A poem set to video, this one is called “Terry’s On The Parrot.” It was featured in my NCTV public access video entitled Scrapbook From The Underground;” Beat styled poetry readings, music videos, sketches, and self-indulgent ad libbing (a recurrent trait in most of my projects). The poems rhythmic quality was inspired by Tom Wait’s “Earth Died Screaming.” I had a lot of fun putting together the images, esp. “The trucker and his gal.” Scrapbook From The Underground is due to air on Northampton’s NCTV sometime this coming week. NCTV has (it’s abt time) recently been airing more creative programming: claymation, a spoof on the movie Saw by Noho High School students, & a families (mostly the kids) original sketch on a scary movie. Hopefully, NCTV will have more to come, sometime soon.
—– (Scrapbook From The Underground was based on my poetry book ’scrapbook of madness;” a scrapbook full of handwritten & typed prose poetry. The title of the video is a spoof on Dostoevsky’s Notes From (the) Underground. The term ’scrapbook of madness’ was taken from a John Lennon quote from Jann S. Wenner’s The Full Rolling Stone Interviews — paraphrased: “Me and Yoko would be living along the coast in Ireland when we’re 64, looking through our scrapbooks of madness.”)
