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Virginia Tate

Splendor + Radiance

About Me

Toy boat operators on Central Park pond,
operators shifting
their remote control hands.
I stare at the sky,
watching collections pass by:
of shooting stars, masonic garb.

"You'd lost everything
you'd lost everything
you'd lost everything"
Now you sleep in the corner of my mind.

Toy boat operators
on Central Park pond.
I stare at the sky,
watching collections pass by:
of ties with horses, an eye with no ties,
unfocused lenses, soft pretenses,
and the hymn of the butterfly collectors.

"You'd lost everything
you'd lost everything
you'd lost everything."

Now you sleep in the corner of my mind. (for Robert M.)

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Toy boat operators on Central Park pond,
operators shifting
their remote control hands.
I stare at the sky,
watching collections pass by:
of shooting stars, masonic garb.

"You'd lost everything
you'd lost everything
you'd lost everything"
Now you sleep in the corner of my mind.

Toy boat operators
on Central Park pond.
I stare at the sky,
watching collections pass by:
of ties with horses, an eye with no ties,
unfocused lenses, soft pretenses,
and the hymn of the butterfly collectors.

"You'd lost everything
you'd lost everything
you'd lost everything."

Now you sleep in the corner of my mind. (for Robert M.)
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Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Music:

Debussy's Arabesques, Suzi Ronson, Mick Ronson, NOIR, Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit," H.P. Tate, tr-i, Parsons Sound, Bo Anders Persson, all the psychedelic and Pretty Things, Trad Gras och Stenar, Spacious Mind, the Nazz, the Fugs, early Kinks, Don Cherry, black silver rabbit, Giorgio Gomelsky, Ash Ra Tempel, Ghost, Joe Boyd, Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls, Mark Fry, Third Bardo, Amon Duul, Djin Aquarian, Roger Rodier, Forest, Jim Weider and Jesse Gress, Walker Brothers, Cyndi Cashdollar, Deja Washburn, Damo Suzuki and Can, Sendelica, Pelican, Popul Vuh, Laughing Sky, Sunn 0))) at Avalon, ISIS, Heinrich Biber, Gyorgy Ligeti's "Atmospheres," Thomas Binkley "Troubadours, Trouveres, Minstrels (Chanterai por mon coraige)," Wesley Smith, Lindsay Murray, MONO, Keiji Haino, Skip James, Henry Flynt, Libby Flynt, Hugo Hopper, Bobby Hutcherson, Lester Young, Divided Alien, Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite," Pandit Pran Nath, Ram Narayan, Puccini's "Turandot," Donovan, Iron Butterfly, OM, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, The Mission of Burma, Steve Krakow's Plastic Crimewave Sound, La Otracina, Matt Shaw and Nick Grey, The BunnyBrains, Sibyll K., the Furthurs, AMT, West Coast Experimental Pop Art Band, Deep Purple, Graham Clark, Gilli Smythe, Elson Standlee, Ziska Baum, Growing, Rosina de Peira, Bernart de Ventadorn, 2ndShimmy, Master Musicians of Jajouka, C. Hennix's "Electric Harpsichord," Wm. Elisha Bacon, John Coltrane, Steve Hillage

Movies:

Giovanni Pedde "The Sleep of Reason," Dario Argento, Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows, " Jan Svenkmajer, Chris Maresca, Fassbinder "In a Year of 13 Moons," Ingmar Bergman, Ira Cohen, "Woodstock - Can't Get There from Here," David McDonald, "Rabbit's Moon" Kenneth Anger, "400 Blows" Truffaut, Werner Herzog

Television:

Glimpses

Salvation heirs
and bottled lightning
heated scenes
delusion lichens
the past we gulp
the scented air
the rain as warm
as salted tears.

Hobo sky
the stars hang low
above the locks
the dripping vines
your tangled hair
drowned in the waters
I left you sinking
in Carolina

Water boatman,
drift back in the shadows
stop trying to remember
and backwards row
down, down, down, down
not liquid or solid
rotten sun, full of promise
washed away.

Books:

W.G. Sebald's "Austerlitz," Lady Murasaki's "Tales of Genji," Henry Miller's "Black Spring," Burrough's "Soft Machine," Aristophanes "The Clouds," Parmenides, Jean Genet, Brion Gysin, Arthur Rimbaud, "Illuminations," Robert Desnos, Seaburg + Paterson's "The Merchant Prince of Boston," "The Diary of Vasily Nijinsky," Booth's "OPIUM," "Man-yoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves)," Borges "Aleph + Other Stories," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude," D. Allen's "Poet for Sale," Korye "From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe."Poets: GP Colton, Daevid Allen, Valerie Zars, Edgar Oliver, Yves Klein, Christer HennixPainters: Denise Fleming, Eric Angeloch

Heroes:

Marian Zazeela, Ada Lovelace, Hervey White

My Blog

Jeff Perkins w/ Taketo Shimada and Tres Warren at Roulette

This was great.. here's a clip of it on YouTube:"Messages" is a collaboration between Tres Warren of Psychic Ills and visual artist Taketo Shimada. Their sound falls somewhere between drone, raga, tec...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:38:00 PST

Spacemanbubbleyum and other weird tales from the mercury mind

Why are great bands booked at 6:30 in NYC these days, that is so crazy?... that way no one can get to see them... someone with a lot of $$$ should open an afterhours club, like Save The Robots, but fo...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Fri, 02 May 2008 05:22:00 PST

The Flynts Rockin’ Midnight in Lisbon

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Posted by Virginia Tate on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:21:00 PST

DD (Deja) Washburn w/Joe Cocker in Germany (Delta Lady)

I had a band in Woodstock with Suzi Ronson, Paul (Noir) and DD Washburn. DD sang with Ann Lang on tour with Joe Cocker, recorded with Scarlet Rivera. She also toured with Mick Ronson’s band an...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:12:00 PST

Bone at Whitney

Shot this on a very minimal camera... anyhow here it is: ...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:38:00 PST

Sleep of Reason Episodes on iTunes (free subsription)

http://www.thesleepofreason.com/Site/Podcasting/Podcasting.h tmlI was trying to give the link to itunes, however this should get you there...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:25:00 PST

The boy who found the secret to life

I saw this today on Michael Wade's blog (see below). It brought to mind a boy, Michael Guggenheim, who discovered at a very young age what life is really about. You may have seen him on CNN and ABC ...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:28:00 PST

Laughing Sky at Annex on Wednesday, February 20, 11 p.m.

Laughing Sky is one of my favorite groups here in New York one of several psychedelic/garage bands formed by Dino Sorbello, who has played in the Fuzztones, Mad Violets, Blacklight Chameleons, Lords o...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:27:00 PST

Hugh Hopper/Nick Didkovsky/John Roulat at Whitney Feb. 15

A VERY RARE APPEARANCE The legendary NYC-based DOCTOR NERVE & the transatlantic trio BONE (Nick Didkovsky / Hugh Hopper / John Roulat) play two shows (NYC+Baltimore) on the East Coast!!NEW YORK CITY...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:01:00 PST

The Furthurs, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Mission of Burma

All of us are so busy with our lives, but I still appreciate so much the friends who have taken a moment to send me music, or invite me to shows...Kurt Kreikenbom has sent me today Kramer's recently r...
Posted by Virginia Tate on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:55:00 PST