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Smith

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About Me



"Born in Bitterroot, raised on Paradise Prairie. Farm boy, car thief, Naval Academy, expelled for dope, high society marriage, armed robbery, jail, escaping the cops, illegal loft dweller, ArtCrimes, rat attacks, overdose, overdose, overdose, celibate, remarried, expat..."

I’ve traveled an odd and variegated journey since being born in the Rocky Mountains in the panhandle of Idaho in 1946. For example:
    I'm Lady K 's friend, collaborator, companion, husband I've been poet 43 yrs, artist 42 yrs, editor/publisher of ArtCrimes 21 yrs, AgentOfChaos.com five yrs, Lady K’s co-blogger on WalkingThinIce.com one yr I've run from the cops 10 times, got away 9 My job is to show the sheep in the sheep pen there are better ways to be There is but one law: do as you would be done

( more posted under 'pics' ):

Won't

In the Land of the Blind

My Interests

Laughter. Absurdity. Reality. And the in-between.

I'd like to meet:



I'd like to get stoned with Willie Nelson, have Bob Dylan record one of my poems as a song, and do a spoken word found sound collaboration with Jack Dangers.

myspace page designed by lady k . inquiries welcome.

Music:

Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Meat Beat Manifesto, Miles Davis, Yoko Ono, The Grassy Knoll, Dinah Washington, Terry Riley, Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Arnold Schoenberg, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sun House, John Lee Hooker.

Movies:

The Fourth Man, The Third Man, The Machinist, Casablanca, Freaks, Eraserhead, Sicko, Forbidden Zone.

Television:

The Twilight Zone, 1959-64

Books:

Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu. Tell Me No Lies - John Pilger. Civilization - A New History Of The Western World - Roger Osborne.

Heroes:

Groucho Marx, Plastic Man, Robert Kennedy, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Kienholz, Albert Camus, Lao Tzu, Lenny Bruce, Noam Chomsky, my father Ralph 'Pappy' Smith, Michael Moore, John Pilger, Naomi Klein, Bugs Bunny, Keith Olbermann, Naomi Wolf.

My Blog

younger than that now

political graffiti - foto by smith looks like my government is trying to screw me, without even buying me dinner first. i applied for early social security retirement on december 10th, when uncle sa...
Posted by Smith on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:45:00 PST

the adventure continues

political graffiti - foto by smith the adventure continues. our landlord family (2 middle-aged teachers, 2 teenage boys) took off for four days. they left their computer on so we'd have internet. norm...
Posted by Smith on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:55:00 PST

double oh zero enigmatic man

small wall graffiti - foto by smith if i could choose super-powers, i'd be Enigmatic Man. i'd roam the world casting uncertainty in the hearts of the dead-certain, causing them to pause before conde...
Posted by Smith on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

tres

can food label in store - foto by smithoaxacan street ad for tattoo parlor - foto by smithdefaced street ad - foto by smith...
Posted by Smith on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:38:00 PST

soup remains

poem from pasta letters from Lady K's homemade soup - foto by smith2 food fotos today. top foto is a poem lady and i wrote out of soft cooked alphabet pasta letters from her latest homemade lentil sou...
Posted by Smith on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:34:00 PST

you’re in enough trouble

graffiti on wall around high school playing field - foto by smithanother note on lady's and my manuscript... lady pulls stories from my past from me. says tell me about this or that or simply "tell me...
Posted by Smith on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:11:00 PST

frisco 66

graffiti on wall around high school playing field - foto by smithan excerpt from CRIMINAL by Smith & Lady(this is from the summer of 1966, San Francisco):The night after this while walking the str...
Posted by Smith on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:35:00 PST

blog blood

oaxacan graffiti - foto by smith"We will kill things and eat them. We will turn savage. Write our blogs in blood." - from Lady K's cyber signature.that was said in krakow as we were leaving for 3 mont...
Posted by Smith on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:17:00 PST

yesterday’s wine

yesterday's wineoaxaca graffiti - foto by smithempty cemetery fountain - foto by smithlarge wall graffiti near secondary school - foto by smithgrave glass - foto by smithpolitical graffiti - foto by s...
Posted by Smith on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:55:00 PST

cemetery tango

cemetery scene - foto by smithwe saw our landlords walking down the street, holding hands. they're middle-aged with 2 teen-age sons.they've been using our rent money to finish a second story apartment...
Posted by Smith on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:44:00 PST