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		<title>Re: Bruised Soul &#8211; A new LUVeR Show! (Kirk)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey Frank, I thought you might appreciate the attached &#8220;bruised soul&#8221; poem. Peace, Kirk * * * * * hey, Kirk! Thanks! Btw, you in all your forms /bands are in our new music channel, FRANK&#8217;S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL. It is the collection of my personal favorite music [unlike on LUVER where we play [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Frank, </p>
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<div>I thought you might appreciate the attached &#8220;bruised soul&#8221; poem.</div>
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<div>Peace,</p>
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<div>Kirk</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<div>hey, Kirk!  Thanks!  </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Btw, you in all your forms /bands are in our new  music channel,  FRANK&#8217;S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL.  It is the collection of my personal favorite music [unlike  on LUVER where we  play everything without my personal tastes controlling things].     </div>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<p>kirk&#8217;s poem:   </p>
<p>STREET PORTRAIT: Two Versions</p>
<p>                         Oakland, CA</p>
</p>
<p>I.</p>
<p>Hat brim</p>
<p>       shadowing  his face</p>
<p>       from the  corner street light</p>
<p>Trying to look</p>
<p>        sinister</p>
<p>       in the  pose</p>
<p>       of a child  soldier thug</p>
<p>But</p>
<p>       unbeknownst  to himself</p>
<p>Peeking out</p>
<p>       from behind  his eyes</p>
<p>Is the bruised and frightened soul</p>
<p>       of an  angel</p>
</p>
<p>II.</p>
<p>In the hat brim shadow of the street light</p>
<p>Just a-hangin’ out on the street at night</p>
<p>In the pose of a child soldier thug</p>
<p>Lookin’ like he might be dealin’ some drugs</p>
<p>Like he might be packin’ a pistol</p>
<p>But in his eyes bruised soul of angel</p>
<p>In his eyes bruised soul of angel</p>
<p>But in his eyes bruised soul of angel</p>
<p>* * * * *  </p>
<div>what a powerful poem, Kirk!  </div>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</div>
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		<title>traditions!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[now until midnight Xmas night LUVER MIX is all Xmas Songs [including xxx Songs and anti- Xmas Songs] as is our tradition! And on midnight [Pacific time] I will lock myself in the LUVER studio to spin my favorite hot wax until January second as per tradition. And speaking of traditions: SEASON OF HIDDEN HOPE [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>now until midnight Xmas night LUVER MIX is all Xmas  Songs [including xxx Songs and anti- Xmas Songs] as is our tradition!  And  on midnight [Pacific time] I will lock myself in the LUVER studio to spin my  favorite hot wax until January second as per tradition.</p>
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<div> </div>
<div>And speaking of traditions:</p>
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<div> </div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                     SEASON OF HIDDEN HOPE</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                           a radio musical</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  by</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                             FRANK MOORE</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                          November 23, 1993</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  1</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Walking along</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">               cold dark homeless</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                 roads  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">clogged with ice fears,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">my only friend </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">is the wind </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">chilling my bones</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                 into longing  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                              and lost</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                      and  beyond&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">             into a cynical loneliness.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Herding my sheep,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                looking in windows  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  of unattainable  desires,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                looking at presents    </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    useless</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                          because</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">       I don&#8217;t have anyone to give  them to,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                looking into the  past</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                     soft colored warm homes  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">       that are no longer  mine.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Everyone has left,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">everyone is gone.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Even the sun has left</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                     long ago,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                              long before the manger.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And the sun</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">will not come back</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">ever</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">again.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This is the season</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                  of dark  depression</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    and fragile  suicide.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Yes,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">       I  know</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">             I can always bum  up</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                               the  $29.95</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                       to  buy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                             the plastic  hope and faith</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                      at 7  Eleven</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">        and  pretend</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                  it is my wonderful  life</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                        playing</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">              in the video store&#8217;s  window.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But instead</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I  wrap myself</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">              in a jaded  pretense</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                of dry ice  isolation</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                    of not  caring,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                 and drinking  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                             the stale  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">               but warm wine of regrets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  2</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The birth </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">          of new hope  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                    has  always been hidden within </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                 the long cold</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                               winter  darkness.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Huddle together, </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                clinging to our tribal  warmth</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                            as our only protection</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                against  dying</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                            into the  scary</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                      black</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                           unknown,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">            we always have been  blind</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    to the  evergreen</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                   hope of life.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It has always been </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                  the first time  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                the sun  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                       and easy hope  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                   have gone away.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So we always think </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">they will never </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">come again. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The evergreen hope </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                  has been  hidden</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  away</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                     in the  womb</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                               of the  humble</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                 and in children&#8217;s  dreams.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The forces of greys</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                   have always  overheard</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                        the  possibility</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                      of the hidden  hope&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                   have always  searched </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                       for it  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                            to pervert it </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                         into human isolation&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">           or,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">              failing  that,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                          to kill it  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    for all time.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But the forces of power </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                       always  overlook</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                      the hidden human hope  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                               rocking  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                      in the baby&#8217;s cradle.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As power </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">         goes on a desperate  killing, </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                           chopping  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                            hacking  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                            gorging,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                            eating</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  the old world  up&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">      we huddle together </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                       in the silent night  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                         upon the hill,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">         rocking together  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                        in our tribal  body warmth. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The shaman, </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">the holy woman, </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">the medicine man </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                have always shifted  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                   our attention away </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                    from the dark</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  cold</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    outward  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                          fear,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                 have always shifted  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    our gaze  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                    to the guiding light </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                       of new birth&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                         at first </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                 in the stars,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                             then in the  roaring</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                   tribal  fire </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                      which  pulled</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                  all human  feelings </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                   within it,  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">         and still later  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                       into that corny  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                      home hearth  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                crackling  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                               with bright  colors</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                                popping.  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Into this fire </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">we have always gone,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                    hearing</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">               the drumming</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                           of our innocent heart  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                   beating  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                          in a slow  excitement,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                    meeting</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                          again  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                               our love of  life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We curl up </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">with our love </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">              and  wait</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                     for warm  spring</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                    to  arrive&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                               as hope grows  </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">                                   into knowing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p>
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<p>  In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
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		<title>Re: I came to play</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oops! Butterfingers with the phone. I didn&#8217;t mean to send that. That was a great reading of your poem last night! So much so, I bought a copy of &#8220;Chapped Lap.&#8221; Thanks again for the opportunity to play! I was truely glad to attend the performance and not have to generate an excuse! Mark Soden [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Oops! Butterfingers with the phone. I didn&#8217;t mean to send that.</div>
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<div>That was a great reading of your poem last night! </div>
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<div>So much so, I bought a copy of &#8220;Chapped Lap.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Thanks again for the opportunity to play!</div>
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<div>I was truely glad to attend the performance and not have to generate an    excuse!</div>
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<div>Mark Soden</p>
<p>Sent from my iPhone</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<div>we will play together again&#8230;  No  excuses!  </div>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</div>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>At the performance, we didn’t do the Harbin story Justice. So below is the complete story!</p>



<p>Friday, July 18, 2003</p>



<p>We have survived another performance! It was a weird one. It was another EARTHPEOPLE COMEDY CLUB show. We were in an ECC show in Berkeley a couple of months ago where I sat nude beckoning to the audience as Linda read my poem BOUNDERIES KILL. After 2 minutes, Kirsten who was sitting in the audience, slowly undressed then joined me in a slow, sensual, soft dance as Linda read my two poems about bodies merging. The whole piece was just 10 minutes. Afterward the producer, Mur, booked us to do the dance in a show at Harbin Hot Springs, a clothing-optional resort/retreat/community 2 hours north of here. We got 24-hour passes to be at the resort as payment. A good deal.</p>



<p>But on Tuesday we get a call from Mur. He broke a basic rule of doing shows. He showed a video of our piece to a higher-up at Harbin…who vetoed it…can’t have such an “x-rated” dance at “family-friendly” Harbin!</p>



<p>Well …at the Berkeley show Kirsten did rock on my lap for about a minute in the dance between other moves, circling me, lying on the floor, playing with my hands, looking into each other’s eyes. I hope it was sexy. But it wasn’t SEXUAL. It wasn’t meant to be SEXUAL! We did not have time to be SEXUAL! Never fear….THE NEXT 3 PERFORMANCES WILL BE HOT PANTANIC DANCES! 10 minutes just ain’t enough time to get HOT!</p>



<p>Anyway…Mur then broke a second rule of doing this kind of show. He actually told me what I could do [read poems “with heart”] and what I couldn’t do [dance!…with Kirsten!]! Normally I would just say HELL NO and not waste time. But there was some question about whether he was just a dumb guy in way over his head or what! So I decided to read poems that address the censorship… IS THIS APPROPRIATE?, Out of Isolation, and Family Friendly Poetry Reading. Truth be told, we all felt grossed out. But we four drove to Harbin.</p>



<p>Once there, things got much more fishy. Harbin is the ultimate of hippy-new age culture…for good and bad…very white! It was very enjoyable…if fragile…very pc-laden. But the nudity was laid-back. People were heavy petting on the lawn…HEY,HOLD THE PHONE! WHAT HAPPENED TO PG-RATED? I wasn’t on the poster, but a “SEXY CAVE DANCE” was on the poster! We couldn’t get satisfying answers from Mur, who kept trying to get Kirsten alone to “explain the changes.” She kept side-stepping him…getting grossed out being seen by him as “the weak link” of our unit, our tribal body. It was obvious that the problem that MANAGEMENT had wasn’t really the content of the piece, but my body! They didn’t think the people could handle it! Frankly I didn’t feel this from anyone there! Just management’s bigotry [and probably just one asshole!]! Ron Jones, who was the “headliner” of the night, encouraged us to dance anyway, after we told him the story. Over dinner [the food there was exceptional!] we decided that Kirsten would read the first poem as Linda and I dance, that Linda would read the second poem as Kirsten and I dance, and that Mikee would read the third poem as the 2 hot babes and I dance together…all nude of course! We did not tell Mur this! So if the shit came down from the management, he could say he told us not to dance…also so he couldn’t stop us. We ended up going on second after a keyboard player because the SEXY CAVE DANCERS got sick at the last minute. The keyboard player backed us. People loved our dance. Mur was livid after our dance, just saying “That’s enough, Frank. We’ve got to move on!” but the theme of the rest of the show became “inappropriate behavior.” By the time the show was over, Mur was speaking to us! He was saying, “Frank, you always stretch my limits, and I like that!”</p>



<p>At dinner before the show, I looked at the woman at another table. She looked very familiar. It was Tami [now a.k.a. Luna], my co-star in FEISTO! She ended up coming to the show, topless of course. After the show, she and another woman rolled around the floor together sexy contact dance style as people packed up and left. When only us and the keyboard player remained, she asked how the dance we did was different than the banned dance. She has always been mischievous…so she demanded to see the banned dance. So the keyboard player set up again…and Kirsten and I did a 10-minute dance. It wasn’t “sexual.” But it was more direct, focused, “personal” than what we did for the show…for a quite a few reasons.</p>



<p>The trip was really another 24-hour performance. Usually Linda, Mikee, and I are a tribal body, a unit that functions very smoothly, etc. But Kirsten merged with us, even/especially on the practical/mundane level. We are a very good team! This is very rare. Makes a lot more possible!</p>



<p>After we came to our senses about sleeping on the deck up a very steep hill in the dark, a kind security woman let us bed down in the room of the show. In the morning, after a big good breakfast, we headed up to the pools. There is a warm pool, an extremely hot pool, a cold pool, and a swimming pool. We ran into another of my co-stars…Sabina from FAIRYTALES CAN COME TRUE. She got in the warm pool with us and told us what she has been doing for the past 20 years. Me floating in a raft…what a life! Then, when I was baked real good, I laid in my lounge chair in the shade, watching nude people go by, Linda and Kirsten taking turns giving me cold water, as the other went into the hot and the cold pools with Mikee. WHAT A LIFE!</p>



<p>In Freedom,<br>Frank Moore</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Frank, I really love that poem of yours that was read last night, I Came to Play. Can&#8217;t find it online anywhere. I&#8217;d love to read it to a friend. Any way you could help me find it or send it to me? Cheers, Lee * * * * * sure, Lee! It is [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Frank,</p>
<p>I really love that poem of yours that          was read last night, I Came to Play.  Can&#8217;t find it online          anywhere.  I&#8217;d love to read it to a friend.  Any way you could          help me find it or send it to me? </p>
<p>Cheers,         <br />Lee</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<div>sure, Lee!  It is up at <a href="http://www.eroplay.com/chappedlap/icametoplay.html">http://www.eroplay.com/chappedlap/icametoplay.html</a>.   In fact the whole CHAPPED LAP is up there.  We sold out of CHAPPED LAP last  night.  That was an extremely powerful reading of that poem Ohio [her real  name is Maggie] did&#8230;  A great way to end the night!  </div>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Rafael wrote:) Frank, 80 % on the track !. Voices ! 😛 Now&#8230; IAmIAm NotThemIAmJustThis is a great possibility ( not to sure if exactly that, don&#8217;t have the project on me&#8230; )If we wan&#8217;t to do itIAmNotYouWe&#8217;ll deliver This would be the first verse. What do you think ? * * * * * [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Rafael wrote:)</p>
<p>Frank,</p>
<p>80 % on the track !. Voices !  <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f61b.png" alt="😛" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>Now&#8230;</p>
<p>I<br />Am<br />I<br />Am <br />Not<br />Them<br />I<br />Am<br />Just<br />This is a great possibility ( not to sure  if exactly that, don&#8217;t have the project on me&#8230; )<br />If we wan&#8217;t to do  it<br />I<br />Am<br />Not<br />You<br />We&#8217;ll deliver</p>
<p>This would be the first  verse.</p>
<p>What do you think ?</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<div>I DELIVER YOU!  </div>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your reply. I saw the article in the trib: my, you’re good looking! I’ll try to attach a poem I wrote last weekend. Blessings to you and your friends! alan Pride for prayers they never get to hear The kindnesses you gave me decades or weeks ago,I’m treasuring them now. You dear.Tho I [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your reply.</p>
<p>I saw the article in the trib:  my, you’re good  looking!</p>
<p>I’ll try to attach a poem I wrote last  weekend.</p>
<p>Blessings to you and your friends!     alan</p>
<p>Pride for prayers they never get to hear</p>
<p>The  kindnesses you gave me decades or weeks ago,<br />I’m treasuring them now.  You  dear.<br />Tho I can’t tap out emails, I send thoughts of thanks that you cannot  hear.</p>
<p>35 years of treatment, &amp; the old boy still does have the  blues.<br />Today he’s feeling better in his head, wondering what it was the Isley  Brothers said.</p>
<p>When you’re down &amp; feel like giving up, it’s the  pride.<br />When you’re sick, maybe on the street, it’s the pride.<br />It’s the  pride that keeps you goin on.  It’s the pride.</p>
<p>71 years alive, your  children sometimes feel like a weight<br />you can’t hold.<br />Yet you cough up  what support  you can, tho you’re old.<br />You honor yourself anyway, loving them  less than perfectly.<br />Or you hit the brain stroke<br />and can only gesture with  an eyelid, so much work.<br />It’s the pride one afternoon makes you go for broke  ,<br />and blink like a child.</p>
<p>When your loved one, and loved ones died  it’s the pride.<br />It’s the pride polishes your memories, inside today,<br />that  carries them tomorrow.<br />And when your pride evaporates to thin and gone, it’s  the pride.<br />It’s the worth of your love starts you on again, from a hollow  emptiness.</p>
<p>Could be before you expire, you’ll give<br />one last caring  gasp of fire.<br />It will be the pride,<br />a value for the love of what’s outside  you,<br />still occasionally scraping itself, still popping itself up<br />from the  momentary ego that you were.</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<p>Alan, all i can say to your  great poem is EXACTLY!</p>
<p>would you like to be on my email community, THE  E-SALON?</p>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[from: ANA CHRISTY anakatrina50@gmail.com You’d have been proud of meRolling my ownJointsAnd drinking withoutYouI toasted you every timeFinding my keysHow I find my glassesNowWithout youYou’d have been proudOf me in the morningMaking the coffee in theMorning and not spillingAnyI Have shed a million tearsAnd have a million moreIPlay our music You wouldHave been proud of [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>from: ANA CHRISTY <a href="mailto:anakatrina50@gmail.com">anakatrina50@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>You’d  have been proud of me<br />Rolling my own<br />Joints<br />And drinking  without<br />You<br />I toasted you every time<br />Finding my keys<br />How I find my  glasses<br />Now<br />Without you<br />You’d have been proud<br />Of me in the  morning<br />Making the coffee in the<br />Morning and not spilling<br />Any<br />I <br />Have shed a million tears<br />And have a million more<br />I<br />Play our music <br />You would<br />Have been proud of me<br />Our Dylan our<br />Beatles, our  Stones<br />Singing that old George<br />Jones song “Whose going<br />To fill their  shoes?”<br />Over<br />And over till my heart hurt<br />So bad I almost lost  it<br />The strength I’ve endured<br />These last few months<br />You would have been  damn<br />Proud of me<br />Living without you has<br />Been harder than I  could<br />Ever have known.<br />You’d have been proud of me<br />The way I stroked  your<br />Silky hair and begged you<br />To hear me softly scream<br />“I love  you.”<br />I love you.”<br />With<br /> Your loving eyes closed<br /> You<br />Have  emptied your side of<br />The bed<br />You would have been proud<br />Of me</div>
<div>* * * * *</div>
<div>Ana, I just successfully put this moving poem on Dave&#8217;s FACEBOOK page.   I will now do the others! </p>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[DAVE I WANT YOU BACK HERE WITH ME THERE IS AN EMPTYPLACE NEXT TO ME WHERE YOU SAT WATCHING THE PHILLIES LOOSE ONCE AGAIN -GOD HOW I LOVED YOU DAVE WE WERE A WINNING TEAM YOU AND I NOTHING COULD BRAKE US APART TILL IT DID -MY HEART IS AN EMPTY VESSEL WHERE YOU ONCE [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>DAVE</div>
<div>I WANT YOU BACK </div>
<div>HERE WITH ME</div>
<div>THERE IS AN EMPTYPLACE </div>
<div>NEXT TO ME WHERE YOU</div>
<div>SAT WATCHING THE PHILLIES</div>
<div>LOOSE ONCE AGAIN  -GOD</div>
<div>HOW I LOVED YOU DAVE</div>
<div>WE WERE A WINNING TEAM</div>
<div>YOU AND I NOTHING COULD</div>
<div>BRAKE US APART TILL IT</div>
<div>DID -MY HEART IS AN EMPTY</div>
<div>VESSEL WHERE YOU ONCE</div>
<div>WERE-DAVE AND ANA   ANA</div>
<div>AND DAVE -IT SEEMED LIKE</div>
<div>WE’D LIVE FOREVER</div>
<div>YOU THE EDITOR </div>
<div>ME THE WRITER- WHEN</div>
<div>WE BECAME LOVERS IN </div>
<div>THAT TORONTO HOTEL</div>
<div>EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO</div>
<div>HOLDING TIGHT FOREVER</div>
<div>MAKING LOVE WITH OUR</div>
<div>PASSION SO DEEP AND</div>
<div>NEVER ENDING</div>
<div>MY SWEET LOVER</div>
<div>NOW I TRY NOT TO CRY-</div>
<div>BUT I DO AND</div>
<div>I WILL NEVER STOP</div>
<div>FOR YOU ARE GONE </div>
<div>FOREVER-</div>
<div>MY SWEET LOVE</div>
<div> </div>
<div>MY HEART IS AN EMPTY</div>
<div>VESSEL</div>
<div>WHAT AM I TO DO </div>
<div>WITHOUT YOU MY DAVE?</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello, You may or may not be aware of a local Berkeley Vigilante who goes around pulling down your posters. His name is Jim Sharp and he&#8217;s the inspiration for our upcoming documentary, &#8220;Vigilante Vigilante.&#8221; Sharp is also responsible for thousands of silver spray paint markings around town, from his obsessive and destructive attempts to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p>
<p>You may or may not be aware of a local Berkeley Vigilante who  goes around pulling down your posters.  His name is Jim Sharp and he&#8217;s the  inspiration for our upcoming documentary, &#8220;Vigilante Vigilante.&#8221;   Sharp is  also responsible for thousands of silver spray paint markings  around town,  from his obsessive and destructive attempts to stamp out graffiti and  stickers. Sharp lives in the hills but comes down nearly every morning to  stamp out what he considers &#8220;visual blight&#8221; in the busiest parts of  Berkeley.  He&#8217;s been doing this for over 15 years.</p>
<p>I am curious to  hear your reaction to Sharp&#8217;s actions and would  possibly like to do an  interview with you.  Our perspective is that  he&#8217;s doing major damage to  free speech in our community and we would  like to stop him.  We&#8217;ve tried to  inspire the community to stand up  against him by exposing his identity  through this East Bay Express article:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/the-great-graffiti-war/Content?oid=1177063">http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/the-great-graffiti-war/Content?oid=1177063</a></p>
<p>Sadly,  the community and the authorities don&#8217;t seem interested in doing anything  about this.  So, we are trying to gain allies in fighting against him&#8211;perhaps you would like to join us?</p>
<p>You can see more about our  project here:<br /><a href="http://vigilantefilm.com/trailer.html">http://vigilantefilm.com/trailer.html</a></p>
<p>And  here is a video of Sharp tearing down your posters on Telegraph Ave:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5biJ46NSPc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5biJ46NSPc</a></p>
<p>Thank  you for your time,</p>
<p>Max Good<br />Director<br /><a href="http://www.vigilantefilm.com/">www.vigilantefilm.com</a></p>
<p>* * * *  *</p>
<p>sure, Max!  I  would love to be interviewed by you&#8230;  Maybe on my show  so I can interview you too?  You would be my sole guest for the whole  program. We do it as a live streaming video two+ hour show every Sunday at  8pm on our web station <a href="http://www.luver.com/">http://www.luver.com/</a>. We do it from our north  Berkeley home. Then we will play it on b-tv, Berkeley&#8217;s cable access  channel, and archive it on our site. We archive the shows at <a href="http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html">http://www.luver.com/underground/shamden.html</a>.<br />Our first opening is Sunday, February fourteen.</p>
<p>Anyway, my  guys told me about you and your film.   And that video is extremely  interesting.  I agree with you&#8230;  Especially in these days when Publications won&#8217;t list underground events.  So fliering is the main way that people find out about events [and I do ask my audience how they heard about the performances].  I see fliering as a part of the press.   On the other side of the coin, isn&#8217;t this nut exercising his free speech?  Is it illegal to rip down fliers that don&#8217;t violate any law?</p>
<p>I have been  fliering for  forty years.   I even wrote a poem about such a nut!</p>
<p>                                       naked  poles</p>
<p>                                                              by</p>
<p>                                                      frank  moore</p>
<p>                                          copyrighted, August 5,  1995</p>
<p>ripping paper,</p>
<p>                          revealing</p>
<p>                                                the beautiful  rough  wood</p>
<p>buried</p>
<p>under</p>
<p>                                                                       all<br />of  those</p>
<p>littering</p>
<p>words,</p>
<p>ideas,</p>
<p>events,</p>
<p>messages,</p>
<p>images</p>
<p>                                                                      of<br />humans</p>
<p>gone  out</p>
<p>                                                                      of<br />control,</p>
<p>seeking contact</p>
<p>right out</p>
<p>on the  street</p>
<p>                                                           where  anyone</p>
<p>                                                           and  everyone</p>
<p>can see</p>
<p>and  read</p>
<p>                                               and get  tempted,</p>
<p>                                                          get  distracted,</p>
<p>                                                           get pulled</p>
<p>into i-don&#8217;t-know-what.</p>
<p>all on the  telephone  poles</p>
<p>                                                           on my  avenue.</p>
<p>beautiful telephone poles.</p>
<p>so i make my  rounds</p>
<p>                                       pulling,</p>
<p>                                                            ripping,</p>
<p>making</p>
<p>our world</p>
<p>neat  again,</p>
<p>making it</p>
<p>safe</p>
<p>and  comfortable</p>
<p>and pleasant  again</p>
<p>                                               for  tourists</p>
<p>and macy&#8217;s.</p>
<p>after all,</p>
<p>              ideas</p>
<p>                                 stapled up  everywhere</p>
<p>are disturbing,</p>
<p>disquieting,</p>
<p>and  messy.</p>
<p>i don&#8217;t look</p>
<p>  or  read</p>
<p>                        as i  rip,</p>
<p>                                  i just listen,</p>
<p>then  pat the nude wood,</p>
<p>then move</p>
<p>on to the next  pole</p>
<p>                                               covered in  scales</p>
<p>of communication</p>
<p>                                   of  strange communities</p>
<p>and  subcultures</p>
<p>                                                         who  don&#8217;t know<br />that there  are</p>
<p>                                                right and  correct</p>
<p>channels of</p>
<p>communications.</p>
<p>buy an  ad</p>
<p>on a bus bench,</p>
<p>for pete&#8217;s stake.</p>
<p>ever hear of  the classifieds?</p>
<p>get a review,</p>
<p>                      you  lying nixons</p>
<p>                                                          and funky<br />headshrinkers,</p>
<p>                      whatever you  are!</p>
<p>they are probably</p>
<p>                        oily</p>
<p>                      slimy  dark</p>
<p>                                       so-called</p>
<p>                                                            beat punk</p>
<p>poets</p>
<p>writing pages</p>
<p>upon  pages.</p>
<p>no sense of order</p>
<p>                      or of the  correct style.</p>
<p>they wonder why</p>
<p>sensible  papers</p>
<p>                         don&#8217;t  list</p>
<p>                                               their wailing  sessions.</p>
<p>so they deface</p>
<p>                        my  natural beautiful pole</p>
<p>with their  crude</p>
<p>rude</p>
<p>announcements.</p>
<p>is your mutt  lost?</p>
<p>check the pound.</p>
<p>lost child,</p>
<p>see the  police.</p>
<p>                          but i&#8217;m getting carried  away.</p>
<p>i  leave</p>
<p>                                                   missing  persons</p>
<p>and wanted posters  up</p>
<p>                                    as a public  service.</p>
<p>          after all,</p>
<p>                                   the cops</p>
<p>                                                always wink and  smile&#8230;</p>
<p>         except when i  tried</p>
<p>                                               to burn the  disgusting<br />flyers off&#8230;</p>
<p> it got out of control&#8230;</p>
<p>but i will  keep control.</p>
<p>cops</p>
<p> and managers of up-scale chain  stores</p>
<p> and the city beautification committee</p>
<p>all  smile</p>
<p>and wink</p>
<p>as i pass.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m their  agent.</p>
<p>i do</p>
<p> what they  want</p>
<p>                                   until</p>
<p>                                       they can pass a  law.</p>
<p>there will be a  law</p>
<p>                                   because there should be  one</p>
<p>against</p>
<p>                                                 this rubbish of scum.</p>
<p>and when that day  comes,</p>
<p>                                              as it surely  will,</p>
<p>the chamber of  commerce</p>
<p>                                              will reward me  with a<br />scroll,</p>
<p>and a grant,</p>
<p>and the  position</p>
<p>                                                  of the  keeper</p>
<p>of the poles,</p>
<p>                                   complete with handcuffs</p>
<p>for anyone</p>
<p>i  catch</p>
<p>pinning words</p>
<p>to nude wood.</p>
<p>i don&#8217;t  care if it is</p>
<p>                                             martin luther  nailing his<br />protests,</p>
<p>                                              robin hood posting</p>
<p>                     his demands</p>
<p>to the evil  sheriff,</p>
<p>                                             tom paine  banging</p>
<p>his broadsides</p>
<p>                                  up  at every crossroads</p>
<p>                                 and outside every  tavern</p>
<p>in the  land,</p>
<p>                                             ben franklin  plastering</p>
<p>his newspaper</p>
<p>all over  towne,</p>
<p>                                                          the  girlie<br />posters</p>
<p>            by that french  dwarf,</p>
<p>                                                          or  whathaveyou?</p>
<p>it is not a  question</p>
<p>                                     of  censorship</p>
<p>                                                                       or<br />free speech.</p>
<p>we should just keep  things</p>
<p>                                                in their proper  places,</p>
<p>keep neat</p>
<p>order!</p>
<p>now i&#8217;m willing to  let</p>
<p>                                      the real  politicians</p>
<p>have the use  of</p>
<p>                                                              my  poles</p>
<p>only</p>
<p>during elections.</p>
<p>after  all,</p>
<p>i&#8217;m american!</p>
<p>but the rest of the  year</p>
<p>                                             the poles must be  nude!</p>
<p>In Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<p>Hi  Frank,</p>
<p>Yes, the interview sounds like fun.  Two hours sounds like a long  time, but if you think we can fill it, I&#8217;m game.  I would probably bring  along one or two of my partners to operate our camera and maybe be on the  show as well. I just need to make sure that they&#8217;ll be available and then I  can confirm for next Sunday.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome to play any of our clips  on your show as well.</p>
<p>Regarding Sharp&#8217;s free speech&#8211;yes, he is  exercising free speech like everyone else, but his free speech seems to be  more like the speech of a fascist censor who wants to shut up the speech  that annoys him.  My aim is to somehow stop him by raising community  awareness of what he does.  In the spirit of vigilante justice, I have  restrained from approaching the police with evidence of his crimes.  In  fact, they are well aware of what he does and don&#8217;t seem to mind.</p>
<p>I  believe Sharp clearly steps over the line (of the law and of morality) with  the silver spray paint, some particularly egregious examples of which can be  seen in this video:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjvjOksvc0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjvjOksvc0</a></p>
<p>Strange,  your poem seems exactly written about Sharp&#8230;</p>
<p>Looking forward to meeting  you,</p>
<p>Max</p>
<p>* * * * *</p>
<p> great, Max.  Everybody thinks that  about two hours&#8230;  Before the show!  But when the show is over they are  shocked at how short it was!  We have done dueling cameras before!  Let me  know when I can ink you in.   I am looking forward to it!</p>
<p>Yes, his  silver spray of private property [newspaper bins, etc.] obviously is   vandalism.</p>
<p>I wrote that poem as a part of my public outing of a flier  ripper!  That is one of the things we can talk about to fill the time on   the show.</p>
<p>you may like my below essay [written before the internet,  camcorders, cell phones,  the zine movement, Berkeley community public  access channel, etc.] where I write about fliering.</p>
<p>Cultural  Subversion</p>
<p>copyrighted 1991 Frank Moore</p>
<p>This will be personal. But the personal level is the key to understanding the  cultural, artistic, and political movement which is taking back technology into  the personal control of anyone who has something to say, something to create. It  is personal technology, anarchistic technology. It is not like cable T.V. which  we were told ten years ago would liberate the person by giving him intimate and  direct information and communication channels &#8230; but which today is simply more  channels for the money types who have always controlled the communication  flowing through mass media &#8230; just more monopolized channels for passive  entertainment, selling, and manipulation of information and of reality. The only  exception to this is the local access channels which are kept in the closet and  are always in danger of being axed by the cable company. These access channels  are a part of the personal technology.</p>
<p>Personal technology is basically  a slip up of what I have called elsewhere &#8220;the combine plot&#8221;. I took the term  &#8220;combine&#8221; from the Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest. The combine  plot is a hidden dynamic system of power, control, and interest that keeps the  tools of creation and of effective change out of the hands of the common people.  This keeps the people powerless, keeping the power within an elite. The tools of  effective change have been kept out of the hands of the common people by false  rituals of education, money, and bulky expensive equipment which took a cult  knowledge to operate. Added to this maze of creative blocks was the false myths  about talent and the acceptable quality levels needed to reach people,  acceptable quality levels below which people are trained to not watch or listen. </p>
<p>All of this is too abstract and philosophical. In this article, I will  try to pull these issues down into the real world by using my own artistic  experiences as a context. But it is important to realize at the beginning that  personal technology, anarchistic technology is still technology. All technology  has hidden, built-in links to the established order of isolation and  fragmentation. These links can frustrate attempts to use technology to subvert  the established reality. Only by being always aware of these links to isolation  and fragmentation inherent in all technology, can technology be safely used as a  tool of cultural subversion. This fact again banged me over the head when I was  talking to a successful musician who didn&#8217;t understand why all performers do not  stop touring, considering the pollution caused by traveling &#8230; and do what he  does, which is do everything through telecommunications. I just said you can not  touch through phones, computers, videos &#8230; and even through writing. To restore  humanity to our culture by using technology, we must know and admit the  limitations of that technology.</p>
<p>All technology is a double-edged sword.  This includes the very first communication technology &#8230; writing/reading. We  usually think of the invention of writing as extremely liberating. And in so  many ways it was. But in so many other ways it confined humanity. For one thing,  it placed a fixed linear frame of thinking within the human brain much more than  spoken language had done. Moreover, writing/reading created a very exclusive  elite for most of the known human history. Before writing, everyone knew the  tribal language &#8230; everyone knew how to paint, sing, dance. Information flowed  both between people and within time to the future through this tribal accessible  language both of spoken word and of art. If information did not flow through  this tribal channel, that information was lost. All of this changed when writing  was invented. Now there was a channel that was not accessible to everyone, a  channel that did not easily lose information. Those who could access this  channel had power. Because of this, for most of recorded history, the skill of  reading/writing was monopolized by the ruling elite to maintain its power. This  was true even after a larger minority gained limited access to the flowing  channel of writing. One of the ways the elite maintained its control was by  withdrawing the important ideas &#8230; dangerous ideas &#8230; both sacred and profane,  away from the common people, withdrawing the dangerous ideas into a dead  language such as Latin or Greek. Only the members of the elite who went through  the rituals of education of the established order (be it religious, political,  and/or class) could read or speak this dead language of power. There was another  channel of flowing information which was folk art, folk music, and folk words,  be it written or spoken. This folk channel was accessible to everyone. It was a  dynamic, interactive channel of communication. But the full force of this folk  channel was always kept in check by the elite channel with the myth that  anything which comes through the folk channel was not worthy or important  because it did not come from the hidden knowledge.</p>
<p>This control by the  elite did not start to break down until the printing press became cost  accessible to the members of the common people. This opened to the common people  a communication channel which was not rooted in physical time &#8230; that is, you  write something and someone within another time, another place reads exactly  what you thought. This is the real force which was unlocked by the printing  press, and not the ability to reach mass amounts of people. Without the printing  press being to a large degree accessible to the forces of change, the American  and French Revolutions might not have happened.</p>
<p>But the elite quickly  developed strategies to limit access for the common people to this printing  channel. The elite spread the myth that to be really effective, a writer had to  go through the rituals of the educational system, and then be blessed by being  recognized by the publishing factory, which became increasingly massive and  impersonal. Self-publishing was labeled &#8220;vanity press&#8221;. The presses that offered  this service were seen as cons, as scams. Writers who used this service were  thought of as untalented fools who got conned. The individual who believed in  this myth of the power of the corporate media system to bestow access to  communications, and to bestow validity through acceptance, was frozen out of any  real position for subversive change.</p>
<p>All of this is an historical  background on which I can talk about the issues of personal technology,  anarchistic technology in the context of cultural subversion.</p>
<p>I started  out in the late 60&#8217;s writing for underground papers as a political columnist &#8230;  sneaking into the mimeograph room at school to run off a hundred copies under  the protection of a friendly teacher. Of course, the teacher always, as well as  us, got into hot water &#8230; and the access to the mimeograph machine was closed.  No access, no underground paper. There was not any question about our buying our  own mimeograph machine &#8230; no money.</p>
<p>But it took only a year or so for  the underground press to move from the mimeograph stage into being run off at  off-set print shops. The underground press had its roots going back through the  radical press of the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s and in the poetry press. The kind of person  who put out these papers poured all their personal money into it, then hoped by  selling ads, selling papers, by magic, the paper would stay afloat. There was  rarely any question of making money on it. But when your nest egg, your dead  aunt&#8217;s money, ads, sales, or whatever was supporting your rag ran out, that  paper of visions died. But there was always a new paper being born to fill the  empty space.</p>
<p>There was a rejection of the old standards of quality of  both form and content which had kept the common people from creating. As a  result of this rejection, a new way of looking at art, politics, and life was  thus created. The underground press became so effective that by the early 70&#8217;s  there were over 700 of these papers and an underground press network. It became  so effective that the F.B.I. targeted the underground press for destruction by a  covert war. By using the fact that the underground papers rarely had direct  access to a printing press, and by using the organization which developed around  the underground press, the F.B.I and the rest of the combine could bring the  underground press into control, into the fold.</p>
<p>Around this time, I  rejected politics as a means for effective subversive change, and began looking  towards art and magic for an effective channel. I took a film-making course,  learning the technical rituals of 16mm. 16mm was then the home movie technology.  But when I did the technological rituals of lighting, shooting, splicing, etc.,  they took me away from the actual magic of doing. Hidden within these  technological rituals are deadening roadblocks to direct personal creative  communications. Roadblocks can be gotten around. But why bother when there are  direct alternative routes?</p>
<p>After the film course, I still had no money  to make films. One road would have been to put my time and energy into getting  money or a position to make films. But I always have mistrusted the myth of  changing the system from within. It never works. Once you compromised, modified,  changed, distorted both yourself and your message to get the media channel, why  bother sending the message? The system myth is a major vacuum that sucks  creative power away from people by putting vast amounts of time between the  person and the act of creation. Whether the myth is of waiting to get enough  money, education, or power before you create, the effect is the same &#8230; waiting  for Godot.</p>
<p>For these reasons, I created a no/low tech form of live  performance which did not need money, theater space, sets, stage lighting,  approval, or a particular audience size. This no/low tech form is vital to work  which is culturally subversive by expanding the concept of sexuality and reality  beyond the frame of taboos.</p>
<p>For me as a no/low tech artist, the personal  technology, anarchistic technology is a very important dimension. I first  realized this when I was trying to get established in N.Y.C. in the early 70&#8217;s.  I could not find out about art events until after the fact when I read about  them in THE VILLAGE VOICE. So I couldn&#8217;t go to them. So I couldn&#8217;t meet people  with whom I could have gotten something going. One reason for this was there was  very little flyering. In N.Y.C., organized crime has a monopoly on putting up  posters. I did not realize how much no flyering isolated people until I moved to  Berkeley where on every telephone pole, there were 10, 20, 30 flyers. Anyone who  has an event, a group, a cause, something to say, can go to a xerox place, run  off hundreds, or even thousands, of flyers and staple them up all over town.  This direct two-way form of the press plugged me immediately into the community  where I could do my work.</p>
<p>We have to start seeing flyering, be it on  telephone poles or on computer bulletin boards, as a form of personal press, and  as such is protected under the freedom of press. Big Brother comes in many forms  from the mafia to government (down to the anti-flyer laws as part of a city&#8217;s  &#8220;beautification&#8221; campaign) to corporations such as A.T.&T;. and Blockbuster  Videos.</p>
<p>Just recently I saw the power of this direct personal press. For  years I have not been able to be booked in the &#8220;alternative&#8221; performance  galleries in the Bay Area for various reasons &#8230; so I put 500 &#8220;Too  Controversial for the Bay Area&#8221; flyers(*) up asking for leads to spaces in which  to perform. From the very first flyer we put up came three good leads into the  true alternative art scene. Moreover, the flyer directly exposed the true  condition of the established &#8220;alternative&#8221; art world.</p>
<p>This direct  exposing is one of the strengths of the personal technology, anarchistic  technology in the context of cultural subversion. Be it a camcorder capturing  police brutality or a xerox zine publishing radical heretofore unpublishable  material, the effect is to decentralize power, putting it into the personal  level. I noticed this again last year when Senator Jesse Helms targeted me for  investigation for my art. With only one exception, no one from the regular press  contacted me to get my reaction or story. Some of the art magazines printed my  open letter to Helms and my article on censorship. But I reached a wide national  audience when THE SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONARY (TSR), a newsletter zine by S/R PRESS,  printed both. While TSR has a small readership, other zines reprinted my two  pieces from TSR, without my permission but without editing. Then still other  zines reprinted the material from those zines. The effect of this anarchistic  grapevine of xerox zines is I had exposure to a wide national audience which was  made up of small subcultures.</p>
<p>The combine recognizes the uncontrollable  force represented by the direct personal communications through the anarchistic  technology. The combine is trying to put this genie back in the bottle. The  easiest, and the most obvious way to do this is to censor the physical channels  &#8230; be it phone lines, the mail, or T.V./radio waves.</p>
<p>But there are  hidden means by which the combine can thwart the direct personal use of  technology. One of these is making equipment such as computers, obsolete every  six months, not for any real functional improvement, but for progress. The  effect of habitual upgrading is not only that we keep having to buy new  soft/hardware, but it also creates a false mystery around the computer very much  like the dead language of Latin did in the Dark Ages.</p>
<p>But the best way  for the combine to curb the use of personal technology is by the standards of  &#8220;professional quality&#8221;.</p>
<p>When I xerox published by first two books, I did  not run into this wall of &#8220;professional quality&#8221;. This is because I sold them  directly, personally at my performances, as well as by the mail through a review  in BOX OF WATER.</p>
<p>But when S/R PRESS xerox published by book, CHEROTIC  MAGIC, we took it, along with my zine THE CHEROTIC rEVOLUTIONARY, around to  bookstores. The reason why a lot of the bookstores gave for not carrying the  book was not the written or the visual contents of the book, but that it had a  spiral binding, rather than a regular binding. Having a regular binding would  boost the cost out of the realm of personal level and into the traditional  publishing with its concerns of mass sales. Kyle Griffith is fond of saying that  if the book&#8217;s format is too revolutionary for a bookstore, then the content is  also &#8230; so it would serve no purpose for us to try to package it differently. I  must quickly add that there are quite a few bookstores that are not locked into  buying solely from a distributor, that will carry personal xerox published books  and zines. Moreover, there are bookstores devoted to personal xerox publications  &#8230; for example, METROPOPHOBOBIA in, of all places, Phoenix! These outlets for  personal publications will multiply in the coming years.</p>
<p>I have dealt  with the barriers of format and technology to personal direct human involvement  in every medium I have tried. A lot of people have assumed this was because I  was poor, did not know how to get grants, did not know how to use technology, or  did not know how to use the system. In reality, even if I had tons of money, I  would still use the same no/low tech, because that is the best way to take back  the creative force from the combine &#8230; back into the hands of anyone with a  creative urge &#8230; or, for that matter, a destructive urge.</p>
<p>Since we are  communicating on the personal level, you can send feedback, inquiries, or  whatever to me at:</p>
<p>Frank Moore<br />P.O. Box 11445<br />Berkeley, CA  94712<br />Or click on <a href="http://frankmooreesalon.blogspot.com/fmoore@eroplay.com">me</a> to e-mail ME</p>
<p>In  Freedom,<br />Frank Moore</p>
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