Monday, June 18, 2018

Tip of the Knife, Issue 30


This issue is devoted to handmade art work.


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CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Smith
daniel de culla
David Felix
Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett
Maria Damon
Marilyn R. Rosenberg
Crag Hill
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- DRAW BLOOD OR GO HOME -



Roger Smith












































daniel de culla



Acaros











Act+¡nula











 Adan











 Baudelaire











Gulliver












David Felix



Cast











Stitch











Votive












Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett























































Maria Damon



Don't Forget to W(e)ave 1











Don't Forget to W(e)ave 2











Don't Forget to W(e)ave 3












Marilyn R. Rosenberg



RETURN 29,952-953











RETURN 29,954-956











RETURN 29,957-962











RETURN 29,963-965











RETURN 29,998-999












Crag Hill

We now present some hand drawn, hand lettered work created by visual/verbal poet Crag Hill with whom I have a special bond of friendship stretching back to 1980.  Together we chewed up that entire decade, turning mass into energy and charging face forward into the light.  We worked together underneath Mission Street with giant sized cameras and copy boards, watching the life of San Francisco walking over our heads.  We performed in two bands at the same time playing at uncounted bars, clubs and galleries.  We amused ourselves in the streets and the alleys.  We would steal the messengers’ bikes and ride through the Tenderloin, a ghetto that swallows souls.

He saved our lives once; we had skipped work and were on the way to my apartment that sat on top of Twin Peaks.  We were speeding, babbling like Kerouac and Cassidy, paying no attention to the road until I heard Crag scream and I saw my death.  That scream gave me the few seconds I needed to skate through the traffic like a flat rock on the surface of a lake.  So we were able to continue what from that moment on, I called our Charmed Lives.  And we never wasted another moment, filling up Time, using Time, painting Time.

Crag Hill’s visual poetry was the first I saw- it cracked my head open- I’m still convinced I saw God at that moment.  And speaking of God, I think we both saw Him one afternoon when we ingested mushrooms on his roof.  We could see across San Francisco Bay to Atlantis with its fanciful climbing architecture and white mists, with people of heightened consciousness and giant beautiful brilliant gems that penetrate the fog with colored beams, cerulean blue like the ocean, iridescent gold mornings, prism violet sunsets.

Anyway, my homie, my friend, my genius madman, keep on inspiring your students; I hope they know how lucky they are.

Bill








































































For sale on eBay:


BATANG FRISCO LP 33 1/3 vinyl

A solo music project from Bill DiMichele that tells a tale of icy urban sorcery.






Now accepting submissions for issue 31.  Send to julie-d@prodigy.net.





4 comments:

  1. hi bill. my third piece shd be called Don't Forget to W(e)ave 3. Thanks!

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  2. Sorry Maria... It has been corrected.

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  3. Great stuff, Bill (as always!) Particularly keen on David Felix and Marilyn R Rosenberg's pieces. Off now to track down your lp on uk ebay...

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