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From AA Archives 96 Review of Racecourse Exit:
"The sound of a Hydropods piece is positively hypnotic, and the observations in the poetry are deadpan and enlightening. Completely without pretense, Hydropods succeed because sometimes simple life is much more entertaining than stretching and twisting reality. I just want to keep riding along."
Hydropods, recent winners of the 2009 American Marijuana Music Awards for Best Poetry (announced at the Chicago Peace Fest), are celebrating the release of their new album, Gorilla and Poems of Pretense. Dubbed, “Chroniclers of Side-show America” by The Oregonian, Hydropods use “spoken words with music played” to take your mind to places you normally wouldn’t let it go without an armed escort.
HYDROPODS
Bio Sheet 2008
Hydropods are Gary Glover and John Dooley.
John Dooley~~~~
Dooley is an award winning poet and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. His written work has appeared in publications around the world, on-line and in print. He is the current Oddities columnist for the Coast to Coast AM magazine, After Dark.
Gary Glover~~~~
Glover is a multi-instrument musician with over thirty years of playing/recording experience.
He continues to work as a professional studio musician, producer and engineer.
Featured Guests: Poetry Podcasts~~~~
Indiefeed Performance Poetry, Sundown Lounge, Homegrown Programme Podcast (UK), ESC! Magazine's Coffee House to Go, Mystic Babylon, Shekky's Pirate Cat Radio, Slam Idol (UK), UK Poetry Podcast, BZOO Radio (UK), Rosedrop Media Circus, more.
Featured Guests: Broadcast and Internet Radio~~~~
Poetica—ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Company), Not Your Mother’s Poetry Show (Canada) CKXU, SpeakEasy Café—Blog Talk Radio, Off the Page KPSU, Talking Earth KBOO, more
Compilations~~~~
Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music for the Masses vol.2 (Weirdo Music, Netherlands), Vox Impopuli, Hemp for Victory (CM Records), Amerrickan Revolution Records.
Albums~~~~
Racecourse Exit (CM Records, Seattle), Ruth, Lost Chance Sessions, Vulture and Other Stories, Gorilla and Poems of Pretense.
Video~~~~
“Such Lofty Encounters (Rarely Forgotten),” animated by Cyril Victor, was a finalist in the 2008 Portland Mercury/Art Institute of Portland’s two-minute film festival “My Pretty Portland.”
Email: Hydropods@Comcast.net Websites: www.hydropods.net www.myspace.com/HYDROPODS
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Last night someone observed me sitting on the ground looking down, they asked, "What are you doing?" I said, "I'm having a conversation with an ant. People tire me. Conversations with people are predictable, I've held too many in my time."
I believe it was an ant – I can't be certain – but it certainly was my intention.
Someone next to me said "time is just a lie" and I had to laugh because lies are all I know to be truth it's a fact.
I do fly in my dreams, but my dreams are not fact, by my nature I'm not built to fly, but dreams exist in time and time is a fact is a truth that's a lie that I know.
If someone trod on you now, ant, I would feel sorrow for your loss. Would that sorrow remain as a trace in time?
If I died now as you work, ant, would it impact on your truth? Would my body be a lie? An obstruction must be fact. Would I remain as a trace in your time? Would that make me a lie?
Someone next to me said "time is just a lie" and I had to laugh because lies are all I know to be truth it's a fact.
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