A TRIBUTE IN MOTION:Paris July 4th 2005

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Stick all the pix and stuff for the Tribute In Motion on here and it saves us having threads all over the place.
I just want to take the time to say THANKS GUYS to Nick and Stuart for making a rather good idea into a bloody brillaint one and even if Nick never turned up Stu (who will be along shortly to fill us in with the details no doubt) was his able deputy.
Bloody awesome setting and it went off really well....which to be honest I did not think it would being on the 4th.
Some guys suggested a repeat next year taking in a couple of days at various places which ties in with Nicks original idea and I think we all need to make sure thats what happens......
I am not back on the net till tomorrow...I am at college but wanted to set this up asap....I will be a bit ignorant for a few days yet as it hurts like hell to type as the guys who saw my hands in Paris will tell you so I will sort out PMs and emails later this week.


Check out A TRIBUTE IN MOTION July 2005 on Scorpywag
Alex's tale
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Stuart's Tale
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Darryl's tale
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[nick]

Glad it went well- Seein' those pix cheered me up after not making it.... GREAT idea with the various venues!

[stuart]

I just want to again say thnaks for nick putting in all the hard work, im overjoyed that the event went as well as it did, i was really scared reading a couple of the poems but soon got the adreneline going after that.

Everybody did great and Jim, i hope it made you proud

The event would not happend without jim.

Thanks Jim for the poems.

[jochen]

Thanks again to Nick and Stuart, the reading was one of the greatest events for me while being in Paris!

I really hope that we'll get it organised every December/July, I guess we'll just have to ask Shakespeare and Co. again for December...

Would be great to see more photos of this event, but unfortunately my whole bagpack (including the photos...)got stolen two days before...

[ensenada]

aawww jesus, i forgot about your bag being stolen, thats the trouble with getting drunk, i forget shit loads.
the event was superb! they pulled it off brilliantly. we must do it again....this time we can have it associated with scorpywag and get our good name out there. if it wasnt for this place, it wouldnt have happemed either i dont think...it brought to insane minds together...nick and stu's

[stuart]

Damn right Bro:)

[nick]

insane? i'm the most brilliant man alive!
'cept for gilles

did anyone mention any other venues that would work....? it'd be really cool in the summer to be able to have it the 2nd 3rd and 4th... different times so that it didn't really interefere with anyfing.... outdoor (along the wall? hell everyone was gathered there)... boozy indoor latenight reading, an' summin a bit more classy... ah neither here nor there, tho wouldn't it be nice to try one again at shakespare and co. in dec.- or would that be too much of a repeat?

[jym]

stuart said:

The event would not happend without jim.

Would be pretty pointless wouldn't it?

[eressie]

jym said:

stuart said:

The event would not happend without jim.

Would be pretty pointless wouldn't it?

[stuart]

Indeed Jym

[jochen]

nick said:

did anyone mention any other venues that would work....? it'd be really cool in the summer to be able to have it the 2nd 3rd and 4th... different times so that it didn't really interefere with anyfing.... outdoor (along the wall? hell everyone was gathered there)... boozy indoor latenight reading, an' summin a bit more classy... ah neither here nor there, tho wouldn't it be nice to try one again at shakespare and co. in dec.- or would that be too much of a repeat?

I guess it would be OK to try it again at Shakespeare, why not??

Would be really cool to install this event every time we're in Paris!

It was really brilliant, but it would progress further and further each time it will be held again I guess...

[kat]

The reading was cool. Much better than I expected (that sounds bad but I mean it in a good way). I have quite a few pics of it which I'll post a bit later on...
I reckon a reading on the banks of the Seine would be good for next summer (or Dec if ya wanna freeze yer balls off).
Arrange a spot before hand, take a few bottles of wine and just see what happens...

[matt]

@ Stuart

"This is the best part of the trip"
Last night I dreamt about umbrellas rolling over the street ;-)
I'll probably never forget stumbling through Paris and cursing the 'step' in the middle of the road. (Iain: "Two scotsmen in Paris...") I hope your knee is alright by now.
I just have to thank You for the great poetry reading.
It was a big pleasure to meet You and Eressie (Have You get yourself a lighter? ;-))

@ Jochen: Wir sehen uns beim Festival !!!

[stuart]

Matt, it was great meeting you as well and my knee is better now! it was for a trip to remember haha!.

All The Best Matt.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

I did TWO things in Paris this year that I had never done in my life...."pause for smart arce comments"........
ONE was I ate a plate of snails after the poetry bash with Rick and they were absolutely lovely....and TWO I stood in front of a bunch of people and read poetry.....I must be getting wierd in my old age....

I copied and moved some of Eressies pix over here of the poetry reading and i am sure we will see loads more when Pep and Adz get here and from Kat......I am being sent some discs and will put all the Paris ones on this board.

















I am gonna add my thoughts on the day as my hands are healing up a bit and it would be nice if some of the poets gave thier view of the event.
Next summer maybe we should do three or four readings....Shakys bookstore would have to be a must and outside La ren next to the cemetary wall would be cool.......maybe that park near Jims place as was suggested....lotsa time to plan this time so lets make it better than July 4th which was totally awesome in my view.

[stuart]

I found it a great thrill to read poetry"dry"(after overcoming my huge nervousness), it was of course great reading jim's words and i found it cool to read a couple of my own works in such a groovy place.



Place des Voges does look great, only saw it at night as iain, myself and another two cool guys(one was called alex and he was about 18)before heading to jim's place, that ws the night myself and alex nearly got trapped in the apartment block!!!.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Yeah I remember that young Alex mate...he read Horse latitudes at the bash did it well too.....Iain read Soft Parade quite dramatically and I enjoyed that and it was nice of Darryl to read 'Lost poets land' which was a request from me earlier in the bar.
This was what I read if anyones interested.....a lot of snippets of Jim which to me covered his life and death...I was really nervous and was not actually gonna do it but Rick said he would share it but after Rick read his own poetry I thought bollocks and just went for it......I enjoyed it a lot so then read a couple of pages from New Creatures.




The walls screamed poetry disease & sex
an inner whine like a mad machine

In that year there was
an intense visitation
of energy.
I left school & went down
to the beach to live.
I slept on a roof
At night the moon became
a woman's face.
I met the Spirit of Music.

He spoke to me. He frightened
me with laughter.
He took my hand, & led me past silence into cool whispered
Bells.

I am troubled
Immeasurably
By your eyes
I am struck
By the feather
of your soft
Reply

The artist of Hell
set up easels in parks
the terrible landscape,
where citizens find anxious pleasure
preyed upon by savage bands of youths.

Welcome to the American Night
where dogs bite
to find the voice
the face the fate the fame
to be tamed
by The Night
in a quiet soft luxuriant car

Hitchhikers line the Great Highway

The grand highway
is
crowded
w/
lovers
&
searchers
&
leavers
so
eager
to
please
&
forget.

Wilderness.

Welcome to the night
Welcome to the deep good
dark American Night

Untrampled footsteps
Borderline dreams
Occasion for sinners
alive if it seems
given to wander
alone at the shore
wanton to whisper
I am no more
Am as my heart beats
live as I can
wanton to whisper
faraway sands

The Night is young
& full of rest
I can't describe the
way she's dress'd
She'll pander to some strange
requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please her guest

Fear the Lords who are secret among us.
the lords are within us.
Born of sloth & cowardice.

”You guys just made a pact with the devil.
He seduces you with cute little gas efficient cars.
But you go along with it because the deals so good.
I know you Ray...
you’re only in it for the money....

lots of money.....”

Motel, money, murder, madness
Change the mood from glad to sadness

Play the ghost song baby

The Lords appease us with images. They give us books, concerts, galleries, shows, cinemas.
Especially the cinemas.
Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement.
Art adorns our prison walls,
keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Where are my dreamers
Today & tonight.
Where are my dancers
leaping madly
whirling & screaming

Fall down
Strange gods arrive in fast enemy poses.
Their shirts are soft
Marrying cloth and hair together.
All along their arms ornaments
conceal veins bluer than blood
pretending welcome.


The wind withdraws all sound.

Stamp your witness on the punished ground.

The night will come &
close your eyes

I'm like a window in a city
When you turn off the lights
I walk in your whisper
And fall thru the night

The Endless quest a vigil
of watchtowers and fortresses
against the sea and time.

Have they won?

Perhaps.

They still stand
and in
their silent rooms still wander

the souls of the dead,
who keep their watch
on the living.

Soon enough we shall join them.
Soon enough we shall walk
the walls of time.
We shall miss nothing
except each other.


Invent new faces
These won't do
The old gets moldy
Withers dies
Let me see your faces
Put them on
Your eyes deceive me
Don't believe me
I could lie

Turn mirrors to the wall
in the house of the new dead

Cemetery cool & quiet
Hate to leave
your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day

The hitchhiker stood by the side of the road
& levelled his thumb in the
calm calculus of reason

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
yeah I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
the futures uncertain
but
the end………………..

[ensenada]

i really enjoyed your reading alex, it was cool, you did really well. i particularly liked this bit...

”You guys just made a pact with the devil.
He seduces you with cute little gas efficient cars.
But you go along with it because the deals so good.
I know you Ray...
you’re only in it for the money....

lots of money.....”

nice dig....where is this from? you must have added the ray bit...

i like the idea of combining diff poems of jim's to describe different parts of his life...a cool tribute dude ;D

[nick]

i think he would have only added the name into it, but that would
have been who jim was speaking to when he said that anyway, right?

[ensenada]

well i read some of my stuff...not many though and cos they are so short i read a coupla poems from the lords and new creatures.



but i really enjoyed it and alex, cowboy and matt rolled up 20mins late drunk it was cool to hear so many other peoples poetry too....it was a hit and it will be even more of a hit next year with more of us n the case i can tell you that! ;D