Henry Long
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Henry Long
- WILMINGTON, Delaware, US
- Last Login: 12/26/2009
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Music Player
Interests
General
ART - POETRY - FILM - MAGIC - ALCHEMY - LOVE
Self-Portrait with Goat (with apologies to Picasso)
THIS IS WHAT INTERESTS ME:Slow motion lighter
Henry Long at Grand Opera House Art Opening
Photographed by Marianne DagesMusic
(These words are from a recording of Iggy Pop talking on a chatshow from the 70's. It was used by the band Mogwai for the song "Punk Rock" on their 1999 release "Come on Die Young.")
"I'll tell you about Punk Rock. Punk Rock is a word used by by dilettantes, and uh, and uh, heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts, and the souls, and the time, and the minds of young men who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it."
"And it's a, it's a term that's based on contempt. It's a term that's based on based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll."
"I don't know Johnny Rotten but, but, I'm sure, I'm sure, he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius: Myself. And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And uh, when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about?"
"Have you ever, have you ever felt like that, when you just, when you just, you couldn't feel anything and you don't want to either, you know, like that. Do you understand what I'm saying sir?"
Daniel Johnston
www.rejectedunknown.com
Butthole Surfers
www.buttholesurfers.com
Others include (but are not limited to) the following:
Terry Allen, Arab Strap, Devendra Banhart, The Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Chuck Berry, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Built To Spill, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Alice Cooper, Bo Diddley, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Drake, Dreamies (Bill Holt), Bob Dylan, Eels, Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators), The Frogs, P.J. Harvey, Iron and Wine, Skip James, Lemonheads (+ solo Evan Dando), Liars, Aimee Mann, Dean Martin, Mazzy Star, Melvins, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Monkees, Monks, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Wil Oldham, Pavement, Pixies, Iggy Pop, Radiohead, The Ramones, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Jimmy Scott, Empty Shapes, Slint, Elliot Smith, Patti Smith, SMOG, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Cat Stevens, Stooges, Moe Tucker, U2, VU, Scott Walker, Warlocks, Ween, White Stripes, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin (+ solo Page & Plant), Old Country (Tex Ritter, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Johnny Cash, Guthrie, etc.) Old Jazz (Miles, Mingus, Monk, Parker, Coltrane, Clifford Brown, etc.) & anything else that gets my attention and manages to keep it, including many myspace musicians who are doing it themselves, everyday, one song at a time... Bravo!)
Movies
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Most BBC Masterpiece Theater stuff. All those wonderful Dickens novels turned into mini-series. The HBO series Rome. Period pieces about Queens, Kings and English History. Shakespeare. Jane Austen. The Bronte sisters. Old movies... my wife and I love watching every black and white classic ever made through Netflix. Bogart. Hepburn. Cary Grant. Betty Davis. You know, fast talking high-pants stuff. It's our entertainment.
Gummo remains in my top 10 favorite films of all time...
The Angel & Daniel Johnston-Live at the Union Chapel Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKlqqV5hsIkA true genius and a film which is true labor of love. I cannot wait to see this!!!
The Angel & Daniel Johnston Live at the Union Chapel Trail 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoFJKqKHnxQTelevision
Watching mice is better. Television takes away your power. Turn it off, or turn it on its side and just leave it on for a nice blue radioactive nightlight. Better yet, throw it out the damn window.
“So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth. But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even 'think' like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF..."
-Howard Beale "Network" 1976Books
"So, she leaning on her husband's arm, they turned homeward by a rosy path which the gracious sun struck out for them in its setting. And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!"
-Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
We stopped at perfect days
and got out of the car.
The wind glanced at her hair.
It was as simple as that.
I turned to say something--
-Richard Brautigan, "We Stopped at Perfect Days."
Heroes
Athena, Diogenes, Picasso, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Campbell, William Blake, Charles Dickens, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Andy Kaufman, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Patti Smith, P.J. Harvey, Mary Shelley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Captain Kirk, Daniel Dale Johnston, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and The Fantastic Four.
Myspace Tracker at
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Daniel Johnston Monster Inside Of Me Eric Fensler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdofYR_LKBA
FANTASTIC FOUR w/ BILL MURRAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKUp3lP2jSc
I'M MAKING MY LUNCH!!!
Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Wilmington Delaware Now. Born in Ashley Pa.
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 6' 4" / Slim / Slender
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Other
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Artist/Poet/Writer/Teacher
Schools
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Wilkes University
- Wilkes-barre, PA
- Graduated: 1984
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Bachelor of Fine Arts / Painting
- Minor: English
- Clubs: Art, Manuscript Society,
1980 to 1984 -
Hanover Area Jshs
- Wilkes Barre, PA
- Graduated: 1980
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
- Major: Art/English College Prep
1975 to 1980
Companies
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- Wilmington, Delaware US
- President and Founder
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Blurbs
About me:
WWW.HENRYLONG.COMHenry Long
Create Your Badge..
Emma and I under my art at Home Grown Cafe. (Photograph by Marianne Dages 09/09)
Black Lodge Henry Long: Berlin, Germany 2009. (Photograph by Francesco D'Isa 07/09)
TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU IN THE END
Reading poetry at the Newark Brew Ha Ha 12/19/08
Henry Long is a painter, writer, poet and photographer. Born in 1962 and raised outside of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Henry displayed impressive artistic abilities from an early age. He was awarded the Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts Scholarship at 14, and began taking college level art classes that same year under the mentorship of Berenice D’Vorzon at Wilkes University.
Working in a highly personalized style combining figurative, mythic, cultural and alchemic imagery, Long uses a variety of mixed media to bring forth his poetic, wry and emotionally charged visionary pieces. He has shown in hundreds of one-man exhibits and group shows, and his works are displayed in numerous private and corporate collections.
He has given art instruction, and has taught "Experiencing Art Through Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth” for Wilkes University, the Delaware Art Museum and the Grand Opera. He has designed many covers for CD’s, book jackets, posters and T-shirts, and has also written extensively about that fellow Cartographer of the Heart, musician and artist Daniel Johnston. He is the recipient of many grants and awards for his painting, works on paper and photography, as well as the Delaware Division of the Arts 2002 Individual Artistic Fellowship Grant as an Emerging Professional in Poetry. He has given hundreds of public readings of his writing and poetry, and has won many slams, although he no longer competes.
Three brand new chapbooks of his poetry are now available in a signed limited edition. (See below for more information). A collection of short stories will be published sometime in 2009, as will his new collection of poetry, "Comedy/Tragedy/Poetry."
He continues to create and enjoy life along with his wife Emma Etain Long, also a painter, in Bellefonte, Delaware. They are happy. They like rodents. A lot.
"Bellevue" - (Cover) 2007 Fabriano Tiziano, Fabriano Ingres, Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell, black walnut dye, linen thread, acrylics, and letterpress. 9" x 6" $60
"Bellevue" is a limited edition book of three poems by Henry Long, designed, printed, and assembled by Huldra Press Fall, 2007, at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
All the text and illustrations were printed letterpress on a Vandercook press. The illustrations are original linoleum cuts. The text is set by hand, letter by letter, using lead type. The font used is 12 point Centaur. The covers are handpainted and dyed with black walnut.
"Bellevue" was printed in a limited edition of 30. Every copy is numbered and signed by Marianne Dages and Henry Long. Please contact Henry Long directly through myspace, www.henrylong.com, or www.mariannedages.com for more information about this book and how to acquire it.
Emma and Henry Long
Henry Long reading at Test Pattern, Scranton Pennsylvania.
Photograph by Marianne Dages
"Chocolate Grinder" by Henry Long (mixed mediums on canvas)Nick Cave and P.J. Harvey - Henry Lee
Who I'd like to meet:
Henry Long has two new poetry chapbooks available:“Goat Love,” 40 pages of poetry inspired by Nature and Human Nature.
And
“(Y) A Collection of Poems from the 1992-2007 Chapbooks,” 15 years of poetry collected into one volume, culled from his ten chapbooks and his many popular public readings.
To purchase your signed limited edition copies,
contact Henry Long at WWW.HENRYLONG.COM
Each book is $10.00, including shipping and handling.
Paypal, check, cashiers check, money order or well-hidden cash sent through the mail accepted.
Yes, there is overseas shipping. Include a little extra to cover additional mailing costs. Or send something cool from your country along with your payment.
"4:32" by Henry Long (mixed mediums on canvas)Friend Space (Randomized)
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Sharks and Seals
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Stan
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noise-gate(new songs on…
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Stewart Home
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Jul 20 2009 5:00 PM
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Jun 17 2009 11:46 AM
Hey there,
Here's one from left field...
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Help to raise awareness.
Say have you checked out my web site recently?
Take care and keep in touch.
Best,
Faber.
"Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
May 28 2009 7:37 PM
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May 24 2009 2:13 PM
Good to have you as a friend!
So great to see the internet in action this way, shortening distances between people.
I hope all's well with you and that you enjoy checking out my web site some time.
For occasional, new, refreshing, insightful and (possibly?!) valuable content, I encourage you to sign up for my free newsfeed/email newsletter (using the form on site at page right - high quality, low quantity, no spam!).
You might enjoy watching some of my films (use the on screen controls to skip between them):
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Take care and keep in touch.
Best,
Faber.
"Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
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Mar 20 2009 3:40 AM
hey! look what I found :)
Mar 18 2009 6:26 PM
Then I saw your picture and i was like "wow i like this alot, who is this guy"
so i did a search on google and looked at a few sites and looked at your paintings and then i found your myspace so i added you =].
i didnt know that was a cover of your book, but now that i know that its a book im gonna go look for it on ebay =]
Mar 18 2009 2:19 AM
a little gift <3 to my good friend who understand me