Saturday 16 February 2019

FAMILY FOTO

life is pleasant, death is peaceful 
it’s the transition that’s troublesome

Isaac Asimov




F A M I L Y  F O T O
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut


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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind family foto



there'll be bluebirds over

the white cliffs of dover
tomorrow
when the world is free

it's a song my mom used to sing to me as a child
a lullaby to help me slip into surrender


it's a sound that tickles the limbic
then moves down, grazing the frontal lobe
then further down into my dark body
flickers of light, shapes ... landscapes
passing that place I abandoned
left to decay years ago 
familiar unsettling


seeing it all again
from a distance, then up close
realizing it's a dream, I roll over and fall back asleep
only it returns; this time in greater detail

memories of the family farm
in Eastwood Ontario
this time


for kenneth henry batho
(uncle ken)

1926-2012




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Tuesday 29 January 2019

STRANGER

there she was, my distraction
my reason to forget everything around me
she was nothing more than a mere stranger

how could someone so unfamiliar
make me this oblivious
reckless, elusive



S T R A N G E R
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut


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Thursday 17 January 2019

NUMBER ONE.


3 things on my ‘life to live’ list of tings
 I'd like to do:

1. I want to learn how to paddleboard
2. I want to go skydiving
3. I want to adopt a child 



Taylor Ryan Elliott 
Miss Teen USA finalist - 2015



N U M B EO N E
volume amplification recommended














they're all looking at you
the chosen one



a jim lamarche remix
from the album TWO LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

trumpet:  James Lynch
voices:  Vanessa Lancaster & Jim Lamarche



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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind number one


1964

I first fell in love with Elizabeth Dent
in Woodstock Ontario, in Grade 3
beautiful, humble -  hot
total smoke-show

elegant, timeless, even at 8 years old
I kissed her 3 times under her winter hood
out in the woods behind Springbank School (her idea)
in March '65 - it was surreal

shortly after I turned 9
I found a stack of Dad's playboy mags
stashed under his tool bench
in the basement in a box

Mom was snoozing that afternoon
and he was away - traveling salesman/absent father
on the road a lot

I knew nothing and was curious
flipping through the pages - naked girls/wow 
pulling out the centre-fold
and almost fainting

feeling aroused at 9 even
not a clue and just as well
blondes always my preference
ever since

televised beauty pageants
make-up, high heels - lubricated tanned skin
that provocative smile
tailored to tease

boner ... I mean bonus

our preoccupation with beauty is distracting
my own attractions (still) ... conditionally condoned
how it's supposed to look

how it ends up looking

Elizabeth was my number one
still is













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Tuesday 15 January 2019

MY WORLD

inside a circle forming low
in a world that only you could know
go slow


M Y  W O R L D 
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for reishi


a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut
butterfly FX in adobe premiere

















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Tuesday 8 January 2019

CRATER


it's a warning sign




C R A T E R
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your humility resonates
ja ma sans


a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut


spiral sky music















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Saturday 15 December 2018

IT'S RAINING


darkness cannot drive out darkness
only light can do that
hate cannot drive out hate 
only love can do that

Martin Luther King Jr



I T ' S  R A I I N G
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio and final cut
rain FX in adobe premiere











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listen to the album ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE 



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Wednesday 28 November 2018

SMOTHER ME


she lowers her lashes until they almost cuddle her cheeks 
then slowly raises them again
like a theatre curtain


S M O T H E R  M E
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio and final cut












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listen to the album ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE 

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