Poems and Whiskey

INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRWhen it comes right down to it, it's all about love isn't it? As cliche as it is, it doesn't make it any less true. Jason O'Toole, is right. We are in a golden age of writing and communicating and yes, loving. There has never been a time like this one and by the grace of what have you, there may never be again. Here's another cliche for you while we're here, you're never alone. Yeah yeah yeah, I know, same to you buddy but hey I didn't make the rules. What you love, what speaks to you, is as much your lineage as anything else.Cheers y'all!Mentions:Anne BradstreetHerman MelvilleGloria AlbertJT LeroyWilliam Carlos WilliamsWilliam S. BurroughsSam McPheetersResident AlienKrista LambTed HughesAllen GinsbergTruman CapoteStanley DiamondAleister CrowleyCarolyn CassadyChinua AchebeThe Art of RecklessnessThe Spirit line is a Navajo traditionAnother Chicago MagPower Cut MagRolodexThe Archetypal Artist and Iron John are still the book buddies.

INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRTilly and I talk about how inspiration can be recognition of possibility, and how can be the opposite of desire, as desire is a lack, whereas inspiration is an opening. We discuss the importance of mentorship, in whatever form available, and the lineage of craft. Don't worry, the impact of art on personal growth, and the mysterious nature of intuitive experiences is all in there. This is good 'un. "Believe in doing a thing well", the rest will follow.Cheers y'all!Tilly's LinksMentions:Allen GinsbergIrvine WelshAlexandra TeagueThe Archetypal ArtistStewart LeeBill HicksIron JohnAndrea Long ChuPatty SmithJudith ButlerDean YoungYoko OnoZach HoustonTom WolfeHey! I got a Ko-fi now!(I kinda wanna be Tilly when I grow up, don't you?)

INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRWhat is art and its worth? What makes something art and not-art? Pretentious and overreaching? Probably! But we're honest about it. Val and I hit lots of gongs and pans and make some good noise I think. We talk about fan creations, the dreaded ai, art as religion, eating lead paint, and maybe a little bit about why creating something real (away from value judgements, the fall of capitalism), is so important to human animals. At least for these two beasts anyway."The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake." K.V.Cheers y'all!Val's LinkMentions:Dean YoungThe Archetypical Artist by Mary Antonia WoodVan GoghMonetCaravaggioIron John by Robert Bly501st GarrisonGISHGeorgia O'KeeffeFrancis BaconPS: Dear void listeners, I didn't forget to edit anything out. Love what you love y'all.*Title snagged from Zepp's No Quarter

INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRI read chapter 11, Why Social Justice Does More Than Art to Nourish the American Dream (1972) from the third edition of, If This isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By, released by RosettaBooks."Pluto is a suspicious and prideful and secretive and warlike planet, with a technology far in advance of our own. My guess is that Plutonians began to arrive and reproduce and hold jobs in our government just as the Second World War was ending. Our last three presidents may have been Plutonians. Most of them, however, are in the Pentagon. We would perhaps welcome them, if it weren’t for their humorlessness and pitilessness, and their blather about national honor—and for their love of war." --KV***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five published by Dell.Cheers y'all.P.S. Kindly remember this was way after the Spanish Flu and way before Covid. Touch other people responsibly.

INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRJaime Lilley took her DAMN sweet time getting her expat ass in the hot seat! It was worth it though. Telling ourselves the stories of ourselves, we move through fields of was and march towards breads of truth. Or something that doesn't blatantly rip off E.E. Cummings. "Love is the whole and more than all", is the summary of this episode though and maybe everything we can ever hope to do.Door = Jar : Jamie's ReadingWearing These ChainsOld Diary Open Mic Night? Spiked Punch Prom? Hmmm...Mentions:T.S. EliotSir Christopher RicksMary RueflePete TownshendNine Inch Nails : The Downward SpiralSheila HetiPersephone's FruitTom SnarskyDean YoungChen ChenTodd DillardRichard Wilbure e Cummings

Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRKate Pyontek and I discuss how human legacy is creation. In the way that birds sing, we are driven to create. That impetus to move and change something, to make something exist where it didn't before, seems to be baked into our hardware. In all they ways we reach and try and offer glimpses of ourselves with our creations. We may be striving for the impossible, but the impossibility isn't the point. The trying is.Free Gaza. Cease Fire Now. All Eyes on Rafah.Redacted: My Highlander (the first movie) rant and my Parks and Rec rant.Mentions:Tom SnarskyBill CartyDavid WagonerLucy Brock-BroidoEmily DickinsonScott McCloudKelly Bastow (moosekleenex)Terry PratchettDean YoungRafaat AlareerYrsa Daley-WardMaya Aby Al HayyatKatie FarrisCameron Awkward-RichIFL Science about good ol 52My Links Kate's Tree

Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRFree Palestine! Cease Fire Now!Mickey Godding and I make tasty, tasty figurative soup in this Season 2 Premiere. We talk about the journey that is creation, using it to understand ourselves, and how our personal themes always return. We also touch on connection and accountability vers shame and the importance of play. Half of creativity is putting yourself is putting yourself in the way of your curiosity. You are allowed to want. You are allowed to keep trying, and keep failing. Sucking at something is the first (second, third, fourth, c'mon man!) step to doing something awesome. Mathmatical, y'all.Hope is a choice made in love for the future. Cheers y'all!DwellingMentioned:Ocean VuongAlex Lemon Joseph FasanoThe Rain SongIn the LightJanis JoplinCass ElliotNeko CaseKurt VonnegutDennis BrutusJo Carson Little District BooksYou can find me, if you're lookin.(Void, I did cry after the show.)

Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRThis is it! The last episode of this humilating learning experience of a hiatus! Guests are coming next week! Cheers, y'all.I read:Aracelis Girmay - You are who I loveRemi Kanazi - This Poem Will Not End ApartheidCarolyn Forche - The ColonelFree Gaza. Stop Genocide Now.(Whaaaat? It's not Wednesday? I've broken free?? The spell has been lifted!)((Technical difficulties. You know how it goes.))

Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRPretty much what is says on the tin. This is the trailer for Season 2. I say some unfunny things and forget to say guests come back next week. Cheers, y'all!See you Soon!Cheers!