| Name |
Comments |
i
wuz here downtown vancouver |
February
24, 2006
well i managed to pull myself away after several "lit hits" and as it is now a wee hour in the morning, i must retire. but first a simple note of appreciation for either the way you experience life or the way you express it (or likely both). enjoyable. refreshing. lana |
| Mike |
December
11, 2005 1971 which i never pursued as i was too busy getting high and trying to get all the loving i could..i regret this now although it was a good trip....i will leave you with a closing line to one of my poems that is so philisophical that it astounded me so much so that i gave up drinking....FOR LIVING ONE DAY IS SO HARD TO DO...WHEN YOUR FIGHTING YESTERDAY ..AND ITS FIGHTING AGAINST YOU |
Reid Wilmington NC |
December
10, 2005 Hi Brian Just want to let you know that I worked with Walt Skees in the early 70's. I was about 21 years old and had similar conversations with him. He was a great singer and a different kind of guy. The stories he told you about his women were probably true. |
| sasha vancouver b.c |
November
15, 2005 hi zeydah! i like your web-site thanks for helping me with my blog! |
Melody Vancouver |
November
1, 2005 Hi Brian, I've just been enjoying your writing and photos. It's good to stop by once in a while for a refreshment. Thank you. Beautiful! - Melody |
| Caroline Powell River |
September
24, 2005 hey there remember me. I was 18 and used to come downtown to visit you. I introduced you to Bo Diddley. Harvey, Dave and Sam were there too. I was just looking up Dave on the net and noticed your name. And you are in Vancouver how interesting! I am on the sunshine coast and loving it. If you want to chat further email me. |
Jen never say never-land |
September
8, 2005 Brian, Not sure how I stumbled upon your web site, but I'm glad I did, your story of the happy goat lady alone on the island really struck a cord with me, if you live in the place where you would vacation it would be the ultimate blessing. Thanks for letting us live your experiences. I will always remember that. Jen |
| Ellen White Rock (Where there's this really huge white rock on the beach!) |
August
24, 2005 Wow Brian. Some guy is asking for your advice on Life! And another one, named Larry Beaconfield, seem to think you're brothers! Some want their 15 minutes of fame, but you're going on 15 years and then some. It is great to see your creative development and how you've used this new-fangled gizmo computer stuff as a medium. Remember the time we were unable to recall the name of some movie or actor we knew and you said so cheerfully, Let's look it up on the Internet! And I pushed a pin in your bubble by reaching out my hand and grabbing one of your massive reference books and reading out the answer without a moving a muscle toward the computer? I'll never forget that. You were like a little kid who got told there was no ice cream in the freezer. Anyway, how bout that Greek restaurant in the west end where you line up for an hour to get a table-but-it's-so-worth-the-wait-Bill-you'll-see? Many good memories. I've yet to indulge in your writing but look forward to it now I've finally checked into your website. In struggle, as always, E |
Micheál
O'Connell Brighton, Englann |
August
22, 2005 You seem interesting Any advice on how to conduct life? www.mocksim.co.uk |
| John East Van |
July
27, 2005 Brian, What a long strange trip it's been. I vividly recall those hot nights in those dusty little halls listening to the A.E.C. and Mary-Lou Williams, the amazing baking table set up by the neophyte restauranteur Susan Mendelhson (sp) and her handsome and talented friend and partner who we just called 'Mom'. And later that decade, the downstairs jazz-rib joint on Burrard where I first heard Dexter Gordon play live, the bourbon fumes pouring out of his horn with the sound. But jazz is all about improv and invention and you brought the best of the innovators (McCoy Tyner!) to our sleepy little resort. Thank you. You're looking good for The 1000 Year Old Man. Hope all is well. Reply: It wasn't Susan. It was Deborah Roitberg who co-founded the jazz society and supplied the fabulous cheesecake. |
| louie
power oshawa ontario |
July
15, 2005 not really too familar with your work and i really do not know what your philosophies are..i actually stumbled somehow to your site as i am a new member to the computer world..i held out for some stupid moralistic reason up until july 5 2005 then after my mom passed away i ,for some strange unknown motivation found myself on a key board...i am a writer not professional but i consider my works to be quite interesting...i have been published and had a professional writers contract offer back in 1971 which i never pursued as i was too busy getting high and trying to get all the loving i could..i regret this now although it was a good trip....i will leave you with a closing line to one of my poems that is so philisophical that it astounded me so much so that i gave up drinking....FOR LIVING ONE DAY IS SO HARD TO DO...WHEN YOUR FIGHTING YESTERDAY ..AND ITS FIGHTING AGAINST YOU. now this may sound so simple but if you applied it to some of our own personal life lessons it can either give you a shitty awakening or a gentle feeling of understanding that what you had been looking for...was there and always had been..anyway it was nice to meet you..perhaps future correspondece could materialize louie power |
| Bearz Asheville, NC |
July
9, 2005 it's great to see you keeping bopp & free flow of thought rolling over electric waves of global frequencies. were you ever up at the committee on poetry in cherry valley, you seem familiar somehow? I’m looking forward to exploring more of your site & photographs. It’s nice to see that Peter & his poetry hasn’t been forgotten, he was indeed a legendary farmer. now it's time to catch the next dreamtime express, laters... -Bearz |
| Larry Beaconsfield |
July
2, 2005 I am so very proud of you. Your talent is exceptional. It must be the genes. Happy birthday, brother. |
| Ben
Roesch Oradell, New Jersey |
June
26 , 2005 Wow! What a cool website! I like a lot of your writing but I was floored by "The Hotdog Palace Never Closes." I, too, spent quite a few days and nights there hanging out and occasionally having a bite. The Golden Eagle was one of several similar places that I stayed at near Broadway, Grant and Columbus. And although I didn't go into any of the topless places (too broke!), it seemed like the fascinating mileau that we youth were immersed in was unduly influenced by that new, glitzy, chintzy culture. About 10 years ago I met a guy named Tomas in Colorado Springs and we hung out together, off and on, for a couple years. It was only after we had known each other for months that he mentioned hanging out at the Hotdog Palace in the '60s in North Beach. We both then looked at each other more closely, but neither of us could see a face from the past, now evolved with the years. Our paths had never crossed in North Beach. Something interesting to me is the way that the past is past. Of course I understand that, but I'm still disappointed. I'm really pathologically nostalgic. I've run into very few that, like yourself and Tomas, spent time in North Beach in that post-beatnik, pre-hippie era. Your piece and its delicious flavor really brought back those memories in a very powerful way. I can remember a lot of individuals that influenced me and introduced me to the life. People like Gary McMurray, Sparrow, Julie, Barbara, Psyche, Bearded Dave (the "wobbly"), Ray, the sometimes DJ (at KJAZ), "The mayor of North Beach" (I can't remember his name), Dan Cleland the writer, Girtz Langhins (he later did light shows at the Fillmore). I still remember the first weed I bought at the Last Exit. And afternoons at City Lights. And how could I forget the fabulous hamburgers with that huge pile of grilled onions at Mike's Pool Hall. It was a few doors from the Jazz Workshop and the juke box was unique, full of MJQ, Miles and Coltrane. The Hotdog Palace space today is an upscale restaurant. As I walk by I can still imagine the counter at the back and a tall, thin guy behind the counter smoking. We talked, but I never got to know him. I know he spoke some Japanese, probably from an adventure in a prior life. Little flashes like this are all that's left of that time gone by. Thanks for bringing it all back! |
| Amanda New York, NY |
May
18, 2005 Your work fascinates me. I love reading it. Thank you and please keep it up. |
| Melissa |
May
12, 2005 I find you most intriguing -- an inspiration to a fairly young writer (me). Thank you.
Your comment, "Capitalism hates art more than ever," really
struck a chord with me -- especially in a town where art is forsaken
daily to sell another bag of popcorn and a large soda. |
| Ralph
Regina New York City |
March 23, 2005 Good Morning Brian — I am 57 years old and I guess I am about your age and yes I too "DUG" MORT FEGA. I was very fortunate to live (and still do by the way) in New York City at a time when jazz DJs were about the hippest thing on the planet. I listend to Mort on WTFM (101.3) in Fresh Meadows on the week-end/so he must have done 7 days a week or at least 6 with his WEVD shows in Manhanttan. It must have been exciting to hear him from Montreal with the weak signal....I can appreciate that because I did the same thing but more for blues than jazz. I had all the jazz I wanted in my own "backyard" with Mort, of course, Symphony Sid Turin (the "boobala" of jazz), the wonderful Ed Beach on WRVR-FM (106.7), Alan Grant's "Potraits in Jazz" show on WABC-FM and Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins on "WNEW-AM 1130 ON THE RADIO DIAL". I was totally very saddened when I heard that Mort passed away earlier this year. Brian, I must ask you a favor (has my head down sheepishly) you mentioned he was gracious enough to give you some tapes of his show from Palm Beach ...is it posible to make copies for myself (I will gladly pay you for this). He was my jazz mentor when I was a precocious wise-ass teenager of 13 trying to be hip with the gals but in so doing feel in love with the music and my only regret is not seeing him in all my years when he was in NYC. I hope you will reply no matter what. Thanks -your brother in Jazz....Ralph Regina |
| Philipino
Clementina Cote St Luc |
March 10, 2005 10:10 PT
Brian -- your blogablog is a helium filled eccentric uncle floating to the ceiling everytime some one laughs, and then suddenly bursting into silence, at the so many aha's you give to the reader... but you can't help it! You make the world a better place with all the letters and word music you play. Keep on boppin, this world needs more riffraff like' a you! Looking for a story about your brisket. Philip |
| Guy Vancouver, B.C. |
March 5, 2005 13:04 PT
I'm sitting here with no words and no breath, too. I think it's angina. But seriously, I love the comments page. I may even get around to looking at the site soon. |
| Meredith |
March 2, 2005 07:54 PT
i am sitting here w/ no words and short breath. i absolutely adore your writing. live on. |
| not
a druid |
January 23, 2005 21:03 PT
At a daughter's party, 1984, he sat alone in a corner and I thought I'd generously make the old gent feel welcome. Well, he made me feel welcome. Over a few years we met for suppers, spoke of teaching, WWII, writing, church of latter day druids. He seemed a surrogate grandfather, nice since I never had a real one. Last visit before moving out west to start teaching he called from the apartment door to the elevator as I waited: "Teach love; I did and it worked for me." Right on. We wrote regularly until he died. For some reason I plunk his name into Google tonight and up comes your ee cummings dedication. His eyes were still bright blue in 1989. Glad Norman was in your life. |
| Brendon |
January 13, 2005 20:02 PT
well, Brian. I have not much to say, besides that. well. well done, well thought, well lived. and well written. I really enjoy your writing. look for a professor at some college who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone that could maybe get a book published. or something. thats one of the things i want to do with my life, is publish a book of poetry. i have no idea whether i actually will, but this has given me a well recieved nudge in the right direction. Thank you. |
| lily
marin county,ca |
January 2, 2005 14:59 PT
you are very talented. have an amazing life. |
| max
c |
December 10, 2004 20:56 PT
We just read Words on Waking and were wondrering who wants to kill the rats? I like your website. ps hi from Kristin |
| Michelle Tujunga, Ca |
November 25, 2004 20:45 PT
Wow. You just answered soooooooo many questions that I have been asking myself for the past 6 months. Thank you for the reassurance in things. I really needed to see someone else story about their transitions. |
| Kristine
Ledbury Kristine |
October 12, 2004 19:00 PT
I looked to see your eyes after reading your words..only to find depth beyond measure. Thank you for the time and effort you have put forth on these pages. I am overwhelmed. As it is said, "when the student is ready, the teacher appears". You have opened up my eyes to worlds I never knew existed. *kiss* Please let me know if you choose to do a reading in the Lansing, MI area?  |
| Chris Montreal, Canada |
October 2, 2004 14:06 PT
I was referred by Michelle's Daily Writing Exercise http://www.michellerichmond.com/exercise.html to your page Wallace Stevens 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. I am so grateful to stumble upon that poem - thank you! I'm travelling through the rest of your site now; it's great. When are you coming back to Montreal? |
| thea philippines |
August 21, 2004 09:47 PT
I was looking for neruda works.. then i saw your page. I am a college student. I'm into theater, poetry and music, too. Nice works. Keep the fire. |
| Luis Luis |
August 18, 2004 15:36 PT
Great site Brian. I was looking up some Neruda works, and ran across it. Keep that pen to the paper amigo. Cuidate
y Adelante, You can see my site here: http://aztecpoet.com |
| Larry
Maler Tampa, Florida |
August 16, 2004 15:17 PT
I'm Len's younger brother. He gave me a copy of PK Dick's UBIK in 1972 or so. I read everything by PKD too. What a great nutcase. The world needs more great nutcases. They are a good way to rebug the system. |
| Steve England |
August 6, 2004 03:17 PT
found you via a Lorca search and really enjoy your site......nice to stumble into another fringe nutter who is drenched in poetry and music! For anyone looking for yet another interesting arts site, try my friend's at www.urbanesque.com...I'm on there somewhere!! |
| sasha
mills Vancouver |
July 12, 2004 19:20 PT
Hi zeydah! its sasha i realy like your website! ADIEUX(BYE) |
| randhir
khare pune, in india |
April 18, 2004 00:29 PT
have just stumbled upon you and your work.quite amazing.i'm a writer-poet-artist-wanderer of spanish, indian (india), irish, english origins...so its a gawdaweful mish mash. check my website: khare-bullough.com |
| Sarah Michigan |
March 31, 2004 19:11 PT
Hello Brian, I stumbled upon your site by accident. You're the first person I've come across that has read as many Philip K. Dick novels as I have. I enjoyed your poetry and pictures. Your site looks great. Good luck! |
| genami VT/MA/NY |
March 25, 2004 12:32 PT
stumbled across your site by chance and some lorca...lifted our spirits, really enjoyed your pictures and long eclectic letter on chicken legs. thank you for sharing your free spirit... brightens a rainy afternoon |
| michael
franklin portland, or |
March 5, 2004 16:07 PT
hey hippo, love the site, found it by searching for yevgeny yevtushenko. curious if you do public readings. |
| fake |
February 15, 2004 18:53 PT
Hi. Who knows how I found you, man of many words. Do you just stay up at night doing rails and relentlessly type away at this product. It is tastefully done. Is that your real name, and if so, did you change it to that for melody. It does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, nevermind. |
| Shelline
Vandermey shelline |
February 3, 2004 15:30 PT
Was looking up my dad, Bob Vandermey on Google…and found your letters. I'm his daughter…maybe we met, but that hilarious walkthru Vancouver sounds sooo familiar! What a blast from the past. Shelline Vandermey. www.vandermey.com |
| Ronald
Proby Montreal |
January 12, 2004 13:10 PT
Your name popped up accidently during a Google search (Cheap Cigarettes and Billy Georgette). Your name has a familiar ring. I just spent an engaging 30 minutes spliping and sliding around the links at your site. Very bracing ride it was and still is. I am originally from Vancouver and was a jazz/blues musician for 30 years, gravitating to less indulgent musical concerns when I turned 50, which was about 10 years ago. Your site has brought back all the brash excitement of trying to be and succeeding in being 'hip'in Vancouver in the 1960's. It all seemed so important at the time. Thanks to your website I see the pursuit of hip is not entirely a dying concern in the Vancouver of today .......many thanks for your website........and, well, Hi ! if I know you. And Hi !, even if I don't. |
| Tolic Russia |
December 22, 2003 04:49 PT
Well I was looking for Ammons & Stevens poems & found U. U R a good poet, BREATHING THOUGHTS -- thats really cool. If U want to know anything of Russia, poetry, me & so on, mail me, I know everything. |
| HyunJoo Seoul, South Korea |
December 18, 2003 05:34 PT
actually i was searching for the images of the movie, the hours. but "google" found one of your pictures, the hours. i was very impressed by the picture so i came here. i was so lucky to visit here. i really enjoyed your poets and selected works. wish you have a good time and keep smiling. - from fareast asia, your friend HJ |
| Bill CT, USA |
December 9, 2003 12:59 PT
I try to visit as many web sites as I can and I enjoyed very much reading your poetry. I think you can learn a lot through the eyes of a poet. That is why I like going into cyberspace and visiting with other people. It gives you a better understanding of what they know, think, and feel. Thanks and best regards, Bill. "Musing
On Life" by Bill McKeen |
| Karin Uppsala, Sweden |
December 6, 2003 19:15 PT
I was searching for information about García Lorca and that's how I found your page. Now that I've used a little info from here I am trying to find out what kind of page this is and who owns it so that I can refer to it properly... Thank you for the Lorca page! Karin |
| Donna
Vidas |
September 16, 2003 05:20 PT
Brian, Brian, you are a man who is full of surprises. How can I know you and not really know you? Here I am, finally seeking out your web page, at 4 AM, simply because I can't sleep because I work with a psychotic woman who is trying to make my life difficult (and succeeding it would seem). Wrapped up in my own neutotic thoughts I stumble into your perspective, and am stunned. Not only do I like to meet you for beers at the Sylvia with Mike, or go hear music with you, or run into you in the West End...but you write so beautifully, clearly, tangibly. I loved reading your writing and exploring your site. Why is my life set up so that I actually wait years to check a friend's web page out? Why can't Mike and I move to a small oceanside town on the Oregon Coast? Why have I stopped writing? Feel free to omit my rambling thoughts from your guestbook, it is not my usual time to be awake. Am I awake? What I really want to say is: Thanks, I love your writing. Donna Also, I love Neruda, when I lived in San Francisco I used to drive around with my friend in her baby blue Charma Ghia (too late to check spelling), and I wish I had seen Coltrane live. Oh, well. See ya soon. |
| noel
thomas Montreal, Quebec |
September 14, 2003 16:28 PT
Brian, Thank you for just being on the internet.
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| Jim
Cohn |
September 6, 2003 11:11 PT
Riff Bopper, You have the best Peter Orlovsky page on the net. Look for it soon at the Invisible Empires of Beatitude exhibit, Museum of American Poetics site (poetspath.com). |
| Mimi |
August 22, 2003 13:53 PT
I ran across your site purely by accident. I really enjoyed your original poetry. Very nice! |
| Don
Lupe Alegria |
August 19, 2003 12:57 PT
Funny thing here;Lived above and worked Savoy Tivoli rest. Grant Ave, Had my coffee at Melvinas. Frecuently saw Ginsberg-Ferlenggeti (?)coming up from "Cafe Triest". Freddy Kuh..Sad to hear Bohemia died in Vancouver,Too. I've searched wide for another street. Lord and Lady Buckley, Cosmo Alley. I was third partner at Shelly Manhole on Cahuenga in Hollywood. Saucelito, Santa Cruz, Letters from Anais ect. I do Flamenco now, Sara Barras, Carmen Linares, Morentes, Esperanza, just to keep it straight, Cajon-Pacomania is eating at the edges of flamenco as if flamenco needed yet more problems.That's what I do now. Music-write-compose-dream-dodge the bullet. I'm not gay, never very good at propagation, nesting as such. And have many friends and play flamenco around and about. Nice site you have. was searching Lorca, one of your posts. Basta. |
| James
LaCroix Jr. |
August 7, 2003 04:48 PT
Hi Brian, I really enjoyed yr website, so much in fact, that I posted alink to it on the front page of my poetry community website. Just thought I would let you know about it. Thanks. |
| elle |
July 31, 2003 15:01 PT
found you through z...eye of the blackbird.... merci for inspirations.... |
| Len
Maler |
July 27, 2003 18:42 PT
Hi Brian, found this site by accident again. Robyn (named by Johanna) now likes Coltrane. And both older kids like Dick. There might be hope yet. Now I have to find my Lorca book. Hope all's well. |
| arianne |
May 30, 2003 11:58 PT
thank you for the orlovsky page. it was great to see coverage. he's entirely under-appreciated. |
| Lauren |
March 17, 2003 04:19 PT
Hi there- teh little story about walking at night n the prairies was really good. kerouac was so vivid describing the feeling of walking by lighted windows at dusk and the smells of dinners.Your story reminded me of that and of my own wanderings along those lines. |
| Mikester Madison, WI |
March 14, 2003 18:33 PT
Well it all started from this quote: Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes which I sent to a guy who is a lit major, but now working as a web developer, by the way the quote is from "The Cluetrain Manifesto" see http://www.cluetrain.com. So, I asked David if he had come across this quote in his studies. He promptly replied that he had and he *recognized* the quote from "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and then he forwarded me the link to "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" - great poem - So, that is how I found my way hear. from web dev >> literature >> poetry >> your site. Serendipity. |
| andrea |
February 24, 2003 12:46 PT
I happened upon your site while searching for Pablo Neruda poems to send to someone I met only once but think I fell in love with that one day. But that's my story. I enjoyed your story-thanks for making creativity so accessible! |
| Betty |
January 28, 2003 14:32 PT
Enjoyed reading so much. very moving. |
| Tence Miami/Memphis/North Alabama |
January 17, 2003 21:47 PT
Love your website, Brian. I have added your Babi Yar link to a couple of my websites. May I have permission to add boppin.com also? |
| Doug
Lang Vancouver |
January 12, 2003 04:35 PT
Brian, Dear Brian...I remember the visit where you were first starting the idea for vancouverjazz.com, and it was like a squiggled ink drawing and, look!, now you've coloured it in and it's beginning to look like a work of art. And you've let others colour in some of the space as well. That's so Brian of you. You were the first person to buy a copy of my book of jazz poems, Blue Tenor. Did you know that? You don't buy jewelry for a woman whose bones are her beauty. Look at her now. |
| Taras
levchuk Kyiv Heart |
December 12, 2002 07:43 PT
U seem to be active in many fields In New World. have u ever visited Ukraine and Pogrebusche? Spasibo. Djakuju. Ciao |
| Sandra
Oliva Colorado |
November 6, 2002 19:59 PT
I found your site through a search on Pablo Neruda, one of my favourite poets. Love your site, thanks for sharing your work. From another fellow cancerian. |
| BeatitudePoetry.com Michelle Maria Boleyn |
October 9, 2002 12:04 PT
YOUR LINK ON BEATitude IS UPDATED! Just to let you know, we have finally updated links. (One of the links was continually blowing out the site)...also updated the entire format of BEATitudePoetry.com...come for a visit..Thanks for the traffic...keep on boppin! |
| John
Doheny West End (view IS swell) |
September 18, 2002 13:35 PT
p.s. What ever happened to Christian Sivrell?Haven't seen him in 35 years. |
| John
S. P. Doheny Seattle, originally,Vancouver, at the moment |
September 18, 2002 11:18 PT
Jesus H. Christ on a banana Brian! I KNOW you man! At least I remember you, I don't know if you remember me...from parties at the Tallman's(many,many of them) bill bissets studio(not the one on York ave. you speak of, but around the corner on Yew.One of a series of blacked out storefronts next to a corner grocery.This was about 1968. Me and my pal Bobby Barker once spent 3 days there high on acid, leaving only to replenish ourselves with butterhorns from the corner store).I was a "student" at the Knowplace Freeschool.All this time I've been posting on your jazz forum and you're THAT Brian Nation. I was known as "Pip" Doheny back then. I grew up in Seattle with Warren Tallman's kids, Kenny and Karen...Well I'll be dipped in shit... |
| Cullen
Jennings |
September 12, 2002 22:22 PT
In "potpourri memoir" you mention Godfrey Stephens. He is still an amazing artist on vancouver island. If you wanted to find him you could start with http://www.godfreysart.com |
| anna Bryan, Ohio |
September 7, 2002 09:53 PT
Just like yourself.. music and writing is my life, although i write constantly.. sometimes i can hate it.. because my feeling seem so empty at times and then very abrupt at others.. what is a girl to do with that.. i wish so bad to publish a book.. my own book full of my writing... |
| richard
saxe east ontario |
August 20, 2002 04:57 PT
I have one of your lp records. Do you want it back? I borrowed it from my cousin David 3 decades ago. |
| Lauren NYC |
August 19, 2002 20:13 PT
I came across your site searching for things on Federico Garcia Lorca during school. I ended up on it for the entire period. Barely got my report done. I'm a poet and an artist myself, I read incessantly, and I thirst for live and people. I really like your sight because we have the same writing style. Please continue to share your life with all of us, and just remember that someone out there will always be interested. |
| Brian
Nation USA |
August 17, 2002 13:01 PT
Hey, hows it going, I just typed in my name under a search engine and found you and your website. My name is Brian Nation too and I am a 25/M that live in Louisville,KY USA |
| Phil |
July 22, 2002 10:03 PT
Hi Brian, Nice Site. (Nice Sight?) (Sight for soar I's) Whatever. I was following a link to Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird from google to here. Thanks for the collecttion. Good Luck. |
| jimena chile |
July 11, 2002 11:34 PT
Nice to meet you.. I found your site reading a bilingual version of neruda, who's chilean....Keep writing!! Luck. |
| gabriela
guerrero Philippines |
July 6, 2002 04:43 PT
poetry speaks the soul of the universe |
| Mogs |
June 20, 2002 11:04 PT
Found your site whilst thinking of changing from a VDub to a Kharmann Ghia, quite a turn up!! At 37 years old/young, not sure if I have enough experiences yet (good ones!) to compose a site, but it was a breath of fresh air, and an inspiration. Will call again to read on, so keep updated. MLB. Devon, England |
| Greg
L Washington DC USA |
June 5, 2002 07:02 PT
I chanced onto your site via MPR's Writer's Almanac; this being Lorca's birthday, there was a link to your Lorca page, after which I started exploring the rest. It is now bookmarked. Good design, good writing (I esp. like your poems), and fine visual works will keep me coming back! |
| Liz Michigan |
June 3, 2002 17:11 PT
A search for information on hairstyles brought up your piece "Hair", which I read, and then got completely sucked in to your world and when I looked up from the screen an hour had gone by. Thanks for taking me away for awhile.
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| Richard |
May 11, 2002 23:46 PT
Sorry. I've snagged your picture 'Sundial'. It's now the 'Wallpaper of the Month'. Great picture! Several people who keep their eye on my choice of wallpaper have commented that it's a stunning picture. I've passed your url on to them. Good work! |
| rev9 ephemereal mind candy |
May 3, 2002 10:18 PT
it's like u missed hearing the train's horn bellowing bricks of honest palabra's, only to sense its vibrato beneath your feet. there'll be another one and your schtick can be to miss it. i think it works and i'm glad i've stumbled across your ignorance. |
| Apurva Gags |
April 23, 2002 01:48 PT
Nice to find somebody on the net who writes poems. I, myself do write little pieces of poetry |
| Ian
Kidd Planet Earth (down with nationalities!) |
April 22, 2002 11:04 PT
I am not a true lover of poetry, unless by Spike Milligan, and unless it rhymes. I would write poetry (as I do) only to amuse myself. If others read and laugh at it, well, that's their problem. Indeed, a very interesting site, here, and one I may one day return to. Frog poem was quite full. |
| psychedelic_chains india |
April 16, 2002 21:02 PT
real good work Brian, ur travails fascinated me. but, a question .. why have u named ur poem 'tongues bomb sonata' so? ur face in itself is an atlas of experiences gathered! :-] a very impressive site. keep up the good work. |
| Richard Pasadena, Calif. |
March 5, 2002 16:54 PT
Like you, I'm "On the Road"...temporarily in Jupiter, Florida. I too have read that Kerouac work, but am no published poet...or published at any other sort of work. I'll try to surf more of your site, later--perhaps, but...How's Vancouver, other than wet? Oh, and I found your page (I think,) surfing for something about Yevgeny Yevtushenko. |
| Hammond
Guthrie Here |
March 4, 2002 17:03 PT
Hello again - Here to note per Miles' book "The Beat Hotel" - please see my review of this in the forthcoming issue of jackmagazine at: http://www.jackmagazine.com/ - And - for you if you do - I send greetings from beyond from perhaps our mutual friend "Hube the Cube." - Cheers, Hammond |
| Tom
E M Maryland |
March 2, 2002 06:46 PT
Looking for "luscious tits", I ended up in "Burger". Hit me hard. At 50ish, I sometimes think I have a good idea. Once in a great while, I'm right. But the rush of life does seem to overwhelm ideas most of the time. Lots of good ideas on your site! Might use some of 'em! Thanks for sharing... |
| rogadelic az |
February 28, 2002 00:01 PT
Brian -- found the site on an online search for the "Golden Eagle". Stayed there a month in 98 before smoking my rent and winding up in the Mission Rock Shelter. Insomnia and reminiscing about that chapter. Got out of there and on a greyhound home to PA a few months later, in the nick too, apparently, as they closed it. Cool site. - J |
| Jaybin |
February 15, 2002 10:54 PT
hey man, i think this site is totally awesome! |
| Ray
Lavoie Ray |
February 11, 2002 03:27 PT
Hello Brian, Have been reading Beat Hotel by Barry Miles and had not been aware that Peter Orlovsky wrote poetry. Searched the web and found some of his verse on your site. Thank you for that. Nice intro to the site. I went "on the road" at fifteen. Classic runaway from stifling small town in Saskatchewan. First place I went was Vancouver. Survived by using numerous social outlets...catholic charities, sally ann, etc., selling Georgia Straight and playing blues harp on the street. Things were different then, as you know...a whole youth culture basically, at least as finance goes, on the bum. Anyways, so you ran a jazz club in the '70's? I am just curious of what happened to Lucy's Jazz Workshop in Gastown, probably not there anymore...as these things go. Saw a great Elvin Jones (I think that is his name, fine drummer-band leader) gig there around 1974. Keep up the great site, |
| Nincompoet Minneapolis |
February 4, 2002 20:47 PT
I found this site by searching for "13 ways of looking at a blackbird", which I thought was an intriguing title for a poem. The phrase had been mentioned in a newspaper article. Having read the poem in question, I continued exploring the website. I enjoyed your poems, 'Mr. Boppin', better than the one I searched for. I am a little jealous, so I am going off to continue living my life, but I would bet that I will be back. www.geocities.com/retropoet/index.html |
| Arielle LA |
February 1, 2002 09:23 PT
I thought you might be interested in the perspective of a teenage girl about your site. I recently have become intrigued with poetry and works that stifle the mind and require thinking (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack Kerouac, etc.)I also am a photographer and lover of art. I came upon your website searching for poetry by Lorca. (I think you might want to add "As She Purrs..." to your collection) NE way, I started looking over your site and I enjoy it very much. The problem (and the reason I decided to write) is the constant reference to cigarettes. Some of your poetry is very good but I am so turned off by your constant reference to this discusting and life-ending habit. Now, I know I might sound like a prude ar whatever you want to say, but for me, this so weakens and takes away from your themes and my ability to take your wisdom to heart. I could go on forever on this topic but when something is true many words are not necessary. Love the web site despite
this factor. Keep doing what you're doing and stay healthy, live long. |
| Maria |
January 29, 2002 15:13 PT
Lorca,Neruda,Experiential Living,Loving, Alienation,Tragedy,Nature... so I do belong to a wider group of appreciators!( and they're not the melancholy Irish hah) I recommend a visit to Andalucia to all who ruminate through this site. Let it dance in your blood Thanks
Brian for all your trouble... |
| boogabooga |
January 26, 2002 23:24 PT
Viva la Canadahead! |
| Phaedrus |
December 30, 2001 23:45 PT
My written words are prose, thus your poetry touches me; the words of a poet are often most appreciated by those who cannot speak them. |
| joe
oboyle |
December 15, 2001 17:15 PT
wallowing in words swallowing swords lost in teens dreaming and always meaning to stand under. |
| Melissa Philly, PA |
December 15, 2001 17:14 PT
I don't even know how I got to your site but I'm glad i did. You rock. Melissa |
| LUCIEN A small Hungarian village, at the moment |
December 12, 2001 11:04 PT
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR SPIRIT. Here's a little recapitulation in the form of a few of my shorter poems: Love: the parallel invisible. ------- Maybe there's a beginning
before every beginning. --------- The Water's Thirst
I'm learning to love
waterfalls. That's when you learn the water's thirst. -------- It would be nice to
correspond with you if you have time. I'm currently in a small Hungarian
village, awaiting the birth of my third child. I'm usually living in
Prague, singing my poems, Hope to hear from you.
In any case, best wishes How many towers must
fall LUCIEN |
| Diane Canada |
November 20, 2001 07:44 PT
I found my way from your story in Samsara Quarterly. Your website is of the same quality as your story - high end. Here's another market you may want to take a look at http://www.cenotaph.net/pe/index.html Now I'm going
to go back to your website and browse a little more. |
| Andrew
Phillips Sapperton |
November 1, 2001 09:55 PT
Brian - Thank you for your dedication to Allen Ginsberg. Jamie Reid's homage was beautiful. I think he was able to express the essence of who Allen was and his legacy to us through his life and work. Poet, beatpoet, hippiepoet, visionarypoet, gaypoet, Buddhistpoet, shamanpoet, politicalpoet, truthpoet, teacherpoet, Jewishpoet, Americanpoet, courageouspoet,lovepoet, lifepoet, spiritpoet, he somehow wrapped all of these up unto himself. I was so lucky to have had him in my life....from my mother's album "Howl" with the front cover of a Sanfrancisco Peace shrine, to his psychedelic bus trip to Bellingham with Kesey and the merry pranksters, then his reading with Leary and finally his reading in black suit and tie in Vancouver. I will never forget his power and sincerity.
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| Kevin Seattle (orignally) elswhere now. |
October 26, 2001 12:22 PT
I typed in the word "Leotfatu" in a search engine and this site came up I don't see why. Good stuff though. |
| Jan |
October 22, 2001 06:42 PT
Hello Boppin, I love the way you smile, For so long I searched Did you ever know that
your my hero Thank you. xxxx
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| Stig
Martin DK |
October 18, 2001 13:28 PT
Great site you got here, first of all I was looking for something online about Garcia Lorca I found it here, good biography etc. Then I started looking at your work, I like your poetry and Pictures. I got a link on my place to your place. if you
got the time kindly, |
| Helen J and j poems |
October 18, 2001 09:55 PT
I`m happy I ran into your site. You are trully talented. Your poems make my life re-live Thank you. |
| Joao
Paulo Paglione Sao Paulo, Brazil (originally)currently stuck in Los Angeles |
October 8, 2001 00:21 PT
I found your website through DonLorenzo.com who is also a mad genius. Bless gypsies and flamenco and spain and all that reminds me of Brazil. Visit www.donlorenzo.com for more details. Stay there and your visit will be like a poem ... Garotas brasileiras precisam me mandar noticias! |
| Carmenchu Planeta Tierra |
October 3, 2001 08:57 PT
Que Lugar Tan Bello es tu pagina. Llegue a este tu posada en el camino porque estaba visitando los escritos de otro de tus compadres poetas, nada mas y nada menos que el Sr. Pablo Neruda. Usted esta en buena compania, rodeados de la voz de tantos Poetas como usted. Buena suerte, Bryan. Hasta la proxima!!! |
| CollegeNut US |
August 21, 2001 15:39 PT
I came on here looking for some reviews of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" since I've got a lovely paper to do tonight. I found your Smoking Permitted thingy funny. Cool site. |
| Laura
Copeland |
August 19, 2001 22:38 PT
When perusing my bookmarks, the e.e.cummings poem on this website came up. I took off the /whatever.ext in Internet Explorer's address bar and got to your site. I still have a lot more looking around to do while procrastinating on my French homework. Perhaps I'll add another guestbook entry after I've seen enough to formulate a solid opinion. I like what I see so far. Have a nice day. |
| Wesley |
August 7, 2001 17:49 PT
this site was pretty entertaining, i found something funny while i was doing schoolwork. neat. |
| vilien
fernandez |
July 24, 2001 08:37 PT
I THINK THAT YOU WETSITE IS FABULOS.I LIKE PABLO NERUDA AFTER SEVERAL TIME LOKING SOMETHING ABOUT PABLO NERUDA HERE I FOUNDED THANK |
| David
White Rochester, NY |
June 10, 2001 20:11 PT
I came upon your site seaching for Bertrand Russell material. Thanks for a good quote. |
| Bob |
June 2, 2001 08:07 PT
YESSSS!!!! |
| Bob Seattle |
June 2, 2001 08:04 PT
This is my second day on the internet. I'm 51 almost 52 years old. I've been too busy fixing cars, scuba diving,etc.,etc. to bother with all this computer crap. I stumbled onto your work "Confessions of an ignoramus" while on a search for material on e.e.cummings, a favorite oet of mine since highschool. I LOVE IT!!! I'm not that much into reading but this I am hooked on! Your writing is honest and speaks to me. I'm a scubadiver. I love to explore that which lurks beneath the surface. Your writing stirs things up in me, like the urge to write...if i could only do it as well. I'll give it a whirle. Anyone wanna go diving? |
| Rachel gosh i wish i knew...chile tonight |
April 20, 2001 20:53 PT
i read you all night until my eyes were redder than usual. cant tell you what words mean to me, you probably know. keep moving, dragged around the globe..im a miners daughter. i see chile this year and i wanna stay. cant stay, gotta keep on moving. and i love it. i was going to go out tonight but i read you instead, rather you read me. i dont think i make sense but you make as much sense as anyone ever could. thank you for a nighttime. |
| sareh iran |
April 10, 2001 08:34 PT
you are so realistic ...i am interested in your works by just one tome reading them... |
| Brian |
March 17, 2001 13:56 PT
I think you web site is very intrusting but the main reason i checked it out was my name to is Brian Nation, and it was weird looking at a site that had my name but not my face. so i learned something new today |
| kadir
aydemir Turkey |
March 6, 2001 05:54 PT
Good page Thanks Ýstanbul http://yitikulke.hypermart.net |
| Christina Ontario, Canada |
March 2, 2001 16:03 PT
I just happen to sumble onto your site, and I'm glad I did. This site is really great! |
| emma Pittsburgh, PA |
March 1, 2001 20:01 PT
hola! this is a lovely site. Yay for Pablo Neruda fans. I'm going to read one of his poems tomorrow night at the Women's Center, here on campus at CMU. a shout out for everyone else who appreciates his genius. this is my lame-ass website that I put up two days ago, having no prior knowledge of html. but you can stalk me and see what i look like! www.andrew.cmu.edu/~ehr |
| Paula Idahoe |
February 22, 2001 16:13 PT
You're pretty cute! |
| Marlene |
February 13, 2001 13:47 PT
Liked your photographs and poetry. |
| Max |
February 5, 2001 18:08 PT
time square: the heat and swirl of life, eh? feel it, love your words of it |
| Hammond
Guthrie Portland, Oregon |
January 23, 2001 08:57 PT
Honoring my acquaintance poet Corso - "And Then There Were None" Borne like Genet - Elegiac feelings end
at seventy -
Hammond |
| Cynthia
Naidu |
January 18, 2001 11:11 PT
Hi! My name is Cynthia Naidu. I an 15 years old.I was looking for some research about the Brain and the memory.I think you are very good at what you do. You should keep up the thing you do |
| The
Gypsy ME |
January 18, 2001 09:42 PT
Thanks for the most recent introduction to modern American poetry/prose. Another poet introduced me to this genre last year.
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| Sauci
Sistaz Us |
January 17, 2001 04:18 PT
Hiya babe, I love your work you make things sound so real I'am involved in a cult which reduces me to take upon myself the responsibility to teach other cult members about the truth of this evil world we here by have become put upon. I would like to say a big thank you for helping me achieve the knowledge of this whole shit pile we call EARTH!!!!!!!!! |
| Dan Artspirits |
January 15, 2001 14:48 PT
Remember Lucy Lights? Yes! |
| juliette |
January 15, 2001 10:53 PT
hey. this morning i woke from a dream about lorca, about Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, and i wanted to read it again. i did and stumbled upon your site. I enjoyed reading your bio and your autobiography. it was funny and revealing. quiero ver mas en el futuro. write on. |
| mikael manila, philippines |
December 31, 2000 18:15 PT
great site. discovered garcia lorca through your site - i can't believe i haven't heard of him before. mabuhay. |
| Becca England |
December 18, 2000 13:22 PT
Looking around (desperately) for somethign to read at a friends wedding. Found something I needed (desperately) instead, and which has done me great good. Much love to you, and many thanks for the soul food. |
| shubho
sengupta new delhi |
December 13, 2000 00:09 PT
hi - very interesting life. inspiring stuff. |
| joneslat Bloomfield, Nj |
December 8, 2000 23:05 PT
I was reading about Brian Nation and Allen Ginsberg. I never heard of them before but when I started to read the poems. They were beautiful. I'm doing a final paper on poets and their art and I picked Nation and Ginsberg to talk about. |
| Daniel
Charles Thomas |
November 25, 2000 08:49 PT
Well, I just won a binational poetry prize and will be attending a conference December 7 in Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso. Decided to make some copies of verses I have loved since the moment I first read them, and well, NERUDA and his "Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche" is one that resonates in my heart. My web page, a semifictional diary, is at tijuanagringo.50megs.com. PS: Brian, your page is both aesthetically attractive and technically superb. Thank you for a pleasant experience. |
| STEPHANIE |
November 23, 2000 08:55 PT
JUST FOUND YOUR PAGE AND I LOVED IT |
| Bill
Coon Vancouver Canada |
November 22, 2000 02:01 PT
Nice bio Brian. Great photo. You are an interesting fellow! |
| Gloria
E Morales El Paso, TX USA |
November 15, 2000 16:14 PT
Hello everybody from everywhere! I started looking some info about pablo Neruda's life for my Research Paper (English Class), and I found my self in this interesting and very nice web page from where I got El Poema 20, or the Poem Twenty. It really help me, since it is already translated, I don't have to do it by my self. I'm from Mexico and I had love Neruda's poems since I was a teenager. I'm very glad I have to do this research and found so many things about my predilect poet. THANK YOU!!!!! Y como despedida: Besos y tan tan. |
| matthew
trisler noblesville, IN |
November 10, 2000 22:18 PT
Just another neruda searcher. Bought the Sixpence None the Richer disc with "Puedo Escribir" on it, did a search, wound up here. That was a year and a half ago. got hooked on the site, but just tonight found it again. thanks. |
| Sonneteer |
November 6, 2000 16:58 PT
playing the search game & here I be: page 14 of the "sonnet" search for new & interesting things... to Federico García Lorca... to Sonne |