Ron Whitehead
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
"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
"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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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)
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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
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)
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(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)
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(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)
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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.
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
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
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)
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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.
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
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
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
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
"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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ron Whitehead <tmopinsight@yahoo.com>
Subject: sharing/private/from musician friend: yo Ron!
whippoorwill sing leave the world
of madmen live in the forest the forest forest
ron whitehead
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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.
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Roxanne Brousseau-Felio <spreadartrox@gmail.com> View Contact |
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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.
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
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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!
------------------
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
-----------
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
-----------
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
----------------------
Whew!
-
Til next time!
Jerry Cimino
The Beat Museum
540
Broadway
San Francisco, CA
94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
415-399-9626 - museum direct
(maybe
buy something from us, eh?)
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"
502
475 7772 tmopinsight@yahoo.com
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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"
502
475 7772 tmopinsight@yahoo.com
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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
(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"
502
475 7772 tmopinsight@yahoo.com
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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
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."
502 475 7772 tmopinsight@yahoo.com
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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."
502 475 7772 tmopinsight@yahoo.com
facebook & fan clubs
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
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
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
facebook & fan clubs
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
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
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!!!!
502 396 5141 (Ron's new cell #) tmopinsight@yahoo.com
facebook & fan clubs
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.
|
To: |
Charlie Newman <zootsuitbeatnick@gmail.com> |
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.
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
