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shepard

metal man has won his wings

About Me

Art, Music, Mercury...

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Member Since: 2/18/2006
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Influences: paper, glue, scissors, kodak, mercury, bricks, iron, rust, ruins, gravity, dirt, capricorn, saltwater, trees, cherry sprout, the band, joni mitchell, black sabbath, motorhead, grateful dead, buffy sainte-marie, funkadelic, velvet underground, bowie, staple singers, fela kuti, johnny cash, hoyt axton, the clash, pixies, hendrix, sonic youth, jefferson airplane, prince, zappa, harry nilsson, nick drake, the doors, white stripes, ravi shankar, carousel, west side story, easy rider, bread & puppets, the diggers, the family dog, boba fett, joseph campbell, edward said, roald dahl, ginsburg, vonnegut, voltaire, kesey, bradbury, asimov, arthur c. clark, edgar rice burroughs, poe, lovecraft, verne, twain, philip k. dick, kubrick, carl sagan, h.s. thompson, emma goldman, buckminster fuller, richard brautigan, black elk, rick griffin, frida kahlo, kit williams, stanley mouse, alton kelley, hokusai, frazetta, herge', gorey, bosch, beardsley, giger, carl larsson, mucha, winsor mckay, brian froud, hundertwasser, vaughn bode, style wars, r.crumb, maurice sendak, ralph mcquarrie, terry gilliam, wes anderson, albert hofman, abbie hoffman, sonny barger, stephen gaskin, 1966, 1982, augustus owsley stanley III, naiya satya, soren echo, montana, portland, new york, big sky, bozeman, block island, brooklyn, america...
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Record Label: labels are for jars.
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My Blog

late for lessons...

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Posted by shepard on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:12:00 PST

ferlinghetti @ winterland...

"Our father whose art's in heaven hollow be thy name unless things change Thy wigdom come and gone thy will will be undone on earth as it isn't heaven Give us this day ou...
Posted by shepard on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:23:00 PST

its alright, ma...

..>"Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying. Poin...
Posted by shepard on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST

good ol kahlil...

"For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth, so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in t...
Posted by shepard on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:12:00 PST

only shades of grey...

"the crow wish'd that everything was black,the owl that everything was white"                      &nb...
Posted by shepard on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:30:00 PST

don't be confused by surfaces...

Man can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying an...
Posted by shepard on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

honest abe...

"As the crown of evening descends upon our heads,  a bower of stars festooning our brows,  we hallucinate doors where previously there were air,  and, stepping through, discover t...
Posted by shepard on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:44:00 PST

consider the lilies in the field...

 "Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of...
Posted by shepard on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:47:00 PST

Prophecy of a Declaration of Independence...

 "When in the flow of human events it becomes necessary for the people to cease to recognize the obsolete social patterns which have isolated humans from their consciousness and to create with th...
Posted by shepard on Sat, 05 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

fuller speaks...

MILKY WAYWe're looking at an array of starsyou can see the Milky Way running through the stars. The number of stars you are looking at is about 18,000, and they comprise approximately 1/6,000,000 of ...
Posted by shepard on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:57:00 PST