Hug me!
said the porcupine
to the hedgehog,
but please don’t stab me
in the back
Poetry
Fence post
BIG
FAT
UGLY
SUV
do not
park
in front
of me
Featuring: Jim White
I first learned about Jim White when I saw his movie Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Searching for The Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a captivating and compelling road trip and follows “Alt Country” singer Jim White through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truck stops, biker bars and coal mines. This is a journey through a very real contemporary Southern U.S., a world of marginalised white people and their unique and home-made society. Along the way are road-side encounters with modern musical mavericks including The Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, Dave Eugene Edwards, old time banjo player Lee sexton; rockabilly and mountain Gospel churches and novelist Harry Crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track.
This movie had a certain impact on me and left me wondering if there was more to this Jim White. After I checked him out on YouTube I realized he is a very sensitive, smart and sincere person.
Jim White (born Michael Davis Pratt) was influenced in his childhood by gospel. He has been a comedian, a fashion model, a boxer, a preacher, a professional surfer, and a New York City cab driver before embarking on a music career. White attended film school at New York University. Soon after finishing his lengthy thesis at the university, White entered a self-described “deep hole of sickness and depression and poverty.” However, during a party organized by film school friends, White began to perform, and began writing material for an album soon afterward.
White’s live shows, particularly when touring solo, can be characterized as off-beat, blending his playlist with open discussion with the audience, anecdotal storytelling derived from his own life experiences, all of which is typically humorous and insightful, with a deep sense of his feeling for the broken beauty of humanity.
Check him out (I would):
Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia, YouTube, interweb, poetpas
Photo: By Tecumseh1973 Wikipedia
Featuring: Featuring:
From this day forth, every now and (only)(until) then, dear boys and girls, I shall be posting an occasional post titled Featuring:
In these posts I shall feature somebody or something that has moved me or made an impression on me. These posts shall most possibly appear weekly, most likely on a Sunday (god willing) so check it out and enjoy…or don’t.
First up is Jim White. Stay tuned for more….
OCD
the grime
you see
is invisible
to me
The memories we made
the memories
we made
recorded records
we always played
the memories
we made
and all the feelings
we conveyed
the memories
we made
on city squares
in sun and shade
the memories
we made
when you left
and wish I would’ve stayed
the memories
we made
all the miles
that we have strayed
the memories
we made
the first time
we got laid
the memories
we made
shall always be
and never fade
the memories
we made
Grief
accept your sorrows
but don’t dwell on grief…
squeeze out some laughter
to get some relief
