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...and they lived happily ever after. Smith & Lady: poets, artists, photographers & adventurers.
Our relationship was forged to the soundtrack of Yoko Ono's magic,
frenetic, love-laden song, "Walking On Thin Ice." ( play song )
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Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Friday, July 30th, 2021
*If you look at the world . . . most people in it are the ones we can only refer to, rather nervously and gingerly, by means of those terribly melodramatic and almost hysterical words like “wretched,” “miserable,” “unfortunate,” “desperate,” “powerless,” “poor.” . . . And these particular people — and, you know, God knows why — well, they just don’t like us. They don’t like us. They simply don’t like us. So it’s not hard to see what will happen one day.*
– from The Designated Mourner,” a play by actor / playwright / director Wallace Shawn
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
bison onto shuffalo . . .
Your Mama Won’t Like Me – Suzi Quatro
Poverty Train – Laura Nyro
I Was in the House When the House Burned Down – Warren Zevon
Colour Blind – Poly Styrene
On My Radio – The Selectors
Stuff Is Way – They Might Be Giants
Little Liars – Ida Mae
Speak Out – Rising Appalachia w/ Ani Difranco
Devil’s Got Your Boyfriend – Tracy Bonham
Strong Feelings – Dry Cleaning
Woman – Susheela Raman
Trillium – Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band
If Jesus Drove A Motor Home – Jim White w/ Aimee Mann
The Reoccurring Dream – Joni Mitchell
Shoo Lie Loo – Ranky Tanky
Finger Pies – Anika
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Lady used to call herself the Plant Kevorkian cuz she killed any green she touched, which is odd since Green is one of her maiden surnames.
But since we moved into this 140 yr-old house with a bit of backland, she’s taken up gardening and landscaping. She’s begun slate paths, built a brick patio for our beehive, dug a small fishpool, is bricking the firepit area, and is growing all kinds of plants, flowers, fruits, and veggies.
This is our first winter-spring-summer here, and she’s already transformed the place. Who knows what next spring will bring.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
weird shuffled edge, middle, old . . .
Glueland – Do Nothing
Money Jungle – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Mainline Prosperity Blues – Mimi & Richard Farina
Bill Gates – Critters Buggin
A Swamp Dog’s Tale – Goat Girl
Istanbul (Not Constantinoble) – They Might Be Giants
Gimme the Car – Violent Femmes
Rhumba Blues – Little Willie Littlefield
I’m Waiting for the Man – The Velvet Underground
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
The Snake and the Moon – Dead Can Dance
Misterioso – Thelonious Monk
Hell on Heels – Pistol Annies
The Protege – John Cale & Terry Riley
Boogie in the Dark – Jimmy Reed
Monkey in a Silo – Jim White
God is God – Juno Reactor
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Ralph Philip “Pappy” Smith, 1922-89
Dad dead 32 years.
Wish I’d known him better, but I left home at 17, ignorant.
We loved each other. But while I respected him, he found me weird. When I mentioned I’d made the Dean’s List at Loyola College, he said he couldn’t respect me because of my shoulder-length hair. He later upgraded me when I started getting newspaper and magazine articles on my art and poetry.
He was a brick-block-stone mason, and I made good money summers as his hodcarrier from 14-17.
Pappy was a good man. Honest. And funny. Folk liked and trusted him, were talking of running him for local office.
Lady thinks I get my sense of humor from him. Some of these fotos suggest that may be true.
1st foto below is his contribution to my 1975 art journal.
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
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Lady started doing comix during our 2006-9 living outside the U.S.
Here’s the 3rd of her 4 comics, titled How We Hooked Up. Could be from southern France 2007 or Mexico 2007-9… post 4th comic tomorrow.
This one begins “When I first heard Smith I thought he was one sick fuck. His poems were filthy. But admirable. He came to readings wearing 20 year old enigmatic t-shirts and black jeans and reeking of marijuana. He looked like an extra for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.”
So she can’t say she didn’t know what she was getting into when we hooked up 16 years ago.
Click on link to read comic; the link for succeeding pages at bottom of each page.
http://agentofchaos.com/comix/howwehookedup.php
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
Doing chores this rainy Sunday… I’m washing the bed sheets, cleaning up the kitchen dishes, charging the batteries and our doorbell – while Lady is out in the garage trying to organize the chaos from our October move… bit of gender reversal here.
3rd foto is one of her collages — The Smithsonian Experience
2nd is with her rescue golden labrador Marlowe
1st foto I can’t remember
 
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
THESE 3 fotos are parts of the comic pages… click on link to read comic
Lady started doing comix during our 2006-9 living outside the U.S.
Here’s 2 of 4, from when we lived in southern France for 2 months in 2007… post the next 2 one-a-day.
THESE 3 fotos are parts of the comic pages… click on link to read comic
http://agentofchaos.com/comix/smithvslizards.php
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Saturday, June 26th, 2021
unsubtle shuffle
Bad Kitty – Liz Phair
Switch Blade – Duke Ellington
Hoochie Woman – Tori Amos
I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
John/Joseph – The Narcotix
Strong Feelings – Dry Cleaning
Agnostic Preacher’s Lament – Todd Snider
Burning – King Buffalo
Fistful of Glass – Tal Wilkenfeld
Crying Lightning – Arctic Monkeys
Mockingbird Hill – Les Paul & Mary Ford
Brotherman – John Cale
TV Spot (Apr. 71) – Can
Egyptian Blues – Ellen McIlwaine
Path of Wellness – Sleater-Kinney
Strange Girl – Laura Marling
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