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Kate

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About Me

I am a creative soul who thus must deal creatively with what life throws at me. I have a loving witch of a daughter and a fur ball, Gemma, who talks back to me in several languages.
Confession: The Kid wrote the code for this page. Ah, but I'm learning....
"...sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" - Lewis Carroll's White Queen. Well, me too (if breakfast isn't until when it should be, at eleven...)
"To me, to exist and to be sensitive is simultaneously a totally political and a poetic act" - Narcissus Quagliata
BELOW: A controversial mini-doc & introduction to Naomi's new book "The Shock Doctrine:The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuarón
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RANDOM NOTES FROM MY SKETCHBOOKS:"Work honestly" - Che Guevara
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth..." - Picasso
"I have no style. I'm afraid of being bored" - Man Ray
"Ignorance is contageous; fight contamination" - Kate S.
"I was thinking, Ursuala said to Quentin,that the difference between a story and a painting or photograph is that in a story you can write, He's still alive. But in a painting or a photo you can't show 'still.' You can just show him being alive." - Susan Sontag's characters ponder how to speak of the unspeakable and visualize the unimaginable in 'The Way We Live Now'. (And isn't this the challenge?)
"If you're an inch ahead of your time, you're brilliant. If you're a foot ahead, you're a lunatic" - Gardner McKay
Basic (very basic) background for those who don't know what really happened in Hawai‘i almost 114 years ago.

My Interests

EXACTLY HOW MANY RIGHTS WILL YOU LOSE TODAY, IN THE NAME OF PATRIOTISM, IN THE NAME OF FEAR?

Objective:
Expression through the written word, through art, and through making change. And let's start that change in Hawai‘i.

Makua Valley - one of the areas in the Islands used for training US military

This clip is from NOHO HEWA HAWAI‘I NEI, a documentary film in-the-making about, amongst other things, military expansion in the Hawai‘ian islands and the multi-layered ramifications of this on-going occupation. Oh, yes, it IS an occupation - the US military now control 20% of the ‘aina and are 11% of the island population. In contrast, the military constitute only 1% of the total US population.
For details (scary) from Keala Kelly's work, please visit http://www.nohohewa.com/

Highlighting the search for Pono or righteousness, and dedicated
to the kupuna of Molokai is the following (just shy of 9 mins).
From Matt at www.quazifilms.com.

Community activists on Molokai face additional challenges with the recent 2008 pull-out and forced closure of approximately one third of the island, currently owned by Singapore business interests.

I'd like to meet:

Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, David Suzuki, Naomi Klein....Oh, and so many more wonderful minds! Fellow poets and artists. Mostly I'm here because my daughter bugged me enough about it. ;)

Music:

Everything except opera, rap and heavy duty country western. Hooverphonic is my favorite band; Henry Kapono a musician worthy of support.

Movies:

From political thrillers & Ealing comedies to obscure documentaries, some fave movies include: Best in Show, Cradle Will Rock, Canadian Bacon, Shaun of the Dead, Jackie Brown, Carla’s Song, A Day Without a Mexican, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Any Costa-Gavras is worth watching, as is most Shakespeare on film. Do like Richard 111 (with Ian McKellen).
Below - video from the coup and attempted overthrow of Hugo Chavez.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Irish 2002. 74 Mins.)

Television:

Don’t have one, but in the past enjoyed L F N, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Michael Moore’s Awful Truth. Catch The Daily Show & Colbert via internet. And, yes, of course I supported the writer's strike.

Books:

A book whore, so cannot narrow this down - after all, I think browsing a thesaurus as enjoyable as reading Will's sonnets or tarot cards or...

Heroes:

All the waitresses, housekeepers, and all the underpaid “servants” of the world; the people some of us take for granted.

While making art (or sometimes even just THINKING about making art), I 've been influenced, bemused, stimulated and amazed by: Philip Appleman, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bishop, Brautigan, Chihuly, Paddy Chayefsky, Dali, Kiana Davenport, Jack Finney, Mary Frank, Frank Gehry, Philip Glass, Hundertwasser, Maya Lin, O'Keeffe, Prevert, Rodrigo, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Sibelius, Tom Thomson, Vivaldi, Yevgeny Yevtushenko et cetera, et cetera. It's imbibing this kind of rich, heady mixture of composers, poets, philosophers, artists & architects that feeds the addiction, but keeps one alive - feeling wretchedly unworthy, yet striving, incrementally, to grow to be so much more.
Yes, even past fourty!

My Blog

Cusack on Bill Maher & war photographer Michael Kamber

TWO ANGRY MEN ON THAT ’ALMOST’ INVISIBLE WAR "I try to document what I see. But there is less to see. First the hospitals and morgues became off limits for journalists, then the car bomb s...
Posted by Kate on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:40:00 PST

SIMPLE MATH (added poem today; look south)

" 5 LONG & BLOODY YEARS " 4 THOUSAND DEAD* " 3 TRILLION DOLLARS " 2 DAMN MUCH 2 TOLERATE ...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:29:00 PST

Odd Connections - no, not like Spitzers...

Jittery thoughts today, pondering the innoculations I have to up-date for traveling to South Africa and, as always, this obscene war the neo-cons wage in our name & with our tax dollars...This poem&rs...
Posted by Kate on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:25:00 PST

Views & Video: Yes, Its the WAR, stupid

Really inspirational video from my good pal, Gabe, sunning over there on the Big Isle now that the flooding & wet stuff is diminishing. Makes one wonder anew why there's been so little on the Iraq t...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:48:00 PST

ON THE HAWAIIAN OVERTHROW JAN 17th 1893 (+ afterthought)

Jan 18th/08Afterthought - and, yes, I've had my share...This poem is not specifically about the overthrowbut it is related, so thought I'd add it here.Its' first appearance was in the Chaminade Liter...
Posted by Kate on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

December l - World AIDS Day. Posted for Chuck.

I'M TURNING INTO A MUSEUMIn the year of your dyingyou sowed a plenteous gardenFlowers for fragraceVeggies for freshnessand, as your money dwindled,for essential nutritionIn the year of your dyinglaugh...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:34:00 PST

Folio 94 : Conversation for those who Create

Loved the people and the work done for Folio '94, theHonolulu publication. Great spirit, great sharing, greatparties! Anytime you want to do it again, guys......Here's one of mine that appeared there...
Posted by Kate on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:34:00 PST

Homage to one of my early Heroes

Yes, despite his many religious references, Leonard Cohen remains highly readable.Aw... so, you knew that already! Well, the poem below is one I wrote about him - sort of; okay, a sideways approach. ...
Posted by Kate on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:46:00 PST

PELOSI, GOEBBELS, DREAMS & NIGHTMARE

As we inch inexorably toward war with Iran, I find myselfamazed we're not out in more streets across America andmore thousands deep in protests. Pelosi's statement that"impeachment is not on the ta...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:48:00 PST

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die": John Lennon

Being distressed at five years of obscene war, and seeing no way to stop the lies & bloodshed of this administration of Carlyle Group buddies & backers advancing their agenda toward Iran, I am retrea...
Posted by Kate on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:02:00 PST