According to Bartlett’s Quotations, the shortest poem in the English language is called “On the Antiquity of Microbes.” It goes like this– “Adam / Had ’em.”
Yup, that’s a short-ass poem.
Reportedly, Muhammad Ali trumped (sorry, no other term comes to mind) that poem with — “Me? / Whee!!” , as witnessed by renown poet Marianne Moore and The Paris Review editor, George Plimpton.
Here’s a scene from a comedy I wrote and directed, which takes the piss out of the acting industry–THE MADNESS OF METHOD, starring one of my favorite peeps ever…the talented and beautiful European actress, Elena Stark!
Has it really been almost 43 years since the death of one of my most influential archetypes. Strange to consider that his death marked the era of my birth. I would have enjoyed meeting him that’s for sure. More ironically, growing up I remember not being willing to perform his tunes in public. At the time I was always trying to establish my own way. My sound. Little did I know he’d already done that for me. Young and dumb…young and dumb.
Now that I’ve outlived the master, I can only dream of what life would have been had I only embraced the sonic spirit thats been at my side the last 25 years. Old and wise…old and wise.
There’s really no excuse to not vote particularly with technology on your side! As for me, I’ve managed to get my vote in on the last 3 elections despite being thousands of miles away on voting day. So, whats stopping you?
Recently my girl Susy’s band U17 needed a drummer on short notice because theirs went away on vacation. Since drums are my favorite instrument and I rarely get to play them (never owned any) I jumped at the chance to sit in. Of course I didn’t know that singing was part if the deal. LOL!
At any rate I’m happy with the result despite never having sang (nor played) any Tina Turner song before and we all got along famously! Here’s the result!
I meant to post this song a few weeks ago and somehow never got around to it. This is the 1st song I wrote in 2012 titled, appropriately enough, “happy new year”. Well, better late than never!
The 1st file is an MP3 and 2nd file is a quick video I made using the actual fireworks that I experienced celebrating 2012 New Year’s. The cool thing about those fireworks is that it’s the 1st time I’ve ever been above the fireworks looking down and on occasion many of the blasts exploded on the same floor as our hotel suite, overlooking downtown Hamburg.
Anyway, I hope you like this song. Admittedly I was a little insecure about it but I tested it with a few friends and everybody said it was cool. So, there you have it. Happy new year!
I was told to remove the content I recently produced and published here on MY WEBSITE which documented my first Casting Show experience. It was harmless enough. Basically video of my long train journey, audio from my singing moment and relevant images. Plus, the tail-end of some girl that sang before me and didn’t make it to another round.
Anyway, I NEVER READ the DOs and DON’Ts and documenting and sharing ones own personal experience is a DON’T apparently. Therefore, the content is not visible to the public. I do not subscribe to Censorship and in this case, I’ll take blame for not reading the fine print, as it were.
FOR THE RECORD however, I’m complying as to spare an Associate of mine from any stress that’s arisen from my BLOGGING. So, I hope EVERYONE is happy now and that peace once again blankets the planet.
Yeah, I tweeted a few days ago about getting off my ass and trying out one of the um-teen Casting Shows dominating the planets entertainment spectrum. It seems to be about the only way to reach a load of people since Goddess knows record companies aren’t doing a damn thing developing markets for artists. At any rate, I DID IT and now when I bitch about it (as I have and will continue) I can speak first hand, LOL!
Here I am off to AND THE WINNER IS. My journey is all in German folks but the images will still give you an idea what a nightmare this whole entertainment system really is. Pity that the brilliant veterans that have already paid their industry-dues for decades, still have to result to this. I sure met enough of them while I was there! Hang in there gang! Don’t let the hordes of whining, talentless Teens bitching and moaning about how long they’ve waited and wanted and dreamed and worked for their stardom. Can I puke now?