Re: [Harp-L] the hard way to learn harp

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice Garry! Thanks for bailing me out on the minimal harp content for the 
Kerouac post. Here's another - it's Kerouacs 30 rules for spontaneous prose. 
Harp content is #7.

PS: C'mon we have to have some culture here since Bonfiglio doesn't hang out 
that often....
 1.. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
 2.. Submissive to everything, open, listening
 3.. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
 4.. Be in love with yr life
 5.. Something that you feel will find its own form
 6.. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
 7.. Blow as deep as you want to blow
 8.. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
 9.. The unspeakable visions of the individual
 10.. No time for poetry but exactly what is
 11.. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
 12.. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
 13.. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
 14.. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
 15.. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
 16.. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
 17.. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself
 18.. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
 19.. Accept loss forever
 20.. Believe in the holy contour of life
 21.. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
 22.. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
 23.. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
 24.. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & 
knowledge
 25.. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
 26.. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
 27.. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
 28.. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier 
the better
 29.. You're a Genius all the time
 30.. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hodgson" <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] the hard way to learn harp


> just stumbled upon this, from an interview with john cassady,
> son of neal cassady (of On The Road and Merry Pranksters fame):
>
>    I met a blues-harp player in college, an ex-Marine just out of
>    Vietnam named Matt Shaw. He learned blues harp by hiding
>    in the ammo bunker under his fire base near Laos and playing
>    Paul Butterfield's classic "East/West" album over and over.
>
> ----
> Garry Hodgson, Senior Software Geek, AT&T CSO
>
> But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
> 'Cause I promised myself this year
> I feel like I owe it...to someone.