obis (Ohio): "Ron Whitehead, I thank you and Quincey Troupe for headlining the University of Dayton's 2nd Annual Literature Conference, 2002. Friday evening was nothing short of astounding - certainly like nothing my students had ever heard! I heard so many wonderful comments from them in the following days and weeks about all the various aspects of your performance, with your group The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue. I too can still hear the Icelandic rapping, the ambient music, and the powerful words; it was a staggering, moving experience; I don't think I have ever seen anyone, anywhere, break dance at a poetry reading! But what moved me more than the poetry and music was your patience, kindness, and understanding. I was so nervous before the festival, and so relieved by your sympathy and easygoingness. You are truly a remarkable person with a remarkable group. Thanks for teaching me to "never give up!"

Denis Mahoney (Rhode Island): "Ron Whitehead has the goods and is the last and forward maker of the fire breather preacher with the text written new across the starry night. I can picture him reading poems with snakes crawling out of his mouth and nostrils, like those maniacs who work the snakes for Jesus, turning to medusa flames, the fork filled flavor flick fuck tongue is two words split into a thousand pieces of black and white sand and delivered like a Sioux death chant, a new ghost dance to live and rise out of the ashes. Ron's word is poet breath, new creation out of decay, intentions are color worlds, filled with color, every tint is blow breath glass and I keep coming back to his nostrils flared like John Brown in Kansas, hard muscle break tracks, or soft glow of love he is able to bring the rage round to snake crazy snake soul sonnets to orpheus, our brother Rilke Flower-muscle that slowly opens back the anemone to another meadow-dawn, until her womb can feel the polyphonic light of the sonorous heavens pouring down is prophecy and vision blast bleak and we all stand naked against the capitalist relation that has come to encompass existance and Ron as new prophet stands against that as strong as John Brown, Rilke, just a neck down the vision ladder from our kooky Dada Queen Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and is exactly what is needed. I give Ron the world in his breath."

Tom House (Nashville): "That's a wild and fierce look on the cover of Ron Whitehead's new I Will Not Bow Down CD, and that's a wild and fierce picture of him there on the inside, and that's a wild and fierce performance/production he presents. I was not prepared. Finally got back home and settled in here last night put it on and blew my head right from the start. Old favorite, "Tapping My Own Phone," the music is like the subconscious of the mind mouthing those feverish thoughts. "4th Person Singular" a favorite as well. Not sure if I've heard that one before. "Raven Hair And Turquoise" and "Comes Night And Wind" both great. The music never gets in the way of the words and, as in the very best one to me "Gimme Back My Wig," the whole becomes way more than the components, damn almost like rock and roll - and in many ways this feels as much like a "band" CD as it does a "spoken word" one. And I think Ron paces it like one. That's just something always important to me, almost like a set, and Ron is a master at that. He couldn't end it more personally, poetically, beautifully than with "You Grow Wild In My Heart." I Will Not Bow Down is definitely a masterful work and I congratulate Ron and all who perform on it. I'll be giving this guy some hardcore listening these days to come. "

Dan Roberts (KZYX Radio, California): "TAPPING MY OWN PHONE is the most amazing CD of poetry I've heard!"

August Highland (California ): "Ron Whitehead is The Dalai Lama of the literary world."

Frank Messina (New York ): "I've seen thousands blinded by the white light, halos and fractal geometry of Ron Whitehead. I've seen tundra-demons, geothermal genies, naysayers forever turned to stone by that Kentucky 'Bone Man'. And yes, I've seen Ron Whitehead levitate over stages 3, 4 and 5,000 miles from Kentucky, held up high by coal mine spirits, red wine and Buddha at the palms of his feet."

Jean Ritchie (New York): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabethth and Ron Whitehead, is a stunning CD. Sarah and Ron both did a beautiful job."

Dr. Joe Slavin (Kentucky): "Kentucky, by Sarah Elizabeth & Ron Whitehead, is a stunning piece of work, beautiful in both sound and heart."

Tommy Gaffney (Oregon): "Spending time with Ron Whitehead a few years back changed my life.  The whole damn experience, from the wine-soaked meeting in his living room to the bourbon-infused book signing, he so graciously hosted, is still with me everyday.  Not sure how to repay him for all that.  And I appreciate the email updates on his mad adventures.  I open the ol’ yahoo account every morning hoping for more news.  What can I say, he's an inspiring man.  And I’ve been spreading the word about his work around Portland, Oregon.  In fact, I currently volunteer to host a small writers group (in my cramped little living room), and we discussed Ron's Tapping My Own Phone as our first “assignment.”  We also listened to my copies of “I Will Not Bow Down” and “The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue."  The overall theme for the session was “this is how this shit is done.”  In a word, Ron Whitehead's influence continues to cross mountain ranges that ain’t used to being shown up.  Thanks Ron for being you, my friend."

                                                                  
Casey Cyr (Connecticut): "Ron Whitehead's new CLOSING TIME CD is magical, radical inspiration, stark truth, gentle beauty. It portrays the human experience completely. The flame reflected in four generations, all together reveal the purity of oneness."

David Amram (New York): "Ron Whitehead's 'The Sound of Snowflakes on Christmas Eve' and 'Old Blue Got Run Over by A Coal Truck on Christmas' are right up there with Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL and Dylan Thomas' A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS in WALES. Not one word could/should be changed. They are classics! I have always loved Ron Whitehead's spirit and generosity as well as his work...These stories are like the late paintings of Matisse, and Richard Strauss' last art songs, where they both turned to simplicity and clarity when in their prime. Ron's stories/poems should be read at The White House, if we get a President who knows where the South is located and understands the poetry of the lives of everyday people and the beauty of family life as well as the magic of Snow in the South...Ron's work is right up there with Mark Twain...It transcends politics. His work should be read in classrooms, as children's stories, Southern Studies, poetry classes, church reading groups...His work can reach the whole world...His work is way Beyond Beat!! Ron Whitehead's work is lyrical, touching, and perfectly written AND SO REFRESHING...I'll be glad to write a Forward or Introduction to any of his books anytime... Nobody is doing what Ron Whitehead is doing, especially in his newest works...They are 100% Whitehead."

Dennis Kirtley (Morocco): "I am all about music. I think music. I sleep it. I eat it. It's just in me. And not just my own music - also the music of great composers. I know many symphonies by heart, great jazz compositions, note for note. As I was reading Ron Whitehead's poems last night, music was playing in my head and it wouldn't stop. It was the score of "Rhapsody in Blue" by Gershwin. The brainscreen image was that of a train, streaming forceful and unstoppable through the countryside. This is the sense Ron Whitehead's poetry and person brings to me. I thank him for being him!"

Gui Stuart (Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is the greatest living writer...and he is still struggling to pay the bills so how can I hope for anything more than to write...writing is an unnatural act...but it is not any more unnatural than working in an office or talking on a cellphone...and in some strange ways it is the most natural act of all...being human feels like an unnatural act in these trying times of fascism...the absurdity of fascism is everywhere but I don't want to live like that and I sure as hell don't want to write like that...I owe Ron Whitehead more than I can ever repay...he has taught me that failure is nothing and that it is okay to fail as long as I write what I feel and know...and I'm gonna continue, just like Ron does, regardless of whether I ever get published...I'm gonna continue to test my own limits and probe my own humanity...I would love to make some money to live on and be able to start a printing press with Ron someday but that is not why I write...I write to try and redeem my own soul for myself...that is why I write...I write out of some alien innate gnostic urge to express the conflict of humanity that is in me and in all of us...that is why I write...they can't beat us...Ron Whitehead proves that every day...they can't take our souls from us...Ron Whitehead reminds us of that in his writing and in his life...they can lie and cheat and steal and even kill us but they'll never take our souls...Ron Whitehead reminds us of that in all he says and does...Ron Whitehead reminds us that no matter what happens Never Give Up."

Lee Troutman (California/Kentucky), on Ron Whitehead and EYE of THE FUKING STORM's new recording (companion to book) PRAYERS for THE MODERN TRAVELER, the last great truthtellers, nada

"thank you for the beautiful tape!  phenomenal vocal performance!  amazing!  what a great concept for packaging with the hand painted art, the ambient and bended musical mind field...  all of it...   listening to it, it reminds me of a couple things Ken Kesey said.  he always talked about the whole structure of lies, the square peg hypnosis of the governed world.  he'd say 'sometimes there's a crack in the wall.  as a writer you can sometimes find one.' thanks for being so damn honest all the time.  thanks for being my friend.  in all your wonderful insanity.  i've been entertained by it all.  glad to see you looking so healthy and spry the other night." 

Paul K (Detroit/NYC/Kentucky): "Ron Whitehead is America's greatest living poet."

 

Frank Messina (New York City/Jersey City, New Jersey/Florida):

Ron,

I received the package. A horn-of-plenty of creativity!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much for sending this gift, a timeless gift we will cherish forever. Vanessa and I dug through its contents like kids around a Christmas tree. Everything from the grassroots note written on the water-colored paper, the beautiful Never Give Up scroll, with Howard's artwork. Great design, haven't seen anything like this since I was in Florence, Italy, where a group of artisans still use the ancient papyrus methods to print their books, poems, stuff Dante would use. Or might have been when I was wandering, in another life, by the Ponte Vecchio. This is just great! And the book, well shit  Prayers for the Modern Day Traveler is pure genius, pure rugged Kentucky down home Americana genius. In an age when people are saturated and quietly annihilated by the garbage heap that gets passed off as technology, this book is BANG-BANG shoot em up refreshing. Because when the shit hits the fan, when the lights go out, when the music's over and God casts his hand and wipes us clean from the great big ball spinning spinning free, people won't have a blackberry, a laptop, a Global Positioning System, a twitter account, just smoke signals, maybe a candle, and through the nuclear war fallout dust, Prayers for the Modern Traveler will shine as a beacon of light. And it does!

Your Ancient Friend,

Frank Messina

ps: these gems go into the permanent Messina Archives

 


 

"life is a sand poem" the bone man

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

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"life is a sand poem" the bone man

502 475 7772  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 www.tappingmyownphone.com

facebook & fan clubs

 







Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:20:56 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Ron's new phone # & The Southern Discomfort Tour info



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

Date: April, 2011
Subject: Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton, Frank Messina, Ron Whitehead
Dates of Events: May 1-8, 2011

 

Legendary Kentucky poet Ron Whitehead once again teams up with New York spoken word artist Frank Messina and blues great Tyrone Cotton for a stretch of performances deep in the Sunshine State.

 

Ron Whitehead is one of the most famous poets in America in the world. He is the author of 21 books including Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon and Western Kentucky: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered and 31 CD titles including the classic "Tapping My Own Phone" and "I Will Not Bow Down."

 

Crowned "a classic" by the New York Times, Frank Messina is the author of Disorderly Conduct, and Full Count: The Book of Mets Poetry which sold over 60,000 copies since 2009. He's performed his signature spoken word and music performances in over a dozen countries and all across America. 

 

Tyrone Cotton is steeped in the blues, mixing folk, gospel, jazz, and pop to make American music which has been compared to Tom Waits, Dylan, Ray LaMontagne, and Johnny Cash. He has shared the stage with the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama, Johnny Winter, Jolie Holland, and Grammy nominated artist James Hunter.

 

The three artists hit the road together in 2006 for their Wanderer Tour to packed venues and rave reviews. The Southern Discomfort Tour in sunny Florida will be joined by special guest poets and musicians including former Wall Street maverick and poet Anthony Broy with dates in Orlando, Gainesville and Cape Coral.

 

Dates:

 

May 1, Timucua White House, Orlando, FL., 2000 S. Summerlin Ave, Orlando, FL, 7:30PM 407-595-2713

 

May 3, Dandelion CommuniTea Cafe, 618 Thornton Ave, Orlando, FL., 8:00PM

 

May 4, WPRK 91.5 Radio, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. Hosted by Julie Norris, Front Porch Radio, Rollins College Campus. 4:00PM.

 

May 5, Civic Media Center, Gainesville, FL. 8:00PM. 433 S. Main St, Gainesville, FL, 32601, 352-373-0010

 

May 7, University of Hangoutology, Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com.

 

May 8, University of Hangoutology, Cape Coral, FL. A night of Art & Revolution featuring Tyrone Cotton, Ron Whitehead, Frank Messina, Anthony Broy. If you would like to attend this special event, write to speak@spokeface.com

 

http://www.spokeface.com/southerndiscomfort.htm

 


502 263 9175  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:30:04 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: quote from Troubadors of Divine Bliss re Outlaw Poet




 

Troubadors of Divine Bliss (Kentucky/Indiana): "Thank you, thank you, thank you Outlaw Poet and spokesman for the cosmic rebel! You are the seed of Mighty Kindness from which so much has grown. Thank you for sanctifying our gathering with your legendary fire and spirit...we have such gratitude and deep respect for you...thank you for being sooooo alive!!!"

The Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Anthony Broy/Ron Whitehead was a gift beyond words beyond measure!!!!

502 396 5141 (Ron's new cell #)  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 www.tappingmyownphone.com

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 03:19:21 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>



 

3:48amEDT 5/18/11 my beautiful daughter Rani Bri gave birth to her 3rd child my 3rd grandchild a handsome baby boy Thurston Pike Boswell 8lbs 4oz yes!!!! miracles abound!!! cheers! the Outlaw Clan continues to expand!!! congratulations & thank you family & friends!

 

Troubadours of Divine Bliss (Kentucky/Indiana): "Thank you, thank you, thank you Outlaw Poet and spokesman for the cosmic rebel! You are the seed of Mighty Kindness from which so much has grown. Thank you for sanctifying our gathering with your legendary fire and spirit...we have such gratitude and deep respect for you...thank you for being sooooo alive!!!"

The Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Anthony Broy/Ron Whitehead was a gift beyond words beyond measure!!!!

502 396 5141 (Ron's new cell #)  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 www.tappingmyownphone.com

facebook & fan clubs

 



Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:12:10 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Fw: David Amram Poetry JAM - CD Artwork Attached and accounting



 

3:48amEDT 5/18/11 my beautiful daughter Rani Bri gave birth to her 3rd child my 3rd grandchild a handsome baby boy Thurston Pike Boswell 8lbs 4oz yes!!!! miracles abound!!! cheers! the Outlaw Clan continues to expand!!! congratulations & thank you family & friends!

 

Troubadours of Divine Bliss (Kentucky/Indiana): "Thank you, thank you, thank you Outlaw Poet and spokesman for the cosmic rebel! You are the seed of Mighty Kindness from which so much has grown. Thank you for sanctifying our gathering with your legendary fire and spirit...we have such gratitude and deep respect for you...thank you for being sooooo alive!!!"

The Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Anthony Broy/Ron Whitehead was a gift beyond words beyond measure!!!!

502 396 5141 (Ron's new cell #)  tmopinsight@yahoo.com  

 www.tappingmyownphone.com

facebook & fan clubs

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Casey Cyr Gash <caseycyr@aol.com>
To: caseycyr@aol.com; kosimar@gmail.com; tmopinsight@yahoo.com; hoarfrost@earthlink.net; skyplums@juno.com; akausch@etal.uri.edu
Cc: amramdavid@aol.com
Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 1:52:32 PM
Subject: David Amram Poetry JAM - CD Artwork Attached and accounting


Dear Poets,


I have worked through the art with David (who has already approved) for our CD (attached in panels). If you have strong objections to any of the photos of yourself, please let me know. I will get this to the printer soon after I hear from you. If you have different publishing info for your tracks please let me know. 


The CD package was designed to show the reader/listener what it was like in the studio, as well as live performances, adding historical information about David's work with music and poetry, highlighting his musical catalog, books and work he did with Jack Kerouac, us and other poets. It is designed to be an 8-panel Digipak fold-out. HIRES PDF attached as well, if you can't read/see these images.

 *Your copyright and publishing INFO is on this panel. If NOT correct, please let me know.

Names are abbreviated for obvious reasons!


Here is the schedule of costs and payment information:




PAST COSTS OF PROJECT:


3 sessions in studio x $900 each = $2,700

2” tape x $280 each = $1,120

Protools transfer, mixing and mastering = $1000

Hozomeen JAM EP we used for promo with permission to make but not sell = $1000 

*I don’t know if you remember, but our EP promo CD was released at CMJ of 2001, which fell on (THE) September 11th, and was cancelled. After that, everything went haywire and we had an EP I couldn’t sell and our full 39 tracks weren’t out yet.


Total expenses before final CD:  $5,820.00


CURRENT, NEW COSTS OF PROJECT:

 

Discmakers 1000 digipak 8 panel fold plus shipping = $1,770.00 


Total: (past expense, $5,820 + CD printing $1,770) = $7,590.00 


There’s still a lot of work to do, I will rebuild Calque Cinema website, register with online merchants, send out press releases, etc. I also will put up a store on calquecinema.com to sell them.



POSSIBLE FUTURE COSTS OF PROJECT


Accounting, legal, reprinting, other. Any future necessary costs (if any) would be deducted from gross sales in any case.



PAYMENT (CDS) 


Split: 40% David Amram, 

40% Calque Cinema, 

20% Poets divided by number of poets


Split would be NET, after all costs paid based on retail MINUS vendor cut (WHICH VARIES), and minus cost of goods or other expenses in the future if reprinted.


The only way to recoup expenses is to have all us lead people to the websites where the CDs are sold until the expenses are paid. After that, the split goes into effect. 



PAYMENT (DIGITAL)


Split for digital sales: 

Overview: 60/40 NET sales, Poet and Music by David Amram/Calque Cinema. 

David 30% 

Poet 30% 

Calque Cinema 40%. 


Since David is on all tracks, he is entitled to the same share as the author of the poem. Calque Cinema’s share is for maintaining sales and accounting.

Payment is based on NET, not retail, after online vendor deducts their costs. I will try to find us the best deal.


PAYMENT SCHEDULE To be determined.


That's the gist of it. If you approve, email me back. If you would like a more formal contract, let me know and I will make one up for us to sign.


Thank you all!

Casey Cyr Gash

8 Allyns Alley

Mystic CT 06355

860.941.8413















(new title)

David Amram Poetry JAM


(text under title)

World-renowned composer, conductor & multi-instrumentalist David Amram

jams with contemporary poets from New York to Kentucky

as he has done since 1957

when he performed with Jack Kerouac

in New York City's first-ever jazz & poetry readings!

 

poetry by (in alphabetical order)

Casey Cyr

Steve Dalachinsky

Albert Kausch

Richard Lee Martin

Lee Ranaldo

Ron Whitehead




Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:48:42 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: (for new Dylan book) Music Saved My Life and Bob Dylan Saved My Soul, The Impossible Dream by Ron Whitehead


Music Saved My Life and Bob Dylan Saved My Soul

The Impossible Dream

 


Just as I am without one plea

But that thy blood was shed for me

 

We were a gospel quartet Brad Steve Stan and me

Singing our hearts out "The Impossible Dream"

Sunday morning service at the Centertown Baptist Church

After the preaching and "Just As I Am"

Page came up and smiling said "boys that was sure good"

And she added laughing real loud "and Ronnie you sure are animated"

And then Saundra Karl chimed in with "yes that was fine

but Ronnie you were flat" and oh my oh my oh my

I went home swearing I'd never sing again

And I didn't until I got in the car

Turned on the radio and heard Bob Dylan

Singing Like A Rolling Stone "how does it feel

to be on your own a complete unknown" and

I caught myself breaking my promise

Singing

So what if I was flat as a pancake

Music had saved my life more than once

And every time I'd listened non-stop to

Bob Dylan well ever since I was 12 years old

Every time I heard him sing I felt deep down inside

He was saving my soul helping me want to keep on

Keeping on no matter what the hell was going on

And I knew then as I knew before and after that

I'd never quit listening to Bob Dylan who I regard

To this day as The Best of them all better than Homer

Better than Shakespeare his words his songs helped

Me know I'd never abandon song I'd never quit

Listening to the Gift of God sweet music and even

If I couldn't in public at least in private I'd keep on

Singing and well us boys Brad Steve Stan and me

Well I believe all our lives and souls were saved

More than once by music by Bob Dylan and

Yes we listened to every kind of music we heard

It all church music and funeral dirges as Mama and

Her sister Jo Carolyn sang far back as I remember

I see people climbing on coffins including Pappy

Trying to keep Mammy from leaving him behind

Her lying there in the pine yes we heard gospel

And blues and we heard country mixed with

Traditional oldtime folk mountain Appalachian

Going back to Ireland and Scotland and Wales

And we listened to Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams

And Bill Monroe and Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn

And Woody Guthrie and Odetta and Jean Ritchie

And Pete Seeger and The Everly Brothers and

Merle Travis and Robert Johnson and Mose Rager

And Grandaddy and The Montgomery Brothers and

Brother Mathew's Gospel Quartet with my 3rd grade

Teacher Mrs. Duncan banging on that piano like I'd never

Heard in no Baptist Church and I got excited Oh Lord

Can music make you feel this good? brought tears to

My boy eyes made goosebumps run all up and down

My back and all over my body made my flat topped hair

Stand up straight and tall without no butch wax on it

And then came Elvis and Johnny and Jerry Lee and

My parents said turn it off but they were glued too

And didn't couldn't move eyes staring in disbelief but

Excited what in the world is this and everybody felt

That way more excited than ashamed wanting to be

Part of that energy that we all know must be a gift

From some greater source and for my generation

For me Bob Dylan yes The Beatles and The Rolling

Stones but Bob Dylan from the first note I heard him

Perform late one night I was 12 upstairs in the attic

Where my brother Brad and I slept holes in the walls

Of our old farmhouse wind whispering through cedar

And pine through those holes I saw plenty of ghosts

There but I also every night listened to 79WLS on AM

Radio outta Chicago and the sound went in and out

Depending on the weather and Daddy some nights he

Home from working double shifts at the coal mines

Yelled up the stairs as the radio had gotten real loud

And Bob was singing "how does it feel" and being a

Poet who loves music as much as poetry well Bob's

Words and I knew them all by heart Bob's words

Saved my soul growing up in the pioneer lands of

Kentucky where Bluegrass was birthed distant cousin

Of The Everly Brothers I grew up with music and I

Mean every kind of music but the poemed music that

Has sustained me all these years that has always and

Continues to save my soul to save me from death in

Life is The Master Bob Dylan's music which always

Directed me towards God as if music came from God

And every time I turned to Bob Dylan's music life

Became bearable again I thought about Resurrection

Again I thought about redemption again

 

And that thou bid'st me come to thee

O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

 

 

Ron Whitehead

 

copyright (c) 2011 Ron Whitehead

 

5/23/11



 

3:48amEDT 5/18/11 my beautiful daughter Rani Bri gave birth to her 3rd child my 3rd grandchild a handsome baby boy Thurston Pike Boswell 8lbs 4oz yes!!!! miracles abound!!! cheers! the Outlaw Clan continues to expand!!! congratulations & thank you family & friends!

 

Troubadours of Divine Bliss (Kentucky/Indiana): "Thank you, thank you, thank you Outlaw Poet and spokesman for the cosmic rebel! You are the seed of Mighty Kindness from which so much has grown. Thank you for sanctifying our gathering with your legendary fire and spirit...we have such gratitude and deep respect for you...thank you for being sooooo alive!!!"

The Southern Discomfort Tour featuring Tyrone Cotton/Frank Messina/Anthony Broy/Ron Whitehead was a gift beyond words beyond measure!!!!

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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 09:43:46 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject: Gil Scott-Heron April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011 R.I.P.



Gil Scott-Heron April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011 R.I.P.

From:

Charlie Newman <zootsuitbeatnick@gmail.com>View Contact

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPqpV9olIlw&feature=youtu.be


Back when Eisenhower was the President,
Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
So I never really listened to what the President said,
Because in general I believed that the General was politically dead.
But he always seemed to know when the muscles were about to be flexed,
Because I remember him saying something, mumbling something about a Military Industrial Complex.
Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe,
Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace.
Then they pretend to be gripped by some sort of political reflex,
But all they're doing is paying dues to the Military Industrial Complex.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary.
The Military and the Monetary,
get together whenever they think its necessary,
They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery.
The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries,
they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions that are arbitrary.
We're marching behind a commander in chief,
who is standing under a spotlight shaking like a leaf.
but the ship of state had landed on an economic reef,
so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
The Military and the Monetary,
were shielded by January and went storming into February,
Brought us pot bellied generals as luminaries,
two weeks ago I hadn't heard of the son of a bitch,
now all of a sudden he's legendary.
They took the honour from the honourary,
they took the dignity from the dignitaries,
they took the secrets from the secretary,
but they left the bitch an obituary.
The Military and the Monetary,
from thousands of miles away in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
had us all scrambling for our dictionaries,
cause we couldn't understand the fuckin vocabulary.
Yeah, there was some smart bombs,
but there was some dumb ones as well,
scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel.
The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think its necessary,
War in the desert sometimes sure is scary,
but they beamed out the war to all their subsidiaries.
Tried to make So Damn Insane a worthy adversary,
keeping the citizens secondary,
scaring old folks into coronaries.
The Military and the Monetary,
from thousands of miles in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
kept us all wondering if all of this was really truely, necessary.
We've got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.
If we only work for Peace,
If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do,
we'd have Peace.
The only thing wrong with Peace,
is that you can't make no money from it.
The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think its necessary,
they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
Got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.
We should not allow ourselves to be mislead,
by talk of entering a time of Peace,
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the absence of the rules of war and the threats of war and the preparation for war.
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the time when we will all bring ourselves closer to each other,
closer to building a structure that is unique within ourselves
because we have finally come to Peace within ourselves.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary.
Get together whenever they think its necessary,
they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning parts of the planet, into a cemetery.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
We hounded the Ayatollah religiously,
Bombed Libya and killed Quadafi's son hideously.
We turned our back on our allies the Panamanians,
and saw Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians.
Watched Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians,
We better warn the Amish,
they may bomb the Pennsylvanians.
The Military and the Monetary,
get together whenever they think its necessary,
they have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
I don't want to sound like no late night commercial,
but its a matter of fact that there are thousands of children all over the world
in Asia and Africa and in South America who need our help.
When they start talking about 55 cents a day and 70 cents a day,
I know a lot of folks feel as though that,
thats not really any kind of contribution to make,
but we had to give up a dollar and a half just to get in the subway nowadays.
So this is a song about tommorrow and about how tommorrow can be better. if we all,
"Each one reach one, Each one try to teach one".
Nobody can do everything,
but everybody can do something,
everyone must play a part,
everyone got to go to work, Work for Peace.
Spirit Say Work, Work for Peace
If you believe the things you say, go to work.
If you believe in Peace, time to go to work.
Cant be wavin your head no more, go to work.
--
C
I was born in a democracy, live in an oligarchy, and—if the U.S. doesn't have a radical change in direction—I'll die in a fascist state.


 

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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:04:56 -0700 (PDT)

From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>

Subject:sharing: The Revolution will be Anonymous, possibly. A brief Black Pig Liberation Front Communiqué




 

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Subject: The Revolution will be Anonymous, possibly. A brief Black Pig Liberation Front Communiqué

hello BPLF collective, friends, collaborators, possible interested participants, people able to tour or not (all under control), possible readers, etc...


Does anyone want to contribute blogs to new BPLF site?


Just started, I posted a few things to push the angle of collective performance and resistance - disruption and collective anonymous re-codings.


I am interested in further moving Black Pig Liberation Front along as the performing assault spectacle machine we seem to have developed, while making the extended collective into something more akin to Bataille's Acéphale Society rather than an organized and exposed group with a series of Documents. 


Membership should be only vaguely known, with no hierarchy, no necessity of commitment, no official status, no requirements other than participating or not as one chooses. Able to move within the traces of itself as desired, a secret esoteric dispensary of ideas, objects, art.. things of interest beyond the commercial (even as all things have some element of the commercial as unavoidable consequence). Or even a commercial itself.


Take positions, write reviews, politics, post videos, artwork, links (I am going to put a bunch of links to like-minded sites and have been developing relationships with other groups, Tiggun and The Invisible Committee - though a few in a touch of trouble), develop RSS feeds, anything that would advance collective art, action, community, and fun.

Use chance, collage, appropriation, participation, re-prints, original art, shared concepts, work, help promoting each other's work, open usage. 


check out: www.blackpigliberationfront.com


I also have like 100 email addresses for some reason?? if anybody who wants one, would be whatever name you choose. 


___________@blackpigliberationfront.com  and I would link back to your own email so you would get and then respond if you wanted, or link directly back on BPLF site. 


Ideas? Comments?  Would be appreciated.


also invited bunch of other people who have requested to keep personal addresses and went direct, understandable for volume I guess, rather than record labels/publishers round-about.


also, number of my new e-flex friends interested in throwing some things on.


will update all on responses, while keeping as anonymous as desired, though realizing impossible these days and something to consider. 

I don't care. Poetic Terrorism is just that, Poetic. Disruption is not Violence. Resistance is an honorable thing when against thugs (i.e. Goldman Sachs, etc.). Re-codings, development of new modes of expression, in thought and life, in opposition to established submission. Experimentation.


Desire is the Fetish,

tz, poetic text terrorist





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