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I am a singer/songwriter/guitar & banjo picker ( check out more songs ) and my Americanna project in progress I'm also a photojournalist/journalist for GratefulWeb.net - check out my Stone Pony photo gallery there, along with lots of other cool features - and more about that Pony bunch on its' way as fast as my fingers can fly, Feb. is their anniversery month!
Check out my latest vent-ue, incessant rantecdotes and Lizicisms at the Official GratefulWeb Blog politics, music, art, CD reviews - no telling what I'll come up with :) And I'm now hosting the blog at GratefulWeb on MySpace too-- Dead, Poli-tricks and the Ma'am in Black, oh my! No more! I've got to update my Great-Uncle Norvells' Spider/Norvell Page Site too somehow. He was one cool cat, I mean Spider, and hardly anyone knows much about him beyond his prolific writing b/c the family wouldn't talk about it, (old Virginia thing, hard to explain).
I also write for Fine Art Magazine, and suffer the slings and arrows of oft (and oft not) outrageous editors at other publications, in print and on-line. These have included South Jersey Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine, Style Weekly, the Richmond Times Dispatch and many more.
I host a mythology site at BellaOnline and am a contributing writer at Suite101s' Astrology site. I formerly hosted a similar tarot site and taught Barnes and Noble Online Universities' Beginning Tarot class for some time. I won't go into how psychic I am but I'm being interviewed for the "Everything Guide to Ghost Hunting" these days, so, guess like so much politics, the dead, (and the Dead, he he he), have finally caught me, in spite of the repeated attempts of the philosophy major still lurking within to socratize the one and not the other. I still only know I know nothing, like the man himself said.
I have years of paralegal experience, beginning in Sen. Obamas' Chicago Civil Rights firm, (wanted to change the world, hell, I still want to change the world). While in Chicago, I also worked with some of the top poets in the early stages of Slam development, (I was slammin...when slammin wasn't cool...). It was different back then, but I like it now too. Members of the group/workshop I was involved with included people who had read/worked with Anne Sexton, (he said she was very Sexy), and Allen Ginsburg, (that guy, (the poet, not Ginsburg), has a cameo in the "Blues Brothers", he’s' in the Aretha Franklin scene). Some of my poetry is here, (some, hell they're 55 of them, Poetry Newer stuff is here: Love Poetry for now.
I've spent as many years on stage as in a courtroom. Favorite roles have included Estelle in "No Exit", playing both Grandma and Mommy in Albee’s' "The American Dream", (different productions), narrator in a marvelous piece called "The Well of Horniness" and having the distinction of the lead in the premier of a play in Louisville, performed at the Center for Performing Arts. Other faves include Julie in Neil Simons' "Jakes' Women" and the opening monologue in my favorite playwright, Jane Martins' "Talking With", (gotta love anything that comes out of Actors Theater of L'ville).
I even ventured into comedy, performing with L'villes' house improv troupe at the Comedy Caravan for some time, (and I miss it madly - wish I'd never lost that Mortal Comedy Zippo I won in one of yall's impossible improv contests. It was hard won, to say the least. Think I used it in a play and someone struck it from the set so to speak, actually.). I performed with them at the Caravan and elsewhere for a few years.
I was also in a film that won in the Baxter Avenue Film Festival one year, "Leon’s' Aspirations", still available via Wild and Wooly Video I believe. I even spent some time, after having my arm twisted, doing voice-overs and a few film commercials for local TV. stations in Bowling Green and Louisville.
I'm very into shamanism, lucid dreaming and was a religious studies and philosophy major at Barton College and WKU - at Barton I studied with Roger Bullard, one of the first translators of the Nag Hammadi (Gnostic) scrolls. I know Greek and Latin to varying extents, (the geek within is revealed...).
I guess all this comes in part from literary/musical/dramatic/political genes. I'm the great-great niece of ante-bellum novelist Thomas Nelson Page, Great niece of Pulp fiction writer, (and much more), Norvell Page,
- speaking of my favorite relative, this comment from my friend Mr. Dannelke, (check his site in my friends, very cool), about Norvells' writing was so good I had to add it here. Explains a lot about me too, though maybe not my writing, well, not all the time:
"I have to say this kiddo - your Uncle had the MOST over the top batshit insane writing style I have ever come across. This is meant as a compliment, albeit backhanded. And given that I own 20,000 books and sell them for a living, that's saying something."
now back to the rest of why I'm so - is it diverse or over-extended? Insanity? Spidey senses?
... Gov. John Page, best friend of Jefferson and believed by some to have had a hand in the composition of the Declaration of Independence (he also wrote the state motto - sic semper tyrannus aka assholes better step back or get stepped on), was my several greats Grand-father. A Great-Grandmother ran off to Vaudeville for awhile and a Grandmother practiced with, (though was not allowed to play with), her brothers, The Rambling Hustlers, one of the first bands broadcast on radio out of Rocky Mt., N.C.
These days, I'm generally thinking along these lines...(press play to find out)
Can I go to Morrow today?
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My Grandparents, who I loved dearly, died all too recently. The last day I saw my Grandmother, I played "Jackson" for her to entertain and distract her in the hospital, she said it reminded her of her and my Grandfather...
I miss you Ama and Pop...
And I walk the line for someone these days myself...even learned the damn key changin' song...
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line (live 1959)
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