"Nice" Dark Sparkle, yes. If you ever get a hook into the new "Helen Adam Reader" you will find much that is not "nice" that happens. Often very gothic stuff , "noir sur noir", as I say when I get coffee in the morning (i.e., "no milk.")
Helen Adam - at her best - is a consummate spook. I heard her first read back in 1963 at SF State - she was then a member of the Duncan/Blaser/Spicer world (ostensibly the resident and easily manifest ghost keeper). I was spooked for days.
In New York - when she moved there in the mid-sixties - she polished her act and brought a little shoe and humor to the blood. In the seventies in San Francisco I saw her perform on a stage with Duncan where she would dance and move to her ballad lyrics - it was borderline Broadway and she had gained a sense of humor about her genius wizardly treachery.
From the depths of an ancient Scotland that one!
Thanks, Peter
Stephen
Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Wonderful as always Stephen,
But what I liked about the comment is that it is "nice" dark sparkle,
inferring that there could be some "not so nice" dark sparkle out there!
Now that could be scary.
- Peter
http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/
On Nov 20, 2007 6:19 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Let me add also my enthusiasm, as usual I wanted to get to your blog, and
> finally did it now with the inevitable *better late than never...*
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 8:21 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
> > Thanks Doug, Sheila, Kaspar, and Janet (maybe I am forgetting somebody?)
> > for the kind responses au blog!
> >
> > Stephen
> > http stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour wrote: Your mother rocks,
> > Stephen, & she sure gets good mail.
> >
> > The photos & remarks also inveigled. A continuing pleasure to visit
> > your blog.
> >
> > Doug
> > On 19-Nov-07, at 10:54 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> >
> > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> > >
> > > - My 91 year old mom critques Helen Adam
> > > - Haptic in Montalvo with Brenda Hutchinson / Sound Artist
> > > - 'Unpublic' Public Art in San Francisco / David Buuck Lecture
> > > (synopsis)
> > > & from the Valencia Street Ghost Walk & Window Series:
> > > - Swimmer as Goddess
> > > - "Triangle" Tragedy
> > > - "The Yellow Spot" family
> > >
> > > As always, your comments appreciated.
> > >
> > > Stephen Vincent
> > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> > I would almost say that my country is like
> > a conquered province with foreign rulers,
> > except that they are not foreigners and
> > we are responsible for what they do.
> >
> > Paul Goodman
> >
>
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