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Rene

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About Me


QUOTES

"Rene West has the rebellious, creative, honest spirit that is so important to what a lot of us call 'Texas Music.'" - Hoss the Boss aka Don Cudd, Webradio"...a strong, full voice -- part Janis Joplin, part Lucinda Williams, part West's own style." - Matthew Smith, Ft. Worth Weekly."enticingly eclectic" - Perry Stewart, Fort Worth Star Telegram.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/8/2005
Band Website: renewest.net
Band Members:
JOIN MAILING LIST at renewest at renewest dot net type JOIN LIST in the subject lineTo view some of my art work go to: View My Pics (top right)
Influences: Port A kids, Cedar Tavern fights, the Algonquin Round Table, club 21, Utopia Parkway, crown, Lost Highway, Daubignys Garden, Merzbau, blackieoneshot, cut with the kitchen knife, circle A ranch, picture pete and Dr. Dik, the decisive moment, printed matter, mad hatters, outlaws, barflies, rust and salt.
Sounds Like:
Writers have compared my style to Lucinda Williams, Janis Joplin, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Townes Van Zandt, Mary Gauthier, Carla Bozulich, Gillian Welch, and James McMurtry which is some fine company, and I've had the pleasure of opening for Fred Eaglesmith, Ruthie Foster, Susan Gibson, and Buddy Mondlock.
Record Label: Independent
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Freedom not fear

Built on Parliament Square this morning to celebrate an international day of action for democracy, privacy and free speech. It's made out of photos of CCTV cameras and other surveillance state epheme...
Posted by Rene on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:39:00 PST

Banksy strikes again

Check out Bansky new work in NYC! Completed with animated chicken nuggets sipping BBQ sauce....
Posted by Rene on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:14:00 PST

Dylan

photo credit: David Gahr (from NPR site)   NPR is streaming the new Bobby D free until the release later this week. Thanks Ronni for the great concert in Dallas last spring, this album - that s...
Posted by Rene on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:59:00 PST

Lori Nix: Staged Photography

I just wanted to share these amazing staged photographs with everyone. Lori's website is here, and there is a short viddie of her in her studio here.   Oh and she's a Kansas Girl, like me! ...
Posted by Rene on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:34:00 PST

Spike Lee at UTA

The past week has been Spike Lee Week at UTA, they have shown numerous films by him, coordinated an art exhibition called "Do the Art Thing" and it culminated last night in a lecture by Mr. Lee in Tex...
Posted by Rene on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:59:00 PST

Nothing but Packing Tape

These images are amazing and they are made from nothing but brown packing tape on plexiglas and lit from behind. Too cool. Artist, Mark Khaisman, is the King of Tape.......
Posted by Rene on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:27:00 PST

Finders Keepers

So this guy walks into Christie's and says "Hey I got this Warhol I'm trying to sell. You interested in helping a fella out?" Christie's says "sure bud." Of course after he leaves they pick up the p...
Posted by Rene on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:05:00 PST

Photographic Truthiness

It seems like every day it becomes a little easier to manipulate photographic truth.... I love this quote: "We're assembling what's really there  just not from one-hundredth of a second, but long...
Posted by Rene on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:18:00 PST

Stuff

Did you ever wonder when and/or how we started being called consumers instead of humans? This is a short viddie (about 20 minutes) on the life of stuff and what it is doing to our world. It's quick an...
Posted by Rene on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST

Found: Capas Mexican Suitcase

This is an amazing story. Thousands of Robert Capa's photographs which have been missing since WWII were recently discovered in Mexico City and have been transfered to ICP and the Capa estate.  ...
Posted by Rene on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:47:00 PST