So I'll be having artist, architect, and autism advocate Laura Nagle be working in the classroom on Monday. She is an amazing woman, and I can't wait to have her electric personality and creative energy around the studios!

Here's a brief biography on Laura, written by Laura:

"I am now in my mid fifties. Although I was diagnosed as autistic while still in elementary school, I had no memory of this. Until I self diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome several years ago, my life has been a blind exploration of autism. I firmly believe that I might have been able to accomplish more with my time had I been aware of my deepest self and been able to develop a life to fit. However, not all has been bad. I own a small architectural business in Williams, AZ. I am self sufficient-at a low level perhaps-but still living without assistance. My goal is to use my life's experience to assist others on the spectrum to live better lives, and to be part of the founding of autistic culture."

John Schaffer just recently made a documentary on Laura. Be sure to check out this site for more info on Laura and John's film Vectors of Autism.

 

"Self Portrait" -Laura Nagle

Trying to convince my boss that this is one of our new Hozhoni T-shirts.

art by Kristen Schott.

“Lick it good. Suck this pussy just like you should. My neck, my back; lick my pussy and my crack.”

—	Sylvia Plath

The Escorts - All We Need (Is Another Chance)

So The Excorts literally tried to sing their way out of Rahway State Prison (NJ). All seven- Reginald Haynes, Lawrence Franklin, Robert Arrington, William Dugger, Stephen Carter, Frank Heard, and Marion Murphy, with assistance from producer/writer/singer George Kerr- were serving time for various felonies and somehow hooked up with Kerr who was allowed to bring recording equipment into the slammer, which accounts for the less than sterling quality of their tracks; Kerr recorded The Escorts in prison then sweetened the tracks on the outside.

Get Your Grave On

(3 more tracks recorded in 1975 were added to this reissue in the early 90's)

Morning Sun
Initations
The Hunter
Ohrwurm
Please Günter Play The Bass
Little Giant
*Funky Stadtkommandant
Grave Boogie
Hey Little Lady

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oh, and just one more thing...

Here's a little bit more for you.

More Lead Belly:


The Blackhands do a pretty good cover of this. Also check out a compilation called Root Damage. I wish I had this album to share, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the HTML. SRY DOODZ.

Elizabeth Cotton:



The Ragtime guitar legend wrote this beautiful song when she was 12 years old. Total classic.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Elizabeth Cotton - pt 1
Elizabeth Cotton - pt 2


 A short film:
 The Land Where the Blues Began a 1979 film by Alan Lomax

Huddie Ledbetter, or better known to the music world as “Lead Belly” was born January 20, 1889, in Mooringsport, Louisiana  as the only child of Wesley and Sally Ledbetter. As a young man he was introduced to the guitar by his Uncle Terrell Ledbetter and from that moment he was electrified by the guitar and its sound. He learned to play the accordion, mandolin and piano as well. Which gave him a wide knowledge of various musical instruments and rhythm. It has been said that one day Lead Belly witnessed a Mexican guitarist playing the twelve string guitar which struck his interest in mastering the unusual guitar with 12-strings.

He later became known as the “King of the 12-string Guitar” and “Stella” is what he affectionately called his guitar. Music was his way of expressing what was written on his heart and soul. At an early his father’s farm at an early age to pursue his music. Huddie traveled to Texas playing his guitar and even became friends with the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson. He worked as as laborer doing jobs such as cotton picking, farming and lining the railroad tracks.

Lead Belly once said, “When I play, the women would come around to listen and their men would get angry.” In 1918, he was wrongfully convicted for murder in Dallas and sentenced to thirty years in the state prison in Huntsville, Texas. In 1925, he wrote a song asking Governor Pat Neff for a pardon. Neff, who had promised at his election never to pardon a prisoner, broke his promise and set Lead Belly free. Back on the road with many new songs he had learned or written in Texas, Huddie again found enthusiastic audiences throughout the south. But, as the center of admiring crowds, he was again the target of envy and jealousy. In 1930, after a racial fight at a party, which was likely in the Jim Crow south he was sentenced to another prison term in the infamous Angola Farm prison plantation in Louisiana. In a way, this was a stroke of luck, because he was recorded by folklorists John and Alan Lomax, who were recording folk songs for the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Lead Belly was pardon in 1935, joining John Lomax and his son Alan, they showcased Lead Belly to northern audiences where he played on college campuses like Harvard, Princeton, and NYU. Internationally he was received with great acclaim as a famous singer of American folk songs.

WNYC Radio interview by Henrietta Yurchenko with Alan Lomax on Lead Belly (mid '60's) & an unaired radio show with songs by Lead Belly presented by Woody Guthrie (1940)...

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me in any situation of any romantic potential.

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love this movie

spending my Saturday afternoon watching my favorites before I take them to Bookmans.

Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

look just like springsteen today- the only difference is that I have scotch tape holding my shoe together.

 Drank 2 much coffee I think - painting/drawing/sculpting/surfing 

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  Diggin' this right now.

You Dropped a Bomb on Me

This hobby no longer belongs to the bored seniors in nursing homes and those spinster aunts with seven cats! Yarn boming has taken crochet from the sad slump of cultural obscurity to the forefront of public art. Poland-born and Brooklyn-based Olek (real name Agata Oleksiak) has forced her way into the art and commercial spheres through this new genre.

The Polish artist is featured in 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. The D.C. Gallery will show Olek’s Knitting is for Pussies. The piece, previously displayed in New York’s Christopher Henry Gallery, features an apartment entirely covered (including its residents) in yarn crocheted with text and entrancing patterns.

Olek also (allegedly) yarn bombed the National Academy of Sciences Albert Einstein Memorial in pink and purple with dashes of black and teal: a lighthearted work that would perhaps make the eccentric scientist chuckle.

 

 Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)

Bangs on Beef

Thinking of an old friend today.


When I am an Old Man

When I am an old man,
I hope I am not bitter.
I hope I never criticize
The younger generation
Without first remembering
What it was like to be young.

I hope I am not bored,
Or disillusioned, or grumpy.

I hope I have exactly
As much money
As I have now
(under $1000).

I hope I don’t own
Any property
Or status symbols
Like a nice car.

I hope I still seek out
New music every day,
Write every day,
Care about art.

I hope,
By the time I am an old man,
That I have written books
And taught a lot of students
About writing.

I hope I have wisdom
And compassion
And an open mind
And heart.

I hope,
When I am an old man,
I can say with sincerity,
“I followed my dreams,
And I never gave up.”


poetry by jesse la tour

Bad Brains formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk. The band developed an early reputation in Washington D.C., due in part to the relative uniqueness of an entirely African-American band playing punk rock, but also due to their high-energy performances and undeniable talent. In 1979, Bad Brains found themselves the subject of an unofficial ban among many Washington D.C. area clubs and performance venues (later addressed in their song, "Banned in D.C."). The band subsequently relocated to New York City. The band's classic and current lineup is singer H.R. (Human Rights), guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Daryl Jenifer, and drummer Earl Hudson, H.R.'s younger brother.  Their self-titled first album is universally regarded as a punk rock classic.

Ok, less talk, more action! let's get nice & rowdy listening to a few classics: 

 

HULKSTER SUNDAYS BROTHER!
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 enjoy your day jabronis

They must be related. Anyway, these 2 videos R ridiculously sexy!

yep, that's me in 20 years.

I don't think I'll ever understand the reasons why I do the stupid shit that I do, but I know that hearing this song was the reason why I had to leave my Mojito.