Tom Hendricks's Blog – March 2012 Archive (6)

This word means a total work of art - an artwork that merges many types of art in to a total single work.

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Gesamtkunstwerk . I had no correct answers. Seems your total answer was shy some part! I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST cd CALLED ‘THIRDS” (May ‘07) or my MORE NEWEST cd Called “FOUR-TH” (‘08) or my MOST NEWEST cd CALLED ‘5-TH (Nov.'09) or…

Poems written in March 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [Rainy day poem]

"Yes,

It's cloudy,

but the Moon

will return."

My hand

pulls the shades

and muffles

the rain.

2 [Idea from a Zen story]

the pail of water

held the…

Readers,  what is your experience/history with Myspace?

Most of us agree that the consolidation of the arts into so few corporate hands (Big 6 - see below) is not good for the arts. When that hand full of conglomerates not only make and distribute the art; but, review the art they make too - that is too much. That's reason enough to do some trust busting. BUT

Most of us think , somewhere in the back of our minds, that these business leaders, though hard on quality art, are…

Trumpets please ... Yes it's official the new CD, my 6th CD, titled '6-TH" is now out and left home for an online world tour.

Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar / 6-TH

Hear it here

http://www.hunkasaurus.com/music.html

OR directly

http://www.hunkasaurus.com/6-TH.html

Read about each song here…

Relaxed after reading

I closed my book.

My eyelids follow

and there appeared stairs.

I began to descend

step after step.

The light of my lantern

bounced off the quartz

embedded in the walls.

I blinked my eyes

and a draft of air,

a repeating echo,

swept me away...

across an ocean

and an ocean beyond

across outer space

across time itself ...

There appeared ahead

a high raised place.

I stood on a mountain…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

The 1966 sci-fi film, 'Fahrenheit 451", is all about the Firemen, who instead of stopping fires, seek out all books ( that author Bradbury thought burned at 451 degrees) and burn them to help control information. The art question is this, there are only 2 words printed in the film (that aren't on the covers of the books that are shown). What are they?

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"The End" at the very end, adding a bit of hope to a…