Author Archives: ivanonthekeys
Halloween
What is that you’re seeing in the corner of your eye Stealthful foot steps following never passing by In the corner of the mirror watching when you blink It is patient and silent and deadlier than you think It’s biding time for years until the time is ripe Until you’ve grown enough and are just …
International Office Machines
Prompts of the Wild
Citizens? Really? More like consumers , if not just consumed
More, damn it.
Hitting back like a tsunami. Not fighting it, Not holding my breath, just letting it…….
Still in Hollywood
In my mind, when driving around the sunset Juction where I first saw Candye Kane, the Magick Shop, The Circus of Books, and the other places where I searched for myself, as they say. I may have been just avoiding myself as fast as I can, really, but….. Or, a cleaner version,…. It’s a song …
Music
Songs get me sometimes.
My life has a soundtrack that evokes images, like the Cure, or Romeo and Juliette by the Dire Straits that brings back my first close girlfriend, or Aerosmith or Guns and Roses as we drove through burning badlands on the way to Ensenada. What is yours? Concrete Blonde gives me mixed feelings. There was a …
Heart Attack and Vine
I keep thinking about the place. I can’t help it. Those frigging gold stars, the if-you-can’t-find-it-here-you-can’t-find-it-anywhere stores. The actors and musicians hustling. The ones who made it bumming it at the Frolic (both of them). The little theaters and galleries holding on with heart, courage, and luck. The pre-goth goths emerging from within the long-hair …
Onyx typer 