Saturday, April 17, 2010
Truth, Blazing a trail without the tears to the Emerald Forest where the Green-Rushers go.
Follow the crumbs on the path that I forged for the taste of frontier and a life in the moment. "We can never tell what lies ahead," but a destiny shimmers like a light at the end of a tunnel.
Did I follow the light? I awoke in the room where the patients pass on. The blinds had been closed and the clock had no time. Drips through the needles of sedative flowed with a strap just as tight as my hastened down gurney. My will being pulled down through slow intravenous. My only support was a blue Velcro sling.
Worried? No. Uncertain... Yes.
I tore off quicker than a band-aid but absorbed sun and fresh air for health and endorphins. My life has gone west. I am gone and I left you with something. My exit was well timed considering I am new and alive, my book has been closed, and the mystery of my legacy will linger like sweet fresh tobacco in the humid downtown air.
Home sweet home & I can't keep away
Appointments - Keep Away
Signing off 'til the leaves change color.
Sweet memories
Follow the crumbs on the path that I forged for the taste of frontier and a life in the moment. "We can never tell what lies ahead," but a destiny shimmers like a light at the end of a tunnel.
Did I follow the light? I awoke in the room where the patients pass on. The blinds had been closed and the clock had no time. Drips through the needles of sedative flowed with a strap just as tight as my hastened down gurney. My will being pulled down through slow intravenous. My only support was a blue Velcro sling.
Worried? No. Uncertain... Yes.
I tore off quicker than a band-aid but absorbed sun and fresh air for health and endorphins. My life has gone west. I am gone and I left you with something. My exit was well timed considering I am new and alive, my book has been closed, and the mystery of my legacy will linger like sweet fresh tobacco in the humid downtown air.
Home sweet home & I can't keep away
Appointments - Keep Away
Signing off 'til the leaves change color.
Sweet memories
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sir Truth is history...
He has headed west; a promise far greater than gold. Scrambling for freedom in the spirit of the old rush, this neo-cowboy wanders the trail as far as the reaches of the Oregon stateline.
Rafino on the straight and narrows of Panama jungle, Cozmik & Tbaz breathing in a Parisian fairytale, and I living my own strange fantasy, ever knowing the footprints will someday lead back to you, the O.D.D.
This part of the journey will be documented a bit differently...
Please leave your footprints in the affectionate spaces below as I hope these songs, images, and memories will linger in my absence.
West ahoy!
Watts Elementary from Sven Ryelsdorn on Vimeo.
He has headed west; a promise far greater than gold. Scrambling for freedom in the spirit of the old rush, this neo-cowboy wanders the trail as far as the reaches of the Oregon stateline.
Rafino on the straight and narrows of Panama jungle, Cozmik & Tbaz breathing in a Parisian fairytale, and I living my own strange fantasy, ever knowing the footprints will someday lead back to you, the O.D.D.
This part of the journey will be documented a bit differently...
Please leave your footprints in the affectionate spaces below as I hope these songs, images, and memories will linger in my absence.
West ahoy!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Thank you, Madison Ave., for an excuse to post the songs that have made humans such a grossly overpopulated specie.
Here are a few ballads made possible by Love in its infinite power.
Caution! These tracks contains extremely heartfelt content.
Listen with care.
Howard Tate - Get It While You Can
Joe Tex - That's The Way
Chuck Henley - Standing In The Need Of Love
Classic.
I'll give these awhile to sink in with you soul babies.
Until next time, live, love life, and be free.
Here are a few ballads made possible by Love in its infinite power.
Caution! These tracks contains extremely heartfelt content.
Listen with care.
Howard Tate - Get It While You Can
Joe Tex - That's The Way
Chuck Henley - Standing In The Need Of Love
Classic.
I'll give these awhile to sink in with you soul babies.
Until next time, live, love life, and be free.
Galaxies Colliding
Greetings Sir Truth and fellow readers. Follow the holy writ of CozmikGangsta here.
As members of ODDcrew begin missions to various parts of the world, now more than ever must they stand united.
Trek on, brothers.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Another wintry composition separates snowfall from the blacktop.
Sir Truth has begun a pursuit of the foreign media outlets upon realizing that his door-to-door approach is minimally bleak. The local Indy may shed some light on our ODD's and ends; small stepping stones in the stream of the masses.
While Madison Avenue toils over their Day of Valentines I sit in the lap of love. Me and baby, baby and me, and what does it make me? The Godfather of Truth. Oh how the title has grown.
From my home to yours, a soul cut that pops, cracks, and, sizzles
breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
Johnnie Taylor - Love In The Street
Sir Truth has begun a pursuit of the foreign media outlets upon realizing that his door-to-door approach is minimally bleak. The local Indy may shed some light on our ODD's and ends; small stepping stones in the stream of the masses.
While Madison Avenue toils over their Day of Valentines I sit in the lap of love. Me and baby, baby and me, and what does it make me? The Godfather of Truth. Oh how the title has grown.
From my home to yours, a soul cut that pops, cracks, and, sizzles
breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
Johnnie Taylor - Love In The Street
Monday, February 8, 2010
Why do the Gods of weather confound us so?
Truth hears the pleas of his people and has resolved to discuss the matter directly with the woman in charge. Mother Nature is not a vengeful woman nor does she experience the cyclical emotional offsets of her female progeny.
She is, however, experiencing the struggles of aging. The world turns, and bless her, she tries to keep up. She has given me some sound advice as to how she can be preserved in these late years and I agreed I would lend a hand.
Before the night is over I will have documented our encounter.
"Let me know if I come on too strong."
Joe Simon - Before The Night Is Over
Truth hears the pleas of his people and has resolved to discuss the matter directly with the woman in charge. Mother Nature is not a vengeful woman nor does she experience the cyclical emotional offsets of her female progeny.
She is, however, experiencing the struggles of aging. The world turns, and bless her, she tries to keep up. She has given me some sound advice as to how she can be preserved in these late years and I agreed I would lend a hand.
Before the night is over I will have documented our encounter.
"Let me know if I come on too strong."
Joe Simon - Before The Night Is Over
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Painting words and watching music with a finished film to make us proud.
The book of faces loves its newest short release. It happened so fast I never knew. The ground is white and the streets are sand slushy but a day ago we wore shorts and ran through the Durham like a gym routine.
I am sore and in need of some soul.
William Bell - Any Other Way
The book of faces loves its newest short release. It happened so fast I never knew. The ground is white and the streets are sand slushy but a day ago we wore shorts and ran through the Durham like a gym routine.
I am sore and in need of some soul.
William Bell - Any Other Way
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Faster than a speeding locomotive & able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Sir Truth finds his greatest adversary in a race against himself. Bent on discovering the worlds driving force but only so far as his legs can deliver. His wiry frame is reduced to a blur under concrete statues that cower like skyscrapers. He is winded, restless, anxious, and unaware that his very own heart palpitates an answer to the most difficult question of all.
I finally got myself together; I know just who I am.
The Impressions - I'm A Changed Man
Sir Truth finds his greatest adversary in a race against himself. Bent on discovering the worlds driving force but only so far as his legs can deliver. His wiry frame is reduced to a blur under concrete statues that cower like skyscrapers. He is winded, restless, anxious, and unaware that his very own heart palpitates an answer to the most difficult question of all.
I finally got myself together; I know just who I am.
The Impressions - I'm A Changed Man
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Out with a Bang!
Sir Truth never abandoned you so much as he did himself.
At the dawn of the new decade it seemed the street prowling, ruffian of all faces had vanished. I remember signing a guest list as the ball plummeted in the direction of Earth. The ragtag lost & found generation had finally found some footing in the speakeasy of America's heartland, Durham.
A dream deferred is still a dream. I was still a dancer worthy of mustering the meanest mugs from onlooking hubbies. The ground still shakes under the beat of the never tiring Hammer. We had even been blessed with the gift of our Japanese friend from the other end of the Sidewalk.
I have spent an eternal wait hoping to find my own copy of this disco classic, but only Youtube will grant my fix for babyback bass and a voice like a baby Don Cornelius (just guessin').
At the dawn of the new decade it seemed the street prowling, ruffian of all faces had vanished. I remember signing a guest list as the ball plummeted in the direction of Earth. The ragtag lost & found generation had finally found some footing in the speakeasy of America's heartland, Durham.
A dream deferred is still a dream. I was still a dancer worthy of mustering the meanest mugs from onlooking hubbies. The ground still shakes under the beat of the never tiring Hammer. We had even been blessed with the gift of our Japanese friend from the other end of the Sidewalk.
I have spent an eternal wait hoping to find my own copy of this disco classic, but only Youtube will grant my fix for babyback bass and a voice like a baby Don Cornelius (just guessin').
Sunday, December 20, 2009
-Lonely Mansion
Sir Truth watches the slushy snow drifts build.
Throwing slush balls at the occasional car on Gregson.
A sickly dog in the basement a senseless zombie only conscious of smell. Dragging its matted fur limbs in a circle of death.
The chandeliers hang low and the many remotes are indecipherable. A small robot cleans the floors in an organized chaos that no human could plan for or understand.
The holiday parties are singing their carols and drinking their mulled ciders and nogs. I clutch a champagne of beers, hardly a celebration, but a good place to begin.
Evil is not the only one who seeks company.
So much room for thoughts to live; a basement, veranda, foyer, garage, empty without my presence and energy. A ghost would not seek the kind of solitude in which I find myself.
The space is like a chair with no one for sitting; a park with no kids, or a castle without its king.
JJ Barnes -Snowflakes
Sir Truth watches the slushy snow drifts build.
Throwing slush balls at the occasional car on Gregson.
A sickly dog in the basement a senseless zombie only conscious of smell. Dragging its matted fur limbs in a circle of death.
The chandeliers hang low and the many remotes are indecipherable. A small robot cleans the floors in an organized chaos that no human could plan for or understand.
The holiday parties are singing their carols and drinking their mulled ciders and nogs. I clutch a champagne of beers, hardly a celebration, but a good place to begin.
Evil is not the only one who seeks company.
So much room for thoughts to live; a basement, veranda, foyer, garage, empty without my presence and energy. A ghost would not seek the kind of solitude in which I find myself.
The space is like a chair with no one for sitting; a park with no kids, or a castle without its king.
JJ Barnes -Snowflakes
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
-Turkey
mmm... just a relish gravy dream.. melted between soppy sweet taters.
Laura Lee - Two Lovely Pillows
Holiday Hibernations from a Humbled Humbug
mmm... just a relish gravy dream.. melted between soppy sweet taters.
Laura Lee - Two Lovely Pillows
Holiday Hibernations from a Humbled Humbug
Monday, November 16, 2009
-The Joyce
Truth and La Sweat receive their payback in the order of an open ended bar tab.
We were there, by ourselves, waiting to have a go. Too old to be young and too young to be old. Our repertoire grew and our contacts did too; soon the famous unknown would be ours. The ears of isosceles had paid their respect and the lost souls were finding their meeting point.
Ibsen once wrote, "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone."
The oddballs, lost souls, and dreamers alike are all gathered in collective isolation. Like the ODDcrew, spread on the map, once again to find ourselves in,
"this hailstorm of emotions called companionship!"
Carvin & Cliff part deux
Truth and La Sweat receive their payback in the order of an open ended bar tab.
We were there, by ourselves, waiting to have a go. Too old to be young and too young to be old. Our repertoire grew and our contacts did too; soon the famous unknown would be ours. The ears of isosceles had paid their respect and the lost souls were finding their meeting point.
Ibsen once wrote, "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone."
The oddballs, lost souls, and dreamers alike are all gathered in collective isolation. Like the ODDcrew, spread on the map, once again to find ourselves in,
"this hailstorm of emotions called companionship!"
Carvin & Cliff part deux
Bobby Thurston - Foolish Man
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
-JACKPOT
More music, less words, ODDviewers happy...
Chi-Lites - There Will Never Be Peace
This comfortable classic made for the highlight of Jay-Z's career (his false retirement stunt on the Black Album)
Note* Truth digs the Reasonable Doubt and Hard Knock vol. II
Candi Staton - Sure As Sin
Candi is a queen in her own right but was wed to the king himself, Clarence Carter.
Bobby Womack - Fly Me To The Moon
Unable to retrieve the version with blasting horn refrain but still a classic cut
Darker Shades Of Black - And Then You Came
Soul Scholar, Sir Shambling, still seeks info on this cut. Hope it reaches the right ears. I still have a lot to learn...
More music, less words, ODDviewers happy...
Chi-Lites - There Will Never Be Peace
This comfortable classic made for the highlight of Jay-Z's career (his false retirement stunt on the Black Album)
Note* Truth digs the Reasonable Doubt and Hard Knock vol. II
Candi Staton - Sure As Sin
Candi is a queen in her own right but was wed to the king himself, Clarence Carter.
Bobby Womack - Fly Me To The Moon
Unable to retrieve the version with blasting horn refrain but still a classic cut
Darker Shades Of Black - And Then You Came
Soul Scholar, Sir Shambling, still seeks info on this cut. Hope it reaches the right ears. I still have a lot to learn...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
-Skatepark
Truth slices the proverbial ribbon with Mayor Bell and 600 kids at the foot an excellent kicker!
Youtube has begun to surface footage of kids taking their very first runs on the park. The question on everyone's mind: where are the prizes? Having participated in the event; it felt only natural to receive a nominal compensation.
Perhaps free passes, an interview with a Troika representative, maybe even a free deck was in order. None were to be found. It is as the saying goes, "When you do something right no one remembers."
That said, thanks to Morgan (our Bookie who skated during sets), JFatz (the self proclaimed local celebrity), and The Wigg Report (especially the percussionist), for keeping the balance when the going was tough.
Eric Chen with photos and video soon!
Schiller Street Gang - Remind Me
Truth slices the proverbial ribbon with Mayor Bell and 600 kids at the foot an excellent kicker!
Youtube has begun to surface footage of kids taking their very first runs on the park. The question on everyone's mind: where are the prizes? Having participated in the event; it felt only natural to receive a nominal compensation.
Perhaps free passes, an interview with a Troika representative, maybe even a free deck was in order. None were to be found. It is as the saying goes, "When you do something right no one remembers."
That said, thanks to Morgan (our Bookie who skated during sets), JFatz (the self proclaimed local celebrity), and The Wigg Report (especially the percussionist), for keeping the balance when the going was tough.
Eric Chen with photos and video soon!
Schiller Street Gang - Remind Me
Thursday, November 5, 2009
-Meyers Park
Truth stands, rake in hand, as the wind blows and the pile of leaves continues to grow.
On the other side of the Piedmont, student Fellows, begins the laborious task of film editing. The aesthetic director of the group has been given the task of materializing a collective vision.
While back at home, the Mid-grade Lifestyle has become a self fulfilling prophecy; lost with the beat of no drum and no drummer. How will Troika respond?
So many questions
so little time...
???
Question Marks - Ain't That Sad
Truth stands, rake in hand, as the wind blows and the pile of leaves continues to grow.
On the other side of the Piedmont, student Fellows, begins the laborious task of film editing. The aesthetic director of the group has been given the task of materializing a collective vision.
While back at home, the Mid-grade Lifestyle has become a self fulfilling prophecy; lost with the beat of no drum and no drummer. How will Troika respond?
So many questions
so little time...
???
Question Marks - Ain't That Sad
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