Jim Lamarche - SAVING LIVES - BLOG/journal: August 2022

Sunday, 28 August 2022

CLOSURE

we all need

just a little

C L O S U R E

sound up, 720p

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TWO LIVES

assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/jens gad

https://www.facebook.com/jensgadcom/

visit ONE LIFE - the page
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

read more of Jim's blog posts here

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

LISTEN TO ONE LIFE >>> HERE

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Wednesday, 24 August 2022

DOG FIGHT

you don't have time to think up there

you think? ... you're dead

Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

Top Gun: Maverick

D O G F I G H T

sound up, 720p

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/amadeusz malkowski

feat: kyrah aylin

https://www.madis-music.com/

visit ONE LIFE - the page
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

read more of Jim's blog posts here

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

LISTEN TO ONE LIFE >>> HERE

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Tuesday, 23 August 2022

HURONIA

it's a hospital and a school

w/ 'cottages' for those less fortunate

(or so they would like us to believe)

in orillia ontario

out of sight, out of mind

dedicated to robert c. batho

it's nuclear cartoons

I just ran w/it

H U R O N I A
volume up/720p

labour of love

grandfather

mother's side - deaf mute in the 30's - 60's

bob & mona, same deal

married - 3 kids

he could read a whole newspaper

in 18 minutes! I clocked him once

ok he skipped half but still

dropping his paper in that dark living room

old musty furniture

looking at me

smiling

intelligent

well read - engraver by trade & painter/artist

truly gifted but he was damaged

hired then fired again & again

amazing work, but apparently?

difficult to work with

you know ... a little cuckoo (wink)

ok, he grunted a lot - always that scowl

that musky smell in those worn suspenders

he's been wearing for years

pipe smoke transgression

if looks could kill

when he laughed

I thought the ceiling would cave in

scary if you didn't know him

idiot, freak, retarded

I mean, he deserved more

grandpa batho was eccentric

and he smelled bad AND ya he was

a fucking freakshow

exit stage left

a necessary shift

for 'safety'

no one understood him

he drank and publicly

punched a policeman in the face

not good for a deaf & dumb, unemployed

intoxicated misfit

stamped and stunned

sent to St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital

for the rest of his life

we visited him there (60's)

it was actually quite humane

Huronia was a whole different story

more severe, detached

all relevant

if grandpa hadn't been British stock

he would have been sent to Huronia

I'm convinced of that now

our caste system

is still alive & well in Ontario Canada

money talks - and

we just pretend better

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album THREE LIVES

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

inspired by the CBC documentary

Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children

Directed by Barri Cohen

https://gem.cbc.ca/media/unloved-huronias-forgotten-children/s01e01

clip footage from

Carrieanne Tomkins

Memories of the Ontario Hospital School

Orillia

Directed by Mitchell Wilson

read more of Jim's blog posts here

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

a parting thought production

jimlamarche.ca

Friday, 19 August 2022

STRANGER 23

you're the in between

boy or girl

another remix of a remix

S T R A N G E R 2 3

w/stranger 18 bottom

volume up . 720p

a parting thought production

optimized for night vision

stranger, when you look at me

eyes strong as steel

light as day

born a mystery

you're the in between

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TWO LIVES

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music: alison goldfrapp & will gregory

from the 2013 album 'tales of us'

https://www.goldfrapp.com/

S T R A N G E R 1 8

volume up . 720p

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

assembled in logic audio and final cut

source music w/wouter de backer

(gotye)

https://www.instagram.com/gotye/?hl=en

see/hear the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

see/hear the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

see/hear the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>

http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/

read more of Jim's blog posts here

http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/

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Thursday, 18 August 2022

SALAAM/THALAIVA

in India, you're taught
that there are certain qualities
that make you a divine human being

deepak chopra

S A L A A M
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play again
then scroll down to the story
optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

doudouk samples
courtesy of lévon minassian

visual from the bollywood film

umrao jaan feat. aishwarya rai

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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind salaam/thalaiva

I lived up in the Punjab in 2008 for a few months
not sure why but I fell in love with India
from the onset
it wasn't the warm air, that masala hint
mass confusion - a magic

an innocence if you will

a rare transparency that is endearing

their 'business' is ruthless

but their humanity

is mint

I remember once having a few days off
going to a hole in the wall cinema
it was dirty and people dressed in rags
watching bollywood

90 min movie - 60 was dancing/singing
Ya, so SALAAM/THALAIVA

it's a late Aug thing

This is what it feels like there, Mohali

in late November - celebrating the Diwali

this is a preview of

Diwali 22 (coming 10.22)