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A poem to my babe Elena during xmas time

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- Man, where the fuck are you?

- Need you by my side...

- Right now...

- There's a tempest blow...

- There's no ride...

- Come on...

- There's Minsk and an headless horse...

- There's a train with speed and force...

- Take me into your arms again...

- This will be not the same chain...

- My love for you isn't in vain...

 I was watching military and an army...

 I was with you feeling funny...

 I was listening to Tom while telling you that you were my atomic bomb...

 Your blonde hair was my atmosphere...

- One...

- Two...

- Let's fly into something new...

- My Doc Martens boots are your roots...

 You said this to me.

 It wasn't raining or snowing...

 Rudolf's reindeer was in your purse being more than a toy for a boy...

- There's peace, Man...

- Love you and your pen...

- Grab an hot dog...

- My belly needs food for xmas mood...

- One way ticket...

- A paper somewhere...

- Our love isn't elsewhere...

- Moscow?

- Russia?

- No papers to write...

- We love our own sight...

- There's a castle...

- There's no chocolate Hussel...

- There's candy at handy...

 You were wearing my coat while being it your own private boat...

 There were stars in the sky...

 We weren't high or with any sigh...

- Feel...

- There's our own hill...

- There's an orthodox calendar...

- Not that far...

- It's sun today...

- Let's have fun during the day...

 You were wearing my hat while telling me that you wanted to have a cat as a pet...

 Young Gods were on our playlist...

 We were at a square marveling a statue of a doll...

 We weren't inside any call...

- The Thin White Duke?

- Is he playing a sparrow's flute?

- Love how your hair stand...

- No gel to bend...

- Your head is mine inside our special time...

- Your soul never flies away when you're with me for free...

- Vodka...

- Champagne...

- Wine...

- We're fine...

- Fire...

- Light...

- Our own insight...

- I feel you inside me while you're me and I'm thee...

 You were telling me this with the purest kiss...

 My hands were holding you, pulling you up from the floor while you were telling me something about a perception's door...

- Love you doll...

- You're my fall...

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Merry Xmas to all followers of this blogue with a message from Corto Maltese

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A love story to Isabel Berg with Rudolf's magical light in Christmas night

Writing a love story isn't an easy task and I never wear a mask.

 It isn't also a joke by some bloke...

 Writing books is not only marveling at its astonishing looks...

Being two in one is all the magic that needs to feel without any wounds to heal...

Below are some images with feelings that will prove what I'll write in this post without searching for Rudolf's reindeer light.

Being in love is the prettiest feeling in the world 

I don't understand people who don't believe in love.

 Love's poetry in motion inside the world's most powerful potion.

 Above is the woman that I love and simple as it is, love is more than a kiss.

A statement by myself

Love isn't a soldier in the mud, love is knowing who you're with inside your heart and soul without feeling yourself cold and never old.

I'm sure that I'm this guy on this pic

In the above picture there's an artwork of a woman and a man kissing each other while mirroring the world as a static frozen frame being them in movement without shame and not playing any game.

A book by Algerian writer Albert Camus

Love isn't any fall inside a lost call...

Love is more than a book or a simple look.

Some of my favourite covers based on Hellblazer comic book character and Watchmen created by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles along an artwork of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese fashion character drawn by himself along a statement in Italian that I love 

Of course that I love books and images being them frozen or in movement not being mirages.

 I know that I'm not Invisible, a Watchman while carrying an Hellblazer. 

In the image above there's Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese character stating this in Italian in a free translation to English by myself:

"I don't need to justify myself in front of anyone. Can you feel me? My mind's free. 

I wasn't afraid to die and I always was free.

I'll do it over and over again.

You can all go to hell."

Me, Sandra and Rudolf reindeer 

Then, there's Sandra, that's a teutonic woman that really believes that a dream is a picture inside a scream.

 What I really know is that Santa Claus is a old man inside a fable and since I was a child I always prefered Rudolf's reindeer mythical creature that shows a clear path all over the world with its light in this season time to every girl and boy while not being a simple toy.

Me and an artwork based on myself and my niece Luzia by Italian maestro Rolando Cicatelli 

I already stated above that I believe in pure love towards Isabel that puts me in some sort of spell.

 When one of my nieces wants to be a fashion character with myself inside an artwork by Italian artist Rolando Cicatelli, all that I can think at that frozen moment in time, is that in my life or in my autobiography she'll clearly be inside it in a book shelf.

An artwork based on me by Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom and another one by Italian artist Marco Polenta

I stated several times in this blogue that I love the artwork that Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom created based on myself and that she has the prettiest soul that I've ever met, I know that she also loves my soul even if I'm smoking a cigarette.

 Extraordinary Italian artist Marco Polenta created an astonishing artwork based on me while putting myself inside David Lynch's Twin Peaks TV series and its "Red Room" while I was thinking this to myself:

- "Flowers must bloom"

Me and an artwork based on a XXIst century woman by Italian artist Gianni Allegra

Women also are temptation inside a pagan nation.

 Extraordinary Italian artist Gianni Allegra created an artwork for me based on a "Rebel, Rebel" girl smoking a cigarette while mirroring the internet.

 I remember that at that time I was telling a story, while also smoking a cigarette too, about how Rudolf's reindeer is with its magical kiss.

Me and some of my favourite covers based on comic book character Hellblazer and Watchmen created by English writer Alan Moore, The Invisibles and Animal Man written by Scottish writer Grant Morrison and Sandman written by English writer Neil Gaiman 

I'm no Animal Man and not even Sandman, I know that I always let Isabel google my pen because she's my belle that casted me a spell.

An artwork based on me and Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom and another one based on my kitty Ilvie and me by Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj 

There was a time when the last of my five stolen kitties, whose name is Ilvie , put me inside a rhyme.

 There was another time when Canadian artist Stan Wany created an artwork based on myself and on Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom while I was thinking this to myself: 

- There's a soul that never is old. 

An artwork by Russian artist Tatjana Volkova, me and Sandra along Rudof reindeer

Then there's Sandra again inside a Russian train in vain.

 Knowing myself that Rudolf's star is who as human beings really are.

Me along an artwork of a Swedish woman that smokes 

Smoke, boat and coat.

I love artworks with no masks even if they're tasks while I'm thinking this to myself:

- A mysterious woman smoking a cigarette?

- What's this?

- Bloody internet?

Me and some of my favourite covers based on comic book character Hellblazer and Watchmen created by English writer Alan Moore, The Invisibles and Animal Man written by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, Sandman written by English writer Neil Gaiman and Preacher written by Irish writer Garth Ennis

I know one thing and one thing only:

- I never preach to what's at my reach, knowing that I'm not a vampire walking in barbed wire.

Me and Sandra along an artwork by Italian Maestro Bernardino Constantino along Rudof reindeer

Then, there's Sandra again and her inner pain.

 I vision an awesome artwork by Italian maestro Bernardino Constantino not thinking on any game.

 There's also Rudof's reindeer inside a frozen moment in time that doesn't rhyme.

An artwork based on me by Spanish artist Eduardo Alvarado Sanchez Cortés and another one by Argentine artist Carlos Dearmas

There is an artwork based on myself by Spanish maestro Eduardo Alvarado Sanchez Cortes that I love where he drew several "me's" not fighting honeybees and another one based on me by Argentine artist Carlos Dearmas while I'm thinking on a movie named "Leon" and Tom Waits masterpiece album "swordfishtrombone"

Me and an artwork based on a XXIst century woman by Italian maestro Massimiliano Veltri along Rudolf reindeer

I know that a pretty woman inside a song is more than a bomb like the above artwork that Italian artist Massimiliano Veltri created knowing myself that Rudolf's reindeer catches every snowflake without fear inside a tear.

An artwork by Italian maestro Rolando Cicatelli based on my niece Luzia along myself

My life is who I am as a simple man.

One of my nieces wants to be with me inside my own autobiography? 

I know that with me, she's always free.

There's William Blake inside a book telling something about Europe and America.

 There're images in there and words as swords.

There's Fernando Pessoa being quiet without any riot.

 There's Portuguese writer Mario Cesariny that tells me this inside a book:

- In all streets I lose you.

- In all streets I find you.

Below is a video of myself stating in English all the love that I've on my heart and soul while knowing that Rudolf's reindeer is who starts my path inside a love story to Isabel that's my belle.

Many thanks to all international artists who believe and support my work and ideas inside book projects while hoping that you all have a joyful christmas time where time doesn't chime.

You're the best.

Special thanks to my love Isabel Berg and to all my nephews and nieces

A poem to my love Isabel Berg at Christmas time

Me, Isabel, a cat and a song 

- God Jul.
- There'll be codfish and potatoes on our dish...
You tell me this through your soft lips that suddenly move without any groove...
I stare at a kitty tearing a xmas tree appart for free...
I listen to a song while "we're watching all the streets lights fade"...
There's somewhere a shade...
- You're always like this.
- How can I give you a kiss?
You ask me this and I suddenly know that's Rudolf reindeer and its glow wherever we go...
- Will you be my light during the night?
I ask you this...
Without butterfly efect...
No jet set...
Without internet...
You hold a pagan cross on your chest...
You always hold a little bit your breathe...
- I'm mother...
- I go further...
- I do teach...
- I grab you at my reach...
- You and me are always more than words being written in a blank sheet...
- We're always neat...
- We aren't an wolfpack inside a rack...
- My hair is what you touch...
- Your fingertips are soft...
- There's cold...
- Let's nurture ourselves with love potion of old...
- Be my light...
- I'll be your insight...
- Don't be a sailor near the sea...
- I need you near me...
I think on where boats sink...
I don't think on wood when there's food...
- Bread and honey, Man...
- You know how I am...
I stare at your beautiful eyes that don't carry any lies...
Your hair is red not being dead...
I listen to old Tom...
I listen to The Thin White Duke...
I play to simple sparrows with a flute...
I read and read Pessoa's disquiet book while admiring your astonishing look...
- I've thought on you today...
- During morning and day...
- You're my angel to be...
- Side by side...
- Inside a Chocolate's ride...
You told me this...
Words were everywhere...
In a common street...
Where we meet...
The song continues on my mind...
It isn't at all unkind...
- Dear...
- Honey...
- You're so funny...
- You've no tear or any fear...
You tell me this...
There's only me and you...
Nothing new...
No magic trick...
Not staring at a brick...
- Scandinavia, Man...
- It's here your pen...
- No pagan poetry...
- We're joy to be...
I listen to the sounds that your shoes make while you walk and to me talk...
There're our hands...
No loose ends...
You've a sparkle of a flame...
It isn't a game...
It is no shame...
- Voodoo talk...
- You know that I love how you walk...
- A Portuguese that says please...
- I'm your queen and you know...
- I'm not a simple blow...
- You're my king with a label pin...
You say this to me...
Joy is in thee...
No book's free...
No fruit is hidden from thee...
Personal Jesus to be...
You and me...
- Come on, Man...
- Loose your pen...
- Stand by my side...
- No ride...
- Let's listen to silence as science...
You tell me this...
While I tell you this:
- There's a kiss inside our own bliss...

My sun, moon and stars 

A poem to my love Sandra Lippert that ain't a dove inside a Tricky song .

Me and Sandra 

- Hey Man, have you forgotten me?
- Where's your speed?
- I'm in need...
- Sex appeal, Man...
- Top of the hill...
- I wanna feel...
- You're Satan's son being fun...
- Come on Man...
- Make me come...
- I'm home...
- Let's have fun...
- Have you brought Rudolf's reindeer?
- You're a dear...
- Do you love my hair today?
- Extra soft to touch...
- Thought on your hands...
- No loose ends...
- Love you...
- You know...
- We live inside our own blow...
 I was listening to Tricky while being neaty...
 I was marvelling your pretty face...
 I was trying to make you feel as soft as a banana's peel...
- Man, don't be bad to me...
- Our orgasms are always free...
- You know that I love thee...
I was real high observing your grey dress trying to figure out in it a game chess...
- My thighs, Man...
- Google me with your pen...
- Where were you last night?
- Bloody L.A.?
- During the day?
- What the fuck Man?
- A bird gave you a phone number?
- Don't tell me that she used your pen...
- I'll kill you for true...
- I'm your only belle...
- What's this?
- Have you forgotten my kiss?
- Endless nights where our bodies were in sync with our own ink?
- Never betray me.
- Can you hear me?
- This isn't freedom exhibition or some religion...
- Love is more than a flying dove...
 I didn't knew what to tell you then...
 You were holding my pen...
 I was afraid then...
 Told you this:
- Love you doll...
- I'm always with you inside a call...
- Your human warmth is what I need without any kind of speed...
You were smiling to me while telling me this inside a kiss:
- Man, you know...
- There's a blow...
- I've your heart on my dish...
- I can boil it as some fish...
I was a bit lost thinking on Blake's host being my ghost...
- Be my tiger, Man...
- Be my Man...
- Do whatever you can...
- I need your left hand...
- I need your fingertips on my lips...
- Don't be bad...
- You know that I turn a bit mad...
- Look at the full moon...
- I love when we're watching a cartoon...
- Crackaboom...
- You're my doom...
 Without myself knowing what to do, my jeans were on the floor and you were asking me for more...
- Candy...
- Chocolate...
- Handy...
- Hopscotch...
- You know me Man...
- I love how you bang...
- You're my book inside our own look...
- Come back to me one more time...
- I need another orgasm and not a fucking rhyme...

Exclusive interview to Edward Stapleton from Nervous Gender band

 I admit that I was a bit scared while doing an interview to Edward Stapleton that's the leader of Nervous Gender American band.

 We were at a coffeeshop in bloody Los Angeles, I remember that I was without cigarettes thinking on my belle and suddenly a cherry pie was on a wooden table with a single glass of water waving at me.

 It looked good and yummy, so while eating it (hiding this act from Edward and Karene's human eyes), I was carefully thinking on the questions to ask Edward because Karene (that's his wife) told me that she would send me to hell with a one way ticket inside a voodoo spell if I wasn't a good interviewer to them both.

 What I knew while making this interview was that we suddenly were all over the place at random decades from the previous century or on this same century that we're supposed to live in.

 Out of nowhere from the coffeeshop's backdoor appeared a pretty waitress that served us coffee, another piece of cherry pie and cookies, she told me then that I actually live in the 18th century.

 I know that I stared and smiled towards her, admiring her beauty while obviously agreeing with everything that she was telling me.

 Edward was holding an holy cross on his right hand and Karene had some sort of knife on her left hand, so without cigarettes and with a pretty waitress serving me cookies, cherry and coffee, what could I do? 

 I've immediately posed some questions to Edward always carefully looking left and right while staring at a calendar that was in front of us stating that we were in 15th December 1777. 

 I remember that it did rain and on  that day after the interview, I immediately ran out from the coffeeshop where we were to buy some cigarettes at a tobacco's store, with a written paper on my coat that had the pretty waitress phone number in it, while noticing a newspaper dated 15th December 2019 in there.

 I quickly forgot about this little detail while I was phoning to the number that the pretty waitress gave me and in two hours we were both having a good diner while chit chatting about life and romance.

 Below is the interview to Edward (un)censored and with Karene's blessing.

Edward, Karene, me and an artwork based on me by Italian artist Bernardino Constantino in 1777's LOS ANGELES

1) Nervous Gender band was founded in 1978 in L.A.

 How did this electropunk movement started?

 Were you trying to send some message regarding society at the time or were you simply creating new sounds?

Nervous Gender pamphlet artwork

 The original Punk movement consisted of guitar bands,which I enjoyed,but found I was more drawn to bands with synthesized noise.  Like any movement, you bring your past influences and insights along with you. 
 The jump from listening to Brian Eno and later to Ultra Vox was a naturally progression for me. 

Eno

 Around 1977, a friend sent me the album of a New York band named Suicide. 

 That along with seeing The Screamers perform here in LA inspired me to start Nervous Gender. 

 Electro-Punk and Synth Punk were all included within the Punk Rock movement. 

2) In 1981 your LP "Music from hell" was released  and Paul Roessler of The Screamers moved to New York to play with German singer Nina Hagen and Don Bolles also left the band being replaced by a eight year old boy named Sven Pfeiffer.

Sven Pfeiffer's Nervous Gender 

 Can you tell us what happened during the release of this album with Nervous Gender?

Music from Hell

Politics mixed with personal pain. 
 Non-straight sexuality was still avoided by the Punk scene. 
 I wanted to express the same aggressive energy towards the culture in regards to its bigotry and dismissal that it displayed towards those on the "outside" of society.
  Aggressive sexuality was not to be a cause for intimidation, rather an opening to a larger sexual diversity. 

 "Music from Hell" was recorded by Subterranean Records out of San Francisco, where we had a move enthusiastic following. 
 At that point the band was made up of Don Bowles, Gerardo, me and Bill Klein.   Everything was recorded over one weekend.  We were left to our own devices for the record.  
 Subterranean placed no specific guide lines on us. 

3) You played along bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Non and Psychic Tv in the 80's.

 These bands are raw and pass a message of renewal in music.

 How was your link/bound/message with the above mentioned bands when you played with them?

Getting to play with Einstürzende Neubauten and Suicide was exciting.
 These were people we looked up to and being on the same venue with them was an honor. 

Einstürzende Neubauten "kollaps" album from 1981

4) In mid-eighties, the band was on the verge of breaking up.

 What did happen with Nervous Gender at this time?

During the 80's we were on the verge of breaking up. It was an odd time in LA.  
 The police were shutting down Punk music venues.  
 Punk was becoming a "one trick pony" not as experimental as original. 
 More like a copy of a copy. 
 Rav's were becoming the next big thing.  There was a lot of competition for the weekend crowds, Rav's were huge. 
 Usually held in old warehouses downtown and opportunities were less and less. 

 Bruce Moreland and Wall of Voodoo doing Nervous Gender songs gave us access to a different audience along with the punks. 

5) You played also with American band Christian Death.

 What was Nervous Gender fusion with this goth band?

 I remember listening to them and they were always passing a clear message of the world where we live in and when Rozz Williams died, I stopped listening to them.

 Are you a fan of Christian Death?

Christian Death's album "Only theater of pain" released in 1982

Our friendship with Rozz of Christian Death started in early 80's. 
 It was not based on anything happening at the time, but was more the fact that the influences for his music were pretty much the same as ours.   While NG was not gothic at all, the subject matters was. 
 At one point Rozz lived down the block from us.  We saw each other on a daily basis along with Ron Athey and Patrice Repose.  
 There were conversations about religion, Sexuality and death.  
 These conversations inspired all of us in different ways. 
 I was a fan of Christian Death before I saw them perform. 
 First time I heard of them was from Don Boles and his description made me want to go see them when they came to LA.  

Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone 

6) How did you and your woman Karene in 2005 were involved in another project named Kali's Thugs?

 Can you tell us a bit about this project? 

Edward Stapleton in Kali's Thugs project

Gerardo died in the early 90's. 
 Karene and I got a computer and decided to take some of her poetry (she was doing Poetry Slams around L.A.) and I put some music together using toys. 
 The kids were growing up and we had so many toys around the house I thought by manipulating the sounds and create some odd sound tracks. 
 I would create the sound tracks and Karene would sing or recite over them. 
 We were both influenced by Eastern music at the time. 
 The CD's were put out under the name Kali's Thugs.  

Edward Stapleton performing with a Kali's Thugs t-shirt

7) Can you tell us a bit of your own influences in any kind of art forms while creating music with a clear message, 

In terms of art, I was influenced by Francis Bacon and H.R. Giger.  

A Francis Bacon's triptych

An H.R.Giger artwork 

Music: Bowie, Vandergraf Generator, Virgin Prunes, Coil and Laurie Anderson. 

Vandergraf Generator "godbluff" album from 1975

Laurie Anderson "big science" album from 1982

Coil album "Love secret's domain" released in 1991

Virgin Prunes "a new form of beauty" album released in 1981

David Bowie "outside" album released in 1995

8) The world where we live in is crazier and crazier all the time with social networks among other things.

 How do you compare this metamorphosis to what happened in the 80's in California?

 As for social networking now and back in the 80's. 
 We all pretty much lived downtown L.A. in lofts, or in my situation an empty church.  That was where the clubs were, so you networked in the coffee houses or other peoples digs or in the clubs. 
 If you wanted to know where someone was going to be you just had to check the band flyers on the telephone poles. 
 Now it is easier to keep in contact with people.  

 Within days of posting new music Oliver was in touch. 
 He was in Berlin at the time and was interested in putting out a a vinyl record of the songs in more of an EDM style (which seems to be the most popular in clubs there). 
 Soon Bernardino Constantino, an Italian multimedia artist along with Nicola Rettino  showed interest in working with us creating image and short films referencing the songs. 
 He has published one full color soft bound comic book based on one song and another that will be out soon based on the song Cardinal Newman.  

Artwork for Nervous Gender by Italian maestro Bernardino Constantino 

Artwork for Nervous Gender by Italian artist Nicola Rettino

Artwork for Nervous Gender by Italian artists Bernardino Constantino and Nicola Rettino



Many thanks to Edward for this kind interview and to all international musicians and artists that shared their time, memories and their passions in life with myself in other exclusive interviews that can be read in this same blogue in previous posts in it while knowing us all that we're all normal human living beings sharing life and memories in a blue planet named Earth.
Below is a live video with Nervous Gender playing their theme "Cardinal Newman"