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Saturday, November 07, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
schizoidman - foto by SmithSince we've expended nigh 9% of the 21st century already, here's a 21st Century poem I wrote back in the 20th Century. 21st Century Schizoid ManI’ve got certified rats in my rafters Of legally voided mind waste So excuse please these cancerous laughters This spewing of petrified paste Vague seekings through demented hereafters I can’t find my mind’s been misplaced Electron wails mournful my nay brain Err trails its zinc aftertaste This drivel due mad jolting sane pain Embraces thy sameness posthaste Dying I burp up my madness again I can’t find my mind’s been misplaced of when of where of what am i o god of whom of why for seeketh then thou me thou see the be that thou belie - Steven B. Smith, 1973I wrote this in Loyola College in Baltimore after reading Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The poem's three stanzas each represent one second: 1 - The second before electroshock therapy 2 - The second during electroshock during which the brain is scorched and the patient dies 3 - The second after electrodeath as the confused soul rises from the dead body into the aftermath. I stole the title from a King Crimson's song of the same name on their 1969 album In the Court of the Crimson King. I don't often explain poems because what I put into them frequently doesn't equal what people will see or read in them since we each bring our own experience, expectation, perception and view to the equation. This is just to show you what I was thinking at the time. Whatever poem you read here is just as valid as the poem I wrote. no place like om - foto by Smith
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Friday, November 06, 2009
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Category: News and Politics
X - You are here - foto by Smith This has nothing to do with me or mine except for my brain loving the alien beauty of it, but here are 18 gorgeous high-speed close-up fotografs by Corrie White of milk drops falling into water and splashing up.
telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6507577/Splash-Droplets-of-water-and-milk-photographed-by-Corrie-White-using-a-macro-lens.html
And that should make up for this, my latest headline harvest from this soap opera mill we call life on Earth in the early 21st century.
~ ~ ~ Dead Bunny Toss Canceled, Town Outraged Man Stuffs Mouth With 16 Cockroaches In Record Bid The Unusual Sex Lives Of Sea Horses Deer Swims Laps In North Carolina Pool DOGS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING Dog Spends $62 While Owners Sleep Why Don't We Eat Pets? LED Eyelashes Put A 'Twinkle' In Your Eye What Do Blind People See When They Dream? Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility? "Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease Bolivia's Witch Markets Offer Llama Fetuses And More Most Halloween Candy "Demonic," "Prayed Over By Witches" Muslim Woman Slashed Husband's Throat For Being Too Western 77-Year-Old Man Beats Up Mugger With 2-Liter Bottle Of Pepsi Is Junk Food As Addictive As Heroin? Epic Forklift Crash Ruins Estimated $150,000 Of Vodka, Cognac Sex without nippless Dick Cheney Ogled My Wife's Breasts Breasts On Phone Bill: Customer 'Flashed' By Topless Photos Jeremy Piven: Soy Milk Gave Me Man Boobs Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson Talk Big Boobs Nicole Kidman: I Tried 'Strange Sexual Fetish Stuff' Man Gets 3 Years In Prison For Having Sex With A Horse may u live in interesting times - foto by Smith Lady made this gif for me out of 2 of my fotos
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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Category: Life
shadowbath - foto by SmithLady lamented things were getting a bit too surreal with her failing computer. I replied I loved milk and surreal with bananas. She called me a "silly man." Now I'm thinking that would make a great book title. Or a poem line. Or the name of a law firm. Or a comedy team. Maybe a rock band. Milk, Surreal & Bananas. Be a great way to lose weight as well - call it the Seriously Surreal Diet. shadowbath - foto by Smith
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Category: Art and Photography
west north wall - foto by SmithHere are five of Lady K's pieces, three made in Croatia in early 2007, two in France from late 2007. I taught Lady my collage/painting/assemblage secrets January 2006 and she immediately started creating top-shelf pieces with her own vocabulary and got her first piece in an art show 3 months later. She had her first one-woman show in October 2007 when we returned to the U.S.A. the first time (she sold 6 or 8 pieces, more than I ever sold in a show). I've taught two others my art tricks of the trade - my suicided brother Cat Smith and my dead mom Mother Dwarf. Both had serious shows and good press along the way - and like Lady, mom always sold better than I did. In all three cases, a lot of folk prefer their art to mine. Offworld V, 2007, 9" x 14", Lady K, Croatia - foto by Smith Offworld IV, 2007, 9" x 12", Lady K, Croatia - foto by Smith Future Fact I, 2007, 9" x 12", Lady K, France - foto by Smith Black Leather Jacket, 2007, 9" x 12", lady K, France - foto by Smith Offworld II, 2007, 6" x 12", Lady K, Croatia - foto by Smith
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Category: Art and Photography
The Three Ways of Water, 2003, 19" x 23", Smith - foto by SmithPaint and corrosion applied in thick layers with repeated iridescent white water washes. Highly textured. The grayish blob near the center is translucent, looks like ice. The three ways of water are solid, liquid, gas. Bar Code, 1997, 36" x 24", Smith - foto by SmithI found these two ceramic color swatch test slabs in the garbage, glued them down and splashed paint all around to create my idea of a psychedelic bar code. Madison Avenue, 1996, 17" x 21", Smith - foto by SmithThat's Tammy Faye Baker's face in the middle from a 45 rpm record I had of her singing "The Ballad of Jim and Tammy" (written and produced by Tom T. Hall, for you old country fans). The shiny pieces are mirror shards and holographic jigsaw puzzle pieces. The blue is copper corrosion. sitting room, northwest wall - foto by Smith
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Monday, November 02, 2009
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Category: Life
quantum Smith blue state - foto by Smith. . . and they say I'm insane EVER NOWI'm normally normal but just not now and it's always now there're two times: there's now, and not now today, and not today it's never tomorrow that's why I'm nearly normal nominally now - Smith & Lady 2005 quantum Smith red state - foto by Smith
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
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Category: Life
     Cleveland fall to winter - fotos by Smith
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Hollywood - foto by SmithMovies help form public opinion, so let's see which films have so resonated with the public mentality that they've spawned innumerable sequels, prequels and remakes, thus morphing into Famous Film Franchises. It's somewhat scary that there have been 6 Rockys and 4 Rambos, but at least some serious quality triumphs with the five Attacks of the Killer Tomatoes. (This list is an amalgamation of several online lists and may contain serious errors - after all we all know the internet lies. I did spot checks and frequently got dissimilar answers from different sites.) Sherlock Holmes - 98 different films Tarzan - 89 Hopalong Cassidy - 66 The Three Mequiteers - 51 The Bowery Boys - 48 Charlie Chan - 47 Godzilla - 34 Carry On - 31 Blondie - 28 Range Busters - 25 The Lone Wolf - 24 James Bond - 23 Scoobie Doo - 22 Taboo - 22 East Side Kids - 21 Barbie - 20 Debbie Does Dallas - 20 National Lampoon - 18 Andy Hardy - 17 The Falcon - 16 Jungle Jim - 16 Dragonball Z - 15 Little Tough Guys (Dead End Kids) - 15 Mickey Mouse - 15 Keystone Kops - 13 Land Before Time - 13 Mothra - 13 The Muppets - 13 Friday the 13th - 12 Gamera -12 Pokemon - 12 Winnie the Pooh - 12 Asterix - 11 Dr Slump - 11 Henry Aldrich - 11 Pink Panther - 11 Star Trek - 11 The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley - 11 Young and Dangerous - 11 Halloween - 10 Ma and Pa Kettle - 10 Nightmare on Elm Street - 8 Batman - 7 Police Academy - 7 Star Wars - 7 The Howling - 7 Alien - 6 Harry Potter - 6 Hellraiser - 6 Planet of the Apes - 6 Rocky - 6 Saw - 6 Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 6 The Thin Man - 6 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - 5 Benji - 5 Child's Play - 5 Death Wish - 5 Dirty Harry - 5 Ernest - 5 Hannibal Lecter - 5 Herbie the Love Bug - 5 Night of the Living Dead - 5 Superman - 5 The Exorcist - 5 American Ninja - 4 Amityville - 4 Die Hard - 4 Final Destination - 4 Highlander - 4 Indiana Jones - 4 Jack Ryan - 4 Jaws - 4 Lethal Weapon - 4 Predator - 4 Psycho - 4 Rambo - 4 Scary Movie - 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 4 Terminator - 4 The Bad News Bears - 4 The Fast and the Furious - 4 Flash Gordon - 4 <<< The Karate Kid - 4 The Lord of the Rings - 4 The Mummy - 4 The Omen - 4 Vacation - 4 X-Men - 4 3 Ninjas - 3 American Pie - 3 Austin Powers - 3 Back to the Future - 3 Barbershop - 3 Beverly Hills Cop - 3 Blade - 3 Bourne - 3 Care Bears - 3 Crocodile Dundee - 3 El Mariachi - 3 Evil Dead - 3 Free Willy - 3 Friday - 3 Home Alone - 3 House Party - 3 Ice Age - 3 Iron Eagle - 3 Jurassic Park - 3 Look Who's Talking - 3 Mad Max - 3 Major League - 3 Meatballs - 3 Missing in Action - 3 Mission: Impossible - 3 Ocean's 11 - 3 Oh, God! - 3 Pirates of the Caribbean - 3 Poltergeist - 3 Porky's - 3 Resident Evil - 3 Return of the Living Dead - 3 Robocop - 3 Rugrats - 3 Rush Hour - 3 Scream - 3 Shrek - 3 Smokey and the Bandit - 3 Spider-Man - 3 Spy Kids - 3 The Godfather - 3 The Matrix - 3 The Mighty Ducks - 3 The Naked Gun - 3 The Santa Clause - 3 The Work and the Glory - 3 Transformers - 3 Transporter - 3 Underworld - 3 Witch Mountain - 3 out of odor - foto by Smith
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Category: Art and Photography
Southwest corner of our sitting room - foto by SmithSeems to be a paucity of words in my mind lately, so here's some art from wife, dead mom and me. The cylinder on the floor is a play tunnel for our cat.
K59, 2006, 12" x 17", Lady K - foto by SmithThis is the first piece Lady had in a show - and it was stolen by the gallery owner over a dispute with the curator. The day after the opening, the owner locked the gallery and took all our art down to Akron. It took a lawyer to get it back. We used this piece as the back cover art for ArtCrimes 21.
Offworld, 2006, 16" x 24" x 2", Lady K - foto by SmithThis is one of her Liznjan, Croatia, pieces she mailed back to the States. A gorgeous piece.
Exxon Spawn, 10" x 14" x 10", Lady K - foto by Smith Lady made this one down in Oaxaca, Mexico, using a handmade paper mache Donald Duck mask and some trash found along side the highway.
Cactus Dreams, 24" x 28", 1999, Smith - foto by SmithThis is my interpretation of a hallucinogenic peyote cactus dreaming it's a human.
Paper Work, 9" x 13", 2003, Florence "Mother Dwarf" Smith - foto by SmithOne of Mother Dwarf's many fine pieces.
The Great War (front), 16" x 13" x 5", 2003, Smith - foto by SmithA two-sided stand-alone. This side features some large gas jets I found on the road and my painted perception of the steel mills down in the flats producing molten steel. Also represents either sunrise or sunset.
The Great War (back), 16" x 13" x 5", 2003, Smith - foto by SmithThis is the backside - it's as complicated as the other side is simple, and as dark as the front is light -- "night" to the frontside's "day".
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Category: Romance and Relationships
Smith - foto by Smithme and she
and Lady - foto by Smith
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