Friday, November 14, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
My Back Pages - An Anthem
Recorded in October, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Poetry by Greg Sellers
Weltschmerz
Published in the Zócalo Public Square
This much I'm sure. It is hard to believe
Published in the Clackamas Literary Review
For more about Greg and more of his poetry.
Check out Greg's blog:
http://memoryslandscape.tumblr.com
Monday, December 9, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Amy Greene is back!
Amy and her husband, Adam, live in Eastern Tennessee with their two children.
- Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on February 25, 2014.
- Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on February 25, 2014.
- Other Formats: Audio CD
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Old, Old Print Ads
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
A Compelling Tribute.
by Barry Basden
Shiloh
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Friday, October 5, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
"Lemonade Stand" Music St. New Orleans, 1948
Attribution: Bill Creevy
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
"Whiter Shade of Pale" – a timeless favorite
NPR's All Things Considered, April 15, 2009 - Procol Harum's classic "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has just been named Britain's most-played song in public places in the past 75 years.
Annie Lennox does a great cover of the song, too.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Midnight, Mississippi
Although Midnight is unincorporated, it has a zip code of 39115. Population in 2010 was less than 200 people.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
Click on: http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Lovely West Texas Photography.
Beautiful West Texas Photography
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
"Bastard Blue" by Murray Dunlap.
"Bastard Blue" is available at Amazon– in both hard copy and the Kindle edition – and bookstores everywhere.
What those who know are saying:
“Forged with a poet’s attention to cadence and rhythm, a storyteller’s devotion to character, and tension that just keeps ratcheting up, Bastard Blue is finally a love story, between a young man and the place that made him, the southern culture that proves to be both a blessing and a curse. Murray Dunlap is a brave writer, and an honest one; the lives he portrays here are as heart-stoppingly authentic as his prose is dazzlingly beautiful. He serves up everything I want in a story: compassion, humor, substance and style.”
Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
"Yes, Bastard Blue is a first book but there’s more than promise on display within its pages. This collection introduces us to a fully realized talent. Murray Dunlap’s voice is confident, his characters richly drawn, his sense of place as vivid as you will find in fiction. Sentence for sentence his prose is crisp and direct, edged somehow with both menace and hope. He has a knack for creeping up to sentiment in his stories without crossing the line, leaving only genuine, well-earned emotion on the page. This book is so fine somebody should offer a money back guarantee."
-Michael Knight, author of The Typist
"If possible, read Murray Dunlap’s Bastard Blue in a Louis XV style chair, near a subtle fire, or in an Adirondack chair, between peach and dogwood trees. Reading his stories is about as close to having a storyteller there—present, in the room--as I know. This collection is full of heart, mischief, and sly winks. What a grand triumph."
-George Singleton, author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Falling Slowly – the song
Used Prose Poem II
I will undo you. I will do it single handed like I might a button on a collar. And I will watch you as you, like a collar, spread apart. And I will hear your breath’s soft whistle as you pull the air inside you. And I will know your eyes are closed. And we will.
Afterwards, because we swore we wouldn’t, your expletives will sting like hornets. And we will swear we won’t again.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Martha Markline Hopkins's Art.
"One Wire,"
My piece chosen for the exhibition "Bare Essentials: Minimalism in the 21st Century" at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, Nov. 4 - Dec. 22, 2011. Note that though it shows masculine austerity and uses industrial materials, it also has expression shown through the history of other movements of the wire. The addition of expression is a quality I expect to see in many if not all of the works in this upcoming show.
"One Wire," 12" x 12" x 2, Canvas on Board painted with Rabbit Skin Glue, Wire, and Tacks. (Click on image to enlarge.)
A companion piece: "Four Wires":
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
"Losing My Religion" – R.E.M.
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion by WBRNewMedia
The video is based in part on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" which tells a story about an angel who falls down from heaven and how people make money displaying him as a "freak show." Michael Stipe is a big Marquez fan and the song's whole idea of obsession and unrequited love is based on the central theme of the author's masterpiece, "Love in the Time of Cholera". The video was also heavily influenced by the art of Caravaggio and by the sensibilities of film director, Tarkovsky
Sunday, July 24, 2011
From Ghost Town To Havana – a film
A new documentary film being made by Eugene Corr.
"In the summer of 2006, three unarmed kids were gunned down on an Oakland street. Roscoe Bryant, 44 at the time, ran out of his house. One of the boys, Thomas, 15, died in his arms. Roscoe, the father of two boys himself, decided he had to do something. As an alternative to the gangs and violence engulfing his Ghost Town neighborhood, he started the Oakland Royals baseball team. We've been following the story of Coach Roscoe and his players for the past three and a half years." – Eugene Corr
I have long been touched by the despair that resides in the sad existences suffered by inner city kids, who, through no fault of their own, with no nuclear family and no role models except "Rap Stars", drug dealers and other criminals in their respective communities are presented with nothing positive and useful upon which to base their futures.
I believe a compelling lesson can be learned from Eugene Corr's film, “From Ghost Town To Havana” and that is that, if the sad, dangerous and wasteful things are going to be changed in the many neighborhoods like Ghost Town (this film focuses on West Oakland, California, but there are Ghost Towns in every one of our larger cities), mentors are needed and needed badly. The film's purpose is to show that more Roscoes ( learn about him in the trailer) can make a difference.
I spent the week of July 10 – 15, in Berkeley, California, pro bono, to learn more about the film from "Gene" and his associate producer and its needs – which as you might expect is money, needed to complete the full translation from Spanish and final editing. The film's cost was front loaded and still needs about $200,000 to finish with the translation and final editing so it can find a public audience with PBS, HBO or other similar venues.
If you find "From Ghost Town To Havana" can be an important vehicle to make a difference and you can make a 501(c)(3) tax deductible contribution, we will be grateful and hopefully some kids will have a better shot at improving their lives through the film's mentoring objectives.
I invite you to review this inspiring film’s trailer here: