His Holiness The Dalai Lama to Ron
www.tappingmyownphone.com
yet again, i failed miserably by ron whitehead
yet again, i failed miserably
to love you
i obviously don't love you
cause if i did you
would feel free
you wouldn't cry for
space for time
to find yourself
you wouldn't wail for
freedom
you wouldn't scream that
you're a slave to my will
yet again, i failed miserably
to love you
but now i finally see
i see my failure clearly
and i set you free
so go my love
who i do not love
cause if i did i would have
already realized recognized
my failure oh woe is me
for being an idiot for
not being capable of love
for not being buddha jesus
mother teresa the dalai
lama
but at least now i see i recognize
my failure and i say go go my love go
run run as fast as you can and get
away from me from me from
my failed attempt at love
yes yes yes yet again, i failed miserably
so escape my love escape quickly
in the night get out of town take
the backroads and go wherever you
have to go go go into the arms of
another failed lover go go go into
your own arms
but leave please leave
cause i can't stand the pain the
suffering of failing to love you
as i should have
yet again, i failed miserably
escape my love get out now
as i add, in closing, that
our failed love was
the most beautiful failure
of my life so
thank you my love
who i do not love cause i'm
not capable of loving
thank you my love
for the happiest
four years of
my life
ron whitehead
copyright (c) 2007 ron whitehead
I Refuse (cd) & Walking Home (cd, with Frank Messina) & The Wanderer (book)
by Ron Whitehead
usa release concerts October 19th at earx-tacy records 7pm (with Tyrone Cotton, Frank Messina, Will Ragland, Andy Cook, & others), October 20th at Kentucky Center for The Arts 8pm (with Sarah Elizabeth, Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Andy Cook, & others). Europe release concerts November 10th to 12th, London England, LIPS 2, The London International Poetry & Song Festival.
I Refuse (cd)
Ron Whitehead
Published in Heaven Audio
$15
www.tappingmyownphone.com
Walking Home (cd)
Frank Messina & Ron Whitehead
Published in Heaven Audio
$15
www.spokeface.com
The Wanderer (book)
Ron Whitehead
www.tappingmyownphone.com
(261 pages, 25 photos)
Published in Heaven Books
$25
new WALKING HOME & I REFUSE CDs
now available at
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
On First Reading Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD
reflections, on the 50th Anniversary
(title may change)
the book is being produced by Rob Zoschke (Wisconsin) and
Ron Whitehead (Kentucky). it will be released at the end of October
in London, England at LIPS 2, The London International Poetry and Song Festival.
today I received express overnight from Lawrence Ferlinghetti which included:
Front Cover Artwork for the book (two intertwined
sunflowers...with a hand-ink Ferlinghetti poem...which reads...)
Neal & Jack
Two Sunflowers
weary of time
Still on the Road
Still ON THE ROAD
to Heaven
in Two Thousand Seven
for Ron Whitehead
Ferlinghetti 8/2007
At some point in the fifty-years-and-now-more-important-than-ever course of
Jack Kerouac's On the Road, you came upon it, return to it, finally encountered it, and were blown away. We're thinking knowing feeling it made quite imprint on you...as a writer-artist-human being. What does the importance of that imprint mean to you, to our culture, to the
tangled time we are living in...we're thinking feeling knowing you could contribute something of high merit as we pay homage to the everlasting work of literature that is On the Road, as Kerouac's book celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. We'd love to hear from you, within one week, up to nine pages plus a photo of you or something you see as signifying that imprint, and a brief bio that reflects that imprint, as we pay homage and ask you to come along for the ride...share with us your take, your style, your imprint.
On First Reading Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD
reflections, on the 50th anniversary
please send submission to:
Ron Whitehead
1520 Cherokee Road #10
Louisville, Kentucky 40205
usa
phone 270 403 6941
or email to ron@tappingmyownphone.com
I look forward to receiving your work and including it in The Book!
Thanks!
love friends family
Ron
tickets on sale. 150 already sold. only 200 seats. please purchase thru Kentucky Center box office. plus Ky Ctr gave me some tickets to sell so you can also purchase directly from me. spread word. thanks!
Ron, 270 403 6941, ron@tappingmyownphone.com
Dawn Tilton, Mike Driskell, & The Moving Mystery Theatre present
DON’T DIE YET
(photoed flier in attachment)
Internationally acclaimed Sarah Elizabeth
Nobel nominated Ron Whitehead
w/ special guests Tyrone Cotton & Frank Messina
and guest musician Andy Cook
Saturday October 20, 2007
an evening of music & spoken word celebrating the release of
Sarah Elizabeth’s DON’T DIE YET CD, available Sept 4th
Frank Messina & Ron Whitehead’s WALKING HOME CD
Ron Whitehead’s I REFUSE CD & THE WANDERER book
The Clark –Todd Hall at The Kentucky Center for The Arts
8 pm (doors & bar open 7pm)
$15 advance tickets available August 31 at The Kentucky Center Box Office
502-584-7777 www.kentuckycenter.org 800-755-7777
all ages welcome
sponsored by: Driskell Home Repair, Remodeling & Maintenance…Done Right 502-417-8902
LIPS 2: The London International Poetry & Song FestivalLondon, EnglandThe Marquee Club,
www.themarquee.netCelebrating the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROADCelebrating the historic Marquee ClubNovember 10-12LIPS 2 will feature
David Amram (
www.davidamram.com),
Carolyn Cassady, Ron Whitehead (
www.tappingmyownphone.com),
Richard Deakin, Sarah Elizabeth, Pete Brown, Frank Messina, Alabama 3, The Pollock Brothers,
Bob Holman, and a host of other headliners including folks from
Iceland,
Portugal,
The Netherlands,
Ireland,
England,
Scotland, the
USA, and other countries.
Musicians and writers/poets at the first
LIPS Festival included David Amram, Carolyn Cassady, Ron Whitehead, Martin Hughes (drummer for Van Morrison), Bap Kennedy Band, Ed Deane, Alabama 3 (Soprano's theme song), Pete Brown (record producer, singer/songwriter, and former Cream lyricist: "I Feel Free," "White Room," & many more), jazzman Stan Tracy, and many many more.
LIPS 2 will be filmed by BBC. It will receive British and international publicity and media attention.
Venue: the legendary
MARQUEE (for history see
www.themarquee.net).
LIPS 2 will celebrate the 50 years of ON THE
ROAD.
LIPS 2 will make a big impression like the first
LIPS Festival did in October 2001 (BBC TV!).
LIPS 2 will launch a series of
LIPS Festivals.
A rocking weekend celebrating
Jack Kerouac and the
50th Anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking masterpiece
ON THE ROAD.
The
Marquee Club,
www.themarqueeclub.net, has often been defined as "the most important venue in the history of European
pop music." Not only for having been witness to the development of the music culture in London during four decades, but also for having been an essential meeting point and a real cradle for some of the most important artists and music scenes. If it was not for the
Marquee Club maybe many of the legendary
rock and
pop artists that we know today would have never made it during their hard starting careers and their names would have never shown up in the music business. The club was first opened on April 19th 1958 in London's 165 Oxford Street. During the following years the
Marquee became the most important place for the
jazz and
rhythm & blues scenes in London.
Legends
like Sonny Boy Williamson, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, and harmonica player Cyril Davies played regularly.
During the 60's a new generation of British
rhythm and blues bands, such as the
Rolling Stones, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers,
the Yardbirds, and
The Animals forged the coming of a new era in
pop music at the
Marquee. On March 13th 1964 the venue was relocated to it's most famous location in London's Soho at 90 Wardour Street which became a legend in the history of
pop and
rock music. The
Marquee became the most important venue for the emerging British scene and witnessed the birth and rise of some of the most important artists in
the 60's and 70's such as
Jimi Hendrix,
David Bowie,
Cream, Pink Floyd,
Manfred Mann,
the Who, The Nice,
Yes,
Led Zeppelin,
Jethro Tull,
King Crimson,
Genesis, Moody Blues, and many others. The club was also witness to the birth of all the different music genres born during the last decades of the 20th century, including
acid rock,
progressive rock,
hard rock, and
folk rock. During the late 70's and early
80's the Marquee saw the development of the British
punk,
new wave,
synth pop,
heavy rock, and
neo progressive music scenes, with bands such as the Clash, Ultravox, the Pretenders, the Police, the Cure, Joy Division, the Damned, Generation X, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Sex Pistols.
http://www.themarqueeclub.net/images/author.jpg
- The London Soho scene
- The Oxford St. days (1958-1964)
- The Wardour St. days (1964-1988)
- The Charing Cross days (1988-1995)
- The Islington Academy days (2002)
- The Leicester Sq. days (2004-2005)
new DON'T DIE YET & WALKING HOME CDs
now available at
www.tappingmyownphone.comwww.insomniacathon.org
hello folks!
NEW SOUTHERNER Anthology (annual publication/best of previous year), in bookstores this week,
features
Sarah Elizabeth and Ron Whitehead.
Sarah is on the front cover
plus one chapter, with photos, of
WESTERN KENTUCKY: Lost & ForgottenFound & Remembered is included plus
NEW SOUTHERNER editor & publisher
Bobbi Buchanan wrote a special feature
HERITAGE FOUND: The Music of Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead. includes two photos of
Sarah performing in New York City with
David Amram Trio plus front cover of
WHEN THE REDBUDS BLOOM cd.
also included in
NEW SOUTHERNER Anthology are:
Beat the winter heat bill
Break free from the health care spending trap
Cheryl Lynne Skinner's music inspires art
Albert Bates: the good news about peak oil
The Doolittles on fighting mountaintop removal
and much more.
www.newsoutherner.com
Bone Man Mets Fan
photos by Mets Poet Frank Messina
courtesy of ron whitehead september 2007
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Raven Hair and Turquoisefor
Sarah, farewell to our marriage poem
we will always remain dear friends
by
Ron WhiteheadThrough God's or a raven's eyes,
from high above,
the turquoised car is seen
winding southward through
the hunting grounds of Kentucky:
Your soft lips kiss the colored stars,
the red giants, the blue dwarfs,
on my chest. Your tongue draws
a slow line round
the blue, green and yellow lotus flowered
sun at the center of my pyramid.
And as I breathe your raven hair
your tears wash my red and orange lightning
bolts, wash them clean of color and sweat.
My love
these bodies, our home
in this windless place,
prevail for pulsing moments but
pulsing moments like your kiss,
your tongue, your tears,
last forever, and, through
God's or a raven's eyes,
from high above,
an invisible force sings like a secret wind:
Our turquoise windhewn
Love shall forever be our palace.
Copyright (c) 2007 Ron Whitehead
Ron and Sarah Whitehead
New photo & front page www.tappingmyownphone.com
to contact Ron please email only. no phone calls please. Ron got no phone, by choice.
thanks
ron@tappingmyownphone.com
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divorce survival get back on my feet Wish List
of a non-conformist non-materialist: Ron Whitehead
yes beyond sad but true that Sarah is leaving. we're getting divorce. irreconcilable differences. we both have wounded hearts but we're both healthy happy strong so wounded hearts will heal quickly. divorce will be friendly fair. Sarah and I have agreed to continue to work together some. Sarah is an amazing woman person. best i've ever been with. i will love her and support her work always. i will always only have good things to say about her.
when Sarah and I got together she already had a little furniture, tv, stereo, computer, shelves, tables, chairs, and a few more items. i had a few clothes.
we bought a bed together. cause of Sarah's scoliosis she's taking the bed. she's looking for an apartment now. i'm staying in our apartment. when she's gone
the sum total of my material possessions will be a few used clothes and an inexpensive around town nogear bicycle. i will have a totally empty apartment. no phone. ha. regardless, i'm gonna carry on The Work. no matter what has happened in my life I have relentlessly carried on The Work.
The Work. as many of you know, for 20 years my breath my heartbeat have been One with the Universal Creative Forces. unfortunately i've burnt out everyone who has worked or lived with me. my unswerving goal has been to create as much as possible while i have the opportunity. who/what instilled this urge this driving force in me? i don't know. but i do know that my entire being has been and is filled with the creative fire. and the flames haven't ebbed. Sarah and I have 4 new titles coming out this fall: Sarah's new DON'T DIE YET cd, the Frank Messina & Ron Whitehead WALKING HOME CD, my THE WANDERER book, plus Sarah and I are still gonna bring out the long hoped for Christmas
album titled Y'ALL GET THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND COME ON. plus i've been invited to read at NYC Howl Fest in september and at the London (England) International Poetry & Song Festival at the end of October. plus i'm helping Richard Deakin line up artists for that event which will be held at the famous MARQUEE. interesting that while Sarah was recording her new cd in Kevin Ratterman's Funeral Home studio i went into bathroom to take a leak and right above toilet was poster of THE WHO performing at THE MARQUEE. all the greats performed. there. and some of the greats will perform there at LIPS 2.
plus i'll be recording my new cd I REFUSE in late february. so. i need help from anyone who is able to help. all i care about is spreading love via my creative work and my performances and teachings and most importantly my friendships. if anyone funds one of my
titles they will be listed in the front of the book or cd as Special Thanks to (fill in the blank. or you can remain anonymous if you prefer) for making this project possible.
here's my Wish List:
1) inexpensive or used television.
2) inexpensive or used cd player.
3) inexpensive or used computer (with Word plus so i can email) plus printer and paper.
4) used table for the computer.
5) used comfortable reading chair.
6) red wine. only drinking one glass for lunch. then don't drink til 6pm.
7) will barter my company and conversation for meals.
8) will read my poetry for food and red wine.
9) good felt tip writing pens.
10) money for survival. i'm teaching 3 classes this fall which will not quite cover my rent but that money won't start til last day of september. fortunately we've paid all our august bills. but that leaves me zero for food survival for august plus all bills and survival for september.
11) good hybrid off road on road bicycle so i have long distance travel. this way i can go visit Mama and Daddy and my brother and sisters who live in Ohio County, western Kentucky, 150 miles away. fortunately my oldest son Nathanial and his wife Jessica live here in Louisville. my daughter Rani and her kids my grandkids Roz and Max plus my youngest son Dylan live in Winston-Salem North Carolina. if i have cross country bicycle i'll be able to ride down and visit them. my present bicycle is dirt cheap but nice in town slowmo nogear bike only. i ride it downtown to teach.
12) cheapest airfare to nyc september 6th to 9th so i can read at Howl Fest.
13) $1,500 for my new 275-page THE WANDERER book. this will cover graphics plus printing of 200 copies plus shipping review copies. this is an important book. it includes 60 photos. i'll include Table of Contents at end of Wish List. book will be released October 2nd. whoever covers this expense will receive a special dedication in front of book. plus 10 copies.
14) $1,500 for my new I REFUSE cd. this will cover graphics plus printing of 1,000 copies plus shipping review copies. whoever covers this expense will receive a special dedication on the cd jacket. plus 25 copies. i'll include track list at end of Wish List. musicians on this cd will include Tyrone Cotton, Andy Cook, Sarah Elizabeth, and electric guitarist Will Ragland. cd will be released in April.
15) $750 for my half of expenses for 1,000 copies of new Sarah/Ron
Y'ALL GET THE CHRISTMAS TREE and COME ON cd. this gonna be amazing and will around for a long time. cd will be released October 2nd. whoever covers this expense will receive 25 copies of cd plus Special Dedication Thank You in cd jacket.
THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you want to contribute to my Wish List please send or drop off gifts to me at:
Ron Whitehead
1520 Cherokee Road #10
Louisville, Kentucky
40205
email tmopinsight@yahoo.com
no phone
my official website (Sarah getting her own) will remain
www.tappingmyownphone.com
CONTENTS for new Ron Whitehead book
official release October 2nd, 2007
THE WANDERER
by Ron Whitehead
(275 pages including photos thruout)
1 fields of purple morning glories
For My Children, Now Grown
fields of purple morning glories
love on a rainy day
My Beautiful Mutant
To Ballard to the wilderness we go
Dream
Your Breath
Christmas, the old ways, and you
old veins
I Strive No More
geothermal piano: 13 Grandmothers and Sarah do the Sun Dance,
with wild horses
2 from Kentucky he came
Old Blue Got Run Over By A Coal Truck On Christmas
The Sound of Falling Snowflakes
Moonshine King Burgoo Queen
Searching For Abraham
Lincoln
The Dance: a choral, orchestral, song poem
lost poem: intimations
3
driving 100 miles per hour on Bardstown Road with Allen Ginsberg
On First Reading Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD: Down and Out
in Kentucky : Part VII, For Madmen Only
Kerouac’s Daughter
Without Blinking: Zen & The Art of Driving 100 miles per hour past
Mayor Abramson & others from Twice Told Coffeehouse on
Bardstown Road to the airport, Part IV: Down & Out in Kentucky ,
Allen Ginsberg: The Bridge
Calling The Toads: The Antinomian Fire This Time: Allen Ginsberg
ASHEVILLE: for Allen Ginsberg
Deep Appreciation by Bob Holman
Harold Maier Is A Hero Of Mine
From Hank Williams Grave to Insomniacathon 2003
Searching For David Amram
closing time
From Jack Kerouac’s Grave to Forecastle 2006
4 from Italy & Alabama to Kentucky & Beyond
An interview with Ron Whitehead by Jordan Green
An Interview with Ron
Whitehead by Annalisa Papaleo
An Interview with Ron Whitehead by Foster Dickson
An Interview with William S. Burroughs by Ron Whitehead
5 i refuse
i refuse
This Is a Metaphysical Poem
A Prayer: after Burroughs
Gimme Back My Wig:
The Hound Dog Taylor
& Hunter S. Thompson Blues
Memories Dreams Visions by Gui Sedley Stuart
I Found Myself in Emptiness
virtual photons we: zero signature
I Will Not Bow Down: global version
6 Creative Marriage
Creative Marriage
7 The Hunter S. Thompson Blastoff is Decadent and Depraved
en route to Owl Farm
Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson is Dead
The Hunter S. Thompson Blastoff is Decadent and Depraved
8 Can Art Matter? Published in Heaven: Blood Filled Vessels
Can Art Matter? Published in Heaven: Blood Filled Vessels
9 Literary Kicks
Literary Kicks: Who is Ron Whitehead? by David Minton
The World Ambassador of Poetry (English & Italian) by Annalisa Papaleo
Watching With a Thousand Eyes by Casey Cyr
Alfama old Lisbon Portugal February 2007
10 epilogue The Wanderer
Riding With Rebel Jesus, The Wanderer
11
bonus track
12
hawk and crow: alchemical sunrise prayer and meditation
hawk and crow: alchemical sunrise prayer and meditation
13
epilogue
Sorrow: Moving On
Track List for Ron's new I REFUSE cd:
1) I Will Not Bow Down, global with Chief Looking Horse intro
2) I Refuse
3) 3 poems
4) Riding With Rebel Jesus, The Wanderer
5) old veins
6) lost poem: intimations
7) On First Reading Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD
8) virtual photons we: dark signature
9) Gimme Back My Wig: The Hound Dog Taylor Hunter S. Thompson Blues
10) en route to Owl Farm
11) Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson is Dead
12) Creative Marriage
13) Alfama old Lisbon Portugal
14) Sorrow, Moving On
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Sorrow, Moving On
last poem for Sarah
by Ron Whitehead
four years
the happiest
of my life
now
sorrow blue bells chime sunset
night falls moving on
strong
wounded heart
will heal
quickly
light
as a feather
moving on
releasing
the past
the future
releasing
all and everything
the now
releasing
sorrow, moving on
with joy
goodbye
thank you bougainvillea purple sunrise
good journey moving on
Ron Whitehead
Copyright (c) 2007 Ron Whitehead
"...I will fight no more forever."
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
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From: Bruce Maples [mailto:bmaples@insightbb.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:40 PM
To: Bruce Maples
Subject: Olbermann Special Comment
Very direct, very well done, and right on. Feel free to forward.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHySV6cCsbI
Email to write to him (and thank him, if you wish) --
KOlbermann@msnbc.com
B
On July 14 it's Jesse James for Logan Countians
By Mark Griffin
Thursday, July 5, 2007 9:00 AM CDT
The Logan Arts Council announces that the Jesse James Art and Film Festival will be held July 14 at Carrico Park in downtown Russellville and at the Logan County Public Library, 201 West Sixth Street. Activities include music, poetry, theater, and artistic workshops. Famous Outlaw Jesse James will be in attendance; Sheriff Tom Rhea will be ensuring he robs no one.
Nobel Nominee Ron Whitehead of Ohio County will be the headliner.
"Whitehead's
poetry is a powerful summation of the American spirit," Dr. John Rocco,
Associate Professor of Humanities at State University of New York Maritime, wrote to the Nobel Prize Committee. "I would like to take this time to bring this extraordinary poet to your attention for consideration for the Nobel Prize in literature. ... There is a vital spirituality in his work that questions the nature of artistic creativity at the same time it embodies it. His work is profoundly engaged in critiquing the control modern American culture has over the individual and the planet."
The late Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg described him with an "energetic … poetic spirit!"
Whitehead's wife, Sarah, a folk musician, will be performing along with her husband. She has been compared to Bluegrass Legend Alison Krauss and has earned praise from Kentucky's current state leader. "Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead's talents are evident in the special selection of poems, stories and songs of
Kentucky. The Commonwealth is proud of its citizens who promote our resources and keep alive our fine traditions," Governor Ernie Fletcher said.
"Just back from performances in Portugal, Sarah and I are making a pit stop on our way to shows in California," Ron Whitehead expressed in an e-mail. "Our gypsy souls love traveling. My outlaw soul is excited 'bout our performance at The Jesse James Festival. Sarah and I will bring pure raw Outlaw Spirit to our performance. We look forward to meetin' everybody." Readers may learn more about this couple at their website www.tappingmyownphone.com.
One of the featured filmmakers will be Chris R. Notarile of New Jersey who is excited about having his fan films shown in Russellville that day. "I'm very familiar with your town and it would be an honor," he said. Notarile is fan of Horror Movie Auteur John Carpenter, and is familiar with his connection to Russellville. Another filmmaker -- Jeff Cantrell of Morehead, KY n
will show off his best film shorts and be on hand to answer any questions about making movies.
The finale of the film festival will be two films, one based on a literary classic and the other on an urban myth. Call of Cthulhu, based on the 1926 fantasy by H. P. Lovecraft, has long been described as unfilmable but Screenwriter Sean Branney and Director Andrew Leman accomplished the impossible by using the old-fashioned silent movie making techniques that were available during Lovecraft's lifetime. This scary movie has no gore but a few disturbing scenes, reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds or M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Dean Sears' Hopewell Haunting is based on true events that happened in Eastern Kentucky. A country preacher is asked to settle the restless spirit haunting a house in Hopewell, KY. Sears will be on hand to discuss this film afterwards.
The Logan Arts Council is working in conjunction with Logan County Public Library, and
Russellville Parks and Recreation to bring a month long series of art-based events for the public. On July 1, the library will honor the late Glenn Robertson, who painted scenes of Logan County, with a month long exhibit of his prints. The final Harry Potter book will be coming out that month and the library as well as the festival will celebrate with themed activities, including an ugly sock contest for a chance to win a copy of the book.
Russellville Parks and Rec will hold its July Jive on July 6 on the Square. Big Nancy and a yet-to-be-named opening act will provide the music. The public is invited to bring their lawn chairs.
Other performers at the Jesse James Art and Film Festival include the Slow Poisoner, a one-man Surreal Bluegrass band from San Francisco; local experimental musicians Subterranean Bubblegum Museum; author Algie Ray Smith; newspaper columnist Evelyn Richardson; Gospel Musician Russ Funk; Russellville Rockers Totem Soul, Bowling
Green's legendary Banjo Bill, Blackbeard Von Muttonchops of Louisville, Celtic duo Shadowdancer, Poet Dory Hudspeth and Celtic band Red River Breeze among others. Singers are encouraged to participate in the Logan Arts Council's version of American Idol (with grouchy librarian Mark Griffin serving in the role of Simon). Everyone is encouraged to dress up in old timey costumes and bring a camera.
July 1 -- Tribute to Logan County painter Glenn Robertson begins at the Logan County Public Library
July 6 -- July Jam with Big Nancy Square in Russellville, 7 p.m.
July 13 --Harry Potter movie night n meet at Library at 5 p.m.
July 14 -- Jesse James Art and Film Festival n Square and Library, 11 p.m.
July 21 -- Harry Potter book party at library, midnight
July 31 -- End of Tribute to Glenn Robertson
Schedule of events for Jesse James Art and Film Festival
9-10:00 A.M. Artists set up/Street blocked off
10:30 Justin and
Vanessa n Classical Guitars
10:45 Photo workshop n Mark
11:00 The festival start
Ode to a Flying Fish
11:30 Music starts
4:45 P.M. Artists pick up art from non-juried show.
5:00 Festival ends on Square
7:30 Slow Poisoner opens for movies
8:00 Call of Cthulhu and Hopewell Haunting movies at library.
Discussion afterward by Dane Sears, director of HH
Tom Rhea Stage
11:30 A.M. Gasper River Strings n Bluegrass
12:30 P.M. Logan Idol n Karaoke (Justin, Tara, and me as Simon)
2:00 Totem Soul n Rock and Roll
3:00 The Subterranean Bubblegum Musseum n Experimental Music
4:00 Ron and Sarah Whitehead n Poetry and Music (need table for them)
Cooksey's Corner
11:30 A.M. Southern Legacy -- Gospel
12:30 P.M. Red River Breeze -- Celtic
2:00 Slow Poisoner n Surreal Bluegrass
3:00 Mrs. Evelyn Richardson n reads her columns
3:30 Algie Ray Smith n
reads stories
4:00 Blackbeard Von Muttonchops n Experimental Music
Agnes' Alley
11:30 A.M. Gymnasts and dancers (demonstrations) n Logan County Gymnastic
1:30 p.m. Dada Poetry n Mark
11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30: The Trunk o' Fun
Harry Potter ugly sock contest
Chalk art
Beauchamp's Back Pocket
11:30 n Mrs. Evelyn Richardson
12:30 n David Rogers
1:30 n Dory Hudspeth n Excerpts from book
2:30 -- Shadowdancer n Celtic
3:00 -- Banjo Bill n Acoustic Music
4:00 n Chris Kramer and the Full Range Band n Johnny Cash tribute
List of Films to be shown:
McIntock
Codenames Live at Grinders Pizza
Chalkie and Estel episode
Fan films of Chris R. Notarile
I'm Power Girl Dammit!!!
Friday the 31st (Michael vs. Jason)
Fan films of Sandy Collora
Batman: Dead End
World's Finest
David Gooslin films --
Silent
Tears
Kill Zone
The Best of Jeff Cantrell
3rd Floor
The Assembler
My Porcelain Past
Call of Cthulhu
Hopewell Haunting
Mark Griffin (www.myspace.com/quakezine) is the publisher of Quake, President of the Logan County Arts Council and a photographer, writer and historian who lives in Russellville
Soul Journey to the Four Winds
an evening of Native American music, dance, & spoken word
Featuring
Grammy nominated
Tony Redhouse
Internationally acclaimed
Sarah Elizabeth
Nobel nominated
Ron Whitehead
Saturday, July 21, 2007
7 - 9pm
$15 at the door
THE RUDYARD KIPLING, 422 West Oak Street (near 4th street),
Louisville, Kentucky, 502-636-1311, all ages
www.tonyredhouse.net www.tappingmyownphone.com
LIVE at THE RUD photos
check out these amazing Christian Hansen photos:
http://www.chansenphoto.org/RudLive/site/master.html
they're all on our homepage throughout june and july
then they'll remain in a special section on our site,
www.tappingmyownphone.com
thanks!!!
Ron
"what is language but an experiment
an adventure a failed attempt to communicate.
i refuse all language barriers."
ron whitehead, poet
http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
CONTENTS
for new Ron Whitehead book
to be released June 2007:
Riding With Rebel Jesus, The Wanderer
selected poems, stories, interviews, photos & more
…to 2007…final testament
(190 pages w/photos thruout)
Ron Whitehead
1 fields of purple morning glories
For My Children, Now Grown
fields of purple morning glories
love on a rainy day
My Beautiful Mutant
To Ballard to the wilderness we go
Dream
Your Breath
Christmas, the old ways, and you
old veins
I Strive No More 2 from Kentucky he came
Old Blue Got Run Over By A Coal Truck On Christmas
The Sound of Falling Snowflakes
Moonshine King Burgoo Queen
Searching For Abraham Lincoln
lost poem: intimations
3 driving 100 miles per hour on Bardstown Road with Allen Ginsberg
On First Reading Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD: Down and Out
in Kentucky: Part VII, For Madmen Only
Kerouac’s Daughter
Without Blinking: Zen & The Art of Driving 100 miles per hour past
Mayor Abramson & others from Twice Told Coffeehouse on
Bardstown Road to the airport, Part IV: Down & Out in Kentucky,
Allen Ginsberg: The Bridge
Calling The Toads: The Antinomian Fire This Time: Allen Ginsberg
ASHEVILLE: for Allen Ginsberg
Deep Appreciation by Bob Holman
Harold Maier Is A Hero Of Mine
From Hank Williams Grave to Insomniacathon 2003
Searching For David Amram
closing time
From Jack Kerouac’s Grave to Forecastle 2006
4 from Italy & Alabama to Kentucky & Beyond
An interview with Ron Whitehead by Jordan Green
An Interview with Ron Whitehead by Annalisa Papaleo
An Interview with Ron Whitehead by Foster Dickson
An Interview with William S. Burroughs by Ron Whitehead
5 i refuse
i refuse
This Is a Metaphysical Poem
A Prayer: after Burroughs
Gimme Back My Wig: The Hound Dog Taylor
& Hunter S. Thompson Blues
I Found Myself in Emptiness
virtual photons we
I Will Not Bow Down: global version
6 Creative Marriage
Creative Marriage
7 The Hunter S. Thompson Blastoff is Decadent and Depraved
en route to Owl Farm
Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson is Dead
The Hunter S. Thompson Blastoff is Decadent and Depraved
8 Can Art Matter? Published in Heaven: Blood Filled Vessels
Can Art Matter? Published in Heaven: Blood Filled Vessels
9 Literary Kicks
Literary Kicks: Who is Ron Whitehead? by David Minton 10 epilogue Riding With Rebel Jesus, The Wanderer
Riding With Rebel Jesus, The Wanderer
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.com
teabags on the ceiling
LIVE at THE RUD
(photo of Jim, Sarah, Carl, Andy, Ron in huddle at The Rud)
The Best concert I've ever had anything to do with. You've got to understand.
Since childhood I've attended, performed at, produced, and participated in
tens of thousands of concerts round the world. Last night, June 3rd 2007,
The Rudyard Kipling Benefit Concert was The Best.
The Best Concert of All Time.
There are many reasons why it was The Best Concert of all time. I'll name
a few. Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead are
my two favorite singers. They are two of The Best singers songwriters
musicians. But there is more. They have a rare necessary element: deep
passionate compassionate hearts. They have an innate inherent wisdom
that is both ancient and childlike. All those elements birth a charisma that
is electrifying. The energy at The Rud was electric. 4-hour concert. The
audience in rapt attention. There is more. The union of male (Jim) and female
(Sarah) energy produced a duet unlike any other duet, past or present. Plus.
No singers have the courage or ability to go where Jim and Sarah went at
the Live at The Rud concert. They covered the spectrum of musical genres:
from acappella mountain to oldtime to country to blues to jazz to folk to soul
to rock to R&B, from broken hearted spirituals to steamy romance, and more.
In one concert Jim and Sarah proved that they are master singers in any genre.
The audience was mesmerized. Not one person, including the performers, will
ever be the same. That includes Carl Broemel (amazing), Andy Cook (brilliant),
and me. The night was more than special, it was pure alchemy. We were
transformed transported to new realms. Spirit and sex became one energy.
The Holy Spirit The Great Spirit moved in us and through us. The Rud was
filled with angels with spirits. We heard angels sing, perform. We will never
be the same. My heart is open. Tears of joy. Amazing Grace. Thanks.
Ron Whitehead
June 4, 2007
The Highlands
Kentucky
AHA
(photo of Jim and Sarah on stage at The Rud)
"what is language but an experiment
an adventure a failed attempt to communicate.
i refuse all language barriers."
ron whitehead, poet
http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/
www.mymorningjacket.com
www.therudyardkipling.com
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
JUNE 2007
all tickets sold!!!!!!!
check out
www.mymorningjacket.com
&
Jim on Conan thorsday night
Jim James to play a Benefit For The Rudyard Kipling Featuring
Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead June 3, 2007
Jim James, contemporary magic maker and trailblazer to new musical territory,
will play a tribute to one of Louisville’s very own places of fantasy on June 3rd.
The Rudyard Kipling opened its doors in 1983 and has been an integral part of Louisville
music culture for the last 23 years. Spanning genres and generations,
The Rudyard Kipling has been a home to many legendaries:
Wynton Marsalis, My Morning Jacket, Ralph Stanley,
David Amram, The John Cowan Band, James McMurtry,
Damien Rice, Alexi Murdoch, and Josh Ritter, to name only a few.
In Ron Whitehead’s words,
“The Rudyard Kipling is like Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, only more intimate.
There are no barriers between artist and audience.”
The communion that is created during a Jim James solo performance will be enhanced
by sharing the stage with Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead as they are honoring
The Rudyard Kipling’s storied past and hopeful future.
Sunday, June 3rd @ The Rudyard Kipling
422 West Oak Street (near 4th street)
Louisville, Kentucky
502-636-1311
DOORS: 6pm
7:00pm Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead (Jim will join Sarah & Ron for much of their set)
8:00pm Jim James of My Morning Jacket
Ticket Price: $34 (all ticket price goes to Rud)
Tickets available at EarXtacy Records (only),
Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 12th, 10am!
Only 214 tickets will be sold!!
www.therudyardkipling.com www.mymorningjacket.com www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.wfpk.org
www.productionsimple.com www.earx-tacy.com
the bone man dances circles
round the subterranean gloom
paints pink & blue & purple
until he fills the room
with the smell of roses
and a pandemonium moon
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.kmud.org
Jim James to play a Benefit For The Rudyard Kipling Featuring
Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead
June 3, 2007
Jim James, contemporary magic maker and trailblazer to new musical territory, will play a tribute to one of Louisville’s very own places of fantasy on June 3rd. The Rudyard Kipling opened its doors in 1983 and has been an integral part of Louisville music culture for the last 23 years. Spanning genres and generations, The Rudyard Kipling has been a home to many legendaries: Wynton Marsalis, My Morning Jacket, Ralph Stanley, David Amram, The John Cowan Band, James McMurtry, Damien Rice, Alexi Murdoch, and Josh Ritter, to name only a few.
In Ron Whitehead’s words, “The Rudyard Kipling is like Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, only more intimate. There are no barriers between artist and audience.” The communion that is created during a Jim James solo performance will be enhanced by sharing the stage with Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead as they are honoring The Rudyard Kipling’s storied past and hopeful future.
Sunday, June 3rd @ The Rudyard Kipling
422 West Oak Street (near 4th street)
Louisville, Kentucky
502-636-1311
DOORS: 6pm
7:00pm Ron & Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead (Jim will join Sarah & Ron for much of their set)
8:00pm Jim James of My Morning Jacket
Ticket Price: $34 (all ticket price goes to Rud)
Tickets available at EarXtacy Records (only),
Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 12th, 10am!
Only 214 tickets will be sold!!
www.therudyardkipling.com www.mymorningjacket.com www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.wfpk.org
www.productionsimple.com www.earx-tacy.com
www.monkeydrive.net
the bone man dances circles
round the subterranean gloom
paints pink & blue & purple
until he fills the room
with the smell of roses
and a pandemonium moon
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.kmud.org
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APRIL 2007
M
oving
Mystery
Theater
& The
Rudyard
Kipling
present
PLOWED EARTH
a National Poetry Month Event
not-knowing is the fundamental plowed earth of our being
it is our life source
not-knowing
an evening of music & poetry
featuring
acclaimed mountain songstress
SARAH ELIZABETH
nobel nominated poet
RON WHITEHEAD
plus Guest Musicians Jeffrey Scott Holland, Will Ragland, Atticus Coleman, & others
Saturday, April 14, 2007
7 to 9pm
$7 cover
All ages
THE RUDYARD KIPLING, 422 West Oak Street (near 4th street),
Louisville, Kentucky, 502-636-1311
www.tappingmyownphone.com
(www.tappingmyownphone.com has new Christian Hansen photo)
April is National Poetry Month! & Baseball season begins!
hello folks! many updates.
The Wanderer Tour: from New York & Kentucky to California & Beyond was an amazing wild adventure! Special Thanks to fellow Wanderers Frank Messina, Tyrone Cotton, Andy Cook, & Christian Hansen for sharing the tour with us & to Robin, Bernie, & Isaiah Tichenor & to Dan & Mary Barth & David Minton & Dan Roberts & to all the open-hearted folks in Kentucky & California who came to our shows, listened to our radio programs, & welcomed us into their homes.
We love the beautiful nature & people of northern California.
We thank northern California radio stations KRUSH , KMUD , & KZYX&Z for playing our work, & Dan Roberts for recording our Saturday Afternoon Club in Ukiah show & for recording a 4-hour interview with us at his home in the redwood forest.
Ron's I WILL NOT BOW DOWN cd is presently #9 on KMUD's Top 30 cd list.
Ron's "Tapping My Own Phone" poem won both voting (People's Choice) & non-voting (Judge's Choice) categories in NYC's 2007 People's Choice Awards for Best Spoken Word Track.
During The Wanderer Tour recording, mixing, mastering was completed, by Jeff Carpenter at his Al Fresco Studio, for the new WALKING HOME: Frank Messina & Ron Whitehead with Sarah Elizabeth, Andy Cook, & Tyrone Cotton cd. photos, by Christian Hansen, from The Wanderer Tour Yosemite concert will be used for the cd. David Amram is writing a piece for the back cover.
WALKING HOME will be released in June. There will be release concerts in New York & Kentucky.
Sarah Elizabeth was recently featured in VELOCITY , the Courier-Journal's (Kentucky's main newspaper) weekly arts & culture newspaper.
Hope to see all of you at our PLOWED EARTH concert in Louisville, Kentucky at The Rudyard Kipling , April 14th, 2007. this will be an all ages show. bring the entire tribe.
Sarah will be in the recording studio throughout April & May working on two new solo cds. both cds will also include guest appearances by some of The Best singers & musicians on the planet. Sarah will release her two albums in September. my new book, THE WANDERER will be released in July. our Christmas album is scheduled for November release.
Many other exciting performance/tour, recording, writing projects are in the works so please stay tuned. Thanks!
Have a wild April!
Ron Whitehead
kentucky
April 2007
AHA
Ron & Sarah's books, cds, and t-shirts are available in the new Gift Shop .
Book Sarah and/or Ron Whitehead for 2007!
Booking, Purchases & more information:
email ron@tappingmyownphone.com
archives: March 2007
copyright © 2007 Sarah Elizabeth & Ron Whitehead
Official National Poetry Month Event:
Sarah & Ron @ The Rudyard Kipling Louisville, Kentucky
April 14th, 2007 7-9pm
www.tappingmyownphone.com
M
oving
Mystery
Theater
&
The
Rudyard
Kipling present
PLOWED EARTH
a National Poetry Month Event
not-knowing is the fundamental plowed earth of our
being
it is our life source
not-knowing
an evening of music & poetry featuring
acclaimed mountain songstress
SARAH ELIZABETH nobel nominated poet
RON WHITEHEAD
plus Guest Musicians Jeffrey Scott Holland, Will Ragland, Atticus Coleman, & others
Saturday, April 14, 2007
7 to 9pm
$7 cover
All ages
THE RUDYARD KIPLING, 422 West Oak Street (near 4th street), Louisville, Kentucky, 502-636-1311,
www.therudyardkipling.com
"Sarah Elizabeth's voice always sounds amazing and true."
Jim James
,
My Morning Jacket
"Sarah Elizabeth's mountain voice is like a Druid spirit summoning up the spirits and hants. She is a mesmerizing young performer with a gorgeous voice who comes from the places she sings about. Sarah is a natural, and just what the music world needs, a fresh pure unjaded voice in the Wilderness."
David Amram, composer, musician, author
"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."
Hunter S. Thompson, author
"Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet & artist
All ages show. Bring the entire tribe/clan. See you there!
www.tappingmyownphone.com
Official National Poetry Month Event:
Sarah & Ron @ The Rudyard Kipling Louisville, Kentucky
April 14th, 2007 7-9pm
www.tappingmyownphone.com
Ron Whitehead , september 2006
hello Family & Friends! terrible news is that yesterday someone attacked and destroyed our www.tappingmyownphone.com website. our (now former) webhost, Seanic, said that the website and their backup are mutilated so badly that they are not retrievable. we/they have no idea what hacker did this: individual? group? government? who knows. we sure don't.
we are both devastated. Sarah is distraught beyond words. she has worked on our site for three years. for the past year she's been working round the clock overhauling, updating, rejuvenating the site. i've had the site for 10 years and have put in uncountable hours on it.
this is the same as someone burning down your business. not only was our website a living history of our lives our work but it was also the means to our livelihood. as most of you know Sarah and I are poets writers singers musicians teachers. in today's global community a website, via the internet, is the channel through which contacts are made with folks round the world.
so much has been destroyed. we have no backup, no insurance.
we lost our photos, videos, reviews, our online store etc. we can't get them back. we didn't think we needed to have our own website backup cause we had been guaranteed, by the webhost, that they had a backup plus their security would never allow such a thing to happen.
now. what to do? we are discussing whether to wander into the wilderness and disappear or find a new webhost and webmaster (both from Kentucky) and rebuild and maintain a simple website that will present brief biographies and offer our books, cds, and other works.
we'll discuss this over the next few days then decide.
we're happy to say that friday night we're going to hear/see Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys at the old Bill Monroe homeplace, outside Rosine, Kentucky in Ohio County (where i grew up). then Saturday Sarah performs (i'll read couple pieces) at a festival in Carlisle County, far western Kentucky.
I appreciate your love, friendship, and support all of which has nurtured and sustained me/us for years and years.
love and blessings from Kentucky
Ron
p.s. ironically we'd just added our new Never Give Up (poem i wrote with
The Dalai Lama) t-shirt to the front page of the website.
p.p.s. regardless of who did this, or why they did it:
I Will Not Bow Down & i will Never Give Up!!!!!!!
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
www.tyronecotton.com
NEVER GIVE UP (poem) by His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Ron Whitehead
www.tappingmyownphone.com
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