John Cage Engaged and Uncaged (a poem by Jesus Crisis)
Sunken funkin' telepumpkin
Tell a country bumpkin who
I am
And then let him tell you.
Both will tell it true
Though their perspectives
Seem contradictory
I'm born of hickory
And rectory
Blind Bartimaeus and
Insightful inspectory
True tale and muddled myth
On an identical trajectory.
John Cage
Or someone like him
(is anyone like anyone
more than anyone is unlike?)
Said disharmony
Does not exist
And the peaceniks are pissed.
Corn isn't hominy
But hominy is corn
And care isn't clothing
Though care can be worn
And all can be born
And all can be torn
And loved and forlorn
And warned and scorned
And according to some bother
Or brother or other
Reborn.
Sunken funkin' telepumpkin
Born of a couch potato
And a pureed tomato
An almost dead and
Buried berater
Blind hate hater
Lover
Elater
Thin ice skater
War abhorrer
Saint and horror
Mental (and governmental)
Master baiter
And sooner or later
Repeat reincarnator.
I am a living death
An awakened dream
Ash unconsumed
And a silent scream
Reconcilable
So-called contradiction
And factual fiction
John Cage
Uncaged
Inadequately aged and yet
Timeless
A sublime mess
Subconsciously clothed and
Consciously undressed
Said worse and better are no
Less than best
Corn is hominy
And there is no disharmony
Only harmonies
To which our ears
(my dears) and our fears
Are unaccustomed.
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Influences through the course of my life (for better or worse, usually for better, and in no particular order) include:
You, Mom(s), Dad(s), John Lennon, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Fernando Pessoa, the Grateful Dead, Harry Eisel, Benjamin Hoff, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Clash, Jesus, Geri Lynne, Gary Numan, Buddha, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Dalí, Sylvia Plath, Lao Tzu, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Martin Petersime, Tim Shaffer, Helen Shepard, George Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Albert Einstein, John Cage, the XIV Dalai Lama, the Dead Kennedys, Ron Todd, Thomas Merton, Fritjof Capra, Henry Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jim Morrison, Pablo Neruda, Bill Clinton, Bill Hamann, bills to pay, Aunt Marlene, Uncle Bob, Jeff Hunsaker, Madeleine Trichel, Antonin Artaud, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Burroughs, Brian Eno, the Lorain County Sheriff's office, Arthur Rimbaud, the Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, John Barth, William Blake, Jimi Hendrix, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, William Carlos Williams, Van Gogh, d.a. levy. Steven B. Smith, Beethoven, Bertolt Brecht, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bertrand Russell, Debabrata Basu, Shakespeare, Richard Pryor, the great outdoors, Schindler's List, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, the State of Ohio, age, Jung, Starhawk, Purple Rain, my grandparents, the rest of my family, the Internet, the New York Times, public radio, MySpace, Miles Davis, Phil O'Malley, Bambi Perry, Walt Whitman, David Crosby, Neil Young, Socrates, Portishead, R.E.M., David Bowie, the Electric Light Orchestra, Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono, Elton John, N.W.A., H.D. Thoreau, the Bible, The Satanic Bible, Hesse's Siddhartha, The Great Gatsby, Osho, Howard Ellis, Nick Zentos, Gurumayi, Greg Corso, Bo Lozoff, rain, shine, West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Jo Davis, Ayn Rand, Jean Paul Sartre, the Cure, Johnny Cash, the Smiths, Joy Division, prison, Ohio University, Elroy Holt, the Clintons, Prince, the Beatles, Billy Idol, Lou Reed, John Cale, Patti Smith, Dennis Kucinich, Abraham Lincoln, Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq, the USMC, gas prices, dozens of holy and not-so-holy books, a zillion other people I've known to varying degrees, my hatred of hatred, and especially my love of love.
Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
Jeff Rantz talks to Paddy Noonan from www.IMRadio.com. IMradio is a true RADIO Station based on the Internet. IM Radio is a MUST Venue for Bands & Spoken Word Artists.
I Already Knew- Our Future,In Mine When I Was Only A Mere Child Myself... It is in my own Experiences I have the Knowledge to properly guide those who ask that of... Guidance. Never have Hate, Anger, Fear or Jealousy in your Heart...It Will do Not Harm, It Will MAKE you, very very Strong.... and able to stand your ground in all your endeavors....never be sad or bored, find something to deter all that... and this is why, My friend John... I'm a part of this life...of ours.
this avenue dark are playing the lightning run at the trading post. its on the corner of rt83 and rt57 just past the prison. $12 to get in or $20 per couple. admission includes food.
we play at 10:50 sharp!
also playing: ball and chain; dc carnes; pb&j; crosst!
