Burkhart
Fred Burkhart
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46 years without a paycheck... living as an artist & icon
Male
68 years old
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
United States
Last Login: 12/13/2009
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| General | It's All Good
| | Music | Yo... I'm still listening to the Ancient Music, with ears not yet transistorized. | | Movies | Life is a movie, or so you would think from everybody acting like Robert Deniro's character, or one of the well-paid & syndicated Friends, or acting like King Kong wih his pants hanging down around his crotch, spittin' and gruntin' and pawin' over some dumb blonde chick. Jesus... whatever happened to people acting like themselves instead of acting like actors that are going out of their way to act like the ordinary people that are watching them act? Well, Jesus... what ever happened? | | Television | I saw my first television when I was adopted into the middle class at the age of eight (1949). And boys and girls... was I ever shocked when I got to my new parent's house and saw the two of them just sitting there in a trance, with their black and white television on low and patterning the nerve speech. | | Books | The Alphabet in all its many forms and extensions. | | Heroes | Those who are institutions unto themselves. |
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | This One For Now | | Body type: | 6' 2" / Average | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | Life & Death |
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The Burkhart Underground -- Closure at last!
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Burkhart at 65
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8 WEIRD THINGS (for Kenya)
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About me:
I'm responsible for and amazed at what goes on in my home...
As a 21st Century Creator, I invite and I guide...
As an old man, I teach and I learn...
From the youth I am reborn...
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And now a Word from our Sponsors
Visit my site Visit the Original Burkhart Studios and learn about an independent Chicago Cultural Institution, the Burkhart Underground, where I have been privileged to hold court for 22 years, promoting as well as assimilating the music, poetry, art and life of some of Chicago's most wonderful people -- and some of its worst! Check out the Art Gallery & Coffeehouse, and then learn about the very precious Trinity Valentine, my 22-year-old daughter, and how her love is the substance out of which my Home was created and is daily maintained. And of course, learn about me. I did... and boy, was I ever surprised! The fact that a depraved, despised and derelict nobody could rise above the desolation and achieve the status of icon and teacher is still one of the greatest miracles of our Age. Go now, my children, and enjoy one another...
Burkhart has entered his 68th year and devours it with vigor!
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Who I'd like to meet:
With the internet so enticing, why meet anyone... I rode on Ken Kesey's Magic Bus, dropped reds with Jim Morrison (he didn't even know I was in the room, and I didn't even know who he was at the time), discussed art and alternatives to suicide with Jack Kervorkian, kissed William Burroughs on the cheek but turned down the joint in his hand, roomed in the 60s with Zappa's Susie CreamCheese, survived the Ku Klux Klan's attempt on my life, chilled with Black Muslim musicians and Christian Pentecostals while healing, had my honor defended by Lydia Lunch, shared cameos with Nick Zedd in an art/porn film, photographed Jerry Springer when he was still the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (and paying for prostitutes with checks!), lived with whores and convicts in the streets and in the jails, painted my way out of prison never to return, raised some children and helped maintain some communities, continued to expand this eternity to include you in all my dreams and prayers...
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