TODAY SAGE WENT TO HIS FIRST PEACE MARCH.

WE THREE (SAGE, HIS MOM MONET & I) DEMONSTRATED PEACE, THE BEST WE KNEW, AS IN "BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO BE IN THE WORLD," AS MANY OTHERS PROTESTED AGAINST THE WAR. I WAS WISHING WE COULD HAVE A PEACE DEMONSTRATION THAT WAS QUIET & PEACEFUL. ARUN GANDHI, MAHATMA G'S 72 YR OLD GRANDSON WAS THERE, BUT WE DIDN'T SEE HIM. WE DID, HOWEVER, SEE SUZANNA STORM,

ROBERT ALLAN (WHO TOOK OUR PORTRAIT AT HOLLYWOOD & VINE), MELENA, CINDY SHEEHAN, RON KOVIC AND SOME OTHER INSPIRING SPEAKERS...THEN WE SAW MY OLD FRIENDS ROBERT ABRAMIAN (AT JOSEPH'S CAFE), JOE AND JOANNA GARCIA AND, AS WE WALKED TOWARD MONET'S CAR, PARKED IN MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, UP ARGYLE ABOVE FRANKLIN, I WONDERED ALOUD TO JOE IF CHUCK E. WEISS STILL LIVED THERE...WHEN OUT THROUGH THE GATE WALKED MR. WEISS HIMSELF, WHO SENDS HIS LOVE TO ALL (AND SAID HE MAY BE ABLE TO FIND ME A NEW PAIR OF PUERTO RICAN FENCE CLIMBERS.) HOW ABOUT THAT?

 
Brotherly Love

By Kevin Tillman

Editor's note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.


It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voiceŠ until we got out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that "somehow" was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman, Kevin Tillman

 






once upon a tiny pair of wings





i fell in love at first sight


as people say


they now do wih mine


with an ancient child


just three then


now ten times that number aspin


around the sun


this magical one


whose magical ride


has just begun





my healer


my soul baby


my dancer


still seeking the answer





let it be so


it's all in the mind you know





this visiting angel of angels


this rising autumn


this gift from the goddess


this imperfection flawless





my dear winged friend


this love with no end



this poem is your poem


my home is your home





always and forever


this beautiful soul


thy self heal


this elf feel


this star which is known


as miss autumn nicole





-----





many happy solar returns


from my soul to yours


one after all





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all this love



forever your friend


little teddy quinn


(sage, too!)

 



these were taken by jutta biggerstaff at the wild west coyote fest, at around noon saturday. we were listening to savya, mayah & charlyn throat singing and making other primal goddess chanting sounds, which were very soothing, whle sage & i played a game of 'put the rock in daddy's hand'. at one point, sage started singing along woith the women. i did a double take. yep, that was his voice, chanting, "mmmmm." then, after they stopped, he clapped - for the first time that i've seen.

last night, i was sad not to have him or his mom at my bastard sons of john lennon celebration at pappy's. alan bergman & i started the evening with a bunch of oldies: "i don't want to spoil the party," "i feel fine," "hide your love away" (dedicated to fred), "you've really got a hold on me," "nowhere man", "in my life." craig stark did a few solo, then tal hurley. then, shari elf did "imagine", with my plastic army band - and i did my little rap, which i wrote for telekin's song "imagination," all those years ago. then, my band tony mason, sam willmore, with alan on bass - and joined by clive wright unexpectedly on guitar (keep it simple, i always say) . we did my song "i dreamed i saw john lennon" as a medley with "working class hero," "stand by me," "don't let me down," "ballad of john & yoko," "cry baby cry," "come together," "tomorrow never knows" (in a medley with "i've got a feeling" - john's part anyway .."everybody had a hard year." etc.) and "give peace a chance," on which i rambled about the war for a little too long maybe, but it was real and mayah and others sang along.

love is all you need...

 
RUNE premiere

i'm very happy to have two of my songs
- "power struggle" & "sky cathedral (apologies to louise nevelson)" -
in this film & you can have it FREE starting tuesday 10/10/06...

the following is from the producers:
Hello!!!

Tomorrow is the big day! RUNE goes live EVERYWHERE. We hope everyone of you are ready with your video iPod to make history with the first feature film to premier exclusively on Apple’s video iPod. Download the entire film FREE for your iPod starting tomorrow!

BTW:
Here are a bunch of the stories and blogs that are writing about RUNE; some of them you can leave comments on. The more comments the film gets & votes & circulation, the more exposure the movie gets, the more it comes up on searches, the more people will know it’s out there & will know they can watch it FREE. You can help to Spread the Word about RUNE by leaving comments and circulating the stories to your friends or on your blogs or Myspace Bulletins. You can also check out the trailer & promo on You Tube and rate them! Check out the links below... Spread the WORD & enjoy the film everyone worked so hard on. Good job everyone!

NOTE: Some of the blogs you have to find “rune” because there are lots of posts. ALSO: We had little pass-along cards printed up that we would be happy to mail to anyone who requests them you can see what they look like here --> http://www.roxymarj.com/rune.jpg

Comments & Votes:

THE SCREENGRAB
http://www.thescreengrab.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e6471#6471

TOPIX.NET
http://www.topix.net/movies/pr?scoring=d

DIGITAL-WORLD
http://www.digital-world.com/archives/2006/09/indie_filmmaker.html

DIGG
http://digg.com/users/Matrixsjd/dugg

ARCHIVE.ORG
http://www.archive.org/details/rune_promo

YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/runethemovie

MACUSER
http://www.macuser.com/ipod/free_featurelength_movie_for_t.php#more


Stories about RUNE:

MOVIEWEB
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/01/14801.php

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/syndication/foxnow/News/film/display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003123971

NEWSGUIDE
http://www.newsguide.us/art-entertainment/movies/RUNE-to-Become-First-Ever-Feature-Film-Released-Exclusively-for-Free-iPod-Video-Download-Simultaneous-Download-and-DVD-release-October-10/

PRESS ENTERPRISE
http://www.pe.com/entertainment/quickhits/stories/PE_Fea_Ent_D_buzz921.23a9680.html

BACKSTAGE
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/multimedia/index.jsp

TECHIE BLOG
http://www.freewebs.com/technologicron (a blog)

PODCAST – INTERVIEW w/ THE FILMMAKER
http://www.lanceandgraal.com/ [see episode 54]

INDUSTRY PODCAST & INTERVIEW w/ THE FILMMAKER
http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/Archives/LiveThatWeek.php?date=2006-09-21

HOME MEDIA RETAILING NEWS
http://www.homemediaretailing.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?article_id=9706

 




photos didier chevalier

A SET FOR JONATHAN, MONET & SAGE. WILD WEST COYOTE FEST.
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER/DEATH OF COOL/MY SON (HADO)/*APOCALYPSE NO (AS A MATTER OF POLICY)/*IF U DO/ MAY YOU RIDE ... TQ, TONY MASON, SHAWN O'CONNOR, SAM WILLMORE *w TAL HURLEY &SHARI ELF. JOSHUA TREE, CALIFORNIA.

 
sunset & vine



anybody remember wallach's music city? it was hollywood's biggest music store, home of the teenage fair, record-listening booths and brian wilson's favorite place to take a date (you can see a little bit of it on the left). nbc, where steve allen hosted the tonight show, is a fancy bank now. sometimes i miss hollywood, but i miss a hollywood that doesn't exist, except in old pictures...

 

LIVE SHOWS ARCHIVED ON THE WEB FOR YOUR PLEASURE:

many thanks to music lover, engineer and archivist
tom scharff, who not only recorded my bands sets (along with cracker, camper van beethoven) at pappy & harriet's september 8th & 9th, but has now done all the work of archiving them online for our friends to download. please enjoy the shows and check out morst!

big thanks also to bugs salcido for loaning morst (tom scharff) the microphone used to record the sets 'live' to dat.

and thank you tyler huff for making the experience of archiving these shows so user friendly!

following is the band personnel for that weekend, set lists and links to the recordings.


ted quinn i rock n roll band:

ted quinn (little teddy quinn) : vocals, harmonica
(busted wrist prevents me from playing guitar right now!)
tony mason: guitar, backing vocals
kevin ritchie: guitar
shawn mafia (shawn o'connor): bass, backing vocals
sam willmore: drums (wham bam, thank you sam)
with
tal hurley, sue bradley: backing vocals (if u do, apocalypse no)

09.08.06

01. (crowd noise)
02. pilgrim (quinn/mason)
03. warrior (quinn/mason)
04. international harvester (quinn/mason)
05. (chatter)
06. lord protect my child (bob dylan)
07. (crowd noise/chatter)
08. i dream of sleeping (quinn)
09. (crowd noise)
10. if u do (quinn)
11. hey joe (william moses roberts jr.)
12. (crowd noise)

09.09.06

01. (crowd noise)
02.'welcome to pioneertown'
03. apocalypse no (as a matter of policy)
(quinn/mason)
04. death of cool (quinn)
05. boogie-satva (quinn/mason)
06. that's alright mama (arthur 'big boy' crudup)
07. the jean genie (david bowie)
08. (crowd noise)



Here are tips on what to do to send live shows
to the archive: SHOW PREP and
UPLOAD STEPS

Here are some informative links regarding the archive:
LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVES and FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
"HOW CAN I HELP GET BANDS INTO THE LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVE?"
and BROWSE LIVE SHOWS ARCHIVED ON THE WEB

Note that Bugs Salcido, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Greg Lisher,
Victor Krummencher, Jonathan Segel and his side projects are all here,
and you can click on their links to get to the actual shows! WOOHOO!

 
For Ted
10/1/06

You are so wonderful
A clear spirit that can't see itself yet
But we see you sweetheart
We see you

We see you struggling to see your wonder
And yet wonder just is
You need not worry to be
You are

Your broken wings
Just need mending, that's all
I've told you all along
To just stop flapping for a while

Let them rest, let them heal my angel
That higher skies await you yet
Let the others control the weather
While your fragile bones mend their place

And when the time comes by
That sweeps you off your feet again
You will weather the wind
And reach the heavens of your mind

- elia arce