Sometimes it's just me. Spoken word stories some short some longer.
I'm in a group with two friends too, Afrosaxon and Stac. The three of us together go by the name of AFROBEAR and I love it.
Influences
Glensford Gardener, Teodosia Gardener, Geoff Hogan, Diego Armando Maradona, Dennis Bergkamp, Kaneto Shindo, Jim Sheridan, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Paul Schrader, Zvladimir Boban, Dejan Savecevic, Marcel Desailly (but only in midfield), Edgar Davids (at Milan), Roberto Baggio, Louis Sachar (not Louis Sahar), Charles Bukowski, J.D Salinger, Steven Seagal, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Pryor, Rakim, Lenny, Haruki Murakami, Oliver Jeffers, KRS, Like Water For Chocolate, Jazzanova, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Ruby Tuesday, Enjoy the Silence, Terry Callier, Jehst, Michel Gondry, Kim Trusty, Steven Zaillian, my West Indian childhood, my irish side, white rum, my girl, Karl Marx, The Marx Brothers, The Incredible Hulk, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Eddie Murphy, Jet Li, George Axelrod, Way of the Dragon, Night time, the bath, money, a sense of legacy, Fried Plantain, people I know.
In 1979 a boy was born with an overly large cranium.
Doctors at the time considered a diagnosis of ‘Water on the Brain’ but the young boy seemed to respond well to stimuli and was sent home with his mother. Over the following 7 years the boy developed a style of living which incorporated certain allowances for his oversized head, these included; standing at the back in group photographs, not standing in the line of the sun whilst around sunbathers and avoiding running downhill. All seemed normal until in the summer of 1986 the young boy witnessed two events that changed his life forever.
The first was the artistic expression of Diego Armando Maradona. The second was an hour long documentary about the Arctic Circle narrated by David Attenborough. In the space of one week the young boy became obsessed with two things, Polar bears and the majesty of a perfectly executed pitch-long dribble.
Around about the same time the boy’s mother began to notice an interesting phenomenon. Her son’s specially constructed balaclava seemed to be less tight and he seemed to leave his horizontal TV-watching position with greater ease on Saturday afternoons after A-Team.
She took her son to her Doctor who told her that a shrinking of the cranium was a near impossibility and that there must be some other explanation for her perceptions, wishful thinking perhaps. Unconvinced, she took him to a reclusive Wizard who operated in the area under the guise of a ‘Holistic medicine Practitioner’. The Wizard examined the boy closely over a period of three days, setting the boy numerous tasks and puzzles.
After the three days the Wizard showed the mother his composed dossier on her son. It stated that the young boy possessed immense physical skill, observation and rhythm, that seemed to be the result of the slow release of an unknown ‘essence’ from his brain. It seemed that the boy was able to capture the heart of a story and, using balance, rhythm and skilful delivery, somehow relay that story back in a mazy run that defied restraint.
The Wizard told the mother that this was the reason for the reduction in her son’s head size. When the mother expressed concern for the long term effects of the condition, the Wizard reassured her that if what he believed was true, then upon reaching puberty her son would develop a means of sustaining this essence, with one proviso, he must be given some means of artistic release. The mother agreed and went out and bought her son his first pencil and notepad. She thanked the Wizard for his help and before she left asked him about her son’s fascination with Polar Bears. The Wizard replied,
'All gifted souls must choose their own ideal physical form.
Your son has chosen wisely’.
I have ideas and write them down and move around while I say them.
From the 2nd city of Birmingham.
I like peach cobbler and Maradona
I don't like costume drama or saltfish.
Thanks for passing through and listening.
Safe
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.- Pavese
May you embrace the river of life on this eve and may it's currents drag you off to such a beauty of a place that the only wish sufficient is to stretch the remainder of the day into the eternity of dreams...
I hope all is well and good and I just wanted to let you know I've just put up a new track called ECHO so I thought you might want to have a listen. :o) It's just the instrumental version I did not long ago but I do have a full section of vocal to arrange into this track so I'll keep you posted on the outcome! :o)
I appreciate your time and support and any comments posted.
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